UPSC 2019: Weekly GK and Current Affairs Quiz Jun 22 - Jun 28

The famous paintings at Bhimbetka site belongs to which prehistoric period?

Which of the following are the features of the Neolithic Period in India?

1. Starting of agriculture
2. Moving from nomadic to settled life
3. Discovery of the wheel
4. First animal domesticated

Which of the following was the largest social unit in the Rig Vedic times?

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. When Cyrus, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire in ancient Iran invaded the North-Western front of India, Magadha was ruled by Bimbisara of the Haryanka dynasty.
2. One of the effects of the Persian invasion was the arrival of the Kharoshti script into northwest India.

Which of the following is/are correct about the Emperor Kanishka?

1. He was son of Vima Kadphises.
2. His main capital was Peshawar, then known as Purushpura.
3. He convened the fourth Buddhist Council at Rajgir.

Which of the following is/are correct regarding the Vijayanagara Empire?

1. The most famous king of the Empire, Krishnadeva Raya belonged to the Tuluva dynasty.
2. Women occupied a high position and took an active part in political, social and literary life of the empire.

Which of the following is not correct about the Subsidiary Alliance?

Which of the following was the first case of militant nationalism in India after the Revolt of 1857?

Which of the following is/are correct about the Poona Pact’s provisions?

1. Certain seats for the provincial legislatures would be reserved for the Depressed Classes. The number of seats was based on the total strength of the Provincial Councils.
2. There would be no seats in the Central Legislature for the Depressed Classes.

Which of the following is/are correct about the recommendations of the Simon Commission?

1. It recommended the abolition of diarchy and the setting-up of representative governments in the provinces.
2. It recommended the retention of separate communal electorates until the communal tensions had died down.

Which of the following are religions of the Shramana tradition?

1. Buddhism
2. Jainism
3. Hinduism
4. Sikhism

Which of the following is/are correct about Mauryan pillars?

1. They were rock-cut.
2. They were used by Emperor Ashoka to spread the message of the Buddha.

The hemispherical mound symbolic of the mound of dirt used to cover Buddha’s remains in many Stupas are called?

Which of the following is not a feature of the Buddha’s representation in the Gandhara School of Art?

Which of the following is/are correct about the Hojagiri dance form?

1. It is from the state of Tripura.
2. It is performed by the Reang tribe.
3. The performance involves three to four young women balancing themselves on an earthen pitcher.

Match the following:

1. Himalayan Mountains    A. Old Fold Mountains
2. Aravalli Range                  B. Volcanic Mountains
3. Mt. Fujiyama                     C. Young Fold Mountains

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. Plateaus are very useful as they are rich in mineral deposits.
2. Plains are the most useful areas for human habitation.

Which of the following statement is incorrect?

Which of the following is/are correct regarding the ENSO?

1. During El Nino years, there is a deficit in monsoon rainfall in India.
2. El Nino is more frequent than La Nina.

Which of the following is/are correct about conditions for the formation of tropical cyclones?

1. Large sea surface with a temperature higher than 27° C
2. Presence of the Coriolis force
3. A pre-existing weak- low-pressure area or low-level-cyclonic circulation

Which of the following commission was appointed by the Central Government on Union-State relations in 1983?

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. The income tax is levied and collected by the Union government but the proceeds are distributed between the Union and states.
2. The state government imposes and collects the Estate Duty.

Which of the following is/are correct about the Vice President?

1. The Parliament can remove the Vice President from office.
2. To be elected as the VP, the person must be at last 25 years of age.

Which of the following is/are correct regarding Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

1. Speaker can be removed by the Lok Sabha by a resolution passed by an effective majority of the house as per Articles 94 and 96.
2. To be elected as Speaker, the person must be not less than 35 years of age.

Who among the following shall communicate to the president all the decisions of the Council of Ministers under Article 78?

Which of the following statements is/are incorrect regarding ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana’?

1. The scheme will cover expenses for primary health care.
2. The scheme will be cashless & paperless at public hospitals and empanelled private hospitals.
3. The benefit only includes prehospitalization expenses and not posthospitalization expenses.

Recently Ministry of AYUSH launched a new scheme for promoting Pharmacovigilance of AYUSH drugs, consider the following:

1. It is a central sector scheme.
2. Prime objective of the scheme is to develop the culture of documenting adverse effects and undertake safety monitoring of AYUSH drugs.
3. The scheme intends to facilitate the establishment of three-tier network of National Pharmacovigilance Centre (NPvCC), Intermediary Pharmacovigilance Centres (IPvCCs) and Peripheral Pharmacovigilance Centres (PPvCC).

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

With reference to ‘Poshan Abhiyan/National Nutrition Mission’, which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. It is a flagship programme of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
2. The goals of the National Nutrition Mission are to achieve improvements in the nutritional status of Children from 6-14 years, Adolescent Girls, Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers.
3. Its main objective is to reduce the level of stunting, under-nutrition, anemia and low birth weight babies.

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Consider the following statement about Seva Bhoj Yojna:

1. It is a programme of the Ministry of Culture.
2. The scheme envisages lessening the burden of such Charitable Religious Institutions who provide food without any cost.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following about the Saubhagya Scheme:

1. It is a universal electrification programme which covers both rural and urban unelectrified households.
2. It provides free electricity supply to the beneficiary selected on the basis of socioeconomic and caste census 2011.

Which of the above statement is/are correct?

Consider the following about National Capital Goods policy:

1. Department of Heavy Industries implements it.
2. It proposes for Enhancing the export of Indian made capital goods.

Which of the following is/are correct?

Look at the following statements about chit funds:

1. It is a saving institution.
2. They have regular members who make periodical subscriptions to the fund.
3. Chit funds are included in the definition of Non- Banking Financial Companies.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following about International Financial Corporation:

1. It lends money to the private sector companies of the member nations.
2. It encourages foreign investment in developing economies by offering insurance to foreign private investors against loss caused by non-commercial risks.

Which of the following is/are not correct?

Consider the following about Islamic Banking/ No-Interest Banking:

1. It is prescribed in the Sharia law.
2. It prohibits interests only on loans.

Which of the following is/are correct?

GDR means:

Consider the following statements about ‘The India Science, Technology and Innovation Portal (ISTI)’:

1. It has been developed by Vigyan Prasar, Ministry of Science and Technology.
2. It is a one stop window for information about developments in India on science, technology and innovation.
3. A major thrust of the portal is to reach out to students, researchers, scholars, scientists both from India and abroad, so that they can choose from the mine of fellowships, scholarships and funding and startup opportunities that India puts on their plate.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Identify the following:

1. It helps in determining the chemical composition of stars and gases far far away, and even calculate their temperature and density.
2. It is used to detect leaks.
3. It is very unreactive.

Choose the correct answer:

With reference to ‘India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) Project’, consider the following statements:

1. The INO project will be constructed at Bodi West hills of Theni District of Tamil Nadu.
2. The INO project faces many environmental hurdles due to its location near to Mathikettan Shola National Park.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With reference to ‘Dry Sorbent Injection (DSI) system’, consider the following statements:

1. It is a water desalination technique.
2. Sorbents are those materials which can collect molecules of another substance by the process of absorption.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

‘NATRiP’ often seen in the news is related to

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. Nitrification is the process by which ammonium converted into nitrates by bacteria.
2. Fixation is the primary step in the process of converting nitrogen, usable by plants.

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. Karewa soils are the lacustrine deposits in the Kashmir valleys and Bhadarwah valley.
2. Submontane soils  are formed by the deposition of eroded material from Shiwaliks and the lesser Himalayas.

Which of the following is/are correct regarding the Project Tiger?

1. It was launched in 1973 from the Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand.
2. The administrating body for the project is the National Tiger Conservation Authority.

What is the IUCN Status of the Asiatic Black Bear?

Which of the following is/are correct about the Blackbuck?

1. It is the sole extant member of the genus Antilope.
2. Its IUCN status is Least Concern.

Consider the following statements related to UNSC:

1. It is the only UN body with the authority to issue binding resolutions to member states.
2. Russia, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, and the United States serve as the body’s five permanent members which have veto power.
3. Asia-Pacific regional group holds three non-permanent seats.
4. The council presidency rotates among the members in the English alphabetical order of their names.

Which of the following statement is/are not correct?

Which of the following countries does not belong to eurozone?

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. The Non-nuclear aggression agreement is a bilateral and nuclear weapons control treaty between India and Pakistan.
2. By this agreement it was decided not to attack or assist foreign powers to attack on each others nuclear installations and facilities.

East Turkestan independence movement is for secession from which country?

Which of the following is/are correctly matched?