UPSC Exam: Weekly GK and Current Affairs Quiz Oct 20 - Oct 26

Parliamentary democracy envisages

1. Representation of people
2. Responsible government
3. Accountability of council of ministers to government

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Consider the following statements:

1. Territory of India includes States, Union territories and Acquired territories
2. Union of India encompasses larger area than territory of India.

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Which of the following is the difference between fundamental rights and rights secured by other provisions of the constitution?

1. Fundamental rights are immune from constitutional amendments.
2. If the rights follow from other provision of the constitution, the aggrieved person may have his relief by ordinary suit only.

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Consider the following statements regarding the constitution of India:

1. Indian federation is not the result of an agreement between the units of which it is made of.
2. India was already a union at the time of constituent assembly debates.

Which of the above is/are correct?

With reference to the power of parliament to admit into the union or establish new states, which of the following is/are correct?

1. There is no need for any law by parliament to acquire new territory.
2. There is a need of legislation by parliament to establish a new state.

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Consider the following statements regarding the Preamble of the constitution of India:

1. It is based on the Objective resolution introduced by Jawahar Lal Nehru on 22 January 1947.

2. Only Sovereign and Secular words were added to the Preamble by 42nd constitutional amendment act, 1976.

3. In Keshavanand Bharti case, Supreme Court held that the Preamble is an integral part of the constitution.

Which of the above statement/s is/are incorrect?

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. Abolition of untouchability is guaranteed by the state against private individuals, under Article 17.

2. Offences committed on grounds of untouchability lead to disqualification from election to parliament and state legislature.

3. It is an absolute right guaranteed by the Constitution.

The Right of a child to free and compulsory education is a Fundamental right under
Article 21A. Consider the following statements in this regard:

1. Children of the age 6 to 14 years are entitled to free and compulsory education.

2. It has been enforced in every state.

3. It is in consonance with the Directive Principle provided under Article 45.

Which of the above statement/s is/are incorrect?

Consider the following statements regarding Article 33:

1. Under this, Parliament is empowered to restrict the Fundamental rights of Armed forces.

2. It includes Court martial also.

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Consider the following statements:

1. Article 23 permits the state to impose compulsory service for public purposes.

2. Article 23 allows gender-based discrimination.

Which of the above statement/s is/are incorrect?

The growing commercialisation of agriculture during the British period helped the money- lender-cum-merchant to exploit the cultivator. Consider the following statements regarding the status of the cultivators:

1. The poor peasants were forced to sell their produce just after the harvest and at whatever price they could get as they had to meet in time the demands of the Government, the landlord, and the money-lender.
2. A large share of the benefit of the growing trade in agricultural products was reaped by the merchant, who was very often also the village money-lender.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. The first textile mill was started by Cowasjee Nanabhoy in 1853 in Mumbai.
2. The first jute mill was started in Rishra (Bengal) in 1855.

Which of the following statements about Muziris is/are correct?

1. It was an ancient seaport and urban center on the Malabar Coast
2. It is mentioned in Sangam literature
3. Muziris finds mention in the Voyage around the Erythraen Sea

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Which of the following is/are incorrect?

1. The Ekka or unity movement was a peasant movement against high rent, oppression of revenue collectors, etc.

2. Madaripasi was a prominent leader of the Ekka movement.

3. Gauri Shankar Mishra and Indra Narayan Dwivedi were instrumental in setting up Kisan Sabhas.

4. These peasant movements were by and large peaceful in nature.

Consider the following statements regarding HRA:

1. Hindustan Republican Association/Army was found by Chandra Shekhar Azad.
2. The initial aim was an aim to establish a Federal Republic of United States of India whose basic principle would be adult franchise.

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Which of the following statements are true regarding the Bengal revolutionary organizations in 1920’s?

1. Anushilan group joined forces with Subhas Chandra Bose.
2. Jugantar group backed the efforts of J.M.Sengupta.
3. The most active and famous was the Chittagong Revolt group under Surya Sen.

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Who among the following was/were arrested and sentenced for sedition because he had condemned imperialism and praised the heroism of the revolutionaries?

Consider the following changes in the organizational structure of the Congress Party in the Nagpur session of 1920 during the declaration of non-cooperation movement:

1. A Congress Working Committee of 15 members was set up to lead the Congress.
2. Entry fee in the party was reduced to four arenas.
3. Provincial Congress Committees were organized but on non-linguistic basis.

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Which of the following leaders were among those who left the Congress Party after the declaration of non-cooperation programme because they still believed in lawful struggle? 

1. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
2. Annie Besant
3. G.S. Kharpade
4. Subhas Chandra Bose
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The phrase “Satyameva Jayate” is taken from which of the following texts?

Consider the following statements regarding the atmospheric pressure:

1. The weight of the column of air at a given place and time is called air pressure or atmospheric pressure.
2. Atmospheric pressure is measured by an instrument called Thermometer.
3. Atmospheric pressure is measured as force per unit area and the unit used for measuring pressure is called millibar.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding the air temperature and the air pressure on various regions on earth:

1. Air pressure is low in equatorial regions and it is higher in Polar Regions.
2. There is an inverse relationship between air temperature and air pressure.
3. Low air pressure in equatorial regions is due to the fact that hot air ascends there with a gradual decrease in temperature causing thinness of air on the surface.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Which type of volcanic eruptions is responsible for Deccan Trap formations in the Indian peninsular region?

Which of the following statements is correct regarding the type of volcanic eruptions? 

1. Basaltic eruption occurs at mid-oceanic ridge and andesitic eruption occurs at volcanic arcs and mountains.
2. Andesitic eruption is more fluid and mobile than basaltic eruptions.

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Which of the following is/are correct?

1. Either of the two belts over the oceans at about 30 – 35 degrees North and South latitudes is known as Horse latitude.
2. Horse latitudes are low-pressure belts.

The clouds float in the atmosphere because of their low:

Western Cyclonic Disturbance enters the Indian subcontinent from the west and the northwest, originate over the Mediterranean Sea and are brought into India by the______.

El-Nino is a complex weather system that appears once every three to seven years, consider the following statements in this regard:

1. The appearance of warm currents off the coast of Peru in the eastern Pacific.
2. The word El-Nino means ‘Child Christ’ because the current appears around the Christmas in December.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Nor Westers are dreaded evening thunderstorms in Bengal and Assam. These showers are useful for tea, jute and rice cultivation. In Assam these storms are known as

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. Coriolis force is responsible for deflecting wind towards right in the northern hemisphere and towards the left in the southern hemisphere.
2. The Coriolis force is minimum at the poles and maximum at the equator.

 Consider the following statements regarding the Net Sown Area (NSA) of any region:

1. The total land area on which crops are grown in a region is called net sown area.
2. The net sown area and the area sown more than once together are called gross cultivated area.
3. In India, about 47 percent of the total reporting area is under the net sown area.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

Which of the following states has the highest area of land available for cultivation India?

Which of the following is/are not correct?

1. New Development Bank was established by Fortaleza declaration.
2. The bank will be headquartered in Bejing.
3. New Development Bank each participant country will be assigned one vote with veto power reserved for the country which has the presidency.

Match the following:

1. Operation Rahat     A. Maldives
2. Operation Maitri    B. Yemen
3. Operation Neer       C. Nepal

Which of the following is a founding member of AIIB?

1. Saudi Arabia 
2. Qatar
3. UK
4. Canada
5. Iran
6. South Africa

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Who built Hauz-e-Shamsi, a water reservoir built in 1230 CE?

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. Hindi Divas is observed in India on 14 September.
2. It was on this day that the Constituent Assembly of India adopted Hindi in the Devanagari script as the official language of the Indian Republic in 1949.

Natya Shastra, an ancient Indian treatise on the performing arts, encompassing theatre, dance and music was written by

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

1. It originated in Kerala and is performed by both men and women.
2. The songs to which the dance accompanies is typically in Malayalam-Sanskrit hybrid called Manipravalam.

Tribhanga body position is associated with which of the following classical dance forms?

Which one of the following groups of items is included in India’s foreign-exchange reserves? 

Which of the following would include Foreign Direct Investment in India?

1. Subsidiaries of companies in India
2. Majority foreign equity holding in Indian companies
3. Companies exclusively financed by foreign companies
4. Portfolio investment

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Despite having large reserves of coal, why does India import millions of tonnes of coal?

1. It is the policy of India to save its own coal reserves for future, and import it from other countries for the present use.
2. Most of the power plants in India are coal-based and they are not able to get sufficient supplies of coal from within the country.
3. Steel companies need large quantity of coking coal which has to be imported.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Participatory Notes (PNs) are associated with which one of the following?

Which of the following is/are correct about the Goods and Services Tax Network?

1. Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) was incorporated in 2013 and is a not-for-profit entity.
2. GSTN provides the information technology backbone for the implementation of GST.
3. At present, the central government owns 49% stake in GSTN.

Which of the following bodies is the apex research organisation for carrying out
taxonomic studies on wild plant resources?

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. Swine influenza, also called pig influenza, swine flu, hog flu and pig flu, is an infection caused by any one of several types of swine influenza bacteria.
2. Influenza A (H1N1) is the subtype of influenza A that is the very rare cause of human influenza.

With reference to the food web, consider the following statements:

1. The same food resource is part of more than one chain.
2. A food web complexity decreases the chance of survival of the organisms in an Ecosystem by competition.

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The Akash short-range surface-to-air missile (SRSAM) system was recently
in the news. Consider the following statements relating to this:

1. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) developed Akash as part of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme initiated in 1984.
2. Akash has a range of 25 km and can engage multiple targets at a time in all-weather conditions.

Which of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements about Kanthasth:

 Which of the above statements are correct?