Weekly Current Affairs Quiz 2017: Feb 12 - 18

Question 1: Consider the statements about CAG of India:

1] The Comptroller and Auditor-General shall not be eligible for further office either under the Government of India or under the Government of any State after he has ceased to hold his office.
2] The CAG shall be appointed by the President.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Question 2: Recently, India successfully  test fired PRITHVI Defence Vehicle Interceptor Missile. Consider the following statements :

1] It is indigenously developed.
2] PDV (Prithvi Defence Vehicle) mission is for engaging the targets in the exo-atmosphere region at an altitude above 50 km of earth’s atmosphere.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 3: Which country has filed a case against India in solar case in WTO ?

Question 4: Consider the statements about 7th Pay Commission:

1. Central Pay Commissions in India are constituted every five years to review the principles and structure of emoluments of central government employees and recommend changes.
2. It is heade by A K Mathur.

Question 5: Consider the following statements about President: 

1] President appoints Chairman and other members of UPSC and Joint Public Service Commissions
2] President appoints Attorney General of India.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 6: The “Thor Experiment” was recently in the news. What is it?

1] It is an experiment aims to investigate electrical activity from thunderstorms.
2] The key aims of the study include understanding how these discharges influence water vapour levels, cloud formation, and eventually changes in climate.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 7: Consider the following statements, regarding “INS Sarvekshak” which was recently in the news:

1] INS Sarvekshak is a naval survey vessel.
2] This ship has innovatively deployed the zero-maintenance solar power system, capable of generating 5.4 KW electricity.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 8: Consider the following statements regarding the “THAAD” system which was recently in the news:

1] The Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system of the U.S. military is an easily transportable defensive weapon system to protect against hostile incoming threats such as tactical and theatre ballistic missiles at ranges of 200 km and at altitudes up to 150 km.
2] The THAAD missile intercepts exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric threats.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Question 9: The “38^th Parallel” divides which two countries?

Question 10: Consider the following statements:

1] International Solar Alliance (ISA ) is conceived as a coalition of solar resource rich countries lying fully or partially between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn to address their special energy needs and will provide a platform to collaborate on addressing the identified gaps through a common, agreed approach.
2] ISA was launched jointly by the Prime Minister of India and the President of France on 30th November, 2015 at Paris on the side-lines of the 21st CoP meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
3] The ISA will strive to bring together more than 121 solar resource rich nations for coordinated research, low cost financing and rapid deployment.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Question 11: Consider the following statements:

1] Privthi is a Surface-to-Surface Missile.
2] The Nag missile is an anti-tank guided missile.

 Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 12: Consider the following statements, regarding “INS Sarvekshak” which was recently in the news:

1] BrahMos is a supersonic cruise missile named after two rivers, the Brahmaputra in India and the Moskva in Russia.
2] Akash is a medium-range mobile surface-to-air missile defense system.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 13: Consider the following statements:

1] Demonetization is the act of stripping a currency unit of its status as legal tender. 
2] Monetization is the process of converting or establishing something into legal tender.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Question 14: Which of the following organizations brings out the publication known as ‘World Economic Outlook’?

Question 15: Which of the following organizations bring out the report known as ‘Global Competitive Index’? 

Question 16: Consider the following statements:

1] Cartosat-2 is an Earth observation satellite in a sun-synchronous orbit and the second of the Cartosat series of satellites.
2] The imagery of Cartosat-2 series satellite will be useful cartographic applications, urban and rural applications, coastal land use and regulation, utility management like road network monitoring, water distribution, creation of land use maps, precision study, change detection to bring out geographical and manmade features and various other Land Information System (LIS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) applications. 

 Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 17: Consider the following statements

1] El Nino refers to an anomalous heating up of the waters in the central-eastern regions of the equatorial Pacific and implies a consistent, average rise in temperature of 0.5 degree Celsius above normal.
2] La Niña is the positive phase of the El Nino Southern Oscillation and is associated with cooler than average sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 18: Consider the following statements:

1] The neighbouring countries of Venezuela are Colombia, Brazil and Guyana.
2] The world’s highest uninterrupted waterfall, Angel Falls is a waterfall in Bolivia.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Question 19: Consider the following statements:

1] The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is the first international treaty negotiated under the auspices of WHO.
2] The WHO FCTC was developed in response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic and is an evidence-based treaty that reaffirms the right of all people to the highest standard of health.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Question 20: Which of the following organizations bring out the report known as ‘Global Corruption Report (GCR)’?

Question 21: Consider the following statements regarding “The Marriages (Compulsory Registration and Prevention of Wasteful Expenditure) Bill, 2016”:

1] According to this bill, if a family spends above Rs. 5 lakh on a wedding, it has to contribute 10% of such amount towards a welfare fund which shall be established by the appropriate government to assist the poor and Below Poverty Line families for the marriage of their daughters.
2] The purpose of this Bill is to prohibit extravagant and wasteful expenditure on marriages and to enforce simpler solemnization.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 22: Consider the following statements regarding ‘ISRO nano satellites (INS)’:

1] The INS system is developed as a co-passenger satellite to accompany bigger satellites on PSLV.
2] The main objective of the INS  is to provide a platform on which payloads up to 5 kg from universities and R&D laboratories, and ISRO itself can be easily integrated for carrying out scientific research activities.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 23: Consider the following statements:

1] The neighbouring countries of Croatia are Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia.
2] The ‘Horn of Africa’, includes the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Question 24: Consider the following statements:

1] PSLV is ISRO’s versatile launch vehicle for launching multiple satellites in polar SSOs, Low Earth Orbits (LEO) as well as Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) and sub GTO.
2] The PSLV has been in service for over twenty years and has launched various satellites for historic missions like Chandrayaan-1, Mars Orbiter Mission, Space Capsule Recovery Experiment, Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) etc.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Question 25: Which of the following organizations bring out the report known as ‘Global Environment Outlook’? 

Question 26: Consider the following statements regarding the sail boat ‘Tarini’:

1] The sail boat Tarini is being inducted into the Navy and is slated to be the platform for First Indian All Women Circumnavigation of the Globe expedition of the Indian Navy. 
2] The boat draws her origin from the famous Tara-Tarini temple of Orissa’s Ganjam district. The word Tarini means a Boat and is also a Sanskrit word for Saviour. 

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 27: The constitution is the supreme law of the land. The guardian of the constitution is _________.

Question 28: Consider the following statements:

1] Under Article 32 of the constitution of Supreme Court can issue writs for the enforcement of fundamental rights.
2] These writs are in the nature of Habeas Corpus, Mandamus, Prohibition, Certiorari, and Quo Warranto.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Question 29: Consider the following statements:

1] It is bordered by Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China.
2] The Durand Line is a frontier boundary between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 30: Consider the following statements:

1] The primary duty of the Supreme Court is to ascertain whether the laws are executed and obeyed properly and to see to it that no person is deprived of justice in any court of law.
2] Article 131 of the Indian Constitution vests the Supreme Court with original and exclusive jurisdiction to determine the justiciable disputes between the Union and the States or between the States.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Question 31: Consider the following statements:

1] Measles is caused by a virus in the paramyxovirus family and it is normally passed through direct contact and through the air.
2] The virus infects the respiratory tract, then spreads throughout the body. 

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 32: Consider the following statements:

1] Article 51A(a) mandates that citizens should abide by the Constitution and respect its ideals and institutions, the National Flag and the National Anthem.
2] Recently, a bench of Justices of the Supreme Court, in a short order, said it should be clearly noted that Article 51A (a), citing the citizens’ fundamental duties, does not refer to ‘National Song.’

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 33: Consider the following statements:

1] The song ‘Vande Mataram’, was composed in Sanskrit by Bankimchandra Chatterji.
2]  The words ‘Satyameva Jayate’, written in Devnagari Script, which is also the National Motto of India, are from the ‘Mundaka Upanishad’.  

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Question 34: Consider the following statements regarding the ‘Science Express’ which was recently in the news:

1] Science Express is an innovative mobile science exhibition of Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India, mounted on a 16 coach AC train. 
2] It has become the largest, the longest running and the most visited mobile science exhibition and has six entries in the Limca Book of Records.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Question 35: Which of the following organizations bring out the report known as ‘Global Wage Report’?