DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ FOR UPSC PRELIMS 2019 – [03rd October 2018]

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Q 1: Balabhaskar is related to which of the following musical instruments?

  1. Tabla
  2. Guitar
  3. Drums
  4. Violin

[showhide type=”pressrelease1″ more_text=”Show Answer” less_text=”Hide Answer”]Correct Answer: Violin

  • Noted violinist Balabhaskar, who was critically injured in a car accident, passed away
  • He forged joint collaborations with musicians ranging from Stephen Devassy and Sivamani to Ustad Zakir Hussain and Mattannoor Sankarankutty

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Q 2: Choose the correct statement about Lonar Lake:

  1. Lonar lake is located in Madhya Pradesh
  2. It is a National Geo-Heritage Monument
  1. Only 1
  2. Only 2
  3. Both 1 and 2
  4. None

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ FOR UPSC PRELIMS 2019 | 03rd October 2018

[showhide type=”pressrelease2″ more_text=”Show Answer” less_text=”Hide Answer”]Correct Answer: Only 2

Statement 1 is incorrect as Lonar lake is located in Maharashtra

  • Lonar Lake, which is also known as Lonar crater, is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument. It is a saline soda lake located at Lonar in Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India.
  • Lonar Lake was created by a meteor impact during the Pleistocene Epoch.
  • Lonar Lake is the only known hypervelocity impact crater in basaltic rock in the world.
  • Lonar Lake is both saline and alkaline in nature.

Read More: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/88-million-year-old-isle-and-crater-to-be-geoparks/article25105544.ece

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Q 3: Choose the correct statement

  1. Agriculture accounts for over 70 per cent of all nitrous oxide emission in the Indian environment
  2. Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas (GHG) that is 300 times more powerful than CO2

  1. Only 1

  2. Only 2

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. None

 

[showhide type=”pressrelease3″ more_text=”Show Answer” less_text=”Hide Answer”]Correct Answer: Both 1 and 2

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Q 4: Which of the following is correct?

  1. NAFTA deal was first signed in 1994
  2. NAFTA aims to eliminate barriers to trade and investment between the U.S., Canada and Japan.

  1. Only 1

  2. Only 2

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. None

[showhide type=”pressrelease4″ more_text=”Show Answer” less_text=”Hide Answer”]Correct Answer: Only 1

  • Statement 2 is incorrect
  • The North American Free Trade Agreement is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
  • The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994 and is set to be replaced by the 2018 United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement.

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Q5: Choose the correct statement:

  1. International Solar Alliance is a treaty-based inter-governmental organization.
  2. International Solar Alliance has its Headquarters in India

  1. Only 1

  2. Only 2

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. None

[showhide type=”pressrelease5″ more_text=”Show Answer” less_text=”Hide Answer”]Correct Answer: Both 1 and 2

  • The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is an alliance of more than 121 countries, which lie either completely or partly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
  • The primary objective of the ISA  is to work for efficient exploitation of solar energy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels
  • It is headquartered in India. In 2016, Narendra Modi, and the then French President François Hollande jointly laid the foundation stone of the ISA Headquarters at Gurugram, India.
  • The alliance is also called International Agency for Solar Policy and Application (IASPA)

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Q 6: Where has the ‘World’s Largest Dome’ recently inaugurated?

  1. Maharashtra

  2. New Delhi

  3. Odisha

  4. Andhra Pradesh

 

[showhide type=”pressrelease6″ more_text=”Show Answer” less_text=”Hide Answer”]Correct Answer:  Maharashtra

  • Vice-President of India inaugurated the world’s largest dome at the Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT)’s World Peace University (MIT-WPU) campus.
  • It is called as the ‘World Peace Monument’ dome
  • It was inaugurated on the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
  • The ‘World Peace Monument’ took nearly 13 years to be built.

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Q 7: The Nobel Prize 2018 in Physics was awarded in which field of work?

  1. Communication Technology

  2. Optical Lasers

  3. Nuclear Research

  4. Electromagnetism

[showhide type=”pressrelease7″ more_text=”Show Answer” less_text=”Hide Answer”]Correct Answer: Optical Lasers 

  • Three scientists have been awarded the Nobel Physics Prize 2018 for inventing optical lasers that have paved the way for advanced precision instruments to be used in corrective eye surgery.
  • Arthur Ashkin of the U.S.A has won one half of the nine million Swedish kronor (about $1.01 million) prize. He was honoured for his invention of “optical tweezers” that grab particles, atoms, viruses and other living cells with their laser beam fingers
  • Mr. Ashkin is the oldest winner of a Nobel prize, beating out American Leonid Hurwicz who was 90 when he won the 2007 Economics Prize.
  • Gerard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland of Canada shared the other half of the prize
  • Donna Strickland is the first woman to receive the prestigious award in 55 years
  • The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. Maria Goeppert-Mayer was the second woman to win a Nobel Physics Prize. She won in 1963
  • Curie is also the only woman to have won multiple Nobel Prizes in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Curie’s daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, making the two the only mother-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes.
    The most Nobel Prizes awarded to women in a single year was in 2009, when five women became laureates.

Read More: https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/laser-pioneers-win-physics-nobel/article25106940.ece

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