DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ FOR UPSC PRELIMS 2019 – [02nd October 2018]

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Q 1: Justice Ranjan Gagoi is the _______ Chief Justice of India?

  1. 45th

  2. 46th

  3. 47th

  4. 48th

    Daily Current Affairs Quiz for UPSC Prelims 2019

[showhide type=”pressrelease1″ more_text=”Show Answer” less_text=”Hide Answer”]Correct Answer:  46th

  • Justice Gogoi, who will take over on October 3 will be India’s 46th Chief Justice of India.
  • He will be the first top judge from Assam

Read More: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/create-an-equal-free-society-justice-gogoi/article25099755.ece

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Q 2: Choose the correct statement about the use of Fly Ash:

  1. Cement and Brick Industry
  2. Melting of ice of rivers

  1. Only 1

  2. Only 2

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. None

[showhide type=”pressrelease2″ more_text=”Show Answer” less_text=”Hide Answer”]Correct Answer: Both 1 and 2

Fly ash is a byproduct from coal burning in electric power generating plants. It is used in Cement and Brick Industry, Waste stabilization and solidification, Structural filling, Melting of ice on rivers etc.

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Q 3: Choose the correct statement

  1. Asiatic Lion falls under Vulnerable category in the IUCN Red List
  2. Asiatic Lions are found In Gujarat and Karnataka
  3. Gir Forest was once part of Nawab of Junagadh’s Private Hunting Ground

  1. Only 1

  2. Only 3

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. All of the above

 

[showhide type=”pressrelease3″ more_text=”Show Answer” less_text=”Hide Answer”]Correct Answer: Only 3

  • Asiatic Lion falls under Endangered category in the IUCN Red List
  • Asiatic Lions are found In Gujarat only.
  • Its range is restricted to the Gir Forest National Park and nearby area in the Indian state of Gujarat

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Q 4: Who has won the Nobel Prize 2018 for Medicine?

  1. Tasuko Honjo and James P Allison

  2. Dan Wang and Peter Salvator

  3. George Right, Simon Craig and XI Huan

  4. Sunard Forge and Rown Mcarthy

[showhide type=”pressrelease4″ more_text=”Show Answer” less_text=”Hide Answer”]Correct Answer:Tasuko Honjo and James P Allison

  • James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan has won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for their research into how the body’s natural defences can fight cancer
  • Allison and Honjo researched how to help the patient’s own immune system tackle the cancer more rapidly.
  • Their award-winning research led to treatments targeting proteins made by some immune system cells that act like a “brake” on the body’s natural defences killing cancer cells.

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Q5: Choose the correct statement:

  1. The average size of land Holding in India is 1.05 ha
  2. Nagaland has the highest average Land Holding in the country

  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: Only 2

Statement 1 is incorrect as The average size of land Holding in India is 1.08 ha.

  • As per the  10th Agriculture Census,  the average size of operational agricultural holdings in the country has declined to 1.08 hectares (ha) in 2015-16. It was 1.15 ha in 2010-11
  • The average operational holding was highest in state of Nagaland (5.06 ha) and  it is lowest in Kerala (0.18 ha).

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Q 6: Which state has launched its own Food Security Scheme?

  1. West Bengal

  2. Tamil Nadu

  3. Odisha

  4. Punjab

 

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

  • Odisha will launch its own State Food Security Scheme (SFSS) from Gandhi Jayanti on October 2
  • Around 18 lakh poor and eligible people who were left out under the National Food Security Act, 2013, (NFSA) will receive 5 kg of rice at the rate of ₹1 per kg, they said.
  • The State government decided to launch its own food security scheme after the Union government did not respond to the Odisha state government’s request to add an additional 25 lakh poor people under the National Food Security Act

Read More: https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/odisha-to-launch-state-food-security-scheme-on-gandhi-jayanti-118100100834_1.html

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Q 7: Who has been appointed as the Chief Economist of IMF?

  1. Arvind Subramanium

  2. Chanda Kochar

  3. Gita Gopinath

  4. Hasan Naz

[showhide type=”pressrelease7″ more_text=”Show Answer” less_text=”Hide Answer”]Correct Answer: Gita Gopinath

  • Gita Gopinath has been appointed as the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • She is the second Indian after former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan to hold this position

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