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Insights Daily Quiz Aug 2017 www.insightsonindia.com DAILY QUIZ INSIGHTSONINDIA DAILY QUIZ AUGUST 2017 www.insightsonindia.com | www.insightsias.com 1 www.insightsonindia.com DAILY QUIZ TABLE OF CONTENTS DATE PAGE NO. AUGUST 1, 2017 __________________________________________________________________________ 3 AUGUST 2, 2017 __________________________________________________________________________ 5 AUGUST 3, 2017 __________________________________________________________________________ 7 AUGUST 4, 2017 __________________________________________________________________________ 9 AUGUST 5, 2017 ________________________________________________________________________ 12 AUGUST 7, 2017 ________________________________________________________________________ 14 AUGUST 8, 2017 ________________________________________________________________________ 16 AUGUST 9, 2017 ________________________________________________________________________ 18 AUGUST 10, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 20 AUGUST 11, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 22 AUGUST 14, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 24 AUGUST 15, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 26 AUGUST 16, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 28 AUGUST 17, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 30 AUGUST 18, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 33 AUGUST 19, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 35 AUGUST 21, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 37 AUGUST 22, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 40 AUGUST 23, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 43 AUGUST 24, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 46 AUGUST 25, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 50 AUGUST 26, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 53 AUGUST 28, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 55 AUGUST 29, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 58 AUGUST 30, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 60 AUGUST 31, 2017 _______________________________________________________________________ 63 2 www.insightsonindia.com DAILY QUIZ Q. Question Solution No. AUGUST 1, 2017 1. Which of the following statements is/are Solution: c. provisions found in the Whistleblowers Regarding Statement 1: The amendment Bill seeks to Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2015? remove immunity provided to whistle-blowers from 1. It prohibits disclosures to be made if they prosecution under the draconian Official Secrets Act are covered by the Official Secrets Act, (OSA) for disclosures made under the WBP law. 1923 Offences under the OSA are punishable by 2. It prohibits the reporting of a corruption- imprisonment of up to 14 years. Threat of such related disclosure if it falls under certain stringent penalties would deter even genuine whistle- prohibited categories which are modelled blowers. The basic purpose of the WBP Act is to on those under the RTI Act encourage people to report wrongdoing. If whistle- blowers are prosecuted for disclosing information as Select the correct answer using the code given part of their complaints and not granted immunity below: from the OSA, the very purpose of the law would be (a) 1 only defeated. (b) 2 only Regarding Statement 2: The amendment bill tries to bring the WBP act in line with the RTI Act. The (c) Both 1 and 2 amendments ignore the fact that the two laws have (d) Neither 1 nor 2 completely different objectives. The RTI Act seeks to provide information to people, while the WBP Act provides a mechanism for disclosures to be made to competent authorities within the government to enable inquiry into allegations of corruption and provide protection to whistle-blowers. TH: Don’t shoot the messenger; 2. Mindanao province, where IS-affiliated terror Solution: a. groups have established control, is in “In a significant development, India has decided to provide (a) Philippines a financial assistance of $5,00,000 (₹3.2 crore) to the (b) Myanmar Philippines to aid its fight against the Islamic State (IS)- affiliated terror groups in the troubled Mindanao province. (c) Cambodia This is the first time India is sending aid to another nation (d) Indonesia to help it fight terrorism, thereby becoming an important marker in New Delhi’s attempts to burnish its credentials as an emerging security provider to the wider Asian region.” Th: The Manila Envelope; 3. The 42nd Amendment Act 1976 imposed a Solution: a. freeze on the population figure for The same question was posted here earlier. readjustment at the 1971 census and has been extended by the 84th Amendment Act 2001 till The Statement of Objects and Reasons to the 2026. As a result, the House of the People Constitution (84th Amendment) Act, 2001 states, today represents the population figure of the “There have been consistent demands, both for and 1971 census. For what purpose has the freeze against undertaking the exercise of fresh delimitation. on undertaking delimitation been extended up Keeping in view the progress of family planning to the year 2026? programmes in different parts of the country, the (a) To enable State Governments to pursue Government, as part of the National Population Policy the agenda for population stabilisation strategy, recently decided to extend the current freeze on undertaking fresh delimitation up to the year 2026 3 www.insightsonindia.com DAILY QUIZ as a motivational measure to enable the State (b) To ensure continuity in developmental Government to pursue the agenda for population programmes for periods longer than the interval between successive censuses stabilisation.” Ch-22, Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth: “This ban on (c) To avoid unnecessary expenditure that readjustment was extended for another 25 years (ie, the exchequer would incur due to the upto year 2026) by the 84th Amendment Act of 2001, associated costs of increased number of with the same objective of encouraging population people’s representatives in both the limiting measures.” centre and state governments TH: Dilemmas of delimitation; (d) None of the above 4. Which of the following is/are geo-engineering Solution: d. approaches to tackling climate change? BBC: Cirrus ice clouds extend their thin and wispy 1. Dumping iron solution into the oceans to tendrils in the upper troposphere, at altitudes of about encourage plankton to bloom 5-15 kilometres. Researchers say that these thin clouds 2. Injection of sulphate aerosols into the are known with confidence to have a net warming atmosphere effect on our planet, since their ice crystals re-emit infrared radiation absorbed from the sun-warmed 3. Thinning down cirrus clouds of the upper surface back down towards ground. So if we can make troposphere cirrus thinner still, we’ll let out more heat and cool the Select the correct answer using the code given globe. below: BBC: One of the largest Geo engineering experiments, (a) 1 only known as Lohafex, was an Indian-German experiment in 2009 which involved dumping six tonnes of an iron (b) 2 and 3 only solution into the South Atlantic to encourage plankton (c) 3 only to bloom – trapping carbon which would then be sent to the seabed when the organisms died. Results (d) 1, 2 and 3 showed limited success. Large volcano eruptions inject ash particles and sulphur-rich gases into the troposphere and stratosphere and these clouds can circle the globe within weeks of the volcanic activity. The small ash particles decrease the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth and lower average global temperatures. The sulphurous gases combine with water in the atmosphere to form acidic aerosols that also absorb incoming solar radiation and scatter it back out into space. TH: Beating back climate change; 5. The Supreme Court recently prohibited the use Solution: d. of five chemicals, labelled as toxic by the “A Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta Central Pollution Control Board, in the recorded in its short order that, “that no firecrackers manufacture of fire crackers. Which one of the manufactured by the respondents shall contain antimony, following is not one of these chemicals? lithium, mercury, arsenic and lead in any form whatsoever. (a) Lithium It is the responsibility of the Petroleum and Explosive (b) Lead Safety Organisation (PESO) to ensure compliance particularly in Sivakasi.”…” (c) Mercury Th: SC bans five toxic chemicals ; (d) Sulphur 4 www.insightsonindia.com DAILY QUIZ AUGUST 2, 2017 1. ‘Blue Whale Challenge’, recently seen in the Solution: a. news, refers to A main-examination oriented question. (a) An online game which has been blamed “Police had said the online game, which originated in for the deaths of more than a hundred Russia, starts by asking participants via social media to lives all over the world draw a blue whale on a piece of paper. The participants are (b) The International Whaling Commission’s then asked to carve the whale on their body. They are given initiative which enables anyone with an other tasks, like watching a horror movie alone, they internet connection to keep a tab on added. The tasks have to be recorded
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