16th October 2023 Current Affairs Quiz

Ans: World Economic Forum
Exp:
Global Gender Gap Report annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions. It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts toward closing these gaps over time since its inception in 2006. India is now placed 127 out of 146 nations in terms of gender parity, up from 135 last year, according to the annual Global Gender Gap Report, 2023.

Ans: b (statements 3 and 4 are correct).
Exp:
The Geneva Conventions (1949) and their Additional Protocols are international treaties that contain the most important rules limiting the barbarity of war.
There are four conventions that are applied during times of war. They are:
1. The first Geneva Convention protects wounded and sick soldiers on land during war.
2. The second Geneva Convention protects wounded, sick and shipwrecked military personnel at sea during war.
3. The third Geneva Convention applies to prisoners of war.
4. The fourth Geneva Convention affords protection to civilians, including in occupied territory.

Sol: c

Exp:

1. Haiti is a Caribbean island nation located on the island of Hispaniola. It is a central American country that lies between the North and south American countries. Its neighbouring countries are Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Cuba.
2. The first Europeans to arrive on Hispaniola were the Spanish, with the voyage of Christopher Columbus, and they formed settlements.
3. By the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697, the island was split into Spanish eastern end, and the western third became the French colony of Santo Domingo.
4. The US stepped in and occupied Haiti in 1915 as its protectorate, withdrawing by 1934.

Sol: b) Only two (Statement 3 is wrong)
Exp:
Kaziranga had an estimated 103 tigers, the third highest population in India after Jim Corbett National Park (215) in Uttarakhand and Bandipur National Park (120) in Karnataka.

Solution: (c)

Exp) Statements 1 and 2 are correct. Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the moon and the sun, and the rotation of the earth.

Statement 3 is correct. Tides occur due to an imbalance between the various forces acting on the ocean water at a point in time. In general, the tide-generating force is the difference between these two forces; i.e. the gravitational attraction due to the mass of the moon and the centrifugal force due to rotation of the earth. Together, the gravitational pull and the centrifugal force are responsible for creating the two major tidal bulges on the earth. On the side of the earth facing the moon, a tidal bulge occurs while on the opposite side though the gravitational attraction of the moon is less as it is farther away, the centrifugal force causes tidal bulge on the other side.