25 March 2022 Current Affairs Quiz for UPSC Prelims
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Question 1 of 10
1. Question
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India’s annual goods exports crossed the ____ mark for the first time ever, the government announced on Wednesday.
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India’s annual goods exports crossed the $400-billion mark for the first time ever, the government announced on Wednesday, buoyed by an increase in shipments of merchandise, including engineering products, apparel and garments, gems and jewellery and petroleum products
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India’s annual goods exports crossed the $400-billion mark for the first time ever, the government announced on Wednesday, buoyed by an increase in shipments of merchandise, including engineering products, apparel and garments, gems and jewellery and petroleum products
Question 2 of 10
2. Question
2 points
The Disaster Management (DM) Act will not be invoked in the country after March 31 due to the overall improvement in the COVID-19 situation. When was this Act first enacted in the country?
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The DM Act, first enacted in the country in 2005 after the tsunami disaster, was for the first time invoked on March 24, 2020, after the onset of the pandemic
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The DM Act, first enacted in the country in 2005 after the tsunami disaster, was for the first time invoked on March 24, 2020, after the onset of the pandemic
Question 3 of 10
3. Question
2 points
Abel Prize is awarded recognising contributions in which field?
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The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the Abel Prize for the year 2022 to American Mathematician Dennis Parnell Sullivan, for his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects
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The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the Abel Prize for the year 2022 to American Mathematician Dennis Parnell Sullivan, for his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects
Question 4 of 10
4. Question
2 points
Madeleine Albright, a feminist icon, passed away on March 23. What is she known for?
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Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during the Second World War but rose to become the first woman Secretary of State and, in her later years, a feminist icon, died on Wednesday at the age of 84
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Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during the Second World War but rose to become the first woman Secretary of State and, in her later years, a feminist icon, died on Wednesday at the age of 84
Question 5 of 10
5. Question
2 points
In the context of child hunger, what is the term used to define ‘low weight for height’?
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The recent Global Hunger Index report for 2020 ranks India at 94 out of 107 countries. The index is a combination of indicators of undernutrition in the population and wasting (low weight for height), stunting (low height for age), and mortality in children below five years of age
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The recent Global Hunger Index report for 2020 ranks India at 94 out of 107 countries. The index is a combination of indicators of undernutrition in the population and wasting (low weight for height), stunting (low height for age), and mortality in children below five years of age
Question 6 of 10
6. Question
2 points
The ruble is the currency of which country?
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President Vladimir Putin Russia will accept payments only in roubles for gas deliveries to “unfriendly countries”, which include all EU members after Moscow was hit by unprecedented sanctions over Ukraine.
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President Vladimir Putin Russia will accept payments only in roubles for gas deliveries to “unfriendly countries”, which include all EU members after Moscow was hit by unprecedented sanctions over Ukraine.
Question 7 of 10
7. Question
2 points
What is the Artemis I programme’s (NASA’s new mission) objective?
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Artemis I is an uncrewed space mission where the spacecraft will launch on SLS — the most powerful rocket in the world. It is touted as a critical component of NASA’s sustainable lunar operations and will serve as a multi-purpose outpost orbiting the moon.
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Artemis I is an uncrewed space mission where the spacecraft will launch on SLS — the most powerful rocket in the world. It is touted as a critical component of NASA’s sustainable lunar operations and will serve as a multi-purpose outpost orbiting the moon.
Question 8 of 10
8. Question
2 points
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are at loggerheads over the Mekedatu drinking water project. This project is concerned with which river?
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Originally mooted in 1948, Mekedatu (which translates as Goat’s crossing) is a drinking water cum power generation project across river Cauvery
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Originally mooted in 1948, Mekedatu (which translates as Goat’s crossing) is a drinking water cum power generation project across river Cauvery
Question 9 of 10
9. Question
2 points
At least 100 Himalayan griffons recently died of suspected poisoning in which Indian state?
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At least 100 vultures — all Himalayan griffons — died of suspected poisoning in Assam
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At least 100 vultures — all Himalayan griffons — died of suspected poisoning in Assam
Question 10 of 10
10. Question
2 points
Which Indian state is working on a mule track scheme for inclusion in India’s Border Area Development Programme?
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Atul Tayeng, Deputy Commissioner of the frontier State’s Siang district, said the State government was working on a mule track scheme for inclusion in the BADP. This followed an experiment entailing the distribution of 10 mules to be used as a mode of transportation in remote villages under the district’s Payum circle
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Atul Tayeng, Deputy Commissioner of the frontier State’s Siang district, said the State government was working on a mule track scheme for inclusion in the BADP. This followed an experiment entailing the distribution of 10 mules to be used as a mode of transportation in remote villages under the district’s Payum circle