21 February 2022 Current Affairs Quiz for UPSC Prelims
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Question 1 of 10
1. Question
2 points
In 2010, the UN General Assembly adopted the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 aimed at reducing fatalities in road accidents by 50%. In India, the fatality (number of deaths per 100 accidents) was 28.63 in 2011. What was the number in 2020?
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The fatality (that is a number of deaths per 100 accidents) which was 26.9 in 2001, continued to rise from 28.63 in 2011 to 37.54 in 2020. Thus, it is evident that despite setting a target of a 50% reduction in accidental deaths, the fatalities from road accidents actually increased in the last decade
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The fatality (that is a number of deaths per 100 accidents) which was 26.9 in 2001, continued to rise from 28.63 in 2011 to 37.54 in 2020. Thus, it is evident that despite setting a target of a 50% reduction in accidental deaths, the fatalities from road accidents actually increased in the last decade
Question 2 of 10
2. Question
2 points
India has embarked on a new trade journey to respond to the need of new emerging dynamics in international trade and the Indian economy. What is the new approach?
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India has embarked on a new journey — a new free trade agreement journey to be precise — with renewed zeal and vigour. India’s approach towards FTAs is now focusing more on gaining meaningful market access and facilitating Indian industry’s integration into global value chains.
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India has embarked on a new journey — a new free trade agreement journey to be precise — with renewed zeal and vigour. India’s approach towards FTAs is now focusing more on gaining meaningful market access and facilitating Indian industry’s integration into global value chains.
Question 3 of 10
3. Question
2 points
India’s first water taxi service was inaugurated in which State?
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India’s first water taxi service was inaugurated in Maharashtra on Thursday connecting the Navi Mumbai area to mainland Mumbai. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray inaugurated the Belapur jetty while Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbanand Sonowal flagged off the service.
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India’s first water taxi service was inaugurated in Maharashtra on Thursday connecting the Navi Mumbai area to mainland Mumbai. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray inaugurated the Belapur jetty while Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbanand Sonowal flagged off the service.
Question 4 of 10
4. Question
2 points
Australia intends to add the entirety of which Palestinian group to its list of outlawed terrorist organisations?
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Australia on Thursday said it had added the U.S.-based far-right extremist group National Socialist Order and planned to add the entirety of the Palestinian group Hamas to its list of outlawed terrorist organisations as concerns rise about radicalised children
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Australia on Thursday said it had added the U.S.-based far-right extremist group National Socialist Order and planned to add the entirety of the Palestinian group Hamas to its list of outlawed terrorist organisations as concerns rise about radicalised children
Question 5 of 10
5. Question
2 points
Historian Arnold Toynbee and British physicist and Nobel laureate M.S. Blackett, advised _____________________ on setting up a defence research establishment in the country.
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Historian Arnold Toynbee and British physicist and Nobel laureate M.S. Blackett, who advised Nehru on setting up a defence research establishment in the country. Blackett visited India as many as eight times during Nehru’s stint as Prime Minister
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Historian Arnold Toynbee and British physicist and Nobel laureate M.S. Blackett, who advised Nehru on setting up a defence research establishment in the country. Blackett visited India as many as eight times during Nehru’s stint as Prime Minister
Question 6 of 10
6. Question
2 points
‘Freedom Convoy’ is a phrase currently in use in the context of COVID-19 vaccination in which country?
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Since January 28, truckers calling themselves the “Freedom Convoy” have been staging demonstrations in Canada, demanding an end to a vaccine mandate imposed by the Government, that requires them to be fully vaccinated when they return from the U.S
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Since January 28, truckers calling themselves the “Freedom Convoy” have been staging demonstrations in Canada, demanding an end to a vaccine mandate imposed by the Government, that requires them to be fully vaccinated when they return from the U.S
Question 7 of 10
7. Question
2 points
What is the RBI’S upper tolerance limit for inflation based on the consumer price index?
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India’s inflation based on the consumer price index quickened to 6.01% in January, breaching the central bank’s upper tolerance limit of 6%
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India’s inflation based on the consumer price index quickened to 6.01% in January, breaching the central bank’s upper tolerance limit of 6%
Question 8 of 10
8. Question
2 points
What does it mean for a constitution to be unitary?
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In a unitary constitution, all legal sovereignty is contained in a single place. Federalism is a midpoint between unitarism which has a supreme centre, to which the States are subordinate and confederalism where the States are supreme and are merely coordinated by a weak centre.
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In a unitary constitution, all legal sovereignty is contained in a single place. Federalism is a midpoint between unitarism which has a supreme centre, to which the States are subordinate and confederalism where the States are supreme and are merely coordinated by a weak centre.
Question 9 of 10
9. Question
2 points
Who is the only other athlete apart from Mirabai Chanu to have won an Olympics medal in weightlifting?
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Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu was India’s first medallist in Tokyo, clinching silver with a total lift of 202 kg. She was the second Indian weightlifter after Karnam Malleswari (2000, bronze) to bag an Olympic medal.
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Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu was India’s first medallist in Tokyo, clinching silver with a total lift of 202 kg. She was the second Indian weightlifter after Karnam Malleswari (2000, bronze) to bag an Olympic medal.
Question 10 of 10
10. Question
2 points
A pilot facility for solar panel recycling and material recovery has been set up by a private company in which State?
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There was no commercial raw material recovery facility for solar e-waste operational in India, but a pilot facility for solar panel recycling and material recovery had been set up by a private company in Gummidipoondi in Tamil Nadu
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There was no commercial raw material recovery facility for solar e-waste operational in India, but a pilot facility for solar panel recycling and material recovery had been set up by a private company in Gummidipoondi in Tamil Nadu
