Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 30 June 2021

Q.1) Consider the following statement regarding African swine fever: 

1. It is a severe viral disease affecting domestic and wild pigs.
2. It can be spread by live or dead pigs, domestic or wild, and pork products.
3. The disease does not affect humans.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(a) 1 and 3 only

(b) 2 and 3 only

(c) 1 and 2 only

(d) 1, 2 and 3 only

Q.2) On which of the following country doesn’t pursuing hypersonic weapons technologies:

(a) USA 

(b) Russia 

(c) Japan 

(d) China 

Q.3) With reference to the Gross EnvironmentProduct index, consider the following statements:

1. It is an index of economic growth with the environmental consequences of that growth factored into a region's conventional GDP.
2. It monetizes the loss of biodiversity and other environmental factors, apart from accounting for such costs in developmental planning.
3. Arunachal Pradesh is set to become the first state in the country to assign monetary value to its critical naturalresources.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(a) 1 and 3 only

(b) 2 and 3 only

(c) 1, 2 and 3 only

(d) 1 and 2 only

Q.4) Who has been recently elected as 13th President of Iran?

(a)Ebrahim Raisi

(b) Abdolnaser Hemmati

(c) Mohsen Rezaee

(d) Saeed Jalili

Q.5) With reference to the black holearea theorem, consider the following statements:

1. It states that it isimpossible for thesurface area of ablack hole todecrease over timehas been provenright.
2.Black hole areatheorem was derived in 1971from Einstein'stheory of general relativity that defines gravitational waves and black hole.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(a) Neither 1 nor 2

(b) Both 1 and 2 

(c) 1 only

(d) 2 only

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