Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 04 JANUARY 2018

Q1. Which of the following statements regarding the recently introduced Aadhar and other laws (amendment bill ) are true ?

1) Once passed it will provide legal backing for voluntary seeding of biometric Aadhaar ID for mobile SIM card and bank account authentication purposes.
2) The amendments moved would also permit children, who would turn 18 years old, to opt out of the system.
3) Under the amendments, an Aadhaar holder can opt for offline verification through a QR code and will not be required to share his or her actual Aadhaar number.

a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) 1 & 3 only
d) all of the above

Q2. Which of the following animals/species in India are critically endangered as per IUCN list ?

1) Kondana Rat
2) Pygmy hog
3) Fire corals
4) Himalayan Quail
5) Hawksbill turtle

a) 1,2 & 3 only
b) 2,4 & 5 only
c) 2,3,4 & 5 only
d) all of the above

Q3. The Union Ministry of Power issued a memo that set the rules for the flow of electricity across South Asian borders. Which of the following could be the possibleafter effects of such a move ?

1) Electricity generators across the borders would compete with each other to deliver our country low cost power.
2) It will lead to increase in Chinese investments in power generation across our borders.
3) It will pave the way for tripartite arrangements, that is Power generated in a country is routed over the territory of a neighbour to be consumed in a third.

a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) 1 & 3 only
 d) all of the above

Q4. Consider the following statements regarding China’s Change-4 lunar probe :

1) This is China’s first of a kind landing on the darker side of the moon which is usually invisible due to tidal locking with the earth.
2) Its main objectives include astronomical observation, surveying the moon’s terrain, land form and mineral make-up, and measuring the neutron radiation and neutral atoms.
3) The probe, which has a lander and a rover, touched down at a targeted area near the moon’s North pole in the Avogadro Crater.

Which of the above statements are true ?

a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) 1 & 3 only
d) all of the above

Q5. The Kali Masi(KadaknathChicken )is a local breed of chicken which is completely black in colour: feathers, flesh and even bones. The chicken, traditionally reared by Jhabua’sadivasi communities, was granted a Geographical Indication (GI) tag by the government registry last year.

The breed originates from which of the following Indian states ?
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Karnataka
d) Maharashtra

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ANSWER:

1(d), 2(d), 3(c), 4(a), 5(b)