Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 10 February 2020
Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 10 February 2020
Q1. Consider the following statements regarding the Central Victim Compensation Fund scheme(CVCF) :
1) The compensation part of the rehabilitation of victims of violence
including rape is governed by provision of Section 357A of the Code of Criminal
Procedure which states that every State Government in co-ordination with the
Central Government shall prepare a scheme for providing funds for the purpose of
compensation to the victim of crime.
2) All states have adopted the scheme and the amount of compensation to victims
of trafficking is uniform from throughout these states.
3) The compensation amount in case of disability or incapacitation will be given
subject to the condition that no employment has been provided to any of the
family members of the victims by the government.
Which of the above statements are true ?
a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) 1 & 3 only
d) all of the above
Q2. Consider the following pairs of Indigenous breeds & the corresponding animals in India :
1) Bhadawari : Goat
2) Gir : cow
3) Landrace : horse
4) Duroc : Pig
5) Brahma : buffalo
Which of the above pairs are correctly matched ?
a)1,2 & 3 only
b) 2 & 4 only
c) 3,4 & 5 only
d) 1 & 3 only
Q3. The National Deworming Day (NDD) is being observed across the country today. Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?
1) Children and adolescents in the age group of 1-19 years will be
administered single dose of a safe medicine Albendazole in all states and Union
Territories on the occasion.
2) Organized by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the objective of the
day is to deworm children and adolescents to reduce the prevalence of parasitic
worms in the intestine.
3) More than 836 million children are at risk of parasitic worm infections
worldwide. According to World Health Organization 241 million children between
the ages of 1 and 14 years are at risk of parasitic intestinal worms in India,
also known as Soil-Transmitted Helminths.
a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) 1 & 3 only
d) all of the above
Q4. The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international programme that led to the decoding of the entire human genome. It has been described as “one of the great feats of exploration in history. Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?
1) A genome, simply put, is all the genetic matter in an organism. It is
defined as an organism’s complete set of DNA, including all of its genes.
2) Each genome contains all of the information needed to build and maintain that
organism.
3) In humans, a copy of the entire genome more than 3 billion DNA base pairs is
contained in all cells that have a plasma membrane.
a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) 1 & 3 only
d) all of the above
Q5. Which of the following countries recently voted in a referendum on a new law against homophobia that would widen existing legislation against discrimination or incitement to hatred on ethnic or religious grounds to include sexual orientation ?
a) New Zealand
b) Switzerland
c) Australia
d) Iran