Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 28 January 2023

Q.1) Consider the following statements:

1. Cheetah is a keystone species (organism that helps define an entire ecosystem) of dry forests,scrub forests, and savannahs.
2. It is the only large wild mammalian species that went extinct from India.
3. Cheetah is protected under Appendix 1 of CITES.

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

Q.2) Lake Victoria is largest lake in

(a) Asia
(b) Europe
(c) North America
(d) Africa

Q.3) Consider the following statements:

1. Asteroids sharing an orbit with a planet, but which are located at the leading (L4) and trailing (L5) Lagrangian points, are known as Trojan asteroids.
2. These asteroids occupy a stable Lagrangian point in a planet’s orbit around the Sun.
3. Trojan Asteroids are some of the oldest remnants from the formation of our solar system 5 billion years ago.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 and 3 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 2 only

Q.4) KNP is situated in Vindhyan Hills in

(a) MadhyaPradesh
(b) Assam
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(d) Gujarat

Q.5) Consider the following statements:

1.Under T+1, trade-related settlements must be done within a day, or 24 hours, of completion of a transaction.
2.India became second country in world to start ‘trade-plus-one’ (T+1) settlementcycle in top listed securities.
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