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 WEEKLY QUIZ
(Week: 9th November-15th November, 2020)
(Quiz created from: NEWS HEADLINES)
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25 MCQs: CURRENT AFFAIRS

Q1. Hambantota port lies in which of the Q6. Consider the following statements:
following countries? 1. Viability Gap Finance means a grant to
a) Sri Lanka support projects that are economically
b) Myanmar justified but not financially viable.
c) Thailand 2. The VGF scheme was launched in 2004 to
support projects that come under Public-
d) Maldives
Private Partnerships.
Which of the above statement/s is/are
Q2. Which of the following countries does correct?
not border Ethiopia? a. 1 only
(a) Eritrea b. 2 only
(b) Djibouti c. Both 1 and 2
(c) South Sudan d. Neither 1 nor 2
(d)Uganda
Q7. Consider the following statements:
1. Eco-Sensitive Areas (ESAs)are located
Q3. Tigray region recently in news lies in
within 10 kms around Protected Areas,
which of the following countries? National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries.
(a) Somalia 2. ESAs are notified by the MoEFCC under
(b) Sudan Wildlife Protection Act 1972.
(c) South Sudan Which of the above statement/s is/are
(d)Ethiopia correct?
a. 1 only
Q4. Which of the following is the nearest b. 2 only
c. Both 1 and 2
port to Chabahar?
d. Neither 1 nor 2
(a) Gwadar
(b) Bandar Abbas
Q8. Consider the following statements:
(c) Muscat Port
1. The Western Ghats is spread over five
(d)Kandla
states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka,
Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Q5. Consider the following statements: 2. Gadgil report seeks to bring 37% of the
1. RCEP is free trade agreement in the Asia- Western Ghats under the ESA zones.
Pacific region between the ten ASEAN Which of the above statement/s is/are
states and five of their FTA partners. correct?
2. RCEP is the first multilateral free trade a. 1 only
agreement to include China. b. 2 only
Which of the above statement/s is/are c. Both 1 and 2
correct? d. Neither 1 nor 2
a. 1 only
b. 2 only Q9. Consider the following statements:
c. Both 1 and 2 1. Red Sandalwood is also known as Red
d. Neither 1 nor 2 Sanders.

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2. Red Sandalwood is a native and endemic (b) Project Tiger > Central Zoo Authority
to India and can only be found in the > Project Elephant > Community
southern parts of the Eastern Ghats.
Conserved Area
Which of the above statement/s is/are
correct? (c) Central Zoo Authority > Project Tiger >
a. 1 only Project Elephant > Community Conserved
b. 2 only Area
c. Both 1 and 2 (d) Central Zoo Authority > Community
d. Neither 1 nor 2
Conserved Area > Project Tiger > Project
Elephant
Q10. Consider the following statements:
1. Equator passes through southern
Maldives. Q14. Consider the following statements:
2. Maldives is not a member of 1. National Biodiversity Authority (NBA)
Commonwealth. is a statutory body.
Which of the above statement/s is/are 2. It looks in issues of Convention of
correct? Biodiversity (CBD).
a. 1 only Which of the statements given above
b. 2 only
is/are correct?
c. Both 1 and 2
d. Neither 1 nor 2 (a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
Q11. Biological phenomenon where one (c) Both 1 and 2
plant inhibits the growth of another is (d) Neither 1 nor 2
called:
(a) Predation Q15. Consider the following statements
(b) Commensalism about the Securities and Exchange Board
of India:
(c) Parasitism
1. It is a non-statutory body.
(d) Allelopathy 2. It regulates the credit rating agencies in
India.
Q12. Consider the following statements Which of the statements given above
w.r.t. Green Credit Scheme: is/are correct?
1. It functions under the provisions of (a) 1 only
Forest Rights Act, 2006. (b) 2 only
2. It addresses the concerns linked with (c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
compensatory afforestation.
Which of the statements given above
Q16. Which of the following indicate/s
is/are correct? situation of monetary policy
(a) 1 only transmission in the economy?
(b) 2 only 1. The banks benchmarking their
(c) Both 1 and 2 lending rates based on MCLR (Marginal
Cost of funds based Lending Rate).
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
2. External benchmarking of interest
rates.
Q13. Identify the correct chronological
Select the correct answer using the code
order: given below:
(a) Central Zoo Authority > Community (a) 1 only
Conserved Area > Project Elephant > (b) 2 only
Project Tiger (c) Both 1 and 2

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(d) Neither 1 nor 2 (a) It explains the nature of energy and
matter.
Q17. Which of the following (b) It is used for making computers much
statements are correct?
faster than super computers.
1. Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI)
involves holding financial assets from a (c) The technology can be used for
country outside of the investor's own. communications, chemistry, cryptography
2. FPI holdings can include stocks; etc.
American depositary receipts (ADRs), (d) Quantum field has been commercially
bonds, mutual funds and exchange-traded exploited completely.
funds.
3. Unlike Foreign Direct Investment
Q21. Which of the following sequences
(FDI), FPI consists of passive ownership.
correctly represents the order of ports
Select the correct answer using the code
from east to west direction?
given below:
(a) Bandar Abbas, Chabahar Port, Gwadar
(a) 1 and 2 only
Port, Kandla Port
(b) 2 and 3 only
(b) Kandla Port, Gwadar Port, Chabahar
(c) 1 and 3 only
Port, Bandar Abbas
(d) 1, 2 and 3
(c) Bandar Abbas, Gwadar Port, Chabahar
Port, Kandla Port
Q18. Which one of the following are the
(d) Kandla Port, Chabahar Port, Bandar
two organelles of the cell other than the
nucleus that also have DNA in them? Abbas, Gwadar Port
a) Endoplasmic Reticulum and
Lysosome Q22. Consider the following statements:
b) Mitochondria and Centriole 1. India is a party to the 1951 Refugee
c) Mitochondria and Chloroplast Convention.
d) Mitochondria and Golgi bodies 2. India is not a signatory to the New York
Declaration for Refugees and Migrants.
Q19. Consider the following statements Which of the statements given above
about the gravitational waves:
is/are correct?
1. Gravitational waves are one of the
(a) 1 only
strongest forces of our galaxy this keeps
(b) 2 only
all celestial bodies in position.
(c) Both 1 and 2
2. Gravitational waves was first detected
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
in 2016 from the merger of neutron star.
3. LIGO are set up to observe the Q23. Which of the following countries
gravitational waves. does not claim sovereignty over Spratly
Choose the correct statements from the Islands?
code given below: (a) Malaysia
(a) 1 and 2 only (b)Vietnam
(b) 2 and 3 only (c)Laos
(c) 1 and 3 only (d)Philippines
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Q24. Which of the following countries
Q20. Which of the following is false are located in the Horn of Africa?
about quantum technology? a) Djibouti, Eritrea, and Somalia
b) Tanzania, South Africa and Namibia

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c) Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Gabon (a)Cambodia–Vietnam-Myanmar-
d) Tunisia, Algeria and Libya Thailand
(b)Myanmar-Thailand-Cambodia-
Q25. Which of the following sequences Vietnam
correctly represents the order of (c)Myanmar-Thailand-Vietnam-Cambodia
countries from left to right? (d)Myanmar-Vietnam-Cambodia-
Thailand

Answer Key

1. Ans. a) 14. Ans. c)

2. Ans. d) 15. Ans. b)
3. Ans. d) 16. Ans. c)
4. Ans. a) 17. Ans. d)
5. Ans. c) 18. Ans. c)
6. Ans. c) 19. Ans. b)
7. Ans. a) 20. Ans. d)
8. Ans. d) 21. Ans. b)
9. Ans. c) 22. Ans. d)
10. Ans. a) 23. Ans. c)
11. Ans. d) 24. Ans. a)
12. Ans. b) 25. Ans. b)
13. Ans. c)

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