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Current Affairs MCQs for Practice – 01 Feb 2022

Question-1

Honouring 30 years of diplomatic relations with India, which country’s Prime Minister said that the two nations have a “gehri dosti” (deep friendship)?

a)     Canada

b)     Mauritius

c)      United Arab Emirates

d)     Israel

Ans- d

Explanation-

Israel and India have a “gehri dosti” (deep friendship), Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has said and thanked his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, for his “deep commitment” to the “strong and robust friendship”.

Question-2

The World Inequality Report 2022 has mentioned who as capturers of a disproportionate share of global wealth?

a)                 Global multimillionaires

b)                 Politicians

c)                  Pharmaceuticals

d)                 Tech firms

Ans- a

Explanation-

The pandemic has exacerbated it. Nations have become richer but governments have become poor, says the report. The totality of wealth is in private hands. Global multimillionaires have captured a disproportionate share of global wealth growth over the past several decades.

Question-3

Which international news organisation published a report that said the Indian government had purchased the Pegasus spyware from the NSO group of Israel in July 2017?

a)     The Guardian

b)     The New York Times

c)      Associated Press

d)     The Washington Post

Ans- b

Explanation- A fresh political storm has erupted over a report in the New York Times that said the Indian government had purchased the Pegasus spyware from the NSO group of Israel in July 2017 to carry out targeted surveillance on citizens.

Question-4

Who was the prime minister of India when India established formal diplomatic ties with Israel?

a)     PV Narasimha Rao

b)     Atal Bihari Vajpayee

c)      HD Deve Gowda

d)     Manmohan Singh

Ans- a

Explanation- The speech by Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked three decades since New Delhi established formal diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv on January 29, 1992, when P.V. Narasimha Rao was the Prime Minister.

Question-5

NATO was formed in _____ and had _____ founding member nations.

a)     1949, 12

b)     1955, 15

c)      1970, 10

d)     1990, 30

Ans- a

Explanation-

If NATO had 12 founding members in 1949, it now has 30 members, including the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — all sharing borders with Russia — and Hungary, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria, all members of the former Soviet-led Warsaw Pact.

Question- 6

The U.S. has started tackling which issue in its educational institutions?

a)     Freedom of Speech

b)     Classism

c)      Sexism

d)     Casteism

Ans- d

Explanation-

The California Faculty Association (CFA) this month added caste criteria into its anti-discrimination policies, a move that was subsequently ratified by the Board of Trustees of the California State University system.

Question 7

With reference to NeoCoV, consider the following statements:

1. NeoCov is a new Covid variant identified in South Africa.
2. NeoCoV virus has an extremely high transmission and fatality rate.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a)     1 only

b)     2 only

c)      Both 1 and 2

d)     Neither 1 nor 2

Ans- b

Explanation-

Statement 1 is incorrect: Neo-Cov is not a new Covid-19 variant. It belongs to a distinctly different genera (a type of subclassification) of coronaviruses known as merbecovirus.  Statement 2 is correct: NeoCov is currently spreading only among animals. However, NeoCov is just one mutation away from being able to penetrate the human immune system.   NeoCoV virus also has an extremely high transmission and fatality rate, as it can cause death in at least one out of three infected people.

Question 8

With reference to Cage aquaculture, consider the following statements:

1. Only fishes are grown in this process.
2. This type of aqua culture reduces water pollution as well as eutrophication.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a)     1 only

b)     2 only

c)      Both 1 and 2

d)     Neither 1 nor 2

Ans- a

Explanation-

Statement 1 is correct: Cage aquaculture involves the growing of fishes in existing water resources while being enclosed in a net cage which allows free flow of water.  Statement 2 is incorrect: In cage aquaculture, accumulation of unused feed and excreta will lead to water pollution as well as eutrophication. 

Question 9

Which of the following is/are not as per the basic tenets of the Federalism?

1. All-India Services
2. Zonal councils
3. Emergency provisions

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

a)     1 and 2 only

b)     2 and 3 only

c)      1 and 3 only

d)     1, 2 and 3

Ans-c

Explanation-

• The members of the All-India Services are recruited and trained by the Centre which also possess ultimate control over them. Thus, these services violate the principle of federalism under the Constitution. 
• Zonal councils aim at promoting cooperation and coordination between states, union territories and the Centre. Hence, they promote the spirit of Federalism. 
• Under Emergency provisions, the Indian state acquires a unitary character. 

Question 10

Government made the Aarogya setu App open source soon after its launch, Which of the following can be the implications of the move

1. This means that users can look at exactly how the software was created using one or more programming languages.
2. It will expose the application to the hackers and may make it more vulnerable
3. It will allow experts and researchers to detect vulnerabilities

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a)     1 only

b)     2 and 3 only

c)      2 only

d)     1, 2 and 3 only

Ans- d

Explanation-

• Making any application open source means that the source code for it is released. This means that users can look at exactly how the software was created using one or more programming languages.  
• This is done on purpose so that anyone can benefit from using the code. This will allow experts and researchers to review and detect vulnerabilities. But this may have a drawback also as it also makes it vulnerable to hackers. 

Source- The Hindu Newspaper/ The Indian Express/ Down to Earth /PIB