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Current Affairs MCQs for Practice – 25 March 2022

Question-1

The Disaster Management (DM) Act will not be invoked in the country after March 31 due to the overall improvement in the COVID-19 situation. When was this Act first enacted in the country?

a) COVID-19-induced lockdown, 2020

b) Tsunami disaster, 2005

c) Mumbai terrorist attack, 2008

d) Gujarat earthquake, 2001

Ans- b

Explanation-

The DM Act, first enacted in the country in 2005 after the tsunami disaster, was for the first time invoked on March 24, 2020, after the onset of the pandemic.

Question-2

Abel Prize is awarded recognising contributions in which field?

a) Chemistry

b) Mathematics

c) Physics

d) Medicine

Ans- b

Explanation-

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the Abel Prize for the year 2022 to American Mathematician Dennis Parnell Sullivan, for his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects.

Question-3

Madeleine Albright, a feminist icon, passed away on March 23. What is she known for?

a) Being the first woman senator

b) Being the first woman Secretary of State

c) Being the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court

d) Being the first female mayor in the U.S.

Ans-b

Explanation-

Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during the Second World War but rose to become the first woman Secretary of State and, in her later years, a feminist icon, died on Wednesday at the age of 84.

Question-4

In the context of child hunger, what is the term used to define 'low weight for height'?

a) Stunting

b) Wasting

c) Underweight

d) Undernutrition

Ans- b

Explanation-

The recent Global Hunger Index report for 2020 ranks India at 94 out of 107 countries. The index is a combination of indicators of undernutrition in the population and wasting (low weight for height), stunting (low height for age), and mortality in children below five years of age.

Question-5

The ruble is the currency of which country?

a) South Africa

b) Turkey

c) Malaysia

d) Russia

Ans- d

Explanation-

President Vladimir Putin Russia will accept payments only in roubles for gas deliveries to “unfriendly countries”, which include all EU members after Moscow was hit by unprecedented sanctions over Ukraine.

Question-6

BRICS comprises of which countries?

a) Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa

b) Bangladesh-Russia-Iran-China-South Africa

c) Bangladesh-Russia-India-China-Sri Lanka

d) Brazil-Russia-Iran-China-Sri Lanka

Ans- a

Explanation-

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is expected to land in Delhi on March 24 evening. Mr. Wang’s visit is also likely to focus on the role of the five-nation Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa process in the current crisis and is likely to deliver an invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a BRICS summit that is due to be held in China later this year.

Question-7

What is the Artemis I program's (NASA’s new mission) objective?

a) To land on the moon

b) To land on Jupiter

c) To observe the sun

d) To explore the surface of Mercury

Ans- a

Explanation-

Artemis I is an uncrewed space mission where the spacecraft will launch on SLS — the most powerful rocket in the world. It is touted as a critical component of NASA’s sustainable lunar operations and will serve as a multi-purpose outpost orbiting the moon.

Question-8

Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are at loggerheads over the Mekedatu drinking water project. This project is concerned with which river?

a) Cauvery

b) Krishna

c) Narmada

d) Godavari

Ans-a

Explanation-

Originally mooted in 1948, Mekedatu (which translates as Goat’s crossing) is a drinking water cum power generation project across river Cauvery.

Question 9

Consider the following statements regarding the city of Mariupol:

1. The city is located on the coast of the Sea of Azov at the mouth of the Kalmius River in Ukraine.

2. The portal city of Mariupol forms a land bridge between Crimea–which Russia annexed, and Dobass, the separatist-held regions of Ukraine.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

a) 1 only

b) 2 only

c) Both 1 and 2

d) Neither 1 nor 2

Ans- c

Explanation-

Mariupol

Mariupol forms a land bridge between Crimea–which Russia annexed in 2014–and Dobass, the separatist-held regions of Ukraine.
As of now, the Sea of Azov falls between the Donetsk-Luhansk region and Crimea.
Mariupol city n Ukraine is located in the south of the Donetsk Oblast, on the coast of the Sea of Azov and at the mouth of the Kalmius River in the Pryazovia region.
It is located in an area of the Azov Lowland that is an extension of the Ukrainian Black Sea Lowland.

Question 10

Identify the countries bordering Venezuela:

1. Colombia

2. Ecuador

3. Guyana

4. Brazil

5. Bolivia

Choose the correct option.

a) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

b) 1, 3 and 4 only

c) 2, 4 and 5 only

d) 3 and 4 only