Weekly Current Affairs: Quizzes, 15 to 20 July 2024

Q.1  Baalbek, Janta, Sifri, Bekka valley, were in news. These regions are located in which Country?

Q.2 Consider the following:

1. Key results of the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) 2022-23 were released by National Sample Survey (NSS) office in Late Feb. 2024.
2. These primarily include all India estimates of the average household monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) for rural and urban areas ( 12 Fractile classes)
3. As the earlier available results pertain to 2011-12, the latest results have bridged the data an Vacuum of more than a decade on important subject that also goes into the Compilation of poverty estimates.

Choose the correct statement/s:

Q.3 Consider the following with reference to XVI Finance Commission:

1. The Commission was Constituted on 31st December 2023, Arvind Panagariya, former Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman and Columbia University Professor was named its chairman.
2. This Commission has been tasked with formulating recommendations on the revenue-sharing formula between the centre and the States for the five-year period. 
3. This four-year period will start from April, 2026. 

Choose the correct statement/s:

Q.4  Orsk, Orenburg, and Ural River were in the news due to dam collapse and floods. These are located in which Country?

Q.5  Consider the following:

1. In January 2024, The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems that Service (IERS) announced No leap second would be introduced at the end of June, 2024.
2. The next possible date is December 31, 2024.
3. The world may be moving toward getting rid of leap seconds - for at least 100 years.
4. Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) is the basu for civil time today. This 24 hour time Standard is kept using highly precise atomic clocks combined with Earth's rotation 

Choose the correct statement/s.

Q.6 Nampulla region, a significant producer of Cotton, was in nows When a makeshift ferry boat Carrying people fleeing a cholera outbreak capsized, killing at least 97 people. This region is located in which country?

Q.7  Consider the following w.r.t. Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT):

1. The idea of the VVPAT machine first emerged in 2010 to make the election process more transparent.
2. After a prototype was prepared, field trials were held in Ladakh, Thiruvananthapuram, East Deli Cherrapunji and Jaisalmair in 2011.
3. It was approved in 2013, Later that year, The Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961 were amended to allow for a printer with a drop box to be attached to Evm.
4. VVPAT was used for the first time 21 potting Stations of the Noksen Assembly of Constituency of Nagaland in 2013. By June 2017 there was 100% adoption of VVPAT (Counting of VVPAT slips in 5 polling booths/Constituency).

Choose the correct statement/s :

Q.8 British Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of a mass-giving particle - the so called Higgs Boson jointly earned him Nobel Prize for Physics died on 8th April 2024. How old he was?

Q.9 Recently India handed over 56 Acre land in lieu of 14 acre land on the bases of survey by BSF and Border Guard of Bangladesh after 50 years, the name of village in Ranishankoi sub-District is?

Q.10 Gaude 3, H100 Lama, Falkan are related with_