Daily Current Affair Quiz: 12th August 2019
1. Which of the following states has bagged GI tag for Kandhamal Haldi
(a) Odisha
(b) Gujarat
(c) Sikkim
(d) Tamilnadu
Ans: a
Justification:
- ‘Kandhamal Haldi’, a variety of turmeric indigenous to southern Odisha, has earned the Geographical indication (GI) tag from Intellectual Property India, an organisation functioning under the auspices of the Union ministry of commerce & industry.
2. Helminths are
(a) Worm like parasite
(b) Waste from aluminum smelting industry
(c) A specie which is critically endangered
(d) Recycled tarballs
Ans: a
Justification:
- They are also known as Helminths. They are often referred to as intestinal worms even though not all helminths reside in the intestines. Parasitic worms in children interfere with nutrient uptake, and can contribute to anaemia, malnourishment, and impaired mental and physical development.
3. Which of the following statements are true?
1. The International Charter “Space and Major Disasters” is a worldwide collaboration, through which satellite data are made available for the benefit of disaster management.
2. By combining Earth observation assets from different space agencies, the Charter allows resources and expertise to be coordinated for rapid response to major disaster situations.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans: c
Justification:
- The Charter is a worldwide collaboration, through which satellite data are made available for the benefit of disaster management. By combining Earth observation assets from different space agencies, the Charter allows resources and expertise to be coordinated for rapid response to major disaster situations; thereby helping civil protection authorities and the international humanitarian community.
- This unique initiative is able to mobilise agencies around the world and benefit from their know-how and their satellites through a single access point that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and at no cost to the user.
4. Distributed ledger technology is associated with?
(a) Blockchain, which bundles transactions into blocks that are chained together
(b) Extended normal logic programming by allowing some predicates to be incompletely defined.
(c) A data type is defined by its behavior from the point of view of a user of the data.
(d) Language for specifying state transition systems
Ans: a
Justification:
- Distributed ledger implementations Blockchain, which bundles transactions into blocks that are chained together, and then broadcasts them to the nodes in the network, is probably the best-known type of distributed ledger technology. It powers bitcoin, the digital currency created in 2009.
5. Which of the following statements are true?
1. Gogabeel is an ox-bow lake in Bihar
2. Gogabeel is formed from the flow of the rivers Mahananda and Kankhar.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans: c
Justification:
- Gogabeel, an ox-bow lake in Bihar’s Katihar district, has been declared as the state’s first ‘Community Reserve’.
- Gogabeel is formed from the flow of the rivers Mahananda and Kankhar in the north and the Ganga in the south and east. It is the fifteenth Protected Area (PA) in Bihar.
