Daily Current Affair Quiz: 7th December 2019
1. Which of the following statements are true?
1. The GOAL is a Google program aimed at guiding and encouraging tribal girls from across India to become village-level digital young leaders for their communities.
2. The programme will help to connect underprivileged young tribal women with senior expert mentors in the areas of business, fashion and arts to learn digital and life skills.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans: c
Justification:
- The GOAL is a Facebook program aimed at guiding and encouraging tribal girls from across India to become village-level digital young leaders for their communities
- The programme will help to connect underprivileged young tribal women with senior expert mentors in the areas of business, fashion and arts to learn digital and life skills.
- It will help to close the digital gender gap by enabling more women to get online and access digital services.
2. Which of the following is/are the tributaries of Mahanadi?
1. Seonath
2. Jonk
3. Sukapaika
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) 1,2 and 3
Ans: d
Justification:
- Sukapaika is one of the several distributaries of the mighty Mahanadi river in Odisha.
- The major tributaries of Mahanadi are Seonath, Jonk, Hasdo, Mand, Ib, Ong, Tel etc. Seonath River: The Seonath River is the longest tributary of Mahanadi.
3. Which of the following statements are true?
1. Repo rate is the rate at which India’s central bank loans money to the banking system.
2. It is also the rate to which all new loans in the economy are benchmarked.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans: c
Justification:
- The Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) announced that it would not cut the repo rate (presently at 5.15%) in its last monetary policy review for the current calendar year
- Repo rate is the rate at which India’s central bank loans money to the banking system.
- It is also the rate to which all new loans in the economy are benchmarked.
- A cut in the repo rate would have signalled a further reduction in the interest rate new borrowers hoping to avail loans for homes and cars etc. will be charged by the banking system.
4. Which of the following statements are true?
1. Hera is the European contribution to an international double-spacecraft collaboration.
2. Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a planned space probe that will demonstrate the kinetic effects of crashing an impactor spacecraft into an asteroid moon for planetary defense purposes.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Neither 1 nor 2
(d) Both 1 and 2
Ans: c
Justification:
- Hera is the European contribution to an international double-spacecraft collaboration.
- Due to launch in 2024, Hera would travel to a binary asteroid system – the Didymos pair of near-Earth asteroids.
- NASA will first perform a kinetic impact (DART will deliberately crash itself into the moonlet and change the speed of the moonlet in its orbit around the main body) on the smaller of the two bodies with DART mission, then Hera will follow-up with a detailed post-impact survey that will turn this grand-scale experiment into a well-understood and repeatable planetary defence technique.
5. Jan Soochna Portal is launched by
(a) Odisha
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Rajasthan
(d) Bihar
Ans: c
Justification:
- Recently, Jan Soochna Portal, the first of its kind, was launched by the Rajasthan State Government. The portal has been developed by the Department of Information Technology and Communication (DoIT&C) in collaboration with civil society and other stakeholders.
- It is the first of its kind system in the country and has information about 23 government schemes and services from 13 departments on a single platform.
- The portal provides explanation of the schemes and real time information on beneficiaries, authorities in charge, progress, etc which the public can access with on their computers, mobiles or kiosks installed in villages.
