Daily Quiz: 18th June 2019
1. Which of the following statements are true:
1. Desertification is a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry the land region becomes increasingly arid.
2. Loss of soil cover, mainly due to rainfall and surface runoff, is one of the biggest reasons for desertification.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans:c
Justification:
- Desertification is a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry the land region becomes increasingly arid.
- Desertification leads to losing bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife.
- Loss of soil cover, mainly due to rainfall and surface runoff, is one of the biggest reasons for desertification.
- It is responsible for 10.98 percent of desertification in the country.
- Other main reasons include, wind erosion (5.55 per cent), human-made or settlements (0.69 per cent), vegetation degradation (8.91 per cent) and salinity (1.12 per cent)
2. Catalhoyuk is located at?
(a) Turkey
(b) Iran
(c) Iraq
(d) Pakistan
Ans:a
Justification:
- Catalhoyuk was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, Turkey.
- The city existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC.
- Catalhoyuk is the best example of an early Neolithic town where humans began to swap a nomadic hunter-gatherer existence for a lifestyle centered on farming, i.e. the transition to a fully settled existence has been satisfactorily achieved.
3. Which of the following is not a virtual currency?
(a) Bitcoin
(b) LiteCoin
(c) Ripple
(d) Tidco
Ans:d
Justification:
- Decentralised Virtual Currencies (a.k.a. crypto-currencies) are distributed, open-source, math-based peer-to-peer virtual currencies that have no central administrating authority, and no central monitoring or oversight. Examples: Bitcoin; liteCoin; and Ripple.
4. Which of the following statements are true:
1. Regional Antiterrorism Structure (RATS) was established by SCO member nations in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 2004.
2. India joined Pakistan in a tactical military exercise under the SCO’s RATS in 2018.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans:c
Justification:
- Regional Antiterrorism Structure (RATS) was established by SCO member nations in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 2004.
- RATS aims to fight cross-border crimes like drug tariffing and cyber warfare under the counter-terrorism rubric.
- India has been participating in tactical drills and counter-terror cooperation with other SCO member countries under the RATS.
- India joined Pakistan in a tactical military exercise under the SCO’s RATS in 2018.
5. Bonn challenge is associated with?
(a) Desertification
(b) Child-labor
(c) Particulate Matter pollution
(d) Marine pollution
Ans: a
Justification:
- The Bonn Challenge is a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land under restoration by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030.
- It will be implemented by India during a pilot phase of three-and-a-half years in Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Nagaland and Karnataka.
