Daily Quiz: 3rd May 2019
1. Which of the following statements are true:
1. Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is a statutory body of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India.
2. CARA is designated as the Central Authority to deal with inter-country adoptions in accordance with the provisions of the Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoption
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
2. The Ain-i-Akbari or the “Administration of Akbar”, is written by?
(a) Abu’l Fazl
(b) Tansen
(c) Birbal
(d) Faizi
3. Project SRIMAN is associated with?
(a) To hire out to researchers all lab equipment that cost more than Rs. 10 lakh.
(b) Impactful Policy Research in Social Science
(c) providing strategic funding to eligible state higher educational institutions
(d) Ensuring learning outcomes in Elementary Education
4. Which of the following statements are true:
1. ISRO has announced it would give funds to Made In Space’s project- RAMA (Reconstituting Asteroids into Mechanical Automata), for finding ways to turn asteroids into giant, autonomous spacecrafts.
2. The project aims to enable asteroid rendezvous missions in which a set of technically simple robotic processes convert asteroid elements into very basic versions of spacecraft subsystems (GNC, Propulsion, Avionics).
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
5. SAFAR system is related to?
(a) Chandrayan 2 mission
(b) Air Quality Monitoring
(c) Ever Green Revolution
(d) Artifact Repository
ANSWERS
1. Ans:b
Justification:
- Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is a statutory body of Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India. It functions as the nodal body for adoption of Indian children and is mandated to monitor and regulate in-country and inter-country adoptions.
- CARA is designated as the Central Authority to deal with inter-country adoptions in accordance with the provisions of the Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoption, 1993, ratified by Government of India in 2003.
- CARA primarily deals with adoption of orphan, abandoned and surrendered children through its associated /recognised adoption agencies
2. Ans:a
Justification:
- The Ain-i-Akbari or the “Administration of Akbar”, is a 16th-century detailed document recording the administration of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar, written by his court historian, Abu’l Fazl.
- It forms Volume III and the final part of the much larger document, the Akbarnama (Account of Akbar), also by Abu’l-Fazl, and is itself in three volumes
3. Ans:a
Justification:
- The government has proposed a new policy “SRIMAN” that plans to hire out to researchers all lab equipment that cost more than Rs. 10 lakh.
- It is expected to transform scientific instruments in government labs into lucrative assets generating a steady rental income.
- It would also reduce the amount of time such expensive instruments remain idle.
4. Ans: b
Justification:
- NASA has announced it would give funds to Made In Space’s project- RAMA (Reconstituting Asteroids into Mechanical Automata), for finding ways to turn asteroids into giant, autonomous spacecrafts, which could fly to outposts in space.
- Project RAMA, Reconstituting Asteroids into Mechanical Automata, has been designed to leverage the advancing trends of additive manufacturing (AM) and in-situ resource utilization (ISRU).
- The project aims to enable asteroid rendezvous missions in which a set of technically simple robotic processes convert asteroid elements into very basic versions of spacecraft subsystems (GNC, Propulsion, Avionics).
- Upon completion, the asteroid will be a programmed mechanical automata carrying out a given mission objective; such as relocation to an Earth-Moon liberation point for human rendezvous.
5. Ans: b
Justification:
- SAFAR stands for System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research
- It is a research program to build Air-Pollution mitigation strategies in consonance with nation’s economic development
- It is launched in greater metropolitan cities of India to provide location specific information on air quality in near real time
- It has been combined with the early warning system on weather parameters
