ENGLISH QUIZ 03.08.2020

1.Which bank has approved USD 3 million (Rs 22 crore) grant to India from the Asia Pacific Disaster Response Fund to support India’s battle against COVID-19?

A. Asian Development Bank

B. World Bank

C. Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

D. New Development Bank

2.Who among the following has been appointed as the Private Secretary (PS) to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on co-terminus basis?

A. Rewa Ganguly

B. Hardik Satishchandra Shah

C. Vidhu Nair

D. Winnie Mahajan

3.With which country India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation in the field of Traditional Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy?

A. South Africa

B. Afghanistan

C. Zimbabwe

D. Mauritius

4.Renowned personality Sonam Tshering Lepcha passed away passed away recently, he was veteran _____.

A. Sherpa

B. Politician

C. Flute player

D. Folk musician

5.Which of the following institutions has developed ‘Aashray’, a medical bed isolation system to combat COVID-19 by preventing or minimising the spread of the virus?

A. Defense Institute of Advanced Technology

B. Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO)

C. AMESYS India

D. Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata

6.Who received the Karmaveer Chakra Award from UN and ICONGO?

A. Anil Yadav

B. Sunil yadav

C. Anisha Singh

D. Aliya

7.Consider the following statements:

1.Nasa’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover mission launched to Red Planet.

2.NASA’s incredible journey of driving on Mars started about 23 years ago, in 1997.

Which of the above statement/statements are correct?

A. 1 only

B. 2 only

C. Both 1 and 2

D. Neither 1 nor 2

8.Consider the following statements:

1.NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), has launched AIM iCREST in a partnership with Bill            & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wadhwani Foundation.

2.The program aims at going beyond incubator capacity building.

3.This programme is unique also in its design

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

A. 1 and 2 are correct

B. 1 and 3 are correct

C. 2 and 3 are correct

D. All of the above

ANSWERS:-

Answer: 1)A

Explanation

Multilateral funding agency ADB said it has approved USD 3 million (about Rs 22 crore) grant to India from its Asia Pacific Disaster Response Fund to further support the government’s emergency response to COVID-19 pandemic.

CARES programme

• COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support (CARES) programme of ADB provides immediate support for urgent public health measures as well as social protection measures for the poor and economically vulnerable, women and unprivileged groups. Previously, ADB approved USD 1.5 billion US Dollar from CARES fund on 28th April.
• The CARES programme is funded through the CPRO under the Countercyclical Support Facility.

CPRO

• COVID-19 pandemic response option (CPRO) was established to provide assistance to the member countries’ pandemic response.

Asian Development Bank

• ADB is a regional development bank established in 1966.
• Its headquarters are located in Manila, Philippines. India became a member of ADB since its foundation.

Answer: 2)B

Explanation

IAS officer Hardik Satishchandra Shah has been appointed the Private Secretary (PS) to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to a Personnel Ministry order issued.Mr Shah, a 2010-batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, is currently serving as a Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).He has been appointed as the PS to the prime minister on co-terminus basis, the order said. Before moving to the PMO last year, he worked as the PS to Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar.

Answer: 3)C

Explanation

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has given ex-post facto approval to Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Republic of India and the Republic of Zimbabwe on Cooperation in the field of Traditional Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy.  The MoU was signed on November 3rd, 2018.

Details

• This will provide a frame work for the cooperation between the two countries for the promotion of traditional systems of medicine and homeopathy and will mutually benefit the two countries in the field of Traditional Medicine.

Objective

• The main objective of the MoU is to strengthen, promote and develop co-operation in the field of traditional systems of medicine between the two countries on the basis of equality and mutual benefit.

Answer: 4)D

Explanation

Famous Folk musician Sonam Tshering Lepcha (92 years) passed away at Kalimpong, West Bengal.He was an eminent person who made outstanding efforts to popularise and represent Lepcha culture.He started his career as a soldier and travelled to Sikkim to complete a wide range of Indian folk and traditional Lepcha songs due to his inclination toward the culture.He played folk music on All India Radio in 1960.He was awarded Padma Shri for his contribution to folk music.

Answer: 5)A

Explanation

Amid the rising cases of coronavirus, a Pune deemed to be University has developed ‘Aashray’, a medical bed isolation system to combat COVID-19 by preventing or minimising the spread of the virus.

Description of Aashray

• These beds are made of special material and fabrication process with transparent and translucent supported on the envelope medical grade material structure of the isolation system.
• The product is modular and portable in design and can be used for various needs such as institutional, hospitals, and home quarantine. This envelope is reusable because it is antibacterial-antifungal and can be cleaned.
• Each envelope is capable of housing a set of bed, table and chair with some walking space. Its width can be adjusted according to the availability of space and it is made opaque up to 3 feet from the bottom to maintain the privacy of patients.
• The setup costs Rs 1 lakh for a 10 bed unit in this system and for the home, quarantine facility for one bed can be available for Rs 15000.

Answer: 6)B

Explanation

Sunil ydv SS has been awarded with Karamveer Chakra Award, instituted by United Nations and International Confederation of NGO (iCONGO). He is the founder and CEO of SS Motivation, which is the most Subscribed Motivational Channel on Telegram. He was honoured for his relentless contribution to society through his Telegram channel. Karmaveer Chakra Award: Global civilian honours given for relentless courage and innovation. The award is a tribute to A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Answer: 7)A      

Explanation

NASA has recently launched its Mars 2020 Perseverance a fourth-generation rover.

Feature of the rover

• This Perseverance rover will carry a unique instrument, MOXIE or Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment.
• It is for the first time will manufacture molecular oxygen on Mars using carbon dioxide from the carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere.

Advantage of MOXIE

• If oxygen can be successfully extracted on Mars in some significant scale, this can have two direct advantages:
• The oxygen can be used for human visitors to Mars, and second, the oxygen can be used to manufacture rocket fuel for the return journey.
• NASA can easily scale up the oxygen generation rate per day for MOXIE by a hundred times: this would be of great use for a future human mission to Mars if this technology demonstration is successful.
• Perseverance will carry Ingenuity, the first-ever helicopter to fly on Mars.
• This is the first time NASA will fly a helicopter on another planet or satellite.
• Ingenuity is a technology demonstration which is a challenge to fly the helicopter in the thin atmosphere of Mars.
• Perseverance is the planned first step to bring back rock samples from Mars for analysis in sophisticated laboratories on Earth.
• The analysis of Martian rocks on Earth will likely provide a reliable indication of whether life on Mars is feasible in the past or at present.

NASA’ S past generations of Mars rovers

• NASA’s incredible journey of driving on Mars started about 23 years ago, in 1997: when the Mars Pathfinder Mission with the Sojourner rover egressed on the Martian soil.
• Then in 2003 NASA send the twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, to
• It is followed by Curiosity in 2012.

Answer: 8)D

Explanation

Recently NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), has launched AIM iCREST in a partnership with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wadhwani Foundation.

AIM-iCREST

• It has been designed to enable the incubation ecosystem and act as a growth hack for AIM’s Atal and Established incubators across the country.
• This is a first of its kind initiative for advancing innovation at scale in India.
• Under the initiative, the AIM’s incubators are set to be upscaled and provided requisite support to foster the incubation enterprise economy that will help them to significantly enhance their performance.
• This will be complemented by providing training to entrepreneurs, through technology-driven processes and platforms.

Aim

• The program aims at going beyond incubator capacity building.
• This programme is unique also in its design
• it is a combination of interactive practices in the field of incubation;
• enabling the incubators to support sustainable and successful startups.

Atal Innovation Mission

• The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is a flagship initiative set up by the NITI Aayog to promote innovation and entrepreneurship across the length and breadth of the country.
• It is also envisaged as an umbrella innovation organization that would play an instrumental role in the alignment of innovation policies between central, state and sectoral innovation
• It helps in incentivizing the establishment and promotion of an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship at various levels – higher secondary schools, science, engineering and higher academic institutions, and SME/MSME industry, corporate and NGO levels.