UPSC Quiz- 2019 : IASbaba’s Daily Current

Affairs Quiz [Day 50]

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Q.1) Consider the following statements about ‘Extended Reality’

1. It is a term referring to all real-and-virtual combined environments and human-machine interactions generated by computer technology and wearables.
2. It includes augmented reality (AR), augmented virtuality (AV) and virtual reality (VR).

Select the correct statements

1. 1 Only
2. 2 Only
3. Both 1 and 2
4. Neither 1 nor 2

Q.2) Consider the following statements about ‘Basking Sharks’

1. They occur in temperate and boreal oceans
2. They hibernate during winters
3. It is a plankton-eating shark species

Select the correct statements

1. 1 and 2
2. 2 and 3
3. 1 and 3
4. All of the above

Q.3) Amnesty International is

1. An agency of the United Nations to help refugees of civil wars
2. A global Human Rights Movement
3. A non-governmental voluntary organization to help very poor people
4. An inter-governmental agency to cater to medical emergencies in war-ravaged regions

Q.4) Which of the following statements correctly defines the practice of ‘Intercropping’?

1. Different crops are grown in the same field in different rows
2. Different crops are grown successively on the same field in different seasons.
3. Growing a crop and rearing of animals in the same field.
4. Alternate growth of crops and leaving the land fallow.

Q.5) Meiteis are majority ethnic group of

1. Manipur
2. Mizoram
3. Assam
4. Nagaland