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December 04, 2020 - Daily Quiz

Editorial analysis for UPSC Mains & Prelims relevance.

04 Dec 2020
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1. Consider the following statements regarding NASA's Mars 2020 Mission:
  1. The space shit will land on Jezero Crater.
  2. It also carries a Mars Helicopter to test whether the helicopter can fly in the sparse atmosphere on Mars.
Which of the following statements is/are correct? (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 2. Which of the following river system created the Jog waterfalls? (a) Tunga bhadra (b) Sharavathi (c) Koyna            (d) None of the above
3. A man had seven children. When their average age was 12 years a child aged 6 years was lost. Find the average age of the remaining 6 children. (a) 12 yrs (b) 13 yrs (c) 14 yrs (d) 15 yrs 4. Who was arrested and sentenced for sedition because he had condemned imperialism and praised the heroism of the revolutionaries? (a) Subhas Chandra Bose (b) M.K.Gandhi (c) Jawahar Lal Nehru (d) All of the above 5. Consider the following terrorist activities undertaken by HRA under the leadership of Bhagat Singh and Chandra Shekhar Azad and the reasons given by them: 1) Bhagat Singh, Azad and Rajguru shot dead Saunders, the police official responsible for the lathi charge in Lahore which eventually took the life of Lala Lajpat Rai. 2) Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev throw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly against the passage of the Public Safety Bill and Trade Disputes Bill. 3) Bhagat Singh helped establish the Punjab Naujawan Bharat Sabha as an open wing of revolutionaries to carry out political work among the youth. Choose the correct statements: (a) 1 and 3 (b) 2 and 3 (c) All of the above (d) Neither 1 nor 2 ANSWERS 1. (c) Mars Helicopter: It is actually a small drone to test whether the helicopter can fly in the sparse atmosphere on Mars. The low density of the Martian atmosphere makes the odds of actually flying a helicopter or an aircraft on Mars very low. 2. (b)  3. (b)  4. (c) 5. (a) Bhagat Singh, Azad and Rajguru shot dead Saunders, the police official responsible for the lathi charge in Lahore which eventually took the life of Lala Lajpat Rai. The assassination was justified saying that the murder of a leader respected by millions of people at the unworthy hands of an ordinary police officer was an insult to the nation. Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly against the passage of the Public Safety Bill and Trade Disputes Bill which were deliberately aimed at curtailing civil liberties of citizens in general and workers in particular. According to Bhagat Singh, the bomb was harmless and was only aimed at making the deaf hear recognize his voice.  
POSTED ON 04-12-2020 BY ADMIN

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