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January 24, 2021 - Daily Quiz

1. Recently a “historic agreement” had been signed among the governments of Mizoram and Tripura related to a tribal community, who had been displaced from Mizoram and were living in Tripura. Which among the following tribal community is referred to in the above statement? (a) Bru (b) Abor (c) Lakher (d) Bodo
2. A society consists of only two types of people fighters and cowards. Two cowards are always friends. A fighter and a coward are always enemies. Fighters are indifferent to one another. If A and B are enemies, C and D are friends, E and F are indifferent to each other, A and E are not enemies, while B and F are enemies. Which of the following statements is correct? (a) B, C and F are cowards. (b) A, E and F are fighters. (c) B and E are in the same category. (d) A and F are in different categories.
3. A contract on construction job specifies a penalty for delay in completion of the work beyond a certain date is as follows: Rs.200 for the first day, Rs.250 for the second day, Rs.300 for the third day, etc. The penalty for each succeeding day is 50 more than that of the preceding day. How much penalty should the contractor pay if he delays the work by 10 days? (a) 650 (b) 3600 (c) 4250 (d) 5560 4. Some species of plants are insectivorous. Why? (a) Their growth in shady and dark places does not allow them to undertake sufficient photosynthesis and thus they depend on insects for nutrition. (b) They are adapted to grow in nitrogen deficient soils and thus depend on insects for sufficient nitrogenous nutrition. (c) They cannot synthesize certain vitamins themselves and depend on the insects digested by them. (d) They have remained in that particular stage of evolution as living fossils, a link between autotrophs and heterotrophs. 5. The 2004 Tsunami made people realize that mangroves can serve as a reliable safety hedge against coastal calamities. How do mangroves function as a safety hedge? (a) The mangrove swamps separate the human settlements from the sea by a wide zone in which people neither live not venture out (b) The mangroves provide both food and medicines which people are in need of after any natural disaster. (c) The mangrove trees are tall with dense canopies and serve as an excellent shelter during a cyclone or tsunami (d) The mangrove trees do not get uprooted by storms and tides because of their extensive roots ANSWERS 1. (a) Recently, Home Ministry announced that a “historic agreement” had been signed among the governments of Mizoram and Tripura and Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum, it brought to an end a 21-year wait for over 32,000 Bru tribals, who had been displaced from Mizoram and were living in Tripura. Although the Brus have been seeking relief on the lines of that given to Kashmiri Pandits and Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, their story is not as well known 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. (b) 5. (d) 






POSTED ON 24-01-2021 BY ADMIN
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