10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | January 18th 2022

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Question No. 1
With reference to Cryptocurrencies and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), consider the following statements:
1. Bitcoin is fungible.
2. Anything digital can be converted into an NFT and monetized.
Which of the statements given above is/are incorrect?
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Question No. 2
With reference to mass extinction of species, consider the following statements:
1. It refers to a period when the Earth loses more than three-quarters of its species in a geologically short period of time.
2. After a mass extinction, the earth cannot regain species comparable to those existed before the event.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Question No. 3
Consider the following pairs:
Strait Countries
1. Formosa strait – China and Taiwan
2.Sunda strait – Malaysia and Indonesia
3. Strait of Hormuz – Iran and UAE
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
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Question No. 4
With reference to Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), consider the following statements:
1. It is an intergovernmental organisation that ensures the men and women who died in the wars will never be forgotten.
2. The commission has only six member-states including India.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Question No. 5
Consider the Following statements
1) Employment rate of a country includes the people who are eligible for employment, but do not want to be employed.
2) If the unemployment rate of a country is 10%, it means remaining 90% of the eligible population is employed.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Question No. 6
Consider the following statements:
1. Conventional textile meets the primary clothing requirement while technical textile is manufactured for meeting some specific functions, like thermal resistance.
2. ‘National Technical Textiles Mission’ is mainly aimed at fulfilling the India’s domestic requirements of the technical textiles.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
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Question No. 7
Consider the following statements:
1. Positive Climate forcing cools the Earth, while negative forcing has been observed to warm it.
2. Large volcanic eruption can have a temporary global cooling effect.
3. 2011-2020 was the warmest decade because there has been no major volcanic eruption in last three decades that had a recorded cooling effect on global temperature.
Which of the statements given above are incorrect?
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Question No. 8
Consider the following statements:
1.Industry-wise estimates on workforce shows that the largest number of persons are employed by the MSME sector.
2. Unemployment rate in rural areas is much higher than the urban areas in most of the States/UTs due to less available opportunities.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
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Question No. 9
With reference to Heavy Metal, consider the following statements:
1. Due to their inert nature they do not bioaccumulate in animal bodies.
2. Heavy metal pollution is due to anthropogenic activity only.
3. Some heavy metals are necessary for life.
4. They cannot be broken down and are nonbiodegradable.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
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Question No. 10
Which of the following statements best describes “Account aggregators”?
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