The 10 PM Daily Quiz – 9 June, 2016

Hi Friends,

Starting Monday, March 28, 2016 We are taking up a new initiatives for Prelims 2016 . We will be posting a 7-10 Questions Quiz based on 9 PM Brief, on a daily basis.

The purpose of these is to enable practise on a daily level for you to prepare Current Affairs for Civil Services Prelims Examination. This questions will be moderate level and it is expected of you solve these questions with decent overview of 9 PM Brief

Please type your answers in the comments below .

Note : Answers to the quiz will be posted one day later.

Q.1) Consider the statements:

1. Health ministry expanded India’s National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) from 74 to 799.
2. Objective is to make the drugs on the list as affordable as possible.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both are correct
d) Neither is correct

Q.2) Consider the following statement regarding National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority:

1. It is an organization of the Government of India which was established, inter alia, to fix/ revise the prices of controlled bulk drugs and formulations and to enforce prices and availability of the medicines in the country, under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 1995.
2. The organization is also entrusted with the task of recovering amounts overcharged by manufacturers for the controlled drugs from the consumers.
3. It also monitors the prices of decontrolled drugs in order to keep them at reasonable levels.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

a) 1 and 2 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) All are correct
d) None is correct

Q.3) Consider the following statements:

1. India become the world’s third-largest oil consumer, according to BP Statistical Review of World Energy.
2. U.S. top the list with (19.39 million bpd) and China at the second position.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both are correct
d) Neither is correct

Q.4) Assumption island was in news recently, it comes under the control of which of the following country?
a) Maldives
b) Mauritius
c) Seychelles
d) Singapore

Q.5) Recently, China has announced that it will build its first African naval base in which of the following country?
a) Djibouti
b) Madagascar
c) Somalia
d) Eritrea

Q.6) Consider the following statements with regard to categories of visa

1. Conference visas are those visas which are issued to attend seminars, workshops or international conferences organized in India by a ministry or Department of the Government of India.
   2. Prior referral category means that the visa is issued by the Indian missions only after going through a detailed background check of the applicant.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both are correct
d) Neither is correct

Q.7) Consider the following statements regarding Pelindaba Treaty
1. Except South Africa, all African Union members are the signatories of the treaty.
2. The treaty aims to prevent nuclear proliferation in Africa and also stops unchecked supply of Thorium to the nuclear powers of the world.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both are correct
d) Neither is correct