The 10 PM Daily Quiz – 1 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 two statements:

1. The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II.
2. Barack Obama becomes the first serving US President to visit Hiroshima after his recent visit.

Select the correct statement using the codes given below:

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

Q.2) Consider the two statements:

1. ASER – 2014 report highlighted that standards of education in the India has fallen.
2. School choice is a term or label given to a wide array of programs offering students and their families alternatives to publicly provided schools, to which students are generally assigned by the location of their family residence.

Select the correct statement using the codes given below:

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

Q.3) Consider the two statements regarding growth in core sector:

1. Core sector output is in the positive territory with an 8.5 per cent growth in April.
2. This is due to a low base and better performance by petroleum refinery, fertiliser, steel, cement and electricity sectors.

Select the correct statement using the codes given below:

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

Q.4) Consider the following statement regarding scope of activities of payments banks
1. It can issue credit cards.
2. It can deal with distribution of non-risk sharing simple financial products like mutual fund units and insurance products, etc.
Select the correct statement using the codes given below:
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both are correct
d) Neither is correct

Q.5) With reference to fiscal deficits, consider the following statements
1. Originally, the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act has given the Range Deficit Target for Fiscal deficit.
2. Currently, the government is considering to shift to Point Deficit Target for Fiscal deficit.

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

Q.6) Consider the following statements about Public Interest Litigation (PIL)

1. Public Interest Litigation (PIL) is defined under Indian Penal Code (IPC).
2. The judicial activism through PIL began in 90’s.

Select the correct statement 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 Public Service Commission
1.  The first Commission at the provincial level was the Bengal Service Commission established in 1930 under a 1929 Act of the Bengal legislature.

2. Articles 315 to 321 of the Constitution of India govern the establishment and composition of the Commission as well as their consultative functions.

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