Quiz 2021: Prelims Power Play 12 May 2021

1. Consider the following statements about child adoption in India

1. Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) as a statutory body for the regulation, monitoring and control of all intra-country and inter-country adoptions.
2. India is a signatory to the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter country Adoptions
3. Adoption of children is regulated by Juvenile Justice Act.

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2. Consider the following statements about the OSIRIS-Rex:

1. It is a European Space Agency’s mission for asteroid study and bringing back sample from there for further study.
2. It recently touched near earth asteroid Bennu and started return journey post collecting samples.
3. Near Earth Objects (NEO) are comets and asteroids nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits which allow them to enter the Earth’s neighbourhood.

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3. Which of the following is correct regarding the Zero-rated supply?

4. Consider the following regarding cloudburst

1. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) labels rainfall over 100 mm per hour as cloudburst
2. Climate change has increased the number of cloudbursts in India.

Which of the above statements is /are true?

5. Recently WHO classified a coronavirus variant first identified in India concern”. The WHO says that a variant of interest (VOI) becomes a variant of concern (VOC) if there is

1. Increase in transmissibility
2. Detrimental change in COVID-19 epidemiology,
3. Increase in virulence
4. Decrease in effectiveness of public health and social measures

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