Quiz 2021: Prelims Power Play 11 May 2021

1. Consider the following statements about the UN Bioweapons Convention (UNBWC):

1. It prohibits the development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use of biological and toxin weapons.
2. It is first multilateral disarmament treaty banning an entire category of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
3. China has not acceded to the UN Bioweapons Convention (UNBWC) .

Select the correct statement from the code below:

2. Why Al Aqsa has been in news recently?

3. Consider statements on Financial Action Task Force (FATF):

1. FATF is an inter-governmental body established in 1989 on the initiative of OECD.
2. Secretariat is housed at the OECD headquarters in Paris
3. It is the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

4. Consider the following statements:

1. Anti-dumping duty is levied on imported goods to offset subsidies made to producers of these goods in the exporting country.
2. Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs determines the exchange rate of conversion of Foreign Currency into Indian currency or vice versa relating to import and export of goods.

Which of the statements given above is/are incorrect?

5. Consider the following about Natural uranium

1. Uranium found in nature consists largely of two isotopes, U-235 and U-238.
2.  U-238 is the main fissile isotope of uranium.
3. Natural uranium contains 0.7% of the U-238 isotope and 99.3% is mostly the U-235 isotope.

Select the correct answer using the code below