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Quiz 2021: Prelims Power Play 13 March 2021

  • March 13, 2021
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1. Consider the following statements:

The National Supercomputing mission envisages empowering national academic and R&D institutions spread over the country by installing a vast computing grid of computers with high processing and computational functionality. Below mentioned are some of the statements in connection to the supercomputing mission.

  1. Mission was announced in 2015 with fund of Rs.4500 crore.
  2. IIT-BHU is the institute to get super computer build by C-DAC.
  3. China has the maximum number of supercomputers and maintains the top position in the world.
  4. Teraflops is a bigger unit than Petaflops for measuring the computing speed.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

 
 
 
 

2. Consider the following statements regarding State election commission (SEC)?

  1. The State Election Commissioner is appointed and removed by the governor of the state.
  2. SEC prepares the electoral roll for the elections to the state legislature elections and the local elections.

Which of the above statements are true?

 
 
 
 

3. Consider the following statements about the inflation:

  1. High retail inflation captures the prices of rising household items; food etc. and hence is considered ‘tax on poor’.
  2. Core inflation captures the food and fuel price rise effectively.
  3. To control inflation RBI may undertake buying of government securities in open market operations.

Which of the above statement is true?

 
 
 
 

4. “Lights Out Philly Initiative” has been in news recently for:

 
 
 
 

5. Zero budget natural farming is a method of chemical-free agriculture drawing from traditional Indian practices; consider the pillars of ZBNF and their implications

Pillars of ZBNFImplication

  1. Bijamrita            – Increase seed germination
  2. Jeevamrutha     – Top soil protection
  3. Acchadana         – Use of Organic Manure
  4. Whapasa            – Reduce Irrigation requirement

Which of the above-mentioned pairs is / are correct?

 
 
 
 

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