MCQs based on HINDU 27th March

Post your answers in comments section. You may want to read the news compilation here for help. 
Material for help here

Q1. Which of the following is correct about Bar Council of India

a. It is not a statutory body

b. regulates and represents the Indian bar

c. prescribes standards of professional conduct, etiquettes

d. Can’t exercise disciplinary jurisdiction over the bar

e. sets standards for legal education

f. Attorney General of India and the Solicitor General of India who are ex officio members

1. a,b,c,e,f

2. b,c,e,f

3. b,c,e

4. All

Q2. Which of the following are correct

a. G7 is forum for governments of leading industrialised countries

b. G8 consists of finance ministers and central bank governors of advanced economies

c. Russia has been expelled from G8 after Crimea crisis

d. India is not a member of both G7 and G8

1. a,b,c

2. a,b,d

3. c

4. c,d

5. All

Q3. Which of the following are NOT correct

a. ICERT is a Nodal agency to coordinate all matters related to cyber security (except matters under NCIIPC.)

b. NCIIPC is a Nodal agency for critical information infrastructure protection in the country.

c. ICERT works on a 24x7 basis whereas NCIIPC won’t

d. ICERT is under Department of Electronics and IT.

e. NCIIPC is under National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO)

1. a,b,c

2. c,e

3. c

4. e

5. None

Q4. Which of the following has rings around them

a. Jupiter

b. Saturn

c. Uranus

d. Neptune

e. Chariklo

1. A,b,c

2. A,b,c,d

3. A,c,d

4. E

5. All

Q5. Which of the following statements are correct in context of computer/IT

a. Malware is basically an umbrella term covering computer viruses, worms, Trojan, spyware, rootkit etc.

b. Virus don’t need human action to replicate themselves

c. Worms don’t need human action to replicate themselves

d. Spyware’s main aim is to collect confidential data and it does’nt harm the computer

e. Dendroid is a deadly virus affecting android devices

1. A,c,d,e

2. A,b,c,e

3. E

4. D,e

5. All

Q6. Which of the following statements are correct 

a. Rare earth elements are a set of seventeen chemical elements in the periodic table, specifically the fifteen lanthanides

b. Scandium and yttrium are considered rare earth elements because they tend to occur in the same ore deposits as the lanthanides and exhibit similar chemical properties.

c. A rare earth mineral is a mineral which contains one or more rare earth elements as major metal constituents

d. Despite their name, rare earth elements (with the exception of the radioactive promethium) are relatively plentiful in the Earth's crust

e. rare earth elements are typically dispersed and not often found concentrated as rare earth minerals in economically exploitable ore deposits.

1. A,c,e

2. A,b,c

3. A,b,c,d

4. C,d

5. All

Q7. Which of the following are correct

a. Oral polio vaccine(OPV) uses live but weakened forms of poliovirus which can’t revert to virulence

b. India has successfully kept naturally-occurring ‘wild’ polioviruses at bay for three whole years

c. Poliovirus has three strains , types 1,2 and 3

d. Currently trivalent OPV is used and is to be replaced by bivalent OPV as more than 95 percent of cVDPV cases have been of type 2 strain

e. Injected Polio Vaccine(IPV) uses killed forms of all three types of wild viruses and carries risk of reversion to virulence (This is the reason why it is not used currently in India for mass immunization)

1. A,b,c,d

2. B,c,d

3. B,c

4. c,d,e

5. All

Q8. Correct statements regarding Neutrino are

a. Travel at a speed greater than speed of light and that is why difficult to detect

b. Hardly interact with matter

c. Are massless

d. Are of three kinds 1,2,3

e. India Neutrino observatory is coming up in Kolar

1. B,c,d,e

2. A,b,c,d

3. B,c,d

4. B,d

5. None

Q9. Which of the following are NOT correct regarding the universe

a. baryonic matter(the visible universe) makes up less than 5 percent of the mass of the universe.

b. rest of the universe appears to be made of a mysterious, invisible substance called dark matter (25 percent) and a force that repels gravity known as dark energy (70 percent).

c. Scientists have observed dark matter directly

d. scientists are confident it exists because of the gravitational effects it appears to have on galaxies and galaxy clusters.

e. Dark matter can be used to explain optical illusions like gravitational lensing

1. A

2. B

3. C

4. D

5. E

Q10. Which of the following are correct regarding fracking

a. It is a slang term for hydraulic fracturing

b. Fracking refers to the procedure of creating fractures in rocks and rock formations by injecting fluid into cracks to force them further open.

c. Fracking has resulted in many oil and gas wells attaining a state of economic viability, due to the level of extraction that can be reached.

d. Fracking for shale deposits is not viable in India as it is water intensive process

1. A

2. B

3. A,b,c

4. B,c,d

5. All

for news related to above questions click here