24-Apr-24: UPSC Current Affairs Daily Quiz

With reference to Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), consider the following statements

1. It is the exchange rate at which one nation's currency would be converted into another to purchase the same and same amounts of a large group of products.
2. It compares different countries' currencies through a "basket of goods" approach.
3. India holds the position as the world’s second-largest economy by PPP-based share of global Average Personal Expenditure and Net Wealth Creation.

How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

With reference to Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 and Rules, consider the following statements

1. It includes the provisions for prohibition of misleading advertisements and exaggerated claims of drugs and medicinal substances.
2. AYUSH medicines are not included in the Act and thereby given protection.
3. GAMA portal for registering public complaints of misleading advertisements of various commodities is set up by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

How many of the above statements is/are correct?

Consider the following pairs

1. Dover Strait – joins English Channel and North Sea
2. Otranto Strait — joins Adriatic Sea & Ionian Sea
3. Bab-el-Mandeb Strait — joins Red Sea & Mediterranean Sea
4. Dardenleez Strait  — joins Marmara Sea and Agean Sea

Which of the above pairs are correctly matched ?

With reference to Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) , consider the following statements

1. It provides information about current and future business conditions to company decision makers, analysts, and investors.
2. If PMI of the previous month is lower than the PMI of the current month, it represents that the economy is contracting.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Which of the following organisms perform waggle dance for others of their km to indicate the direction and the distance to a source of their food?

Consider the following statements regarding the ‘Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi Scheme’

1. It was a central Sponsored Scheme, that was set up in 2015.
2. It provides one-time financial assistance to poor patients living below the State/UT wise threshold poverty line and suffering from life-threatening diseases.
3. The scheme does not provide financial assistance for cancer disease.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Consider the following statements

1. A Schengen Visa is an official document mandatory for anybody to travel to all the 27 countries that are part of the Schengen area.
2. It allows a visitor to travel freely in the Schengen area for short stays of a maximum of 90 days in any 180 days.
3. Switzerland, Iceland, and Norway are not inside the Schengen Area.

How many of the above statements are correct?

Recently, a rare siting of ‘Neptis philyra’ was seen in India. It is a species of which one of the following?

Consider the following statements regarding ‘Aryabhata Satellite’

1. It was India’s first satellite.
2. It was built by the Soviet Space Agency and launched by a Soviet Kosmos-3M rocket.
3. It aimed at telecasting the radio signals for All India Radio Services.

How many of the above statements are correct?

If Rwanda is held at the centre and we move in counterclockwise around Rwanda, how will its neighbouring countries be arranged?

1. Uganda
2. Tanzania
3. Burundi
4. Democratic Republic of the Congo

Select the correct code: