MCQ for 19-august-2022-mcqs-test

Which of the following is the first State to achieve 100 per cent Har Ghar Jal certification?

With reference to the draft Indian Ports Bill, 2022, consider the following statements:

1. The draft bill seeks to repeal and replace the existing the Indian Ports Act, 1908.

2. About 95 per cent of India’s trade by volume and 65 per cent by value is done through maritime transport facilitated by ports.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

India's first E-Double Decker air-conditioned bus in:

With reference to the 'Aqua Bazar' app, consider the following statements:

1. The app will help the fish farmers and stakeholders to source the inputs such as fish seed, feed and medicines and services required for fish culture.

2. It will connect various stakeholders involved in aquaculture sector.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With reference to the Employees' State Insurance, consider the following statements:

1. The Employees' State Insurance, ESI will work to expand its services in all 744 districts of the country by December this year.

2. Employees' State Insurance will explore developing Health Facilities and Medical Colleges in Aspirational districts of the country.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With reference to the Megalodon, consider the following statements:

1. According to the new study published in the journal Science Advances, the Megalodon could “completely ingest, and in as few as five bites,” a prey as big as the killer whale.

2. According to the study, the Megalodon was bigger than a school bus at around 50 feet from nose to tail.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With reference to the Tasmanian Tiger, consider the following statements:

1. The ambitious project aims to reintroduce the animal to its native place Tasmania to revive the region’s lost ecological balance.

2. Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), the only animal in the Thylacinidae family to survive in modern times, was a marsupial mammal that raises young ones in a pouch.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With reference to the Mudhol hounds, consider the following statements:

1. A breed of hunting dogs native to Gujarat.

2. The dogs already serve with the Indian armed forces and some paramilitary forces and could become the first indigenous breed to be part of the SPG.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With reference to the human-to-animal transmission of monkeypox, consider the following statements:

1. The first case of human-to-animal transmission of monkeypox has been reported in a dog, according to research published in the medical journal The Lancet.

2. The infected dog showed symptoms such as lesions on the skin, specifically “mucocutaneous lesions, including abdomen pustules and a thin anal ulceration”.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With reference to the West Nile Virus (WNV), consider the following statements:

1. It can cause neurological disease and death in people.

2. It is commonly found in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North America and West Asia.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?