Prelims Daily Current Affairs MCQ

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Q1: Consider the following statements and choose the correct options

 

1. In guided wave testing (GWT), the sound waves are sent along the length of the structure rather than into the structure, allowing the waves to travel longer distances.
2. Metamaterials are artificially crafted materials with unique internal microstructures that give them properties not found in nature.
3. The constituent artificial units of the metamaterial can be tailored in shape, size, and interatomic interaction, to exhibit unusual properties.

 

1. 1 only
2. 2 only
3. Both 1 and 2
4. all of the above

 

Q2: The international financing organization, ‘Global Fund’, works towards accelerating

the end of which of the following diseases?

1. Tuberculosis
2. Malaria
3. Swine Flu
4. Polio
5. AIDS

 

1. 1, 2 and 4 only
2. 1, 2 and 5 only
3. 2, 3 and 5 only
4. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

 

Q3: MANODARPAN Initiative is associated with which of the following issues?

 

1. Social security initiative for laborers
2. a mental health initiative for students, family members and teachers
3. Eradication of stunting in children
4. Eradication if malaria

 

1. 4 Only
2. 3 Only
3. 2 Only
4. 1 Only

 

 

Q4: consider the following statements and choose the correct option

1. A worldwide ban on agricultural use of DDT was formalized under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
2. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends DDT as one of the efficient Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) chemicals to curb mosquito menace
3. Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites.
4. In the South East Asia Region, Bangladesh accounts for the majority of cases and death from malaria.
5. In India 7 states (HP, Karnatak, Punjab, Haryana, rajasthan, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh) account for about 90% of the burden of malaria cases in India.

 

1. 1, 2, 3 and 5 only
2. 1, 2, 3 only
3. 1, 3, only
4. all of the above