TriumphIAS Daily Quiz (TIDQ) – 12-June-2018

Art and Culture and Current Affairs

  1. Who among the following was the first Bhakti saint to use Hindi for the propagation of his message?
    1.  Dadu
    2. Ramananda
    3. Kabir
    4. Tulsidas
  2. Hoysala monuments are found in
    1. Hampi and Hosper
    2.  Halebid and Belur .
    3. Mysore and Bangalore
    4.  Sringeri and Dharwar
  3. In which one of the following cities is the Lingaraja Temple located?
    1. Bhubaneswar
    2. Bijapur
    3. Kolkata
    4. Shravanambelagola
  4. Which one of the following was not represented out seals arid terracotta art of Harappan culture?
    1. Cow
    2. Rhinoceros
    3.  Elephant
    4. Tiger
  5. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
    1. Harappan Civilization -Painted Grey Ware
    2. The Kushans -Gandhra School of Art
    3. The Mughals -Ajanta Paintings
    4. The Marathas -Pahari Schoolof Painting
  6. Which one of the following pairs of folk dance forms and states is not correctly matched?
    1. Korku – Maharashtra
    2. Jhumrnar- Haryana
    3. Thali – Himachal Pradesh
    4. Mukna – Manipur
  7. The 11th World Hindi Conference (WHC) is scheduled to take place in which country?
    1. Mauritius
    2. Singapore
    3. Malaysia
    4. Nepal
  8. Name the app launched by the Indian Railways to register passengers grievances for quick redressal.
    1. Rail Suvidha
    2. Rail Sahayta
    3. Rail Madad
    4. Rail Seva
  9. The India Meteorological Department is soon to use FFGS system to forecast flood warnings. What is FFGS?
    1. Flash Flood Guidance System
    2. Flood Forecasting Global Service
    3. Flood Forecast Guidance System
    4. Flash Flood Geographical Supervision
  10. The 44th edition of the G7 Summit was held in which country?
    1. Canada
    2. France
    3. Italy
    4. Germany
  11. India’s first National Police Museum will be set up in which city?
    1.  Mumbai
    2. New Delhi
    3. Kolkata
    4. Chennai
  12. What was the theme of 2018 World Oceans Day (WOD)?
    1. Preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean
    2. Beat plastic pollution
    3. Plastic Pollution: Damaging the oceans
    4. Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet
  13. Which country hosted the 18th edition of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit 2018?
    1. Russia
    2. Kazakhstan
    3. India
    4. China
  14. Which committee has been constituted to examine setting up of ARC for faster resolution of stressed assets of Public Sector Banks (PSBs)?
    1. P.S. Jayakumar committee
    2. Sunil Mehta committee
    3. Viral Acharya committee
    4. Subhash Garg committee
  15. The Indian Education Ministry has launched a new integrated initiative named Samagra Shiksha scheme for schools by bringing together 3 major components. Identify the one which is not among the the three.
    1. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
    2. UDAAN
    3. Teacher Education (TE)
    4. Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)
  16. The latest edition of the India-Nepal joint military exercise SURYA KIRAN-XIII is scheduled to take place in which of the given places?
    1. Patna
    2. Pokhara
    3. Gangtok
    4. Pithoragarh

Answers with Explanation

  1. C
    • Ramananda  was a 14th-century Vaishnava devotional poet sant, in the Ganga river region of Northern India. The Hindu tradition recognizes him as the founder of the Ramanandi Sampradaya, the largest monastic Hindu renunciant community in modern times. Tradition asserts that Ramananda developed his philosophy and devotional themes inspired by the south
    • Indian Vedanta philosopher Ramanuja, however evidence also suggests that Ramananda was influenced by Nathpanthi ascetics of the Yoga school of Hindu philosophy. His ideas also influenced the founding of Sikhism in 15th century, and his verse and he are mentioned in the Sikh scripture Adi Granth,
    • Ramananda was known for composing his works and discussing spiritual themes in vernacular Hindi, stating that this makes knowledge accessible to the masses.
  2. B
  3. A
    • Lingaraja Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Harihara, a form of Shiva and Vishnu and is one of the oldest temples in Bhubaneswar, The temple represents the quintessence of the Kalinga Architecture and culminating the medieval stages of the architectural tradition at Bhubaneswar.
    • The temple is believed to be built by the kings from the Somavamsi dynasty, with later additions from the Ganga rulers.
    • The temple is built in the Deula style that has four components namely, vimana (structure containing the sanctum), jagamohana (assembly hall), natamandira(festival hall) and bhoga-mandapa (hall of offerings), each increasing in the height to its predecessor.
    •  The temple complex has 50 other shrines and is enclosed by a large compound wall.
  4. D
    • A number of seals arid terracotta revealed the Harappan culture’s arts. These figurines included cows,
    • bears, monkeys and dogs. Some other animals were bull, zebra, rhinoceros with a majestic horn and elephant.
    • Number of gold terracotta and stone figurines of girls in
    • Dancing poses.
  5. B
    • The Painted Grey Ware culture (PGW) is an Iron Age culture of the Gangetic plain and the Ghaggar-Hakra valley, lasting from roughly 1200 BCE to 600 BCE. It is contemporary to, and a successor of the Black and redware culture. Plain undecorated pottery is more common at Mohenjo-Daro than painted ware. But the well-known painted red and black wares were adorned with black colored designs on red background.
    • The Gandhara School of art had also developed in first century AD along with Mathura School during reign of Kushana emperor Kanishka. Both Shakas and Kushanas were patrons of Gandhara School, which is known for the first sculptural representations of the Buddha in human form. The art of the Gandhara school was primarily Mahayana and shows Greco-Roman influence.
  6. C
    • Korku is a scheduled tribe (ST) community predominantly found in  Khandwa and Burhanpur , Betul and Chhindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh and adjoining areas in Melghat region of Maharashtra in India speaking the Korku language.
    • Thali dance is folk dance of Rajasthan Region.
    • Mukna is a form of folk wrestling from the north-east Indian state of Manipur. It is popular in Imphal, Thoubal and Bishnupur. The game is generally played on the last day of the Lai Haraoba festival.
  7. A
    • The 11th World Hindi Conference (WHC) is being organized from 18-20 August 2018 in Mauritius by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India in association with the Government of Mauritius. The main theme of the Conference is “Hindi Vishwa Aur Bharatiy Sanskriti”.
  8. C
    • Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways & Coal has launched a new App “Rail Madad” – An App to expedite &  streamline passenger grievance redressal. Rail MADAD (Mobile Application for Desired Assistance During travel) registers a complaint with minimum inputs from passenger(option of photo also available), issues unique ID instantly and relays the complaint online to relevant field officials for immediate action.
    • The  action taken on complaint is also relayed to passenger through SMS, thus fast tracking the entire process of redressal of complaints through digitisation.
    • The Minister also launched a new App ‘Menu on Rails’, a Mobile Application developed by IRCTC for creating awareness to the Railway Passengers for the items served to them on their Rail Journey.
  9. A
    • India Meteorological Department, IMD will use flash flood guidance system for the first time in the country to forecast floods. Currently, the Central Water Commission issues flood warnings. The national weather agency is preparing to launch the service using Flash Flood Guidance System from the next month. A new system and soil study data will enable the India Meteorological Department to forecast floods and guide the disaster management agencies on prevention techniques.
  10. A
    • The 44th G7 summit was held on June 8–9, 2018, in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada. This was the sixth time since 1981 that Canada has hosted the meetings. The 44th G7 summit was the first summit for Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte
  11. B
    • The central government has decided to set up India first national police museum in Lutyens’ Delhi. The museum is expected to be inaugurated on October 21 (Police Commemoration Day).
  12. A
    • Preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean
    • The World Oceans Day was observed on June 8, 2018 to provide an opportunity to take personal and community action to conserve the ocean and its resources.
    • The 2018 conservation action theme was “Preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean”.
    • The 18th edition of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit was held in Qingdao, China on June 9-10, 2018. The summit concluded with the adoption of the Qingdao declaration. The declaration calls for implementing the three-year plan to combat terrorism, separatism and extremism. It also calls for implementation of the treaty on long-term good neighbourliness, friendship and co-operation.
    •  All the heads of SCO countries held a restricted meeting before the summit. Here, China has renewed its agreement with India on sharing data on the cross-border flow of waters from the Brahmaputra River during the flood season.
    • Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on June 9, the Chinese side would provide hydrological data from May 15 to October 15 — the period when the Brahmaputra is prone to floods.
    • The Chinese side would also provide hydrological data if the water level exceeds a “mutually agreed” level during the non-flood season. Both the sides also signed an agreement on exporting non-Basmati rice to China. The two countries also set a trade target of 100 billion dollars by 2020.
  13. B
    • The Union finance ministry has set up a committee to examine the possibility of setting up an Asset Reconstruction Company (ARC) or an Asset Management Company (AMC) to fast track resolution of stressed assets. Punjab National Bank’s non executive chairman Sunil Mehta will head the panel.
    • The Committee will consider whether such an arrangement will be good for the banking system. If it is considered advisable, the Committee will also consider the modalities by which such an ARC / AMC should be set up.
  14. B
    • Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar has launched Samagra Shiksha scheme for school education from pre-school to senior secondary levels. The government has also decided to increase the budget for the entire school education next year by 20 percent.
    • The new scheme is integration of three components namely Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) — which took care of the school education at primary and secondary levels — and Teacher Training will now be coalesced into one whole.
  15. D
    • Joint Military Exercise SURYA KIRAN-XIII between India and Nepal will be conducted at Pithoragarh from 30 May to 12 June 2018. Exercise SURYA KIRAN is a biannual event which is conducted alternatively in Nepal and India.

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