Current Affairs Quiz , 04 Mar 2020

1) What type of body is Lalit Kala Akademi?

a) Statutory authority
b) Society
c) Autonomous body
d) None of the above

Answer: a
• Lalit Kala Akademi, National Academy of Art, New Delhi was set up by the Government of India as an autonomous body, on 5th August, 1954. The Akademi was given statutory authority in 1957, under the Societies Registration Act 1860
• It has a vision that takes care of the traditional art of India as well as of helping artists to imbibe many of the contemporary happenings in the international art scene.

2) K2-18b, recently seen in news, is a

a) Exoplanet
b) Asteroids
c) Comet
d) None of the above

Answer: a
• Recently astronomers have found a potentially habitable exoplanet, which is more than twice the size of Earth.
• The planet, named K2-18b, is located 124 light-years away from Earth and measures 2.6 times the radius and 8.6 times the mass of our planet.
• Because of its size, the K2-18b looks more like a smaller version of Neptune than a larger version of Earth.

3) Psyche Mission, recently seen in news, is a collaboration between

a) NASA
b) ESA
c) SpaceX
d) Both (a) and (c)

Answer: d
• NASA and SpaceX are collaborating for a space mission that involves a journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid called Psyche. Psyche is orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

4) Recently, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory has developed a bi-luminescent security ink. It is used for

a) Electoral ink
b) Currency note ink
c) Passport ink
d) Both (b) and (c)

Answer: d
• Union minister Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday said that a new security ink has been developed to weed out fake passports and counterfeit currency.
• CSIR-National Physical Laboratory has developed a bi-luminescent security ink.
• The ink glows in red and green colors when illuminated by two different excitation sources at 254 Nano meters (nm) and 365 nm, respectively.
• The ink was prepared in a batch of 1kg and given to Bank Note Press (BNP), a unit of Security Printing Minting Corporation of India Ltd. (SPMCIL), New Delhi.

5) March 3rd, celebrated as World Wildlife Day, is also the day of formation of

a) CITES
b) CMS
c) UNFCCC
d) None of the above

Answer: a
• United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), in 2013 passed a resolution to proclaim 3 March, the international day of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
• The day is being celebrated on the 3rd of March every year to create awareness about the importance of protecting wildlife. The theme for year 2020 is “Sustaining all life on earth”.