Target Prelims 2023

4th March 2023 Daily Quiz

Q1. Which of these statements is true regarding Water Purification Technologies?
1. The RO technology helps in removing the hardness of the water.
2. The UV technology helps in killing bacteria and viruses but does not eliminate
them like the RO technology.
3. The UF technology does not require electricity to function, while the UV and RO
technologies need that.
Options:
a) 1 and 2
b) 2 and 3
c) 1 and 3
d) 1, 2 and 3
Q2. How many of the following statements are true regarding electoral bonds?
1. They can be issued only by all the Public Sector banks.
2. Any political party can receive funding from these bonds.
3. Any citizen of India can buy these bonds and donate them to the political party
of their choice.
Options:
a) Only 1 statement
b) Only 2 statements
c) Only 3 statements
d) None of the statements
Q3. Which of the following statements are not true regarding the Purchasing
Managers’ Index?
a) It helps in anticipating the changes in the economic trends of a country.
b) For India, it is calculated by the Department of Economic Affairs.
c) It can be calculated both for the service and the manufacturing sector.
d) It is a perceptional analysis, only undertaken for the private sector.
Q4. Which of the following statement is true regarding the ice memory project?
a) It is an initiative to develop cryogenic technologies to preserve the human body
during long space flights.
b) It is a collaboration of paleontologists to preserve the ice-age era animal
specimens.
c) It is an initiative to have an in-depth study of the “Zombie Viruses” which had
been preserved in the ice and are now re-surfacing due to global warming.
d) It is an initiative to save samples of ancient ice for analysis before it gets melted
away due to climate change.
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Q5. The term ‘Goldilocks Zone’ is often seen in the news in the context of
a) the limits of habitable zone above the surface of the Earth
b) regions inside the Earth-like planets in outer space
c) search for the Earth-like planets in outer space
d) search for meteorites containing precious metals

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