Current Affairs Question - 22 April 2022
Art & Culture
Pal-Dadhvav Killings
Which of the following states recently marked 100 years of the Pal-Dadhvav killings, calling it a massacre “bigger than the Jallianwala Bagh”?
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Maharashtra
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Gujarat
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Tamil Nadu
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| D |
Karnataka
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Art & Culture
Sohrai
Women from which tribal community practice ‘Sohrai’ - an indigenous art form?
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Santhal
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| B |
Munda
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| C |
Oraon
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| D |
Gond
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Science & Technology
Chandra's Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2)
Consider the following statements:
- Recently, the Chandra's Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2) onboard Chandrayaan-2 mission made the first-of-its-kind observations of the global distribution of Argon-40 in the tenuous lunar exosphere.
- The observations reveal that the distribution in Ar-40 has significant spatial heterogeneity.
- Ar-40 originates from the radioactive disintegration of Potassium-38 present below the lunar surface.
Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?
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1 and 2
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| B |
2 and 3
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| C |
1 and 3
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| D |
All of the above
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Science & Technology
National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA)
Consider the following statements:
- Recently, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that the count of confirmed exoplanets crossed 5000.
- The recently launched James Webb Space Telescope will capture light from the atmospheres of exoplanets.
- NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite in 2020.
Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?
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1 and 2
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| B |
2 and 3
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| C |
1 and 3
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| D |
All of the above
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