Daily Current Affairs (MCQ's) | 01-06-2023

Q1.Which of the following countries are open to black sea?

1. Azerbaijan

2. Armenia

3. Georgi

4. Bulgaria

Choose the correct answer from code given below

a. Only one

b. Only two

c. Only three

d. None

Answer (b)

Explanation:

Q2. Which of the following statements are correct?

1. The Dancing Girl statue was discovered in Kalibangan in 1926 by British archaeologist Ernest McKay

2. This statue is 4,500 years old

3. It is made of bronze

Select the correct answer from codes given below

a. Only one

b. Only two

c. Only three

d. None

Answer (b)

Explanation:

• The Dancing Girl figurine discovered in Mohenjodaro in 1926 recently found itself at the centre of controversy.

• On the occasion of International Museum Day (May 18), Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the International Museum Expo in Delhi’s Pragati Maidan. During the ceremony, PM Modi also unveiled the Expo’s mascot – a “contemporised” version of the famous Dancing Girl of Mohenjodaro.

• The 4,500 years old bronze figurine, just 10.5 cm in height, is dark and completely in the nude with the exception of multiple bangles and a necklace. However, the adapted mascot has fairer skin, and is dressed in a bright pink blouse and an off-white waist-coat.

• They add, “The International Museum Expo 2023 Mascot was a stylised and contemporised life size (5 ft as compared to the original 10 cm) figure inspired from the Dancing Girl of the Sindhu Saraswati Sabhyata. The Mascot was also to be interpreted as a modern-day Dwarpal or Door Guardian to usher audiences into the experience of Expo. The traditional craft of Channapatna toys, also protected by a GI (geographical indication) tag, was used to create this mascot.”

Discovering the Dancing Girl

• The Indus Civilisation (3300-1300 BC with its mature stage dated to 2600-1900 BC), also known as the Harappa-Mohenjo Daro Civilisation, had been long forgotten till its discovery was announced in 1924.

• While sites and artefacts from the civilisation were in discussion since the early 19th century, it was not until the 1920s that they were correctly dated and recognised as part of a full-fledged ancient civilisation, much like the ones in Mesopotamia and Egypt.

• After the initial recognition as an ancient civilisation, a spate of excavations were conducted in the two major sites that were known till then – Harappa and Mohenjo Daro. The Dancing Girl was discovered in one such excavation in 1926, by British archaeologist Ernest McKay in a ruined house in the ‘ninth lane’ of the ‘HR area’ of Mohenjodaro’s citadel.

• Even though Mohenjodaro and Harappa became part of Pakistani territory after the Partition, the Dancing Girl remained in India as part of an agreement. Today, the bronze figurine sits in the National Museum of India as artefact no. HR- 5721/195, enthralling visitors in the museum’s famous Indus Civilisation gallery, often referred to as its “star object”.

Q3. Which of the following lakes in India is a meteorite impact lake?

a. Lonar lake

b. Sambhar lake

c. Kanwar Tal Lake

d. Chilika lake

Answer (a)

Explanation:

Lonar Lake, also known as Lonar crater, is a notified National Geo- heritage Monument, saline, soda lake, located at Lonar in Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India. Lonar Lake was created by a meteorite collision impact during the Pleistocene Epoch. It is one of the four known, hyper-velocity, impact craters in basaltic rock anywhere on Earth. The other three basaltic impact structures are in southern Brazil. Lonar Lake has a mean diameter of 1.2 kilometres (3,900 ft) and is about 137 metres (449 ft) below the crater rim. The meteor crater rim is about 1.8 kilometres (5,900 ft) in diameter.

Lonar Crater sits inside the Deccan Plateau – a massive plain of volcanic basalt rock created by eruptions some 65 million years ago. Its location in this basalt field suggested to some geologists that it was a volcanic crater. Today, however, Lonar Crater is understood to be the result of a meteorite impact. The water in the lake is both saline and alkaline.

Q4. The Isthmus of Panama of Panama connects

a. North America and South America

b. Europe and Africa

c. South and north Korea

d. North America and Caribbean

Answer (a)

Explanation:

North America is the third largest continent of the world. It is linked to

South America by a very narrow strip of land called the Isthmus of Panama. The continent lies completely in the Northern and Western Hemisphere. Three oceans surround this continent.

Q5. Which of the following lakes are situated in Africa?

1. Lake victoria

2. Lake Tanganyika

3. Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi)

4. Lake Baikal

Select the correct answer from the codes given below

a. 1 and 4 only

b. 2, 3 and 4 only

c. 1, 2 and 3 only

d. 1, 2, 3 and 4

Answer (c)

Explanation: