Daily Current Affairs (MCQ's) | 27-04-2023

Q1. Kanthalloor Vattavada Veluthulli recently got a GI tag; it is a variety of garlic associated with the state of

a. Odisha

b. Madhya Pradesh

c. Kerala

d. Karnataka

Answer (c)

Explanation:

Kanthalloor is a rain-shadow village on the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats, lying nearly 40 km away from Munnar, Kerala. Kanthalloor Vattavada garlic is known for its pungency and medicinal properties. It has allicin content, which gives garlic its unique pungency and flavour.

Q2. Which of the following are neighbouring countries of Sudan?

1. Chad

2. Egypt

3. Ethiopia

4. Eritrea

a. 1 and 2 only

b. 2 and 4 only

c. 3 and 4 only

d. 1, 2, 3 and 4

Answer (d)

Explanation:

Q3. Consider the following statements

1. The Nile River is the longest river in the world.

2. It passes through Sudan.

3. It falls in the Red Sea

Which of the above is/are correct?

a. 1 and 2 only

b. 2 and 3 only

c. 1 and 3 only

d. 1, 2 and 3

Answer (a)

Explanation:

Nile River, Arabic Baḥr Al-Nīl or Nahr Al-Nīl, the longest river in the world, called the father of African rivers. It rises south of the Equator and flows northward through northeastern Africa to drain into the Mediterranean Sea. It has a length of about 4,132 miles (6,650 kilometres) and drains an area estimated at 1,293,000 square miles (3,349,000 square kilometres). Its basin includes parts of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Sudan, and the cultivated part of Egypt. Its most distant source is the Kagera River in Burundi.

The Nile is formed by three principal streams: the Blue Nile (Arabic: Al- Baḥr Al-Azraq; Amharic: Abay) and the Atbara (Arabic: Nahr ʿAṭbarah), which flow from the highlands of Ethiopia, and the White Nile (Arabic: Al- Baḥr Al-Abyad), the headstreams of which flow into Lakes Victoria and Albert.

Q4. Which of the following rivers passes through the equatorial line twice?

a. Niger

b. Congo

c. Nile

d. Limpopo

Answer (b)

Explanation:

Q5. Abujhmad forested area is situated in the state of

a. Madhya Pradesh

b. Odisha

c. Chhattisgarh

d. Maharashtra

Answer (c)

Expression:

This is Abujhmad — “Abujh” means what you can’t understand and “mad” means hill in the local dialect. Young Majhee has a textbook open in front of him, with a map of India. Ironically, Abujhmad is possibly the only piece of land in the country where there is no revenue map as yet; villagers have no title deeds (patta) to the land they live in or cultivate. The area is bigger than the state of Goa — about 4,000 sq km.

Inhabited by about 40,000 people, Abujhmad includes the entire Orcha block and most of Narayanpur district as well as parts of Dantewada and Bijapur districts of Chhattisgarh and Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. The majority of people belong to the Abujhmaria tribe.