Current Affairs Quiz – 9th June 2022

1. Consider the following pairs:

 Metals                Toxic Effects on the human body

1. Lead           –     Cardiovascular and Reproductive disease
2. Nickel         –      Neurodevelopmental disease
3. Barium       –      Neurodegenerative disease
4. Beryllium    –      Bone related disease

How many pairs given above are correctly matched?

2. Consider the following statements:

1. Carbon bombs are oil or gas projects that will result in at least a billion tons of CO2 emissions over their lifetime.
2. Net-zero emissions correspond to that, all carbon emissions into the atmosphere must be absorbed by increasing the forest cover.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

3. Consider the following statements:

1. Green jobs refer to a class of jobs that directly have a positive impact on the planet and contribute to the overall environmental welfare.
2. The Skill Council for Green Jobs is promoted by the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change.
3. The International Labor Organization and the International Trade Union Confederation are founding members of the global Green Jobs Initiative.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

4. Consider the following statements:

1. A bad bank is a financial entity set up to buy non-performing assets (NPAs), or bad loans, from banks.
2. Bad banks help improve bank lending not by shoring up bank reserves but by improving banks’ capital buffers.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

5. Consider the following statements:

1. Exascale is a computing system that can perform more than a quintillion calculations per second.
2. India’s fastest supercomputer is PARAM Ganga, which has a peak performance capability of 3.3 petaflops.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?