Current Affairs Quiz: 14 March 2017

These quizzes will help you in answering questions which can/may be asked in the next exam that will be faced by you. The day’s updated quizzes cover the topics like India’s largest Floating Solar PV Plant, KCR Kit Scheme and National Elephant Day among others.
1. Which institute won the 2017 IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award?
a) IIT-Madras
b) IIT-Delhi
c) IIT-Kanpur
d) IIT-Hyderabad

2. It is in this State the NTPC has recently installed India’s largest Floating Solar PV Plant at RGCCPP Kayamkulam.
a) Maharashtra
b) Kerala
c) Gujarat
d) Karnataka

3. Which State Government announced KCR Kit Scheme to distribute 16 essential things needed for a new born baby?
a) Karnataka
b) Telangana
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Kerala

4. Who was appointed as the chairman of the Central Water Commission?
a) Narendra Kumar
b) Seema Verma
c) K Srinath Reddy
d) P K Purwar

5. Which country is planning to send its largest warship on a 3-month tour through the South China Sea, in its biggest show of naval forces since World War II?
a) Japan
b) China
c) Russia
d) The United States of America

6. Which country celebrates National Elephant Day on 13 March?
a) India
b) Indonesia
c) Thailand
d) Malaysia

7. Which popular cab service has launched ‘realtime ID check’ in India to ensure rider safety?
a) Meru Cabs
b) Ola
c) Easy Cabs
d) Uber

8. Which state will be hosting the 22nd Asian Athletics Championship to be held in July 2017?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Odisha
c) Maharashtra
d) Karnataka

9. Who of the following was given the additional charge of defence ministry after Manohar Parrikar resigned from the post?
a) Kalraj Mishra
b) Subramanian Swamy
c) Arun Jaitley
d) Yogi Adityanath

10. Name the person whose name was confirmed by the US Senate as administrator of the 1 trillion dollars Centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) with 55-43 votes.
a) Seema Verma
b) Nikki Haley
c) Harmeet Kaur Dhillon
d) Ashok Mago

11. Mission Fingerling was launched by which Ministry to achieve Blue Revolution?
a) Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
b) Ministry of Power
c) Ministry of Food Processing Industries
d) Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

12. George A. Olah, the Nobel laureate who passed away, won the Nobel Prize in which field?
a) Physics
b) Chemistry
c) Economics
d) Medicine

13. Noted film director Diphan, who died recently, was well known for making films in which language?
a) Hindi
b) Bengali
c) Malayalam
d) Marathi

14. Identify the former Chief of the Russian Athletics Federation's Medical Commission who was recently banned for lifetime by CAS in a doping case.
a) Alexander Dyachenko
b) Sergei Portugalov
c) Anastasia Karabelshikova
d) Ivan Podshivalov

15. Who won the All England Open Men's Singles title?
a) Lee Chong Wei
b) Shi Yuqi
c) Lin Dan
d) Rashid Sidek
Answer 1. (a) IIT-Madras
2. (b) Kerala
3. (b) Telangana
4. (a) Narendra Kumar
5. (a) Japan
6. (c) Thailand
7. (d) Uber
8. (b) Odisha
9. (c) Arun Jaitley
10. (a) Seema Verma
11. (a) Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
12. (b) Chemistry
13. (c) Malayalam
14. (b) Sergei Portugalov
15. (a) Lee Chong Wei

First fluorescent frog found in Argentina

First fluorescent frog found in Argentina A group of scientists discovered the world’s first fluorescent frog (Hypsiboas punctatus) near Santa Fe in Argentina. The frog sports a muted palette of greens, yellows and reds under normal light, but emits a bright blue and green glow in the dark. The scientists found that the South American polka dot tree frog uses fluorescent molecules totally unlike those found in other animals. The findings were published on 13 March 2017 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  Key highlights
• When the researchers trained an ultraviolet A flashlight on polka dot tree frogs, they were surprised to find that the animals gave off an intense greenish-blue glow instead of a faint red.
• The researchers expected to find red fluorescence in these frogs from a pigment called biliverdin.
• Three molecules namely, hyloin-L1, hyloin-L2 and hyloin-G1, found in lymph tissue, skin and glandular secretions of animals, are responsible for the green fluorescence.
• The molecules contain a ring structure and a chain of hydrocarbons. The closest similar molecules are found in plants. Fluorescence in animals
• The ability to absorb light at short wavelengths and re-emit it at longer wavelengths is called fluorescence, a quality that is rare in terrestrial animals. Until now, fluorescence was unheard of in amphibians.
• It is still unclear why animals have the ability of fluorescence, although explanations include communication, camouflage and mate attraction.

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