GK Current Affair September 16, 2019

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1.0 The term ''6th mass termination/6th elimination' is regularly referenced in the news with regards to the talk of
a. Boundless monoculture rehearses in agribusiness and enormous scale business utilization of synthetic substances in numerous pieces of the world that may bring about the loss of good local environments.
b. Fears of a conceivable crash of a shooting star with the Earth sooner rather than later in the way whenever happened 65 million years back that caused the mass eradication of numerous species including those of dinosaurs.
c. Huge scale development of hereditarily altered yields in numerous pieces of the world and advancing their development in different pieces of the world which may cause the vanishing of good local harvest plants and the loss of sustenance biodiversity.
d. Humanity's over-abuse/abuse of normal assets, discontinuity/loss of nature living spaces, obliteration, of biological systems, contamination and worldwide environmental change.
Trouble: Medium.

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2.0 Which of coming up next is/are the conceivable outcome/s of overwhelming sand mining in riverbeds?

1. Diminished saltiness in the stream

2. Contamination of ground water

3. Bringing down of the water-table

Select the right answer utilizing the code given beneath:

a. 1 as it were

b. 2 and 3 as it were

c. 1 and 3 as it were

d. 1, 2 and 3

e. Trouble: Easy. It tends to be settled even with essential comprehension of geology and condition.

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3.0 Which of the accompanying has/have contracted hugely/dried in the ongoing past because of human exercises?

1. Aral Sea

2. Dark Sea

3. Lake Baikal

Select the right answer utilizing the code given underneath:

a. 1 as it were

b. 2 and 3

c. 2 as it were

d. 1 and 3

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4.0 Ramesh Bhatkar, who passed away as of late, was the prestigious on-screen character of which local film?

a. Marathi

b. Tamil

c. Telugu

d. Odia

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5.0 Which city is the scene of the ICT Academy Bridge 2019 meeting?

a. Jaipur

b. New Delhi

c. Pune

d. Chennai

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6.0 Which Indian squash player has won the 2019 Seattle Open title?

a. Saurav Ghosal

b. Ramit Tandon

c. Harinder Pal Sandhu

d. Cyrus Poncha

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7.0 Which state government has propelled Kalia Students Scholarship Scheme to support instruction for ranchers

kids?

a. Chhattisgarh

b. Tamil Nadu

c. Assam

d. Odisha

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8.0 Who has been chosen for the 2016 National Geoscience Award in the terminated of geo-natural investigations?

a. Ashok Kumar singhvi

b. P.V. Joseph

c. Vishnu Deo sai

d. Keshav Krishna

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9.0 Who has won the World Billiards (150-Up configuration) Championships title?

a. Dhruv Sitwala

b. Pankaj Advani

c. Saurav Kothari

d. Subside Gilchrist

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10.0 Who of the accompanying has won the Miss World 2016 Competition title?

a. Mireia Lalaguna

b. Stephanie del Valle

c. Natasha Mannuela

d. Yaritza Miguelina

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ANSWER KEYS

1. Mankind’s over-exploitation/misuse of natural resources, fragmentation/loss of nature habitats, destruction, of ecosystems, pollution and global climate change.
2. 2 and 3 only
3. 1 only
4. Marathi
5. Chennai
   6 Ramit Tandon
6. Odisha
7. Keshav Krishna
8. Pankaj Advani
9. Stephanie del Valle

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