Quiz Of the Day


1.  Recently, The National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) has licensed the manufacturing know-how of a PPE (personal protective equipment) suit named — ‘NavRakshak’ — to five MSME clients. The indigenous PPE suit ‘NavRakshak’ has been developed by: .

     INHS Asvini Hospital, Mumbai
     Army Hospital, Delhi
     INHS Patanjali Hospital, Karwar
     Military Hospital, Kasauli


2.  Recently, Google has removed some of the malicious browser extensions present in its chrome browser. The codes associated with these extensions could take screenshots, read the clipboard, harvest credential tokens stored, and grab user keystrokes (like passwords). Such programs which harvest personal information belong to which of the following category of malwares?

     Botnets
     Worms
     Trojans
     Spyware


3.  Consider the following statements regarding the Convalescent Plasma therapy:
1) Once a person recovers from a virus, that person has developed antibodies that will stay in their blood waiting to fight the same virus.
2) It involves transfusing certain components from the blood of people who have recovered from a virus attack into people who are very sick with the virus.
3) Antibodies are found in plasma or the liquid part of blood.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?


     1 and 2 only
     2 only
     2 and 3 only
     1, 2 and 3


4.  Consider the following statements regarding the Gee’s Golden Langur:
1) This species of monkey is found in Assam in India.
2) The species is classified as Endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened species.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?


     1 only
     2 only
     Both 1 and 2
     Neither 1 nor 2


5.  India has lifted the nearly three-month old ban on export of anti-malarial drug Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and its formulations. Hydroxychloroquine is primarily used to treat which of the following disease?

     1 only
     2 only
     Both 1 and 2
     Neither 1 nor 2