Daily Quiz 01 March 2025

Answer: C

Explanation:

• Option C is correct: Sudan virus disease is essentially a disease very similar to Ebola. The Ebola virus has caused several high-profile outbreaks. The west Africa 2014-16 outbreak was the largest with 28,600 cases and 11,325 deaths.
• The Sudan and Ebola viruses both come from the orthoebolavirus family, but they have different proteins and genetic components, so the immune response to each virus is different. As such, it’s thought that the Ebola vaccines will not be effective against the Sudan virus.

Answer: A

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is correct: A DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal functioning of a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming it with a flood of internet traffic.
• Statement 2 is not correct: Unlike a Denial of Service (DoS) attack, which typically involves a single source, a DDoS attack leverages multiple compromised systems, often infected with malware, to generate the traffic. These compromised systems are collectively known as a botnet. Such attacks may be aimed at saturating the bandwidth of a particular site, exploiting weaknesses in the network protocol stack, or targeting specific weaknesses in applications or services.

Statement 3 is not correct: DDoS attacks can lead to a service downtime, which is the primary goal of a DDoS attack — to render a service unavailable, leading to a disruption or potential loss of revenue. While DDoS attacks do not directly steal data, they can be used as a distraction while other forms of cyberattacks, such as data breaches, are executed. Organisations that fall victim to DDoS attacks may suffer reputational damage, as customers and partners question their ability to protect against cyber threats.

Answer: B

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is correct: All commercial banks including branches of foreign banks functioning in India, local area banks and regional rural banks are insured by the DICGC. All State, Central and Primary cooperative banks, also called urban cooperative banks, functioning in States / Union Territories which have amended the local Cooperative Societies Act empowering the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to order the Registrar of Cooperative Societies of the State / Union Territory to wind up a cooperative bank or to supersede its committee of management and requiring the Registrar not to take any action regarding winding up, amalgamation or reconstruction of a co-operative bank without prior sanction in writing from the RBI are covered under the Deposit Insurance Scheme. At present all co-operative banks are covered by the DICGC. Primary cooperative societies are not insured by the DICGC.
• Statement 2 is correct: The DICGC insures all deposits such as savings, fixed, current, recurring, etc. deposits except the following types of deposits
  • Deposits of foreign Governments;
  • Deposits of Central/State Governments;
  • Inter-bank deposits;
  • Deposits of the State Land Development Banks with the State co-operative bank;
  • Any amount due on account of and deposit received outside India
  • Any amount, which has been specifically exempted by the corporation with the previous approval of Reserve Bank of India
• Statement 3 is not correct: Each depositor in a bank is insured upto a maximum of 5,00,000 (Rupees Five Lakhs) for both principal and interest amount held by him in the same right and same capacity as on the date of liquidation/cancellation of bank’s licence or the date on which the scheme of amalgamation/merger/reconstruction comes into force.

Answer: B

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is correct and statement 2 is not correct: The hills in the southern districts of Gurugram and Nuh are a part of Aravali, the oldest fold mountain range in the world. It runs diagonally across Rajasthan extending from Champaner in Gujarat in the southwest to near Delhi in the northeast for about 690 km.
• Statement 3 is correct: It is ecologically significant as it combats desertification by checking the spread of the Thar Desert towards eastern Rajasthan, and performs the role of an aquifer with its highly fractured and weathered quality rocks allowing water to percolate and recharge the groundwater. It is also a rich habitat to a wide spectrum of wildlife and plant species.

Answer: B

Explanation:

• Option (a) is not correct: Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) has not yet achieved ignition (self-sustaining fusion) and is not producing electricity. It is a testbed reactor for ITER, which aims to achieve sustained fusion in the future. It is an experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor in Hefei, China.
• Option (b) is correct: EAST is a tokamak, which uses magnetic fields (both toroidal and poloidal) to confine and stabilize plasma for fusion reactions.
• Option (c) is not correct: Nuclear fission produces harmful radioactive waste, whereas nuclear fusion does not.
• Option (d) is not correct: Tritium is not naturally abundant, and there are no natural deposits of tritium. It is difficult to produce and is mostly obtained as a by-product in heavy-water fission reactors.