Daily Quiz 19 April 2025

Answer: A

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is correct: Gestational diabetes is diabetes diagnosed for the first time during pregnancy (gestation). Like other types of diabetes, gestational diabetes affects how your cells use sugar (glucose). Gestational diabetes causes high blood sugar that can affect your pregnancy and your baby’s health.

Statement 2 is not correct: If you have gestational diabetes during pregnancy, generally your blood sugar returns to its usual level soon after delivery. But if you’ve had gestational diabetes, you have a higher risk of getting type 2 diabetes. You’ll need to be tested for changes in blood sugar more often.

Answer: C

Explanation:

• Jyotiba Phule was born on April 11, 1827, in the Mali caste, a community traditionally occupied with gardening and floristry. In 1848, Phule was invited to attend a wedding of one of his Brahmin friends. The relatives of the groom insulted and abused him while referring to his ‘lower’ caste. Phule left the procession, having made up his mind to defy the prevailing social system and its incumbent caste oppression. He visited a girls’ school in Ahmednagar run by missionary Cynthia Farrar, and also came into contact with Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason, which had criticised Christian orthodoxy much in the same way as Phule would come to contend with its Hindu counterpart.
• Statement 1 is correct: In his later years, Phule had vociferously opposed first Vishnu Shashtri Chiplunkar, and then his protege Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Phule preferred to work with the British government to improve the lot of the untouchables and the depressed castes and the emancipation of women, while Tilak and other orthodox nationalists saw the British government as an occupying force intent on changing what they felt was the fundamental character of the Hindu religion. Nonetheless, Phule had the discernment to aid the deliverance of an opponent when he bailed out an imprisoned Tilak and Gopal Ganesh Agarkar from Mumbai’s Dongri Jail.
• Statement 2 is correct: Phule also founded the Satyashodhak Samaj (Society of Truth-Seekers) in September 1873. The body was intended as an alternative to the largely upper-caste dominated reform movements that had been surging in India. These included the Brahmo Samaj, the Prarthana Samaj, as well as the Arya Samaj movements.

Statement 3 is correct: In his Shetkaryanche Asud (Farmer’s Whip), Phule argues for a constructive approach on the part of the administration.

Answer: B

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is correct and statement 2 is not correct: Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) – A region where several thunderstorms have merged to create a continuous area of convective instability where cloud with a horizontal extent greater than 100 km (54 nm) exists. Such systems normally continue to exist for several hours. They can occur in both tropical and temperate latitudes.

Statement 3 is correct: Mesoscale convective complex (MCC)—A particular type of MCS, an MCC is a large, circular, long-lived cluster of showers and thunderstorms identified by satellite. It often emerges out of other storm types during the late-night and early-morning hours. MCCs can cover an entire state.

Answer: D

Explanation:

• Option D is correct: The office of RGI is primarily responsible for the following activities:
  • Housing & Population Census: The Census Commissioner, India is the statutory authority vested with the responsibility of conducting the Housing & Population Census in India under Census Act, 1948 and the Rules framed thereunder. Planning, coordination and supervision of the field activities; data processing; compilation, tabulation and dissemination of Census results are the primary duties of this office.
  • Civil Registration System (CRS): The Census Commissioner, India is also designated as Registrar General, India under the Registration of Births & Deaths (RBD) Act, 1969, which provides for the compulsory registration of births and deaths. In this role, the RGI coordinates the functioning of the civil registration and vital statistics system in the country through all States and UTs.
  • Sample Registration System (SRS): Implementation of Sample Registration System, wherein large scale sample survey of vital events is conducted on a half-yearly basis, is also the responsibility of the ORG&CCI. SRS is an important source of vital rates like Birth Rate, Death Rate, Infant Mortality Rate and Maternal Mortality Rate at the State level in the country.
  • National Population Register (NPR): In pursuance to provisions contained in Citizenship Rules, 2003 framed under the Citizenship Act, 1955, the National Population Register is prepared by collecting information relating to all persons who are usually residing in the country.

Mother Tongue Survey: The project surveys the mother tongues, which are returned consistently across two and more Census decades. The research programme documents the linguistic features of the selected mother tongues.

Answer: C

Explanation:

• Statements 1 and 2 are correct: The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) new mission, which will map the world’s forests, will launch later this month. Known as the Biomass mission, it will provide information about the state of the planet’s forests and how they are changing, which will help expand the knowledge about the role forests play in the carbon cycle.

The Biomass is ESA’s seventh Earth Explorer mission. Under the Earth Explorer programme, the space agency has launched satellites to observe different aspects of the planet’s system.