Daily Quiz 24 April 2025

Answer: A

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is correct: A plastic park is an industrial zone specifically designed for plastic-related businesses and industries. It aims to consolidate and synergize the capacities of the plastic processing industry, promoting investment, production, and exports while generating employment. These parks also focus on achieving environmentally sustainable growth through waste management and recycling initiatives.
• Statement 2 is not correct: The Department of Chemicals and Petro-Chemicals is implementing the Scheme for Setting up of Plastic Parks under the umbrella scheme of New Scheme of Petrochemicals, to support setting up need-based Plastic Parks, with requisite state-of-the-art infrastructure, enabling common facilities through cluster development approach, to consolidate the capacities of the domestic downstream plastic processing industry.

The Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals (DCPC), under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, was originally part of the Ministry of Industry until 1989 when it was transferred to the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemicals. On June 5, 1991, it became part of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

Answer: B

Explanation:

• Option B is correct: Sir Sankaran was born on 11 July 1857 on the Malabar Coast. His early education began in the traditional style at home and continued in schools in Malabar, till he passed the Arts examination with a first class from the Provincial School at Calicut.
• In 1908 he became a permanent Judge in the High Court of Madras and held the post till 1915. In the meantime in 1902, the Viceroy Lord Curzon appointed him Secretary to the Raleigh University Commission. In recognition of his services he was awarded the title ‘Commander of the Indian Empire’ by the King – Emperor in 1904 and was knighted in 1912.
• He became a member of the Viceroy’s Council in 1915 with charge of the Education portfolio. As member, he wrote in 1919 two famous Minutes of Dissent in the Despatches on Indian Constitutional Reforms, pointing out the various defects of British rule in India and suggesting reforms. For an Indian to offer such criticism and make such demands was incredible in those days. The British government accepted most of his recommendations.
• He played an active part in the Indian National movement which was gathering force in those days. In 1897, when the First Provincial Conference met in Madras, he was invited to preside over it. The same year, when the Indian National Congress assembled at Amraoti, he was chosen its President. In a masterly address he referred to the highhandedness of foreign administration, called for reforms and asked for self-government for India with Dominion Status. In 1900 he was a Member of the Madras Legislative Council. His official life from 1908 to 1921 interrupted his activities as a free political worker.

In 1928 he was the President of the Indian Central Committee to co – operate with the Simon Commission. The Committee prepared a well-argued report asking for Dominion Status for India. When the Viceregal announcement came granting Dominion Status as the ultimate goal for India, Nair retired from active politics.

Answer: A

Explanation:

• Pairs 1 and 3 are not correctly matched and pair 2 is correctly matched: Bihu is the national festival of Assam. All ethnic groups of Assamese people celebrate this agrarian festival, albeit with slight variations. It consists of three different festivals held at different times. Rongali or Bohag Bihu is observed in April, Kongali or Kati Bihu is observed in October, and Bhogali or Magh Bihu is observed in January. All of them are related to nature and agriculture.

The most important one, the Rongali Bihu coincides with the Assamese New year. It is a spring festival. It coincides with sowing time. Assamese people celebrate it with feasts, music and sensuous dancing to the accompaniment of Drum, Flute etc. These dances and songs are famous all over as Bihu dance and Bihu songs. People give gifts to their dear ones at this time. Kongali Bihu is related to crop protection and it is observed in a very sombre manner. Bhogali Bihu is a harvest festival and there are great feasts. This festival is cosmopolitan and a great integrating factor.

Answer: C

Explanation:

Statements 1 and 2 are correct: Signet ring cell carcinoma (SRCC) is a cancer that most commonly starts in your gastrointestinal (GI) tract, especially your stomach. It gets its name from how the cells look underneath a microscope — round but with one side extended, like a signet ring. SRCC is a type of adenocarcinoma, which means the cancer forms from glandular cells. These are normal cells found in the glands that line your organs.

Answer: B

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is not correct: Microplastics are defined as plastic particles measuring up to 5 millimetres in diameter, while nanoplastics are even smaller, less than 1,000 nanometres.
• Statement 2 is correct: A new study found that plant leaves absorbed microplastics and nanoplastics directly from the air, with the particles subsequently entering the food chain through herbivores and crops consumed by humans.

Statement 3 is correct: Stomata are small pores formed by specialised cells, while the cuticle is a protective membrane coated in wax, which makes it particularly conducive to absorbing microplastics. The study also found that microplastics could travel through the plant’s water and nutrient transport systems to reach other tissues. However, trichomes that are hair-like appendages on cells acted as ‘sinks’ that trapped external particles, thereby limiting the transport of plastics from leaves to roots.