UPSC Daily Current Affairs Quiz: Islamic State, Delhi AQI, H1B Visa, IPL auction, IPO and more

B. Mineral Security Partnership

C. Chip 4 + Quad

D. pax silica

2. Which country is landlocked, separated from the Red Sea by a narrow strip of Eritrean territory, but whose major sea outlet is Djibouti?

A.South Sudan

B. Ethiopia

C. speculation

D.Rwanda

3. Where did the last major opposition party, called the Democratic Party, disband after a vote by its members, marking the end of a political force that once dominated city-wide legislative elections and which was founded three years before the transfer of territory in 1997?

A. Singapore

B.North Macedonia

C. hong kong

D. Macau

4. The Indian team won the Squash World Cup gold for the first time by defeating which top seeded team 3-0 in the final held in Chennai?

One. hong kong

B. Egypt

C. Australia

D.Italy

5. Which digital insurer, backed by private equity firms including General Atlantic and Multiples Alternate Asset Management, has started preparations for an initial public offering (IPO) to raise $300-400 million?

A. Go Digit Life

B. Navi General Insurance

C. ACK

D. Policybazaar Insurance

6. What is the name of the proprietary methodology of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) that is used to assess the risk in a trader’s portfolio from events that could increase market volatility, and which is considered sufficient to cover 99.975% of possible risk scenarios that could affect a trader’s position?

A. Extreme Tail Margining (ETM)

B. Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk (SPAN)

C. Comprehensive Risk Assessment Model (CREM)

D. Stress Exposure Adjustment Network (SEAN)

7. In which country were the giant alabaster statues, known as the Colossi of Memnon, depicting Amenhotep III, who ruled the land about 3,400 years ago, reassembled as part of a renovation project lasting nearly two decades?

Türkiye

B. Iraq

C. egypt

D. Jordan

8. Which Indian city became the country’s largest city in terms of municipal area after the state government decided to merge 27 urban local bodies into its municipal corporation, increasing its jurisdiction from about 650 sq km to nearly 2,000 sq km in a single move?

A.Ahmedabad

B. Please Keep

C. Bengaluru

D. Hyderabad

9. What are stable coins?

A. Blockchain-based currencies that cannot be traded and are only for savings

B. A category of cryptocurrencies that are designed to maintain stable value by being tied to an underlying asset such as fiat currency

C. Digital tokens that earn guaranteed interest by being locked in the government

bond

D. Cryptographic assets whose value remains constant because their supply never changes.

10. Mark David Chapman is infamous for the murder of which eminent public figure?

A. john f kennedy

B. John Lennon

C. Solang Valley (Himachal Pradesh)

D.Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh)

9. A category of cryptocurrencies designed to maintain stable value by being tied to an underlying asset such as fiat currency

10. John Lennon