Science and Technology MCQ Set 20
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MCQ Set: 20
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Question No: 96
What is #OpenGovDataHack?
- Hacks for cybertechnology
- Nationwide hackathon
- Open source hackathon
- None of the above
Answer and Explanation
Answer: B
Explanation
Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad launched a nation-wide hackathon #OpenGovDataHack.
As part of the Startup Eco-system Development program, NIC and IAMAI have collaborated to conduct Nation Wide Hackathon #OpenGovDataHack across seven states of India.
It aims to Support & Showcase potentially great Ideas/Talent from Inner India by reaching out in their own State/City (7 Cities).
It is to enable them making their ideas developed into Apps/Infographics primarily by use of Open Government Data around the themes of Drinking Water& Sanitation, Transport, Education, Crime and Health to a stage.
Following this, it can be evaluated by jury and be selected for Prizes and future support/funding
The big data analytics should focus on poor & under privileged and facilitate inclusive growth.
While aiming at taking lead in data analytics it must be ensured that technology is inclusive, affordable, transformative & developmental.
#OpenGovDataHack being taken up in seven states would catalyse further start up movement.
Hackathon: Know More
The #OpenGovDataHack will being with the onsite City Challenge, a 24 hours Hackathon event will be held at 7 centres/ institutes/ organizations across Hackathon cities on different weekends.
The participating teams will be required to submit Apps prototypes and Info-graphics.
Selected Apps prototypes from all seven onsite city Centre and online submissions will be taken forward for App development.
Each team will be given 2 months of mentorship/incubation to develop the App, post which the teams will submit the final Apps for evaluation.
The apps will be evaluated by a panel of jury comprised of the members from the Community, Government, Academia and Industry etc., and the shortlisted teams will be invited for a presentation on the App.
The Hackathon process will conclude with an International conference on Open Data, wherein the winners of the Apps Challenge will be awarded.
About Open Government Data Platform:
The Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India has been set up by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) in compliance with National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) 2012.
The objective of the policy is to provide proactive access to government owned sharable data along with its usage information.
OGD Main Features Include:
Single point access to open datasets
Workflow based web access to the departments to publish their datasets through a predefined metadata
Enhanced visualization tool
Better user experience and efficient discoverability of resources
Cataloging of similar resources
Consumable Open APIs
Catalogue embedding
Catalogue sharing widgets, catalogue subscription
Mobile and Web Apps
Community participation through blogs, infographics, visualizations and much more…
A number of Hackathons, Data Meets and Open App Challenges have been conducted to bring out innovative applications, info-graphics and visualizations using the government data.
The Platform also acts as a knowledge - sharing platform through online communities.
Question No: 97
Who has won the Balzan Prizes for 2017?
- Bina Agarwal
- James Allison
- Robert Schreiber
- All of the above
Answer and Explanation
Answer: D
Explanation
Two US scientists whose work has contributed to creating immunological treatments for cancer are among the winners of this year’s Balzan Prizes, recognising scholarly and scientific achievements.
Another winner is economist Bina Agarwal, a professor at the University of Manchester, who was recognised in the gender studies category for her “heroic” work studying women’s contributions to agriculture in India.
James Allison of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Robert Schreiber of the Washington University School of Medicine were cited for their work on antibody treatments that has increased the survival of patients with metastatic melanoma.
The Balzan Foundation awards two prizes in the sciences and two in the humanities each year, rotating specialities to highlight new or emerging areas of research and sustain fields that might be overlooked elsewhere.
Recipients receive 750,000 Swiss francs (?5 crore), half of which must be used for research, preferably by young scholars or scientists.
Nobel Prize-winner Jules Hoffman, a presenter of the awards, said the work focusing on using the immune system to fight cancer, expanding from the traditional treatments of removal, radiation and chemotherapy, has already had success in 25 to 30% of melanoma patients.
Question No: 98
PC and Mac apps for Google Drive will be replaced by which app for G Suite service users?
- Drive File Stream
- Backup and Sync
- Drive Backup Stream
- Drive Sync Stream
Answer and Explanation
Answer: A
Explanation
Google let fly an announcement that PC and Mac desktop app for Google Drive is going the way of the Dodo bird.
As the new alternative, customers will have two options.
For those using the G Suite service, the solution is called Drive File Stream, an app that will allow for quicker, more streamlined access to their files and also the ability to choose which ones are made available offline.
For non-G Suite users, another app called Backup and Sync will be the way to go.
It will have all the same features as the Google Drive desktop app that most users currently access on a regular basis, but with an added photo capability as well.
This seems to be a move towards making Google more of a one-stop shop for your online cloud storage.
The Backup and Sync app will allow users to store a large amount of photos, provided they're cool with the slight compression that will happen during the upload process.
If not, they'll have to pay extra for more storage.
After the debacle that was Google+, the company is hoping that, with this change, more customers will be housing all of their data in their infrastructure instead of with other providers.
Question No: 99
Which planet's mountain ranges have been named after Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary?
- Pluto
- Neptune
- Saturn
- Mars
Answer and Explanation
Answer: A
Explanation
Two mountain ranges on Pluto have been named after Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary respectively by the International Astronomical Union, which for the first time, has officially approved the naming of 14 features on the icy dwarf planet.
These are the first geological features on the planet to be named following the close flyby by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015.
The names pay homage to the underworld mythology, pioneering space missions, historic pioneers who crossed new horizons in exploration, and scientists and engineers associated with Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
This is the first set of official names of surface features on Pluto to be approved by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognised authority for naming celestial bodies and their surface features.
NASA’s New Horizons team proposed the names to the IAU following the first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moons by the New Horizons spacecraft. Tenzing Montes and Hillary Montes are mountain ranges.
These are honouring Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986) and Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008), the Indian/Nepali Sherpa and New Zealand mountaineer who were the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest and return safely.
Other Names
Other names had been used informally by the New Horizons science team to describe the many regions, mountain ranges, plains, valleys and craters discovered during the first close-up look at the surfaces of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.
The approved Pluto surface feature names include the Burney crater that honours Venetia Burney (1918-2009), who as an 11-year-old schoolgirl suggested the name “Pluto” for Clyde Tombaugh’s newly discovered planet.
Sputnik Planitia is a large plain named after Sputnik 1, the first space satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
Djanggawul Fossae defines a network of long, narrow depressions named for the Djanggawuls, three ancestral beings in indigenous Australian mythology who travelled between the island of the dead and Australia, creating the landscape and filling it with vegetation.
Sleipnir Fossa is named for the powerful, eight-legged horse of Norse mythology that carried the god Odin into the underworld.
Virgil Fossae honours Virgil, one of the greatest Roman poets and Dante’s fictional guide through hell and purgatory in the Divine Comedy.
Hayabusa Terra is a large land mass named in honour of the Japanese spacecraft and mission (2003-2010) that returned the first asteroid sample.
Voyager Terra honours the pair of NASA spacecraft, launched in 1977, that performed the first “grand tour” of all four giant planets. Tartarus Dorsa is a ridge named for Tartarus, the deepest, darkest pit of the underworld in Greek mythology.
Question No: 100
PC and Mac apps for Google Drive will be replaced by which app for G Suite service users?
- Drive File Stream
- Drive File Stream
- Drive Backup Stream
- Drive Sync Stream
Answer and Explanation
Answer: A
Explanation
Google let fly an announcement that PC and Mac desktop app for Google Drive is going the way of the Dodo bird.
As the new alternative, customers will have two options.
For those using the G Suite service, the solution is called Drive File Stream, an app that will allow for quicker, more streamlined access to their files and also the ability to choose which ones are made available offline.
For non-G Suite users, another app called Backup and Sync will be the way to go.
It will have all the same features as the Google Drive desktop app that most users currently access on a regular basis, but with an added photo capability as well.
This seems to be a move towards making Google more of a one-stop shop for your online cloud storage.
The Backup and Sync app will allow users to store a large amount of photos, provided they're cool with the slight compression that will happen during the upload process.
If not, they'll have to pay extra for more storage.
After the debacle that was Google+, the company is hoping that, with this change, more customers will be housing all of their data in their infrastructure instead of with other providers.