Daily UPSC Prelims Current Affairs – February 5-6, 2023 [Mock Test]
February 18, 2023 February 18, 2023
1. ‘Long March’, ‘Yan’an Rectification’, are in news recently, which of the following statements explains these best?
[A] These are the treaties signed between China and Taiwan
[B] These are the treaties signed between Japan and China
[C] Social movements in Japan
[D] Communist Party movement in China
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Correct Answer: D [Communist Party movement in China]
Notes:- Long March refers to the March of Communists to evade persecution. It refers to the transfer of the main group of the First (or Central) Red Army, which included the leaders of the Communist Party of China, from Yudu in the province of Jiangxi to Yan’an in Shaanxi. It resulted in the relocation of the communist revolutionary base from south-eastern to north-western China and in the emergence of Mao Zedong as the undisputed party leader.
- The Yan’an Rectification Movement also known as Zhengfeng or Cheng Feng, was the first ideological mass movement initiated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), going from 1942 to 1945. The movement took place at the communist base at Yan’an, a remote and isolated mountainous area in northern Shaanxi, after the communists’ Long March.
2. Which of the following statements about Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is/are correct?
- He is known as the ‘Bismarck of India.’
- Vallabhbhai Patel was given the title of ‘Sardar’ by Subhash Chandra Bose.
- He presided the INC session in Karachi in 1930.
- Statue of Unity was listed in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s “Eight Wonders”.
Choose the correct answer using the codes given below:
[A] Only 3
[B] Only 1 & 4
[C] Only 1, 2 & 4
[D] 1, 2, 3 & 4
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Correct Answer: B [Only 1 & 4]
Notes:- Vallabhbhai Patel was given the title of ‘Sardar’ by Mahatma Gandhi.
- He is known as the ‘Bismarck of India.’
- He served as India’s first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.
- In 1991, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna. Since 2014, his birthday has been celebrated as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day).
- Patel also led the Bardoli Satyagraha in 1928, which was a huge effort.
- He was chosen President of the INC in Karachi in 1931.
- In the Constituent Assembly of India, Patel was in charge of the Provincial Constitution Committee and the Advisory Committee on Fundamental Rights, Minorities, and Tribal and Excluded Areas.
- He is known as the ‘patron saint’ of the civil services because of his involvement in establishing India’s modern civil services.
- Statue of Unity was listed in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s “Eight Wonders” in January 2020. (SCO).
3. Who among the following has/have been awarded with both Noble prize and Bharat Ratna?
- Rabindranath Tagore
- C V Raman
- Amartya Sen
- Mother Teresa
Choose the correct answer using the codes given below:
[A] Only 2
[B] Only 1 & 4
[C] Only 2, 3 & 4
[D] 1, 2, 3 & 4
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Correct Answer: C [Only 2, 3 & 4]
Notes:- In 1913 Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
- V Raman became the first Indian scientist to be honoured with the prestigious Nobel Award in Physics in the year 1930 “for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.” Raman was also one of the first recipients of Bharat Ratna in 1954 along with Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan and C Rajagopalachari.
- Amartya Sen was awarded Bharat Ratna in the year 1999. In 1998, Amartya Sen received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his contributions to welfare economics. Generally regarded as the Nobel award of Economics.
- Mother Teresa was awarded India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, on January 25, 1980, for her humanitarian work. The ‘Blessed Teresa of Calcutta’ received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress in the world.
