From India and Abroad
Q1. Since 2013, China has given or promised hundreds of billions of dollars in loans and grants for power plants, ports, railways, roads and other infrastructure in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, Central Asia and Europe. In 2017 Xi Jinping gave the policy hallowed political status by having it written into the Communist Party’s constitution, what is this policy?
Q2. Samuel Huntington, of Harvard University, argued that old ideological divisions of the cold war would be replaced not by universal harmony (see End of History) but by older cultural divisions. The world, he argued, was divided between civilisations and these were being drawn into conflict. What new term he coined in the said context?
Q3. Yuval Noah Hararri has dubbed it as the ok Industrial Revolution on steroids? He is referring to what?
Q4. Which Nobel prize winners book has been made into a Netflix series? Name of the book and the author?
Q5. The Pritzker Prize is considered the foremost recognition of which field?
Q6. Diamonds and other precious metals mined in war zones and illegally sold to finance fighting there. These diamonds helped fund insurgencies and civil wars in Angola, Ivory Coast, Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The UN security council condemned the sale of such diamonds in 1998 and in 2001 a new body called the World Diamond Congress started the so-called Kimberley Process, which set up an international certification scheme to crack down on illegal sales? Such diamonds are called?
Q7. The overthrow of a government is also known as?
Q8 . The relaxation of tense relations between states is called?
Q9. Term used to describe the division of a country into a series of smaller ones, almost always hostile to each other.
Q10 . A series of movie produced by Sergio Leone, with music by Ennio moricone , starring mostly Clint Eastwood , were popularly known as?
Q11. The Neon tetra, Harlequin Rasbora and Pea Puffer are all types of which animal?
Q12 . Chanakya was a faculty at which ancient Indian university?
Q13. A situation where someone takes risks without facing the consequences. It can occur when one party in a transaction has more information than the other, or when one party is insulated from the consequences of their actions, what is the term for this?
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