Daily UPSC Prelims Current Affairs – January 7, 2023 [Mock Test]
January 15, 2023 January 15, 2023
1. Which of the following countries are members of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)?
- Ghana
- Sierra Leone
- Togo
- Mali
- Benin
- Mauritania
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
[A] Only 1, 3, 4 & 6
[B] Only 2, 4, 5 & 6
[C] Only 1, 2, 3 & 5
[D] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6
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Correct Answer: C [Only 1, 2, 3 & 5]
Notes:- The 15 members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
2. Consider the following statements:
- The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2022was awarded to John F. Clauser, Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger.
- The prize was awarded for their research on interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
[A] Only 1
[B] Only 2
[C] Both 1 & 2
[D] Neither 1 nor 2
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Correct Answer: A [Only 1]
Notes:- The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2022was awarded to John F. Clauser, Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger for their work in quantum mechanics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
- In 2021, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann (jointly)for their research on climate models and to Giorgio Parisi for his work on the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems.
- The Nobel Prize for 2022 in Physiology or medicine was awarded to Svante Pääbo for his research in the field of genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.
3. Consider the following statements:
- The word ‘sex’ refers to sex assigned to a person at birth based on physiological characteristics.
- The word ‘sex’ refers to what a person socially identifies himself/herself as.
- The concept of ‘sex’ is more rigid than gender.
- Cisgender refers to a person who identifies with the sex and gender that they were given at birth.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
[A] Only 2
[B] Only 1 & 3
[C] Only 1, 3 & 4
[D] 1, 2, 3 & 4
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Correct Answer: C [Only 1, 3 & 4]
Notes:- The word ‘sex’ refers to sex assigned to a person at birth based on physiological characteristics, including genitalia and chromosome composition.
- However, gender is what a person socially identifies himself/herself as. Gender, unlike sex, is not binary. It is a broad spectrum. A person can identify at any point on the spectrum scale or not identify within it, at all.
- The World Health Organization states that “Gender refers to the socially constructed characteristics of women and men, such as norms, roles, and relationships of and between groups of women and men. It varies from society to society and can be changed.”
- Hence, the concept of sex is more rigid than gender.
- Agender: A person who does not conform to a particular gender and does not identify as any one of them.
- Bigender: identify as both men and women.
- Cisgender: A person who identifies with the sex and gender that they were given at birth.
- Genderfluid: A person whose gender identity changes from time to time and place to place.
- Genderqueer: Umbrella term for people not subscribing to traditional genders.
- Nono-binary: Rejects binaries of men and women.
- AFAB, AMAB: Assigned female at birth, assigned male at birth.
