Daily UPSC Prelims Current Affairs – July 10-11, 2022 [Mock Test]

Notes:
The hump-backed mahseer is endemic to the Cauvery river basin in India and classified as Critically Endangered by IUCN. Denison barb, also endemic to Western Ghats, is listed as Endangered, not Critically Endangered. Labeo nigrescens is endemic to Karnataka but is not listed as Critically Endangered. Therefore, only 1 is correct.

Notes:
Purchasing Manager’s Index is published by Institute for Supply Management, not NITI Aayog. Global Innovation Index is co-published by World Intellectual Property Organization. Environmental Democracy Index is released by World Resources Institute. Global Gender Gap Index is published by World Economic Forum, not World Bank. Hence, only two pairs are correctly matched.

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• The Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine was signed between the Allied powers and Bulgaria after World War I. It required Bulgaria to cede various territories to Romania, Greece and Yigoslavia. The treaty was signed on 27 November 1919 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
• The Treaty of Sèvres was a 1920 treaty signed between the Allies of World War I and the Ottoman Empire. The treaty ceded large parts of Ottoman territory to France, the United Kingdom, Greece and Italy.
• The Treaty of Versailles was signed between Imperial Germany and the Allied Powers on 28th June 1919. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
• Treaty of Trianon, (1920), treaty concluding World War I and signed by representatives of Hungary on one side and the Allied Powers on the other. It was signed on June 4, 1920, at the Trianon Palace at Versailles,