UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Shankarias Academy and IAS Parliament

• Websites: www.shankariasacademy.com and www.iasparliament.com
• Locations: Chennai, Salem, Madurai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Bangalore, Thiruvananthapuram

Test-I

• World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS)
  • Aims to mobilize opinion-makers to address issues concerning sustainable development and climate change
  • Organized by the United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP)
  • Act4Earth is an initiative launched at WSDS 2022
• Munich Security Conference
  • Annual conference held since 1963 for debating international security policy
  • Initially focused on military issues, later expanded to issues like climate change and migration
• Seismic Gaps
  • Section of an active fault with potential to produce significant earthquakes
• Asiatic Lions
  • Smaller than African lions
  • Categorized as Endangered in IUCN Red List
  • Barda Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat was approved as the second home for Asiatic lions
• Marburg and Ebola diseases
  • Both are rare diseases caused by different viruses
  • Human-to-human transmission of Marburg virus can occur through direct contact

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• PM MITRA Scheme
  • Launched by the Ministry of Textiles
• Hyderabad Charter
  • Associated with sustainable development and climate change
• Mission Sahbhagita
  • Associated with Rail Safety
• UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
  • Includes Kutiyattam, Sanskrit theatre (2008)
  • Includes Ramlila, the traditional performance of the Ramayana (2008)
  • Includes Tradition of Vedic chanting (2008)
  • Includes Ramman, religious festival and ritual theatre of the Garhwal Himalayas (2009)
  • Includes Novruz, Nowrouz, Nooruz, Navruz, Nauroz, Nevruz (2009)
  • Includes Chhau dance (2010)
  • Includes Kalbelia folk songs and dances of Rajasthan (2010)
  • Includes Mudiyettu, ritual theatre and dance drama of Kerala (2010)

Virovore and Yellow Band Disease

• Virovore
  • An organism that eats and survives on viruses
  • Halteria, a microscopic ciliate, can eat huge numbers of infectious chloroviruses
• Yellow Band Disease
  • Affects corals and is named for the color it turns them before destroying them
  • First spotted decades ago and has caused widespread damage to reefs in the Caribbean
  • No known cure for yellow band disease
  • Overfishing, pollution, and rising water temperatures may be making reefs more vulnerable to yellow-band disease

International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) and Charaideo Maidams

• ITER
  • World’s largest experimental fusion reactor facility in France
  • Aim: To prove the viability of nuclear fusion as an energy source
• Charaideo Maidams
  • Located in Assam, India
  • Represents the late medieval (13th-19th century CE) mound burial tradition of the Tai Ahom community in Assam
  • Nominated for UNESCO's world heritage site status in the cultural category for 2023

This quiz is about UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, which includes various forms of cultural expressions and traditions. It tests your knowledge of cultural heritage from around the world.