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THE DAILY QUIZ: Rachel Carson quiz (with previous day’s answers) + Visual question (Pittsburgh bridge)

The Press Information Bureau published a quiz on Rachel Carson’s death anniversary covering her career, Silent Spring, biomagnification, and her first sea-writing.

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Samachar Pathshala Desk
14 Jul 2026 · 1 min
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Key takeaways
  • Rachel Carson is presented as a pioneering marine biologist and writer who helped shape the modern environmental movement.
  • The quiz identifies Silent Spring as a 1962 work associated with Carson’s environmental legacy.
  • The quiz uses biomagnification as the ecological process linked to increased pesticide concentration at higher trophic levels.

What happened

The Press Information Bureau published a quiz on Rachel Carson’s death anniversary. The release identifies Carson as a pioneering marine biologist and writer whose work helped shape the modern environmental movement.

The quiz contains five questions on Carson’s career, her book Silent Spring (1962), the ecological process of biomagnification, her first book on the sea published in 1941, and the completion of her famous quotation beginning, “In nature nothing exists ___.”

The UPSC angle · GS3 · GS1 · Essay

UPSC can use Rachel Carson to test the link between scientific evidence, pesticide regulation, and the modern environmental movement. The biography also helps revise ecology terms such as biomagnification and the history of environmental awareness.

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