Daily Current Affairs Quiz Prelims Practice 2027
- A seismic doublet consists of two earthquakes of comparable magnitude striking in close spatial and temporal proximity, unlike a mainshock-aftershock sequence where subsequent shocks are progressively smaller.
- The 24th June 2026 Venezuela earthquakes occurred along a convergent plate boundary, similar to the tectonic setting of the Himalayan region.
- In a strike-slip fault, two blocks of crust slide vertically past one another, releasing energy as deep-focus earthquakes.
Only Statement 1 is correct — a seismic doublet is defined precisely as two earthquakes of comparable magnitude in close spatial and temporal proximity, distinguishing it from a mainshock-aftershock sequence where subsequent shocks decay in size. Statement 2 is incorrect: Venezuela's earthquakes occurred along the strike-slip boundary between the Caribbean and South American Plates, not a convergent boundary — it is the Himalayan region that sits on a convergent plate boundary (Indian–Eurasian collision), so the comparison is a deliberate tectonic-setting swap. Statement 3 is doubly incorrect: strike-slip faults involve horizontal sliding (not vertical), and the Venezuela earthquakes were shallow-focus, not deep-focus — shallow depth is precisely why they caused intense surface destruction.
- The inscriptions are engraved exclusively in Telugu, the principal court language of the Vijayanagara Empire.
- The primary inscription records land grants to fund worship at the Gudimallam Parashurameswara temple, a shrine dated to around the 2nd century BCE.
- The inscriptions belong to the reign of Krishnadevaraya of the Tuluva dynasty, the ruler under whom the empire reached its territorial zenith.
Only Statement 2 is correct — the inscriptions record land grants and entrustment of taxes (kaanika) from two villages to fund worship at the Gudimallam Parashurameswara temple, one of India's earliest known Shiva temples. Statement 1 is incorrect: the inscriptions are in Telugu, Kannada, and Tamil, reflecting the empire's multilingual administrative practice — "exclusively Telugu" drops the multilingual detail that is itself the exam-relevant fact. Statement 3 is a ruler-and-dynasty substitution trap: the inscriptions belong to the reign of Sadasiva Raya of the Aravidu dynasty (the empire's last ruling house), not Krishnadevaraya of the Tuluva dynasty, whose more famous name is deliberately substituted to mislead.
- The Act mandates registration of all genetic clinics, ultrasound centres, and laboratories with the district government.
- A clinic must register as a genetic clinic or imaging centre before it can legally purchase an ultrasound machine.
- A high-frequency linear probe ultrasound can be technically used for foetal sex determination, but its use is restricted only through administrative monitoring.
Statements 1 and 2 are correct — the Act mandates district-government registration for all genetic clinics, ultrasound centres and laboratories, and explicitly prohibits purchasing an ultrasound machine without prior registration as a genetic clinic or imaging centre. Statement 3 is incorrect: a high-frequency linear probe is technically incapable of foetal sex determination by design, not merely restricted through administrative monitoring — reform proposals cite this as grounds for differentiated regulatory treatment. The trap inverts a "by-design" safeguard into a "by-enforcement" one.
- A. Economic Capacity 1. 5th
- B. Future of Work 2. 1st
- C. Human Capital Index 3. 73rd
India topped the Economic Capacity indicator globally with a perfect score of 100 (rank 1st, driven by GDP growth, labour market and infrastructure investment), ranked 5th in Future of Work (reflecting its large IT workforce), and a comparatively weak 73rd in the Human Capital Index — the lowest-scoring sub-indicator for India, flagging the gap between graduate output and employer-demanded skill quality. The distractor codes test whether candidates anchor India's strongest indicator (Economic Capacity, 1st) against its weakest (Human Capital, 73rd) without confusing the two extremes or misplacing the mid-ranked Future of Work.
- Section 20 of the Passport Act empowers the Centre to issue a passport to a non-citizen if it considers this necessary in the public interest.
- In Sarbananda Sonowal v. Union of India (2005), the Supreme Court held that the burden of proving citizenship rests on the State, not on the person claiming it.
- India issues a universal citizenship certificate to all citizens, regardless of the mode by which citizenship was acquired.
Only Statement 1 is correct — Section 20 of the Passport Act allows the Centre to issue passports to non-citizens in the public interest, a provision used for Tibetan refugees and Sri Lankan Tamils. Statement 2 inverts the actual holding: in Sarbananda Sonowal v. Union of India (2005), the Supreme Court placed the burden of proving citizenship on the person asserting it, not on the State — candidates often assume the reverse and fall for this trap. Statement 3 is a category conflation: citizenship certificates are issued only to those acquiring citizenship via registration or naturalisation; the vast majority of Indians, who are citizens by birth, hold no such certificate.
