Daily Current Affairs Quiz Prelims Practice 2027
- During the emergency curbs, refineries and petrochemical units were accorded top priority in gas allocation, ahead of domestic and industrial consumers.
- The Strait of Hormuz carries roughly 20% each of the world's crude oil, natural gas and LPG trade.
- Approximately 30% of India's natural gas use goes into fertilizer production, while power generation accounts for about 21%.
- The government lifted the emergency curbs on 4 July 2026, citing the ceasefire and the resumption of sea traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
Statements 2 and 4 are correct — the Strait of Hormuz carries roughly 20% each of global crude, gas and LPG trade, and the emergency curbs were lifted on 4 July 2026 following the ceasefire and resumption of Strait traffic. Statement 1 is an attribute-reversal trap: refineries and petrochemical units actually absorbed a managed reduction and were placed lowest in the priority sequence, with freed-up gas redirected to higher-priority sectors. Statement 3 is a category-conflation trap: while India's fertilizer sector does use ~30% of natural gas, power generation accounts for only ~13% — 21% is the share going to city gas distribution, so the two figures have been swapped.
SpudCell was engineered to divide through simple physical pressure created by proteins crowding its surface, causing the membrane to split into two daughter cells — a mechanism distinct from natural cell division. Option (a) is wrong: natural cells use an internal cytoskeleton for division, which SpudCell explicitly does not — attributing that natural-cell process to the synthetic cell is a category-conflation trap. Option (c) is an actor-conflation trap: Phi29 is the enzyme that replicates the genome, not the agent that triggers division. Option (d) is a narrative-order trap: mechanical force was only the initial method researchers tried before achieving division through the validated protein-crowding mechanism.
- India currently imports over 85% of its crude oil requirement.
- Electric Vehicles (EVs) accounted for more than 15% of new vehicle sales in India in FY25-26.
- More than 30 crore Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles currently ply on Indian roads.
Statements 1 and 3 are correct — India imports over 85% of its crude oil requirement, and more than 30 crore ICE vehicles are on Indian roads, a figure central to the retrofitment debate. Statement 2 is a numerical-inversion trap: EVs accounted for only about 8.5% of new vehicle sales in FY25-26, not more than 15% — the actual figure has been nearly doubled to a plausible-sounding but incorrect threshold.
- A. BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) 1. Cryptographic framework that verifies the authenticity of network routes
- B. RPKI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure) 2. Routing protocol determining data travel between Autonomous Systems, lacking built-in trust verification
- C. DNS Hijacking 3. Fragmentation of the global internet into separately controlled national/regional networks
- D. Splinternet 4. Manipulation of the domain-name-to-IP-address directory to redirect users to malicious sites
The correct match is A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3: BGP is the routing protocol that determines how data travels between Autonomous Systems and lacks built-in trust verification (2); RPKI is the cryptographic framework that secures BGP by verifying route authenticity (1); DNS Hijacking manipulates the domain-name directory to redirect users to malicious sites (4); and Splinternet refers to the fragmentation of the global internet into separately controlled national or regional networks (3). Option (b) swaps BGP and RPKI with each other; option (c) swaps RPKI and DNS Hijacking; and option (d) confuses BGP with Splinternet.
- 1. Enactment of the 97th Constitutional Amendment Act
- 2. Ministry of Cooperation created as a separate ministry
- 3. Launch of the National Cooperation Policy 2025
- 4. 5th Foundation Day of the Ministry of Cooperation celebrated at Bharat Mandapam
The correct sequence is 1–2–3–4: the 97th Constitutional Amendment Act was enacted in 2011, giving cooperatives constitutional recognition (1); the Ministry of Cooperation was carved out as a separate ministry on 6 July 2021 (2); the National Cooperation Policy 2025 was launched in 2025, replacing the 2002 policy (3); and the 5th Foundation Day was celebrated on 6 July 2026 at Bharat Mandapam (4). Option (b) is the key trap, placing the Ministry's creation before the constitutional amendment that predates it by a decade — a classic "when the institution was created vs when the law behind it was enacted" confusion.
