Daily Current Affairs Prelims Practice (26-09-2026)

1.       Consider the following pairs:

How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

(a)     Only one

(b)     Only two

(c)     All three

(d)     None

2.      Which of the following best describes the Total Fertility Rate of a population?

(a)     The average number of children a woman would bear under prevailing age-specific fertility rates

(b)     The number of live births occurring annually for every thousand persons in the population

(c)     The number of live births occurring annually for every thousand women of reproductive age

(d)     The average number of surviving daughters born to women after accounting for female mortality

3.      With reference to CITES, consider the following statements:

1. It regulates international trade in specimens of listed wild animals and plants.
2. Its controls may cover animal and plant parts and derivatives, not merely living specimens.
3. Inclusion in Appendix II necessarily means that all international commercial trade in the species is prohibited.

Which of the above statements are correct?

(a)     1 and 2 only

(b)     2 and 3 only

(c)     1 and 3 only

(d)     1, 2 and 3

4.      With reference to e-methanol produced from renewable hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide, consider the following statements:

1. Renewable electricity can be used to produce its hydrogen feedstock through water electrolysis.
2. Captured carbon dioxide supplies the carbon required for methanol synthesis.
3. Its combustion produces no carbon dioxide because renewable energy was used in its manufacture.

Which of the above statements are correct?

(a)     1 and 3 only

(b)     2 and 3 only

(c)     1, 2 and 3

(d)     1 and 2 only

5.      Consider the following pairs:

How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

(a)     Only one

(b)     Only two

(c)     Only three

(d)     All four

6.      Which of the following groups consists exclusively of members of the Quad?

(a)     India, Japan, Australia and the United States

(b)     India, Japan, France and the United States

(c)     India, Australia, Indonesia and the United States

(d)     India, Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom

7.      Consider the following States:

1. Gujarat
2. Goa
3. Karnataka
4. Telangana
5. Tamil Nadu

Through how many of the above States do the Western Ghats extend?

(a)     Only two

(b)     Only three

(c)     Only four

(d)     All five

8.      Consider the following statements about Artificial Intelligence:

1. Machine learning enables systems to identify patterns from data.
2. Deep learning uses artificial neural networks with multiple layers.
3. Generative AI is limited to classifying existing data and cannot produce new text or images.

Which of the above statements are correct?

(a)     1 and 3 only

(b)     2 and 3 only

(c)     1, 2 and 3

(d)     1 and 2 only

9.      An AI recruitment system is trained on past hiring records in which equally qualified women were frequently rejected. It subsequently gives women lower scores even though its code contains no explicit instruction to discriminate. Which explanation is most appropriate?

(a)     Encryption of the records has removed information required for accurate classification.

(b)     Increased processing speed has reduced the system’s ability to compare qualifications.

(c)     Historical bias in the training data has been reproduced in the system’s predictions.

(d)     Random sampling of applicants has necessarily eliminated differences between social groups.

10.    Consider the following pairs:

How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

(a)     Only one

(b)     Only two

(c)     All three

(d)     None

ANSWERS for Daily Current Affairs Prelims Practice (26-09-2026):

1.    Answer: (b) Only two

2.   Answer: (a)

3.   Answer: (a) 1 and 2 only

4.   Answer: (d) 1 and 2 only

5.   Answer: (c) Only three

6.   Answer: (a)

7.   Answer: (c) Only four

8.   Answer: (d) 1 and 2 only

9.   Answer: (c)

10. Answer: (c) All three

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