Daily Prelims Practice Test
Option (d) is INCORRECTLY Matched (Correct Answer): The Asiatic Lion (Panthera leo persica) is classified as Endangered under the IUCN Red List, not Vulnerable.
Other Options are CORRECTLY Matched:
• (a) Listed as Endangered by the IUCN.
• (b) Included in Schedule I of the WPA, 1972, receiving the highest legal protection.
• (c) Listed in Appendix I of CITES (ban on international commercial trade).
Option (b) is CORRECT: The Clouded Leopard is an arboreal (tree-dwelling) and nocturnal wild cat inhabiting dense forests. It has an exceptionally long tail to balance in trees.
Why others are incorrect:
• (a) It inhabits dense forests/tropical rainforests, not grasslands.
• (c) It is the State animal of Meghalaya, not Arunachal Pradesh.
• (d) It is found across Nepal, Bangladesh, India, China, and Southeast Asia.
1. UPI was launched by NPCI in 2016.
2. UPI is an advanced version of IMPS.
3. UPI Lite enables offline transactions up to ₹500 per transaction.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
All statements are CORRECT. Therefore, (d) is the answer.
• 1: UPI was launched by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) in 2016.
• 2: UPI is built upon IMPS (Immediate Payment Service) architecture, powering multiple accounts into a single app.
• 3: UPI Lite was explicitly introduced to support small-value offline transactions up to ₹500.
1. They are elementary particles classified as leptons.
2. They interact only through the strong nuclear force.
3. There are three flavours of neutrinos.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Statement 1 is CORRECT: Neutrinos are extremely tiny, nearly massless elementary particles belonging to the lepton family.
Statement 2 is INCORRECT: Neutrinos interact only through the weak nuclear force and gravity. They do not interact through the strong nuclear force, which makes them extremely difficult to detect.
Statement 3 is CORRECT: There are three distinct “flavours”: Electron, Muon, and Tau.
Option (b) is CORRECT: Antineutrino-Based Reactor Monitoring (ANRM) estimates the fuel composition and burn-up of a nuclear reactor by analysing the antineutrinos naturally emitted during uranium fission.
This technique allows external monitoring to detect whether plutonium is being diverted for weapons use, representing a major breakthrough in nuclear non-proliferation (demonstrated by the JUNO experiment).
