Today’s quiz connects industrial statistics, Himalayan hazards, antibiotic stewardship and dengue vaccination with labour-market indicators and international trade regulation. It also integrates current developments in electric mobility, green hydrogen, ship recycling and seismic geography with their relevant static concepts.
1. It uses 2022–23 as its base year.
2. Iron ore has been added as the ninth core industry.
3. Washed coal and coal middlings have been excluded to prevent double counting.
4. Net steel production has replaced gross production in the revised series.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statement 1 – Correct: The base year has been changed from 2011–12 to 2022–23.
Statement 2 – Correct: Iron ore has been added because of its importance to steel and infrastructure production.
Statement 3 – Correct: Only raw coal is retained; processed coal products are excluded to prevent repeated measurement.
Statement 4 – Incorrect: Gross steel production has replaced net production, not the reverse.
1. Moraine dams may be vulnerable because they contain unconsolidated sediment.
2. Rock or ice avalanches can generate waves capable of overtopping a lake’s dam.
3. Satellite observations can completely replace field examination of lake and dam conditions.
4. Glacier retreat necessarily reduces the volume of an associated glacial lake.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statement 1 – Correct: Unconsolidated moraine material can fail through erosion, seepage or slope instability.
Statement 2 – Correct: Avalanches can displace lake water and produce waves that overtop and erode the dam.
Statement 3 – Incorrect: Remote sensing cannot fully reveal subsurface dam structure or every local hydrological condition.
Statement 4 – Incorrect: Retreat may create or enlarge depressions into which meltwater accumulates.
1. Access antibiotics are generally preferred first-line treatments for common infections.
2. Watch antibiotics have a higher potential to select antimicrobial resistance.
3. Reserve antibiotics are intended for routine prophylaxis in hospitals.
4. Increasing the share of Access antibiotics is part of the global antimicrobial-stewardship target.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statement 1 – Correct: Access medicines include preferred treatments for many common bacterial infections.
Statement 2 – Correct: Watch antibiotics require closer monitoring because of their greater resistance potential.
Statement 3 – Incorrect: Reserve antibiotics are last-resort treatments for multidrug-resistant infections, not routine prophylactic medicines.
Statement 4 – Correct: The 2030 target seeks at least 70% of human antibiotic consumption from the Access group, subject to national context.
1. Dengue virus has four principal serotypes.
2. Qdenga is a live-attenuated tetravalent vaccine.
3. WHO prequalification automatically authorises marketing in every member country.
4. Vaccination eliminates the need for mosquito control.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statement 1 – Correct: The four principal dengue serotypes are DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4.
Statement 2 – Correct: Qdenga contains attenuated components designed to provide protection against all four serotypes.
Statement 3 – Incorrect: National regulators retain authority over domestic marketing approval.
Statement 4 – Incorrect: Vaccination does not remove mosquito breeding sites or interrupt all transmission.
1. The labour-force participation rate includes employed persons and persons actively seeking employment.
2. The worker-population ratio includes unemployed persons who are seeking work.
3. A higher female LFPR necessarily establishes that women’s wages and employment conditions have improved.
4. Industrial worker housing can affect labour mobility and workforce retention.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statement 1 – Correct: The labour force consists of employed persons and unemployed persons who are seeking or available for work.
Statement 2 – Incorrect: WPR measures only employed persons as a proportion of the population.
Statement 3 – Incorrect: LFPR does not reveal wages, job security, working conditions or occupational mobility.
Statement 4 – Correct: Affordable housing close to factories can reduce migration and commuting constraints.
1. Sanitary and phytosanitary measures concern food safety and animal or plant health.
2. Technical standards can become non-tariff barriers when they are discriminatory or unnecessarily trade-restrictive.
3. A bilateral trade deficit necessarily proves that the importing country has suffered a welfare loss.
4. Section 301 investigations are undertaken by the United States under its domestic trade law.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statement 1 – Correct: SPS measures protect humans, animals and plants from specified health and biosecurity risks.
Statement 2 – Correct: WTO rules permit legitimate standards but discourage discrimination and unnecessary restrictions.
Statement 3 – Incorrect: Imports may provide consumers with cheaper products or supply firms with essential capital and intermediate goods.
Statement 4 – Correct: Section 301 is contained in the United States Trade Act of 1974.