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Which of the following statements is/are correct? · UPSC CSE Prelims

Tone, Purpose & Passage Logic

Passage

Was it the sun-dappled ambience, the strawberries and cream, the frustration of Flavio Cobolli's unforced errors against Serbian Novak Djokovic on Centre Court or simply the crushing weight of being a 64-year-old man in the third act of a very public life? Whatever the reason, Hugh Grant, the actor, deserves empathy. There he was, in the Royal Box at Wimbledon, flanked by Britain's well-dressed and well-rested spectators, watching the men's singles quarterfinals, when the actor did something quietly radical : head at a tilt, eyes closed, utterly unbothered, he took a nap. So praise be to Grant for serving up an unexpected ace. In that small, delicious moment, he didn't merely catch forty winks, he made an elegant case for surrender. Not to laziness, but to limits. To the body's quiet wisdom over society's relentless performance metrics. Wimbledon had its tennis. The perpetually sleep-deprived discovered a leading man, not of action, but of rest.

Tone, Purpose & Passage Logic

Comprehension · PYQ 2026

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1.Radical action can also be attributed to mild surrender where one acts against societal expectations.

2.Submitting to one's limitations, given the effect of age and other factors, ought not to be conflated with laziness.

3.'Leading man' usually refers to one who plays the lead role in a movie; in this instance the implication is that Hugh Grant is performing the role of not an action hero, but that of a resting one!

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Biodiversity

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Regarding Peacock tarantula (Gooty tarantula), consider the following statements:

I. It is an omnivorous crustacean.

II. Its natural habitat in India is only limited to some forest areas.

III. In its natural habitat, it is an arboreal species.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Money, Banking & RBI

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Which of the following is not included in the assets of a commercial bank in India?

Reports & Indices

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Which of the following brings out the ‘Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers’?

Gupta & Post-Gupta Age

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With reference to the period of Gupta dynasty in ancient India, the towns Ghantasala, Kadura and Chaul were well known as

Schemes & Initiatives in News

Current Affairs · PYQ 2019

Atal Innovation Mission is set up under the

Rights, DPSP & Duties

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Under the Indian Constitution, concentration of wealth violates

International Relations & Organisations

Current Affairs · PYQ 2015

India is a member of which among the following?

1.Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

2.Association of South-East Asian Nations

3.East Asia Summit

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Inference & Conclusion

Comprehension · PYQ 2016

Passage

Historically, the biggest challenge to world agriculture has been to achieve a balance between demand for and supply of food. At the level of individual countries, the demand-supply balance can be a critical policy issue for a closed economy, especially if it is a populous economy and its domestic agriculture is not growing sufficiently enough to ensure food supplies, on an enduring basis; it is not so much and not always, of a constraint for an open, and growing economy, which has adequate exchange surpluses to buy food abroad. For the world as a whole, supply-demand balance is always an inescapable prerequisite for warding off hunger and starvation. However, global availability of adequate supply does not necessarily mean that food would automatically move from countries of surplus to countries of deficit if the latter lack in purchasing power. The uneven distribution of hunger, starvation, under- or malnourishment, etc., at the world-level, thus owes itself to the presence of empty-pocket hungry mouths, overwhelmingly confined to the underdeveloped economies. Inasmuch as ‘a two-square meal’ is of elemental significance to basic human existence, the issue of worldwide supply of food has been gaining significance, in recent times; both because the quantum and the composition of demand has been undergoing big changes, and because, in recent years, the capabilities of individual countries to generate uninterrupted chain of food supplies have come under strain. Food production, marketing and prices, especially price-affordability by the poor in the developing world, have become global issues that need global thinking and global solutions.

According to the above passage, which of the following helps/help in reducing hunger and starvation in the developing economies?

1.Balancing demand and supply of food

2.Increasing imports of food

3.Increasing purchasing power of the poor

4.Changing the food consumption patterns and practices

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Relations, Directions & Calendars

Logical Reasoning & Analytical Ability · PYQ 2026

A person facing the East travels 4 km straight and then turns right and travels 3 km, then further turns left and travels 2 km and finally turns left and travels 3 km. The minimum distance between the final point and the initial point, and the direction in which the person is facing at the final point are, respectively

International Relations & Organisations

Current Affairs · PYQ 2023

Consider the following statements:

The 'Stability and Growth Pact' of the European Union is a treaty that

1.limits the levels of the budgetary deficit of the countries of the European Union

2.makes the countries of the European Union to share their infrastructure facilities

3.enables the countries of the European Union to share their technologies

How many of the above statements are correct?

Number System

Basic Numeracy & Data Interpretation · PYQ 2020

Let XYZ be a three-digit number, where (X + Y + Z) is not a multiple of 3. Then (XYZ + YZX + ZXY) is not divisible by

Defence Technology

General Science & Technology · PYQ 2022

Which one of the following statements best reflects the idea behind the "Fractional Orbital Bombardment System" often talked about in media?

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