Quiz – 26 October 2026 (Part 2: Q 46–90)

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Quiz – 26 October 2026 (Part 2: Q 46–90) – 45 questions, subject: Current Affairs. Every question has the correct answer with a one-line explanation; tap "Show Answer". Free practice for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC, Bank and RRB exams – Shanmugam IAS Academy, Coimbatore.

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1.  
Kerala's cooperative airline follows the model of India's first airport built under PPP. Which is it?

Correct Answer: D [Cochin International Airport]

Explanation:

Cochin International Airport (CIAL, 1999) – the world's first fully solar-powered airport in 2015; UN 'Champions of the Earth' award, 2018.

2.  
Which Constitutional Amendment Act gave constitutional status to cooperative societies?

Correct Answer: A [97th Amendment (2011)]

Explanation:

97th – added 'cooperatives' to Art. 19(1)(c), Art. 43B and Part IXB. 73rd – panchayats; 74th – municipalities; 86th – right to education.

3.  
Who was the first minister of the Union Ministry of Cooperation, created in 2021?

Correct Answer: A [Amit Shah]

Explanation:

Amit Shah – the ministry was created on 6 July 2021; motto 'Sahakar se Samriddhi'. Cooperation was earlier under the Agriculture Ministry.

4.  
In the Seventh Schedule, 'co-operative societies' fall in which list?

Correct Answer: D [State List]

Explanation:

State List (Entry 32) – so in 2021 the Supreme Court held Part IXB inapplicable to State cooperatives; multi-State cooperatives are in the Union List.

5.  
Tirur, where India's first cooperative society began in 1904, is now in which Tamil Nadu district?

Correct Answer: C [Tiruvallur]

Explanation:

Tiruvallur – the 'No. 1 Tirur Primary Agricultural Cooperative Credit Society' (22 Aug 1904), under that year's Co-operative Credit Societies Act.

6.  
Arvind Ltd, which opened a new unit in Varanasi, is India's largest producer of which fabric?

Correct Answer: A [Denim]

Explanation:

Denim – Arvind, founded in Ahmedabad in 1931 by the Lalbhai family, brought denim to the Indian market in the 1980s.

7.  
Which Union Ministry implements the PM MITRA mega textile parks scheme?

Correct Answer: A [Ministry of Textiles]

Explanation:

Ministry of Textiles – 7 parks, ₹4,445 crore; '5F' vision: Farm–Fibre–Factory–Fashion–Foreign.

8.  
E. Kumaralingapuram, site of Tamil Nadu's PM MITRA textile park, is in which district?

Correct Answer: B [Virudhunagar]

Explanation:

Virudhunagar – 1,052 acres of SIPCOT land; Tamil Nadu was the first State to sign up and launch its park (March 2023).

9.  
Varanasi's GI-tagged 'Banarasi' sarees are famous for which weaving style?

Correct Answer: B [Zari brocade weaving]

Explanation:

Brocade weaving with gold/silver zari; GI tag in 2009. Kalamkari – Andhra Pradesh; Bandhani – Gujarat, Rajasthan.

10.  
National Handloom Day (7 August) commemorates the launch of which movement?

Correct Answer: D [Swadeshi Movement]

Explanation:

The Swadeshi Movement – 7 Aug 1905, Calcutta Town Hall. The first National Handloom Day was launched by PM Modi in Chennai in 2015.

11.  
Which Indian city will host the 2029 senior World Weightlifting Championships?

Correct Answer: D [Ahmedabad]

Explanation:

Ahmedabad – announced by the IWF Executive Board (Ningbo, China) on 25 Oct 2026; India's first senior Weightlifting Worlds.

12.  
Who was the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal?

Correct Answer: C [Karnam Malleswari]

Explanation:

Karnam Malleswari – weightlifting bronze (69 kg), Sydney 2000; Andhra Pradesh. P.T. Usha narrowly missed a medal in 1984.

13.  
Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, silver medallist at Tokyo 2020, belongs to which State?

Correct Answer: A [Manipur]

Explanation:

Manipur – silver in the 49 kg class; she was also the 2017 world champion.

14.  
Which two lifts make up Olympic weightlifting?

Correct Answer: B [Snatch, clean and jerk]

Explanation:

Snatch and clean and jerk – their total decides the result. Squat, bench press and deadlift belong to powerlifting.

15.  
Two-time Commonwealth gold-winning weightlifter Sathish Kumar Sivalingam is from which Tamil Nadu district?

Correct Answer: D [Vellore]

Explanation:

Vellore – Sathuvachari ('cradle of Tamil Nadu weightlifting'); 77 kg gold at Glasgow 2014 and Gold Coast 2018.

16.  
Major Abhilasha Barak won the 2025 UN Military Gender Advocate award for service in which UN mission?

Correct Answer: C [UNIFIL – Lebanon]

Explanation:

UNIFIL was set up in 1978 by UNSC Resolutions 425 and 426; HQ Naqoura. Its mandate ends on 31 Dec 2026.

17.  
The award is rooted in which UN Security Council resolution on Women, Peace and Security (WPS)?

Correct Answer: D [Resolution 1325]

Explanation:

Resolution 1325 – 31 Oct 2000. 242 – 1967 Arab–Israeli war; 1540 – non-proliferation of WMD; 2758 is a General Assembly resolution (China's seat, 1971).

18.  
Who was the first Indian peacekeeper to win this award, in 2019?

Correct Answer: B [Maj Suman Gawani]

Explanation:

Suman Gawani served in South Sudan (UNMISS) and shared it with Brazil's Carla Araujo. Radhika Sen won it for 2023 (DR Congo, MONUSCO).

19.  
Lebanon, where UNIFIL is deployed, has its capital at

Correct Answer: A [Beirut]

Explanation:

Lebanon is on the eastern Mediterranean; a cedar is on its flag. Damascus – Syria; Amman – Jordan; Nicosia – Cyprus.

20.  
Major Abhilasha Barak trained in 2017 at the Officers Training Academy (OTA) located in which city?

Correct Answer: A [Chennai]

Explanation:

OTA Chennai (Alandur, 1963) trains Short Service Commission officers, including women. Indian Military Academy – Dehradun; Indian Naval Academy – Ezhimala.

21.  
Which group defeated Vučić's SNS in Serbia's parliamentary election of 25 Oct 2026?

Correct Answer: B [Student List]

Explanation:

The Student List is projected to win 135–140 of 250 seats; lead candidate Dr Ilija Srdanović. 'Serbia Against Violence' was the 2023 runner-up coalition.

22.  
Serbia's student protests began after a railway-station canopy collapse in Nov 2024 in which city?

Correct Answer: B [Novi Sad]

Explanation:

The 1 Nov 2024 collapse killed 16. Novi Sad, on the Danube, is the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina.

23.  
Belgrade, Serbia's capital, lies where the Danube meets which river?

Correct Answer: C [Sava]

Explanation:

The Danube rises in Germany's Black Forest and enters the Black Sea; four capitals – Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade – stand on it.

24.  
Where was the first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) held in 1961?

Correct Answer: A [Belgrade]

Explanation:

Sept 1961, Belgrade, then Yugoslavia; founders Nehru, Tito, Nasser, Sukarno, Nkrumah. Bandung hosted the 1955 Asian–African Conference; Cairo the 2nd NAM summit (1964).

25.  
In the 1967 Madras Assembly election, DMK student leader P. Seenivasan defeated which Congress leader at Virudhunagar?

Correct Answer: C [K. Kamaraj]

Explanation:

The margin was 1,285 votes. After the 1965 anti-Hindi agitation the DMK formed the government with 137 seats; Annadurai became CM on 6 March 1967.

26.  
Lula, elected Brazil's President a fourth time, belongs to which party?

Correct Answer: C [Workers' Party (PT)]

Explanation:

PT was founded in 1980 by Lula and others. Runoff loser Flávio Bolsonaro belongs to the Liberal Party (PL).

27.  
Who designed the landmark buildings of Brasília, which became Brazil's capital in 1960?

Correct Answer: D [Oscar Niemeyer]

Explanation:

The city plan was by Lúcio Costa; the capital moved from Rio. Le Corbusier designed India's Chandigarh.

28.  
In which Brazilian city was the 17th BRICS summit held in July 2025?

Correct Answer: D [Rio de Janeiro]

Explanation:

6–7 July 2025. The 2014 Fortaleza summit decided to set up the New Development Bank (NDB, HQ Shanghai).

29.  
The UN climate conference COP30 (Nov 2025) was held in which Brazilian city in the Amazon region?

Correct Answer: C [Belém]

Explanation:

Belém is the capital of Pará State, near the Amazon's mouth. The UNFCCC was opened for signature at the 1992 Rio 'Earth Summit'.

30.  
Brazil is the top coffee producer. Yercaud, a coffee-growing hill station of Tamil Nadu, lies in which hills?

Correct Answer: B [Shevaroy Hills]

Explanation:

Yercaud is in Salem district. In India's coffee output Karnataka leads, followed by Kerala and Tamil Nadu (Coffee Board).

31.  
What is the theme of 'Vigilance Awareness Week 2026' announced by the Central Vigilance Commission?

Correct Answer: C [Probity for Prosperity]

Explanation:

'Probity for Prosperity' (सत्यनिष्ठा से समृद्धि) – 26 Oct to 1 Nov 2026. 2024 – 'Culture of Integrity for Nation's Prosperity'; 2025 – 'Vigilance: Our Shared Responsibility'.

32.  
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) was set up on the recommendation of which committee?

Correct Answer: D [Santhanam Committee]

Explanation:

It was set up by a government resolution in Feb 1964 on the advice of the Committee on Prevention of Corruption (Santhanam Committee). The Dinesh Goswami Committee dealt with electoral reforms (1990).

33.  
In which case did the Supreme Court direct that the CVC be given statutory status?

Correct Answer: D [Vineet Narain case]

Explanation:

Vineet Narain v. Union of India (1997, the Jain hawala case). The Central Vigilance Commission Act, 2003 followed, which also gave the CVC superintendence over the CBI.

34.  
Who is NOT a member of the committee that recommends the appointment of the Central Vigilance Commissioner?

Correct Answer: C [Chief Justice of India]

Explanation:

Committee: PM (chair), Home Minister and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha; the President appoints. The Lokpal selection committee, by contrast, includes the CJI (or a judge nominated by the CJI).

35.  
K. Santhanam of Madras, who headed the Santhanam Committee, was the first editor of which newspaper?

Correct Answer: B [The Indian Express]

Explanation:

The Indian Express (editor 1933–40). He was also a Constituent Assembly member, Lt Governor of Vindhya Pradesh and Chairman of the Second Finance Commission (1956). Swadesamitran was founded by G. Subramania Iyer (1882).

36.  
Infantry Day (27 Oct) commemorates the 1947 air-landing at Srinagar of which battalion?

Correct Answer: C [1st Battalion, Sikh Regiment]

Explanation:

1 SIKH flew in Dakotas from Palam, Delhi, to Srinagar – independent India's first military operation. 2026 is the 80th Infantry Day.

37.  
Who signed the Instrument of Accession of Jammu & Kashmir to India in October 1947?

Correct Answer: B [Maharaja Hari Singh]

Explanation:

Maharaja Hari Singh, on 26 Oct 1947; Governor-General Mountbatten accepted it on 27 Oct. Gulab Singh founded Dogra rule through the Treaty of Amritsar (1846).

38.  
Lt Col Dewan Ranjit Rai, CO of 1 SIKH killed on 27 Oct 1947, was the first recipient of which gallantry award?

Correct Answer: C [Maha Vir Chakra]

Explanation:

Maha Vir Chakra – the second-highest wartime gallantry award. The first Param Vir Chakra went to Major Somnath Sharma (4 Kumaon, Battle of Badgam, 3 Nov 1947).

39.  
Mhow in Madhya Pradesh, home of the Indian Army's Infantry School, is the birthplace of whom?

Correct Answer: C [Dr B.R. Ambedkar]

Explanation:

Mhow was renamed 'Dr. Ambedkar Nagar' in 2003; a memorial stupa stands at his birthplace. The Army War College is also at Mhow.

40.  
Which award was conferred posthumously on Chennai's Major Mukund Varadarajan, whose life inspired 'Amaran' (2024)?

Correct Answer: A [Ashoka Chakra]

Explanation:

Ashoka Chakra – the highest peacetime gallantry award; he fell at Shopian (Kashmir) on 25 Apr 2014. He was commissioned from the Officers Training Academy (OTA), Chennai, in 2006.

41.  
The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (27 Oct) commemorates UNESCO's 1980 adoption of which Recommendation?

Correct Answer: D [Preserving Moving Images]

Explanation:

The 'Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images' (1980, 21st General Conference); the Day was proclaimed in 2005. Folklore Recommendation – 1989; World Heritage Convention – 1972; Intangible Heritage Convention – 2003.

42.  
What is the theme of the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2026?

Correct Answer: A [Your Window to the World]

Explanation:

'Your Window to the World' – the role of audiovisual records in connecting and understanding societies. It is coordinated by UNESCO with the CCAAA (Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations).

43.  
India's first entry (1997) in UNESCO's 'Memory of the World Register' is which collection held in Chennai?

Correct Answer: C [IAS Tamil Medical Manuscripts]

Explanation:

The Institute of Asian Studies (Chennai) Tamil medical palm-leaf manuscripts – Siddha, Ayurveda, Unani. Rigveda manuscripts (BORI, Pune) – 2007; the Bhagavad Gita and Natyashastra were added in 2025.

44.  
Who directed 'Keechaka Vadham', the first silent film made in South India?

Correct Answer: B [R. Nataraja Mudaliar]

Explanation:

R. Nataraja Mudaliar – India Film Company (1917), Madras. The first Tamil talkie 'Kalidas' (31 Oct 1931) was directed by H.M. Reddy.

45.  
Who directed 'Alam Ara', India's first talkie, of which no print survives today?

Correct Answer: D [Ardeshir Irani]

Explanation:

Ardeshir Irani – 14 March 1931, Majestic Cinema, Bombay. Phalke made the first full-length feature 'Raja Harishchandra' (1913). Archives like NFAI (Pune) exist to prevent such losses.

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