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1.  
Which of these is NOT among the Sivaji Ganesan films added to the NFAI collection in Oct 2026?

Correct Answer: D [Parasakthi]

Notes:

The three added: Thiruvilayadal (1965), Thiruvarutchelvar (1967), Thillana Mohanambal (1968). 'Parasakthi' (1952) was Sivaji's first film.

2.  
Who directed all three of these films?

Correct Answer: B [A.P. Nagarajan]

Notes:

A.P. Nagarajan, famous for mythological and devotional films. B.R. Panthulu directed 'Veerapandiya Kattabomman'.

3.  
The National Film Archive of India (NFAI), set up in 1964, is located in

Correct Answer: C [Pune]

Notes:

Pune, which also hosts the FTII. NFAI was merged into the NFDC in 2022.

4.  
Which was Sivaji Ganesan's debut film?

Correct Answer: A [Parasakthi (1952)]

Notes:

'Parasakthi' (1952), with dialogue by M. Karunanidhi; its courtroom speech is famous. 'Kappalottiya Thamizhan' is about V.O. Chidambaranar.

5.  
Which film won Sivaji Ganesan the Best Actor award at the 1960 Afro-Asian Film Festival in Cairo?

Correct Answer: D [Veerapandiya Kattabomman]

Notes:

'Veerapandiya Kattabomman' (1959), on the Panchalankurichi poligar; Sivaji was the first Indian actor to win Best Actor at a foreign festival.

6.  
Which body runs the OCMMS online system in Tamil Nadu?

Correct Answer: C [Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board]

Notes:

TNPCB handles consent, authorisation and EPR applications online; the help desk is at its Guindy head office.

7.  
Dr V.K. Rajeev, who opened the help desk, holds which portfolio?

Correct Answer: B [Environment and Climate Change]

Notes:

Minister for Environment and Climate Change (the Pollution Control Board is also under him). The Forest Minister is R.V. Ranjith Kumar.

8.  
Under which Act was the Central Pollution Control Board set up?

Correct Answer: A [Water Act 1974]

Notes:

The Water Act 1974 created the CPCB and State boards; they were later given functions under the Air Act 1981 too.

9.  
What does EPR stand for?

Correct Answer: C [Extended Producer Responsibility]

Notes:

Extended Producer Responsibility – makers must collect and recycle their plastic, e-waste and battery waste.

10.  
Under the CPCB categorisation, which category of industries needs no pollution consent?

Correct Answer: D [White]

Notes:

White – barely polluting; no consent needed, only intimation. Red is the most polluting.

11.  
At which place's Wildlife Week closing ceremony was the wildlife ambulance launched?

Correct Answer: B [Guindy Children's Nature Park]

Notes:

Guindy Children's Nature Park, Chennai – opened in 1959, beside Guindy National Park.

12.  
What is the name of the Tamil Nadu Forest Department app on which snake-rescue volunteers register?

Correct Answer: A [Naagam]

Notes:

Volunteers on the 'Naagam' app got kits to rescue snakes safely. 'Kaaval Uthavi' is the police app.

13.  
Guindy National Park, inside the city, is best known for which animal?

Correct Answer: C [Blackbuck]

Notes:

Blackbuck, a grassland antelope; it became a national park in 1976. The Nilgiri tahr, the State animal, lives in the hills.

14.  
'To protect forests, lakes, rivers and wildlife, and to have compassion for living creatures' – which Article contains this Fundamental Duty?

Correct Answer: D [Article 51A(g)]

Notes:

51A(g) is the citizen's duty; 48A is the State's Directive Principle. Both were added by the 42nd Amendment (1976).

15.  
Which sea turtle species comes to nest on Tamil Nadu's coast in December–March?

Correct Answer: B [Olive Ridley]

Notes:

Olive Ridley – IUCN 'Vulnerable'; mass nesting at Gahirmatha, Odisha. Tamil Nadu's Forest Department guards the eggs and releases the hatchlings.

16.  
Which body introduced the 'Garuda Map' app?

Correct Answer: A [Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD)]

Notes:

TTD – it guides pilgrims to darshan routes, laddu counters, lodging, annaprasadam and more in Tirumala–Tirupati.

17.  
In the 'Garuda Vahana Seva', the key day of the Brahmotsavam, Garuda is the mount of which deity?

Correct Answer: B [Vishnu]

Notes:

Garuda carries Vishnu. Shiva – Nandi; Murugan – peacock; Ganesha – mouse.

18.  
Tirumala lies in which hill range?

Correct Answer: D [Seshachalam Hills]

Notes:

Seshachalam, part of the Eastern Ghats, with seven hills. Javadhu and Shevaroy are in Tamil Nadu.

19.  
Which town came to Tamil Nadu from Andhra in 1960 after the northern border struggle led by Ma. Po. Sivagnanam?

Correct Answer: C [Tiruttani]

Notes:

Tiruttani – part of Tamil Nadu since 1 April 1960 (1959 boundary Act on the Pataskar Commission's advice). Tirupati stayed in Andhra.

20.  
Tirumala lies in which Andhra Pradesh district, formed in 2022?

Correct Answer: A [Tirupati]

Notes:

Tirupati district was formed in April 2022 from parts of Chittoor and Nellore.

21.  
Jewar (Noida International) Airport is in which district of Uttar Pradesh?

Correct Answer: B [Gautam Buddh Nagar]

Notes:

Gautam Buddh Nagar district (Noida), near the Yamuna Expressway. Hindon air base is in Ghaziabad.

22.  
What is the IATA code of Noida International Airport?

Correct Answer: C [DXN]

Notes:

DXN. Delhi is DEL, Chennai MAA, Mumbai BOM.

23.  
Jewar airport was developed by a subsidiary of an airport company from which country?

Correct Answer: D [Switzerland]

Notes:

Yamuna International Airport Pvt Ltd of the Zurich Airport group (Switzerland); built on a PPP model.

24.  
'Airways' are placed in which list of the Constitution?

Correct Answer: A [Union List]

Notes:

Union List Entry 29, so renaming an airport needs the Centre's approval – the State can only propose.

25.  
Chennai airport's international terminal is named after whom?

Correct Answer: B [C.N. Annadurai]

Notes:

International terminal – Anna Terminal; domestic terminal – Kamaraj Terminal.

26.  
Which Israeli President announced the award for Smit Machchhar?

Correct Answer: C [Isaac Herzog]

Notes:

Isaac Herzog has been Israel's President since 2021. Netanyahu is PM; Rivlin is a former President.

27.  
Smit Machchhar was captain of a flight operated by which airline?

Correct Answer: B [flydubai]

Notes:

flydubai FZ1073 – a Boeing 737 MAX 8 from Dubai to Tel Aviv.

28.  
Where did flydubai flight FZ1073 make its emergency landing?

Correct Answer: A [Tabuk, Saudi Arabia]

Notes:

It landed at Tabuk, Saudi Arabia (Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Airport).

29.  
In which year did India establish full diplomatic relations with Israel?

Correct Answer: D [1992]

Notes:

1992 (P.V. Narasimha Rao government). 1950 was recognition only; 2017 was Modi's first PM visit.

30.  
India's first commercial airmail flight, flown by J.R.D. Tata on 15 Oct 1932, ended at which city?

Correct Answer: C [Madras]

Notes:

Karachi → Bombay → Madras (Tata Air Services), which later became 'Air India'.

31.  
In which category did the 'Pandharpur Wari' documentary become India's national winner at AACA 2026?

Correct Answer: D [Best Branded Programme]

Notes:

'Best Branded Programme'. Best Documentary History went to 'India Today @50'; Best Documentary Series to 'Nithari'.

32.  
Which company made the 'Pandharpur Wari' documentary with Maharashtra's IPRD?

Correct Answer: B [Warner Bros. Discovery]

Notes:

Warner Bros. Discovery, which aired it worldwide on Discovery channels.

33.  
Which is the presiding deity of the Pandharpur temple?

Correct Answer: A [Vitthal (Vithoba)]

Notes:

Vitthal/Vithoba, worshipped as a form of Krishna; the temple is on the Chandrabhaga (Bhima) river.

34.  
From where does Sant Dnyaneshwar's palanquin set out in the Wari?

Correct Answer: C [Alandi]

Notes:

Alandi – site of Dnyaneshwar's samadhi. Sant Tukaram's palanquin leaves from Dehu; Paithan is Eknath's town.

35.  
Where did the Bhakti movement originate through the Alvars and Nayanmars?

Correct Answer: D [Tamil Nadu]

Notes:

Tamil Nadu in the 6th–9th centuries – 12 Alvars ('Nalayira Divya Prabandham') and 63 Nayanmars ('Thevaram' – Appar, Sambandar, Sundarar).

36.  
According to WWF's Living Planet Report 2026, by how much did monitored vertebrate populations fall on average?

Correct Answer: C [73%]

Notes:

73% (1970–2022, 52 years). 85% is freshwater; 69% is terrestrial.

37.  
Which ecosystem's species show the steepest decline?

Correct Answer: A [Freshwater]

Notes:

Freshwater – 85%; terrestrial 69%; marine 59%. Dams, pollution and water extraction are key drivers.

38.  
Which region saw the largest (95%) fall in wildlife populations?

Correct Answer: D [Latin America & Caribbean]

Notes:

Latin America & Caribbean 95%; Africa 80%; Asia-Pacific 49%. Europe's big losses happened before 1970, so its figure is lower.

39.  
Which body produces the 'Living Planet Index' used in the WWF report?

Correct Answer: B [Zoological Society of London (ZSL)]

Notes:

ZSL – the Zoological Society of London. IUCN publishes the 'Red List'.

40.  
Which State has the most Ramsar wetlands in India?

Correct Answer: C [Tamil Nadu]

Notes:

Tamil Nadu – including Point Calimere, Vedanthangal, Pallikaranai and the Gulf of Mannar. The Ramsar Convention dates from 1971, Iran.

41.  
Which agency developed South Korea's first indigenous hypersonic glide vehicle?

Correct Answer: A [Agency for Defense Development (ADD)]

Notes:

ADD is the state defence research agency (like India's DRDO). KARI runs space programmes (the 'Nuri' rocket).

42.  
'Hypersonic' means a speed of at least how many times the speed of sound?

Correct Answer: C [Mach 5]

Notes:

Above Mach 5 is hypersonic; Mach 1–5 is supersonic (e.g. BrahMos, about Mach 2.8–3).

43.  
Which South Korean President observed the hypersonic test?

Correct Answer: D [Lee Jae-myung]

Notes:

Lee Jae-myung (President since 2025); a president attending a new strike-weapon test is rare.

44.  
From where was India's long-range hypersonic missile tested in Nov 2024?

Correct Answer: B [Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island]

Notes:

Odisha's Abdul Kalam Island (formerly Wheeler Island, renamed 2015); a DRDO test. Sriharikota is ISRO's launch site.

45.  
Where in Tamil Nadu is the South Korean firm Hyundai's car plant?

Correct Answer: A [Irungattukottai (Sriperumbudur)]

Notes:

Irungattukottai – since 1998; Chennai is called the 'Detroit of India'. Hosur has Ashok Leyland, TVS and others.

46.  
Under which Governor-General was India Post set up as a separate department in 1854?

Correct Answer: B [Lord Dalhousie]

Notes:

Lord Dalhousie (1848–56) – post, telegraph and railways all began in his time (first train 1853).

47.  
In National Postal Week 2026, 12 October is observed as

Correct Answer: C [Fun with Philately Day]

Notes:

12 Oct – philately; 13 Oct – financial inclusion; 14 Oct – mails & parcels; 15 Oct – technology & innovation.

48.  
In which year did India Post launch 'Speed Post'?

Correct Answer: D [1986]

Notes:

1986. 1972 saw the PIN code; IPPB came in 2018.

49.  
In which year was the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) launched?

Correct Answer: C [2018]

Notes:

1 Sept 2018 – a payments bank; it cannot lend and may accept deposits up to ₹2 lakh.

50.  
In which year was the Madras General Post Office established?

Correct Answer: A [1786]

Notes:

1 June 1786; the present Rajaji Salai building was built in 1884.

51.  
What is the theme of World Mental Health Day 2026?

Correct Answer: D [Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change]

Notes:

2026 – 'Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change'; 2024 – 'Mental Health at Work'; 2023 – 'Mental Health is a Universal Human Right'.

52.  
Which organisation started World Mental Health Day in 1992?

Correct Answer: B [World Federation for Mental Health]

Notes:

The WFMH (1948) began it in 1992; the WHO supports it.

53.  
What is India's 'Tele-MANAS' mental-health helpline number?

Correct Answer: A [14416]

Notes:

14416 – a free 24-hour line since 10 Oct 2022. 1098 is Childline; 112 is the emergency number.

54.  
Which Supreme Court judgment laid down the 'rarest of rare' doctrine for the death penalty?

Correct Answer: C [Bachan Singh (1980)]

Notes:

Bachan Singh (1980) – the death penalty is constitutional but only for the 'rarest of rare' cases. Machhi Singh (1983) elaborated it.

55.  
In which year was World Homeless Day (10 Oct) first observed?

Correct Answer: D [2010]

Notes:

2010; 2026 is the 17th. There is no yearly theme; it aims to spur local action.

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