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1.  
Which was the first product in India to get a GI tag?

Correct Answer: B [Darjeeling Tea]

Notes:

Darjeeling Tea (2004–05). Kanchipuram silk got its GI in 2005–06.

2.  
Which became Tamil Nadu's first temple prasad with a GI tag, in 2019?

Correct Answer: C [Palani Panchamirtham]

Notes:

Palani Panchamirtham, of the Palani Murugan temple, Dindigul district. Tirupati Laddu is Andhra's (2009); Palkova is not a temple prasad.

3.  
Which organisation ran the first synchronised nationwide Sarus Crane survey (Oct 2026)?

Correct Answer: A [BNHS]

Notes:

Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS, 1883) – by citizen science, with State Forest Departments. WII – Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun; ZSI – Zoological Survey of India (1916, Kolkata).

4.  
Which is the world's tallest flying bird?

Correct Answer: C [Sarus Crane]

Notes:

The Sarus crane, about 1.5 m tall. The Great Indian Bustard is among the heaviest flying birds (Rajasthan's State bird).

5.  
The Sarus crane is the State bird of which State?

Correct Answer: B [Uttar Pradesh]

Notes:

Uttar Pradesh – home to most of India's Sarus (about 19,918 in 2024). Gujarat's State bird is the flamingo.

6.  
What is the Sarus crane's status on the IUCN Red List?

Correct Answer: D [Vulnerable]

Notes:

Vulnerable; Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972. The Great Indian Bustard is Critically Endangered.

7.  
Where in Tamil Nadu is BNHS's Bird Migration Study Centre?

Correct Answer: B [Point Calimere (Kodiakkarai)]

Notes:

Point Calimere, Nagapattinam district – also a Ramsar site. Vedanthangal is India's oldest bird sanctuary.

8.  
Which is the nodal Union ministry for the Forest Rights Act 2006?

Correct Answer: B [Ministry of Tribal Affairs]

Notes:

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs, which held the Kolkata conference; joint advisories were issued with the Environment Ministry.

9.  
Under the FRA, 'Other Traditional Forest Dwellers' must prove residence for how many years?

Correct Answer: A [75 years (three generations)]

Notes:

75 years – one generation is 25 years. For Scheduled Tribes, occupation before 13 Dec 2005 is enough.

10.  
Which body starts the process of recognising forest rights claims?

Correct Answer: C [Gram Sabha]

Notes:

The Gram Sabha (Section 6) receives, checks and recommends claims; then the Sub-Divisional and District Level Committees.

11.  
In which year was the PESA Act, empowering Gram Sabhas in Scheduled Areas, enacted?

Correct Answer: D [1996]

Notes:

1996 – Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act. The 73rd Amendment was passed in 1992 and came into force in 1993.

12.  
Which of these is NOT a PVTG of Tamil Nadu?

Correct Answer: D [Santhal]

Notes:

The Santhals live in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha and are not a PVTG. Tamil Nadu's 6 PVTGs: Toda, Kota, Kurumba, Irula, Paniya, Kattunayakan.

13.  
What crude steel capacity does the Draft National Steel Policy target by 2047?

Correct Answer: B [604 million tonnes]

Notes:

604 MT. 505 MT is the consumption target; 300 MT was the 2017 policy's 2030–31 target.

14.  
What per-capita steel consumption does the draft policy target for 2047?

Correct Answer: D [302 kg]

Notes:

302 kg (about 116 kg now). 160 kg was NSP 2017's target for 2030–31.

15.  
Which country is the world's largest producer of crude steel?

Correct Answer: A [China]

Notes:

China produces over half the world's steel; India is second.

16.  
Which steel plant was set up with Soviet help under the Second Five-Year Plan?

Correct Answer: C [Bhilai]

Notes:

Bhilai (Chhattisgarh) – USSR. Rourkela – West Germany; Durgapur – Britain; Bokaro came later with Soviet help (1960s).

17.  
What does SAIL's Salem Steel Plant mainly produce?

Correct Answer: B [Stainless steel]

Notes:

Stainless steel (cold-rolled sheets). Rails are made at Bhilai.

18.  
What production target has the Pulses self-reliance mission set for 2030–31?

Correct Answer: A [350 lakh tonnes]

Notes:

350 lakh tonnes. 242 was the starting level; 274.09 was the first-year (2025–26) output.

19.  
Which pulses are assured 100% procurement at MSP under the mission?

Correct Answer: C [Tur, urad, masoor]

Notes:

Tur, urad and masoor – through NAFED and NCCF for 4 years (2025–26 to 2028–29).

20.  
Which bacterium fixes nitrogen in the root nodules of pulse crops?

Correct Answer: B [Rhizobium]

Notes:

Rhizobium lives in symbiosis with legumes. Blue-green algae (Azolla–Anabaena) fix nitrogen in paddy fields.

21.  
Which year did the UN declare the International Year of Pulses?

Correct Answer: D [2016]

Notes:

2016. 2023 was the International Year of Millets (India's proposal); 2008 – Potato; 2013 – Quinoa.

22.  
Where in Tamil Nadu is the National Pulses Research Centre?

Correct Answer: A [Vamban, Pudukkottai]

Notes:

Vamban (Pudukkottai) – Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. Aduthurai has a rice research station.

23.  
How many districts are covered under the PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana?

Correct Answer: B [100]

Notes:

100 farm districts. 112 is the Aspirational Districts Programme (2018); 500 is the Aspirational Blocks Programme (2023).

24.  
What is the annual outlay of PM-DDKY?

Correct Answer: C [₹24,000 crore]

Notes:

₹24,000 crore a year for 6 years, merging 36 schemes of 11 ministries. ₹11,440 crore is the Pulses mission's total.

25.  
Which of these was NOT among the top three districts in the PM-DDKY one-year review (Oct 2026)?

Correct Answer: D [Ramanathapuram]

Notes:

The top three were Gaya (Bihar), Nagaur (Rajasthan) and Umaria (MP). Ramanathapuram is in the scheme but not among the winners.

26.  
PM-DDKY is modelled on which programme?

Correct Answer: A [Aspirational Districts Programme]

Notes:

NITI Aayog's Aspirational Districts Programme (2018) – indicators and competitive ranking.

27.  
Which Tamil Nadu district is included in PM-DDKY?

Correct Answer: C [Virudhunagar]

Notes:

Virudhunagar, along with Ramanathapuram, Sivaganga and Thoothukudi – rain-fed southern districts.

28.  
Which railway zone developed the 'Project DRISHTI' AI system?

Correct Answer: A [Northeast Frontier Railway]

Notes:

Northeast Frontier Railway (HQ Maligaon, Guwahati), with IIT Guwahati.

29.  
What does the 'Project DRISHTI' AI system mainly monitor?

Correct Answer: B [Doors, locks and seals of freight wagons]

Notes:

Freight-wagon security – reading wagon numbers and spotting open doors, damage and pilferage.

30.  
What is the name of the indigenous automatic train protection system developed by RDSO?

Correct Answer: A [Kavach]

Notes:

Kavach – an automatic braking system to prevent collisions; RDSO is headquartered in Lucknow.

31.  
Between which two places did India's first passenger train run in 1853?

Correct Answer: D [Bombay–Thane]

Notes:

Bombay (Bori Bunder) – Thane, 16 Apr 1853, 34 km. Royapuram–Walajah Road (Arcot) was south India's first line (1856).

32.  
In which year was Southern Railway, headquartered in Chennai, formed?

Correct Answer: C [1951]

Notes:

14 Apr 1951 – the first zone of Indian Railways. ICF Perambur built the first Vande Bharat train (2018).

33.  
Who won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences?

Correct Answer: A [Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford]

Notes:

2026 – Hall and Woodford. 2025 – Mokyr, Aghion, Howitt; 2024 – Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson; 2022 – Bernanke, Diamond, Dybvig.

34.  
What is the 2026 Economics Nobel citation about?

Correct Answer: D [Micro foundations of macro stabilisation]

Notes:

'For microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation' – the basis of models used by central banks.

35.  
Which institution established the Prize in Economic Sciences?

Correct Answer: B [Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank)]

Notes:

Sveriges Riksbank, in 1968; first awarded in 1969. The Swedish Academy picks Literature; Norway's parliament appoints the Peace Prize committee.

36.  
Which Indian won the Economics Nobel in 1998?

Correct Answer: A [Amartya Sen]

Notes:

Amartya Sen – welfare economics and famine studies; Bharat Ratna (1999). Abhijit Banerjee won in 2019.

37.  
Who, born at Thiruvanaikaval, Tiruchirappalli, won the Physics Nobel in 1930?

Correct Answer: C [C.V. Raman]

Notes:

C.V. Raman – the 'Raman effect' (28 Feb 1928 – National Science Day). S. Chandrasekhar won in 1983 for stellar evolution.

38.  
Smriti Mandhana was named India Celebrity Advocate of which organisation in Oct 2026?

Correct Answer: B [UNICEF]

Notes:

UNICEF (the UN Children's Fund) – announced on the International Day of the Girl Child.

39.  
In which year did UNICEF win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Correct Answer: A [1965]

Notes:

1965. 1946 is when UNICEF was set up. 1954 and 1981 were the UNHCR's Peace Prizes.

40.  
Sangli, where Smriti Mandhana grew up, is in which State?

Correct Answer: D [Maharashtra]

Notes:

Maharashtra, on the Krishna river; it is called the 'Turmeric City'.

41.  
In which year did Smriti Mandhana receive the Arjuna Award?

Correct Answer: A [2019]

Notes:

2019. ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year – 2018 and 2021 (Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award).

42.  
Which Chennai-born actor is a UNICEF India Celebrity Advocate?

Correct Answer: B [Keerthy Suresh]

Notes:

Keerthy Suresh – Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films; National Award (Best Actress) for 'Mahanati'.

43.  
What is the theme of the International Day of the Girl Child 2026?

Correct Answer: C [End child marriage and invest in girls' rights]

Notes:

2026 – 'End child marriage and invest in girls' rights'. 2025 – 'The girl I am, the change I lead'; 2024 – 'Girls' vision for the future'.

44.  
In which year was the International Day of the Girl Child first observed?

Correct Answer: A [2012]

Notes:

2012, under UN resolution 66/170 (19 Dec 2011). 2008 is when India's National Girl Child Day began.

45.  
On which date is National Girl Child Day observed in India?

Correct Answer: D [24 January]

Notes:

24 January (since 2008). 11 Oct is the international day; 8 March – Women's Day; 14 Nov – Children's Day.

46.  
Where was 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' launched?

Correct Answer: B [Panipat, Haryana]

Notes:

Panipat, Haryana – 22 Jan 2015; it first targeted districts with a low child sex ratio.

47.  
In which district did Tamil Nadu first launch the 'Cradle Baby Scheme' in 1992 to stop female infanticide?

Correct Answer: A [Salem]

Notes:

Salem – 1992; later extended to Madurai, Theni, Dharmapuri and other districts.

48.  
On which date was the Indian Foreign Service created?

Correct Answer: B [9 Oct 1946]

Notes:

9 Oct 1946 – hence IFS Day on 9 Oct; 2026 is the 80th year.

49.  
The New Delhi institute that trains IFS officers is named after whom?

Correct Answer: D [Sushma Swaraj]

Notes:

Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service (renamed 2020). LBSNAA – Lal Bahadur Shastri; SVPNPA (Hyderabad) – Patel, for IPS training.

50.  
Who was independent India's first Foreign Secretary?

Correct Answer: C [K.P.S. Menon]

Notes:

K.P.S. Menon (1948–52). V.K. Krishna Menon was the first High Commissioner to Britain and later Defence Minister; G.S. Bajpai was the MEA's first Secretary-General.

51.  
In which year was the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, defining diplomats' privileges, adopted?

Correct Answer: A [1961]

Notes:

1961 – diplomatic relations. 1963 – consular relations; 1969 – law of treaties.

52.  
Which Directive Principle Article deals with promoting international peace and security?

Correct Answer: B [Article 51]

Notes:

Article 51. 48A – environment; 50 – separating judiciary from executive; 44 – uniform civil code.

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