Q 01/05

Which state was officially called Madras State until it was renamed on 14 January 1969?

A) Tamil Nadu

B) Kerala

C) Karnataka

D) West Bengal

Answer · why

A) Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu, 'Tamil country', took its new name in 1969, yet its capital went on being called Madras for another 27 years and became Chennai only in 19...

Q 02/05

Which state, India's least populous, was the first to convert all its farmland to organic farming?

A) Uttarakhand

B) Nagaland

C) Sikkim

D) Tripura

Answer · why

C) Sikkim

Sikkim decided in 2003 to go fully organic and finished the switch in 2016, the first Indian state to do so. With about 610,000 people at the 2011 cen...

Q 03/05

Which state, the smallest by area, rose from union territory to India's 25th state in May 1987?

A) Tripura

B) Goa

C) Kerala

D) Assam

Answer · why

B) Goa

Goa stayed Portuguese for 14 years after the rest of India became independent, until Indian troops ended more than four centuries of colonial rule in ...

Q 04/05

Which official name did Port Blair, capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, receive in 2024?

A) Veer Savarkar Nagar

B) Netaji Subhas Nagar

C) Sri Vijaya Puram

D) Rajendra Chola Puram

Answer · why

C) Sri Vijaya Puram

Sri Vijaya Puram became Port Blair's official name on 13 September 2024, a change the government framed as freeing the city from colonial imprints. It...

Q 05/05

Which state, split from Punjab on linguistic lines in 1966, surrounds Delhi on three sides?

A) Uttar Pradesh

B) Haryana

C) Rajasthan

D) Uttarakhand

Answer · why

B) Haryana

Haryana came into being on 1 November 1966 under the Punjab Reorganisation Act. Because it wraps Delhi to the north, west and south, much of the state...