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, meaning 'Tamil country', replaced the name Madras State in 1969, thirteen years after the old Madras Presidency had been redrawn along lan...

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 had been a union territory since India took it from Portugal in December 1961; statehood came on 30 May 1987, and it remains the smallest state by...

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...