1. Consider the following statements regarding the Padma Awards 2026: 1. A total of 131 Padma Awards were approved, including five Padma Vibhushan. 2. Three personalities from Bihar were conferred the Padma Shri. 3. Tennis icon Vijay Amritraj was conferred the Padma Vibhushan. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(A) Only 1 and 2

(B) Only 2 and 3

(C) Only 1 and 3

(D) 1, 2 and 3

(E) Not Attempted

2. The 71st National Film Awards named which film as the Best Feature Film?

(A) Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway

(B) The Kerala Story

(C) 12th Fail

(D) Jawan

(E) Not Attempted

3. Who was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award at the 71st National Film Awards?

(A) Mammootty

(B) Mohanlal

(C) Rajinikanth

(D) Chiranjeevi

(E) Not Attempted

4. The Rashtriya Vigyan Ratna Puraskar 2025 for lifetime achievement was awarded posthumously to Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, who was an eminent:

(A) Nuclear physicist

(B) Geneticist

(C) Chemist

(D) Astrophysicist

(E) Not Attempted

5. The 35th National Energy Conservation Awards 2025 introduced a new award category for which group?

(A) Social media influencers and digital content creators

(B) Startups and MSMES

(C) School students

(D) Rural panchayats

(E) Not Attempted

6. Which state won the top prize as Best State in the 6th National Water Awards?

(A) Gujarat

(B) Maharashtra

(C) Haryana

(D) Rajasthan

(E) Not Attempted

7. Telangana topped the first-ever Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari (JSJB) Awards for its achievement in:

(A) River interlinking

(B) Groundwater legislation

(C) Construction of water conservation structures

(D) Wastewater recycling

(E) Not Attempted

8. Which state secured the maximum number of awards (six) at the National Panchayat Awards 2025?

(A) Kerala

(B) Odisha

(C) Andhra Pradesh

(D) Karnataka

(E) Not Attempted

9. Educate Girls, honoured in 2025, became the first Indian organisation to win which award, often called Asia’s Nobel Prize?

(A) Ramon Magsaysay Award

(B) Right Livelihood Award

(C) Templeton Prize

(D) Aurora Prize

(E) Not Attempted

10. The Bibifathima Self Help Group, a winner of the UNDP Equator Prize 2025, belongs to which Indian state?

(A) Kerala

(B) Karnataka

(C) Tamil Nadu

(D) Telangana

(E) Not Attempted

11. Graca Machel, conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2025, is a rights activist from which country?

(A) South Africa

(B) Kenya

(C) Mozambique

(D) Tanzania

(E) Not Attempted

12. Rouble Nagi, who won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize known as the ‘Nobel of Teaching’, hails from which region of India?

(A) Ladakh

(B) Himachal Pradesh

(C) Sikkim

(D) Jammu and Kashmir

(E) Not Attempted

13. Sonali Ghosh became the first Indian to win the WCPA-Kenton Miller Award. She is the Director of which national park?

(A) Kaziranga

(B) Manas

(C) Sundarbans

(D) Namdapha

(E) Not Attempted

14. Dr Toby Kiess won the 2026 Tyler Prize, a premier global award in the field of:

(A) Medicine

(B) Environmental and ecological conservation

(C) Economics

(D) Physics

(E) Not Attempted

15. Kaveh Madani was awarded the 2026 Stockholm Water Prize, considered the highest global honour in which sector?

(A) Agriculture

(B) Renewable energy

(C) Water resource management

(D) Marine biology

(E) Not Attempted

16. The Goldman Environmental Prize, whose 2026 cohort honoured grassroots defenders across five continents, is popularly known as the:

(A) Green Oscars

(B) Blue Planet Prize

(C) Earth Guardian Award

(D) Green Nobel

(E) Not Attempted

17. Indian conservationists Barkha Subba and Parveen Shaikh won the 2026 Whitley Award, popularly called the ‘Green Oscars’. Parveen Shaikh was recognised for protecting which species?

(A) Indian skimmer

(B) Himalayan salamander

(C) Great Indian bustard

(D) Gangetic dolphin

(E) Not Attempted

18. IAS officer Supriya Sahu, who won the 2025 UN Champions of the Earth Award, serves in the environment department of which state?

(A) Kerala

(B) Tamil Nadu

(C) Karnataka

(D) Odisha

(E) Not Attempted

19. Nnena Kalu made history in 2025 by becoming the first artist with a learning disability to win which British contemporary art award?

(A) Hugo Boss Prize

(B) John Moores Prize

(C) Turner Prize

(D) Jerwood Prize

(E) Not Attempted

20. Who was honoured with the 2025 World Leader for Peace and Security Award by the Boston Global Forum and the AI World Society?

(A) Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

(B) The Dalai Lama

(C) Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

(D) Mata Amritanandamayi

(E) Not Attempted

21. Renowned aerospace engineer Dr Tessy Thomas, who helped shape India’s strategic missile programme, was honoured with which award in 2025?

(A) The Aryabhata Award

(B) The Paulos Mar Gregorios Award

(C) The Om Prakash Bhasin Award

(D) The GD Birla Award

(E) Not Attempted

22. The ‘Machhli National Award’, won recently by Rajasthan Forest guard Anita Chaudhary, is instituted by the WWF in the name of a famous:

(A) Elephant of Periyar

(B) Lioness of Gir

(C) Tigress of Ranthambhore

(D) Crocodile of Chambal

(E) Not Attempted

23. Who received the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize at the 2026 World Cup draw held in Washington?

(A) Donald Trump

(B) Gianni Infantino

(C) Emmanuel Macron

(D) Lionel Messi

(E) Not Attempted

24. Consider the following pairs regarding the Nobel Prizes 2025: 1. Physiology or Medicine – discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance 2. Physics – macroscopic quantum tunnelling in an electric circuit 3. Chemistry – development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

(A) Only 1 and 2

(B) Only 2 and 3

(C) Only 1 and 3

(D) 1, 2 and 3

(E) Not Attempted

25. Who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature?

(A) Han Kang

(B) Jon Fosse

(C) Olga Tokarczuk

(D) Laszlo Krasznahorkai

(E) Not Attempted

26. Who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize?

(A) Maria Corina Machado

(B) Narges Mohammadi

(C) Maria Ressa

(D) Yulia Navalnaya

(E) Not Attempted

27. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, recognised their work in explaining:

(A) Auction theory

(B) Innovation-driven economic growth

(C) The economics of poverty

(D) Behavioural finance

(E) Not Attempted

28. Which film won the Best Picture award at the 98th Academy Awards (Oscars 2026)?

(A) Sinners

(B) Hamnet

(C) One Battle After Another

(D) Frankenstein

(E) Not Attempted

29. The 98th Academy Awards introduced its first new competitive category since 2001. This category was for:

(A) Stunt Design

(B) Best Popular Film

(C) Best Voice Performance

(D) Achievement in Casting

(E) Not Attempted

30. Neeraj Ghaywan’s film ‘Homebound’ is India’s official entry for the Oscars 2026 in which category?

(A) Best International Feature

(B) Best Picture

(C) Best Documentary Feature

(D) Best Adapted Screenplay

(E) Not Attempted

31. The Manipuri-language film ‘Boong’, which made history at the BAFTA Awards 2026, won in which category?

(A) Best Film Not in the English Language

(B) Best Children’s and Family Film

(C) Outstanding Debut

(D) Best Documentary

(E) Not Attempted

32. At the 2026 Grammy Awards, the Dalai Lama won his first Grammy at the age of 90 for his recording ‘Meditations’. It won in which category?

(A) Best New Age Album

(B) Best Spoken Word Album

(C) Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling

(D) Best World Music Album

(E) Not Attempted

33. Anuparna Roy became the first Indian to receive the Best Director Award in the Orizzonti section at which film festival?

(A) Cannes Film Festival

(B) Venice Film Festival

(C) Berlin Film Festival

(D) Toronto Film Festival

(E) Not Attempted

34. David Szalay won the 2025 Booker Prize for which novel?

(A) Flashlight

(B) Audition

(C) The Land in Winter

(D) Flesh

(E) Not Attempted

35. ‘Taiwan Travelogue’, winner of the International Booker Prize 2026, was the first book translated from which language to win the prize?

(A) Mandarin Chinese

(B) Japanese

(C) Korean

(D) Vietnamese

(E) Not Attempted

36. Arundhati Roy won the 2026 US National Book Critics Circle Award and the Mathrubhumi Book of the Year 2026 for which work?

(A) The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

(B) Mother Mary Comes to Me

(C) Azadi

(D) The God of Small Things

(E) Not Attempted

37. R. Vairamuthu was selected for the 60th Jnanpith Award (2025). His selection is historic because he is the first Tamil writer to receive it for:

(A) Prose fiction

(B) Drama

(C) Poetry

(D) Literary criticism

(E) Not Attempted

38. Navtej Sarna, honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award 2025 in English, won it for which novel?

(A) The Exile

(B) Zafarnama

(C) Indians at Herod’s Gate

(D) Crimson Spring

(E) Not Attempted

39. Historian Sunil Amrith won the 2025 British Academy Book Prize for which book?

(A) Unruly Waters

(B) Crossing the Bay of Bengal

(C) The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

(D) The Nutmeg’s Curse

(E) Not Attempted

40. At the National Sports Awards 2025, the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna was conferred on Harmanpreet Singh, D. Gukesh and Manu Bhaker. Harmanpreet Singh captains India in which sport?

(A) Hockey

(B) Kabaddi

(C) Archery

(D) Wrestling

(E) Not Attempted

41. Murlikant Petkar, conferred the Arjuna Award (Lifetime) in 2025 at the age of 80, is notable as India’s first:

(A) Olympic gold medallist in shooting

(B) Paralympic gold medallist

(C) Commonwealth Games gold medallist

(D) chess Grandmaster

(E) Not Attempted

42. The India Women’s Cricket Team earned a historic 2026 Laureus World Team of the Year nomination following which achievement?

(A) Winning the Asia Cup

(B) Whitewashing Australia

(C) Winning their first-ever Women’s World Cup title

(D) Topping the ICC rankings

(E) Not Attempted

43. Smriti Mandhana was named the Best International Cricketer (Women’s) for the fifth time in her career at which awards?

(A) ICC Awards

(B) Wisden Awards

(C) CEAT Cricket Awards

(D) BCCI Naman Awards

(E) Not Attempted

CURRENT AFFAIRS TEST 4 | BPSC 2026

2. The 71st National Film Awards named which film as the Best Feature Film?

3. Who was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award at the 71st National Film Awards?

4. The Rashtriya Vigyan Ratna Puraskar 2025 for lifetime achievement was awarded posthumously to Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, who was an eminent:

5. The 35th National Energy Conservation Awards 2025 introduced a new award category for which group?

6. Which state won the top prize as Best State in the 6th National Water Awards?

7. Telangana topped the first-ever Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari (JSJB) Awards for its achievement in:

8. Which state secured the maximum number of awards (six) at the National Panchayat Awards 2025?

9. Educate Girls, honoured in 2025, became the first Indian organisation to win which award, often called Asia’s Nobel Prize?

10. The Bibifathima Self Help Group, a winner of the UNDP Equator Prize 2025, belongs to which Indian state?

11. Graca Machel, conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2025, is a rights activist from which country?

12. Rouble Nagi, who won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize known as the ‘Nobel of Teaching’, hails from which region of India?

13. Sonali Ghosh became the first Indian to win the WCPA-Kenton Miller Award. She is the Director of which national park?

14. Dr Toby Kiess won the 2026 Tyler Prize, a premier global award in the field of:

15. Kaveh Madani was awarded the 2026 Stockholm Water Prize, considered the highest global honour in which sector?

16. The Goldman Environmental Prize, whose 2026 cohort honoured grassroots defenders across five continents, is popularly known as the:

17. Indian conservationists Barkha Subba and Parveen Shaikh won the 2026 Whitley Award, popularly called the ‘Green Oscars’. Parveen Shaikh was recognised for protecting which species?

18. IAS officer Supriya Sahu, who won the 2025 UN Champions of the Earth Award, serves in the environment department of which state?

19. Nnena Kalu made history in 2025 by becoming the first artist with a learning disability to win which British contemporary art award?

20. Who was honoured with the 2025 World Leader for Peace and Security Award by the Boston Global Forum and the AI World Society?

21. Renowned aerospace engineer Dr Tessy Thomas, who helped shape India’s strategic missile programme, was honoured with which award in 2025?

22. The ‘Machhli National Award’, won recently by Rajasthan Forest guard Anita Chaudhary, is instituted by the WWF in the name of a famous:

23. Who received the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize at the 2026 World Cup draw held in Washington?

25. Who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature?

26. Who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize?

27. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, recognised their work in explaining:

28. Which film won the Best Picture award at the 98th Academy Awards (Oscars 2026)?

29. The 98th Academy Awards introduced its first new competitive category since 2001. This category was for:

30. Neeraj Ghaywan’s film ‘Homebound’ is India’s official entry for the Oscars 2026 in which category?

31. The Manipuri-language film ‘Boong’, which made history at the BAFTA Awards 2026, won in which category?

32. At the 2026 Grammy Awards, the Dalai Lama won his first Grammy at the age of 90 for his recording ‘Meditations’. It won in which category?

33. Anuparna Roy became the first Indian to receive the Best Director Award in the Orizzonti section at which film festival?

34. David Szalay won the 2025 Booker Prize for which novel?

35. ‘Taiwan Travelogue’, winner of the International Booker Prize 2026, was the first book translated from which language to win the prize?

36. Arundhati Roy won the 2026 US National Book Critics Circle Award and the Mathrubhumi Book of the Year 2026 for which work?

37. R. Vairamuthu was selected for the 60th Jnanpith Award (2025). His selection is historic because he is the first Tamil writer to receive it for:

38. Navtej Sarna, honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award 2025 in English, won it for which novel?

39. Historian Sunil Amrith won the 2025 British Academy Book Prize for which book?

40. At the National Sports Awards 2025, the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna was conferred on Harmanpreet Singh, D. Gukesh and Manu Bhaker. Harmanpreet Singh captains India in which sport?

41. Murlikant Petkar, conferred the Arjuna Award (Lifetime) in 2025 at the age of 80, is notable as India’s first:

42. The India Women’s Cricket Team earned a historic 2026 Laureus World Team of the Year nomination following which achievement?

43. Smriti Mandhana was named the Best International Cricketer (Women’s) for the fifth time in her career at which awards?

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