Teaching Current Affairs Quiz: 27 September 2026

The correct answer is 100 weeks. The campaign against drugs and substance abuse among the young has been designed as a sustained drive of that length, so that awareness work continues instead of ending with a single day or a single week of events. Option A, fifty weeks, would be roughly a year and is the sort of round figure a candidate guesses when the real number is not remembered. Option B, seventy five weeks, echoes the Amrit Mahotsav style of numbering that several other campaigns have used, which makes it tempting but wrong here. Option D, one hundred and fifty weeks, simply stretches the correct figure. Remember the number along with the full name of the campaign and the two volunteer bodies behind it, because a question can be framed on any of the three.

The correct answer is 20. A second-tier jury, set up only to judge the prize entries, selected twenty artworks by twenty artists for the Lalit Kala Akademi Awards at the sixty-fifth National Exhibition of Art. Options A, B and D do not match the number announced by the Akademi. The figure to keep separate in memory is the count of works shortlisted for display, which was two hundred and seventy, chosen by the first-tier jury from the entries received. Aspirants should also note that the awarded works span several media, including terracotta and ceramic sculpture, oil and acrylic painting, etching in printmaking, panel work in drawing and mixed media entries, which is why the awards are listed by category as well as by artist. The Akademi also thanked the members of both juries for sifting the entries before the winners were declared.

The correct answer is 2 to 8 October 2026. The zoo has planned a week of walks and competitions in that window, among them a tree walk, a birds walk, a butterfly and dragonfly walk, a spider and insect walk, a reptile, amphibian and molluscs walk, a keeper's talk with enclosure enrichment, and contests in clay modelling, poster making, debate, essay writing, drawing, rangoli and quiz, besides online photography and quiz activities. Options A, C and D shift the window by a day or more and do not match the announcement. Two further details are worth carrying with the dates: no fee is charged for any walk, activity or competition, and free entry is given to participants along with their teachers, accompanying staff and parents, as well as to children up to twelve years of age.

The correct answer is Mera Yuva Bharat, known as MY Bharat, and the National Service Scheme. Volunteers of these two bodies work alongside schools, colleges, universities and various social and spiritual organisations to run pledge ceremonies and awareness programmes under the campaign, and the competitions that feed it are hosted on the MY Bharat platform. Option A names two well known youth organisations that do similar community work, but they are not the two named here. Option C pairs a cadet organisation with a skilling body, and while cadets often join social campaigns, that is not the pairing behind this drive. Option D names an innovation mission and a parliamentary programme, neither of which is a volunteer network of this kind. Candidates should tie MY Bharat and the National Service Scheme to this campaign, since both names recur across youth affairs questions.

The correct answer is 6,175 artworks. These came from two thousand four hundred and ninety-five artists spread across twenty-seven States and Union Territories, which is why option A is a trap: that number counts the artists, not the works. Option C names the works the first-tier jury shortlisted for display at the exhibition, a much smaller set drawn from the total entries. Option D does not appear in the announcement at all. The chain of numbers is worth memorising in order: entries received, then works shortlisted for display, then works given awards. The wide participation across twenty-seven States and Union Territories is what the Akademi points to as proof of the exhibition's national character. The Akademi presents the show as a boost to the creative economy as well, since works on display are sold and artists earn from them directly.

The correct answer is 47 species, with sightings of more than seven hundred and fifty individual birds during the walk. Options A, B and D are not figures reported from the exercise. Along with the birds, the walkers recorded eight butterfly species, ten dragonfly species and five damselfly species in the walk area, which the zoo treats as evidence of the diversity of odonates and butterflies inside the park. The observations were made between half past six and half past ten in the morning under bird expert Rohit Sharma and butterfly and dragonfly expert Ramver. The zoo describes such walks as citizen science, since ordinary visitors contribute field records that add to biodiversity documentation while learning to identify species themselves. Fifteen participants joined this walk, and the zoo caps each Sunday nature walk at twenty to twenty-five people so the session stays useful.

The correct answer is Nasha-Mukti Ka Sandesh. This is the strand of the campaign in which young volunteers take the warning against substance abuse into their own communities, speaking in their own languages and using their own forms of creative expression, and it was praised for exactly that reason. Option A, Yuva Sankalp Yatra, sounds like a youth march and borrows familiar words from other youth programmes, but it is not the initiative named. Option C, Swasth Yuva Abhiyan, points at health in general, and although health check-up camps and meditation camps are planned under the campaign, that is an activity and not the name of this initiative. Option D, Sandesh Se Samadhan, reuses the word for message to mislead. Learn the exact name, as questions on campaigns usually test the sub-initiative rather than the umbrella drive.

The correct answer is 270. Selection for this exhibition happens in two stages. The first-tier jury went through the entries and shortlisted two hundred and seventy artworks for presentation at the show. A separate second-tier jury was then constituted to choose the award-winning works, and it picked twenty artworks by twenty artists. Options A, B and D are not figures given in the announcement. Remember that the shortlisted works cover painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing and mixed media, and that the artists used materials ranging from terracotta, ceramic and teak wood to white marble, oxidised copper, oil and acrylic on canvas, watercolour wash and etching, a spread the Akademi treats as a sign of continuing experiment in Indian visual art. The two-stage process is itself a fair question: first-tier jury for display, second-tier jury for the awards.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the ministry that handles wildlife and biodiversity matters and under which the National Zoological Park works. Option B deals with farming and allied activities, option C with museums, academies and heritage institutions, and option D with travel and destination promotion, so none of them is the parent ministry of the zoo. The zoo's Director is Dr Sanjeet Kumar, who told participants that nature walks build field identification skills, improve understanding of food webs and add to biodiversity records. For the examination, tie the zoo to this ministry, to the citizen science walks held on Sundays, and to Wildlife Week, which it will observe from the second to the eighth of October. Registration for the walks is taken in advance through the NZP Sathi mobile application or the zoo website, on a first come, first served basis.

The correct answer is art. The Lalit Kala Akademi is the National Academy of Art and works under the Ministry of Culture, and it is this body that organises the National Exhibition of Art every year along with the Lalit Kala Akademi Awards. Option A describes the field of the national academy for the performing arts, which is a different institution. Option B points to the academy concerned with letters and literature. Option D refers to bodies dealing with crafts and handloom, which are separate again. For the examination, tie the Akademi to three things at once: the field of visual art, the annual National Exhibition of Art now in its sixty-fifth edition, and the twenty awards announced this year to twenty artists. The exhibition is held annually and is counted among the most prestigious shows of contemporary visual art in the country.

The correct answer is 20 to 25 participants, a cap the zoo keeps so that each walk stays a close and useful learning exercise rather than a crowd. Options A, C and D do not match the limit set for these walks. Registration beforehand is compulsory and is accepted first come, first served through a form that stays open from Monday to Friday every week, with the link put up on the official website of the National Zoological Park and on the NZP Sathi mobile application. Note the distinction between this cap and the turnout at the walk being reported, which was fifteen participants. For Wildlife Week the zoo has invited school students from government and private schools across Delhi-NCR, and charges no fee for any activity.