How many Centres of Excellence for studies in Classical Languages has the Ministry of Education approved?

The correct answer is the Central University of Odisha. This pairing is a favourite with paper setters precisely because it is not the one a candidate would guess, since Pali is not a language a reader would associate with a particular modern State in the way Assamese or Bengali is. Option A is wrong because the Central University of Gujarat hosts the centre for Classical Prakrit, and swapping the two central universities is the trap in this question. Option C is wrong because Tezpur University in Assam hosts the centre for Classical Assamese. Option D is wrong because Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal hosts the centre for Classical Bengali. The safest way to carry these is in pairs: Pali with Odisha and Prakrit with Gujarat, both at central universities, and Marathi at the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute in Pune.

The correct answer is the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute in Pune, a deemed-to-be university, which will host the centre for Classical Marathi in Maharashtra. Option A is the strongest distractor because it names another well known university in the same city, and a candidate who remembers only the city of Pune can be caught by it. Option C is wrong because the host is in Pune rather than Mumbai. Option D is wrong because the Central University of Gujarat hosts the centre for Classical Prakrit, not for Marathi. Note the type of institution as well as its name: the Pune host is a deemed-to-be university, while two of the five centres sit in central universities that carry the word central in their names, and an examiner may test that distinction rather than only the name.

The correct answer is compulsory teaching of the languages in all schools, which is not among the stated areas of focus. The four areas are strengthening academic research and scholarship, preservation and digitisation of linguistic and literary resources, wider dissemination of classical language heritage, and strengthening regional academic ecosystems. Options A, B and D are therefore wrong answers to a question asking what is not included, because each of them is in fact one of the four. The centres are research and preservation bodies placed in higher educational institutions, so their work runs to documentation, digitisation, scholarship and access rather than to school curricula. Reading the question carefully matters here, since a hurried candidate who answers what the centres will do rather than what they will not do loses the mark on an item they knew.

The correct answer is a souvenir of the Gita Updesh Sthali at Dharmakshetra Kurukshetra. Alongside the sporting memorabilia, the collection includes this souvenir, which reflects Haryana's association with the Bhagavad Gita, and a metal statue of Goddess Sheetala Devi with fine detailing and a lustrous finish. Option B is wrong because the Sun Temple at Konark is in Odisha and has nothing to do with a collection built around Haryana. Option C is wrong because the Charminar stands in Hyderabad, in Telangana. Option D is wrong because Madhubani painting belongs to the Mithila region of Bihar. The lesson for revision is that when an auction edition is built around one state, every item in it points to that state, so a question of this type can be answered by eliminating anything associated with another part of the country. Here, Kurukshetra fixes the answer to Haryana.

The correct answer is the men's F41 javelin throw. Navdeep Singh won the gold medal in that event at the Paris Paralympics, and the cap and signed shirt he presented are part of the Haryana collection in the eighth edition of the PM Mementos auction. Option B names a different javelin classification, and since para athletics events are separated by classification, a medal in one class cannot be transferred to another in an answer. Option C is wrong because it names a high jump class rather than a throwing event. Option D is wrong because it names a shot put classification, again a different event altogether. The point worth absorbing is that para athletics results must be revised with the classification code attached, because papers often keep the athlete's name and the discipline correct while changing the class, and a candidate who has memorised only the name and the sport cannot tell the options apart.