Shri Shiv Prasad Chamoli was named for the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2024 in which category?

The correct answer is Rs 15 lakh. The release states that every awardee receives three things: a statuette, a certificate and award money of Rs 15 lakh. Candidates should remember all three, because questions are sometimes framed around what a winner gets rather than how much. Options A, B and D are round figures that do not appear in the release and are offered only because prize amounts of this kind are commonly set at five, ten or twenty-five lakh rupees. The award for the year 2024 went to four people, so the total money involved comes to sixty lakh rupees. The President of India will confer the awards at Rashtrapati Bhavan along with the National Sports Awards for 2025, on a date that the Ministry said will be announced separately.

The correct answer is Polar Adventure. The award has exactly four categories and that is not one of them. Three of the four are defined by where the feat takes place, namely Land Adventure, Water Adventure and Air Adventure, and the fourth is Lifetime Achievement, which recognises a career rather than a single exploit. For the year 2024, two awards were given in Land Adventure, to Baljeet Kaur and Skalzang Rigzin, one in Water Adventure, to Rimo Saha, and one for Lifetime Achievement, to Shiv Prasad Chamoli. Note that no name was approved in the Air Adventure category this time, which is a detail worth holding on to, because a question may ask which category went unawarded. Options A, B and C are all genuine categories of the award.

The correct answer is the National Sports Awards 2025. The release says the adventure awards will be conferred by the President of India at Rashtrapati Bhavan along with those sports awards, and that the date of the ceremony will be announced separately. Both sets of honours come from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, which is why they are presented at one ceremony. Option B refers to civilian honours announced each Republic Day and conferred at a separate investiture. Option C is a literary award given by a private trust and has no connection with this ministry. Option D is an award for children who show exceptional courage and is not mentioned in the release. Candidates should also note the mismatch of years, adventure awards for 2024 being given with sports awards for 2025.

The correct answer is the Geological Society of India. The release explains that the Earth Science Olympiad journey begins with an all-India test facilitated by this body, in which roughly 17,800 students appeared across 500 centres nationwide. The top 25 meritorious students then underwent an intensive three-week training camp in June 2026 at M.S. University, Vadodara, Gujarat, the location having been chosen because the Minister wanted camp venues rotated across different regions of the country. The whole effort is supported by the Ministry of Earth Sciences under its Outreach and Awareness programme. Option A, the National Centre for Earth Science Studies, and option B, the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, are genuine institutions in the earth sciences family and therefore plausible, but neither is named here. Option D, the Survey of India, is the national mapping agency and also does not figure in this selection. Remember the chain: all-India test, then the camp, then the Olympiad.

The correct answer is four gold, three silver and two bronze, which adds up to the nine medals that made this India's highest-ever haul at the competition. The medals were won across the Written and Practical examinations, the International Team Field Investigation and the Earth Science Project categories. Every one of the wrong options also totals nine, which is deliberate: an examiner will rarely change the total, because the total is the headline and the break-up is what separates a careful student from a hurried one. Option A simply swaps the gold and silver counts. Option C inflates the gold to five and cuts the silver to two. Option D swaps the silver and bronze counts. The easiest way to lock the correct sequence is to notice that the numbers fall in order from four down to two as the medals descend from gold to bronze. Dr T. Srinivasa Kumar, Secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, joined in commending the contingent.