1. Which country secured its sixth Men’s Asian Champions Trophy hockey title by defeating Japan 4–1 in the final?
Answer: India.
2. Who became the first Indian woman to qualify for the women’s singles badminton final at the Youth Olympic Games?
Answer: Tanvi Patri.
3. Which Indian state organised the BRICS Sustainable Lifestyle Week 2026 along with a cyclothon at Khuman Lampak Sports Complex?
Answer: Manipur.
4. Which nation hosted the 2026 edition of the multilateral naval exercise MALABAR?
Answer: Japan.
5. Which country became the 116th member of the International Solar Alliance during its 9th Assembly?
Answer: The Bahamas.
6. What was the global ranking of the 2026 Antarctic ozone hole in terms of its seasonal average area over 48 years of observation?
Answer: 7th largest.
7. An engineer from which country received the 2026 James Dyson Global Sustainability Award for developing the Sentinel structural damage detection sensor?
Answer: Philippines (Filipino Engineer Aldrei Ong).
8. Which indigenously developed quasi-ballistic missile was successfully tested by DRDO off the Odisha coast on November 5, 2026?
Answer: Pralay.
9. Which asteroid is known as Earth’s quasi-moon because it shares a similar orbit around the Sun?
Answer: 2025 PN7.