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Today’s daily quiz — ten GK questions with answers, mixing this week’s current affairs with static general knowledge, one reasoning and one maths question and an English error — is below, with a second set of ten static GK questions after it. Answer before you reveal; the explanation under each answer is where the mark is.
A daily quiz is a small thing that compounds. Ten questions a day is fewer than most candidates would attempt in a single study session, and yet the daily version produces markedly better recall — because retrieving an answer strengthens memory in a way that re-reading a note does not.
That effect is strongest exactly where competitive exams are hardest to prepare for: general awareness, current affairs, static general knowledge and vocabulary, all of which decay quickly without repeated contact and none of which respond well to intensive study in a final month.
Current affairs · 19 September 2026
Today’s current affairs, checked at the source
Every item is dated, read on the conducting body’s or ministry’s own site, and written with the question it becomes. Read today’s items, take the quiz, or download the month as a PDF.
Daily quiz — 18 September 2026
Today’s quiz: 10 GK questions with answers
Three current-affairs questions from this week (World Patient Safety Day, the World Circular Economy Forum in Gandhinagar, NTA’s examination calendar and the NEET 2027 mode), three static GK questions from polity, geography and modern history, one maths question, one coding question and one English error — the mix a general-awareness section actually uses. The current-affairs items are written from the primary notices; the static items are the kind that recur across SSC, bank, railway and state papers every cycle.
Daily quiz — 18 September 2026
Q1World Patient Safety Day was observed on 17 September 2026. What was the WHO theme for 2026?
- ASafe care for every newborn and every child
- BEngaging patients for patient safety
- CSafe care for noncommunicable diseases
- DMedication without harm
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C. Safe care for noncommunicable diseases — The 2026 theme is “Safe care for noncommunicable diseases”, with the slogan “Safe care for life!”. The 2025 theme was newborn and child safety, 2023 patient engagement and 2022 medication safety — the day itself was created by the World Health Assembly in 2019.
Q2The 10th World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF 2026), held from 15 to 18 September 2026, was hosted in which Indian city?
- ANew Delhi
- BGandhinagar
- CBengaluru
- DHyderabad
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B. Gandhinagar — WCEF 2026, the first edition hosted by India, ran at the Mahatma Mandir Convention Centre in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, organised with the Finnish innovation fund Sitra, which founded the forum in 2017.
Q3NTA’s examination calendar released on 16 September 2026 proposes which dates for the UGC NET December 2026 cycle?
- A1–7 December 2026
- B14–19 December 2026
- C20–21 December 2026
- D31 December 2026 – 7 January 2027
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B. 14–19 December 2026 — UGC NET December 2026 is proposed for 14–19 December with 20–21 December in reserve; 20–21 December is the Joint CSIR-UGC NET slot, and 31 December – 7 January was the December 2025 cycle.
Q4From the 2027 cycle, NEET UG will be conducted in which mode, as confirmed by NTA on 14 September 2026?
- APen-and-paper OMR, as before
- BComputer-based test
- CTwo sessions a year on OMR
- DOnline at home
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B. Computer-based test — The Education Minister announced the switch to a computer-based test on 15 May 2026, NTA wrote to AICTE on 4 September to map CBT centres and its Director General confirmed the change on 14 September 2026; the 180-question, +4/−1 pattern is expected to stay.
Q5Under which article of the Constitution can the President of India promulgate an ordinance?
- AArticle 72
- BArticle 123
- CArticle 213
- DArticle 356
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B. Article 123 — Article 123 gives the President the ordinance power when either House is not in session; Article 213 is the Governor’s equivalent, 72 is the pardoning power and 356 is President’s rule.
Q6The Tropic of Cancer passes through how many Indian states?
- ASix
- BSeven
- CEight
- DNine
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C. Eight — Eight: Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram, running roughly along 23.5° N.
Q7The Poona Pact of September 1932 was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and whom?
- AMuhammad Ali Jinnah
- BB. R. Ambedkar
- CJawaharlal Nehru
- DRamsay MacDonald
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B. B. R. Ambedkar — Ambedkar, on behalf of the depressed classes, agreed to reserved seats within joint electorates in place of the separate electorates granted by MacDonald’s Communal Award, ending Gandhi’s fast at Yerwada jail.
Q8A shopkeeper marks an article 25 per cent above cost price and allows a 12 per cent discount. What is the profit percentage?
- A8 per cent
- B10 per cent
- C12 per cent
- D13 per cent
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B. 10 per cent — Take cost as 100: marked price 125, selling price 125 × 0.88 = 110, so the profit is 10 per cent. Successive changes multiply — they never simply subtract.
Q9In a certain code, DELHI is written as EFMIJ. How is PATNA written in that code?
- AQBUOB
- BOZSMZ
- CQBUNB
- DPBUOB
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A. QBUOB — Each letter moves one place forward: P→Q, A→B, T→U, N→O, A→B, giving QBUOB.
Q10Choose the sentence with the grammatical error: “One of my friend (a) / is a doctor (b) / at the district hospital (c) / No error (d).”
- APart (a)
- BPart (b)
- CPart (c)
- DNo error (d)
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A. Part (a) — After “one of” the noun is always plural — “one of my friends”. The singular verb “is” in (b) is correct because the subject is “one”.
Static GK quiz — 10 general knowledge questions with answers
Static general knowledge is where a daily quiz pays best, because the same two hundred facts keep coming back. These ten are drawn from the recurring pool — rivers and coastlines, the Constitution’s dates, SI units, first Olympic medals, the Five-Year Plans and GST.
Q1Which is the longest river flowing entirely within India?
- AGanga
- BGodavari
- CKrishna
- DNarmada
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B. Godavari — The Godavari, about 1,465 km from Trimbakeshwar to the Bay of Bengal, is the longest river wholly within India; the Ganga is longer but flows on into Bangladesh.
Q2On which date did the Constituent Assembly adopt the Constitution of India?
- A15 August 1947
- B26 November 1949
- C26 January 1950
- D9 December 1946
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B. 26 November 1949 — Adopted on 26 November 1949 (Constitution Day) and brought into force on 26 January 1950; the Assembly first met on 9 December 1946.
Q3What is the SI unit of pressure?
- ANewton
- BPascal
- CJoule
- DWatt
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B. Pascal — One pascal is one newton per square metre; atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 101,325 Pa.
Q4Who was the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal?
- AP. V. Sindhu
- BKarnam Malleswari
- CSaina Nehwal
- DMary Kom
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B. Karnam Malleswari — Karnam Malleswari won a weightlifting bronze in the 69 kg class at Sydney 2000; Saina Nehwal (2012), Mary Kom (2012) and P. V. Sindhu (2016, 2020) followed.
Q5Where is the International Court of Justice headquartered?
- AGeneva
- BNew York
- CThe Hague
- DVienna
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C. The Hague — The ICJ sits at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands; it is the only principal organ of the United Nations not based in New York.
Q6Which gas makes up the largest share of the Earth’s atmosphere?
- AOxygen
- BNitrogen
- CCarbon dioxide
- DArgon
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B. Nitrogen — Nitrogen is about 78 per cent by volume, oxygen 21 per cent, argon 0.9 per cent and carbon dioxide about 0.04 per cent.
Q7Which Indian state has the longest coastline?
- AAndhra Pradesh
- BTamil Nadu
- CGujarat
- DMaharashtra
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C. Gujarat — Gujarat’s coastline is about 1,600 km, the longest of any state; Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu follow, with about 970 km each.
Q8The Arthashastra, the ancient treatise on statecraft and economics, is attributed to whom?
- ABanabhatta
- BKautilya
- CKalidasa
- DPatanjali
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B. Kautilya — Kautilya, also called Chanakya or Vishnugupta, the minister of Chandragupta Maurya; the text was rediscovered and published by R. Shamasastry in 1909.
Q9Which Five-Year Plan was based on the Mahalanobis model of heavy-industry-led growth?
- AFirst Plan (1951–56)
- BSecond Plan (1956–61)
- CThird Plan (1961–66)
- DFourth Plan (1969–74)
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B. Second Plan (1956–61) — The Second Plan followed P. C. Mahalanobis’s two-sector model, prioritising capital goods and public-sector steel plants at Bhilai, Durgapur and Rourkela.
Q10The Goods and Services Tax came into force in India on which date?
- A1 April 2017
- B1 July 2017
- C1 January 2017
- D15 August 2017
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B. 1 July 2017 — GST replaced central excise, service tax, VAT and a dozen other levies from 1 July 2017, under the 101st Constitutional Amendment Act of 2016.
Why daily
What a short daily test does that a long session does not
- It forces retrieval rather than recognition — reading a fact feels like learning; being asked for it and failing reveals whether you actually know it.
- It spaces repetition automatically — themes recur across days, which is what converts short-term familiarity into durable recall.
- It surfaces gaps while there is time — a question you cannot answer in March is a gap you can close; the same gap in the exam hall is a lost mark.
- It is sustainable — ten minutes a day survives a busy week in a way that a two-hour session does not.
How to use it
Getting the benefit rather than the habit
- Answer before you check. Even when uncertain. The value is in the attempt, not in the reading.
- Log what you got wrong, by theme rather than by question. A themed list is revisable; a list of individual facts is not.
- Revisit your wrong answers a week later. If you still miss them, the underlying topic needs studying rather than quizzing.
- Keep it short and keep it daily. Consistency is the whole mechanism. A missed week undoes more than an extra hour adds.
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Daily Quiz — FAQs
Where is today’s current affairs quiz with answers?
In the daily quiz above — the first three or four questions each day are from that week’s current affairs, written from the primary notice rather than a news summary, and the current affairs section carries a separate daily current affairs quiz and the monthly compilations that SSC, bank and UPSC papers draw on. Each answer shows the fact and the source it came from, which is what to note down; the question itself will not be asked again in that form.
Is the daily GK quiz free, and which exams is it for?
Free, no sign-in, and pitched at the general-awareness sections of SSC CGL and CHSL, the bank PO and clerk prelims, RRB NTPC and Group D, the state PSC prelims and the UPSC prelims — which share most of their static GK and differ mainly in how far current affairs and economy questions go. A UPSC aspirant should treat the static questions as the floor and go to the current affairs compilations for depth; an SSC aspirant will find the static questions closer to the examination’s level.
Is a daily quiz better than studying for an hour?
For different purposes. An hour of study builds understanding of a new topic; a daily quiz builds durable recall of material you have already met. The two are complements rather than alternatives — but for the sections that decide many competitive exams, particularly general awareness, current affairs and vocabulary, the daily retrieval is what converts reading into marks, and it is the half candidates more often skip.
How many questions should a daily quiz have?
Few enough that you will actually do it every day. Ten questions taking ten minutes is a common and effective size, because it survives a busy week where a fifty-question set does not. The mechanism that makes daily quizzing work is consistency — themes recurring across days, spacing the repetition — and a set large enough to be skipped defeats it.
What should I do with the questions I get wrong?
Log them by theme rather than as individual facts, so the list is revisable. Then revisit them about a week later. If you still miss the same items, that is a signal that the underlying topic needs proper study rather than more quizzing — a quiz reveals gaps efficiently but does not close conceptual ones. Themed logs also tend to reveal patterns you would not notice question by question.
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