Current Affairs Quiz 13 June 2026

Only Pair 1 is correct — Wimbledon (established 1877, London) is played on grass. The US Open (New York) is played on hard court, not clay, while the French Open / Roland Garros (Paris) is the only clay-court Slam, not hard — so Pairs 2 and 3 have had their surfaces mutually swapped. For reference, the Australian Open (Melbourne) is also a hard-court major.

Assertion A is true — on CMIE figures the number of employed Indians rose (~406 million in 2016-17 to ~438 million by March 2026) yet the Employment Rate fell from 42.7% to 38.7%, because the working-age population grew faster than employment. Reason R is false: the Employment Rate / Worker Population Ratio is measured against the total working-age (15+) population, not the labour force — that "share of the labour force only" definition actually belongs to the Unemployment Rate. Since A is true but R gives the wrong definition, the answer is (c).

The three Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — all sit on the Baltic Sea and are members of both the European Union and NATO. Belarus is the odd one out: it is landlocked with no Baltic coastline and belongs to neither the EU nor NATO, and is often wrongly grouped with the Baltics only because it lies in the same Eastern-European neighbourhood. Estonia (capital Tallinn) also uses the Euro and is part of the Schengen Area.

Only the Davis Cup (the premier men's national team competition) and the Billie Jean King Cup (its women's equivalent, formerly the Fed Cup) are run by the ITF. Locked Shields and CyCon are distractors from a different domain entirely — Locked Shields is the world's largest live-fire cyber-defence exercise and CyCon the annual cyber-conflict conference, both conducted by the NATO CCDCOE in Tallinn. The ITF (founded 1913) governs tennis, wheelchair tennis and beach tennis.

Zoji La (~11,575 feet) on NH-1 links the Kashmir Valley with Ladakh, and is the corridor the under-construction Zojila Tunnel (~13.15 km, target 2028) is meant to keep open year-round. Each distractor is a real pass elsewhere — Rohtang/Atal Tunnel in Himachal, Nathu La in Sikkim toward Tibet, and Lipulekh in Uttarakhand at the India-Nepal-China tri-junction. The tunnel runs Baltal to Minamarg on NH-1.