Static GK GK Questions with Answers – Page 10

Its motto, meaning the true, the auspicious and the beautiful, is the line that accompanied its familiar logo for decades.

The DRDO was formed in 1958 and works under the Ministry of Defence, developing missiles, radars, armoured vehicles, torpedoes and other defence systems, and its crest carries this Sanskrit line about science being the root of strength.

The service was raised in 1978 and works under the Ministry of Defence, guarding the maritime zones, enforcing fisheries and anti smuggling law and running search and rescue at sea, so the plain promise of Vayam Rakshamah, we protect, is apt.

The line comes from the Mahabharata and appears on the emblem of the Court, which shows the wheel of dharma with the lions of the Ashoka capital.

Sam No Varunah is a Sanskrit prayer from the Taittiriya Upanishad that Varuna, the lord of the waters, be auspicious unto us, which is the natural choice for a sea service, and it is written on the naval crest under the anchor.

The phrase is drawn from the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, where the cosmic form touches the sky, and it suits an air arm exactly; it appears on the Air Force crest below the Himalayan eagle.

The line declares that truth alone triumphs, and it was chosen as the motto of the Republic and inscribed in the Devanagari script on the abacus of the State Emblem of India.

Naseem-Al-Bahr, Arabic for "sea breeze", is the bilateral naval exercise between the Indian Navy and the Royal Navy of Oman.

German is not an official language of the United Nations, while Arabic, Spanish and Chinese are. The UN has six official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

The two-state solution is the proposal to settle the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by having an independent State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel.

Founded in 1767, the Survey of India is the oldest scientific department of the Government of India. It began under the East India Company, with James Rennell as the first Surveyor General of Bengal.

Denmark is known as the country of winds because strong westerly winds blow across its flat land and long North Sea coast for most of the year.

The correct answer is B, Pavapuri, in Nalanda district of Bihar, where a marble temple stands in a lotus tank at the spot held to be the place of his nirvana; Diwali is observed by Jains as the anniversary of that event.

The Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew scripture, is kept as a scroll in the synagogue and read aloud in worship; Judaism traces itself to Abraham and Moses and holds Jerusalem as its holy city.

The correct answer is A, the Bahai faith, founded by Bahaullah in nineteenth century Persia, whose scripture is the Kitab-i-Aqdas and whose Indian house of worship is the marble building at New Delhi shaped like a lotus in bloom, open to people of every religion and holding no images.

The migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina in the year 622 is called the Hijra, and the Islamic lunar calendar counts its years from it, which is why its years are marked Hijri.

The correct answer is B, Confucius, the Chinese teacher whose conversations and sayings were gathered by his disciples into the Analects, a work on duty, family order, learning and good government that shaped Chinese official life for centuries.

The correct answer is B, agiary, the Parsi fire temple in which a consecrated flame is kept burning as the symbol of truth and purity; the highest grade of such a temple is called an Atash Behram, and most of them in India are in Gujarat and Mumbai, where Parsi…

The correct answer is A, Rishabhanatha, also called Adinath, the first of the twenty-four Tirthankaras of the present age, whose symbol is the bull and who is mentioned even in some Hindu texts.

The correct answer is C, Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Guru, who compiled the Adi Granth in 1604 and installed it in the Harmandir Sahib at Amritsar.