Static GK GK Questions with Answers – Page 3

UNESCO named the Brazilian city the first ever World Capital of Architecture, for the year 2020. The title was created by UNESCO together with the International Union of Architects (UIA).

The famous line opens the Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO, adopted in London in November 1945.

India signed a contract worth about 5.4 billion US dollars with Russia in October 2018 for five squadrons of the S-400 Triumf long-range surface-to-air missile system.

The rand is the official currency of South Africa, and ZAR is its international code, taken from the Dutch name Zuid-Afrikaanse Rand.

The IMD was established on 15 January 1875, so it completed 150 years in 2025. The IMD was set up after a devastating cyclone hit Calcutta in 1864 and famines followed failed monsoons, showing the need for a single national weather service.

IMBEX stands for the India-Myanmar Bilateral Military Exercise, held between the two armies. The exercise began in 2017, and its focus has been training Myanmar army officers for United Nations peacekeeping duties, including drills on handling crowds, protecting civilians and running a peacekeeping camp.

Pairs I, II and III are correct; pair IV is wrong because UNTSO works in the Middle East, not Haiti.

The Vijaynagar Advanced Landing Ground is in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh, in a remote valley close to the Myanmar border in the far east of the state.

The hilsa, called ilish in Bengali, is the national fish of Bangladesh. It is a fish of the herring family that lives in the sea and swims up rivers to breed, a habit called anadromous migration.

Maitree is the joint military exercise of the Indian Army and the Royal Thai Army. It began in 2006 and is held in India and Thailand by turns.

The nine-square black granite platform with a diya at the centre, set in a lotus pattern, describes Sadaiv Atal, the memorial of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi.

Bharatmala Pariyojana is the Union government's umbrella programme for developing national highways and road corridors.

Varuna is the naval exercise between India and France, not between India and the USA. India and France began their bilateral naval exercises in 1983, and the series was named Varuna in 2001; it has since been held regularly in the Indian Ocean and off the French coast.

The South Eastern Railway zone has its headquarters at Garden Reach in Kolkata. South Eastern Railway was formed in 1955 from the old Bengal Nagpur Railway, whose head office at Garden Reach it inherited.

India's first underwater metro tunnel runs beneath the Hooghly river in Kolkata. It is part of the East-West Metro corridor (the Green Line) of Kolkata Metro and joins Howrah on the west bank with Kolkata on the east bank.

Pair 1 is right: the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, set up in 1965, works from the Rashtrapati Niwas in Shimla, the building that was once the Viceregal Lodge, where the Simla Conference of 1945 was held.

The Gujral Doctrine is a set of principles for India's relations with its immediate neighbours, put forward by I.K. Gujral in 1996 as External Affairs Minister and followed by him as Prime Minister in 1997-98.

IBSAMAR is the joint maritime exercise of the navies of the three IBSA countries. The name itself gives the answer: IBSA stands for India, Brazil and South Africa, and MAR comes from "maritime".

CORAS, the Commando for Railway Security, is the special commando unit raised by the RPF of Indian Railways in 2019.

The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action were adopted at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in September 1995.