Static GK GK Questions with Answers – Page 31

The Geological Survey of India was founded in 1851, mainly to look for coal for the railways, and it remained in Kolkata, which was then the capital.

SIDBI was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1990 as the principal financial institution for the promotion, financing and development of micro, small and medium enterprises, and its head office is at Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.

IRDAI was constituted under the IRDA Act of 1999 to regulate insurers, to register them and to protect policyholders.

Axis Bank, which began in 1994 as UTI Bank and was renamed in 2007, has its corporate office in Mumbai, the city that also holds the Reserve Bank of India, SEBI, the State Bank of India, the Central Bank of India, Union Bank of India, Bank of India and both…

The Kakrapar Atomic Power Station stands near Vyara in the Tapi district of Gujarat, on the bank of the Tapi river, and is run by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited.

Section 141 of the Electricity Act, 2003 deals with the extinguishing of public lamps and says that whoever maliciously puts out a public lamp shall be punished with a fine which may extend to two thousand rupees.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant stands near the town of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, close to the border with Belarus, and was part of the Soviet Union when reactor number four exploded on 26 April 1986 in the worst nuclear accident in history.

The International Criminal Police Organization, or Interpol, was founded at Vienna in 1923 and moved its headquarters to Lyon in France in 1989, where its general secretariat works today.

SAARC was founded by the declaration signed at Dhaka in December 1985 by seven countries, and Afghanistan joined later as the eighth member.

The International Atomic Energy Agency was set up in 1957 and works from Vienna in Austria.

The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in 1945 and works from Rome in Italy. It leads international work on food production, nutrition and rural development, publishes the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, and observes World Food Day on 16 October, the date of its founding.

The International Labour Organization was created in 1919 by Part Thirteen of the Treaty of Versailles, at the end of the First World War, as part of the League of Nations system.

The World Health Organization works from Geneva in Switzerland. Its constitution came into force on 7 April 1948, which is why that date is observed every year as World Health Day, and its governing body, the World Health Assembly, meets in Geneva each May.

The Index of Economic Freedom has been published by this research organisation based at Washington DC since 1995, and it scores countries on matters such as property rights, tax burden, government spending, trade freedom and business regulation.

It is the world authority on chemical nomenclature, so it approves the names and symbols of newly discovered elements, standardises the naming of compounds and maintains the recommended values of atomic weights.

The United Nations works in six official languages, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Of the four names in the list, Arabic, Spanish and Chinese are all official, so only German, the second item, is not.

The conference held in 1944 at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire in the United States set up two twin institutions, the International Monetary Fund to keep exchange rates orderly and help countries facing balance of payments difficulty, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to lend for reconstruction and…

The Asian Development Bank was founded in 1966 to lend for development in Asia and the Pacific and has its headquarters at Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was founded in 1946 and works from Paris in France.

The Netherlands keeps Amsterdam as its constitutional capital, but the seat of government, the parliament, the residence of the monarch and the supreme court are all at The Hague.