Static GK GK Questions with Answers – Page 36

The Asian Development Bank has its headquarters in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. ADB was set up in 1966 to reduce poverty and fund development in Asia and the Pacific, and it lends mainly for roads, railways, power, water and urban projects.

Uruguay both hosted and won the first FIFA World Cup in 1930, beating Argentina in the final at Montevideo, and the tournament was awarded to the country partly because it had won the Olympic football title twice in the preceding years.

She shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for the study of radioactivity and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone in 1911 for the discovery of radium and polonium, becoming the first person to receive the prize twice.

The Penny Black, issued in 1840 and bearing the head of Queen Victoria, was the world's first adhesive postage stamp, and it came out of the postal reform that fixed a single low rate paid by the sender rather than the receiver.

The South African surgeon carried out the first transplant of a human heart at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town in 1967, on the patient Louis Washkansky, who survived the operation but lived only a further eighteen days.

She became Prime Minister of Ceylon, the island now called Sri Lanka, in 1960, and was the first woman anywhere in the world to head a government as Prime Minister.

In 1893 New Zealand, then a self-governing colony, gave women the right to vote in national elections, the first country in the world to do so, after a long campaign led by Kate Sheppard.

The Norwegian explorer and his party reached the South Pole in December 1911, using dog sledges and a carefully laid line of supply depots, and returned safely.

The American astronaut commanded the Apollo 11 mission and stepped out of the lunar module on 20 July 1969, becoming the first human being to walk on the Moon.

The Soviet cosmonaut flew alone aboard Vostok 6 in June 1963 and spent nearly three days in orbit, becoming the first woman in space, two years after Yuri Gagarin's flight.

The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961 and completed a single orbit of the Earth, becoming the first human being in space.

The correct answer is A, Sukumar Sen, an officer of the Indian Civil Service who was appointed the first Chief Election Commissioner and conducted the first general elections to the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies, an exercise held on a scale never attempted before anywhere.

The correct answer is B, Bachendri Pal, who stood on the summit in 1984 as a member of an Indian expedition and became the first Indian woman to climb the world's highest peak.

The correct answer is B, Sam Manekshaw, who led the Indian Army as Chief of the Army Staff during the war of 1971 and was the first officer raised to the five-star rank of Field Marshal.

India had won gold before that only in team hockey, so this was the first individual gold in the country's Olympic history.

She later became the first woman Governor of an Indian state, of Uttar Pradesh.

The correct answer is A, Satyendranath Tagore, the elder brother of Rabindranath Tagore, who qualified in 1863 and became the first Indian member of the Indian Civil Service at a time when the examination was held only in England.

He was decorated after his death for the action at Badgam in which his company held back the advance on the Srinagar airfield in November 1947, and his is the first name on the roll of the Param Vir Chakra.

Both facts are set from this chapter.

The correct answer is B, Justice M. Fathima Beevi, who was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1989, about four decades after the court began work, and later served as Governor of Tamil Nadu.