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Static GK multiple choice questions with answers and explanations, 20 per page, for SSC, Banking, UPSC, Railway and state exams.

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Q101.Static GKAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2024, GS Paper IEasy

Operations undertaken by the Army towards upliftment of the local population in remote areas to include addressing of their basic needs is called :

  1. A.Operation Sankalp
  2. B.Operation Maitri
  3. C.Operation Sadbhavana
  4. D.Operation Madad
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Correct answer: C. Operation Sadbhavana

Sadbhavana, meaning goodwill, is the Indian Army's civic action programme for people in remote and troubled areas. It began in the late 1990s in Jammu and Kashmir and was later taken to Ladakh and the North-East.

Q102.Static GKAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2019, GS Paper IHard

Consider the following statements : 1. The United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) has a Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air. 2. The UNCAC is the ever-first legally binding global anti-corruption instrument. 3. A highlight of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) is the inclusion of a specific chapter aimed at returning assets to their rightful owners from whom they had been taken illicitly. 4. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is mandated by its member States to assist in the implementation of both UNCAC and UNTOC. Which of the statements given above are correct?

  1. A.1 and 3 only
  2. B.2, 3 and 4 only
  3. C.2 and 4 only
  4. D.1, 2, 3 and 4
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Correct answer: C. 2 and 4 only

Statements 1 and 3 swap the two conventions: the migrant-smuggling protocol belongs to UNTOC, and the asset-recovery chapter belongs to UNCAC.

Q103.Static GKAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2024, GS Paper IMedium

What are the duties of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) as Head of the Department of Military Affairs? 1. Permanent Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee 2. Exercise military command over the three Service Chiefs 3. Principal Military Advisor to Defence Minister on all tri-service matters Select the correct answer using the code given below:

  1. A.1, 2 and 3
  2. B.1 and 2 only
  3. C.2 and 3 only
  4. D.1 and 3 only
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Correct answer: D. 1 and 3 only

The Chief of Defence Staff is the permanent chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee and the principal military adviser to the Defence Minister, but does not command the three Service Chiefs.

Q105.Static GKAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2026, GS Paper IHard

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(Indian Army Corps : Headquarters)

  1. A.3 Corps : Dimapur
  2. B.4 Corps : Tezpur
  3. C.14 Corps : Leh
  4. D.33 Corps : Srinagar
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Correct answer: D. 33 Corps : Srinagar

33 Corps has its headquarters at Sukna near Siliguri in West Bengal, not at Srinagar. 33 Corps, under the Eastern Command, guards Sikkim and the narrow Siliguri Corridor that links the North-East with the rest of India, which is why it sits at Sukna.

Q106.Static GKAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2026, GS Paper IHard

Consider the following statements about platforms for multilateral co-operation:

1. The 'Colombo Process' is a regional consultative process in which member states take binding decisions by consensus.

2. The 'Abu Dhabi Dialogue' is a voluntary non-binding consultative process among Asian countries of labour origin and destination to facilitate regional cooperation on contractual labour mobility.

3. The 'Global Forum for Migration and Development', created upon the proposal of a former UN Secretary General, is a voluntary forum whose decisions are non-binding in nature.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. A.1, 2 and 3
  2. B.1 and 3 only
  3. C.2 and 3 only
  4. D.2 only
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Correct answer: C. 2 and 3 only

All three are voluntary migration forums whose outcomes are non-binding, so statement 1 is wrong in calling the Colombo Process's decisions binding.

Q107.Static GKAsked in: UPSC CAPF · CAPF 2018, Paper IEasy

Which one of the following pairs of countries with new names and old names is correctly matched?

New name : Old name

  1. A.Kingdom of eSwatini : Swaziland
  2. B.Malawi : Rhodesia
  3. C.Botswana : Nyasaland
  4. D.Zimbabwe : Ceylon
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Correct answer: A. Kingdom of eSwatini : Swaziland

In April 2018 King Mswati III renamed Swaziland as the Kingdom of eSwatini, meaning land of the Swazis. eSwatini is a small landlocked kingdom in southern Africa, bordered by South Africa and Mozambique.

Q108.Static GKHard

Which of the following statements about birthplaces is correct?

  1. A.Lal Bahadur Shastri was born at Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh
  2. B.Lala Lajpat Rai was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra
  3. C.Sarojini Naidu was born at Chennai
  4. D.Maharana Pratap was born at Chittorgarh
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Correct answer: A. Lal Bahadur Shastri was born at Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh

Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on 2 October 1904 at Mughalsarai in the Varanasi region of Uttar Pradesh, a town now named Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar; he shares his birthday with Mahatma Gandhi, which is why both are remembered on 2 October.

Q112.Static GKMedium

The physicist C. V. Raman, the first Indian to win a Nobel Prize in science, was born in which present-day state?

  1. A.Kerala
  2. B.Andhra Pradesh
  3. C.Tamil Nadu
  4. D.Karnataka
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Correct answer: C. Tamil Nadu

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in 1888 at Tiruchirappalli in present-day Tamil Nadu and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light, the discovery announced on 28 February 1928 that is remembered every year as National Science Day.

Q113.Static GKHard

Which pair of leaders was born in the same city?

  1. A.Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi
  2. B.Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel
  3. C.Tilak and Gokhale
  4. D.Vivekananda and Tagore
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Correct answer: A. Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi

Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 and his daughter Indira Gandhi on 19 November 1917, both at Allahabad, now Prayagraj, in the family home that Motilal Nehru named Anand Bhavan.

Q119.Static GKAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2026, GS Paper IMedium

Which of the following connectivity projects is/are a part of cooperation between India and the ASEAN member countries?

1. Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project

2. IMT Trilateral Highway

3. Agartala-Akhaura Rail Line

Select the answer using the code given below :

  1. A.1 and 2
  2. B.2 and 3
  3. C.1 and 3
  4. D.2 only
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Correct answer: A. 1 and 2

The Kaladan project and the India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway link India with ASEAN members, while the Agartala–Akhaura line links India with Bangladesh, which is not in ASEAN.

Q120.Static GKAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2016, GS Paper IEasy

'Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)', often in the news, is

  1. A.a division of World Health Organization
  2. B.a non-governmental international organization
  3. C.an inter-governmental agency sponsored by European Union
  4. D.a specialized agency of the United Nations
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Correct answer: B. a non-governmental international organization

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent humanitarian group run by doctors and other volunteers. MSF was founded in Paris in 1971 by a group of French doctors and journalists, and its international office is in Geneva.