Static GK Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 10

CAATSA stands for Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, a US federal law of 2017. The US Congress passed CAATSA in July 2017 and President Donald Trump signed it in August 2017.

Antrix is the commercial arm of ISRO, and ISRO works under the Department of Space. Antrix Corporation Limited was set up in Bengaluru in September 1992 as a government company wholly owned by the Government of India.

DTTI is an India–US forum launched in 2012 to deepen defence trade and to develop and produce defence technology together.

Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak founded the Sulabh movement in 1970 in Bihar to end manual scavenging and bring low-cost toilets to India.

The Kolkata Metro is run by Indian Railways as its own zone, the Metro Railway, with its headquarters in Kolkata.

The National Water Academy is the training wing of the Central Water Commission, which works under the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti.

A black plate with yellow letters marks a vehicle registered for self-drive rental, which the customer drives without a hired driver.

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.

Both are core ILO conventions aimed at ending child labour. Convention 138, the Minimum Age Convention of 1973, requires countries to set a minimum age for admission to employment, generally not below the age of finishing compulsory schooling.

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.

Membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) eases access to advanced nuclear technology and trade, but it does not make a country a party to the NPT.

Every major Indian education commission has held that a child learns best in the language spoken at home.

The German psychologist William Stern gave the term Intelligence Quotient in 1912, proposing that a child's mental age be divided by the actual age to express intelligence as a single number.

The Freedom Trail is a 2.5-mile red brick path laid out in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1951, linking sixteen sites connected with the American Revolution.

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.

The World Bank has its headquarters at Washington DC in the United States of America. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were both set up after the Bretton Woods conference of 1944 and began work in 1945, and both have their offices in Washington DC.

The manat is the currency of Azerbaijan, a country of the Caucasus whose capital is Baku on the shore of the Caspian Sea.

The euro is the official currency of the European Union. It came into being as an accounting currency in 1999 and reached people's hands as notes and coins on 1 January 2002.

Minsk is the capital and largest city of Belarus, a landlocked country of Eastern Europe that shares borders with Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

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.