Static GK Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 12

Tatra is not a missile at all: it is a make of heavy all-terrain trucks from the Czech Republic, used by the Indian Army to carry launchers, radars and other heavy loads.

The Indian Army no longer has the rank of Second Lieutenant; an officer is now commissioned directly as a Lieutenant.

The Indian Army has no command by that name; the North-East falls under the Eastern Command, headquartered at Kolkata. The Army has seven commands.

The Indian Army has its own Corps of Army Air Defence, which guards troops and key places against enemy aircraft, drones and missiles.

The Jammu and Kashmir Rifles (JAK RIF) is a regular infantry regiment with its Regimental Centre at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.

The Andaman and Nicobar Command was set up by India in 2001, long after the Second World War. The Command was raised in October 2001, following the recommendations of the Group of Ministers set up after the Kargil War to reform national security.

The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has its headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand. ESCAP is one of the five regional commissions of the UN Economic and Social Council.

Tokyo was called Edo until 1868, when it was renamed Tokyo, which means eastern capital.

T-55, T-72 and T-90 are Soviet and Russian-designed main battle tanks, while T-155 is not a tank at all; the name belongs to a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer made in Turkey.

Iran has never been a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council, though it lies on the Persian Gulf. The GCC was founded in May 1981 in Abu Dhabi by six Arab monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

The New Development Bank was set up by the BRICS countries, not by APEC, and its headquarters is in Shanghai.

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.

The OPCW is the independent global body that implements the Chemical Weapons Convention; it is not an organ of the European Union.

The State Emblem of India is adapted from the Lion Capital that crowned Ashoka’s pillar at Sarnath, near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.

The Indian Institute of Pulses Research works at Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh and is one of the institutes of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

The Kothari Commission, which worked from 1964 to 1966, recommended the three language formula for schools, and the policy of 1968 later adopted it.

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.

Sucheta Kripalani became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on 2 October 1963 and held the office till 1967, which made her the first woman to head any state government in India.

Ram Mohan Roy founded the Brahmo Samaj at Calcutta in 1828, growing out of his earlier Atmiya Sabha and Brahmo Sabha; it preached worship of one formless God, rejected idol worship and caste rigidity, and campaigned against sati, which was banned in 1829.

In 1796 Jenner showed that material from a cowpox sore protected a boy against smallpox, the first deliberate vaccination, and the word vaccine itself comes from vacca, the Latin for cow.