Static GK Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 6

Vini Mahajan, an IAS officer of the 1987 batch of the Punjab cadre, was appointed Chief Secretary of Punjab in June 2020, the first woman to hold the state's top civil service post since Punjab was formed in 1966.

The All India Chess Federation, the national body for chess, was founded in 1951 and has its headquarters at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai.

The rupee sign blends the Devanagari letter "र" (Ra) with the Roman capital "R" with its vertical stem removed, so that it reads as an Indian letter and an international one at the same time.

The Asian Development Bank has its headquarters in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, in the Philippines. It was set up in 1966 to fund development in Asia and the Pacific, and India was one of its founding members.

The UN Security Council has 15 members: 5 permanent members and 10 non-permanent members. The permanent five are the USA, the UK, France, Russia and China, and only they hold the veto.

INS Viraat was an aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy and was decommissioned in March 2017. Viraat began life as the British carrier HMS Hermes, which served in the Falklands War.

The National Water Academy is at Khadakwasla, near Pune in Maharashtra. The Academy is run by the Central Water Commission under the Ministry of Jal Shakti.

The Vijaynagar Advanced Landing Ground is in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh, in a remote valley close to the Myanmar border in the far east of the state.

The hilsa, called ilish in Bengali, is the national fish of Bangladesh. It is a fish of the herring family that lives in the sea and swims up rivers to breed, a habit called anadromous migration.

The College of Military Engineering stands at Dapodi in Pune, Maharashtra, and is the main training institution of the Indian Army's Corps of Engineers.

Tiger Triumph was the first tri-service exercise between India and the United States, held in November 2019 off the coast of Andhra Pradesh, with a harbour phase at Visakhapatnam and a field phase near Kakinada.

The Charter of the United Nations was drawn up at the United Nations Conference on International Organization held in San Francisco, USA, from April to June 1945, and was signed there on 26 June 1945.

'One State, Many Worlds' is the tourism tagline of Karnataka, chosen to show how much variety a visitor can find within one State.

Naseem-Al-Bahr, Arabic for "sea breeze", is the bilateral naval exercise between the Indian Navy and the Royal Navy of Oman.

Founded in 1767, the Survey of India is the oldest scientific department of the Government of India. It began under the East India Company, with James Rennell as the first Surveyor General of Bengal.

Denmark is known as the country of winds because strong westerly winds blow across its flat land and long North Sea coast for most of the year.

A Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force holds the same rank as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and a Commander in the Navy.

Operation Sadbhavna is the Indian Army's goodwill and civic action programme for people in remote and disturbed areas. The Army began it in the late 1990s in Jammu and Kashmir and later took it to Ladakh and parts of the North-East.

The Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research at Bombay was set up by the Reserve Bank of India as an advanced research and teaching centre in development economics and was inaugurated in 1987; it is a deemed university that works on energy, environment and macroeconomic policy.

The Second Backward Classes Commission, known as the Mandal Commission after its chairman Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal, was appointed on the first of January 1979 by the Janata Party government of Morarji Desai under Article 340 of the Constitution.