Static GK Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 9

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly for its eighth session in 1953, becoming the first Indian and the first woman in the world to hold that office.

The Constitution of the United States was drafted by the Philadelphia Convention and signed on 17 September 1787, which is why it is counted as the world's first written democratic constitution.

UCO Bank uses this line in its logo and advertising. UCO Bank was founded in Kolkata in 1943 as the United Commercial Bank, and the industrialist G. D. Birla was behind its creation.

It is the world authority on chemical nomenclature, so it approves the names and symbols of newly discovered elements, standardises the naming of compounds and maintains the recommended values of atomic weights.

The conference held in 1944 at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire in the United States set up two twin institutions, the International Monetary Fund to keep exchange rates orderly and help countries facing balance of payments difficulty, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to lend for reconstruction and…

ABS stands for anti-lock braking system, a safety device that keeps the wheels from locking during hard braking.

Angkor Wat stands near Siem Reap in Cambodia and is the largest religious monument in the world. It was built in the early twelfth century by King Suryavarman II of the Khmer empire as a temple of Vishnu, and it later became a Buddhist place of worship.

The Bogibeel bridge crosses the Brahmaputra near Dibrugarh in Assam and links the south bank to the north bank on the way to Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh.

Of the four countries listed, Australia gave women the vote first, in 1902. Its Commonwealth Franchise Act of that year let women vote in and stand for the federal Parliament, following the colony of South Australia, which had already granted it in 1894.

The motto of the National Cadet Corps is Unity and Discipline, in Hindi Ekta aur Anushasan. The NCC was set up in 1948 under the National Cadet Corps Act, 1948, and works under the Ministry of Defence with its headquarters in New Delhi.

Sucheta Kripalani became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in October 1963 and served till March 1967, making her the first woman to head a state government in India.

South Africa joined the group in late 2010, turning BRIC into BRICS, and its first summit as a member was the third summit of the group, held at Sanya on Hainan Island in China in April 2011.

Sampriti is the joint military exercise of the Indian Army and the Bangladesh Army, and the 2017 edition was one round of this long-running series.

The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body of the UN, but it is not made up of all UN members: it has only 47 member states.

It is a resolution of the UN General Assembly, not a treaty that states sign and ratify. A treaty, usually called a covenant or convention, becomes legally binding on a country once it ratifies it, and a committee of experts watches how each party carries it out.

The right to property is part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Article 17 says everyone has the right to own property and no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of it.

It places Group Captain below Wing Commander, but in the Indian Air Force a Wing Commander ranks below a Group Captain.

India's first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier, IAC-1, was built at Cochin Shipyard and commissioned into the Navy as INS Vikrant on 2 September 2022.

The CHOGM in Malta was held in November 2015, not 2016, and no CHOGM took place in 2016. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is normally held every two years.

SPARSH stands for Scholarship for Promotion of Aptitude and Research in Stamps as a Hobby. The scheme was launched by the Department of Posts under the Ministry of Communications in 2017.