This Important Days & Dates quiz on Important Days in May and June puts 12 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
12 questions with answers and explanations
World Press Freedom Day is observed every year on
The day is kept to remind governments of their duty towards freedom of expression and to mark the risks journalists take in their work, and it is the first of the international observances in the month.
Read the full explanation →International Nurses Day, observed on 12 May, marks the birth anniversary of
Her work with wounded soldiers in the Crimean War and the training school she founded afterwards turned nursing into a trained profession, and the day carries her name in every account of it.
Read the full explanation →National Technology Day is observed in India on 11 May because on that day in 1998 India
On 11 May 1998 India carried out nuclear tests at Pokhran in Rajasthan, and the same day brought the first test flight of the indigenous Hansa aircraft and a successful test of the Trishul missile.
Read the full explanation →World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is observed on 8 May, the birth anniversary of
He shared the first Nobel Peace Prize, and the movement observes his birthday as its day.
Read the full explanation →World No Tobacco Day is observed on
The day closes the month and is meant to draw attention to the harm caused by tobacco in every form and to the policies that reduce its use.
Read the full explanation →World Environment Day is observed every year on
The United Nations General Assembly designated the day after the Conference on the Human Environment held at Stockholm in 1972, and it has been observed since 1973.
Read the full explanation →The International Day of Yoga is observed on 21 June. In which year was it observed for the first time?
India proposed the day at the United Nations in 2014 and the General Assembly adopted the resolution in December of that year, so the first observance came on 21 June 2015.
Read the full explanation →World Blood Donor Day, observed on 14 June, marks the birth anniversary of the scientist who discovered
The day falls on the birth anniversary of Karl Landsteiner, whose discovery of the blood groups made safe transfusion possible and won him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Read the full explanation →The International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking is observed on
The United Nations keeps this day to strengthen action against the production, trafficking and abuse of narcotic drugs, and the same date is also the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
Read the full explanation →National Statistics Day is observed in India on 29 June, the birth anniversary of
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis founded the Indian Statistical Institute, gave statistics the measure known as the Mahalanobis distance and shaped the model used in the Second Five Year Plan, and the Government of India keeps his birthday as Statistics Day.
Read the full explanation →World Oceans Day is observed on
The day draws attention to the part the oceans play in the climate, in the oxygen we breathe and in the livelihoods of coastal communities, and it sits three days after World Environment Day.
Read the full explanation →Anti-Terrorism Day is observed in India on 21 May to mark the anniversary of
The day was declared soon afterwards, and on it offices and institutions take a pledge against violence and terrorism in all its forms.
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