Static GK Mixed Quiz: Set 32

The king protea is the largest flower of the protea family, which grows in the fynbos vegetation of the Cape, and South Africa's national cricket team takes its name from it.

It is the largest marsupial of the continent and appears on the coat of arms of Australia along with the emu, the two chosen because neither animal can easily walk backwards, which was read as a country always moving forward.

It was founded at Paris in 1865 as the International Telegraph Union to standardise telegraphy across borders, took its present name in 1932 as radio and telephony were added, moved to Geneva, and became a specialised agency of the United Nations in 1947; it now allocates the global radio spectrum…

The Indian National Army took 'Ittehad, Etmad, Qurbani' as its motto, and those three words mean unity, faith and sacrifice.

The beaver was given official standing as a symbol of Canada because the fur trade in beaver pelts drove the early European exploration and settlement of the country, and the animal appears on the five-cent coin.

Panchsheel is the name given to the five principles that guide India's conduct towards other countries. The five are mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence.

The FAO was founded on 16 October 1945 at Quebec City, and World Food Day has been observed on that anniversary since 1981; the agency has its headquarters at Rome and runs the global work on hunger, nutrition and food statistics.

Wular Lake lies in the Kashmir valley in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, is fed by the Jhelum and is the largest freshwater lake in India.

Scotland has used the unicorn in its royal arms since the fifteenth century, reading it as a symbol of purity and of a strength that cannot be captured, and it is the only mythical animal among the national animals usually asked.

Bell received the patent for the telephone in 1876 and made the first call over a wire, carrying the human voice itself rather than a code.

The Security Council has fifteen members in all: five permanent members, namely China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, and ten non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms, five of them retiring each year, with a retiring member not immediately re-eligible.

Cochin International Airport commissioned a solar plant large enough to meet its own consumption, and for that it received the Champion of the Earth award of the United Nations Environment Programme in 2018.

The flag of Nepal is made of two stacked triangular pennants, the upper carrying a white moon and the lower a white sun, and its proportions are laid down by a geometrical construction in the constitution, which makes it unique among national flags.

Azad launched the Urdu weekly Al-Hilal in 1912 to carry the nationalist argument to Urdu readers and to oppose the separatist politics of the time.

The judges of the International Court of Justice are elected by the General Assembly and the Security Council voting independently of each other, a candidate needing an absolute majority in both, and five seats fall vacant every three years so that the bench is renewed in thirds.

SAARC was founded at Dhaka on 8 December 1985 by seven countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

The green pheasant, which is found only in Japan, was designated its national bird by the country's ornithological society, and the bird appears in Japanese folk tales as a companion of the boy hero Momotaro.

Palau, in the Pacific, was the last of the eleven trust territories placed under the international trusteeship system, administered by the United States as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; it became independent on 1 October 1994, and the Trusteeship Council suspended its operations on 1 November…

She presided over the eighth session of the General Assembly in 1953, the first woman to hold that office, and she had already led the Indian delegation to the United Nations in its earliest years; she was also the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru and later India envoy to Moscow, Washington…

UNEP was created by the General Assembly in 1972 following the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, and its headquarters at Nairobi made it the first United Nations body to be seated in a developing country, a point examiners like.