Static GK Mixed Quiz: Set 40

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

The correct answer is C, 1972, the year the island became a republic and took the name Sri Lanka in place of Ceylon.

The Digital Single Market Strategy was adopted by the European Commission in May 2015 to extend the EU's single market to the online world.

The Golden Quadrilateral, the first and best known phase of the National Highways Development Project, is a four-lane and six-lane ring of about 5,846 kilometres joining the four metropolitan cities, and it is the single most asked fact in this chapter.

LIC, created by an Act of Parliament in 1956 when life insurance in India was nationalised, carries the Sanskrit motto Yogakshemam Vahamyaham, taken from the Bhagavad Gita and usually rendered as your welfare is our responsibility.

The Tashkent Declaration was signed in January 1966 by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and President Ayub Khan at Tashkent, then in the Soviet Union and now the capital of Uzbekistan, with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin as mediator.

Founded as Byzantium, the city became Constantinople as the capital of the eastern Roman empire and was officially renamed Istanbul in 1930; it straddles the Bosphorus and so lies partly in Europe and partly in Asia.

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

Shanti Van, which means the garden of peace, stands on the bank of the Yamuna in Delhi a little to the north of Raj Ghat and is the samadhi of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, who was cremated there in 1964.

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 Kachhwaha ruler of Amber shifted his capital from the hills down to the plain in 1727 and had the new city laid out by Vidyadhar Bhattacharya on a grid of nine rectangular blocks with wide straight streets, which makes Jaipur the first planned city of modern India; the same…

Fires are grouped by what is burning, and Class D covers burning metals such as magnesium, sodium, potassium, titanium and aluminium powder.

Doordarshan, India's public service television broadcaster under Prasar Bharati, carries the motto Satyam Shivam Sundaram, meaning the true, the auspicious and the beautiful.

The American astronaut commanded the Apollo 11 mission and stepped out of the lunar module on 20 July 1969, becoming the first human being to walk on the Moon.

Saigon was the capital of South Vietnam, and after the north and the south were united the city was renamed in 1976 after Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Vietnamese independence movement.

Hemis lies in eastern Ladakh, in high cold desert country, and is the largest national park in India by area.

Shakti Sthal, the place of strength, is the samadhi of Indira Gandhi, who was Prime Minister of India and was cremated there in 1984, and a large uncut rock from Haryana marks the spot.

The fifth ruler of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda founded the new city on the Musi in 1591 because the fortress of Golconda had grown too crowded, and he built the Charminar at its centre; accounts of the founding also mention the name Bhagyanagar.

Raymond, the textile and apparel company whose mill began at Thane, has used The Complete Man since the 1990s, with advertisements that showed a man as father, husband and colleague rather than only as a buyer of suiting fabric.

Parliament passed the law that changed the English spelling of the state's name to Odisha, together with a constitutional amendment that changed the name of its language from Oriya to Odia, so that both matched the local pronunciation.