Static GK Mixed Quiz: Set 49

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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.

Paul Allen founded Microsoft with his school friend Bill Gates in 1975. Allen and Gates started the company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to write software for the early personal computer Altair 8800, and the name came from "microcomputer software".

Paul Julius Reuter, who had earlier worked for Havas in Paris and had used carrier pigeons to carry stock prices between Aachen and Brussels, moved to London and founded his telegraph news office there in 1851, close to the Stock Exchange.

The ILO was set up in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles, became the first specialised agency of the United Nations in 1946, has its headquarters at Geneva and works on a tripartite basis with governments, employers and workers.

The correct answer is C, Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Guru, who compiled the Adi Granth in 1604 and installed it in the Harmandir Sahib at Amritsar.

Jinnah founded Dawn in Delhi in 1941 as the English newspaper of the Muslim League, and after partition it moved to Karachi, where it continues as one of the best known English dailies of Pakistan.

Humayun's Tomb was raised in Delhi by his widow Bega Begum, also known as Haji Begum, with Mirak Mirza Ghiyas as the architect, and it is the first garden tomb of the subcontinent, placed at the centre of a walled char bagh crossed by water channels.

The Masai are semi nomadic cattle herders of the East African savanna grassland, living in and around the Great Rift Valley.

The correct answer is B, Francis Day and Andrew Cogan, officers of the English East India Company who in 1639 obtained a strip of coast from the local ruler and built Fort St George, around which the town of Madras grew.

Field Marshal is the five star rank of the Indian Army and stands above every other rank. It is ceremonial and is conferred only as a rare honour, and the officer who holds it never retires but remains on the active list of the Army for life.

Sircar, a physician of Calcutta, founded the association in 1876 so that Indians could do original research in science rather than only learn it, and it was in its laboratory that C. V. Raman did the work that won the Nobel Prize.

The three word motto, faster, higher, stronger, was coined by Father Henri Didon and taken up by Pierre de Coubertin for the modern games; in 2021 the International Olympic Committee added the fourth word so that the motto now reads faster, higher, stronger, together, to stress solidarity along with individual…

On 24 January 1950, two days before the Constitution came into force, the United Provinces was officially renamed Uttar Pradesh.

The World Press Freedom Index has been brought out since 2002 by Reporters Without Borders, a non-governmental organisation based in Paris, which ranks countries on the conditions in which journalists work.

In 1893 New Zealand, then a self-governing colony, gave women the right to vote in national elections, the first country in the world to do so, after a long campaign led by Kate Sheppard.

The Pygmy peoples, among them the Mbuti of the Ituri forest, the Baka and the Efe, live in the dense equatorial rainforest of Central Africa.

Article 53 of the Constitution vests the supreme command of the defence forces of the Union in the President, to be exercised in accordance with law.

The Bushmen or San are hunter gatherers of the Kalahari desert, which lies across Botswana, Namibia and part of South Africa.

The three services keep parallel ladders so that officers of equal standing can work together. At that level the Army has a Colonel, the Navy a Captain and the Air Force a Group Captain.