Static GK Mixed Quiz: Set 52

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences Act was passed in 1956 and AIIMS New Delhi was founded that year as an autonomous Institute of National Importance, free to design its own courses and award its own medical degrees.

It opened in 1951, the first of the IITs, in the buildings of the Hijli Detention Camp where political prisoners had been held under British rule.

Casa Rosada, the Pink House, stands on the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires and is the office and ceremonial seat of the President of Argentina.

The Elysee Palace in Paris has been the official residence and working office of the President of the French Republic since the middle of the nineteenth century, and the French Prime Minister, who is the head of government, works separately from the Hotel Matignon.

The Health Survey and Development Committee of 1946, chaired by Sir Joseph Bhore, examined the health services of the country and recommended, among much else, a national medical centre that would set the standard for teaching and research.

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

This large hall on the western side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing is where the National People's Congress, China's legislature, holds its sessions, and where state ceremonies and receptions for visiting leaders are held.

In 1976 the government merged the Press Trust of India, United News of India, Hindustan Samachar and Samachar Bharati into one agency called Samachar, a step widely seen as part of the control of the press during the Emergency.

The committee he headed in 1946 recommended higher technical institutions on the model of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to be placed in different parts of the country, and the first of them opened at Kharagpur in 1951.

The correct answer is B, Confucius, the Chinese teacher whose conversations and sayings were gathered by his disciples into the Analects, a work on duty, family order, learning and good government that shaped Chinese official life for centuries.

Big Ben is strictly the name of the large bell hung in the clock tower at the northern end of the Palace of Westminster.

On 15 January 1949 General K. M. Cariappa took charge as the first Indian Commander in Chief of the Indian Army, replacing the last British holder of the post, and the day has been observed as Army Day ever since.

The Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana was launched in 2003 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with two aims: to correct the uneven spread of good tertiary care across the country and to raise the number of medical seats.

He chaired the Indian National Committee for Space Research set up in 1962, chose Thumba for the first sounding rocket launches and argued that a poor country needed space technology for communication, education and weather rather than for prestige.

The Danish architect Jorn Utzon won the competition for the Sydney Opera House, whose shell shaped roofs stand on Bennelong Point in Sydney harbour.

After partition left the port of Karachi outside India, Kandla in the Gulf of Kutch was developed as the main gateway for the northern and western hinterland, which makes it the first major port developed after independence.

That institution began in 1847 as the Thomason College of Civil Engineering, built to train engineers for the Ganga canal works, became the University of Roorkee in 1949 and was converted into IIT Roorkee in 2001, making it the seventh IIT and the one with the longest history behind it.

The Potala Palace rises above Lhasa, the chief city of Tibet, and was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from the seventeenth century.

Before it, the IIMs were registered societies that could give only post graduate diplomas, which created difficulty for students who wanted to go on to research degrees abroad.

Bangabhaban in Dhaka is the official residence of the President of Bangladesh. The name itself carries the clue, since Banga is the old name of the Bengal region, and the building served earlier as the residence of the governor of East Bengal.