Static GK Mixed Quiz: Set 55

The New Development Bank was set up by the BRICS countries, not by APEC, and its headquarters is in Shanghai.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on 14 April 1891 at Mhow, a military cantonment town in the Indore region of what is now Madhya Pradesh, where his father was serving in the army.

Article 18 of the UN Charter lists all three as 'important questions' that need a two-thirds majority of members present and voting.

IIM Ahmedabad was founded in December 1961 with Harvard's help, which is why its teaching has always leaned on the case method.

India, Nepal and the Maldives signed the SAARC Charter in 1985, while Afghanistan joined only in 2007. SAARC was set up at the Dhaka summit on 8 December 1985 by seven South Asian countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Lutyens was the chief architect of imperial New Delhi and designed the Viceroy's House, built between 1912 and 1929 on Raisina Hill.

Ajeya Warrior is the joint company-level exercise of the Indian Army and the British Army, held once every two years, alternately in India and the United Kingdom.

The Inuit, earlier called Eskimo, live along the Arctic coasts of Greenland, Canada and Alaska. In winter they build the igloo, a dome of cut snow blocks, and in summer they live in the tupik, a tent of animal skin.

Statement 2 is correct, but statement 1 is wrong because the first IONS was held in 2008, not 2015. The Indian Ocean Naval Symposium was conceived by the Indian Navy, and its inaugural edition took place in New Delhi in February 2008 with India as the first chair.

Shimbun is the Japanese word for newspaper, and Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun are the two best known Japanese dailies; Yomiuri Shimbun has for many years had one of the largest circulations of any newspaper in the world, and Nihon Keizai Shimbun, known as Nikkei, is the leading financial daily…

The Belt and Road Initiative is China's plan, announced by President Xi Jinping in 2013, to build roads, railways, ports, pipelines and power links connecting China with Asia, Europe and Africa.

The correct answer is A, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, the founder of the Tata group, after whom the steel town built by his company on the Subarnarekha in the first years of the twentieth century is named; it is also called Tatanagar, which remains the name of its railway station.

India is a member of all three groupings. India is a founding member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which began work in 2016 with its headquarters in Beijing; India is its second-largest shareholder after China.

The correct answer is A, the Bahai faith, founded by Bahaullah in nineteenth century Persia, whose scripture is the Kitab-i-Aqdas and whose Indian house of worship is the marble building at New Delhi shaped like a lotus in bloom, open to people of every religion and holding no images.

Iran has never been a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council, though it lies on the Persian Gulf. The GCC was founded in May 1981 in Abu Dhabi by six Arab monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

She became Prime Minister of Ceylon, the island now called Sri Lanka, in 1960, and was the first woman anywhere in the world to head a government as Prime Minister.

AIIB has well over 80 members, but China, not India, is its largest shareholder, and many members are outside Asia.

Kangchenjunga rises to 8,586 metres on the border of Sikkim with Nepal and is the third highest mountain in the world after Mount Everest and K2.

Under the ASEAN Charter, the Chairmanship rotates every year among the member states in the alphabetical order of their English names, so statement 1 is correct.

The Organization of Turkic States brings together countries whose main languages belong to the Turkic family. It began in 2009 as the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States, often called the Turkic Council, under the Nakhchivan Agreement, and took its present name in 2021.