Static GK Mixed Quiz: Set 59

Larsen & Toubro's Armoured Systems Complex at Hazira, near Surat in Gujarat, is India's first private sector unit for making howitzers.

Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 and his daughter Indira Gandhi on 19 November 1917, both at Allahabad, now Prayagraj, in the family home that Motilal Nehru named Anand Bhavan.

India joined the MTCR as its 35th member on 27 June 2016. The MTCR was set up in 1987 by the G7 countries as an informal group that limits the spread of missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles able to carry weapons of mass destruction.

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.

The Vijaynagar Advanced Landing Ground is in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh, in a remote valley close to the Myanmar border in the far east of the state.

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

Antrix is the commercial arm of ISRO, and ISRO works under the Department of Space. Antrix Corporation Limited was set up in Bengaluru in September 1992 as a government company wholly owned by the Government of India.

The Pampas is the temperate grassland of Argentina and Uruguay, a flat and fertile region of wheat farming and cattle ranching.

The South Eastern Railway zone has its headquarters at Garden Reach in Kolkata. South Eastern Railway was formed in 1955 from the old Bengal Nagpur Railway, whose head office at Garden Reach it inherited.

India has not signed the test-ban treaty of 1996, just as it is not a party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968, holding that both divide the world permanently into nuclear and non-nuclear states.

Multidimensional peacekeeping aims to stabilise a country after conflict and to consolidate the peace, while staying impartial between the parties.

The correct answer is B, Harihara and Bukka, the two brothers of the Sangama family who founded both the city and the empire of Vijayanagara on the Tungabhadra in 1336; its ruins at Hampi in Karnataka are a World Heritage Site.

This statement is not correct, because SAARC has nine observers, of which China is only one. SAARC was founded at its first summit in Dhaka on 8 December 1985 by seven countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

The Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research at Bombay was set up by the Reserve Bank of India as an advanced research and teaching centre in development economics and was inaugurated in 1987; it is a deemed university that works on energy, environment and macroeconomic policy.

Varuna is the naval exercise between India and France, not between India and the USA. India and France began their bilateral naval exercises in 1983, and the series was named Varuna in 2001; it has since been held regularly in the Indian Ocean and off the French coast.

The Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew scripture, is kept as a scroll in the synagogue and read aloud in worship; Judaism traces itself to Abraham and Moses and holds Jerusalem as its holy city.

The IMD was established on 15 January 1875, so it completed 150 years in 2025. The IMD was set up after a devastating cyclone hit Calcutta in 1864 and famines followed failed monsoons, showing the need for a single national weather service.

In May 2016 India signed agreements with Iran to develop the port of Chabahar, along with a trilateral transit pact with Iran and Afghanistan.

Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak founded the Sulabh movement in 1970 in Bihar to end manual scavenging and bring low-cost toilets to India.

DTTI is an India–US forum launched in 2012 to deepen defence trade and to develop and produce defence technology together.