Static GK Mixed Quiz: Set 60

India signed a contract worth about 5.4 billion US dollars with Russia in October 2018 for five squadrons of the S-400 Triumf long-range surface-to-air missile system.

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in 1888 at Tiruchirappalli in present-day Tamil Nadu and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light, the discovery announced on 28 February 1928 that is remembered every year as National Science Day.

The Eastern Railway zone of Indian Railways has its headquarters at Fairlie Place in Kolkata. Eastern Railway was formed in 1952 out of the East Indian Railway, one of the oldest railway companies in India, whose first train in the east ran from Howrah to Hooghly in 1854.

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 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action were adopted at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in September 1995.

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

Maitree is the joint military exercise of the Indian Army and the Royal Thai Army. It began in 2006 and is held in India and Thailand by turns.

Charles-Louis Havas opened Agence Havas in Paris in 1835 to translate and sell foreign news, which makes it the first news agency in the world; the business was reorganised in 1944 and has been known since then as Agence France-Presse.

The National Water Academy is at Khadakwasla, near Pune in Maharashtra. The Academy is run by the Central Water Commission under the Ministry of Jal Shakti.

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

UNESCO named the Brazilian city the first ever World Capital of Architecture, for the year 2020. The title was created by UNESCO together with the International Union of Architects (UIA).

Anamudi stands 2,695 metres high in the Idukki district of Kerala, in the Anaimalai hills of the Western Ghats, close to Eravikulam National Park, which protects the Nilgiri tahr.

T-55, T-72 and T-90 are Soviet and Russian-designed main battle tanks, while T-155 is not a tank at all; the name belongs to a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer made in Turkey.

Greenland lies between the Arctic and the Atlantic, is covered almost entirely by an ice sheet and is an autonomous territory of Denmark.

Pairs I, II and III are correct; pair IV is wrong because UNTSO works in the Middle East, not Haiti.

The Indian elephant, Elephas maximus indicus, was declared the National Heritage Animal in 2010 on the recommendation of the Elephant Task Force, so that its protection could be given the same weight as that of the tiger.

IMBEX stands for the India-Myanmar Bilateral Military Exercise, held between the two armies. The exercise began in 2017, and its focus has been training Myanmar army officers for United Nations peacekeeping duties, including drills on handling crowds, protecting civilians and running a peacekeeping camp.

The Great Indian Bustard, known in Rajasthan as the godawan, is one of the heaviest flying birds in the world and one of the most threatened.

The famous line opens the Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO, adopted in London in November 1945.

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) was formed in 1927 and was recognised by the International Olympic Committee the same year.