Static GK Mixed Quiz: Set 61

The two chambers of the new Parliament House take their interior themes from India's national symbols. The Lok Sabha chamber is designed on the theme of the peacock, the national bird, and the Rajya Sabha chamber on the theme of the lotus, the national flower.

Guru Gobind Singh was born in 1666 at Patna in Bihar, while his father Guru Tegh Bahadur was travelling in the east, and the gurdwara Takht Sri Patna Sahib marks the site.

INS Viraat was an aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy and was decommissioned in March 2017. Viraat began life as the British carrier HMS Hermes, which served in the Falklands War.

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.

Surya Kiran is the annual joint military exercise of the Indian Army and the Nepali Army. The exercise began in 2011 and is held every year, alternately in India and Nepal.

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.

SPARSH stands for Scholarship for Promotion of Aptitude and Research in Stamps as a Hobby. The scheme was launched by the Department of Posts under the Ministry of Communications in 2017.

Naidu was a poet in English whose collections include The Golden Threshold and The Bird of Time, and the lyrical quality of her verse earned her the name Nightingale of India, or Bharat Kokila.

CAATSA stands for Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, a US federal law of 2017. The US Congress passed CAATSA in July 2017 and President Donald Trump signed it in August 2017.

In 1796 Jenner showed that material from a cowpox sore protected a boy against smallpox, the first deliberate vaccination, and the word vaccine itself comes from vacca, the Latin for cow.

The CHOGM in Malta was held in November 2015, not 2016, and no CHOGM took place in 2016. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is normally held every two years.

The Jawaharlal Nehru Port lies at Nhava Sheva across the harbour from Mumbai, in the Navi Mumbai area, and it handles the largest volume of container traffic of any port in India.

It places Group Captain below Wing Commander, but in the Indian Air Force a Wing Commander ranks below a Group Captain.

The Jatiya Sangsad, or National Parliament, is the single house legislature of Bangladesh and sits in the Sangsad Bhaban at Dhaka.

The OTA trains officers only for the Indian Army, so it is a single-service institution, not an inter-services one. The Officers Training Academy at Chennai trains short service commission officers, men and women, for the Army; a second OTA works at Gaya.

The Voice of India was an English journal started in Bombay in 1883 by Dadabhai Naoroji, who later merged it with the Indian Spectator; Gokhale was not its editor.

India's first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier, IAC-1, was built at Cochin Shipyard and commissioned into the Navy as INS Vikrant on 2 September 2022.

The Bahai House of Worship, known the world over as the Lotus Temple, stands at Bahapur near Kalkaji in New Delhi.

The Southern Naval Command has its headquarters at Kochi in Kerala, and it is the Navy's training command.

Bharatmala Pariyojana is the Union government's umbrella programme for developing national highways and road corridors.