Static GK Mixed Quiz: Set 62

The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) has its headquarters at Yokohama in Japan. ITTO is an intergovernmental body set up under the International Tropical Timber Agreement of 1983 and working since 1986.

Birsa Munda was born in 1875 at Ulihatu in the Khunti district of present-day Jharkhand, then part of the Chotanagpur region of Bengal and later Bihar.

The Andaman and Nicobar Command was set up by India in 2001, long after the Second World War. The Command was raised in October 2001, following the recommendations of the Group of Ministers set up after the Kargil War to reform national security.

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.

The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has its headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand. ESCAP is one of the five regional commissions of the UN Economic and Social Council.

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.

"Brexit" joins "Britain" and "exit" and means the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union. In a referendum on 23 June 2016, about 52% of voters chose to leave the EU.

Parliament passed the law that changed the English spelling of the state's name to Odisha, together with a constitutional amendment that changed the name of its language from Oriya to Odia, so that both matched the local pronunciation.

Sampriti is the joint military exercise of the Indian Army and the Bangladesh Army, and the 2017 edition was one round of this long-running series.

Sher Shah Suri, who defeated Humayun and ruled from 1540 to 1545, was buried at his home town Sasaram in Bihar, and his tomb stands on a stone platform in the middle of a large artificial tank, an octagonal building counted among the finest works of the period between the…

Tokyo was called Edo until 1868, when it was renamed Tokyo, which means eastern capital.

The correct answer is B, Sikandar Lodi, the second ruler of the Lodi dynasty, who founded Agra on the Yamuna in 1504 and made it his capital so that he could keep a closer watch on the chiefs of the east and the Rajputs of the south.

India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, made solidarity with the newly free nations of Asia and Africa a central pillar of India's foreign policy.

The correct answer is B, Pavapuri, in Nalanda district of Bihar, where a marble temple stands in a lotus tank at the spot held to be the place of his nirvana; Diwali is observed by Jains as the anniversary of that event.

A Captain of the Navy stands level with a Colonel of the Army and a Group Captain of the Air Force.

Paul Julius Reuter, who had earlier worked for Havas in Paris and had used carrier pigeons to carry stock prices between Aachen and Brussels, moved to London and founded his telegraph news office there in 1851, close to the Stock Exchange.

The Indian Air Force has a separate Maintenance Command, with its headquarters at Nagpur, which looks after the repair, overhaul and supply of aircraft and equipment.

The right to property is part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Article 17 says everyone has the right to own property and no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of it.

South Africa joined the group in late 2010, turning BRIC into BRICS, and its first summit as a member was the third summit of the group, held at Sanya on Hainan Island in China in April 2011.

The Jammu and Kashmir Rifles (JAK RIF) is a regular infantry regiment with its Regimental Centre at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.