World Food Day is observed on 16 October to mark the founding of which organisation?
- A.World Health Organization
- B.Food and Agriculture Organization
- C.World Trade Organization
- D.United Nations Development Programme
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the Food and Agriculture Organization, which was founded on 16 October 1945 and has its headquarters at Rome in Italy. World Food Day is kept on the anniversary of that founding, and it draws attention to hunger, nutrition and the security of the world's food supply.
Option A, the World Health Organization, was founded on 7 April 1948, a date observed as World Health Day, and it works from Geneva. Option C, the World Trade Organization, came into being on 1 January 1995 in place of the GATT and is also based at Geneva. Option D, the United Nations Development Programme, was set up in 1965 and publishes the Human Development Report. None of these three is connected with 16 October.
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Practice Questions
View allTeachers' Day is celebrated in India on 5 September, the birth anniversary of which person?
- A.Dr Rajendra Prasad
- B.Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- C.Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- D.Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
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He was a philosopher and a teacher who became the first Vice President and the second President of India, and when his students wished to celebrate his birthday he asked that the day be kept for teachers instead.
Read the full explanation →Hindi Diwas is observed on 14 September every year to mark which event?
- A.The declaration of Hindi as the national language of India
- B.The adoption of Hindi in the Devanagari script as an official language in 1949
- C.The publication of the first Hindi newspaper
- D.The birth anniversary of Munshi Premchand
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On 14 September 1949 the Constituent Assembly decided that Hindi written in the Devanagari script would be an official language of the Union, a decision that later became Article 343 of the Constitution, and that date is kept every year as Hindi Diwas.
Read the full explanation →Engineers' Day is observed in India on 15 September in memory of which engineer?
- A.Sir M. Visvesvaraya
- B.Homi J. Bhabha
- C.Vikram Sarabhai
- D.Satish Dhawan
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He was the engineer behind the Krishna Raja Sagara dam and the flood protection works of Hyderabad, served as Diwan of Mysore and was given the Bharat Ratna in 1955.
Read the full explanation →World Ozone Day is observed on which date?
- A.5 September
- B.16 September
- C.16 October
- D.5 June
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The day, formally the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, marks the signing of the Montreal Protocol on 16 September 1987, the agreement under which countries agreed to stop using chlorofluorocarbons and other substances that thin the ozone layer.
Read the full explanation →International Literacy Day is celebrated every year on which date?
- A.8 September
- B.8 October
- C.21 September
- D.11 October
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International Literacy Day was declared by UNESCO in 1966 and has been observed every year since to remind governments of the work left in teaching people to read and write.
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