World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is observed on 8 May, the birth anniversary of
- A.Henry Dunant
- B.Florence Nightingale
- C.Louis Pasteur
- D.Alexander Fleming
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Henry Dunant, the Swiss businessman whose account of the wounded left on a battlefield led to the founding of the Red Cross movement and to the first Geneva Convention. He shared the first Nobel Peace Prize, and the movement observes his birthday as its day.
Option B, Florence Nightingale, is honoured on 12 May as International Nurses Day, and the two observances lie four days apart, which is what the question is testing. Option C, Louis Pasteur, developed vaccines and the process of pasteurisation, but no day in this pair of months marks his birth. Option D, Alexander Fleming, discovered penicillin and again has no observance in May or June. Note that 8 May is also World Thalassaemia Day, so a paper may offer the same date for two different answers.
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Practice Questions
View allWorld Press Freedom Day is observed every year on
- A.1 May
- B.3 May
- C.8 May
- D.17 May
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The day is kept to remind governments of their duty towards freedom of expression and to mark the risks journalists take in their work, and it is the first of the international observances in the month.
Read the full explanation →International Nurses Day, observed on 12 May, marks the birth anniversary of
- A.Mother Teresa
- B.Florence Nightingale
- C.Henry Dunant
- D.Karl Landsteiner
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Her work with wounded soldiers in the Crimean War and the training school she founded afterwards turned nursing into a trained profession, and the day carries her name in every account of it.
Read the full explanation →National Technology Day is observed in India on 11 May because on that day in 1998 India
- A.Launched its first satellite
- B.Conducted nuclear tests at Pokhran
- C.Set up its first supercomputer
- D.Started its first nuclear power station
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On 11 May 1998 India carried out nuclear tests at Pokhran in Rajasthan, and the same day brought the first test flight of the indigenous Hansa aircraft and a successful test of the Trishul missile.
Read the full explanation →World No Tobacco Day is observed on
- A.21 May
- B.29 May
- C.31 May
- D.1 June
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The day closes the month and is meant to draw attention to the harm caused by tobacco in every form and to the policies that reduce its use.
Read the full explanation →World Environment Day is observed every year on
- A.5 June
- B.8 June
- C.17 June
- D.22 May
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The United Nations General Assembly designated the day after the Conference on the Human Environment held at Stockholm in 1972, and it has been observed since 1973.
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