Teaching GK Questions 2026

That decision, taken on 14 September 1949, was later written into Article 343 of the Constitution, and the anniversary has been observed within India as Hindi Diwas.

A congress convened by Pierre de Coubertin at the Sorbonne in Paris established the International Olympic Committee on 23 June 1894, and national Olympic committees mark the anniversary with runs and open sporting events.

Dhyan Chand was born on 29 August 1905 and was part of the Indian hockey teams that won the Olympic gold medal in 1928, 1932 and 1936; he is regarded as the finest hockey player the country has produced, and the national sports awards are conferred on his birthday each…

The day was proposed by the International Council on Monuments and Sites and approved by UNESCO in 1983, and it is used to draw public attention to the conservation of historic buildings, archaeological sites and cultural landscapes, including the sites on the World Heritage List.

International Museum Day was declared by the International Council of Museums, and on it museums across the world open to the public around a common annual theme meant to show the part museums play in education and in society.

Noverre was the French dancer and choreographer who argued that ballet should tell a story through expressive movement rather than remain a display of steps, and the International Theatre Institute chose his birthday, 29 April, for International Dance Day.

World Theatre Day was instituted in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute, and every year a figure from world theatre delivers an international message that is read out in theatres across many countries.

UNESCO fixed this date because it carries unusual literary weight: Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, died on 23 April 1616, and the same date is traditionally given for the death of William Shakespeare.

The seven voyages of Sindbad belong to the Arabian Nights, a collection of tales in Arabic that grew over many centuries from Persian, Indian and Arab sources and has no single author; the same is true of Aladdin and Ali Baba.

A British naval intelligence officer during the Second World War, Fleming turned his experience into fiction and introduced James Bond, the agent with the code number 007, in Casino Royale in 1953, following it with eleven more novels and two collections of stories.

Victor Frankenstein is a student of natural philosophy who assembles a being from dead matter and gives it life, then abandons it in horror; the being itself is never named in the novel and is called the creature, the being or the daemon.

Published from 1888, Chandrakanta tells of the princess Chandrakanta and prince Virendra Singh and of the ayyars, the shape-shifting spies who serve them, moving through a tilism, an enchanted maze of traps and illusions.

He invented the small south Indian town of Malgudi and set almost all his fiction there, beginning with Swami and Friends in 1935, whose schoolboy hero gave the collection Malgudi Days its world.

He created Chacha Chaudhary, the small turbaned old man whose brain is said to work faster than a computer, and his giant companion Sabu from the planet Jupiter, and the strip became one of the most widely read Indian comics in Hindi and in many other languages.

Born in Bombay, Kipling created the boy Mowgli, raised by wolves in the Seoni forests of central India, along with the tiger Shere Khan, the bear Baloo, the panther Bagheera and the python Kaa, in The Jungle Book of 1894.

Published in 1936, Godan is the best known novel of Munshi Premchand, the pen name of Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, and it follows the peasant Hori and his wife Dhania as their small ambition of owning a cow is destroyed by debt, caste and the demands of the landlord.

The film-maker was also a prolific writer for young readers in Bengali, and he created Pradosh Chandra Mitra, called Feluda, who solves cases with his cousin Topshe and the thriller writer Lalmohan Ganguly, nicknamed Jatayu.

The Scottish physician and writer introduced Holmes in A Study in Scarlet in 1887 and went on to write four novels and more than fifty short stories about him, narrated by Dr John Watson, with the address 221B Baker Street in London.

Oliver Twist, published in instalments from 1837, is his second novel and follows an orphan boy from a workhouse into a gang of young thieves in London, giving English the figures of Fagin, the Artful Dodger and Bill Sikes.

Children in both groups received this formulation, made of Brahmi, Shankhpushpi, Yashtimadhu, which is liquorice, and Guduchi, administered twice a day with milk.