Practice Quiz set 3 - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) World Wild Life Fund was founded in :
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The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), earlier known as the World Wildlife Fund, was founded on April 29, 1961. It is the world's largest conservation organization, working in the field of the biodiversity conservation, and the reduction of humanity's footprint on the environment. It is headquartered in Vaud, Switzerland.
Q-2) Which from the following countries is not a permanent member of the UN Security Council ?
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The five permanent members in the United Nations Security Council are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
Q-3) Human Development Index is prepared by
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Human Development Index (HDI) is published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the global development network of the United Nations.
HDI is a statistical tool used to measure a country’s overall achievement in terms of health of people, their level of education attainment and their standard of living.
Q-4) Which from the following countries is not a permanent member of the UN Security Council ?
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There are 5 veto-wielding permanent members in the United Nations Security Council—China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States— based on the great powers that were the victors of World War II.
Q-5) The International Court of Justice sits in
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The International Court of Justice is the primary judicial organ of the United Nations. It is based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, the Netherlands. Its main functions are to settle legal disputes submitted to it by states and to provide advisory opinions on legal questions submitted to it by duly authorised international organs, agencies, and the UN General Assembly.
Established in 1945 by the UN Charter, the Court began work in 1946 as the successor to the Permanent Court of International Justice. The Statute of the International Court of Justice, similar to that of its predecessor, is the main constitutional document constituting and regulating the Court.
The Court’s workload covers a wide range of judicial activity. To date, the ICJ has dealt with relatively few cases. However, since the 1980s there has been a clear increase in willingness to use the Court, especially among developing countries
Q-6) As required by the WTO agreement, the Indian Patent Act was amended in 1999. The Act first came into force in the year
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Patent Act and Patents Act (with their variations) are stock short titles used in Canada, India, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States for legislation relating to patents. A Patent Act is a country’s legislation that controls the use of patents, such as the Patentgesetz in Germany.
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time, in exchange for the public disclosure of the invention.
Under the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, patents should be available in WTO member states for any invention, in all fields of technology, and the term of protection available should be a minimum of twenty years.
In many countries, certain subject areas are excluded from patents, such as business methods and computer programs
Q-7) The Headquarters of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is at
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
It serves both developed and developing countries. The world headquarters are located in Rome, in the former seat of the Department of Italian East Africa.
One of the most notable features of the building was the Axum Obelisk which stood in front of the agency seat, although just outside of the territory allocated to FAO by the Italian Government.
It was taken from Ethiopia by Benito Mussolini’s troops in 1937 as a war chest and returned on 18 April 2005.
Q-8) The Headquarters of the International Monetary Fund is located at
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The International Monetary Fund is headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. It is an international organization that was created on July 22, 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and came into existence on December 27, 1945 when 29 countries signed the Articles of Agreement.
Q-9) “World Economic Outlook” report is published by which of the following ?
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The World Economic Outlook (WEO) is a survey conducted and published by the International Monetary Fund. It is published biannually and partly updated two times a year. It portrays the world economy in the near and medium context, with projections for up to four years into the future.
Q-10) Ban Ki Moon, the present Secretary General of U.N.O., belongs to
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Ban Ki-Moon is a native of South Korea. He is the Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2007.
Note: As of 2017, the Secretary-General is António Guterres and he is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who is serving as the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Previously, he was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015.