Days and Years Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Correct answer: 25th April

World Malaria Day was instituted by the World Health Assembly in 2007 and is observed on 25 April. It grew out of Africa Malaria Day, and marks progress in control while pressing for continued funding.

Answer: A

White Cane Safety Day, also called World Blind Day, is observed on 15 October.

The white cane is the recognised symbol of blindness and the tool by which a blind person navigates independently. World Sight Day, a separate observance, falls on the second Thursday of October.

Answer: D

The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is observed on 27 October.

UNESCO designated it in 2005, on the anniversary of its 1980 recommendation for the safeguarding of moving images. Much early film and tape has already decayed beyond recovery.

Answer: C

The International Day for Tolerance is observed on 16 November.

UNESCO adopted its Declaration of Principles on Tolerance on that date in 1995, during the United Nations Year for Tolerance.

Answer: D

16 October is World Food Day.

It marks the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization on that date in 1945, and has been observed since 1981. Each year takes a theme relating to hunger and food security.

Answer: A

World Leprosy Day is observed at the end of January, and the date given here is 29 January.

It is more usually kept on the last Sunday of January, chosen by Raoul Follereau in 1954 to fall near the anniversary of Gandhi's death on 30 January, since Gandhi had worked among leprosy patients.

Answer: C

The International Day of Democracy is observed on 15 September.

The General Assembly designated it in 2007, on the anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Democracy adopted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union in 1997.

Answer: A

World Teachers' Day is observed on 5 October.

UNESCO began it in 1994, on the anniversary of its 1966 recommendation on the status of teachers. India keeps its own Teachers' Day on 5 September, Radhakrishnan's birthday.

Answer: B

World No Tobacco Day falls on 31 May.

The World Health Organization has kept it on that date since 1988. Tobacco kills more than eight million people a year, over a million of them non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke.

Answer: A

Vijay Diwas is celebrated on 16 December.

Pakistan's eastern command surrendered at Dhaka on that date in 1971, ending the war and creating Bangladesh. About 93,000 prisoners were taken, the largest surrender since the Second World War.