Which of the following year is celebrated as International Year of Sanitation?
Answer: D
2008 was the International Year of Sanitation.
Some 2.5 billion people then lacked basic sanitation, and diarrhoeal disease from contaminated water and poor hygiene was killing about 1.5 million children a year. The year sought to accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goal on sanitation.
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National Maritime Day falls in the month of
Answer: A
National Maritime Day in India falls on 5 April.
It marks the sailing of the SS Loyalty, the first ship of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company, from Bombay to London on that date in 1919 - the first voyage by an Indian-owned ship on that route.
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The 2017 National Broadcasting Day (NBD) is celebrated on which date in India?
Answer: A
National Broadcasting Day is observed in India on 23 July.
The Indian Broadcasting Company began the country's first organised radio service from Bombay on that date in 1927. It became All India Radio in 1936.
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November 30 is observed as-
Answer: A
30 November is Computer Security Day.
It was begun in 1988, the year of the Morris worm, the first internet worm, which disabled about a tenth of the machines then connected. The day promotes basic security practice.
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October 4 is observed as-
Answer: D
4 October is World Animal Day.
It is the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals, and has been observed since 1931. It promotes animal welfare and the recognition of animals as sentient beings.
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‘World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day’ for Year 2015 was observed on which date?
Answer: A
World COPD Day was observed on 18 November in 2015.
It falls on the third Wednesday of November, so the date moves. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the third leading cause of death worldwide, caused chiefly by smoking and by indoor air pollution from cooking fires.
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On which date, World Ocean Day is observed?
Answer: A
World Oceans Day is observed on 8 June.
It was proposed at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and recognised by the UN in 2008. The ocean covers 71 per cent of the planet, produces about half its oxygen and absorbs about a quarter of its carbon dioxide.
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Which of the following decade is celebrated as Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, particularly in Africa recognized by the UN?
Answer: B
2001–2010 was the Decade to Roll Back Malaria, particularly in Africa.
Africa carries about 90 per cent of the world's malaria deaths, most of them children under five. The decade's push on bed nets and artemisinin treatment cut mortality substantially.
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The United Nations declared 2005 as the international Year of-
Answer: D
2005 was the World Year of Physics, the International Year of Microcredit and the International Year for Sport and Physical Education - all three.
The physics year marked the centenary of Einstein's annus mirabilis of 1905, in which he published the papers on relativity, the photoelectric effect and Brownian motion.
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The United Nations declared 2000 as the International Year of-
Answer: D
2000 was the International Year of Thanksgiving, the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematical Year - all three.
The mathematical year was proposed by the International Mathematical Union in 1992, to mark the turn of the millennium and promote mathematics in the developing world.
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