Days and Years Questions and Answers

Answer: B

International Mother Language Day was first celebrated on 21 February 2000.

UNESCO chose the date to mark the Bengali Language Movement of 1952, when students were shot dead at Dhaka demonstrating for the recognition of Bengali. A language dies about every two weeks.

Answer: B

International Migrants Day is observed on 18 December.

The date marks the adoption in 1990 of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. About 281 million people live outside their country of birth.

Answer: C

Andhra Pradesh observed Farmer and Women Week from 15 September 2011.

It combined the observance of Engineers' Day with a programme addressing the concerns of farmers and rural women, at a time of severe agrarian distress in the state.

Answer: C

Valentine's Day is celebrated on 14 February.

It is named after Saint Valentine, a Roman priest martyred in the third century. Its association with romantic love dates from Chaucer's time in the fourteenth century.

Answer: D

Correct answer: 2nd December

National Pollution Control Day is observed on 2 December in memory of those who died in the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984. It is intended to raise awareness of industrial safety and of the laws framed to control pollution.

Answer: B

International Women's Day is celebrated on 8 March.

It grew out of the labour movements of the early twentieth century and was recognised by the UN in 1975. In several countries it is a public holiday.

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: D

1997–2006 was the First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty.

A second decade followed from 2008 to 2017. The first grew out of the Copenhagen Social Summit of 1995, at which governments committed themselves for the first time to eradicating absolute poverty by a target date.

Answer: D

The World Day against the Death Penalty is observed on 10 October.

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty began it in 2003. More than two-thirds of the world's countries have now abolished capital punishment in law or in practice.

Answer: B

1994–2004 was the First International Decade of the World's Indigenous People.

It was proclaimed to strengthen international cooperation on the problems indigenous communities face in human rights, environment, development, education and health.