Static GK Test: April 20, 2022 - Bank Exams MCQ

• The floating post office is located in the beautiful city of Srinagar in Kashmir, amidst picturesque snow-clad mountains on a huge houseboat in Dal Lake.
• It is not the only floating post office in India, but also in world, which makes it a unique piece of architecture.

● Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913 and a knighthood in 1915.

● He was a Bengali poet, novelist and painter best known for being the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

● He passed away on August 7, 1941.

• Taiwan is not as member of ASEAN.

• ASEAN stands for Association of Southeast Asian Nations and it was formed in 1967 under Bangkok Declaration.

• ASEAN has 10 member countries which are as follow-

Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Philippines and Indonesia.

• Its secretariat is located at Jakarta, Indonesia and 8^th august is observed as ASEAN Day.

• India ASEAN relation include

1) 10.6% India’s overall trade with ASEAN

2) 11.28% of our total export goes to ASEAN

3) ASEAN Indian Business council was established in 2003

• State bird of Rajasthan is Great Indian Bustard.
• State bird of Maharashtra is yellow footed green pigeon.
• State bird of Goa is Yellow throated bulbul.
• State bird of Gujrat is Greater flamingo.
• Great Indian Bustard is a critically endangered species and GOI is running Project Great Indian Bustard for it’s protection and conservation.
• Protected areas: Desert National Park Sanctuary — Rajasthan, Rollapadu Wildlife Sanctuary – Andhra Pradesh and Karera Wildlife Sanctuary– Madhya Pradesh.

• ‘An Indian Pilgrim’ was written by SC Bose.
• BR Ambedkar was a polyglot, highly intellectual, rational, and one of the most educated leaders of Indian national struggle, list of some of his books is-
• Annihilation of Caste, State and Minorities, Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah, Waiting for a Visa, Federation vs Freedom, Thoughts on Pakistan, Budha or Karl Marx, Riddles in Hinduism, Manu and Shudras etc.
• There are two most selling books of Ambedkar are the “Problem of rupee” and “The Annihilation of caste”.

India’s first feature film ‘Raja Harishchandra’ is a 1913 Indian silent film directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke. It features Dattatraya Damodar Dabke, Anna Salunke, Bhalchandra Phalke, and Gajanan Vasudev Sane and is based on the legend of Harishchandra, with Dabke portraying the title character. On 21^st April 1913, the film premiered at the Olympia Theatre, Bombay and had its theatrical release on 3 May 1913 at the Coronation Cinematograph and Variety Hall, Girgaon.

• The Sixth Buddhist Council, assembly convened in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar), from May 1954 to May 1956 to commemorate the 2,500th anniversary (according to the chronology of the Theravada branch of Buddhism) of the Buddha's parinibbana (entrance into final nibbana [Sanskrit: “nirvana”]).
• The Sixth Buddhist Council was a general council of Theravada Buddhism, held in a specially built cave and pagoda complex at Kaba Aye Pagoda in Yangon

• During Akbar’s reign, he started a department for translation of works: Mahabharata, the Ramayana, the Atharva –Veda, the Bhagavad Gita and the Panchatantra were translated from Sanskrit to the Persian language.
• Ramayana and Singhasan Batisi were translated by Mulla Abdul Qadir Badayuni into Persian.
• Atharva Veda was translated by Ibrahim Sirhindi. Panchatantra was translated in Persian by Faizi.

• The Yarlung Tsangpo (Tibetan name for the upper course of the Brahmaputra) originates near Mount Kailash and runs east for about 1,700 kilometres (1,100 mi), draining a northern section of the Himalayas before it enters the gorge just downstream of Pei, Tibet, near the settlement of Zhibe.
• Downstream from Arunachal Pradesh the river becomes far wider and is called the Siang. After reaching Assam, the river is known as Brahmaputra.

• Tawang Monastery is located in Tawang city of Tawang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, is the largest monastery in India and second largest in the world after the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.
• The monastery is a building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows. Buddhists believe that the spiritual quest of monks benefits the entire community and their rituals bring prosperity and protection.
• Buddhist religious life is revolving around ‘Sanghas’ which means an "Orders of Disciplines". Buddhists believe that the spiritual quest of monks benefits the entire community and their rituals bring prosperity and protection.