Static GK Test: April 04, 2022 - Bank Exams MCQ

● Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was the second President of India to die in office. He served as the fifth President of India from 1974 to 1977.

● Dr. Zakir Husain was the first Muslim President of India and the first Indian President to die in office. He served as the third President of India from 1967 to 1969.

• At New Delhi place is the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library located.

• The NMML is a museum and library in New Delhi which aims to reconstruct and preserve the history of the Indian independence movement.

• The NMML archives contain the bulk of Mahatma Gandhi's writings, B. C. Roy, as well as private papers of C. Rajagopalachari, Jayaprakash Narayan, Charan Singh, Sarojini Naidu and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur.

• Some important monuments in Delhi are following:-

o Red Fort

o Qutub Minar

o Jantar Mantar

o Humayun Tomb

o Lakshmi Narayan Temple

o Moti Masjid

o President house

o Purana Qila

o Khirki Masjid

• India joined the United Nations after ratifying the UN Charter in October 1945.
• The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization and the aims of UN to maintain international Security and peace, achieve international cooperation, develop friendly relations among nations, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
• The headquarters of the UN is in New York City.
• UN is the most familiar, largest, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world.
• On 25 April 1945, started drafting the UN Charter and it was adopted on 25 June 1945 and took effect on 24 October 1945.

● Viswanathan Anand, Pentala Harikrishna, and Vidit Gujrathi are Indian chess players.

● Viswanathan Anand became the first grandmaster from India in 1988. He is a five-time world chess champion. He was the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 1991–92.

● Pentala Harikrishna became the youngest grandmaster from India on 12^th September 2001, a record now held by Gukesh D. He was Commonwealth Champion in 2001, World Junior Champion in 2004, and Asian Individual Champion in 2011.

● Vidit Gujrathi is currently the third-highest rated player in India (behind Viswanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna).

● The longest continuous wall in India, the second longest in the world, is at Kumbhalgarh Fort. The fort wall extends to an enormous length of 36 kilometres and is popularly known as “The Great Wall of India”.

● Kumbhalgarh is a Mewar fortress on the westerly range of Aravalli Hills, in the Rajsamand district of Rajasthan. It is a World Heritage Site included in Hill Forts of Rajasthan. It is the second-largest fort in India after Chittor Fort.

● Hridaynath award for Lifetime achievement carries a cash prize of ₹100000.

● The award will be conferred by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Mumbai.

● Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi has been named for 2018 Hridaynath Award for Lifetime Achievement.

• Buddha, (born c. 6th–4th century BCE, Lumbini), the founder of Buddhism, one of the major religions and philosophical systems of southern and eastern Asia and of the world.
• All forms of Buddhism celebrate various events in the life of the Buddha Gautama, including his birth, enlightenment, and passage into nirvana.
• After a long meditation, He got the true knowledge under a peepal tree at Bodh Gaya. After that, he became Buddha means "Enlightened One". He delivered his first sermon at Sarnath near Varanasi and got nirvana at Kushinagar in eastern UP.

• The Governors-General were originally the head of the British administration in India during Colonial rule. Complete authority over all of British India was granted in 1833, and the official came to be known as the "Governor-General of India".
• Warren Hastings (1773-1785)- Became Governor in 1772 and Governor-General in 1773 through Regulating Act of 1773. He Started Diwani and Faujdari adalat at the district level and Sadar diwani and Nizamat adalats (appellate courts) at Calcutta.

• Akbar's court had 9 eminent people also called nine gems (Navaratnas) who helped Akbar make key decisions These Navratnas were proficient in different art fields. The navratnas of Akbar were as follows: Raja Birbal, Miyan Tansen, Abul Fazal, Faizi, Raja Man Singh, Raja Todar Mal, Mullah Do Piazza, Fakir Aziao-Din, Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana.
• Raja Birbal was a great singer and poet in the Mughal Court of Akbar the Great. He was a master in Sanskrit, Persian and Hindi languages. He played the role of the court jester in the court of Akbar.
• Raja Man Singh was the Raja of Amber and was one of the famous Navaratnas of the royal court of Akbar. He was a general in Akbar’s army and was the grandson of Akbar’s father-in-law Bharmal.
• Raja Todar Mal was the Finance Minister of the Mughal empire during Akbar's reign.

• On 22 July 1947, the design of the National Flag was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India. The Constituent Assembly on 22 July, 1947 adopted it as Free India National Flag.
• After Independence, the colours and significance remained the same. Only the change that took place was instead of the spinning wheel, the Dharma Chakra of Emperor Ashoka was adopted as the emblem of the national flag. Eventually, the tricolour flag of the Congress Party became the tricolour flag of Independent India.