Test: World Organisations and Diversities- 1 - Class 8 MCQ

The theme of the 2017 National Yoga Olympiad was 'Yoga for Health and Harmony'. The olympiad was launched by NCERT for all government and non-governmental aided schools.

SAARC was founded in Dhaka on 8 December 1985. It is the regional intergovernmental organization in South Asia and promotes development of economic and regional integration.
it has 8 members which includes; Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Abuja is the national capital of Nigeria and is in the middle of the country, in the center of the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria.
Abuja is a planned city, which means that architects designed it specifically to be Nigeria's capital city.

Mercer Quality of Living Survey ranks 231 cities for Vienna to Baghdad on quality if life. Vienna tops the ranking for the last eight years in the survey.

Oslo is the capital city of Norway and also its largest city. In the 17th century, King Christian IV of Norway conferred the name Christiania to the city of Oslo. In 1925 the name of the city was changed to Oslo.

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of states in South Asia.
Bamiyan was given the honour of being the SAARC Cultural Capital for the year 2015-16. Bamiyan is located in Afghanistan and is best known for two 6th century colossal statues of Buddhas , belonging to ancient Gandhara School of Art.

The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. It is currently made up of 193 Member States. The mission and work of the United Nations are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter.
The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, and came into force on 24 October 1945.

In a bid to safeguard the world from hackers and growing data breaches, the World Economic Forum (WEF) launched new Global Centre for Cyber security.
The centre will be headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and operational from March 2018.

A public vote was held in 2016 to decide whether the UK should leave or remain with the European Union. The referendum turnout was very high at 72% people voting for Brexit.
29 March 2019 was planned to be Brexit day but it may be postponed due to political disagreements.

There are six official languages of the UN. These are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. 
The correct interpretation and translation of these six languages, in both spoken and written form, is very important to the work of the Organization, because this enables clear and concise communication on issues of global importance.