General Knowledge Test 84

Unto This Last is an essay on economy by John Ruskin, first published in 1860. It had a profound impact on Mahatma Gandhi, who translated it into Gujarati as Sarvodaya.

The Tata Nano was a compact city car manufactured by Tata Motors, launched in 2008. The other options are brands from different international manufacturers.

Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant in 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.

Austria adopted the Euro as its official currency on January 1, 1999, replacing the Austrian Schilling. The other options are currencies of different countries.

The Bretton Woods Conference, held in July 1944 in New Hampshire, USA, established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. It is the foundational event for the post-war financial order.

Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. While Toronto and Montreal are larger cities, Ottawa was chosen as the capital in 1857.

Comets are icy small solar system bodies that, when passing close to the Sun, warm and begin to release gases, displaying a visible atmosphere or tail. They orbit the Sun in highly elliptical paths.

Annie Besant was a British socialist, theosophist, and women's rights activist who became the first woman President of the Indian National Congress in 1917.

Sheikh Abdullah was the founding leader of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, a major political party in the region of Jammu and Kashmir.

Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, was born in 1469 in Talwandi, which is now known as Nankana Sahib in present-day Pakistan.

The Right to Property was removed from the list of Fundamental Rights by the 44th Amendment Act, 1978, which was enacted during the Morarji Desai government.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy, a social reformer, established the Calcutta Unitarian Committee in 1821 to promote monotheistic worship and social reform.

London was one of the early major cities to announce and implement large-scale street lighting projects using LED technology to improve energy efficiency.

Chile is famous for its extreme length from north to south, stretching over 4,000 kilometers while being very narrow in width.

Sucheta Kripalani served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1963 to 1967, becoming the first woman to hold this office in any Indian state.

Ashapurna Devi was a Bengali novelist and poet who became the first woman to receive the Jnanpith Award in 1976 for her novel Pratham Pratisruti.

Vitamin K is essential for the synthesis of proteins required for blood coagulation. A deficiency leads to an inability to clot blood, resulting in excessive bleeding or hemorrhage.

International Women's Day is celebrated globally on March 8 every year to honor the achievements of women and advocate for gender equality.

Sunil Gavaskar is widely known by the nickname Little Master for his exceptional batting technique and performance in cricket.

Mahinda Rajapaksa (note spelling variant in question) was the President of Sri Lanka from 2005-2015, covering the year 2012. Ratnasiri Wickremanayake was briefly acting president, while King Juan Carlos and Denzil Douglas are from Spain and St. Kitts respectively, not Sri Lanka.

Benjamin Franklin is credited with the invention of bifocal lenses in the 18th century, as he grew tired of switching between two pairs of glasses.

Craig Venter (note spelling variant) was the first person to have his personal DNA sequenced through his company Celera in 2000, racing against the Human Genome Project. George Orwell is a writer, while Tom Green and Hamelin are not genomic scientists.

Zillur Rahman was elected as the President of Bangladesh in 2009, succeeding Iajuddin Ahmed. The other options are either political figures in different roles or incorrect.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a prominent Indian independence activist and served as the first Minister of Education in the Indian government. His birthday is celebrated as National Education Day in India.

The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an international award presented annually to honor a living architect, and it is widely considered to be the highest honor in the field, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture.