General Knowledge

Option: C
Explanation :A Grammy Award (originally called Gramophone Award), is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievements in the music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of those awards that have a more popular interest. The Grammys are the second of the Big Three major music awards held annually.

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Option: B
Explanation :“Sia” in the Balti language refers to the rose family plant widely dispersed in the region. “Chun” refers to any object found in abundance. Thus the name Siachen refers to a land with an abundance of roses.
The Siachen Glacier is a glacier located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalayas at about 35.421226°N 77.109540°E, just northeast of the point NJ9842 where the Line of Control between India and Pakistan ends. At 76 km (47 mi) long, it is the longest glacier in the Karakoram and second-longest in the world’s non-polar areas.

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Option: C
Explanation :Germany became the first nation in the world to adopt an old-age social insurance program in 1889, designed by Germany’s Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. The idea was first put forward, at Bismarck’s behest, in 1881 by Germany’s Emperor, William the First, in a ground-breaking letter to the German Parliament. William wrote: “. . .those who are disabled from work by age and invalidity have a well-grounded claim to care from the state.”

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Option: D
Explanation :According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the longest road in the world is the Pan-American Highway. The road spans 48,000 km(29,800 miles) from Prudhoe Bay in North Alaska to Ushuaia, in Argentina. The United States boasts of some of the world’s longest highways.
This project was planned in 1923, and Mexico completed its first half in 1950.it is designed as interconnecting highways and links more than 20 countries in America excluding a gap halfway amid Panama and Columbia, it is a 100 km stretch and is known as Darien gap. It stretches from Buenos Aries in SA to Edmonton in NA. Longest highway in the world.

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Option: B
Explanation :At one time Yonge Street(Toronto-Canada) held the Guinness Book of World Records for the Longest Street in the World. There is some controversy regarding this now, Guinness has removed it from the record books, but Toronto clings to the name. Seems at one time Yonge St was part of a larger system called Highway Due to changes in the way the road system was run, it was disassociated from Highway. However, Torontonians still claim it’s all the same road.
It now lists the longest motorable road in the world. The longest motorable road in the world is the Pan-American Highway that covers 18 different countries and is connected to three others, spanning the two continents of North and South America. The Pan-American Highway stretches for a whopping 48,000 km and crosses a diverse variety of terrains and climates.
However, there is a break of approximately 100 km in the middle of the Pan-American Highway.
The 100 km gap in the Pan-American Highway is called the Darien Gap. The gap exists between Central America and South America with the two countries involved being Panama and Columbia. The Darien Gap is entirely a stretch of marshland.

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Option: B
Explanation :The fourteenth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD 14) on 17-22-July-2016 Nairobi (Kenya), will bring together Heads of State and Government, ministers and other prominent players from the business world, civil society and academia to tackle global trade and economic development issues.
The quadrennial Conference will also be a unique opportunity to consider the most appropriate means of delivering on the post-2015 development agenda. It will also decide on UNCTAD’s programme of work.

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Option: A
Explanation :The Burj Khalifa known as the Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration in 2010, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft) and a roof height (excluding antenna) of 828 m (2,717 ft), the Burj Khalifa has been the tallest structure and building in the world since its topping out in 2009.

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Option: B
Explanation :Name of UNO was adopted at the suggestion of Roosevelt. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt first suggested using the name United Nations to refer to the Allies of World War II to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the latter’s three-week visit to the White House in December 1941. Roosevelt suggested the name as an alternative to “Associated Powers”, a term the U.S. used in the First World War. Churchill accepted the idea and cited Lord Byron’s use of the phrase “United Nations” in the poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, which referred to the Allies at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

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Option: C
Explanation :The flag of the United Nations was adopted on December 7, 1946, and consists of the official emblem of the United Nations in white on a blue background. The emblem’s design is described as:
(i) A map of the world representing an azimuthal equidistant projection centred on the North Pole, inscribed in a wreath consisting of crossed conventionalized branches of the olive tree. The projection of the map extends to 60 degrees south latitude, and includes five concentric circles.
(ii) Official Seal and Emblem of the United Nations, Report of the Secretary-General, 15 October 1946.
The olive branches are a symbol for peace, and the world map represents all the people and the countries of the world.
White and blue are the official colours of the United Nations.

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Option: A
Explanation :On 25 April 1945, 50 governments met in San Francisco for a conference and started drafting the UN Charter, which was adopted on 25 June 1945 in the San Francisco Opera House, and signed on 26 June 1945 in the Herbst Theatre auditorium in the Veterans War Memorial Building. This charter took effect on 24 October 1945, UNO formally come into existence.

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