Days and Years MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option B.
World Malaria Day is celebrated every year on 25 April to raise awareness about the disease malaria, how to control it and how to eradicate it completely.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
This day commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which granted the women right to vote. In 1971, the U.S. Congress officially recognized 26 August as Women’s Equality Day.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
A centenary is the hundredth anniversary of some event. Gandhi arrived in South Africa in 1893, so the Centenary was celebrated in 1993.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
28 February recalls the notable invention “Raman Effect” by India’s greatest scientist C. V. Raman. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for this discovery.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
World Day of the Sick, is celebrated on 11 February, an observation introduced by Pope John Paul II as a way for believers to offer prayers for those suffering from illnesses.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
World Day Against Child Labour is observed on 12 June every year around the world. The day aims to spread awareness about the illegal practice of child labour that still prevails.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples was first pronounced by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1994, to be celebrated every year during the first International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (1995 – 2004).

✅ The correct answer is option B.
World Environment Day is observed on 5 June every year. The purpose of World Environment Day is to spread awareness about the threat to the environment due to rising pollution levels and climate change.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
World Wetlands Day is celebrated internationally each year on 2 February. It marks the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) in Ramsar, Iran, on 2 February 1971.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The National Voters’ Day has been celebrated on 25 January every year since 2011, all across the country to mark the foundation day of Election Commission of India, i.e. 25 January 1950.