Days and Years MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The National Girl Child Day is celebrated in India every year on 24 January.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
World Red Cross Day is observed every year on 8 May to commemorate the birth anniversary of the founder of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
World Health Day 2017 will be celebrated on 7 April. Each year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) selects a theme highlighting a particular priority area of public health. The theme for this year’s global health awareness day is ‘Depression: Let’s Talk’.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery international day is a yearly event on 2 December, organized since 1986 by the United Nations General Assembly.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
World Poetry Day is celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard”.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
The World AIDS Day is observed on 1 December each year globally. The day is observed to raise awareness among people towards the problem of AIDS and HIV, a disease that affects the immune system of the body.

✅ The correct answer is option B.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
World Cancer Day is an international day marked on 4 February to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The United Nations has designated 29 May as the International Day of UN Peacekeepers. The day aims to celebrate the contributions of civilian and uniformed personnel who perform the task of peacekeeping for the organisation.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The United Nations General Assembly declared 17 June to be “World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought” adopted in December 1994.