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UPSC Prelims 2025 GS Paper 1, question 96

Topic: International relations and organisations

Q96

Consider the following pairs :

I. International Year of the Woman Farmer : 2026

II. International Year of Sustainable and Resilient Tourism : 2027

III. International Year of Peace and Trust : 2025

IV. International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence : 2029

How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

  1. (a) Only one
  2. (b) Only two
  3. (c) Only three
  4. (d) All the fourCorrect answer

Solution.

Answer: (d) All the four

  1. Pairs I and II are correctly matched: the UN General Assembly proclaimed 2026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer and 2027 as the International Year of Sustainable and Resilient Tourism.
  2. Pairs III and IV are correctly matched: the UN General Assembly declared 2025 as the International Year of Peace and Trust and 2029 as the International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence (coinciding with the close approach of asteroid 99942 Apophis).