The Second World War started in the year—
(1) 1940       (2) 1939
(3) 1941       (4) 1942

The immediate cause for the outbreak of the First World War was
(1) the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
(2) the imprisonment of Lenin
(3) the ambition of America to dominate the world
(4) the sudden death of Lloyd George

One of the important factors that led to the IInd World War the humiliating provisions in one of the following treaties. Which is that treaty?
(1) Treaty of Paris
(2) Treaty of Versailles
(3) Treaty of Lorraine
(4) Treaty of Brussels

The first atomi c bomb was thrown over :
(1) Nagasaki     (2) Hiroshima
(3) Tokyo             (4) Hong Kong

In which cities of Japan were atomic bombs dropped during World War II?
(1) Tokyo and Hiroshima
(2) Nagasaki and Miyazaki
(3) Sendai and Hiroshima
(4) Hiroshima and Nagasaki

During the Second World War,  which one of the following countries was not one of the three Axis Powers, which fought against the Allied Powers?
(1) Germany            (2) Italy
(3) China                   (4) Japan

The first Atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on
(1) August 6, 1945
(2) August 9, 1945
(3) August 9, 1946
(4) August 6, 1942

The theory of “natural rights” was propounded by
(1) Hobbes           (2) Locke
(3) Bentham         (4) Marx

During the 18th century who among the following philosophers said these famous words? “Man is born free but is everywhere in chains.”
(1) Voltaire
(2) Jack Darda
(3) Jean Jack Rousseau
(4) Montesquieu

Arrange the following events in the chronological order :
(a) Sir Winston Churchill dies
(b) Alaska becomes the 49th State of the USA
(c) China and Pakistan sign frontier treaty
(d) First earth satellite (Sputnik1) launched by the USSR
(1) (a) (b) (c) (d)
(2) (d) (b) (c) (a)
(3) (b) (c) (a) (d)
(4) (c) (d) (b) (a)

Who were the three eminent statesmen who started the Non- aligned Movement?
(1) Jawaharlal Nehru, Anwar Sadat, Soekarno
(2) Jawaharlal Nehru, Chou Enlai, Kwame Nkrumah
(3) Jawaharlal Nehru, Fidel Castro, Marshal Tito
(4) Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Marshal Tito