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

arrange the following events in chronological order :
(A) Birth of Prophet Mohammed
(B) Rise of Gupta dynasty in India
(C) Completion of the Roman Colosseum
(D) Peter the Great becomes the Czar of Russia
(1) (C), (B), (A), (D)
(2) (A), (C), (D), (B)
(3) (B), (D), (C), (A)
(4) (D), (A), (C), (B)

Who is called the “Greatest investigator of antiquity” ?
(1) Aristotle    (2) Darwin
(3) Cuvier       (4) Socrates

Herodotus is considered as the father of
(1) History
(2) Geography
(3) Political Science
(4) Philosophy

Who has given the statement “Man is born free but he is always in the chain ?”
(1) Locke          (2) Rousseau
(3) Bentham    (4) Robert Mill

What is the name of the world’s smallest republic which has an area of 21 sq. km only?
(1) Nauru               (2) Palermo
(3) Vatican City     (4) Namur