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The first woman to preside over the UN General Assembly:
(1) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
(2) Vijaylakshmi Pandit
(3) Kamla Nehru
(4) Indira Gandhi

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(1) Harshvardhan – Hiuen Tsang
(2) Akbar – Todarmal
(3) Chanakya – Chandragupta
(4) Vikramaditya – Chaitanya

Which of the following is called the ‘Land of the Golden Pagoda’?
(1) Myanmar                   (2) China
(3) Japan                        (4) North Korea

The famous Vishnu Temple at Angkor Wat in Cambodia was built by
(1) Shrutavarman
(2) Suryavarman \(\mathrm{II}\)
(3) Indravarman
(4) Aniruddha

Who built Shantiniketan?
(1) Guru Ramdas
(2) Maharaja Pratap Singh
(3) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(4) British Govt.

Gateway of India was built by
(1) Frank Lloyd Wright
(2) George Wittet
(3) Frank Gehry
(4) Zaha Hadid

Where was Mahatma Gandhi born?
(1) Madhya Pradesh
(2) Assam
(3) Rajasthan
(4) Gujarat

When did China start the Civil Services Examinations ?

(1) 6 A.D                 (2) 1905
(3) 1920                  (4) 1949

Who was the first Calipha
(1) Sulaiman, the Great
(2) Abu Bakr
(3) Iman Hussain
(4) Constantine

In which country is Karabla, the holy city of Shia Muslims located ?
(1) Iran                  (2) Iraq
(3) Jordan             (4) Syria

The city of “Tashkent” is located in
(1) Uzbekistan            (2) Kazakhstan
(3) Russia                  (4) Kyrgystan

Independence movement of Vietnam was headed by

(1) Ngo Dinh Diem
(2) Zhou Enlai
(3) Pol Pot
(4) Ho Chi Minh

Which one country is still governed by a monarch ?

(1) Afghanistan
(2) Iran
(3) Iraq
(4) Saudi Arabia

Japan’s Parliament is known as
(1) Diet                   (2) Dail
(3) Yuan                 (4) Shora

The currency of Thailand is
(1) Bhat              (2) Rupiah
(3) Yuan             (4) Yen

1911 Revolution of China resulted in
(1) Establishment of a Republic
(2) Reudalism
(3) Democracy
(4) Increased problems of people

East Timor, in Indonesian Archipelago, was the former colony of

(1) Dutch            (2) English
(3) French          (4) Portuguese

The world’s oldest continuously inhabited city is
(1) Jerusalem        (2) Baghdad
(3) Istanbul            (4) Damascus