All Questions page - 153

When did the Soviet Union disintegrate into 15 independent Republics ?

(1) 1990             (2) 1991
(3) 1992             (4) 1993

Where did the practice of ‘Shadow Cabinet’ originate ?
(1) United States of America
(2) Great Britain
(3) Italy
(4) France

The Treaty of Versailles humiliated
(1) Austria           (2) Germany
(3) England         (4) France

‘Liberty, Equality and Fraternity’ is the call associated with
(1) American Revolution
(2) French Revolution
(3) Chinese Revolution
(4) Russian Revolution

Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in
(1) 1930          (2) 1929
(3) 1936          (4) 1933

Match the following :
     I                           II
A. Fascism            1. Adolf Hitler
B. Democracy       2. Lenin
C. Nazism             3. Mussolini
D. Socialism         4.Woodrow Wilson
(1) A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3
(2) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
(3) A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2
(4) A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2

Name the country where the first Industrial Revolution took place :
(1) America          (2) Great Britain
(3) Germany        (4) France

The Opium wars were fought between
(1) Britain and China
(2) Britain and India
(3) India and China
(4) Britain and Japan

Who was the first Prime-Minister of England?

(1) Oliver Cromweli
(2) Benjamin Disraeli
(3) Robert Walpole
(4) Gladstone

Where was St. Paul beheaded?
(1) Rome                    (2) Ephesus
(3) Kusadasi               (4) Jerusalem

The British Conservative Party was earlier known as
(1) Whigs              (2) Levellors
(3) Fabians           (4) Tories

Who said, ‘I am the State’?
(1) James \(\mathrm{II}\) of England
(2) Napoleon I of France
(3) Louis \(\mathrm{XIV}\) of France
(4) Hitler of Germany

Karl Marx lived in exile and wrote from
(1) Moscow           (2) London
(3) Paris                (4) Stockholm

Napoleon-I and the Duke of Wellington fought the famous
(1) Battle of Austerlitz
(2) Battle of Leipzig
(3) Battle of Borodini
(4) Battle of Waterloo

The Cremean War was fought between

(1) France and Britain
(2) Russia and Turkey
(3) France and Turkey
(4) Britain and Turkey

Absolute sovereign power of the Monarch was advocated by
(1) Thomas Hobbes
(2) Rousseau
(3) John Locke
(4) Karl Marx

Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. in
(1) Persia                (2) Babylon
(3) Macedonia         (4) Taxila

When was the first of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of war victims adopted ?
(1) 1832                (2) 1857
(3) 1864                (4) 1909