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Which one of the following countries was first to establish a modern democracy?
(1) France                  (2) England
(3) America               (4) India

The policy of racial discrimination followed in South Africa was called:
(1) Non-Aligned
(2) Civil Rights Movement
(3) Apartheid
(4) Suffrage

Who was popularly known as Africa’s Gandhi?
(1) Mir Karzai
(3) Firoz Gandhi
(2) Nelson Mandela
(4) M.K. Gandhi

Who discovered Cape of Good Hope in 1488 ?
(1) Magellan
(2) Columbus
(3) Bartholomew Dias
(4) Vasco da gama

The previous name of Zaire was
(1) Benin               (2) Liberia
(3) congo              (4) Sierra Leone

Which decade is called the “Era of Decolonisation”?
(1) 1950’s             (2) 1980’s
(3) 1990’s             (4) 1970’s

Who was the 1st President of South Africa after apartheid?
(1) Zuma
(2) Nelson Mandela
(3) Kofi Annan
(4) Booker T. Washington

D-Day is the day when :
(1) Germany declared war on Britain
(2) the US dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima
(3) Allied Troops landed in Normandy
(4) Germany surrendered to the allies

The war criminals of the \(\mathrm{II}\) World War were put to trial in
(1) Nuremberg                           (2) Petersburg
(3) Gettysburg                            (4) Pittsburgh

Who were the Axis powers in World War \(\mathrm{II}\)?
(1) Poland, Japan, Germany
(2) Italy, Japan, Britain
(3) Germany, Italy, France
(4) Germany, Italy, Japan

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