World History

1. Which decade is called as the “Era of Decolonisation”?
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(A) 1950’s
(B) 1980’s
(C) 1990’s
(D) 1970’s

2. Who discovered Cape of Good Hope in 1488?
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(A) Magellan
(B) Columbus
(C) Bartholomew Dias
(D) Vasco da gama

3. Who was popularly known as Africa’s Gandhi?
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(A) Mir Karzai
(C) Firoz Gandhi
(B) Nelson Mandela
(D) M.K. Gandhi

4. The policy of racial discrimination followed in South Africa was called
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(A) Non-Aligned
(B) Civil Rights Movement
(C) Apartheid
(D) Suffrage

5. Which U.S. President announced the “New Deal” for economic recovery in the aftermath of the Great Depression?
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(A) Abraham Lincoln
(B) Benjamin Franklin
(C) Roosevelt
(D) J.F. Kennedy

6. Slash and burn agriculture is known as ‘Milpa’ in
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(A) Venezuela
(B) Brazil
(C) Central Africa
(D) Mexico and Central America

7. The Declaration of American Independence was based on the theory of
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(A) Civil Rights
(B) Moral Rights
(C) Legal Rights
(D) Natural Rights

8. Who discovered America?
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(A) Vasco-da Gama
(B) Columbus
(C) Captain Cook
(D) Amundsen

9. Who was the American leader who led a non-violent movement to obtain full civil rights for American Negroes?
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(A) Abraham Lincoln
(B) John F. Kennedy
(C) Martin Luther King
(D) George Washington

10. That all appointments made by the President and all treaties signed by him must be ratified by the Senate in U.S.A. indicates
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(A) theory of separation of powers
(B) theory of checks and balances
(C) due process of law
(D) rule of law