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  • A. 2004
  • B. 2006
  • C. 2005
  • D. 2009Downloading Interactive Party Trivia Games

Explanation: The UAE held its first Federal National Council elections in 2006. These were indirect elections conducted through an electoral college…

Correct answer: 2006
  • A. 15 November 2005
  • B. 14 December 2004
  • C. 13 December 2003
  • D. None of these

Explanation: US forces captured Saddam Hussein on 13 December 2003 during Operation Red Dawn near Tikrit.

Correct answer: 13 December 2003
  • A. Persian
  • B. Hindi
  • C. Urdu
  • D. Bengali

Explanation: India’s national anthem, Jana Gana Mana, was composed by Rabindranath Tagore in highly Sanskritized Bengali.

Correct answer: Bengali
  • A. Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid
  • B. Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
  • C. Abdulla Al Ghurair
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan is widely regarded as the founding father of the UAE and became its first president in 1971.

Correct answer: Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
  • A. Killing of Jews during World War I
  • B. Killing of Germans during World War II
  • C. Killing of Jews during World War II
  • D. Killing of Japanese during World War II in Atom bomb's

Explanation: The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during…

Correct answer: Killing of Jews during World War II
  • A. 5
  • B. 3
  • C. 1
  • D. 2

Explanation: The standard GK answer is one Urdu word, although the anthem is written in highly Persianized Urdu and the classification of individual…

Correct answer: 1
  • A. Traveller
  • B. Scientist
  • C. Writer
  • D. Sportsman

Explanation: Marco Polo was a Venetian traveller whose accounts of Asia introduced many Europeans to the wealth and societies of the East.

Correct answer: Traveller
  • A. Law formulation
  • B. Law adjudication
  • C. Law execution
  • D. Law application

Explanation: The judiciary’s central constitutional role is adjudication, meaning it interprets laws and resolves disputes by applying them to cases.

Correct answer: Law adjudication
  • A. Alliance
  • B. British Army
  • C. None of These
  • D. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Explanation: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk abolished the Ottoman caliphate in Turkey in 1924 during his programme of secular reforms.

Correct answer: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  • A. Hitler
  • B. Stalin
  • C. Mussolin
  • D. Lenin

Explanation: “One People, One State, One Leader” reflects the Nazi principle of national unity under a single Führer, Adolf Hitler.

Correct answer: Hitler
  • A. UK
  • B. Italy
  • C. Spain
  • D. China

Explanation: Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena in Italy, founded in 1472, is generally regarded as the world’s oldest surviving bank.

Correct answer: Italy
  • A. Persia
  • B. Mongolia
  • C. Turkey
  • D. Afghanistan

Explanation: Akbar’s mansabdari system was influenced by the Mongol military-administrative organization, especially its ranking and military-service…

Correct answer: Mongolia
  • A. Arts
  • B. Engineering
  • C. Business
  • D. Medicine

Explanation: The Hippocratic Oath is a traditional ethical pledge associated with physicians.

Correct answer: Medicine
  • A. Mother goddess
  • B. Fire
  • C. Sun
  • D. water

Explanation: Archaeological discoveries such as female figurines have led historians to associate Indus Valley religious practice with a mother-goddess…

Correct answer: Mother goddess
  • A. Operation Blue Star Rakshak
  • B. Operation Smiling Buddha
  • C. Operation Gibraltar
  • D. Operation India Big

Explanation: India’s first nuclear test was conducted at Pokhran on 18 May 1974 under the code name Operation Smiling Buddha.

Correct answer: Operation Smiling Buddha
  • A. 104
  • B. 102
  • C. 100
  • D. 109South Asians & Diaspora

Explanation: The US Senate has 100 members because each of the 50 states elects two senators, regardless of population.

Correct answer: 100
  • A. August 20, 1988
  • B. August 20, 1987
  • C. August 20, 1986
  • D. August 20, 1989Fun & Trivia

Explanation: The Iran-Iraq War ended with a UN-brokered ceasefire that took effect on 20 August 1988 under Security Council Resolution 598.

Correct answer: August 20, 1988
  • A. October 1966
  • B. November 1967
  • C. December 1969
  • D. None of these

Explanation: South Yemen became independent from Britain on 30 November 1967, after the British withdrawal from Aden.

Correct answer: November 1967
  • A. Napoleon
  • B. Henry VI
  • C. Louis Phillipe
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: Louis-Philippe I was called the “Citizen King” because he presented himself as a constitutional monarch linked to the people rather than…

Correct answer: Louis Phillipe
  • A. 4 January 1761
  • B. 4 March 1556Primary & Secondary Schooling (K-12)
  • C. 24 February 1526
  • D. 14 January 1761

Explanation: The Third Battle of Panipat took place on 14 January 1761, when Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the Maratha army.

Correct answer: 14 January 1761