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  • A. Independence Day
  • B. Parliament Day
  • C. Revolution Day
  • D. Republic Day

Explanation: India celebrates Republic Day on 26 January because its Constitution came into force on 26 January 1950.

Correct answer: Republic Day
  • A. French
  • B. Greek
  • C. Latin
  • D. Arabic

Explanation: Democracy comes from the Greek words demos, meaning people, and kratos, meaning rule or power.

Correct answer: Greek
  • A. 1736Geographic Reference
  • B. 1935
  • C. 1717
  • D. 1832

Explanation: Austin’s The Province of Jurisprudence Determined was first published in 1832. It presented his analytical theory of sovereignty and law.

Correct answer: 1832
  • A. Indian High Courts Act 1861Knowledge Management
  • B. Indian High Courts Act 1871
  • C. Indian High Courts Act 1858
  • D. Indian High Courts Act 1868

Explanation: The Indian High Courts Act 1861 authorized the establishment of High Courts at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras.

Correct answer: Indian High Courts Act 1861Knowledge Management
  • A. C.V.Raman
  • B. Rabinder Nath Tagore
  • C. I.A.Bunin
  • D. Mother teresa

Explanation: Rabindranath Tagore became the first Asian Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature for Gitanjali. C. V.

Correct answer: Rabinder Nath Tagore
  • A. Peace Wall
  • B. Peace Berlin Wall
  • C. Berlin Wall
  • D. Peace Wall of Berlin

Explanation: The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 to separate West Berlin from East Berlin and became the main physical symbol of Cold War division.

Correct answer: Berlin Wall
  • A. Richard Nixon
  • B. Jimmy Carter
  • C. Ronald Reagan
  • D. J. F. Kennedy

Explanation: Richard Nixon resigned in August 1974 during the Watergate scandal, making him the only US president to resign from office.

Correct answer: Richard Nixon
  • A. November 2003
  • B. November 2005
  • C. November 2008
  • D. November 2011

Explanation: Angela Merkel became Chancellor of Germany in November 2005 after forming a grand coalition government.

Correct answer: November 2005
  • A. Shah zafar
  • B. Aurangzeb
  • C. Muhammad Shah
  • D. Shah alam II

Explanation: Muhammad Shah was the last Mughal emperor associated with possession of the Peacock Throne before Nadir Shah carried it away after…

Correct answer: Muhammad Shah
  • A. Pablo picasso
  • B. Banjamin west
  • C. Gustav klint
  • D. Vincent van gogh

Explanation: Vincent van Gogh painted several famous versions of The Sunflowers, using vivid yellow tones as a defining feature.

Correct answer: Vincent van gogh
  • A. Hundred years war
  • B. Seven years war
  • C. WWII
  • D. Thirty years war

Explanation: The Seven Years' War is often called the first truly global war because fighting and colonial rivalry extended across Europe, North…

Correct answer: Seven years war
  • A. Arras
  • B. Austerlitz
  • C. Amiens
  • D. Assayer

Explanation: Napoleon regarded his victory at Austerlitz in 1805 as his greatest, defeating the combined Austrian and Russian armies.

Correct answer: Austerlitz
  • A. 1948
  • B. 1946
  • C. 1942
  • D. 1940

Explanation: The first Arab-Israeli War began in 1948 after Israel declared independence and neighbouring Arab states intervened.

Correct answer: 1948
  • A. None
  • B. Lala lajpat roy
  • C. Abu kalam azad
  • D. Rabindranath tagore

Explanation: Rabindranath Tagore is conventionally credited in examination references with giving Gandhi the honorific Mahatma, meaning great soul.

Correct answer: Rabindranath tagore
  • A. Indus and Jhelum
  • B. Jhelum and Chenab
  • C. Chenab and Ravi
  • D. Ravi and Beas

Explanation: Ancient Taxila stood west of the Jhelum and east of the Indus, placing it between these two rivers.

Correct answer: Indus and Jhelum
  • A. Abdulhashim Mutalov
  • B. Oʻtkir Sultonov
  • C. Islam Karimov
  • D. Nigmatilla Yuldashev

Explanation: Islam Karimov became Uzbekistan’s first president after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and remained in office until 2016.

Correct answer: Islam Karimov
  • A. Aristotle
  • B. Julius Caesar
  • C. Napoleon Bonaparte
  • D. Alexander the Great

Explanation: Alexander the Great defeated the Persian king Darius III at Gaugamela in 331 BCE, opening the way for his conquest of the Achaemenid…

Correct answer: Alexander the Great
  • A. Henry VIII
  • B. Louis
  • C. Victoria
  • D. Akbar

Explanation: Henry VIII is generally credited with being the first English monarch addressed as 'Your Majesty,' replacing the older form 'Your…

Correct answer: Henry VIII
  • A. Aristotle
  • B. Herodotus
  • C. Thucydides
  • D. Hippocrates

Explanation: Herodotus is called the father or founder of Greek historiography because he wrote a systematic narrative of the Greco-Persian Wars and…

Correct answer: Herodotus
  • A. Ala-ud-din Khilji
  • B. Ashoka
  • C. Samudragupta
  • D. Akbar

Explanation: Ala-ud-din Khilji adopted the title Sikandar-i-Sani, meaning 'Second Alexander,' to associate himself with Alexander the Great's…

Correct answer: Ala-ud-din Khilji