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241. What former dictator of Serbia was found dead in a Dutch prison cell on March 11, 2006?

  • A. Slobodan Milosevic
  • B. Radovan Karadzic
  • C. Ratko Mladic
  • D. Dobrica Cosic

Explanation: Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia, died in custody at the ICTY detention unit in The Hague in 2006.

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Correct answer: Slobodan Milosevic

242. Which dictator came to power after a coup d'tat in 1976 in Argentina?

  • A. Juan Pern
  • B. Jorge Videla
  • C. Daniel Ortega
  • D. Octavio Paz

Explanation: General Jorge Rafael Videla became Argentina's de facto president after the military coup of March 1976.

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Correct answer: Jorge Videla

243. Chile's Augusto Pinochet came to power after a coup d'tat in 1973, during which President Salvador Allende was killed. On what date did this coup d'tat take place?

  • A. September 11
  • B. December 25
  • C. July 4
  • D. January 1

Explanation: Augusto Pinochet's coup against Salvador Allende occurred on September 11, 1973.

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Correct answer: September 11

244. Sar became the Secretary General of the Khmer Rouge in 1963, and Prime Minister of Cambodia after a coup in 1975. Under what name is this dictator better known?

  • A. Ho Chi Minh
  • B. Phnom Penh
  • C. Sihanouk
  • D. Pol Pot

Explanation: Pol Pot was the revolutionary name of Saloth Sar, the leader of Democratic Kampuchea and the Khmer Rouge regime.

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Correct answer: Pol Pot

245. Which 'great dictator' was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986?

  • A. Corazn Aquino
  • B. Fernando Lepez
  • C. Ferdinand Marcos
  • D. Arturo Tolentino

Explanation: Ferdinand Marcos ruled the Philippines as president from 1965 until 1986 and became known for authoritarian rule and martial law.

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Correct answer: Ferdinand Marcos

246. What was the name of the economic and social reform plan between 1958 and 1960 of China's great dictator Mao Zedong?

  • A. Cultural Revolution
  • B. Great Leap Forward
  • C. Long March
  • D. Little Red Book

Explanation: The Great Leap Forward was Mao Zedong's 1958 to 1960 campaign to rapidly transform China into an industrial and collectivised society, but…

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Correct answer: Great Leap Forward

247. Another 'great dictator' was Ayatollah Khomeini. In what year did he lead the Iranian Revolution against the last shah of Persia?

  • A. 1969
  • B. 1979
  • C. 1959
  • D. 1949

Explanation: Ayatollah Khomeini led the Iranian Revolution of 1979, which overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and established the Islamic Republic.

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Correct answer: 1979

248. Of what revolutionary political party was Saddam Hussein a member?

  • A. Ba'ath
  • B. Subha Tulfa
  • C. Shi'a
  • D. Abid al-Majid

Explanation: Saddam Hussein belonged to the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, which promoted Arab nationalism and socialism.

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Correct answer: Ba'ath

249. Which term denotes 'Palestinian uprising'?

  • A. HAMAS
  • B. PLO
  • C. Intikada
  • D. Intifada

Explanation: Intifada is the Arabic term commonly translated as uprising or shaking off, especially referring to Palestinian uprisings against Israeli…

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Correct answer: Intifada

250. Iron Curtain was an expression which described the ideological barrier between the democratic West and the USSR and communist-dominated countries of Eastern Europe after World War ll. Who first used this expression at Fulton, Missouri, USA in 1946?

  • A. George Washington
  • B. Sir Winston Churchill
  • C. Reagan
  • D. Roosevelt

Explanation: Winston Churchill popularised the term Iron Curtain in his 1946 Fulton speech to describe the political and ideological division…

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Correct answer: Sir Winston Churchill

251. Who are Kurds?

  • A. People of Kurdistan in Western Asia
  • B. People of Kurdistan in Eastern Asia
  • C. People of Kurdistan in Central Asia
  • D. People of Kurdistan in Northern Asia

Explanation: The Kurds are an ethnic group whose historic homeland, Kurdistan, lies in Western Asia across parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria.

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Correct answer: People of Kurdistan in Western Asia

252. Kurds are fighting against Turkey. With which troops they fought in 1970s unsuccessfully for self-government?

  • A. Iran
  • B. Kuwait
  • C. Iraq
  • D. Syria

Explanation: In the 1970s, Kurdish forces fought the Iraqi government for greater autonomy, with the conflict ending unsuccessfully for the Kurdish…

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Correct answer: Iraq

253. IN Germany in the early 1920s Adolf Hitler formed a political party which believed the Germans to be the master of the earth and were filled with the great hatred of Jews. Name the political party?

  • A. Nazis
  • B. Fascist
  • C. German Socialist
  • D. None of them

Explanation: Hitler’s party was the Nazi Party, formally the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, which promoted extreme German nationalism…

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Correct answer: Nazis

254. What are called those bombs and missiles that can be guided to its target by laser technology, TV homing technology, or terrain-contour matching (TERCOM)?

  • A. short weapons
  • B. Modern weapons
  • C. Smart weapons
  • D. Mini weapons

Explanation: Smart weapons are precision-guided munitions that use systems such as laser guidance, television homing, or TERCOM to reach their targets.

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Correct answer: Smart weapons

255. How is termed the upsurge in racial and political intolerance in western Europe of the early 1990s?

  • A. European Nazis
  • B. Neo-Nazism
  • C. Fascism
  • D. Modern Nazis

Explanation: Neo-Nazism refers to the post-World War II revival of Nazi-like racial nationalism and authoritarian politics, including the far-right…

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Correct answer: Neo-Nazism

256. Between which two countries strategic Arms limitation Talk (SALT) were held to stop the expansion of strategic weapons in both countries?

  • A. USA and Britain
  • B. USSR and Britain
  • C. USA and USSR
  • D. USSR and Germany

Explanation: The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks were conducted by the two Cold War superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Correct answer: USA and USSR

257. SALT ll was initiated in 1972 and treaty was singed in 1979, in 1982 USA and USSR initiated a new series of negotiations. What are called those negotiations?

  • A. Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START)
  • B. SALT III
  • C. SALT IV
  • D. Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)

Explanation: The negotiations begun in 1982 were called START, meaning Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, and focused on reducing rather than merely…

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Correct answer: Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START)

258. Who were Vikings?

  • A. East Europe's mariners and warriors
  • B. West Europe's mariners and warriors
  • C. Scandinavian mariners and warriors
  • D. Scandinavian barbarians

Explanation: Vikings were Scandinavian seafarers who travelled, traded, raided, and settled across Europe from roughly the eighth to the eleventh…

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Correct answer: Scandinavian mariners and warriors

259. The first concentration camp was devised during the Second Bower War in South Africa in 1899 for the detention of African Women and children. Who devised it?

  • A. British
  • B. France
  • C. Italian
  • D. German

Explanation: The British devised concentration camps during the Second Boer War to detain Boer women and children and other civilians.

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Correct answer: British

260. How is termed the killing and forced expulsion of one ethnic group by another, particularly of Muslim in Bosnia-Herzegovina?

  • A. Ethnic cleansing
  • B. Muslim cleansing
  • C. Balkan cleansing
  • D. Crusade cleansing

Explanation: Ethnic cleansing means the systematic killing, terrorising or forced removal of an ethnic population from a territory, as seen during the…

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Correct answer: Ethnic cleansing
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