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  • A. The delta concentration
  • B. The bond or river
  • C. The mid channel
  • D. All of them

Explanation: The thalweg doctrine generally places a river boundary along the mid-channel or deepest navigable channel.

Correct answer: The mid channel
  • A. Navigable
  • B. Not Navigable
  • C. Partially Navigable
  • D. Mostly Navigable

Explanation: The thalweg rule is traditionally applied to navigable rivers, where the channel used for navigation provides a practical boundary.

Correct answer: Navigable
  • A. 1914
  • B. 1915
  • C. 1916
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The Sykes-Picot Agreement was concluded secretly in 1916 during the First World War.

Correct answer: 1916
  • A. 28 August 1922
  • B. 1 May 1922
  • C. 24 July 1922
  • D. 15 November 1922Try Prep Courses

Explanation: The League of Nations formally approved the British Mandate for Palestine on 24 July 1922, incorporating the Balfour Declaration into its…

Correct answer: 24 July 1922
  • A. Israel
  • B. Pakistan
  • C. India
  • D. All of them

Explanation: India, Pakistan, and Israel did not join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as states parties.

Correct answer: All of them
  • A. India
  • B. Israel
  • C. Pakistan
  • D. All of themStream History Documentaries

Explanation: India, Israel and Pakistan are all outside the NPT as non-signatories. Therefore, “all of them” is correct rather than any single country.

Correct answer: All of themStream History Documentaries
  • A. Geneva Protocol in 1930
  • B. Biological Weapons convention on July 15, 1974
  • C. Chemical Weapons convention of September 3, 1996
  • D. all of these

Explanation: India was associated with the Geneva Protocol, joined the Biological Weapons Convention in 1974, and ratified the Chemical Weapons…

Correct answer: all of these
  • A. 1963
  • B. 1959
  • C. 1971
  • D. 1978

Explanation: India joined the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963, the year the treaty was opened for signature after the US, UK and Soviet agreement.

Correct answer: 1963
  • A. 15 April, 1960
  • B. 15 April, 1965
  • C. 15 April, 1970
  • D. 15 April, 1975Stream History Documentaries

Explanation: Pakistan acceded to the 1925 Geneva Protocol on 15 April 1960, accepting the prohibition on the use of chemical and biological weapons in…

Correct answer: 15 April, 1960
  • A. 1974
  • B. 1975
  • C. 1976
  • D. 1977

Explanation: Pakistan ratified the Biological Weapons Convention in 1974 after signing it in 1972.

Correct answer: 1974
  • A. Non-Proliferation Treaty
  • B. Chemical weapons convention
  • C. Biological
  • D. None

Explanation: Pakistan has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and is therefore outside its treaty framework as a non-party.

Correct answer: Non-Proliferation Treaty
  • A. Westminster Palace
  • B. Windsor Castle
  • C. Runnymede
  • D. The Tower of London

Explanation: King John sealed the Magna Carta at Runnymede, a meadow beside the River Thames near Windsor, in 1215.

Correct answer: Runnymede
  • A. Great Depression
  • B. Brown vs. Board of Education case
  • C. The Enlightenment
  • D. The Amistad Case

Explanation: The Amistad case arose in 1839 after enslaved Africans rebelled aboard the Spanish ship La Amistad, placing it in the nineteenth century.

Correct answer: The Amistad Case
  • A. James
  • B. Ethelbert
  • C. Henry
  • D. John

Explanation: King John sealed the Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215 after barons challenged his authority.

Correct answer: John
  • A. Louis XV
  • B. Alfonse VI
  • C. Charles X
  • D. Louis XVI

Explanation: Louis XVI was king of France when the 1783 Treaty of Paris formally recognised American independence.

Correct answer: Louis XVI
  • A. Hague
  • B. Geneva
  • C. Brussels
  • D. Budapest

Explanation: Slobodan Milosevic was tried before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which was based in The Hague…

Correct answer: Hague
  • A. To protect the feudal privileges of nobility
  • B. To protect rights of church against the extension of royal power
  • C. Both of them
  • D. None of them

Explanation: Magna Carta limited royal authority by safeguarding important feudal rights of the nobility and the liberties of the Church.

Correct answer: Both of them
  • A. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • B. Universal Declaration of Basic Rights
  • C. International Declaration of Human Rights
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: The United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948, setting out fundamental civil, political…

Correct answer: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • A. World War I
  • B. World War II
  • C. UNO
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The Big Five were the leading Allied powers at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I: the United States, Britain, France, Italy and…

Correct answer: World War I
  • A. 1970
  • B. 1788
  • C. 1789
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The French Revolution began in 1789, marked by events including the meeting of the Estates-General and the storming of the Bastille.

Correct answer: 1789