General Studies Series - 6

Clement Atlee was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when India gained independence in 1947.

Alexei Kosygin became the Premier of the Soviet Union after Nikita Khrushchev was removed from power in 1964.

Martin Luther was a German professor of theology whose '95 Theses' sparked the Protestant Reformation, protesting practices like the sale of indulgences by the Catholic Church.

Ignatius of Loyola, a former soldier, founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and was a key figure in the Catholic Counter-Reformation.

The famous quote 'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the opening line of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 'The Social Contract'.

The Lateran Treaty of 1929 established Vatican City as an independent sovereign state under the Holy See.

Germany withdrew from the League of Nations in October 1933, shortly after Adolf Hitler came to power. This move signaled Germany's rejection of the post-World War I international order.

In 1935, the Iranian government requested that the international community refer to the country as Iran instead of Persia. This name change was intended to reflect the country's own name for itself.

The Government of India Act 1935 provided for the separation of Burma from British India, which officially took effect on April 1, 1937.

The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of London in September 1666.

Vladimir Lenin was born on April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk, Russia.

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, with his baptism recorded on April 26 of that year.

Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space on April 12, 1961, aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest for the first time on May 29, 1953.

Australia Day is celebrated annually on January 26, marking the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet at Port Jackson.

The Netherlands legalized the operation of brothels in 1999, though the process of regulation and decriminalization began earlier in the 1990s. The question likely refers to the Dutch policy shift regarding sex work.

Following the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar in 1964, the new sovereign state was named Tanzania.

Belgrade served as the capital of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and remains the capital of modern-day Serbia.

Australia is located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere, well south of the equator.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has its international headquarters in Gland, Switzerland.

Japan has the highest newspaper circulation in the world, with several of its national dailies having millions of subscribers.

France won the 1998 FIFA World Cup, which they hosted, defeating Brazil 3-0 in the final.