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World Leaders and Politicians

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Test your knowledge with a variety of questions focusing on prominent world leaders, historical politicians, and their significant policies. Topics include American presidents, global civil rights leaders, and international treaties. This forms a crucial part of general awareness preparation for SSC, banking, and civil services exams.

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World Leaders and Politicians Questions

Multiple choice

A recording system was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office that even Theodore C. Sorensen, the White House counsel, did not know it existed.

  1. A recording system was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office that

  2. So secret was a recording system installation and operation in the Kennedy Oval Office

  3. It was so secret that a recording system was installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office

  4. A recording system that was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office

  5. Installed and operated so secretly in the Kennedy Oval Office was a recording system that
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The underlined part of the sentence is perfectly correct in the given form.

Multiple choice

________ is known as 'Little Corporal'.

  1. Stalin

  2. Hitler

  3. Mussolini

  4. Napoleon
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Napoleon Bonaparte was famously nicknamed the Little Corporal by his soldiers during his early military campaigns in Italy.

Multiple choice

First Head of Commonwealth?

  1. George VI

  2. Elizabeth I

  3. Elizabeth II

  4. George V
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A Correct answer
Explanation

King George VI was the first Head of the Commonwealth, a title established in 1949 during the transition of the British Empire into the modern Commonwealth of Nations.

Multiple choice

Who was the chief guest at the 2008 Republic Day Parade?

  1. Nicholas Sarkozy (France)

  2. Gordon Brown (UK)

  3. Angela Markel (Germany)

  4. Naveen Chandra Ram Gulam (Mauritius)

  5. None of these
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Nicolas Sarkozy, the then-President of France, was the chief guest at the 2008 Republic Day Parade in India.

Multiple choice

Shinzo Abe is the newly elected-

  1. Prime Minister of Singapore

  2. Prime Minister of South Korea

  3. President of South Korea

  4. President of North Korea

  5. Prime Minister of Japan
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E Correct answer
Explanation

Shinzo Abe served as the Prime Minister of Japan for multiple terms. He was never the leader of Singapore, South Korea, or North Korea.

Multiple choice

Man of destiny in the nickname of

  1. Napolean

  2. Bismarck

  3. R. N. Tagore

  4. Adolf Hitler
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Napoleon Bonaparte was called the 'Man of Destiny' due to his remarkable rise from a minor Corsican noble family to become Emperor of France. His life seemed marked by extraordinary fate and ambition.