History · General Awareness

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 geography traffic education traffic and road safety natural hazards : understanding of disaster, management in practice man-made disasters

Who has been selected as a new leader or Wali of the West Africa province of Boko Haram?

  1. Abu Musab al-Barnawi

  2. Abubaker Shekau

  3. Abu Salem

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Nigerias Boko Haram Islamic extremists have a new leader to promote their terrorist activities namely Abu Musab al-Barnawi. al-Barnawi is new Wali or governor of the West Africa province- Wali title was 

  • previously used to describe Boko Haram leader Abubaker Shekau. Terrorist attacks have been carried out by this Islamic extremist group.

Multiple choice political science peasants and farmers colonialism and tribal societies peasants and adivasi revolts policy of agriculture, industry and foreign trade under british rule

Who of the following said these words "Plant more wheat, wheat will win the war"?

  1. President Thomas Jefferson

  2. President Roosevelt

  3. President George Bush

  4. President Wilson
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

 During the First World War the world market boomed. Russian supplies of wheat were cut off and the USA had to feed Europe. US President Wilson called upon farmers to respond to the need of the time. 

Multiple choice east asia in the middle ages china: two different phases the middle ages national liberation movements in the colonies history

______ emerged as the leader of the Goumingdang party after the death of Sun.

  1. Chiang Kai-shek

  2. Yuan Shikai

  3. Mao Zedong

  4. Xi Jinping
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Following the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925, Chiang Kai-shek rose to power within the Kuomintang (Goumingdang) and eventually led the Northern Expedition to unify China.

Multiple choice great depression between the two world wars - the russian revolution and the great depression history russian revolution the russian revolution

Which one of the following men did NOT succeed to the presidency when the president under whom he served was assassinated?

  1. Theodore Roosevelt

  2. Franklin D. Roosevelt

  3. Lyndon B. Johnson

  4. Andrew Johnson

  5. Chester A. Arthur
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

He was re-elected in a landslide victory in 1936. He also won the 1944 election and thus served as the President of the United States from 1933 till his death on April 12, 1945. The two term convention was made into a law after Roosevelt. FDR remains the longest serving US President.

Multiple choice great depression between the two world wars - the russian revolution and the great depression history russian revolution the russian revolution

Which of the following measures taken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration brought aid to a rural area plagued by flooding, malnutrition, and poverty?

  1. National Recovery Act

  2. Works Progress Administration

  3. Tennessee Valley Authority

  4. Public Works Administration

  5. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation,

Multiple choice great depression between the two world wars - the russian revolution and the great depression history russian revolution the russian revolution

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's actions were noteworthy because he ________________________________.

  1. simplified the operations of the federal government.

  2. implemented a sweeping civil rights program.

  3. extended the direct influence of the government into the lives of the people.

  4. succeeded in being elected five times to the presidency.

  5. successfully concluded World War II.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Roosevelt's New Deal programs directly involved the federal government in providing relief, jobs, and social security to citizens, marking a shift in the government's role.

Multiple choice political science the non-aligned movement nam non-aligned movement non-aligned movement and west asia

Who among the following was not the 'founding father' of NAM?

  1. President Joseph Broze Tito of Yugoslavia

  2. Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt

  3. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India

  4. Winston Churchill of England

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was founded by leaders like Nehru, Tito, and Nasser. Winston Churchill was a British Prime Minister and not involved in the founding of NAM.

Multiple choice political science the non-aligned movement nam non-aligned movement non-aligned movement and west asia

The correct group of NAM leaders among the following is ______.

  1. Sukarno, Mussolini, Nehru, Nasser

  2. Nehru, Gandhiji, Nasser, Tito

  3. Sukarno, Nasser, Tito, Nehru

  4. Tito, Nasser, Nehru, Adolf Hitler
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) had its origins in the Bandung Conference of April 1945 in Indonesia inspired by four world leaders viz. Nehru of India, Tito of Yugoslavia, Sukarno of Indonesia and Nasser of Egypt. Bandung formulated the concept of non-alignment based on the Third World desire not to become involved in the East-West ideological confrontation of the Cold War, and to focus instead on national independence struggles, the alleviation of poverty, and economic development. These principles were adopted at the founding non-aligned summit in Belgrade in 1961.