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 history the industrial age and change of life of people industries and impact impact of industrial revolution industrial revolution and social change the age canal and great engineers industrial revolution and its effects india's contemporary economic condition the industrial revolution

Who led a royal commission to investigate the employment of women and children in mines?

  1. Sir Charles Lowe

  2. Russel Martin

  3. Donald Stewart

  4. Lord Shaftesbury
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Lord Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley-Cooper) was a prominent reformer who led the commission investigating the employment of women and children in mines.

Multiple choice history nazism and the rise of hitler causes and impact of nazism nazism in germany causes, aim and impact of nazism

Who among the following was assigned the responsibility of economic recovery by Hitler?

  1. Goebbels

  2. Hindenburg

  3. Hjalmar Schacht

  4. Adam Smith

  5. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Hitler assigned the responsibility of economic recovery to the economist Hjalmar Schacht who aimed at full production and full employment through a state-funded work-creation programme. This project produced the famous German superhighways and the people’s car, the Volkswagen. 

Multiple choice history nazism and the rise of hitler causes and impact of nazism nazism in germany causes, aim and impact of nazism

On 30th January 1933 who offered the Chancellorship to Hitler?

  1. Soviet Red Army

  2. King Kaiser William II

  3. President Hindenburg

  4. Hjalmar Schacht
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C Correct answer
Explanation

On January 30, 1933, President Hindenburg offered the Chancellorship, the highest position in the cabinet of minister, to Hitler. By now the Nazis had managed to rally the conservatives to their cause.

Multiple choice nationalist movement in indo china national liberation movements in the colonies recent social movements social movements in our time

In 1968, President Johnson did not run for re-election because _________.

  1. He had already served two full terms

  2. He had lost the New Hampshire primary

  3. He wanted to negotiate a peace

  4. His health was failing

  5. Eugene McCarthy came in a close second in the New Hampshire primary
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E Correct answer
Explanation

In 1968, President Johnson did not run for re-election because Eugene McCarthy came in a close second in the New Hampshire primary.

Multiple choice nationalist movement in indo china national liberation movements in the colonies recent social movements social movements in our time

The Pentagon Papers contained information on all of the following President except __________.

  1. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

  2. Richard Nixon.

  3. Lyndon Johnson.

  4. Jimmy Carter.

  5. John Kennedy.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The Pentagon Papers contained information on all of the following President except  Jimmy Carter.

Multiple choice nationalist movement in indo china national liberation movements in the colonies recent social movements social movements in our time

The Hoa Hao Movement was led by ______________.

  1. Huynh Phu So

  2. Ng-Yuyen Dinh Chiev

  3. Phan Boi Chau

  4. Sun Yat Sen
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A Correct answer
Explanation

  • It began in 1939 and gained great popularity in the fertile Mekong delta area. 
  • It drew on religious ideas popular in anti-French uprisings of the nineteenth century.
  •  The founder of Hoa Hao was a man called Huynh Phu So.
  • . His criticism against useless expenditure had a wide appeal. He also opposed the sale of child brides, gambling and the use of alcohol and opium. 
  • The French tried to suppress the movement inspired by Huynh Phu So. They declared him mad, called him the Mad Bonze, and put him in a mental asylum. 

Multiple choice civics impact of the british rule quit india movement and ina revolutionary movement in india early struggles of mahatma gandhi contribution of revolutionary organisation in freedom movement revolutionary movement and important revolutionaries

"With this salt, l am shaking the foundations of the Empire."
This statement was made during a nonviolent campaign which was led by whom?

  1. Nelson Mandela

  2. Patrick Henry

  3. Sun Yat-sen

  4. Mohandas K. Gandhi

  5. Brennus of Gaul
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D Correct answer
Explanation

On 12th March 1930, Gandhi inaugurated the Civil Disobedience Movement by conducting the historic 'Dandi Salt March', where he broke the Salt Laws imposed by the British Government. Followed by seventy-nine ashramites, Gandhi embarked on his march from his Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi that is located on the shores of the Arabian Sea.

On 6th April 1930, after a prayer, Gandhi raised a lump of salty mud and declared, ‘with this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire’. He then boiled it in seawater, producing illegal salt. He asked his thousands of followers to do the same and broke the salt law.

Multiple choice political science defence system of india introduction to defence and armed forces organisation of the defence forces defence forces of india central armed police forces second line of defence

Who heads the Border Security Force?

  1. Lieutenant

  2. Lieutenant General

  3. Major

  4. Director General
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Headed by a Director General, BSF consists of 159 battalions with 220,000 personnel. Delegated duties are carried out by a variety of directorates operations, intelligence, IT, training, administration, etc. The BSF is also one of the few forces in India to have maritime and aviation capabilities.

Multiple choice history the rise of nationalism in europe reformation and enlightenment in europe reformation in europe national movements in europe historiography

Which leader in Paris was in favour of reforms for workers?

  1. Louis Philippe

  2. Louis XVI

  3. Louis Blanc

  4. Louis XVIII
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Louis Blanc was a French socialist politician who advocated for the creation of national workshops to provide employment for workers, making him a key figure in the 1848 revolution.

Multiple choice history the rise of nationalism in europe reformation and enlightenment in europe reformation in europe national movements in europe historiography

Who hosted the Congress of Vienna in 1815?

  1. Duke Metternich

  2. Rainer Ferdinand

  3. King Victor Emmanuel

  4. Cavour
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The Austrian Chancellor Duke Metternich hosted the Congress of Vienna in 1815, where he played a central role in shaping the conservative settlement for Europe.

Multiple choice history medieval world: centres of power rise and expansion of islamic world rise and spread of islam the rise and expansion of islam

In the year 1969 __________ and a group of 70 young army officers took over the control of the kingdom of Libya.

  1. Saddam Hussain

  2. Muammar Gaddafi

  3. Parvez Musharraf

  4. Ibrahim Babangida
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Muammar Gaddafi led the 1969 Libyan coup d'etat that overthrew King Idris and established the Libyan Arab Republic.

Multiple choice popular struggles and movements political science

Why was king Birendra killed ?

  1. He was against the restoration of democratic rule in Nepal

  2. He accepted the transition of absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy

  3. He took the advantage of the weakness of democracy

  4. He supported the Maoists in Nepal
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Nepal witnessed an extraordinary popular movement in April 2006. The movement was aimed at restoring democracy. Nepal, although won democracy in 1990.  King Birendra, who has accepted this transition from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy, was killed in a mysterious massacre of the royal family in 2001.