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When was the Berlin Wall built?

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  1. 1861

  2. 1889

  3. 1898

  4. 1961

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the Wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin.

When was the internet invented?

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  1. 1966

  2. 1967

  3. 1968

  4. 1969

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Arpanet was the first real network to run on packet switching technology (new at the time). On October 29, 1969, computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time. In effect, they were the first hosts on what would one day become the Internet.

Where was the Chernobyl Power Complex located?

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  1. Ukraine

  2. Japan

  3. USA

  4. China

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Chernobyl Power Complex was a nuclear power plant of four reactors built by the USSR in their satellite state of Ukraine in the 1970s and 1980s. This was an important time for the USSR when the nation's economy was starting to struggle thanks to the costs of the Cold War.

When 'The Mini' first produced?

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  1. 1948

  2. 1954

  3. 1959

  4. 1960

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Correct Option: C
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The first Mini, or Mark I, was launched in 1959. The Mark I Mini (19591967) was the first version of British Motors Corporation's Mini. It is characterized by its sliding windows, external door hinges and "mustache" grille. In the United Kingdom the Mark I was produced between 1959 and 1967.

 

When did the Berlin Wall fall?

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  1. 1961

  2. 1981

  3. 1989

  4. 1993

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989. In 1989, political changes in Eastern Europe and civil unrest in Germany put pressure on the East German government to loosen some of its regulations on travel to West Germany.

In which year the Man landed on the moon?

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  1. 1967

  2. 1969

  3. 1970

  4. 1971

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969. The astronauts also returned to Earth the first samples from another planetary body.

Where was the first nuclear power plant made?

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  1. Calder Hall in England

  2. Obninsk, Russia

  3. Fort Belvoir, Virginia in USA

  4. Tarapur, India

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

On June 27, 1954, the world's first nuclear power station to generate electricity for a power grid, the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, started operations in Obninsk, the Soviet Union. The world's first full-scale power station, Calder Hall in England, opened on October 17, 1956.



 

When did Germany become a single country?

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  1. 1871

  2. 1875

  3. 1877

  4. 1881

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Up till 1871, Germany had not been a single country, but a collection of many tiny states. In 1871, however, Prussia the biggest German state defeated France in a war. Germany took the two French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine and the new German Empire was declared in the Palace of Versailles near Paris.

In which year Nelson Mandela was freed from prison?

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  1. 1989

  2. 1990

  3. 1991

  4. 1993

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Correct Option: B
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Nelson Mandela served 27 years in prison, split between Robben Island, Pollsmoor Prison, and Victor Verster Prison. Amid growing domestic and international pressure, and with fears of racial civil war, President F. W. de Klerk released him in 1990.

How did the arrival of Germany onto the world stage destabilize international relations? 

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  1. The new Germany was an economic superpower

  2. The new Germany was a military superpower

  3. Both A and B

  4. Neither A nor B

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The arrival of Germany onto the world stage destabilised international relations. The new Germany was an economic and military superpower and it frightened the other nations.