(Papers) : IIT Madras  HSEE Papers-2017 (World Affairs)

Q.109 The ‘harm principle’ advocated by J.S. Mill is applicable to actions that are:
[A] Self-interested
[B] Self-regarding
[C] Other-regarding 
[D] Altruistic

Q.110 Identify the country that has suffered due to a majoritarian constitutional system:
[A] Pakistan
[B] Belgium 
[C] Sri Lanka
[D] India

Q.111 “The US is present in all parts of the world, in all sectors of the world and in all areas of technology.” What does this quote signify? US is a
[A] Soft power hegemon 
[B] Hard power hegemon
[C] Structural power hegemon 
[D] Imperial hegemon

Q.112 The Cold War was a conflict between two dominant ideologies. Identify them.
[A] Liberal democracy and socialism
[B] Communitarianism and Liberalism
[C] Modernism and Conservatism 
[D] Libertarianism and Marxism

Q.113 The logic of nuclear deterrence was pejoratively called:
[A] Mutually assured destruction
[B] Cold War doctrine
[C] Hot War strategy 
[D] Proxy War tactics

Q.114 The foreign policy of the US is traditionally characterized as/by:
[A] Realism 
[B] Neo-liberalism
[C] Liberalism 
[D] Isolationism

Q.115 The UNCTAD Conference in 1972 was the harbinger of:
[A] NAM 
[B] NIEO 
[C] NATO
[D] CENTO

Q.116 Who among the following was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1959?
[A] Augusto Pinochet
[B] Fulgencio Batista
[C] Juan Peron 
[D] Salvador Allende

Q.117 In whose period did the ‘Era of Stagnation’ begin in Soviet Union?
[A] Leonid Brezhnev
[B] Yuri Andropov
[C] Konstantin Chernenkov 
[D] Georgy Malenkov

Q.118 In 1960, the Sharpeville Massacre  took place in which African nation?
[A] South Africa 
[B] Kenya 
[C] Zimbabwe
[D] Congo

Q.119 Name the composer who has scored music for the movie “Pele: Birth of a Legend”.
[A] Leonid Bernstein
[B] A.R. Rahman
[C] Hans Zimmer 
[D] Andrew Lloyd Weber

Q.120 Who among the following is a Conductor of a Classical Symphony Orchestra?
[A] Freddie Mercury 
[B] Yehudi Menuhin
[C] Yitshak Perelman
[D] Zubin Mehta

Q.121 American political thinker John Rawls described a self-imposed sense of fairness irrespective of one’s own station as:
[A] Veil of ignorance 
[B] Affirmative action
[C] Positive discrimination
[D] Original position

Q.122 Among the BRICS nations, identify the country that has the lowest HDI:
[A] Russia 
[B] Brazil 
[C] South Africa
[D] India

Q.123 Boxer Muhammad Ali was banned and​​​​​​​ stripped of his title for
[A] Refusing to be a part of the US Army during the Vietnam War
[B] Refusing to represent US in Olympics
[C] Misbehaving in the boxing ring
[D] Testing positive for drugs

Q.124 In the film Steve Jobs (2015) who played the role of Jobs
[A] Michael Fassbender 
[B] Ashton Kutcher
[C] Leonardo Di Caprio
[D] Tom Hardy

Q.125 Jeff Bezos is the founder of
[A] Amazon 
[B] Tesla Motors
[C] Uber
[D] Google

Q.126 Who is the author of the book "Winged Fire"?
[A] A.P.J Abdul Kalam 
[B] Ramachandra Guha
[C] Valmik Thapar 
[D] Sunil Khilanani

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