(Papers) : IIT Madras HSEE Papers-2018 (World affairs)

Q.109 Identify the Soviet premier during the Cuban missile crisis and also the year in which it erupted?
[A] Joseph Stalin, 1954
[B] Leonid Brezhnev, 1964
[C] Nikita Khrushchev, 1962
[D] Mikhail Gorbachev, 1971

Q.110 The Berlin wall was built in the year___.
[A] 1946 
[B] 1952
[C] 1956
[D] 1961

Q.111 Operation Infinite Reach was an attack on ______.
[A] Al Qaeda terrorist targets in Sudan and Afghanistan
[B] Al Qaeda and Taliban regime in Afghanistan
[C] First Gulf War
[D] Second Gulf War

Q.112 Which of these organisations  was replaced by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)?
[A] Organisation for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC)
[B] Organisation for European Economic Integration (OEEI)
[C] Organisation for Economic Integration and Development (OEID)
[D] Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OEDC)

Q.113 ASEAN was established by signing ______ Declaration in the year____.
[A] Manila, 1968
[B] Jakarta, 1968
[C] Bandung, 1967
[D] Bangkok, 1967

Q.114 Who was the first Secretary General of the UN?
[A] Dag Hammarskjold 
[B] Trygve Lie
[C] U Thant 
[D] Kurt Waldheim

Q.115 Human Rights Day is observed every year on _____.
[A] 10th of September 
[B] 10th of October
[C] 10th of November 
[D] 10th of December

Q.116 Treaty of Versailles ended the _____.
[A] World War I
[B] World War II
[C] Anglo-French War
[D] Thirty Years War

Q.117 Bolshevik Revolution took place in _____.
[A] 1916 
[B] 1917 
[C] 1918
[D] 1919

Q.118 In which of the following years was the membership of the UN Security Council increased from 11 to 15?
[A] 1960 
[B] 1965
[C] 1970
[D] 1975

Q.119 Thomas Cup is associated  with which sports?
[A] Badminton 
[B] Table Tennis
[C] Lawn Tennis
[D] Golf

Q.120 Tsai Ing-wen became the first woman president of which of these countries?
[A] The Philippines
[B] Myanmar
[C] Taiwan 
[D] Laos

Q.121 'Boko Haram' is an extremist outfit operating primarily in _____.
[A] Congo 
[B] Nigeria
[C] Sudan 
[D] Indonesia

Q.122 Manipur and Tripura became separate states in which year?
[A] 1970 
[B] 1971
[C] 1972
[D] 1973

Q.123 Rajkumari Amrit Kaur became the Minister  for ___ in India's first cabinet.
[A] Health
[B] Education
[C] Family Welfare
[D] Communications

Q.124 CPI (M) emerged as a result of a split in CPI in the year ______, while splitting of CPI (M) gave way to CPI (ML) in ______.
[A] 1961; 1964 
[B] 1962; 1966
[C] 1963; 1968
[D] 1964; 1969

Q.125 Who led the team that drafted the second Five Year Plan?
[A] K.N. Raj 
[B] P.C. Mahalanobis
[C] V.K.R.V. Rao 
[D] Suresh Tendulkar

Q.126 Who among the following propounded the​​​​​​​ idea of 'Soft Power'?
[A] Walter Russel Mead 
[B] Walter Lippman
[C] Joseph Nye 
[D] Louis Hartz

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