(Papers) : IIT Madras HSEE Papers-2020

(General Studies–World Affairs)

109. The author of the book ‘The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers’ is
(a) Paul Kennedy
(b) Francis Fukuyama
(c) Benjamin Barber
(d) Thomas Friedman
110.NATO and Warsaw Pact, two military alliances during the Cold War, came into being in years ______and ______,
(a) 1950, 1955
(b) 1949, 1958
(c) 1949, 1955
(d) 1950, 1956
111.Where was the first non-aligned summit held and when?
(a) Belgrade, 1961
(b) Cairo, 1960
(c) Bandung, 1955
(d) New Delhi, 1956
112. The code name of the atomic bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima was
(a) Fat Man
(b) Little Boy
(c) Little Man
(d) Fat Boy
113. Kwame Nkrumah was the first prime minister of
(a) Ghana
(b) Nigeria
(c) Uganda
(d) Ethiopia
114. The years in which Berlin Wall was built and pulled down are _____ and _____, respectively.
(a) 1960, 1989
(b) 1961, 1989
(c) 1962, 1990
(d) 1963, 1991
115. The leader who introduced ‘open door’ policy and economic reforms in China was
(a) Zhou Enlai
(b) Deng Xiaoping
(c) Mao Zedong
(d) Xi Jinping
116. The Indus Water Treaty was signed between India and Pakistan in
(a) 1960
(b) 1961
(c) 1962
(d) 1963
117. The headquarter of AU (African Union) is located at
(a) Addis Ababa
(b) Tripoli
(c) Cairo
(d) Dare Salam
118.RCEP stands for
(a) Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
(b) Regional Cooperative Economic Partnership
(c) Regional Comprehensive Energy Partnership
(d) Regional Cooperation in Energy Partnership
119. The ‘Atoms for Peace’ programme was proposed by
(a) Harry Truman
(b) Dwight Eisenhower
(c) John F Kennedy
(d) Richard Nixon
120.Dumbarton Oaks Conference in 1944 was important because
(a) it promised all nations would be invited to join the world organisation
(b) it established World Bank and IMF
(c) it came up with the first draft of the UN Charter
(d) it settled the question of occupation and control of defeated Germany
121. The recipient of Nobel peace prize for 2019 is
(a) Abiy Ahmed Ali
(b) Peter Handke
(c) Olga Tokarczuk
(d) James Peebles
122.Who among the following won the Wimbledon men’s singles in 2019?
(a) Rafael Nadal
(b) Roger Fedrer
(c) J S Cabal
(d) Novak Djokovic
123.Which of the following is NOT a UN Agency?
(a) WHO
(b) ILO
(c) ICRC
(d) FAO
124.Where was the second SAARC summit held and who was its chairman?
(a) Dhaka, Abdul Ahsan
(b) Dhaka, H M Ershad
(c) Bangalore, Rajiv Gandhi
(d) Islamabad, Zia ul Haq
125.When was the Greenpeace established and where is it’s headquarter located?
(a) 1971, Amsterdam
(b) 1972, London
(c) 1971, Brussels
(d) 1973, London
126.Omar al-Bashir, overthrown in a coup recently, belongs to
(a) Ethiopia
(b) Sudan
(c) Nigeria
(d) Senegal

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