Paper-1 (2007)


COMPULSORY QUESTION
Q.8. Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the question.

(1) The remains of Voltaire were transferred to the Pantheon in paris on ------------:
(a) 8 July 1792
(b) 8,July 1790
(c) 8,July 1793
(d) None of these( The correct answer is July 10, 1791)

(2) Villeneuve was attacked on October 21, ------------ by Nelson off Cape Trafalgar:
(a) 1803
(b) 1805
(c) 1807
(d) None of these

(3) Ireland was incorporated into United Kingdom of Great Britian and Ireland in ------------:
(a) 1802
(b) 1803
(c) 1798
(d) None of these( The correct answer is 1801)

(4) In Novmeber 1830 Lord ------------ and Whigs came to power after election victory in England:
(a)White
(b) Grey
(c) Brown
(d) None of these

(5) Inspired by the revolutino in ------------the Enlightened thinkers argued that same kind of systematic thinking could apply to all forms of humn activity:
(a) physics
(b) Economics
(c) liberal arts
(d) None of these

(6) Liberalism has its roots in the western Age of ------------:
(a) Enlightenment
(b) science
(c) Liberal arts
(d) None of these

(7) The Treaty of Berlin was the final Act of the Congress of Berlin which took place from June 13 to ------------:
(a) July 13,1876
(b) July 15,1878
(c) July 13,1878
(d) None of these

(8) The "Duties of Man"------------ artues that your country is like your family and it is a necessity that you love and care for it:
(a) Cavour
(b) Mazzini
(c) Voltaire
(d) None of these

(9) European Unification was a logical continuation of ------------:
(a) Italian unification
(b) the rise of Prussia
(c) German unification
(d) None of these

(10) By the end of ------------Poland had been divided among Prussia ,Austria and Russia :
(a) 1770
(b) 1790
(c)1794
(d) None of these( The correct answer is 1795)

(11) Otto Edwad Leopold, Price von Bismark ,Duke of Lauenburg died on July 20 ------------:
(a) 1896
(b)1898
(c)1899
(d) None of these

(12) In ------------,a secret deal was made between the United Kingdom and France that decided the fate of the African countries :
(a) 1878
(b) 1877
(c)1876
(d) None of these

(13) On the pretext of a slight to their counsul,the Frech invaded Algiers in ------------:
(a) 1832
(b) 1831
(c) 1830
(d) None of these

(14) The border between Africa and Asia is considered to go along the Isthmus of ------------:
(a) Sirai
(b) Suez
(c) The Dead Sea
(d) None of these

(15) In wars with Turkey and Persia Alexander I of Russia gained Bessaralia by the Treaty of Bucharast(1812) and Caucasian by the Treaty of ------------:
(a) Bostan
(b) Gulistan
(c) Gulzar
(d) None of these

(16) Tolstoy was able to use his Crimean war experiences in his book ------------:
(a) War and Peace
(b) Anna Karenina
(c) The Kingdom of God is within You
(d) None of these

(17) Armenia is geographically locted in the continent of ------------:
(a) Asia
(b) Europe
(c) Africa
(d) None of these

(18) Following the Napoleonic Wars, the ------------ Empire became the world's leading power,controling one-quarter of the worlds population and one-third of the land area:
(a) French
(b) American
(c) British
(d) None of these

(19) Electricity,steel and petroleum fueled a second Industrial Revolution which enabled Germany,Japan and ------------ to become Great powers that raced to creat empires of their own:
(a) the United states
(b) France
(c) Italy
d) None of these

(20) At the center of Young Turk Revolusion stood the ------------:
(a) committee of Reform and Unity
(b) committee of Development
(c) committee of Union and Progress
(d) None of these