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When did Nanda dynasty come into power?
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Answer: Option A
Solution:
Mahapadma Nanda founded the dynasty in the year 424 BC and ruled for almost 62 years till 362 BC.
92
When was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria assassinated?
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Answer: Option D
Solution:
On Sunday, 28 June 1914, at about 10:45 am, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The perpetrator was 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia and one of a group of assassins organized and armed by the Black Hand.
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Who is known as the "Lady with the Lamp"?
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Answer: Option C
Solution:
Florence Nightingale the founder of modern nursing was an English social reformer. She got the title of 'Lady with the Lamp' while she used to make rounds of wounded soldiers in Crimean war at night.
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United Nations was formed in the year
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Answer: Option B
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The Formation of the United Nations, 1945. On January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
95
Who said that "Man by nature is a political animal"?
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Answer: Option B
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Aristotle was an ancient Greek philospher, he in his book 'Politics' describes man as a political animal. Except from his Book of Politics, "it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal."
96
The European renaissance started from which country
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Answer: Option C
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A large decrease in workers led to demands for higher wages, and thus uprisings were staged in several countries throughout Europe, particularly Germany, France, and Italy. The Renaissance began in northern Italy in the early 1300s.
97
The Declaration of American Independence was based on the theory of
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Answer: Option D
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The declaration of American Independence was based on the theory of Natural rights propounded by John Lock and Thomas Jefferson.
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"What is the Third Estate?" pamphlet associated with the French Revolution, was written by
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Answer: Option D
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Political thinker and clergymen Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes wrote the Political pamphlet "What is the Third State?" in 1789 just before the outbreak of the French Revolution.
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"Middle Ages" in Western Europe includes the period __________
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Answer: Option C
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Middle Ages, the period in European history from the collapse of Roman civilization in the 5th century ce to the period of the Renaissance (variously interpreted as beginning in the 13th, 14th, or 15th century, depending on the region of Europe and on other factors).
100
When did Alexander the Great die?
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Answer: Option D
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According to a Babylonian astronomical diary, Alexander died between the evening of June 10 and the evening of June 11, 323 BC, at the age of thirty-two. This happened in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon.