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When was the League of Nations established?
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Answer: Option B
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League of Nation was estalibished in 1920 at the end of first world war as a result of Paris Peace Conference. The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
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The declaration that Democracy is a Government 'of the people, by the pebple' was made by
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Answer: Option C
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The words of Abraham Lincoln to honour the soldiers that sacrificed their lives in order “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth” were spoken at Gettysburg, but these words apply as well to the countless soldiers that died for the cause of democracy in the following 150 years.
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Who was the commander of 'Seventh Coalition' army that defeated Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo
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Answer: Option A
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Coalition under the command of British Field Marshall Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon Bonaparte's Imperial French Army at the Battle of Waterloo, Belgium.
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The city of Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in the year
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Alexandria is believed to have been founded by Alexander the Great in April 331 BC as Alexandreia. Alexander's chief architect for the project was Dinocrates. Alexandria was intended to supersede Naucratis as a Hellenistic center in Egypt, and to be the link between Greece and the rich Nile valley.
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World renowned philosopher Karl Marx was born in the country
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Karl Marx (German: 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. He married Jenny Von Westphalen in 1843.
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Who was the original inventor of roller spinning?
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Answer: Option B
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Lewis Paul was the original inventor of roller spinning, the basis of the water frame for spinning cotton in a cotton mill.
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Which one was the slogan during French Revolution
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Liberty, equality, fraternity. They cannot be treated separately or weighed one against the other. Liberty among unequals is an oxymoron.
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When was the commercial colonization of India commenced?
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Answer: Option D
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Company rule in India (sometimes, Company Raj, "raj", lit. "rule" in Hindustani) refers to the rule or dominion of the British East India Company over parts of the Indian subcontinent. This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when Mir Jafar, the new Nawab of Bengal enthroned by Robert Clive, became a puppet in the Company's hands; in 1765, when the Company was granted the diwani, or the right to collect revenue, in Bengal and Bihar; or in 1773, when the Company established a capital in Calcutta, appointed its first Governor-General, Warren Hastings, and became directly involved in governance.
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Who founded the philosophy of Stoicism in Athens?
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Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. While Stoic physics are largely drawn from the teachings of the philosopher Heraclitus, they are heavily influenced by certain teachings of Socrates.
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How did Saint Boniface help to shape the German church?
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Answer: Option A
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Saint Boniface help to shape the German church by Preaching against divorce, incest, and polygamy.