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8921
When did Pakistan conduct its first nuclear tests (Chagai-I)?
A. 1974
B. 1998
C. 1999
D. 2001
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Pakistan conducted nuclear tests on May 28, 1998, in response to India's nuclear tests earlier that month.
8922
The 'Salt March' was a protest led by Gandhi against:
A. British Textile Tax
B. British Salt Monopoly
C. The Rowlatt Act
D. World War II
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Gandhi marched to the sea to produce salt from seawater, defying the British law that made salt production a government monopoly.
8923
The 'Partition of Bengal' (1905) was implemented by:
A. Lord Mountbatten
B. Lord Curzon
C. Lord Dalhousie
D. Lord Canning
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Viceroy Lord Curzon partitioned Bengal into East and West for administrative reasons, which sparked massive nationalist protests.
8924
The 'Tiananmen Square Protests' occurred in:
A. 1976
B. 1989
C. 1997
D. 2008
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Student-led demonstrations in Beijing were forcibly suppressed by the Chinese military on June 4, 1989.
8925
The 'May Fourth Movement' (1919) in China was a protest against:
A. The Qing Dynasty
B. The Treaty of Versailles
C. Communist Rule
D. The Cultural Revolution
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Students gathered in Beijing to protest the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred German concessions in Shandong to Japan instead of returning them to China.
8926
The 'Partition of Bengal' (1905) was later annulled in:
A. 1906
B. 1911
C. 1919
D. 1947
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Due to widespread protests, the partition of Bengal was annulled by King George V at the Delhi Durbar in 1911.
8927
The 'Salt March' (1930) was a protest led by Gandhi against:
A. The tax on textiles
B. The British salt monopoly
C. The partition of Bengal
D. World War II
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Gandhi marched 240 miles to the sea to make his own salt, defying the British law that made it illegal for Indians to collect or sell salt.
8928
The 'Partition of Bengal' in 1905 was implemented by which British Viceroy?
A. Lord Mountbatten
B. Lord Curzon
C. Lord Irwin
D. Lord Ripon
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Lord Curzon partitioned Bengal for administrative efficiency (and divide-and-rule tactics), creating a Muslim-majority East and Hindu-majority West, sparking massive protests.
8929
The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 was a major victory for which monarch?
A. Queen Isabella I
B. King Louis XIV
C. Queen Elizabeth I
D. King Philip II
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The defeat of the Spanish Armada prevented a Spanish invasion of England and is considered one of the greatest military victories of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
8930
The shortest Surah in the Holy Quran is:
A. Surah Ikhlas
B. Surah Kawthar
C. Surah Asr
D. Surah Nas
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Surah Al-Kawthar is the shortest Surah in the Quran, consisting of only 3 verses.
