World History
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Q1.Apartheid formally ended in South Africa in which year?
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Apartheid ended with the first multiracial elections in 1994, won by Nelson Mandela.
Q2.Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in which year?
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Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire.
Q3.D-Day landings of World War II took place on the beaches of which region?
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The Allied invasion of Normandy took place on 6 June 1944.
Q4.Mohenjo-daro, a major Indus Valley site, is located in which province of Pakistan?
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Mohenjo-daro is located in Larkana District, Sindh.
Q5.Pakistan came into being on which date?
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Pakistan gained independence on 14 August 1947.
Q6.The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?
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Mesopotamia means the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Q7.The Battle of Badr was fought in which Hijri year?
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The Battle of Badr took place in 2 AH (624 CE).
Q8.The Battle of Hastings was fought in which year?
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William the Conqueror defeated Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Q9.The Battle of Plassey was fought in which year?
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The Battle of Plassey in 1757 established British dominance in Bengal.
Q10.The Battle of Stalingrad was fought between Germany and which country?
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The Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43) was a decisive Soviet victory over Germany.
Q11.The Battle of Waterloo was fought in which year?
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Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo in 1815 by the Duke of Wellington.
Q12.The Berlin Wall fell in which year?
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The Berlin Wall was opened on 9 November 1989.
Q13.The Black Death swept through Europe primarily during which century?
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The Black Death peaked in Europe between 1347 and 1351.
Q14.The Boston Tea Party took place in which year?
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The Boston Tea Party occurred on 16 December 1773.
Q15.The Chinese Communist Revolution was led by whom?
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Mao Zedong led the Communist Revolution and founded the PRC in 1949.
Q16.The city of Harappa is situated in which present-day province?
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Harappa is located in Sahiwal District, Punjab, Pakistan.
Q17.The Code of Hammurabi originated in which ancient civilization?
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Hammurabi was the sixth king of Babylon and issued one of the earliest written legal codes.
Q18.The Crusades were primarily fought over control of which city?
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The Crusades were military campaigns aimed at recovering Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
Q19.The Declaration of Independence of the United States was adopted in which year?
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The US Declaration of Independence was adopted on 4 July 1776.
Q20.The first atomic bomb was dropped on which city?
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The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.