General Knowledge MCQs with Explanations

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Mahatma Gandhi is the correct answer. Review the question and compare it with the other choices to remember this fact for future exams.

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Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during most of the war, from 1940 to 1945. An early opponent of Hitler, he opposed appeasement of Germany. He was First Lord of the Admiralty at the outbreak of war, then came into power at the start of the Nazi invasion of France.

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Hirohito was emperor during Japan’s militaristic period from the early 1930s to 1945, the end of World War II.

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Turkey is the correct answer. Review the question and compare it with the other choices to remember this fact for future exams.

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The Ottoman Caliphate, the world’s last widely recognized caliphate, was abolished on 3 March 1924 by decree of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as one of the reforms following the replacement of the Ottoman Empire with the Republic of Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

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League of Nations, an organization for international cooperation established on January 10, 1920, at the initiative of the victorious Allied powers at the end of World War I.

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The Russian Revolution took place in 1917, during the final phase of World War I. It removed Russia from the war and brought about the transformation of the Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), replacing Russia’s traditional monarchy with the world’s first Communist state.

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The Russo-Japanese War was a military conflict fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan from 1904 to 1905. Much of the fighting took place in what is now northeastern China. The Russo-Japanese War was also a naval conflict, with ships exchanging fire in the waters surrounding the Korean peninsula.

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Robert Clive is the correct answer. Review the question and compare it with the other choices to remember this fact for future exams.