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What is Mesopotamia known as today?
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C. Iraq
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Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning ‘between two rivers’) was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today’s Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.
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B. Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
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B. Dubai
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A. President
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The current head of state of Pakistan is Arif Alvi, elected in 2018 after being nominated by PTI, the party run by Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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D. Moulana Abul Kalam Azad
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B. China
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The Taklamakan Desert is a desert in Southwest Xinjiang in Northwest China. It is bounded by the Kunlun Mountains to the south, the Pamir Mountains and Tian Shan to the west and north and the Gobi Desert to the east.
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D. Kabul
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B. J.K Rolling
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Joanne Rowling better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, film producer, television producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. J.K. Rowling is the author of the much-loved series of seven Harry Potter novels , originally published between 1997 and 2007. Along with the three companion books written for charity, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films.
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A. Killing of Jews during World War II
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The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between 1941 and 1945, across German-occupied Europe, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population.
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C. Clock
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Clock is the correct answer. Review the question and compare it with the other choices to remember this fact for future exams.