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_________ is a collection of people which collects in place and indulges in a temporary thinking, demands and the related emotional expression. 

  1. Sect

  2. Mob

  3. Political Parties

  4. None


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Mob is a large crowd or mass of people gathered to cause disorder and violence  and resort to all unlawful means to threat peace in order to fulfill their demand or to accomplish their motive. Communal violence, Racial Violence and caste violence  instigate hatred and disturbance at widespread level. People participate in mass to show their vigour and power and to commit atrocities against another caste, group, religion to prove their superiority. These are example of mob violence wherein massive amount of people indulge in riots or violent acts and disturb public peace and security.

Which of the following are example/s of Mob Violence ?

  1. Communal Violence

  2. Racial Violence

  3. Caste Violence

  4. All


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Communal violence, Racial Violence and caste violence  instigate hatred and disturbance at widespread level. People participate in mass to show their vigour and power and to commit atrocities against another caste, group, religion to prove their superiority. These are example of mob violence wherein massive amount of people indulge in riots or violent acts and disturb public peace and security.

A Social Movement is social platform that enables people to showcase their needs and visions. 

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Social movements are instrument of Social Change. Social movement is collective action of people either to promote or resist a change in society or group of which it is a part. Social movement is not sudden outbreak but an organised collective action followed by ideology behind the action. 


As society develops, their occurs changes in system or some societies lack behind, people of those societies forms group and aim at bringing about change in values, norms and structure hence social movement are natural and found in every range of society. 

They are oriented towards social change that derive people to join and to inspire by their goal and ideology.

Total alcohol prohibition was a part of the _____________.

  1. Freedom struggle

  2. Chipko Movement

  3. Environmental movements in Coastal Karnataka

  4. All


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Alcohol prohibition has been the part of freedom movement. When India Gained independence in 1947 it was included in the Constitution of India as the objective. The Chikpko movement success in state of Uttarakhand motivated villagers in kannada district and they launched the similar movement to save the forests. Appiko movement as it was called in which people hugged trees to protect them from being cut for the purpose of Industrialisation and setting up of factories. Alcohol prohibition was also the agenda of Chipko movement. Coastal Karnataka movement to save and protect over exploitation of coastal region and desertion of land includes opposition of Mangalore refinery and petrochemicals limited.

The farmers movements began with the denial __________.

  1. Of Land Holdings

  2. Of Land Tax

  3. to grow food crops

  4. Nonce


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Farmers movement means movement by peasants which is characterised by agrarian unrest. It is triggered by agricultural reforms and change in policies. Farmer's movement began denying land tax. Later it was extended against caste discrimination, tenancy system and bonded labour.

_____________ movements opposed patriarchal values which created gender based Inequalities

  1. Women's

  2. Scientific

  3. Environmental

  4. All


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Women's movement demands equality of rights and position. Since most of the societies are patriarchal and have always been patrilineal where women were deprived of authorities, rights and to take decision for themselves. Such movements aim to root out patriarchal values that discriminate between male and female having been on equal footings. It is due to global women rights movement that women are now given due representation in politics, they have property rights, ancestral rights and several other social and civil rights that from which they were earlier kept deprived.

Alcohol prohibition movement was predominantly a _________ led movement.

  1. Women

  2. Men

  3. Government

  4. None


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Alcohol prohibition movement are predominantly women led as it is believed by female community that the prohibition of alcohol would solve many social evils which affects family. Man under influence of intoxication and due to addiction commits cruelty on wife and children, stay away from earning opportunities and develop habits which are antisocial and unlawful.

The earlier Honour of Clan has transformed into ____________.

  1. Honour of the Soldiers

  2. Honour Killings

  3. Honour of the Women

  4. None


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Honour killings are acts of violence like murder committed by male members of a family upon female members who have allegedly brought dishonour on the family. The dishonour could be brought by refusing to arrange marriage, demanding a divorce, committing adultery etc. It is an ancient disgraceful act where a male member of the family had the right to kill an unmarried but sexually active female member. He is considered honoured in doing so.

Name the ship in which volunteers set out to test the area of protest.

  1. Dartmouth

  2. Eleanor

  3. Beaver

  4. Greenpeace


Correct Option: D

During the second world war who dropped atom bomb on Hiroshima?

  1. Germany

  2. UK

  3. USSR

  4. USA


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

On August 6, 1945, during World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people and tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of a new and most cruel bomb.

What is the ultimate goal of the NPT?

  1. To eliminate nuclear sources from the world

  2. Facilitating nuclear energy for peaceful purposes

  3. World peace

  4. Nuclear disarmament


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The ultimate goal of the NPT is nuclear disarmament thus preventing wider diffusion of nuclear weapons. The NPT, a multilateral treaty, aims at limiting the spread of nuclear weapons including three elements: (1) non-proliferation (2) disarmament  (3) peaceful use of nuclear energy.

Consider the following statements about pressure groups and parties.
A. Pressure groups are organised expression of the interests and views of specific social sections.
B. Pressure groups take positions on political issues.
C. All pressure groups are political parties.
Which of the statements given above are correct?

  1. A, B, and C

  2. A and B

  3. B and C

  4. A and C


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The nature of pressure group and parties are as follows:-

1. These are the organisations that attempt to influence government policies.
2. The pressure group does not aim to directly share the political power.
3. Pressure group is organised expression of the interests and views of a specific social section.
4. Pressure group takes positions on political issues.

Due to disarmanent, there is increase in the number of large scale wars in the world.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B

Which among the following is the special feature that distinguishes a pressure group from a political party?

  1. Parties take political stances, while pressure groups do not bother about political issues.

  2. Pressure groups are confined to a few people, while parties involve larger number of people.

  3. Pressure groups do not seek to get into power, while political parties do.

  4. Pressure groups do not seek to mobilise people, while parties


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

A political party is a group of people who come together to contest elections and hold power whereas a pressure group is a group that tries to influence public policy in the interest of a particular case. A pressure group is an informal and unrecognized entity. Pressure group does not contest elections. They do not seek to get into power, while political parties do. The pressure group is not accountable to people.

Explosion of atom bomb has taken place in ____________.

  1. Hiroshima

  2. Nagasaki

  3. All of the above

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

On August 6, 1945, during World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people and tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of a new and most cruel bomb.

Which layer of the atmosphere absorbs the harmful rays of the sun?

  1. Ozone layer

  2. Stratosphere

  3. Mesosphere

  4. Troposphere


Correct Option: A

Global climate change will affect countries whose population depends largely on ______.

  1. Fishing

  2. Agriculture

  3. Mining

  4. Lumbering


Correct Option: B

Where are the headquarters of the Greenpeace organization located?

  1. Amsterdam

  2. Hague

  3. Rotterdam

  4. Texel


Correct Option: A

Who became the first qualified black female pilot?

  1. Paul Robeson

  2. Jesse Owens

  3. Herbert Clark Hoover

  4. Bessie Coleman


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
  • Bessie Coleman was the first qualified black female pilot.
  • Between 1922 to 1925 she flew in shows all shows all over America and raised enough money to set up her own flying school.

Organizations that seeks to promote the interests of a particular section or group ______________.

  1. Movement

  2. Political parties

  3. Sectional interest groups

  4. Public interest groups


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Usually, interest groups seek to promote the interests of a particular section or group of society. Trade unions, business associations and professional (lawyers, doctors, teachers, etc.) bodies are some examples of this type. They are sectional because they represent a section of society: workers, employees, business persons, industrialists, followers of a religion, caste group, etc. Their principal concern is the betterment and well-being of their members, not society in general. 

Groups which try to influence government policies are known as _______.

  1. Movements groups

  2. Pressure groups

  3. Sectional groups

  4. Interest groups


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A pressure group is a group of people having a common interest. They put pressure on the government to fulfill their interest and try to influence the policies of the government for that sake. These groups do not contest in the election. Pressure groups do not aim to directly control or share political power.

Who among the following is not resorted to by business groups?

  1. Employing professional lobbyists

  2. Disrupting public transport system

  3. Sponsor advertisements in newspaper

  4. Submit memorandum of understanding


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Business groups are involved in the activities such as employing people in lobbying for projects, sponsoring advertisements in the newspaper and signing a memorandum of understanding among different stakeholders as mentioned in options A, C, and D. However, option B stating disruption of the public transport system is a non-business, destructive activity with no connection to business groups. 

The majority people in Sri Lanka follow the religion ______________.

  1. Hinduism

  2. Christianity

  3. Islam

  4. Buddhism


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Buddhism is a major religion in Sri Lanka. As per 2011 Census about 70.2% of people in there follow Buddhism.

The differences that are difficult to tackle in a society are based on

  1. Birth

  2. Region

  3. Class

  4. Culture


Correct Option: C

Mahatma Gandhi, Periyar Ramaswami, B.R-Ambedkar and Jyotiba Phule were

  1. ministers.

  2. social reformers.

  3. economic reformers.

  4. community heads.


Correct Option: B

Which company purchased the Union Carbide factory?

  1. Bayer

  2. Ineos

  3. DuPont

  4. Dow


Correct Option: D

In which year did the British establish their control on Manipur?

  1. 1891

  2. 1918

  3. 1819

  4. 1857


Correct Option: A

Which out of these are multipurpose dams in India?
This question has multiple answers.

  1. Hirakud

  2. Nagarajunasagar

  3. Kishau

  4. Bhakra Nangal


Correct Option: A,B,D

A poisonous gas leaked out of the ______ factory in Bhopal.

  1. Union Chemical corporation

  2. Union Carbide corporation

  3. Union Carbonate corporation

  4. Union Sulphide corporation


Correct Option: B

CSE was founded by _______ in 1980 to study environmental and developmental issues in India.

  1. Anil Agrawal

  2. Sunita Narain

  3. Chandra Bhushan

  4. Jagdeep Gupta


Correct Option: A

Which financial institution decided to withdraw its funding for the Sardar Sarovar Project?

  1. Asian Development Bank

  2. World Bank

  3. European Investment Bank

  4. International Investment Bank


Correct Option: B

In which year did the Bhopal gas tragedy take place?

  1. 1984

  2. 1982

  3. 1983

  4. 1981


Correct Option: A

In which district did women march in thousands to stop the annual auction of arrack contract?

  1. Anantpur

  2. Chittoor

  3. Nellore

  4. Kurnool


Correct Option: C

In which year was the total prohibition on arrack imposed?

  1. 1993

  2. 1995

  3. 1994

  4. 1992


Correct Option: B

Which worldwide economic and political changes have impacted the lives of the underprivileged and the poor?

  1. Globalisation

  2. Liberalisation

  3. Privatization

  4. Revolution


Correct Option: A

In which state did the Meira Paibi Movement originate?

  1. Meghalaya

  2. Mizoram

  3. Tripura

  4. Manipur


Correct Option: D

Which Manipuri woman has been on hunger strike for more than 10 years and is under house arrest?

  1. Irom Sharmila

  2. Ramina Haorokchama

  3. Medha Patkar

  4. Aruna Roy


Correct Option: A

Which state was declared a 'disturbed area' in 1980?

  1. Assam

  2. Sikkim

  3. Meghalaya

  4. Manipur


Correct Option: D

Which group demanded the revocation of the AFSPA?

  1. Naxalbari

  2. Meira Paibi

  3. Navnirman

  4. Self-Employed Women's Association


Correct Option: B

Whose role is appreciated in Meira Paibi Movement?

  1. Soldiers

  2. Employees

  3. Students

  4. Women


Correct Option: D

Which precious metal was produced by the women of Dubagunta village?

  1. Silver

  2. Gold

  3. Diamond

  4. Platinum


Correct Option: B

Which of the following is not a key concept of present social movements?

  1. Space War

  2. Human rights

  3. Family planning

  4. Environmental protection


Correct Option: A

A major accident took place at which nuclear plant in USSR?

  1. Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant

  2. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

  3. Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant

  4. Kursk Nuclear Power Plant


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

During the last phase of the USSR, a major accident took place in its nuclear plant in Chernobyl. This caused the death of a large number of workers in Chernobyl. But more important, it contaminated the atmosphere of a very large region including many other countries of Europe. Its effects created a new awareness among the people of the world about the danger of nuclear power whether for peaceful or warlike purposes.

The Cold War occur between which countries?

  1. USA and USSR

  2. USA and France

  3. USSR and Britain

  4. France and Britain


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Conflicts of national interest caused the World War II alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union to be replaced by a Cold War that lasted 45 years. Initially a dispute over the future of Europe, it grew to include confrontations around the world. A clash of very different beliefs and ideology capitalism versus communism each held with almost religious conviction formed the basis of an international power struggle with both sides vying for dominance, exploiting every opportunity for expansion anywhere in the world.

Who were the two main competitors in nuclear arms race?

  1. Japan and USA

  2. Germany and USA

  3. USA and USSR

  4. Japan and USSR


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The nuclear arms race intensified after the end of Vietnam War as more and more countries competed with each other to stockpile nuclear arms. Companies which produced these arms (called the military-industrial complex) and the governments tried to create a war panic among the common people so that they support greater expenditure of tax payers money on nuclear arms. The USA and the USSR were the front runners in the nuclear arms race.

Which state was formed after the dissolution of USSR?

  1. Chinese

  2. Russian

  3. American

  4. Japanese


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

In the decades after it was established, the Russian-dominated Soviet Union grew into one of the worlds most powerful and influential states and eventually encompassed 15 republics viz Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. In 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved following the collapse of its communist government. With this ended the long period of Cold War and the constant threat of a catastrophic World War.

The ________ used guerrilla warfare techniques to fight the war against the USA.

  1. Vietnamese

  2. French

  3. Cambodians

  4. Laotians


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Vietnam was a largely forested and poor nation in comparison with their opponents USA and France. The Vietnamese used guerrilla warfare techniques to fight the war. The USA invented and used newer arsenal like chemical weapons including napalm bombs destroying entire villages.

 A Social Movement is a _________ one. 

  1. Planned

  2. Unplanned

  3. Community based

  4. Both a and c


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
A social movement is the effort by an association to bring about a change in the society. A social movement may also be directed to resist a change. Some movements are directed to modify certain aspects of the existing social order whereas others may aim to change it completely. On account of their transformational and empowering potential, social movement have attracted much interest in fields aimed at social betterment through participation, such as community psychology or health promotion. Thus, a social movement is a planned and community based one.

Which of the following are the nature of Social Movements ?

  1. They are Planned.

  2. They are natural as they have been happening, have happened and will happen.

  3. They are community based programmes.

  4. All


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Social movements are instrument of Social Change. Social movement is collective action of people either to promote or resist a change in society or group of which it is a part. Social movement is not sudden outbreak but an organised collective action followed by ideology behind the action. 


As society develops, their occurs changes in system or some societies lack behind, people of those societies forms group and aim at bringing about change in values, norms and structure hence social movement are natural and found in every range of society. They are oriented towards social change that derive people to join and to inspire by their goal and ideology.

In which village did the anti-arrack movement start?

  1. Dubagunta

  2. Anantapur

  3. Chittoor

  4. Guntur


Correct Option: A

In which year did the government of Kerala decide to convert the Silent Valley into a National Park?

  1. 1982

  2. 1983

  3. 1984

  4. 1985


Correct Option: D

The Americans conducted underwater nuclear tests near ______.

  1. Canada

  2. Alaska

  3. Hawaii

  4. Peru


Correct Option: B

Which company sponsored the Olympics in London?

  1. Dow

  2. DuPont

  3. Ineos

  4. Sinopec


Correct Option: A

In which year did the anti-arrack movement start in Nellore?

  1. 1992

  2. 1993

  3. 1994

  4. 1995


Correct Option: A

In which year did the Meira Paibi Movement originate?

  1. Late 1970's

  2. Mid 1970's

  3. Early 1970's

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A

Which act gives the security forces the right to arrest or shoot people under suspicion of being involved in anti-national activities?

  1. Territorial Army Act

  2. Probation of Offenders Act

  3. Arms Act

  4. AFSPA


Correct Option: D

Which Supreme Court judge was appointed by the government to look into the possibilities of revoking the ASFPA in Manipur?

  1. J.M. Panchal

  2. Sabyasachi Mukharji

  3. BP Jeevan Reddy

  4. T.S. Thakur


Correct Option: C

In which year was arrack officially banned?

  1. September 1993

  2. August 1993

  3. November 1993

  4. October 1993


Correct Option: D

In which year did Manipur sign the merger agreement with India?

  1. 1945

  2. 1949

  3. 1947

  4. 1950


Correct Option: B

In which year was the nuclear bomb dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

  1. 1947

  2. 1950

  3. 1948

  4. 1945


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped its first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The bomb was known as Little Boy. Three days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9 a 21-kiloton plutonium device known as Fat Man.

The Vietnam war started in the year _______ and ended in the year _______.

  1. 1955-1973

  2. 1948-1975

  3. 1948-1973

  4. 1955-1975


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The United States battled North Vietnam and its adherents in the longest conflict in American history, known as the Vietnam War. The war ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later in 1975. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict.

In which year was the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) signed?

  1. 1980

  2. 1991

  3. 1989

  4. 1995


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

After the failure of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), a treaty was signed in 1991 which was called the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). START negotiated the largest and most complex arms control treaty in history, and its final implementation in late 2001resulted in the removal of about 80 percent of all strategic nuclear weapons then in existence.

Anti-Arrack movement was started in ______ district of Andhra Pradesh.

  1. East Godavari

  2. Nellore

  3. Srikakulam

  4. Vijayanagaram


Correct Option: B

_________ was the president of USA who signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

  1. George H.W. Bush

  2. Jimmy Carter

  3. Ronald Reagen

  4. Bill Clinton


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as START, was signed on July 31, 1991 by U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. START negotiated the largest and most complex arms control treaty in history, and its final implementation in late 2001 resulted in the removal of about 80 percent of all strategic nuclear weapons then in existence.

Name the chemical that leaked and caused the disaster.

  1. Methyl Isocyanide

  2. Methyl Isocyanate

  3. Methyl Isocarbonate

  4. Methyl Chloride


Correct Option: B
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