UGC NET/JRF EXAM, INTERNATIONAL & AREA STUDIES, December-2023 (PAPER-II)

Total Questions: 100

71. Match List-I with List-II.

List-I (Leader)	List-II (Country)
(a) Arif Alvi	I. France
(b) Emmanuel Macron	II. Pakistan
(c) Giorgia Meloni	III. Ethiopia
(d) Abiy Ahmed	IV. Italy

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

	(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)
A.	III	IV	I	II
B.	IV	III	II	I
C.	I	II	III	IV
D.	II	I	IV	III

Correct Answer: D.

72. Match List-I with List-II.

List-I (Treaty)	List-II (Year)
(a) Partial Test Ban Treaty	I. 1967
(b) Outer Space Treaty	II. 1963
(c) Antarctic Treaty	III. 2002
(d) Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty	IV. 1959

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

	(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)
A.	II	I	IV	III
B.	I	IV	III	II
C.	III	IV	I	II
D.	IV	III	II	I

Correct Answer: A.

73. Match List-I with List-II.

List-I (International Human Rights Documents)	List-II (Year)
(a) Convention relating to the status of Refugees	I. 1975
(b) Declaration on Torture	II. 1954
(c) Convention on the Rights of the Child	III. 2000
(d) Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union	IV. 1990

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

	(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)
A.	III	IV	I	II
B.	IV	III	II	I
C.	II	I	IV	III
D.	I	II	III	IV

Correct Answer: C.

74. Match List-I with List-II.

List-I (Regional Organisation)	List-II (Year of Establishment)
(a) ASEAN	I. 1993
(b) European Union	II. 1967
(c) SAARC	III. 1997
(d) BIMSTEC	IV. 1985

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

	(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)
A.	III	IV	I	II
B.	IV	III	II	I
C.	II	I	IV	III
D.	I	II	III	IV

Correct Answer: C.

75. Match List-I with List-II.

List-I (Humanitarian Intervention)	List-II (Year)
(a) Somalia	I. 1994
(b) Haiti	II. 1992
(c) East Timor	III. 2000
(d) Siera Leone	IV. 1999

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

	(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)
A.	II	I	IV	III
B.	I	II	III	IV
C.	III	IV	I	II
D.	IV	III	II	I

Correct Answer: A.

76. Arrange the following Indian Prime Ministers in Chronological order:

(a) Dr. Manmohan Singh
(b) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(c) H.D. Devegowda
(d) Morarji Desai
(e) Chandra Shekhar

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A. (b), (d), (e), (a), (c)
B. (d), (b), (c), (e), (a)
C. (b), (e), (d), (c), (a)
D. (b), (d), (e), (c), (a)

Correct Answer: D. (b), (d), (e), (c), (a)

Solution:Indian Prime Ministers in chronological order:

• Lal Bahadur Shastri: He was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the second prime minister of India from 1964 to 1966.

As prime minister, Shastri promoted the White Revolution – a national campaign to increase the production and supply of milk – by supporting the Amul milk co-operative of Anand, Gujarat and creating the National Dairy Development Board.

• Morarji Ranchhodji Desai: He was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the 4th Prime Minister of India between 1977 and 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party.

During his long career in politics, he held many important posts in government such as Chief Minister of Bombay State, Home Minister, Finance Minister and 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of India.

• Chandra Shekhar: He known as Jananayak, was an Indian politician who served as the 8th Prime Minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991.

He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal without outside support from the Indian National Congress. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who had never held any prior government office.

• H.D. Devegowda: He was an Indian politician who served as the 11th prime minister of India from 1 June 1996 to 21 April 1997. He was previously the 14th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1994 to 1996.

He presently is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing Karnataka. He is the national president of the Janata Dal (Secular) party.

• Dr. Manmohan Singh: He is an Indian retired politician, economist, academician and bureaucrat who served as the 13th Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014.

He is the third longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. A member of the Indian National Congress, Singh was the first Sikh prime minister of India.

Therefore, the correct chronological order is (b), (d), (e), (c), (a).

77. Arrange the following Defense Ministers of India in chronological order.

(a) Jagjivan Ram
(b) Krishna Menon
(c) Jaswant Singh
(d) Mulayam Singh Yadav
(e) Manohar Parikar

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A. (b), (a), (d), (e), (c)
B. (b), (a), (d), (c), (e)
C. (b), (d), (a), (c), (e)
D. (d), (b), (e), (c), (a)

Correct Answer: B. (b), (a), (d), (c), (e)

Solution:Defense Minister of India in chronological order:

• Krishna Menon: He was an Indian academic, independence activist, politician, lawyer, and statesman.

During his time, Menon contributed to the Indian independence movement, India’s foreign relations as de facto foreign minister, one of the major architects of Indian foreign policy, and acted as Jawaharlal Nehru’s diplomat.

Menon became a member of the Rajya Sabha in 1953 from Madras. In 1956, he joined the Union Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio and was made Minister of Defence in April 1957, after winning the North Mumbai seat to the Lok Sabha.

• Jagjivan Ram: Popularly as Babuji, was an Indian independence activist and politician from Bihar.

In 1946, he became the youngest minister in Jawaharlal Nehru’s interim government, the first cabinet of India as a Labour Minister and also a member of the Constituent Assembly of India, where he ensured that social justice was enshrined in the Constitution.

Most importantly, he was the Defence Minister of India during the Indo-Pak War of 1971, which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh.

• Mulayam Singh Yadav: He was an Indian politician, a socialist figure and founder of the Samajwadi Party.

Over the course of his political career spanning more than six decades, he served for three terms as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and also as the Union Minister of Defence in the Government of India.

In 1996, Yadav was elected to the eleventh Lok Sabha from Mainpuri constituency. In the United Front coalition government formed that year, his party joined and he was named India’s Defence Minister in the Devegowda ministry.

• Major Jaswant Singh: He was an officer of the Indian Army and an Indian Cabinet Minister.

He was one of the founding members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and was one of India’s longest serving parliamentarians, having been a member of the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha almost continuously between 1980 and 2014.

Singh was appointed as the Minister of Defence of India in the year 2000 after minister before him, George Fernandes was convicted in the Tehelka case and was forced to resign from his position.

• Manohar Parrikar: He was an Indian politician and leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party who served as Chief Minister of Goa from 14 March 2017 until his death.

Previously, he was Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2014 and from 2017 to 2019. He also served as the Minister of Defence from October 2014 to March 2017.

Therefore, the correct chronological order is (b), (a), (d), (c), (a).

78. Arrange following Nuclear arms central agreements in chronological order :

(a) Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
(b) Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
(c) Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty
(d) Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
(e) Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A. (a), (c), (b), (d), (e)
B. (a), (b), (c), (d), (e)
C. (a), (c), (d), (b), (e)
D. (a), (d), (b), (e), (c)

Correct Answer: B. (a), (b), (c), (d), (e)

Solution:The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was signed in 1968, making it the first in the sequence. The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) was signed in 1972, followed by the Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty (INF) in 1987,

the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in 1991, and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996. Therefore, the correct chronological order is (a), (b), (c), (d), (e).

79. Arrange the post Cold War events in chronological order:

(a) Civil war breaks out in Yugoslavia
(b) Taliban-1 seizes power in Afghanistan
(c) Kosovo war
(d) Russia invades Georgia
(e) Mumbai terror attack

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A. (b), (a), (c), (e), (d)
B. (a), (b), (e), (c), (d)
C. (a), (b), (c), (d), (e)
D. (b), (a), (d), (e), (c)

Correct Answer: C. (a), (b), (c), (d), (e)

Solution:The civil war in Yugoslavia broke out in 1991, making it first in the sequence. The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 1996, followed by the Kosovo war in 1998-1999, Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008, and the Mumbai terror attack in 2008. Therefore, the correct chronological order is (a), (b), (c), (d), (e).

80. Arrange the following foreign ministers of India in chronological order:

(a) Sardar Swarn Singh
(b) N.D. Tewari
(c) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(d) Jaswant Singh
(e) Sushma Swaraj

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

A. (a), (c), (b), (d), (e)
B. (a), (c), (b), (e), (d)
C. (c), (a), (d), (b), (e)
D. (b), (a), (c), (d), (e)

Correct Answer: A. (a), (c), (b), (d), (e)

Solution:Sardar Swaran Singh served as the Foreign Minister of India from 1964 to 1966, making him the first in the sequence. Atal Bihari Vajpayee served next, from 1977 to 1979. N.D. Tewari served from 1986 to 1987.

Jaswant Singh served as the Foreign Minister from 1998 to 2002. Lastly, Sushma Swaraj served as the Foreign Minister from 2014 to 2019. Therefore, the correct chronological order is (a), (c), (b), (d), (e).