World Panorama (UPSC) Part-II

📆 March 22, 2025

Total Questions: 50

11. 'Lectures from Colombo to Almora' is based on the experiences of which one of the following? [2006]

(a) Emile Durkheim
(b) Friedrich Engels
(c) Robert Owen
(d) Max Weber

Correct Answer: (d) Max Weber

Solution:Lectures from Colombo to Almora is a book of Swami Vivekananda based on his various lectures.

12. Who among the following wrote 'The Communist Manifesto along with Karl Marx? [2006]

(a) Emile Durkheim
(b) Friedrich Engels
(c) Robert Owen
(d) Max Weber

Correct Answer: (b) Friedrich Engels

Solution:The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx with the assistance of Friedrich Engels.

13. Who is Wole Soyinka? [2006]

(a) A well-known economist.
(b) A well-known football player.
(c) A well-known industrialist owning steel plants in many parts of the world.
(d) A Nobel Prize winner for literature.

Correct Answer: (d) A Nobel Prize winner for literature.

Solution:Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honored in that category.

14. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? [2006]

Well-known Company	Major Area of Work
(a) Adobe System India	Software
(b) Sasken	Communication technology
(c) Genpact	Power generation
(d) Synthite	Export of spices

Correct Answer: (c)

Solution:Genpact Limited is a multinational business process outsourcing and information technology services company, domiciled in Bermuda with executive headquarters in New York.

15. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: [2006]

List-I (Name)	List-II (Designation)
A. Harold Pinter	1. Director-General, FAG
B. Jacques Diouf	2. President, European Commission
C. Jose Manuel	3. World Bank appointed Barroso expert for adjudicating on the Baglihar Hydel Project
D. Raymond Lafitte	4. Literature

Option	A	B	C	D
(a)	4	3	2	1
(b)	2	1	4	3
(c)	4	1	2	3
(d)	2	3	4	1

Correct Answer: (c)

Solution:Harold Pinter was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. Jacques Diouf is a Senegalese diplomat who was Director-General of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization from January 1994 to 31 December 2011. José Manuel Durao Barroso is a Portuguese leftist politician who was the 11th President of the European Commission, serving from 2004 to 2014.
During 1999-2004 India and Pakistan held several rounds of talks on the design of projects, but could not reach an agreement. After failure of talks on January 18, 2005, Pakistan raised six objections to the World Bank, a broker and signatory of Indus Water Treaty. In April 2005 the World Bank determined the Pakistani claim as a 'Difference', a classification between the less serious 'Question' and more serious 'Dispute', and in May 2005 appointed Professor Raymond Lafitte, a Swiss civil engineer, to adjudicate the difference.

16. Which one of the following pairs is not matched? [2006]

(a) Sigmund Freud - Psychoanalysis
(b) Anna Freud -Child psychiatry
(c) Milton Friedman - Economics
(d) Eric R. Kandel - Literature

Correct Answer: (d) Eric R. Kandel - Literature

Solution:Eric Richard Kandel is an American neuropsychiatrist. He was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons.

17. Which one among the following was the first to legalize Eu-thanasia? [2006]

(a) Austria
(b) Switzerland
(c) Netherlands
(d) Canada

Correct Answer: (c) Netherlands

Solution:In April 2002, the Netherlands became the first country to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide. It imposed a strict set of conditions: the patient must be suffering unbearable pain, their illness must be incurable, and the demand must be made in "full consciousness" by the patient.

18. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched? [2006]

Inventor	Invention
1. Christopher	Hovercraft Cockerell
2. David Bushnell	Submarine
3. J. C. Perrier	Steamship

(a) 1, 2 & 3
(b) 1 & 2 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d)1 and 3 only

Correct Answer: (a) 1, 2 & 3

Solution:The Hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell is officially launched in Southampton. Sir Christopher Cockerel linvented the hovercraft, the vehicle which can travel across land or water on a cushion of air. David Bushnell is credited as the inventor of the submarine, which was first used to launch explosives against British ships during the American Revolution (1775-83). Steam ship was invented by J.C Perrier in the year 1775.

19. Where is Davos, the venue of the annual meeting of World Economic Forum; located? [2006]

(a) France
(b) Germany
(c) Switzerland
(d) Luxemburg

Correct Answer: (c) Switzerland

Solution:Davos is host to World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of global political and business elites and the home of huge ski resort is a town of Switzerland.

20. Consider the following statements: [2006]

1. The Richter scale is a logarithmic scale and so an increase of 1 magnitude unit represents a factor of 10 times in amplitude.

2. Each integer reading of the Richter scale has an energy 100 times that the previous integer reading.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

Correct Answer: (a) 1 only

Solution:The magnitude of intensity of energy released by an earthquake is measured by Richter Scale. The number indicating magnitude on Richter Scale ranges between 0 and 9 but infact the scale has no upper limit of number because it is a logarithmic scale. But each integer reading of the Richeter Scale has an energy 32 times of previous integer reading. So the statement a is correct.