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[#221] When did Nanda dynasty come into power?
Correct Answer

(A) 424 BC

Explanation

Solution: Mahapadma Nanda founded the dynasty in the year 424 BC and ruled for almost 62 years till 362 BC.

[#222] When was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria assassinated?
Correct Answer

(D) 1914

Explanation

Solution: On Sunday, 28 June 1914, at about 10:45 am, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The perpetrator was 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia and one of a group of assassins organized and armed by the Black Hand.

[#223] Who is known as the "Lady with the Lamp"?
Correct Answer

(C) Florence Nightingale

Explanation

Solution: Florence Nightingale the founder of modern nursing was an English social reformer. She got the title of 'Lady with the Lamp' while she used to make rounds of wounded
soldiers in Crimean war at night.

[#224] United Nations was formed in the year
Correct Answer

(B) 1945

Explanation

Solution: The Formation of the United Nations, 1945. On January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.

[#225] Who said that "Man by nature is a political animal"?
Correct Answer

(B) Aristotle

Explanation

Solution: Aristotle was an ancient Greek philospher, he in his book 'Politics' describes man as a political animal. Except from his Book of Politics, "it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal."