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UPSC CDS Indian Polity — practice questions — page 20

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Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →United Nations bingoRead the answer and worked solution →At its most basic, security implies:Read the answer and worked solution →Preventing war by promising to raise its costs to an unacceptable level is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The third component of traditional security policy, after deterrence and defence, is:Read the answer and worked solution →A coalition of states that coordinate actions to deter or defend against attack is an:Read the answer and worked solution →The US backed Islamic militants in Afghanistan in the 1980s but later attacked them after the terrorist strikes of:Read the answer and worked solution →The Cold War was responsible for roughly what share of all wars after the Second World War?Read the answer and worked solution →Internal wars now make up more than what share of all armed conflicts in the world?Read the answer and worked solution →The Biological Weapons Convention banning production and possession of such weapons dates to:Read the answer and worked solution →How many states acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention?Read the answer and worked solution →The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 is an example of:Read the answer and worked solution →The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in:Read the answer and worked solution →Sharing information about military intentions with rivals to avoid war by misunderstanding is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The referent of security in the non-traditional view is expanded from the state to:Read the answer and worked solution →The broad concept of human security adds hunger, disease and natural disasters because they kill far more than:Read the answer and worked solution →A sea level rise of 1.5 to 2 metres would flood about what share of Bangladesh?Read the answer and worked solution →Political violence that deliberately targets civilians is:Read the answer and worked solution →Human rights are classified into how many types?Read the answer and worked solution →Half the world's population growth occurs in just six countries, including India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and:Read the answer and worked solution →People who flee their homes but remain within their own country are called:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1994, nearly five lakh Tutsi were killed within weeks in:Read the answer and worked solution →India first tested a nuclear device in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the arms treatiesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the non-traditional threatsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the security yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the security termsRead the answer and worked solution →Traditional or human securityRead the answer and worked solution →Sort treaties, threats and India's warsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →

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Questions
  1. Answer
    1945
    Question
    Year the UN was founded
  2. Answer
    193
    Question
    UN member states by 2011
  3. Answer
    5
    Question
    Permanent members of the Security Council
  4. Answer
    15
    Question
    Total members of the Security Council
  5. Answer
    2
    Question
    Years in a non-permanent member's term
  6. Answer
    51
    Question
    Original signatory states of the UN Charter
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 6, International Organisations._

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United Nations bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Negative vote that stalls a decision.
    Item
    Veto
  2. Clue
    Founding document signed in 1945.
    Item
    Charter
  3. Clue
    Staff headed by the Secretary-General.
    Item
    Secretariat
  4. Clue
    Economic and Social Council.
    Item
    ECOSOC
  5. Clue
    World court at The Hague.
    Item
    ICJ
  6. Clue
    Council suspended in 1994.
    Item
    Trusteeship
  7. Clue
    Commission created after 2005.
    Item
    Peacebuilding
  8. Clue
    24 October.
    Item
    UN Day
  9. Clue
    Seat of the world court.
    Item
    Hague
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 6, International Organisations._

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At its most basic, security implies:

  1. Wealth and power
  2. Freedom from threats
  3. A very strong army
  4. Fully closed borders
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Correct answer: B. Freedom from threats

1. Not every threat counts as a security threat. 2. Security means freedom from threats. 3. Only threats to core values count. _Source: syllabus Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 7, Security in the Contemporary World._

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