Kurdistan Issue General Knowledge MCQs - 1

1. In which country the population of Kurds is living?
(a) Turkey
(b) Iraq
(c) Syria
(d) All of the above ✓

2. The Kurds are mainly Sunni Muslims and their dialect is.
(a) French
(b) Iranian ✓
(c) Arabic
(d) None of the above

3. During Iran-lraq War, Iraq destroyed many Kurdish Villages in .
(a) 1988 ✓
(b) 1999
(c) 1974
(d) 1992

4. Iraqi troops invaded and captured the Kurdish city of Irbil in .
(a) 1990
(b) 1989
(c) 1996 ✓
(d) 1980

5. The claimed area of Kurdistan by Kurds is
(a) 50,000 sq.mi
(b) 74,000 sq.mi ✓
(c) 40,000 sq.mi
(d) 30,000 sq.mi

6. 12th point out of 14 points, provided an automonous development for minorities by
(a) Woodrow Wilson ✓
(b) Churchill
(c) Quaid-e-Azam
(d) Gandhi

7. 14 points of Woodrow Wilson were presented at .
(a) Severs
(b) London
(c) Tehran
(d) Versailles ✓
8. The treaty of severs contemplated the possibility of independence of Kurds in
(a) 1911
(b) 1916
(c) 1920 ✓
(d) 1935

9. The greatest spokesman of Kurds was
(a) Mr Browne
(b) Saddam Hussain
(c) Mrs Bush
(d) Mulla Mustafa Barazani ✓

10. Kurdish Democratic Party was legalized in
(a) 1958 ✓
(b) 1960
(c) 1970
(d) 1945

1. The Baathisf government presented an autonomy plan for the Kurds in .
(a) 1990 Feb
(b) 1970 April
(c) 1985 July
(d) 1974 March ✓

2. Barazani went into exile in Kara] Suburb of
(a) Kabul
(b) Colombo
(c) Tehran ✓
(d) Grozny

3. Although during Iran Iraq War Khurds sided with Iran and invited the wrath of Saddam Hussain but afterward difference occurred between Kurds and Iran and Iran after intense fighting took over Kurd areas in
(a) 1980
(b) 1981
(c) 1982
(d) 1983 ✓

4. Territory claimed by Kurds as part of Kurdistan falls in which of the following countries?
(a) Iraq and Turkey
(b) Iran and Armenia
(c) Syria
(d) All of them ✓

5. Iraqi Army attacked the Kurdish town of Halabja with Poison gas 5000 kurds died in
(a) 1986
(b) 1988 ✓
(c) 1989
(d) 1982

6. In 1980’s Kurds formed the Kurdistan workers party in Turkey led by __________.
(a) Abbas Ocalan
(b) Abdullah Badavi
(c) Abdullah Oclan ✓
(d) None of these

7. In 1945, Kurds set up a republic at Mahabad in the Soviet-occupied zone in —-——-.
(a) Iraq
(b) Iran ✓
(c) Syria
(d) Turkey