Palestine Issue General Knowledge MCQs - 2

Palestine Issue General Knowledge MCQs - 2

1. What is the significance of small town “Ramallah"?
(a) Headquarter of Palestine Liberation Organization ✓
(b) Headquarter of Arab League
(c) Hometown of Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
(d) None of above

2. When did Hamas came into power?
(a) 15 February 2004
(b) 25 January 2005 ✓
(c) 21st July 2004
(d) 15th March 2005

3. On which date, the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into
(a) August 29,1947
(b) November 29, 1947 ✓
(c) August 29,1948
(d) November 29,1948

4. Yasir Arafat was confined to his Headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah by Israel from .
(a) December 1999 - November 2004
(b) December 2oU0 — November 2004
(c) December 2001 - November 2004 ✓
(d) December 2002 - November 2004

5. Yasir Arafat and his friends founded Al-Fatah in:
(a) 1958 ✓
(b) 1960
(c) 1962
(d) 1964

6. Yasir Arafat became the chairman of the PLO executive committee in:
(a) 1964
(b) 1967
(c) 1969 ✓
(d) 1972

7. Which country expelled PLO in 1970?
(a) Jordan ✓
(b) Syria
(c) Egypt
(d) Lebanon

8. When were first Palestinian elections held in which Yasir Arafat was elected President of the Palestinian Authority?
(a) 1993
(b) 1994
(c) 1995
(d) 1996 ✓

9. Mahmud Abbas, is also known as:
(a) Abu Ala
(b) Abu Mazen ✓
(c) Abu Ahmed
(d) Abu Muhammud

10. Which Palestinian leader was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1994?
(a) Ahmed Qurie
(b) Mahmud Abbas
(c) Yasir Arafat ✓
(d) Sheikh Ahmed Yasin

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