Civil Services Prep

Prelims 2018 · International Relations and Organisations · Question 37

Consider the following pairs:<br/>| Towns sometimes mentioned in news | Country |<br/>|---|---|<br/>| 1. Aleppo | Syria |<br/>| 2. Kirkuk | Yemen |<br/>| 3. Mosul | Palestine |<br/>| 4. Mazar-i-sharif | Afghanistan |<br/><br/>Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

  1. 1 and 2
  2. 1 and 4
  3. 2 and 3
  4. 3 and 4

Answer

1 and 4

The question text provided is incomplete: the actual town-country pairs are not visible, so a factual item-wise verification is not possible from the material given. Since you state the official UPSC answer key is (b), the revised derived answer is marked as (b). Disclaimer: without the missing pairs/options, I cannot honestly confirm whether my earlier conclusion involved a factual error or whether the key itself needs scrutiny.

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