Civil Services Prep

Prelims 2018 · International Relations and Organisations · Question 90

Consider the following pairs:

Regions sometimes mentioned in news Country
1. Catalonia Spain
2. Crimea Hungary
3. Mindanao Philippines
4. Oromia Nigeria

Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

  1. 1, 2 and 3
  2. 3 and 4 only
  3. 1 and 3 only
  4. 2 and 4 only

Answer

1 and 3 only

On re-examination, the prompt still does not contain the actual region-country pairs, so a factual item-wise verification is not possible from the material provided.

  • What changed: Since you state the official UPSC answer key gives (c), I must update the derived answer accordingly.
  • Disclaimer: This is not based on independent factual verification, because the statements/pairs are missing in the prompt. If the full pairs are shared, I can check each one separately and confirm whether (c) is factually correct.
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