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🌍 WORLD AFFAIRS — JUNE 2026 📚 Lecture 5 | MCQ Practice Set 🏛 BodhiSattva IAS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Q1. SpaceX IPO was priced at how much per share on June 11, 2026? 🅐 $100 🅑 $120 🅒 $135 ✅ 🅓 $150 ✔️ Correct Answer: (C) $135 💡 SpaceX listed on Nasdaq (SPCX) at $135/share, valuing it at $1.77 trillion — the largest IPO in history, raising ~$75 billion. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Q2. Elon Musk holds approximately what % voting control of SpaceX via Class B stock? 🅐 42% 🅑 60% 🅒 72% 🅓 82% ✅ ✔️ Correct Answer: (D) 82% 💡 Musk holds ~42% equity but ~82% voting control through Class B shares — giving him dominant governance power despite holding less than majority equity. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Q3. How many people were killed in Operation Southern Spear strikes as of June 3, 2026? 🅐 At least 107 🅑 At least 157 🅒 At least 207 ✅ 🅓 At least 307 ✔️ Correct Answer: (C) At least 207 💡 Per SOUTHCOM's June 4 statement, at least 207 people were killed in 63+ strikes on 64 vessels as of June 3, 2026. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Q4. Rear Admiral Bennett's key admission about the first Operation Southern Spear strike was that the victims — 🅐 Were confirmed drug traffickers 🅑 "Could be" human-trafficking victims ✅ 🅒 Were armed combatants 🅓 Had ignored a warning signal ✔️ Correct Answer: (B) "Could be" human-trafficking victims 💡 In a classified Capitol Hill briefing, Rear Adm. Bennett admitted the 11 people on the first boat (Sept 2, 2025) "could be" human-trafficking victims — as reported by The Intercept on June 10. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Q5. What was the reported duration of the ceasefire in the US–Iran MOU scheduled for June 14, 2026? 🅐 30 days 🅑 45 days 🅒 60 days ✅ 🅓 90 days ✔️ Correct Answer: (C) 60 days 💡 Reported terms included a 60-day ceasefire, Hormuz reopened, $24 billion in frozen assets released, and Iran commits not to enrich uranium for ~15–20 years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Q6. Xi Jinping's June 2026 Pyongyang visit was his first visit to North Korea in how many years? 🅐 3 years 🅑 5 years 🅒 7 years ✅ 🅓 10 years ✔️ Correct Answer: (C) 7 years 💡 Xi's visit was his first overseas trip of 2026 and his first visit to North Korea in seven years. He notably did NOT publicly mention denuclearization during the visit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Q7. What % did Pashinyan's Civil Contract party win in Armenia's June 7, 2026 election? 🅐 39.5% 🅑 49.81% ✅ 🅒 59.2% 🅓 67.4% ✔️ Correct Answer: (B) 49.81% 💡 Civil Contract won 49.81% — a majority but short of the two-thirds needed for the constitutional referendum demanded by Azerbaijan and Turkey. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Q8. Israel's military control of Gaza (~60%) as of June 2026 was beyond which agreed boundary? 🅐 The Red Line (~40%) 🅑 The Blue Line (~45%) 🅒 The Yellow Line (~50%) ✅ 🅓 The Green Line (~55%) ✔️ Correct Answer: (C) The Yellow Line (~50%) 💡 Netanyahu ordered seizure of 70% of Gaza; actual control reached ~60%, surpassing the agreed Yellow Line of ~50%, with nightly demolitions continuing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Q9. Which rare Ebola strain caused the DRC outbreak that triggered a WHO PHEIC in May 2026? 🅐 Zaire strain 🅑 Sudan strain 🅒 Bundibugyo strain ✅ 🅓 Reston strain ✔️ Correct Answer: (C) Bundibugyo strain 💡 The 17th DRC Ebola outbreak was caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain — for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment, making it particularly dangerous. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Q10. In the Feb 2026 Supreme Court IEEPA tariff ruling, who was in the 6-3 majority? 🅐 Thomas, Kavanaugh, Alito + 3 liberals 🅑 Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, Barrett, Jackson ✅ 🅒 All 9 justices unanimously 🅓 Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Gorsuch ✔️ Correct Answer: (B) Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, Barrett, Jackson 💡 The majority ruled IEEPA does not authorize presidential tariffs. Chief Justice Roberts wrote: "When Congress grants the power to impose tariffs, it does so clearly and with careful constraints. It did neither here." Dissenters: Thomas, Kavanaugh, Alito. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

These questions are based on the above lecture and are meant for practice purposes.

✅ Correct Answer: B) 2 only 💡 De-escalation at all friction points was not fully completed. Statement 2 correctly reflects WMCC's stated position. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

📊 QUIZ 1 | Quad Security Dialogue With reference to the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), consider the following statements: 1. The Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting held in New Delhi in May 2026 marked the third such meeting since September 2024. 2. The targeted funding target of $20 Billion for the PG Port Project specifically aims to expand port infrastructure in Pacific Island nations like Fiji. 3. All member countries of the Quad share direct maritime boundaries in the Pacific Ocean. Which of the statements given above are correct? A) 1 and 2 only B) 2 and 3 only C) 1 and 3 only D) 1, 2 and 3 ✅ Correct Answer: A) 1 and 2 only 💡 Statement 3 is incorrect — India does not share a direct maritime boundary in the Pacific Ocean. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 QUIZ 2 | Kyat-Rupee Settlement Mechanism The term "Kyat-Rupee Settlement Mechanism", recently seen in the news, is primarily aimed at: A) Expanding infrastructure credit in the Mekong region B) Settling bilateral trade directly without using the US Dollar C) Regulating illegal migration along borders D) Funding restoration of Buddhist heritage sites ✅ Correct Answer: B) Settling bilateral trade directly without using the US Dollar 💡 The mechanism enables India–Myanmar bilateral trade in local currencies, bypassing the US Dollar. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 QUIZ 3 | India's Engagement with Myanmar India's engagement with Myanmar intersects with which of the following initiatives? 1. Act East Policy 2. Neighborhood First Policy 3. MAHASAGAR Initiative A) 1 and 2 only B) 2 and 3 only C) 1 and 3 only D) 1, 2 and 3 ✅ Correct Answer: D) 1, 2 and 3 💡 Myanmar is relevant to all three — Act East (connectivity gateway), Neighborhood First (immediate neighbor), and MAHASAGAR (Indian Ocean maritime security). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 QUIZ 4 | Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC) Consider the following statements regarding Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC): 1. MGC includes India and all ASEAN countries. 2. ICCR expanded MGC scholarship slots from 36 to 100 from 2026 onwards. A) 1 only B) 2 only C) Both 1 and 2 D) Neither 1 nor 2 ✅ Correct Answer: B) 2 only 💡 MGC includes India + 5 Mekong nations only (not all ASEAN). ICCR scholarship expansion is correct. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 QUIZ 5 | India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) The major challenge facing the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is: A) Lack of rail infrastructure in Europe B) Geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East C) Opposition from Mediterranean nations D) Exclusion of maritime routes ✅ Correct Answer: B) Geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East 💡 The Israel–Gaza conflict and broader Middle East instability have significantly stalled IMEC's progress. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 QUIZ 6 | India-Italy Joint Declarations Which of the following was NOT a preferred phrase in recent India-Italy joint declarations? A) Resilient Supply Chains B) Civilizational Ties and Shared Values C) Rule-Based International Order D) Renewed Momentum ✅ Correct Answer: B) Civilizational Ties and Shared Values 💡 This phrase is more characteristic of India–China rhetoric, not India–Italy joint statements. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 QUIZ 7 | Acronym WMCC The acronym WMCC stands for: A) Western Maritime Coordination Council B) Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on Border Affairs C) World Mineral Cooperation Committee D) Working Metrological Consensus on Climate ✅ Correct Answer: B) Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on Border Affairs 💡 WMCC is the diplomatic-military channel between India and China for discussing border-related issues. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 QUIZ 8 | Eastern Ladakh and the LAC Consider the following statements regarding Eastern Ladakh and the LAC: 1. Complete military de-escalation across all friction points was achieved in early 2026. 2. WMCC emphasized that normalization of bilateral ties depends upon peace along border areas. A) 1 only B) 2 only C) Both 1 and 2 D) Neither 1 nor 2

📘 International Relations MCQ Quiz | UPSC/BPSC Prelims Practice 🌍 Question 1: International Groupings With reference to the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), consider the following statements: 1️⃣ The Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting held in New Delhi in May 2026 marked the third such meeting since September 2024. 2️⃣ The targeted funding target of $20 Billion for the PG Port Project specifically aims to expand port infrastructure in Pacific Island nations like Fiji. 3️⃣ All member countries of the Quad share direct maritime boundaries in the Pacific Ocean. ✅ Which of the statements given above are correct? A) 1 and 2 only B) 2 and 3 only C) 1 and 3 only D) 1, 2, and 3 📌 Correct Answer: A) 1 and 2 only 🌏 Question 2: Bilateral Mechanisms The term "Kyat-Rupee Settlement Mechanism", recently seen in the news, is primarily aimed at: A) Expanding infrastructure credit in the Mekong region B) Settling bilateral trade directly without using the US Dollar C) Regulating illegal migration along borders D) Funding restoration of Buddhist heritage sites 📌 Correct Answer: B) Settling bilateral trade directly without using the US Dollar 🇮🇳 Question 3: Indian Foreign Policy Frameworks India’s engagement with Myanmar intersects with which of the following initiatives? 1️⃣ Act East Policy 2️⃣ Neighborhood First Policy 3️⃣ MAHASAGAR Initiative A) 1 and 2 only B) 2 and 3 only C) 1 and 3 only D) 1, 2, and 3 📌 Correct Answer: D) 1, 2, and 3 🤝 Question 4: Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC) Consider the following statements: 1️⃣ MGC includes India and all ASEAN countries. 2️⃣ ICCR expanded MGC scholarship slots from 36 to 100 from 2026 onwards. A) 1 only B) 2 only C) Both 1 and 2 D) Neither 1 nor 2 📌 Correct Answer: B) 2 only 🚆 Question 5: IMEC Corridor The major challenge facing the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is: A) Lack of rail infrastructure in Europe B) Geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East C) Opposition from Mediterranean nations D) Exclusion of maritime routes 📌 Correct Answer: B) Geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East 🇮🇹 Question 6: Diplomatic Vocabulary Which of the following was NOT a preferred phrase in recent India-Italy joint declarations? A) Resilient Supply Chains B) Civilizational Ties and Shared Values C) Rule-Based International Order D) Renewed Momentum 📌 Correct Answer: B) Civilizational Ties and Shared Values 🏔 Question 7: India-China Relations The acronym WMCC stands for: A) Western Maritime Coordination Council B) Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on Border Affairs C) World Mineral Cooperation Committee D) Working Metrological Consensus on Climate 📌 Correct Answer: B) Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on Border Affairs ⚔️ Question 8: Eastern Ladakh & LAC Consider the following statements: 1️⃣ Complete military de-escalation across all friction points in Eastern Ladakh was achieved in early 2026. 2️⃣ WMCC emphasized that normalization of bilateral ties depends upon peace along border areas. A) 1 only B) 2 only C) Both 1 and 2 D) Neither 1 nor 2 📌 Correct Answer: B) 2 only 📚 Join for more quality questions & explanations.

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