Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: International Organisations

Question:

Match List - I with List - II.

List – I

UN Secretaries General

List - II

Year/Tesure

(A) Kurt Waldheim

(I) 1946 - 1952

(B) Dag Hammarskjold

(II) 1992 - 1996

(C) Trygve Lie

(III) 1972 - 1981

(D) Boutros Boutros – Ghali

(IV) 1953 - 1961

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I) 

(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)

(A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

Correct Answer:

(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

Explanation:

The correct answer is option (2) - (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

List – I

UN Secretaries General

List - II

Year/Tesure

(A) Kurt Waldheim

(III) 1972 - 1981

(B) Dag Hammarskjold

(IV) 1953 - 1961

(C) Trygve Lie

(I) 1946 - 1952

(D) Boutros Boutros – Ghali

(II) 1992 - 1996

 

Mr Guterres' predecessors as Secretary-General were: Ban Ki-moon (Korea) who served from January 2007 to December 2016; Kofi Annan (Ghana) who held office from January 1997 to December 2006; Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt), who held office from January 1992 to December 1996; Javier Pèrez de Cuèllar (Peru), who served from January 1982 to December 1991; Kurt Waldheim (Austria), who held office from January 1972 to December 1981; U Thant (Burma, now Myanmar), who served from November 1961, when he was appointed acting Secretary-General (he was formally appointed Secretary-General in November 1962) to December 1971; Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden), who served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in Africa in September 1961; and Trygve Lie (Norway), who held office from February 1946 to his resignation in November 1952