Government Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Government is the study of political institutions, processes, and theories. It examines agencies, political bodies, and the workings of the state.

• Question 1781: Government means the machinery established by a state to manage the affairs of the Options:
  A) rulers
  B) aliens
  C) civil servants
  D) workers and peasants
  E) people
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1782: One of the agreements of the 1957 constitutional conference was that Options:
  A) Southern cameroons should constitute a separate region
  B) a house of Chiefs was to be created in the Western Region
  C) the office of the speaker of the house of representatives was to be created
  D) the police was to be regionalized
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1783: The atomic bomb tests carried out around the Sahara Desert made Nigeria sever relations with Options:
  A) The United States
  B) France
  C) Germany
  D) Canada
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1784:

  Whenan election fails to produce a clear winner, the process of determining a winner is called

  Options:
  A) a recall
  B) a re-run election
  C) a bye-election
  D) a referendum
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1785: The primary function of the judiciary is to Options:
  A) interpret laws
  B) make laws
  C) safeguard independence
  D) regulate behaviour
  E) execute
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1786: A legal document yet to be enacted into law but it still under debate in the legislature is known as Options:
  A) an edict
  B) a decree
  C) a white paper
  D) a bill
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1787: After the defeat of Germany in World War 1, her former colonies were administered under the League of Nations as Options:
  A) trust territories
  B) occupied territories
  C) protectorates
  D) crown colonies
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1788: The party that did not control any state in the Second Republic was Options:
  A) NAP
  B) PRP
  C) NPP
  D) GNPP
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1789:

  Argumentation, negotiation and deliberation on the subject matter of a bill begins at the_______

  Options:
  A) third stage
  B) first reading
  C) committee stage
  D) second reading
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1790:

  A vote of confidence means______

  Options:
  A) the same as impeachment in a presidential system
  B) the ability of the head of state to dissolve the parliament when collective responsibility fails to hold
  C) the act of showing disapproval to the prime minister having breached the collective responsibility doctrine
  D) the disapproval with dismissal in effect, the ministers and its head
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  The correct answer is D .