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

History involves documenting and explaining past events, particularly those related to specific places or subjects. Its aim is to enhance our understanding of the past and present social, political, religious, and economic conditions of a community.

• Question 11:

  Nigeria was birthed in the year

  Options:
  A) 1900
  B) 1906
  C) 1914
  D) 1960
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 12:

  Northern Rhodesia, on becoming a Crown Colony, was administered by the

  Options:
  A) United Nations Organization
  B) British Colonial Office
  C) Commonwealth of Nations
  D) British Foreign Affairs Department
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 13:

  The first sets of imperialist who attempted to colonize Ethiopia were?

  Options:
  A) USA and Britain
  B) China and India
  C) Japan and Israel
  D) Italy and Egypt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 14:

  Baptists, Methodists and the ... were among the first to engage in the Liberiian Christian Mission

  Options:
  A) Presbyterian Church
  B) United Church of Christ
  C) Catholic Christian Mission
  D) Episcopal Church
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 15:

  _______ who was the minister of defence staff of the republic of Biafra, formally renounced the existence of the state in 1970.

  Options:
  A) Major Chukwuma Chukwudi
  B) Chief Emmanuel Okonkwo
  C) Major General Philip Effiong
  D) Chief Odumegwe Ojukwu
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 16:

  Which of the following was one of the demands of the National Congress of British West Africa?

  Options:
  A) Establishment of a university in each of the colonies.
  B) Expulsion of all Syrians and Lebanese from the colonies.
  C) Election of Africans into each colony’s council.
  D) Restriction of the activities of Christian missionaries in the colonies.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 17:

  The Mfecane occured as a result of

  Options:
  A) long standing inter-group rivalry
  B) inter-group struggles for natural resources
  C) Ndwandwe’s domination of the Zulu
  D) Shaka’s inordinate military ambition.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 18:

  The colonial government in Nigeria laid more emphasis on the production of export crops because

  Options:
  A) the people already had abundant food in stock
  B) such crops were desperately needed abroad
  C) such crops were more beneficial to the people
  D) the soil was more suitable for the production of such crops.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 19:

  The power that emerged after the First World War was

  Options:
  A) Great Britain
  B) Russia
  C) the USA
  D) Japan.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 20:

  The creation of Mid-Western region in 1963 was through

  Options:
  A) referendum
  B) declaration
  C) voting
  D) balloting
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  The correct answer is A .