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Solved Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916 tricky GK practice set — 50 MCQs with verified answers and explanations (signing, zones, Mosul, Balfour Declaration, mandates). A Sir Adnan practice set for PMS Screening preparation, not an official past paper.
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A Sir Adnan one-liner set headed 'Sykes–Picot Agreement 1916 –TRICKY GK / ONE-LINER (PPSC/FPSC NEW TREND 2026-27)' from the monster-data 'PMS SCREENING 2026 GK UPDATED' pack. The booklet prints 50 statement + answer items; all 50 are published here in the standard MCQ format with verified answers and explanations. One booklet answer is corrected to the standard fact: Q22 Mosul was allocated to France under the 1916 agreement (ceded to Britain only in December 1918), flagged in keyFlag.
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50 solved MCQs shown directly below
Correct Answer: 1916
The Sykes–Picot Agreement was ratified by Britain and France in May 1916, during World War I.
Correct Answer: Britain and France
Britain and France secretly agreed to divide the Ottoman Empire's Arab provinces between them.
Correct Answer: Ottoman Empire
The agreement divided the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire into British and French spheres.
Correct Answer: Sir Mark Sykes
Sir Mark Sykes negotiated for Britain; the agreement is named after him and Georges-Picot.
Correct Answer: François Georges-Picot
François Georges-Picot negotiated for France; the agreement is named after him and Mark Sykes.
Correct Answer: World War I
The agreement was drawn up in 1915–16, while World War I was still being fought.
Correct Answer: Middle East
The agreement partitioned the Ottoman Middle East between Britain and France.
Correct Answer: France
Syria fell in the French sphere and later became the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon.
Correct Answer: Britain
Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) fell in the British sphere and later became the British Mandate for Mesopotamia.
Correct Answer: Jerusalem
Palestine, including Jerusalem, was marked as a brown zone for international administration.
Correct Answer: Russia
After the October Revolution, the Bolshevik government published the secret treaties in November 1917.
Correct Answer: McMahon–Hussein Correspondence
Britain had promised Sharif Hussein of Mecca Arab independence in the 1915–16 McMahon–Hussein Correspondence, which clashed with the secret partition.
Correct Answer: Two
It is named after its two negotiators, Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot.
Correct Answer: Five
The map marked five zones: Zone A (French influence), Zone B (British influence), the blue zone (French direct control), the red zone (British direct control) and the brown zone (international administration).
Correct Answer: Lebanon
Lebanon emerged from the French-mandate territory carved out of the French sphere.
Correct Answer: Jordan
Transjordan (modern Jordan) emerged from the British-sphere territory east of the Jordan.
Correct Answer: Asia
The partitioned Ottoman provinces lie in western Asia, the Middle East.
Correct Answer: Middle East
Its borders, drawn without regard to local peoples, are widely blamed for later Middle East instability.
Correct Answer: Ottoman Empire
The agreement planned the partition of the Ottoman Empire once it was defeated.
Correct Answer: May
The agreement was ratified on 9–16 May 1916 (signed 16 May 1916).
Correct Answer: Sykes and Picot
It is named after Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot.
Correct Answer: France
Under the 1916 agreement the city of Mosul and the northern Mosul vilayet were allocated to France, not Britain.
Correct Answer: Allied Powers
Britain and France were Allied Powers in World War I; the agreement was an Allied wartime arrangement.
Correct Answer: France
Coastal Syria, including the blue zone, fell to France under the agreement.
Correct Answer: Influence and control
The map created zones of direct control and zones of influence for Britain and France, plus the international zone.
Correct Answer: London
Sykes and Picot negotiated in London in late 1915, and the memorandum was initialled there on 3 January 1916.
Correct Answer: Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration of November 1917 promised a Jewish national home in Palestine, clashing with the international-zone plan.
Correct Answer: Iraq
Iraq's borders grew out of the British sphere, including the later addition of Mosul.
Correct Answer: Russian Revolution
The Bolsheviks published the secret agreement after the October Revolution of 1917.
Correct Answer: International administration
Palestine was assigned to an international administration to be decided with Russia and the other Allies.
Correct Answer: Allies
Britain and France, both Allies, signed the secret agreement in 1916.
Correct Answer: France
France's Zone A extended into Cilicia in southern Anatolia.
Correct Answer: League of Nations Mandates
The post-war mandates for Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Mesopotamia followed the Sykes–Picot framework at San Remo in 1920.
Correct Answer: Britain
Basra lay in the red zone of direct British control.
Correct Answer: Britain and France
The agreement protected British and French colonial interests in the Ottoman Middle East.
Correct Answer: Imperialism
Sykes–Picot is the classic symbol of European imperial partition of the Middle East.
Correct Answer: Syria
Syria was divided between French direct control on the coast and the French influence zone inland.
Correct Answer: Independence
The secret partition undercut Arab hopes for independence after the Arab Revolt.
Correct Answer: Ottoman Empire
The agreement was signed in 1916, years before the Ottoman Empire's formal end in 1922.
Correct Answer: Middle East
Its straight-line borders cut across peoples and regions of the Middle East.
Correct Answer: Britain
Baghdad lay in the British sphere (Zone B and the red zone's hinterland).
Correct Answer: History
Sykes–Picot is a standard topic in modern Middle East history.
Correct Answer: France
Lebanon came under the French Mandate after World War I.
Correct Answer: Territorial division
It was a territorial division of the Ottoman Empire between two colonial powers.
Correct Answer: Middle East conflicts
The agreement's borders are routinely linked to modern Middle East conflicts.
Correct Answer: Diplomat
François Georges-Picot was a French diplomat, like Mark Sykes for Britain.
Correct Answer: Palestine
Palestine was assigned international administration under the agreement.
Correct Answer: League of Nations
The mandates that implemented the partition were League of Nations mandates.
Correct Answer: Arabs
The partition was kept secret from the Arabs, who had been promised independence.
Correct Answer: Colonial history
It is a landmark of the colonial partition of the Middle East.
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No. It is a Sir Adnan one-liner practice set on the Sykes–Picot Agreement, prepared for PMS Screening 2026. It is published as paperType 'practice', never as a past paper, and the year 2026 is the booklet's label, not a claimed exam session.
It was ratified in May 1916 (signed 16 May 1916) by Britain and France during World War I.
Sir Mark Sykes negotiated for Britain and François Georges-Picot for France; the agreement is named after them.
The booklet assigns Mosul to Britain, but under the 1916 agreement Mosul was allocated to France; France ceded it to Britain only in the December 1918 Clemenceau–Lloyd George agreement.
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