Mother Teresa was born in 1910 at Skopje, which is today the capital of which country?
- A.Albania
- B.North Macedonia
- C.Serbia
- D.Greece
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, North Macedonia. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later Mother Teresa, was born on 26 August 1910 at Skopje, then in the Ottoman Empire and today the capital of North Macedonia. She came to India in 1929, became an Indian citizen in 1951, founded the Missionaries of Charity at Calcutta in 1950 and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Option A is wrong, though it is the strongest distractor, because her family was ethnically Albanian while the city of her birth was not in Albania. Option C is wrong because Serbia's capital is Belgrade; Skopje was part of Yugoslavia for much of the twentieth century, which is the source of the confusion. Option D is wrong because Greece shares the historical name Macedonia with the region but Skopje has never been a Greek city.
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