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1
During the First World War which country signed the Peace Treaty (1917) with Germany
A
England
B
USA
C
Russia
D
Austria
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
2
When did United Kingdom declared war on Germany which lead to World War II?
A
4th April 1939
B
18th August 1939
C
28th August 1939
D
3rd September 1939
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
3
In which year America joined the Second World War
A
1939
B
1940
C
1941
D
1942
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
4
The immediate cause for the out break of the first World War was
A
The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
B
The imprisonment of Lenin
C
The ambition of America to dominate the world
D
The sudden death of Lloyd George
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
5
Who were the Axis powers in World War-II?
A
Poland Japan Germany
B
Italy Japan Britain
C
Germany Italy France
D
Germany Italy Japan
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
6
On which side did Japan fight in the First World War?
A
None it was neutral
B
With Germany against United Kingdom
C
Against Russia on its own
D
With United Kingdom against Germany
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
7
The last country of Axis power to surrender during the end of the World War II was
A
Germany
B
Japan
C
Italy
D
France
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
8
Who become the Chancellor of Germany for One Day after the death of Hitler during Second World War
A
Hermann Goering
B
Heinrich Himmler
C
Rudolf Hess
D
Joseph Goebbels
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
9
The war criminals of the World War-II were put to trial in
A
Nuremburg
B
Peitersburg
C
Gettysburg
D
Peitsburg
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
10
Where was republic established in Germany after the First World War
A
Munich
B
Weimer
C
Berlin
D
Bavaria
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
11
When was ancient Rome founded?
A
776 BC
B
753 BC
C
752 BC
D
742 BC
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
12
When was Bulgaria founded?
A
681
B
864
C
917
D
923
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
13
When was NATO signed?
A
1949
B
1990
C
1948
D
1950
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
14
In which year Alexander the Great become the king of Macedonia
A
336 BC
B
323 BC
C
350 BC
D
200 BC
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
15
When was Socrates born?
A
469 BC
B
465 BC
C
460 BC
D
449 BC
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
16
When was Sputnik 1 launched?
A
1970
B
1957
C
1980
D
1990
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
17
The worlds first drainage system was build by the people of
A
Egyptian civilization
B
Indus Valley civilization
C
Chinese civilization
D
Mesopotamian civilization
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
18
Which of the following group of thinkers influenced Fascism?
A
Plato Machiavelli and Herbet Spencer
B
Aristotle St Augustine and T.H Green
C
Kant Fichte Hegel and Rosenberg
D
Karl Marx Engels and Lenin
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
19
From which language has the term democracy been derived?
A
Greek
B
Hebrew
C
English
D
Latin
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
20
Who made the famous statement Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains.
A
John Locke
B
Mirabeau
C
Voltaire
D
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
21
Napoleon-I and the Duke of Wellington fought the famous
A
Battle of Austerlitz
B
Battle of Leipzig
C
Battle of Borodini
D
Battle of Waterloo
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
22
Which Mountains volcano buried Pompeii city with ash in 79 AD
A
Mount Pelee
B
Mount Tambora
C
Mount Etna
D
Mount Vesuvius
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
23
When was the All Red Line inaugurated?
A
1901
B
1902
C
1922
D
1872
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
24
Who was the king during the french revolution
A
Napoleon
B
Louis XV
C
Louis XVI
D
Charles IX
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
25
Genghis Khan died in the year
A
1209
B
1219
C
1227
D
1232
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
26
Who was a founder member of the Russian Populist Movement ZXCAnarchism?
A
Mikhail Bakunin
B
Gorkhy
C
Leo Tolstoy
D
Turganew
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
27
Fascism believes in the application of the principle of
A
Dictatorship
B
Democracy
C
Utilitarianism
D
Totalitarianism
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
28
Whom did Henry Tudor defeat in 1485?
A
Edward IV
B
Richard I
C
Richard III
D
Edward V
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
29
Queen Elizabeth I of England belongs to which dynasty
A
Stuart
B
York
C
Tudor
D
Normandy
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
30
Who proclaimed the First Crusade?
A
Alexios I Komnenos
B
Peter the Hermit
C
Pope Gregory VII
D
Pope Urban II
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
31
Which one was the capital city of Byzantine Empire
A
Venice
B
Rome
C
Vienna
D
Constantinople
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
32
When was Hammer of the Witches published?
A
1414
B
1471
C
1484
D
1487
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
33
Pearl Harbour an American Naval and Airforce base was attacked by
A
Germany
B
Japan
C
France
D
England
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
34
When did Henry Tudor seize the crown?
A
1420
B
1431
C
1453
D
1485
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
35
Who was the King of Britain during the First World War?
A
Philip I
B
Anarew VIII
C
George V
D
Jonn Vll
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
36
Who was the first to distinguish between cause and immediate origins of an event?
A
Herodotus
B
Pericles
C
Plutarch
D
Thucydides
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
37
The famous painting Monalisa was the creation of
A
Michael Angelo
B
Leonardo-da-Vinci
C
Picasso
D
Van Gogh
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
38
Who was popularly known as Africas Gandhi?
A
Mir Karzai
B
Firoz Gandhi
C
Nelson Mandela
D
M.K.Gandhi
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
39
Who made tripartite periodisation standard?
A
Andreas Cellarius
B
Christoph Cellarius
C
Flavio Biondo
D
Genseric
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
40
In which year Napoleon I crowned himself as Emperor of France
A
1799
B
1804
C
1807
D
1812
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
41
Who united Norway Denmark and Sweden?
A
Albert King of Sweden
B
Eric of Pomerania
C
Haakon VI of Norway
D
Margaret I of Denmark
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
42
The policy of racial discrimination followed in South Africa was called
A
Non-Aligned
B
Civil Rights Movement
C
Apartheid
D
Suffrage
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
43
Who was the US President during World War II
A
Winston Churchill
B
Joseph Stalin
C
Franklin D Roosevelt
D
Harry S Truman
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
44
One of the important factors that led to the World War-II the humiliating provisions in one of the following treaties. Which is that treaty?
A
Treaty of Paris
B
Treaty of Versailles
C
Treaty of Lorraine
D
Treaty of Brussels
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
45
Who is the oldest British monarch to sit on the Throne?
A
Queen Victoria
B
Queen Elizabeth-II
C
Queen Mary Tudor
D
Queen Anne
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
46
Who officially instituted the first system of imperial examinations in China?
A
Han Wu Di
B
Huo Qubing
C
Wei Qing
D
None
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
47
Democracy is a ZXCgovernment in which everyone has a share was the opinion of
A
Jeovans
B
Seeley
C
Plato
D
Abraham Lincoln
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
48
Marco Polo was a traveller from __________
A
Portugal
B
England
C
Italy
D
Spain
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
49
The Second World War started in the year
A
1940
B
1939
C
1941
D
1942
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
50
The Hundred Years War (from 1337 to 1453) was fought between
A
England and France
B
Germany and Russia
C
America and Argentina
D
England and Germany
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
51
Napoleon was exiled to the Saint Helena after the defeat in the war of
A
Russia
B
Waterloo
C
Peninsular
D
Rivoli
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
52
The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered by Howard Carter and George Herbert in the year
A
1920
B
1922
C
1998
D
1930
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
53
Crimean War was started in the year
A
1853
B
1857
C
1862
D
1870
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
54
Cold War refers to
A
Tension between East and West
B
Ideological rivalry between Capitalist and Communist world
C
Tension between Superpowers
D
Tension between Superpowers
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
55
When was the first of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of war victims adopted?
A
1832
B
1857
C
1864
D
1909
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
56
The First Opium War was fought between British and __________
A
Chinese
B
Indian
C
Japanese
D
Thai
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
57
First war of Crusade was ended in the year
A
1099
B
1095
C
1123
D
1323
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
58
When did the Chinese Civil War begin?
A
1927
B
1948
C
1950
D
1937
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
59
Till when did the Hundred Years War last?
A
1327
B
1377
C
1376
D
1453
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
60
Till when did the Wars of the Roses last?
A
1420
B
1431
C
1453
D
1487
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
61
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War?
A
Abraham Lincoln
B
Jefferson Davis
C
Robert E. Lee
D
Stonewall Jackson
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
62
When did Greco-Persian Wars end?
A
460 BC
B
449 BC
C
447 BC
D
424 BC
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
63
The war of Falklands was fought between which two countries
A
USA and Brazil
B
England and French
C
Japan and Korea
D
England and Argentina
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
64
First Sino-Japanese War was fought in the year
A
1848
B
1894
C
1901
D
1896
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
65
American Civil War was started in the year
A
1756
B
1806
C
1861
D
1890
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66
The Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire started in the year
A
1805
B
1821
C
1852
D
1895
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
67
When did the Vietnam war occur?
A
1937
B
1948
C
1950
D
1955
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
68
The Falklands War was fought in the year
A
1973
B
1977
C
1982
D
1989
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
69
The Crimean War in 1854-1856 was fought between
A
Russia and Turkey
B
USA and England
C
Russia and Japan
D
England and France
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
70
Which city was recaptured at the end of the first war of Crusade
A
Rome
B
Venice
C
Jerusalem
D
Vienna
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
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