Most important Historical Events that changed the World
Which among the following is known as the earliest period in history
(a) Palaeolithic
(b) Mesolithic
(c) Microlith
(d) Neolithic
The excavation of what city, destroyed in 79AD, was begun in 1748?
(a) Andorra
(b) Austria
(c) Angola
(d) Armenia
What were Operation Torch, Operation Ichi-Go, Operation Bagration, Operation Market Garden and Operation Crossbow?
(a) Nuclear test series carried out in the USA
(b) Military operations in World War II
(c) Allied operations in World War I
(d) International Boy Scout Jamborees
In which country did Queen Isabella secure the throne when her opponents (Carlists) were defeated in 1868, following a civil war between those who wanted a king and those who wanted a queen?
(a) Portugal
(b) Netherlands
(c) Sweden
(d) Spain
What country was forced to withdraw from the British Commonwealth in 1961 and was reinstated in 1994?
(a) Northern Rhodesia
(b) Fiji
(c) Ghana
(d) South Africa
What is the name for attacks on Jewish communities, especially those instigated by the authorities?
(a) Shalom
(b) Ghetto
(c) Pogrom
(d) Rabbi
The first parliamentary form of Government formed by which country ?
(a) France
(b) USA
(c) Britain
(d) Canada
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Which country’s dissolution in 1993 was known as the Velvet Divorce?
(a) Yugoslavia
(b) United Arab Republic
(c) Soviet Union
(d) Czechoslovakia
The treaty of Mangalore was signed between
(a) the East India Company and Haidar Ali
(b) the East India Company and Tipu Sultan
(c) the Mughals and Marathas
(d) the French and Tipu Sultan
Which wonder of the ancient world was at Ephesus?
(a) Temple of Artemis
(b) Hanging gardens
(c) Pyramid
(d) Lighthouse
The Bolschevik revolution occurred in –
(a) 1914
(b) 1915
(c) 1916
(d) 1917
The Jallianwcla Bagh massacre Amritsar took place In the year:
(a) 1916AD
(b) 1918AD
(c) 1919AD
(d) 1920 AD
The Marshall Plan was launched in
(a) June 1945
(b) June 1946
(c) June 1947
(d) June 1948
The city which was the capital of the ancient Persian Empire was –
(a) Susa
(b) Isfahan
(c) Neyshabur
(d) Persepolis
Which prophetess, the daughter of Priam, King of Troy, was killed following the fall of Troy by Agamemnon’s wife, Clytemnestra?
(a) Helen
(b) Salome
(c) Cassandra
(d) Jocaster
What began when Bohemia revolted against the Habsburgs in 1618?
(a) The Great Fire of London
(b) The rise of protestant religions
(c) The Renaissance
(d) Thirty Years War
In 1818, the Zulu Kingdom was founded by –
(a) Mpande
(b) Shaka
(c) Buthelezi
(d) kazwelithini
In 1822, the country which was declared an independent empire was –
(a) Brazil
(b) Argentina
(c) Colombia
(d) Peru
Glencoe, Praga, Peterloo, Waterloo Creek, and Hue are known as what?
(a) Music festivals
(b) Battles
(c) Massacres
(d) University cities
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The Union of South Africa was formed in –
(a) 1907
(b) 1908
(c) 1909
(d) 1910
Which city was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles as a trading settlement in 1819?
(a) Hong Kong
(b) Singapore
(c) Mumbai
(d) Bougainville
Who is said to be ”the father of history”?
(a) Herodotus
(b) Cicero
(c) Sophocles
(d) Lygdamis
During 1945-52, Japan was occupied by –
(a) China
(b) Britain
(c) USSR
(d) United States
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The first Emperor of Germany was –
(a) Abbas the Great
(b) Catherine the Great
(c) Diocletian
(d) Wilhelm
The last French Monarch was –
(a) Ramesses II
(b) Louis Napoleon III
(c) Frederick the Great
(d) Alfred the Great
The Pax Mongolica which influenced Mongolia, China and a large swathe of Eurasia as far westward as Hungary in the 13th and 14th centuries CE owed its force to what?
(a) Treaties by Grand Prince Alexander Nevsky and his dynasty
(b) Conquests by Emperor Zhu and the Ming dynasty
(c) Trading along the Silk Road
(d) Conquests by Genghis Khan and his Successors
Which of these was a ruler of the Aztec empire?
(a) Ataturk
(b) Montezuma
(c) Santa Anna
(d) Nicholas
Bolschevik Revolution took place in
(a) 1917
(b) 1918
(c) 1919
(d) 1920
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The first communist manifesto was issued in
(a) 1847
(b) 1848
(c) 1849
(d) 1850
The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty was signed in –
(a) 1990
(b) 1991
(c) 1992
(d) 1993
In which year did Alexander invade India?
(a) 356 BC
(b) 340 BC
(c) 326 BC
(4) 323 BC
In which country were elections planned for 1991 stopped by the military? They were held in 1995, and, in 1999, after a series of short-term military leaders, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected president.
(a) Tunisia
(b) Morocco
(c) Egypt
(d) Algeria
Alexandria was founded by
(a) Peter the Great
(b) Genghis Khan
(c) Constantine the Great
(d) Alexander
In the year 1959, the Chinese occupied
(a) Nepal
(b) Tibet
(c) Bhutan
(d) Myanmar
Of the over 2400 people killed in the 1953 North Sea Flood, in which country were most living?
(a) England
(b) The Netherlands
(c) Scotland
(d) Belgium
The twin towers of the world trade center in the USA were destroyed by a terror attack in the year
(a) 2000
(b) 2001
(c) 2008
(d) None of the above
The Babylonians invented the clepsydra. What was it?
(a) A pump for a well
(b) Fine-bladed surgical knife
(c) Water clock
(d) Swivelling hook for hanging baskets
The system of Dual Government during the latter half of the 18th century AD is associated with the name of
(a) Clive
(b) Comwallis
(c) Waren Hastings
(d) William Bentinck
What did the London Agreement 1949 concern?
(a) Hong Kong’s relationship with the new People’s Republic of China
(b) A partition plan for Palestine
(c) Effects of Burma’s independence
(d) Newly republican India’s continued membership in the Commonwealth of nations
The Oath of Tennis Court was associated with which event
(a) Russian Revolution
(b) French Revolution
(c) American Civil War
(d) English Civil War
4th July, 1776 is important in world history because
(a) The Battle of Plassey started
(b) Sea route to India was discovered
(c) English King Charles II was executed
(d) American Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence
Which of the following came to India first for trade?
(a) Portugal
(b) Dutch
(c) England
(d) Denmark
Carbonari Society was associated with historical development?
(a) Renniensce
(b) The Social War
(c) Italian Unification
(d) Rome Expels its Last King
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The Continental Congress was associated with which Revolution?
(a) American Civil War
(b) American Revolution
(c) Indian Mutiny
(d) English Civil War
Nowadays history lays emphasis on –
(a) dates
(b) periods
(c) other issues as compared to dates and periods
(d) none of the above
The Bill of Rights was associated with which revolution?
(a) French Revolution
(b) Russian Revolution
(c) The English Revolution
(d) English Civil War
Name the nations that dominated in the multi-polar world of domination till the 1980s
(a) USA and Britain
(b) China and Britain
(c) USA and USSR
(d) USA and China
History is about –
(a) changes that occur over time
(b) finding out how things were in the past
(c) how things have changed
(d) all of the above
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The catastrophic disaster at a plant in Chernobyl in the Ukraine in April 1986 is described as what kind of accident?
(a) Chemical
(b) Unfortunate
(c) Waiting to happen
(d) Nuclear
In Which Year Was Burma Separated From India?
(a) 1863
(b) 1902
(c) 1937
(d) 1947
The island of Bombay was given to the British Prince Charles II as a dowry by the
(a) Dutch
(b) Portuguese
(c) Danish
(d) French
