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HISTORY QUIZ

 

1.       Who wrote ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’?

 

[A] Herodotus
[B] Sappho
[C] Homer

 

The answer is, Homer.

Homer wrote the poems 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey' in the 7th century B.C. The poem Iliad consists of a story of Spartan's victory over Troy after a decade-long war, as well as the exploits of their legendary hero, Achilles. The poem Odyssey describes the adventurous return journey of Odysseus from Troy

2.       Which of the following was the new building material discovered by Romans?

 

[A] Bricks
[B] Marble
[C] Concrete

 


The answer is, Concrete.

The new building material discovered by Romans was concrete. Roman concrete was also called opus caementicium. It was a material used in construction in Ancient Rome and was based on a hydraulic-setting cement.

3.       Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus in 60 B.C. formed a governing group which was that?

 

[A] The Republic
[B] A Triumvirate
[C] A Legion

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The answer is, Triumvirate.

The First Triumvirate was a political alliance between three powerful men in the Roman Republic: Gaius Julius Caesar, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and Gnaeus Pompey. It was formed in 60 BCE, and lasted until 53 BCE.

4.       Which of the following were sent to preach Christianity to the world?

 

[A] Apostles
[B] Priests
[C] Bishops

The answer is, Apostles.

These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed him.

5.       Which of the following were the first inventors of the Mariner’s compass?

 

[A] Spanish
[B] Greek
[C] Chinese

The answer is, Chinese.

The mariner's compass was created by the Chinese Han Dynasty in 206 BC approximately. To make it they used a naturally magnetized ore of iron known as lodestone. After that, the Chinese Song Dynasty adopted it and made needles out of iron by striking it with its ore lodestone.

 

6.       Who painted the art, Mona Lisa?

 

[A] Da Vinci
[B] Van Eyck
[C] Michelangelo

 

The answer is, Da Vinci.

Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503, and it was in his studio when he died in 1519. He likely worked on it intermittently over several years, adding multiple layers of thin oil glazes at different times.

 

7.       Who was the first, ventured out into the Atlantic Ocean?

 

[A] Spanish Sailors
[B]
Norse Seafarers
[C] British Sailors

 

The answer is, Norse Seafarers.

'Viking' was the name given to the seafarers from Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden. During the Viking age many Vikings travelled to other countries, such as Britain and Ireland. They either settled in these new lands as farmers and craftsmen, or went to fight and look for treasure. While the Norse were the first known humans to cross the Atlantic, it was the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 that proved to be the most consequential.

 

8.       Which of the following was one of the earliest findings of Prince Henry’s mariners?

 

[A] Azores
[B] Canaries
[C] Madeira

 


The answer is, Madeira.

Portuguese sailors were the first who ventured out into the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the Azores and the Canaries in the fourteenth century. Madeira was one of the earliest findings of Prince Henry's mariners in 1420.

 

9.       How many expeditions did Columbus make to the Americas?

 

[A] Two
[B] Three
[C] Four

 

The answer is, Four.

Columbus made four transatlantic voyages: 1492–93, 1493–96, 1498–1500, and 1502–1504. He travelled primarily to the Caribbean, including the Bahamas, Cuba, Santo Domingo, and Jamaica, and in his latter two voyages travelled to the coasts of eastern Central America and northern South America.

 

10.   Which of the following was the first English sailor who went round the world?

 

[A] William Adams
[B] John Cook
[C] Francis Drake

 

The answer is, Francis Drake.

Sir Francis Drake was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. This was the first English circumnavigation, and third circumnavigation overall.

 

11.   Which of the following was the last battle of World War II?

 

[A] Battle of North Borneo
[B] Battle of Okinawa
[C] Battle of the Atlantic

 

The answer is, Battle of Okinawa.

The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.

12.   For which of the following areas was the so-called ‘Open Door Policy’ adopted?

 

[A] China
[B] Japan
[C] Africa

 


The answer is, China.

The Open Door policy was drafted by the United States about activity in China. The policy supported equal privileges for all the countries trading with China and reaffirmed China's territorial and administrative integrity.

 

13.   The term ‘Zionism’ is related to which of the following religions?

 

[A] Islam
[B] Catholicism
[C] Judaism

 

The answer is, Judaism.

Zionism, Jewish nationalist movement that has had as its goal the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine, the ancient homeland of the Jews

 

14.   Which of the following two countries had signed a ‘Non-aggression Pact’ a few days before the beginning of WWII?

 

[A] USA and Japan
[B] France and Britain
[C] Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia

 

The answer is, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.

In the night of 23-24 August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The countries agreed that they would not attack each other and secretly divided the countries that lay between them.

 

15.   Gamal Abdel Nasser was a leader of which of the following countries?

 

[A] Egypt
[B] Libya
[C] Turkey

 

The answer is, Egypt.

Gamal 'Abdel Nasser was the second President of Egypt and a military officer who planned the Free Officers' Revolution in 1952 which unseated the corrupt Wafd Party and ended British colonialism in Egypt. He was an outspoken nationalist, secularist, and socialist who directed educational, land, and economic reforms.

 

16.   Which was the first published book by Johann Gutenberg in his printing press?

 

[A] Hamlet
[B] Don Quixote
[C] Bible

The answer is, Bible.

Gutenberg first printed the sheets of the Holy Bible. His printed Bible is now known as the Gutenberg Bible.

 

17.    Who reformed old Julian calendar based on new astronomical knowledge?

 

[A] Pope Gregory XIII
[B] Newton
[C] Pope George VII

 

The answer is, Pope Gregory XIII.

Pope Gregory 13's reform, proclaimed in 1582, restored the calendar to the seasonal dates of 325 CE, an adjustment of 10 days. The Julian calendar has gradually been abandoned since 1582 in favor of the Gregorian calendar.

 

18.   The previous name of “the Cape of Good Hope” was what?

 

[A] The Cape of Storms
[B] The Land of Storm
[C] The Cape of Sea

 

The answer is, The Cape of Storms.

King John II of Portugal renamed the Cape of Storms as Cape of Good Hope to give the sailors hopes of reaching India by Sea. The Portuguese established ports and started trade of lumber, ivory and slaves from Africa.

 

19.    Which empire was known for its extensive road network, which greatly facilitated trade and military movement across its vast territories?

 

A) The Roman Empire

B) The Ottoman Empire

C) The Mughal Empire

 

The answer is, Mughal Empire.

Mughal roads were an extensive network of routes that played a pivotal role in shaping the economic, social, and political landscape of the Mughal Empire. They facilitated trade, military expeditions, and the administration of a vast and diverse territory.

 

 

20.   In which year, the Boston Massacre took place?

 

[A] 1769
[B] 1770
[C] 1771

 

The answer is, 1770.

The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter.

 21.   What was the land tax in medieval French society called?

 

[A] Taille
[B] Gabelle
[C] Lande

 

The answer is, Taille.

The desire for more efficient tax collection was one of the major causes for French administrative and royal centralization. The taille, a direct land tax on the peasantry and non-nobles, became a major source of royal income.

 

22.   Which of the following were published by, Diderot and D’ Alembert?

 

[A] Dictionary
[B] Art Magazines
[C] Encyclopedia

 

The answer is, Encyclopedia.

Edited by Denis Diderot (1713–1784) and Jean Le Rond D'Alembert (1717–1783), the Encyclopédie consists of seventeen volumes, published gradually between 1751 and 1772, with an additional eleven volumes of plates. The Encyclopédie was the first general encyclopedia to include contributions from many writers.

 


23.   Which was the earliest industry to invent machinery revolution?

 

[A] Textile
[B] Transport
[C] Publishing

The answer is, Textile.

The textile industry was the first to use modern production methods, and textiles became the dominant industry in terms of employment, value of output, and capital invested.

 

24.   Who invented the power loom?

 

[A] Carter
[B] Cartwright
[C] Cameron

 

The answer is, Cartwright.

The Power Loom was invented by Edmund Cartwright in 1785. It used water power to speed up the weaving process.

 

25.   What is known as the immediate cause of World War I?

 

[A] Narrow Nationalism
[B] Militariarism
[C] The assassination of Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand

The answer is, the assassination of Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand.

In 1914, a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princep assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, prince of Austria-Hungary. This became the immediate cause of the First World War.

 

26.   “April Theses” was given by whom?

 

[A] Marx
[B] Lenin
[C] Nicholas

The answer is, Lenin.

The April Theses, were a series of ten directives issued by the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin upon his April 1917 return to Petrograd from his exile in Switzerland via Germany and Finland.

 

27.   When North Korea attacked South Korea, who did UNO sent as the army head?

 

[A] General Jacob Polishke
[B] General William Heinstein
[C] General Douglas MacArthur

 

The answer is, General Douglas MacArthur.

President Truman designated General Douglas MacArthur as Commanding General of the United Nations Command (UNC). The first several months of the war were characterized by armies advancing and retreating up and down the Korean peninsula.

 

28.   Who said “Egypt is the gift of Nile”?

 

[A] Herodotus
[B] Sallust
[C] Aristotle

 

The answer is, Herodotus.

The Greek historian Herodotus called Egypt the "gift of the Nile", since the kingdom owed its survival to the annual flooding of the Nile and the resulting depositing of fertile silt.

 

29.   Which Pharaoh of Egypt is credited with construction of Great Pyramid of Giza?

 

[A] Unas
[B] Khufu
[C] Khafre

 

The answer is, Khufu.

Great Pyramid of Giza, ancient Egyptian pyramid that is the largest of the three Pyramids of Giza, located on a rocky plateau on the west bank of the Nile River in northern Egypt. It was built by Khufu (Cheops), the second king of Egypt's 4th dynasty.

 

30.   Which of the following was the world’s earliest form of paper that was invented by the Egyptians?

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[A] Hieroglyphics
[B] Papyrus
[C] Cuneiform

 

The answer is, Papyrus.

Papyrus was first known to have been used in Egypt (at least as far back as the First Dynasty), as the papyrus plant was once abundant across the Nile Delta. The word papyrus refers both to the writing support invented by the ancient Egyptians, and the plant from which they made this material.

 

 

31.   The ‘Ziggurat’ in Sumerian Civilization refers to which of the following?

 

[A] Prison
[B] Temples
[C] Schools

The answer is, Temples.

Ziggurat, pyramidal stepped temple tower that is an architectural and religious structure characteristic of the major cities of Mesopotamia (now mainly in Iraq) from approximately 2200 until 500 BCE.

 

32.   The Babylonian Empire was founded by which of the following king?

 

[A] Hammurabi
[B] Herodotus
[C] Marduk

 

The answer is, Hammurabi.

The ruler largely responsible for this rise to power was Hammurabi (1792–1750 BCE), the sixth king of the 1st dynasty of Babylon, who forged coalitions between the separate city-states, promoted science and scholarship, and promulgated his famous code of law.

 

33.   Which of the following officially adopted Christianity as the official religion of Rome?

 

[A] Constantine
[B] Nero
[C] Theodosius the Great

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The answer is, Constantine.

Roman Emperor Constantine adopted Christianity and it was declared as the official religion of the Roman Empire. In 313 CE, the emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which granted Christianity—as well as most other religions—legal status. While this was an important development in the history of Christianity, it was not a total replacement of traditional Roman beliefs with Christianity.

 

34.   Mein Kampf is written by whom?

 

[A] Hitler
[B] Mussolini
[C] Lenin

 

The answer is, Hitler.

Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926.

 

35.   What was the tax paid to the Church named as?

 

[A] Talle
[B] Tithe
[C] Tette

 

The answer is, Tithe.

The tithe was a tax, in which one-tenth portion of agricultural produce was paid to the church, collected by clergy. Hence, in the sense of France, 'Tithe' was a religious tax imposed by the church, comprising one-tenth of agricultural produce.

 

36.   Boston Tea Party held in which year?

 

[A] 1772
[B] 1773
[C] 1774

 

The answer is, 1773.

The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts.

 

37.   Which of the following completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth?

 

[A] Vasco da Gama
[B] Juan Sebastian Elcano
[C] Ferdinand Magellan

 

The answer is, Juan Sebastian Elcano.

The Magellan-Elcano expedition was the first circumnavigation of the Earth. The first circumnavigation of the Earth was the Magellan Expedition, which sailed from Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain in 1519 and returned in 1522, after crossing the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. Ferdinand Magellan was killed in a fight with islanders in the Philippines. He died on 27 April 1521 on Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines. So although Magellan had masterminded the first expedition to sail around the world, he didn't complete the voyage.

 

38.   Who among the following was the first European to come to India?

 

[A] Portuguese
[B] British
[C] French

 

The answer is, Portuguese.

The Portuguese were the first European community to discover a direct sea route to India. On 20th May 1498, a Portuguese sailor named Vasco da Gama arrived at Calicut, an important seaport of South-West India.

 

39.   Which of the following region came to be known as ‘Magna Graecia’ or Greater Greece?

 

[A] Arabian
[B] Persian
[C] Mediterranean

 

The answer is, Mediterranean.

Magna Graecia, group of ancient Greek cities along the coast of southern Italy; the people of this region were known to the Greeks as Italiotai and to the Romans as Graeci. The site of extensive trade and commerce, Magna Graecia was the seat of the Pythagorean and Eleatic systems of philosophy.

 

40.   Which of the following civilizations flourished between the rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates?

 

[A] Harrapan Civilization
[B] Chinese Civilization
[C] Mesopotamian Civilization

The answer is, Mesopotamian Civilization.

Mesopotamian civilization flourished in the area that lies in a valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern Iraq. In Greek, "Mesopotamia" means, 'the land between the rivers'.

 

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