1. The Glorious Revolution is the name given to a series of events that took place in the late
17th century in...................
Correct : A. england
2. Through the Restoration, ………………became the king of England.
Correct : A. charles ii
3. ………………., an avowed Catholic and believer of the Devine Right, like previous Stuart
kings, came into throne in 1685.
Correct : A. james ii
4. In………………., a revolution without bloodshed took place against James II’s activities.
Correct : A. 1688
5. The main cause behind the Glorious revolution was ………………attempt to revive
Catholicism in England.
Correct : A. james ii’s
6. In 1686, ……………. founded the “Court of Ecclesiastical Commission” like previous
‘High Commission Court’ (cancelled in 1641) in order to punish the people, opposite to his religious doctrine.
Correct : A. james ii
7. In 1687, ……………. issued the first ‘Declaration of Indulgence’ suspending the penal
laws against both Catholics and Dissenters.
Correct : A. james ii
8. William with his soldiers arrived England and when marched upon London, on 5th
November, 1688, “James was deserted by the offices of his own regiment as well as by his friends and so fled to…………”.
Correct : A. france
9. Glorious Revolution of ………. marked the end of long struggle between the king and Parliament.
Correct : A. 1688
10. the Glorious Revolution of ............ reduced the power of the king and established the
supremacy of the Parliament.
Correct : A. 1688
11. “In short, the Glorious Revolution of ............ closed the era of monarchical despotism and
introduced the era of constitutionalism.”
Correct : A. 1688
12. ................ is often regarded as the founder of a school of thought known as British
Empiricism.
Correct : D. john locke
13. ...............most important work is ‘the Essay Concerning Human Understanding’,
Correct : B. john locke’s
14. Locke’s Two Treatises of Government was published in 1689.
Correct : A. john locke’s
15. The Hanoverian succession came about as a result of the Act of Settlement ................,
passed by the Parliament of England.
Correct : D. 1701
16. After the death of Queen Anne, ....................became the ruler of England.
Correct : B. george i
17. In ............... the Second Continental Congress declared the independence of the United
States from Great Britain.
Correct : A. 1776
18. The first shot fired in the American Revolution was on April 19, ...........and is called the
"shot heard round the world".
Correct : D. 1775
19. George Washington was the first President....................
Correct : B. usa
20. Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, ..............on January 29, 1737.
Correct : A. england
21. Thomas Paine met an American named ............... in London who told him he should move
to America.
Correct : C. benjamin franklin
22. Thomas Paine got his first job in .............as the editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine.
Correct : C. america
23. The neoclassical period ended in 1798 when ...............published the Romantic 'Lyrical
Ballads'.
Correct : C. wordsworth
24. The ..................Age (1660-1700) introducing the comedy of manner (a play about the
manners and conventions of a highly sophisticated aristocratic society.)
Correct : A. restoration
25. The ...............(1700-1750) introducing poetry of personal exploration, and serious
development of the novel, melodrama, and satire.
Correct : C. augustan age
26. ....................... invented the power loom in 1785.
Correct : A. edmund cartwright
27. ........................ patented the cotton gin (short for cotton engine) in 1794.
Correct : A. eli whitney
28. ............................Morse created the telegraph in 1836.
Correct : D. samuel f. b.
29. ........................ created the sewing machine in 1844.
Correct : A. elias howe
30. ...................... invented the internal combustion engine in 1858.
Correct : A. jean lenoir
31. .............................. created the telephone in 1876.
Correct : D. alexander graham bell
32. .......................... created the phonograph in 1877.
Correct : A. thomas edison
33. Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright created the first airplane in..............
Correct : A. 1903
34. ............................ wrote a book ‘Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867).
Correct : A. karl marx
35. .......................... is often termed the ‘father of British socialism’.
Correct : A. robert owen
36. In 1836 Cornish cabinet-maker .................formed the London Working Men’s
Association.
Correct : A. william lovett
37. After the English Civil War had established a protectorate under......................
Correct : D. oliver cromwell
38. The Bill of Rights was enacted in.........................
Correct : A. 1689
39. The death of Queen Anne in ................. led her successor, George I Duke of
Hannover to the throne of England.
Correct : A. 1714
40. ...................... is a policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic
affairs of individuals and society.
Correct : B. laissez-faire
41. Jean-Baptiste Colbert, controller general of finance under King Louis XIV of
.........................
Correct : B. france
42. The doctrine of laissez-faire is usually associated with the ...........................known
as Physiocrats, who flourished in France from about 1756 to 1778.
Correct : B. economists
43. The British economist ................. wrote Principles of Political Economy (1848),
Correct : B. john stuart mill
44. .....................is known as the father of modern economics.
Correct : A. adam smith
45. ..................produced ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in
1776.
Correct : A. adam smith
46. In 1810, ..........................produced his first publication, The High Price of Bullion, a Proof
of the Depreciation of Bank Note, which argued for the use of metallic currency.
Correct : A. david ricardo
47. Methodism was an 18th-century movement founded by ........... that sought to reform the
Church of England from within.
Correct : A. john wesley
48. Repeal of the Corn Act in ......................
Correct : A. 1846
49. ................... produced ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations in 1776.
Correct : C. adam smith
50. The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June
1837 until her death, on 22 January........................
Correct : D. 1901
51. The phrase Social Darwinism was first used in..............................
Correct : D. 1887
52. Social Darwinism was the name given to the theories of......................, an elitist
philosopher.
Correct : A. herbert spencer
53. ......................coined the phrase “survival of the fittest,” and this was the essence of his
thought on society.
Correct : A. herbert spencer
54. ...................... justified the mass murder of the Jewish people during World War II as
purging inferior genetics.
Correct : A. adolf hitler
55. Matthew Arnold is one of the great social voices of the ...................era.
Correct : A. victorian
56. ........................... wrote his autobiography Apologia (1865–66).
Correct : A. john henry newman
57. ....................... wrote the popular hymns "Lead, Kindly Light" and "Praise to the Holiest
in the Height" (taken from Gerontius).
Correct : A. john henry newman
58. .................. - was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced.
Correct : A. john clare
59. ..................... of Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of
the most popular British poets.
Correct : A. alfred tennyson
60. .................. excelled at penning short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge
of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar".
Correct : D. alfred tennyson
61. ....................... was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic
monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.
Correct : B. robert browning
62. ’The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems” was the first book of poetry penned
by........................, which was published in 1849.
Correct : A. matthew arnold
63. .....................published ‘Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems’ (1852) and ‘Poems: A
New Edition’ (1853
Correct : D. matthew arnold
64. Apart from the poetry, ..................penned many prominent critical works, which includes
‘Essays in Criticism’ (1865), and ‘Culture and Anarchy’ (1869).
Correct : B. matthew arnold
65. The Oxford movement was a movement of High Church members of the Church of
............................. which eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.
Correct : A. england
66. The ..................movement's philosophy was known as Tractarianism after its series of
publications, the Tracts for the Times, published from 1833 to 1841.
Correct : D. oxford
67. ...................... is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and
equality.
Correct : B. liberalism
68. ....................... rejected the notions, common at the time, of hereditary privilege, religion,
absolute, and the Divine Right of Kings.
Correct : A. liberalism
69. .................. literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick
Papers.
Correct : C. charles dickens's
70. ................... was an English novelist of the 19th century is famous for his satirical works,
particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.
Correct : C. william makepeace thackeray
71. In 1837, .......................came to London and became a regular contributor to Fraser’s
Magazine.
Correct : A. thackeray
72. ........................ is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes
of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles,
Correct : A. james joyce
73. ..................... was an Anglo-American poet, best known for love poems such as
"Funeral Blues,"
Correct : A. w. h. auden
74. ..................... is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945).
Correct : D. charles sorely
75. ......................... is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of
world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture.
Correct : A. arya samaj
76. The term ..................... refers to the emergence of a totalitarian government.
Correct : A. nwo
77. The Commonwealth was formally constituted by the London Declaration in..................,
which established the member states as "free and equal”.
Correct : A. 1949
78. The symbol of the Commonwealth is.............. who is the Head of the Commonwealth.
Correct : A. queen elizabeth ii
79. William James founded The Asiatic Society of ...................in 1784.
Correct : A. bengal
80. ....................., who is generally regarded as the architect of the system of education
in India during the British rule.
Correct : A. thomas babington macaulay
81. Macaulay’s minutes was accepted and ................issued his proclamation inn march 1935
which set at rest all the controversies and led to the formulation of a policy which became the corner stone of all educational programmes during the British period in India.
Correct : A. lord william bentinck
82. Wood's Education Despatch formed the basis of the education policy of east India
Company's government in India since...........................
Correct : B. 1864
83. ................., the founder of the Arya Samaj, gave the slogan, “India for the Indians”.
Correct : B. swami dayanand saraswati
84. ................... famous book ‘Anand Math’, the Bible of modern Bengali patriotism,
provided very great inspiration to the people.
Correct : A. rabindranath tagore’s
85. ...................was an Indian socio-educational reformer who was also known as ‘Maker of
Modern India’ and ‘Father of Modern India’ and ‘Father of the Bengal Renaissance.’
Correct : B. subramanya bharati
86. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj at ...............in 1828.
Correct : A. madras
87. Noticeable magazines published by ....................were the Brahmanical Magazine, the
Sambad Kaumudi and Mirat-ul-Akbar.
Correct : A. raja ram mohan roy
88. ......................., Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful
verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.