1. The …………..Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789.
Correct : A. french
2. The French Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, ………….
Correct : A. 1789
3. Who gave good advice to his successor Louis XV saying "Do not imitate my fondness for
building and for war, but work to lessen the misery of my people?"
Correct : A. louis xiv
4. When his ministers attempted to discuss affairs of the state with him, who merely remarked,
"After me, the deluge."
Correct : A. louis xv
5. Queen Marie Antoinette was the Queen of ……………..
Correct : B. louis xvi
6. Who put forward the theory of ‘the separation of powers’?
Correct : B. montesquieu
7. The Bloodless or Glorious Revolution started in England in ……….
Correct : B. 1688
8. July 14, …………saw the fall of the Bastille, a royal fortress and symbol of Bourbon
autocracy.
Correct : B. 1789
9. Feudalism and serfdom was abolished in France in August ………….. by the National
Assembly.
Correct : B. 1789
10. The Constitution of ……….. was the first written constitution of France.
Correct : B. 1791
11. The ………….were moderates who wanted a republican form of government in France.
Correct : A. girondists
12. The Jacobins of ……………..were republicans of the extreme type.
Correct : B. france
13. King Louis XVI was found guilty of high treason by the National Convention and was
guillotined on 21st January ………
Correct : C. 1793
14. Who is regarded as ’the father of the railway locomotive’?
Correct : B. george stephenson
15. The ’reign of terror’ came to an end with the revolt of the Parisian mob against Robespierre
who was guillotined on March 13, ………….
Correct : C. 1794
16. After ruling France from 1792 to 1795, the National Convention was dissolved and the new
constitution came to be called the Constitution of the Year ……………
Correct : A. third
17. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a fundamental document of the
……………………..
Correct : C. french revolution
18. Year of the U.S. Declaration of Independence ……………..
Correct : C. 4th july 1776
19. ……………….was the primary author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
Correct : C. thomas jefferson
20. Napoleon crowned himself Emperor on 2 December ……….. at Notre Dame de Paris
Correct : D. 1804
21. Year of the Battle of Trafalgar.
Correct : D. 1805
22. "The battle of Austerlitz is the finest of all I have fought." Who said?
Correct : D. napoleon bonaparte
23. Who defeated Prussia at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt ?
Correct : A. napoleon bonaparte
24. In the Treaty of Fontainebleau, the victors exiled ……………..to Elba, an island of 12,000
inhabitants in the Mediterranean, 20 km off the Tuscan coast.
Correct : D. napoleon bonaparte
25. Napoleon escaped from Elba on 26 February …………..
Correct : D. 1815
26. Battle of Waterloo ,18 June ……………..
Correct : D. 1815
27. Who was imprisoned and then exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean,
1,870 km from the west coast of Africa.
Correct : A. napoleon bonaparte
28. …………..negotiated with Pope Pius VII. Finally, a Concordat was concluded in 1802.
Correct : D. napoleon bonaparte
29. The Continental System or Continental Blockade was the foreign policy of …………….
Correct : A. napoleon bonaparte
30. ………….., by Orders in Council (1807), prohibited its trade partners from trading with
France.
Correct : A. britain
31. The French Revolution of…………, also known as the July Revolution.
Correct : D. 1830
32. The Congress of Vienna was headed by ………………..
Correct : A. metternich
33. The term 'Industrial Revolution' was first used by the historian…………, to describe the
economic development in England, from 1760 to 1840.
Correct : A. arnold toynbee
34. The Industrial Revolution first started in …………….
Correct : D. england
35. Who introduced the continental system?
Correct : A. napoleon bonaparte
36. In 1764, ……………..invented a machine called the ’Spinning Jenny.’
Correct : A. james hargreaves
37. In 1769, ……………invented a machine run by waterpower instead of manpower. Hence it
came to be called the ’Water-Frame’.
Correct : A. richard arkwright
38. Samuel Crompton removed the defects of the Spinning Jenny and Water Frame, with his
machine known as ……………..
Correct : A. spinning mule
39. In 1733, ………….had invented a device called the ’Flying Shuttle’.
Correct : A. john kay
40. In 1785, ……………..invented the Automatic or Power Loom.
Correct : A. dr. edmund cartwright
41. Who invented a machine called the ’Cotton Gin.’?
Correct : A. eli whitney
42. In 1816, …………….invented a machine called Davy’s Safety Lamp.’
Correct : A. sir humphry davy
43. In 1801, ………………invented the first steam locomotive.
Correct : A. richard trevithick
44. In 1807, …………..invented the steamboat called the ’Clermont’.
Correct : A. robert fulton
45. …………..invented the first steam engine in 1705, in order to pump water out of the mines.
Correct : A. thomas newcomen
46. In 1769, ………….invented a better steam engine called the ’Beelzebub.’
Correct : A. james watt
47. The discovery of a new method of ’Crop Rotation’, was made by……………….
Correct : A. viscount townsend
48. In……………., Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels issued the ‘Communist Manifesto’ which
introduced scientific socialism or Communism.
Correct : C. 1848
49. ……………means "leave to do, leave to pass" or more accurately "let things alone, let them
pass".
Correct : C. laissez-faire
50. The "People's Charter" of 1838 was a public petition aimed at redressing omissions from the
electoral ……………………..
Correct : C. reform act of 1832
51. Who formed a Consultative Council, known as the ’Witan’ (the Council of the wise men),
which was composed of several learned men?.
Correct : D. king alfred
52. On June 15, 1215 ……………affixed his seal on the ’Great Charter’, which is referred to as
the ’Magna Carta.’
Correct : D. king john
53. Who is called as the "Father of Parliament"?
Correct : D. simon-de-montford
54. ……………was a strong champion of the doctrine of the Divine Right of kings.
Correct : D. james i
55. Who was called the "Great Protector?"
Correct : D. oliver cromwell
56. Which was year of The Glorious Revolution of England?
Correct : D. 1688
57. William of Orange was the Protestant ruler of Holland and the son-in-law of ………….
Correct : D. james ii
58. As James II would not be able to fight against the Parliament and William of Orange, he
escaped to ……………….
Correct : D. france
59. The Act of Settlement was also passed in …………….
Correct : D. 1701
60. Who was the first Prime Minister of Britain?
Correct : A. sir robert walpole
61. As a result of the growing strength of the ’Chartist Movement’, the Representation of the
People Act, was passed in 1867. It was introduced by …………….
Correct : A. benjamin disraeli
62. ……………..regarded the Reform Act of 1867 as ’a leap in the dark.’
Correct : A. lord derby
63. The Secret Ballot Act introduced by ……………in 1872.
Correct : A. gladstone
64. The duration of Parliament was reduced from seven to five years by ……………..
Correct : A. parliamentary act, 1911
65. In……………., the ’Representation of the People Act’ was passed by Parliament granting
franchise to all men over twenty-one and to all women of thirty years and above.
Correct : D. 1918
66. The works of electoral reform was completed by the Representation of the People Act
of…………., which granted the right to vote, to all women over twenty-one years.
Correct : B. 1928
67. Simon Boivar was the Liberator of ………………
Correct : B. latin america
68. Kansass –Ne-Braska Act was passed in ………….
Correct : B. 1854
69. The secessionist tendency gathered momentum after the ………..decision of 1857 and the
conflict between Northerners and Southerners in America became more severe.
Correct : A. dredscot
70. Abraham Lincoln was Born in …………in 1809.
Correct : B. kentucky
71. ………..became nationally famous in 1858 when he competed for the post of Senator from
Illinois against Stephen A Douglas.
Correct : B. abraham lincoln
72. Who gave a beautiful definition to democracy in his famous Gettysburg speech?
Correct : A. abraham lincoln
73. Who was called “The Iron Chancellor" of Germany?
Correct : C. otto von bismarck
74. ‘Carbonari’ was a secret society of ………….
Correct : C. italy
75. The Seven Weeks' War was between Austria and …………….
Correct : A. prussia
76. Who wrote ‘Asia and Western Dominance’
Correct : C. k.m.panikkar
77. ‘Age of Capital’ was the work of …………
Correct : A. e.j. hobsbaum
78. The unification of Italy is an outstanding achievement in the ………… century history of
Europe.
Correct : C. 19th
79. The …………….Revolution of 1789 produced in Italians, a sense of nationalism.
Correct : A. french
80. ………………gave the first impulse to Italian unification.
Correct : A. napoleon
81. ………………drove away the Austrians and the Bourbons at Sadova.
Correct : A. napoleon
82. Early in the 19th century, national feeling in ………….was stirred by revolutionary secret
societies known as Carbonari
Correct : A. italy
83. The Carbonari wanted to overthrow foreign rule imposed by the Vienna settlement and
unify……………..
Correct : A. italy
84. The Carbonari wanted to overthrow foreign rule imposed by the ………….settlement and
unify Italy. The movement was known as Risorgimento.
Correct : A. vienna
85. In July, 1830, when a revolution in France placed ……………….on the throne and
established a constitutional monarch.
Correct : A. louie philip
86. To carry out his ideals, ……….established, in 1831, a movement known as “Young Italy.”
Correct : B. joseph mazzini
87. The “Young Italy” of …………………..lit the flames of patriotism throughout Italy and
helped the cause of Italian unification.
Correct : A. joseph mazzini
88. The Austrian army crushed the revolt at Custozza near……………
Correct : A. venice
89. Mazzini roused the people of the Papal States against the…………….
Correct : D. pope
90. The Pope was expelled from …………….and a Republic was proclaimed under a
committee of three, of which Mazzini was one.
Correct : B. rome
91. The Austrians defeated ………………at Navora and he abdicated in favor of his son,
Victor Emmanuel II.
Correct : A. charles albert
92. The Austrians defeated Charles Albert at …………….and he abdicated in favor of his
son, Victor Emmanuel II.
Correct : D. navora
93. …………….., the “Bismarck” of Italy realized that without any external help, Italy
could never be free.
Correct : B. count cavour
94. By a stroke of diplomatic genius, ……………offered the services of Scandinavian
troops to Napoleon III at a critical stage of the Crimean war.
Correct : A. count cavour
95. The Italians aided by Napoleon III defeated the Austrians at Magenta and Solferino
in…………..
Correct : C. 1859
96. The Dutchies of Tuscany, Parma, Modena and Romagna expelled their despotic
rulers and joined with…………..
Correct : C. sardinia
97. In 1860, the people of Naples and Sicily rose against the Bourbon King……………….
Correct : A. francis ii
98. ……………..along with his volunteers landed in Sicily and annexed the two
kingdoms to Sardinia.
Correct : A. garibaldi
99. ………………..himself led an army into the Papal States and defeated the Papal
forces at Casgifigaria.
Correct : C. victor emmanuel
100. In 1861, the first Italian Parliament except Rome met at …………..and conferred
upon Victor Emmanuel II, the title of “King of Italy.”