World History Quizzes - Raghuvansh Academy

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World History

World History (SSC Previous Year Question) – 1

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1. The State is a necessary evil according to

A) Individualists

B) Communists

C) Liberalists

D) Anarchists

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2. From which language, has the term ‘democracy’ been derived?

A) Latin

B) Hebrew

C) English

D) Greek

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3. ‘He, who does not live in a state may either be a saint or an animal’—who said this?

A) Aristotle

B) Montesquieu

C) Angels

D) Sophists

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4. When was the League of Nations established?

A) In 1918

B) In 1914

C) In 1939

D) In 1920

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5. Who speaks of the Cabinet system as “the steering wheel of the ship of state”?

A) Marriot

B) Muir

C) Bagehot

D) Lowell

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6. Who said: “Where there is no law, there is no freedom”?

A) Lenin

B) Marx

C) Bentham

D) Locke

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7. Who has given a call “Go back to nature”?

A) Aristotle

B) Plato

C) Rousseau

D) Hobbes

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8. Democracy is a “government in which everyone has a share” was the opinion of:

A) Jeovans

B) Plato

C) Abraham Lincoln

D) Seeley

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9. Who said that “Where there is no Law there will not be Liberty”?

A) Karl Marx

B) John Locke

C) Machiavelli

D) Plato

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10. Who said “Man is a social animal”?

A) Laski

B) Plato

C) Aristotle

D) Rousseau

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11. The development process under Capitalism has been described as “Creative Destruction” by:

A) Schumpeter

B) Hansen

C) J. S. Mill

D) Karl Marx

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12. Who said that ‘‘Man by nature is a political animal’’?

A) Rousseau

B) Plato

C) Hobbes

D) Aristotle

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13. The ‘‘Last Supper’ a famous Renaissance Painting was a masterpiece of

A) Michael Angelo

B) Leonardo da Vinci

C) Raphael

D) Titian

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14. Who said “Liberty consists in obedience to the general will”?

A) Rousseau

B) Green

C) Hobbes

D) Laski

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15. Like Vedic Aryans, the custom of Sacrificial-fire was also followed by

A) Iranians

B) Romans

C) All the above

D) Greeks

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16. Cold War refers to

A) Tension between Superpowers

B) All of the above

C) Ideological rivalry between Capitalist and Communist world

D) Tension between East and West

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17. Who said, ‘The State exists because crime exists in society, otherwise there would be no need of a State’?

A) J.S. Mill

B) Tocqueville

C) John Locke

D) Herbert Spencer

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18. What according to Communism is the chief enemy of society?

A) Surplus value

B) Capitalist class

C) Private property

D) Religion

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19. The famous painting ‘Monalisa’ was the creation of:

A) Van Gogh

B) Leonardo-Da- Vinci

C) Piccasso

D) Michael-Angelo

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20. Marcopolo is known for

A) Travelling round the Cape of Good Hope

B) Discovering Greenland

C) Discovering Canada

D) Travelling to China, India and Asia

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World History (SSC Previous Year Question) – 2

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1. Natural Rights theory was advocated by

A) Hegel

B) Rousseau

C) Locke

D) Hobbes

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2. The immediate cause for the outbreak of the First World War was

A) The ambition of America to dominate the world

B) The imprisonment of Lenin

C) The sudden death of Lloyd George

D) The assassination of Arch duke Francis Ferdinand

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3. What is the name of the world’s smallest republic which has an area of 21 sq. km only?

A) Vatican City

B) Palermo

C) Nauru

D) Namur

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4. The first Atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on

A) August 6, 1942

B) August 9, 1945

C) August 6, 1945

D) August 9, 1946

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5. One of the important factors that led to the IInd World War the humiliating provisions in one of the following treaties. Which is that treaty?

A) Treaty of Lorraine

B) Treaty of Paris

C) Treaty of Brussels

D) Treaty of Versailles

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6. The first atomic bomb was thrown over:

A) Nagasaki

B) Hong Kong

C) Hiroshima

D) Tokyo

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7. Herodotus is considered as the father of

A) History

B) Philosophy

C) Political Science

D) Geography

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8. Who is called the “Greatest investigator of antiquity”?

A) Darwin

B) Socrates

C) Cuvier

D) Aristotle

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9. Who has given the statement “Man is born free but he is always in the chain?”

A) Rousseau

B) Locke

C) Bentham

D) Robert Mill

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10. During the Second World War, which one of the following countries was not one of the three Axis Powers, which fought against the Allied Powers?

A) Italy

B) China

C) Germany

D) Japan

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11. Arrange the following events in chronological order:

(A) Sir Winston Churchill dies

(B) Alaska becomes the 49th State of the USA

(D) First earth satellite (Sputnik 1) launched by the USSR

A) (C) (D) (A) (A)

B) (A) (C) (A) (D)

C) (D) (A) (C) (A)

D) (A) (A) (C) (D)

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12. Economic dimensions of justice have been emphasized by

A) Idealists

B) Socialists

C) Fascists

D) Capitalists

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13. Who were the three eminent statesmen who started the Nonaligned Movement?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru, Chou Enlai, Kwame Nkrumah

B) Jawaharlal Nehru, Fidel Castro, Marshal Tito

C) Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Marshal Tito

D) Jawaharlal Nehru, Anwar Sadat, Soekarno

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14. During the 18th century who among the following philosophers said these famous words?

“Man is born free but is everywhere in chains

A) Voltaire

B) Jean Jack Rousseau

C) Montesque

D) Jack Dareda

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15. In which cities of Japan were atomic bombs dropped during World War II?

A) Tokyo and Hiroshima

B) Hiroshima and Nagasaki

C) Sendai and Hiroshima

D) Nagasaki and Miyazaki

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16. Match the following:

I II.

Cold War 1. Mao (China)
Holy War 2. 1917
The Long March 3. Crusades
The Russian 4. US vs. USSR Revolution

A B CD

A) 4 3 1 2

B) 2 1 4 3

C) 4 1 3 2

D) 3 2 1 4

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17. What was the original name of Santa Claus?

A) St. John

B) St. Peter

C) St. Christopher

D) St. Nicolas

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18. In which cities of Japan were atomic bombs dropped during World War II?

A) Nagasaki and Miyazaki

B) Hiroshima and Nagasaki

C) Tokyo and Hiroshima

D) Sendai and Hiroshima

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19. Arrange the following events in chronological order:

(A) Birth of Prophet Mohammed

(B) Rise of Gupta dynasty in India

(D) Peter the Great becomes the Czar of Russia

A) (B), (D), (C), (A)

B) (C), (B), (A), (D)

C) (D), (A), (C), (A)

D) (A), (C), (D), (A)

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20. The theory of “natural rights” was propounded by

A) Marx

B) Hobbes

C) Locke

D) Bentham

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World History (SSC Previous Year Question) -3

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1. Which one of the following countries was first to establish a modern democracy?

A) England

B) France

C) India

D) America

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2. D-Day is the day when:

A) US dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima

B) Allied Troops landed in Normandy

C) Germany surrendered to the allies

D) Germany declared war on Britain

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3. Who were the Axis powers in World War-II?

A) Poland, Japan, Germany

B) Germany, Italy, France

C) Italy, Japan, Britain

D) Germany, Italy, Japan

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4. Slash and burn agriculture is known as ‘Milpa’ in

A) Central Africa

B) Mexico and Central America

C) Brazil

D) Venezuela

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5. The previous name of Zaire was

A) Liberia

B) Sierra Leone

C) Congo

D) Benin

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6. Who was the American leader who led a non-violent movement to obtain full civil rights for American Negroes?

A) George Washington

B) Abraham Lincoln

C) Martin Luther King

D) John F. Kennedy

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7. Who discovered America?

A) Amundsen

B) Columbus

C) Vasco-da Gama

D) Captain Cook

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8. Two – Party System is found in

A) U.S.A.

B) India

C) Russia

D) France

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9. Which decade is called the “Era of Decolonization”?

A) 1990’s

B) 1950’s

C) 1980’s

D) 1970’s

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10. Who was the 1st President of South Africa after apartheid?

A) Nelson Mandela

B) Kofi Annan

C) Zuma

D) Booker T. Washington

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11. Which one of the following U.S. President visited China in 1972 for strengthening diplomatic ties?

A) J.F.Kennedy

B) George Bush (Senior)

C) Richard Nixon

D) D Eisenhower

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12. Which of the following is a name of US Parliament?

A) Senate

B) Congress

C) House of Commons

D) Diet

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13. The war criminals of the II World War were put to trial in

A) Gettysburg

B) Nuremburg

C) Peitsburg

D) Peiter’sburg

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14. Which U.S. President announced the “New Deal” for economic recovery in the aftermath of the Great Depression?

A) Benjamin Franklin

B) Roosevelt

C) J.F. Kennedy

D) Abraham Lincoln

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15. The Declaration of American In dependence was based on the theory of

A) Natural Rights

B) Civil Rights

C) Moral Rights

D) Legal Rights

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16. The Second World War started in the year—

A) 1941

B) 1939

C) 1942

D) 1940

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17. Who was popularly known as Africa’s Gandhi?

A) Firoz Gandhi

B) Mir Karzai

C) M.K. Gandhi

D) Nelson Mandela

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18. Which of the following is a won der of the ancient world?

A) The statue of Jupiter at Olympia

B) The Colosseum of Rome

C) The Leaning Tower of Pisa

D) The Mosque at St. Sophia (Constantinople)

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19. Who discovered Cape of Good Hope in 1488?

A) Vascodigama

B) Bartholomew Dias

C) Magellan

D) Columbus

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20. The policy of racial discrimination followed in South Africa was called:

A) Apartheid

B) Civil Rights Movement

C) Non-Aligned

D) Suffrage

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World History (SSC Previous Year Question) -4

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1. In U.S.A. the President is elected by

A) The Senate

B) Universal Adult Franchise

C) The House of Representatives

D) The Congress

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2. French revolution broke out in the year:

A) 1790

B) 1911

C) 1917

D) 1789

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3. John Locke profounded:

A) Theory of Divine Rights

B) Patriarchal Theory

C) Social Contract Theory

D) Theory of Force

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4. Fascism believes in the application of the principle of:

A) Democracy

B) Utilitarianism

C) Dictatorship

D) Totalitarianism

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5. Pearl Harbour, where the American Pacific Fleet was stationed, was attacked by Japanese in?

A) 1935

B) 1944

C) 1941

D) 1939

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6. From which country did the USA purchase Alaska to make it the 50th federating State?

A) Russia

B) France

C) Britain

D) Canada

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7. Where was Pablo Picasso from?

A) Spain

B) France

C) Italy

D) Great Briton

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8. The declaration that Democracy is a Government ‘of the people, by the people; for the people’ was made by

A) Winston Churchill

B) Abraham Lincoln

C) Theodore Roosevelt

D) George Washington

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9. That all appointments made by the President and all treaties signed by him must be ratified by the Senate in U.S.A. indicates

A) Rule of law

B) Theory of checks and balances

C) Theory of separation of powers

D) Due process of law

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10. The fall of Bastille is associated with the

A) French Revolution of 1789

B) Greek War of Independence

C) American War of Independence

D) Russian Revolution of November, 1917

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11. The Greek viewed “politics” on the basis of:

A) Terms of power

B) Legalistic terms

C) Both ethical and legalistic terms

D) Ethical terms

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12. The National Emblem of Italy is:

A) Eagle

B) White Eagle

C) White Lily

D) Lily

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13. “The Three Emperors’ League”, 1873 was also known as

A) Dreikaiserbund Treaty

B) Triple Alliance

C) The Dual Alliance

D) Reinsurance Treaty

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14. Wall Street collapse led to ____

A) World War II

B) Recession

C) Great Depression

D) U.S. attack on Iraq

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15. The American Civil War saw the end of

A) Monarchy

B) Apartheid

C) Landlordism

D) Slavery

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16. What is ‘Reformation’?

A) Revival of classical learning

B) Rise of absolute monarchy

C) Change in attitude of man

D) The revolt against authority of pope

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17. The ideas of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, which influenced the Indian National Movement, was taken from ___

A) American Revolution

B) Russian Revolution

C) Chinese revolution

D) French revolution

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18. Who was the Chief Architect of the World Trade Centre? ’New York?

A) Minoru Yamasaki

B) Edwin Lutyens

C) Le Corbusier

D) Charles Correa

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19. Pearl Harbour, an American Naval and Air force base was at tacked by

A) England

B) Japan

C) France

D) Germany

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20.

Who advocated Nazism in Germany?

A) Bismark

B) William III

C) Adolf Hitler

D) Fedrick William IV

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World History (SSC Previous Year Question) – 5

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1. Of the following, in which did Napoleonic France suffer final defeat?

A) Battle of Trafalgar

B) Battle of Austerlitz

C) Battle of Wagram

D) Battle of Pyramids

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2. Who among the following played a prominent role during the “Reign of Terror” in France?

A) Montesquieu

B) Voltaire

C) Marat

D) Robespierre

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3. The slogan of the French Revolution was

A) One nation, one leader and one flag

B) None of these

C) Liberty, equality and fraternity

D) Government of the people, by the people and for the people

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4. The potato was introduced to Europe by:

A) Dutch

B) Germans

C) Portuguese

D) Spanish

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5. “What is the Third Estate?” pamphlet associated with the French Revolution, was written by:

A) Abbe Sieyes

B) Marquis-Lafayette

C) Joseph Foulon

D) Edmund Burke

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6. “The word impossible is found in the dictionary of fools” was the famous quote of:

A) Hitler

B) Alexander the Great

C) Julius Caesar

D) Napoleon

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Who has called the Prime Minister Primus inter pares (first among equals)?

A) Morely

B) Harcourt

C) Lowell

D) Laski

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8. Which of the following countries is regarded as the home of ‘Fabian Socialism’?

A) Italy

B) Russia

C) England

D) France

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9. Pablo Picasso, the famous painter was

A) Italian

B) Flemish

C) French

D) Spanish

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10. The Crimean War came to an end by the

A) Treaty of St. Germain

B) Treaty of Trianon

C) Treaty of Paris

D) Treaty of Versailles

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11. The Declaration of the Rights of Man is related with

A) The American War of Independence

B) The Glorious Revolution of England

C) The Russian Revolution

D) The French Revolution

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12. Who was a founder member of the Russian Populist Movement “Anarchism”?

A) Gorkhy

B) Leo Tolstoy

C) Turganev

D) Mikhail Bakunin

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13. Who said, “Adolf Hitler is Germany and Germany is Adolf Hitler. He who pledges himself to Hitler pledges himself to Germany”?

A) R. Hess

B) Communist International

C) Mussolini

D) Hitler

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14. 1917 is known for

A) Battle of Trafalgar

B) Battle of Waterloo

C) End of the World War I

D) The Russian Revolution

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15. Who discovered the sea route to India?

A) Magellen

B) Vasco-da-gama

C) Columbus

D) Bartho-lomev-Dias

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16. The policy of ‘imperial preferences’ adopted by Britain in its colonies in 1932 is also known as the

A) Hong Kong Agreement

B) Ottawa Agreement

C) London Agreement

D) Paris Agreement

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17. Marxian materialism came from the idea of

A) Engels

B) Feuerbach

C) Hegel

D) Darwin

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18. Napoleon got finally overthrown in the Battle of Waterloo in the year

A) 1813

B) 1814

C) 1816

D) 1815

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19. Who amongst the following was not associated with the Unification of Italy?

A) Cavour

B) Garibaldi

C) Mussolini

D) Mazzini

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20. According to Marx, the source of value is

A) Capital

B) Land

C) Labour

D) None of the above

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World History (SSC Previous Year Question) – 6

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1. Karl Marx lived in exile and wrote from

A) ) Stockholm

B) Moscow

C) London

D) Paris

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2. Where was Christopher Columbus from?

A) Genoa

B) Spain

C) Portugal

D) Venice

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3. Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. in

A) Macedonia

B) Taxila

C) Persia

D) Babylon

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4. Which slogan was given by the French Revolution to the world?

A) Liberty, Law, Fraternity

B) Tradition, Authority, Law

C) Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

D) Liberty, Authority, Equality

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5. From which city did the Russian Revolution begin?

A) St. Petersburg

B) Moscow

C) Odessa

D) Kazan

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The British Conservative Party was earlier known as

A) Levellors

B) Fabians

C) Whigs

D) Tories

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7. Who is the oldest British monarch to sit on the Throne?

A) Queen Anne

B) Queen Mary Tudor

C) Queen Victoria

D) Queen Elizabeth-II

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8. ‘Liberty, Equality and Fraternity’ is the call associated with

A) Chinese Revolution

B) American Revolution

C) Russian Revolution

D) French Revolution

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9. The Crimean War was fought between

A) Russia and Turkey

B) France and Britain

C) France and Turkey

D) Britain and Turkey

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10. Who said, ‘I am the State’?

A) James II of England

B) Napoleon I of France

C) Louis XIV of France

D) Hitler of Germany

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11. The absolute sovereign power of the Monarch was advocated by

A) Rousseau

B) Thomas Hobbes

C) Karl Marx

D) John Locke

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12. Napoleon-I and the Duke of Wellington fought the famous

A) Battle of Leipzig

B) Battle of Borodini

C) Battle of Waterloo

D) Battle of Austerlitz

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13. Match the following:

Fascism 1. Adolf Hitler
Democracy 2. Lenin
Nazism 3. Mussolini
Socialism 4. Woodrow Wilson

A) A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3

B) A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2

C) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1

D) A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2

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14. Which country emerged as the biggest colonial power at the end of the nineteenth century?

A) Germany

B) France

C) Britain

D) Spain

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15. Where was St. Paul beheaded?

A) Jerusalem

B) Ephesus

C) Rome

D) Kusadasi

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16. When was the first of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of war victims adopted?

A) 1909

B) 1864

C) 1832

D) 1857

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17. Who was the first Prime Minister of England?

A) Benjamin Disraeli

B) Robert Walpole

C) Gladstone

D) Oliver Cromweli

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18. The Opium wars were fought between

A) India and China

B) Britain and Japan

C) Britain and China

D) Britain and India

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19. Name the country where the first Industrial Revolution took place:

A) Germany

B) America

C) Germany

D) Great Britain

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20. Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in

A) 1933

B) 1936

C) 1930

D) 1929

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World History (SSC Previous Year Question) – 7

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1. Which of the following group of thinkers influenced Fascism?

A) Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin

B) Plato, Machiavelli and Herbet Spencer

C) Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Rosenberg

D) Aristotle, St. Augustine and T.H. Green

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2. Who is known as the “Lady with the Lamp”?

A) Florence Nightingale

B) Helen Keller

C) Joan of Arc

D) Sarojini Naidu

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3. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below the Lists:

List-I (Names) List-II (Events)

Hobbes 1. French Revolution
Rousseau 2. Glorious Revolution
Locke 3. Execution of Charles I
Hitler 4. Second World War

Code:

A) ABCD – 1 4 23

B) ABCD – 1 2 43

C) ABCD – 2 3 14

D) ABCD – 3 1 24

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4. ‘Anti-Semitism’ to Adolf Hitler meant

A) Anti Black policy

B) Anti-Jewish policy

C) Anti Protestant policy

D) Anti German policy

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5. Marx belonged to

A) Germany

B) France

C) Holland

D) Britain

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6. With the fall of which among the following, the French Revolution began?

A) Pillnitz

B) Jacobin Club

C) Communes

D) Bastille

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7. Who among the following is referred to as ‘Desert Fox’?

A) Gen. Eisenhover

B) Lord Wavell

C) Gen. McArthur

D) Gen. Rommel

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8. Waterloo is located in

A) Belgium

B) England

C) France

D) Spain

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9. Which two countries were involved in a Hundred Years War?

A) Germany and Russia

B) Turkey and Austria

C) England and France

D) Palestine and Israel

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10. The ideology of fascism developed in

A) Germany

B) Japan

C) Russia

D) Italy

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11. The Industrial Revolution in En gland represented the climax of the transition from

A) Socialism to market socialism

B) Capitalism to socialism

C) Feudalism to capitalism

D) Slavery to feudalism

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12. The Treaty of Versailles humiliated

A) France

B) Austria

C) Germany

D) England

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13. Who is the Duchess of Cornwall?

A) Camilla

B) Margaret

C) Diana

D) Anne

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14. In which of the following wars, were the French completely defeated by the English?

A) Battle of Buxar

B) Battle of Plassey

C) Battle of Adyar

D) Battle of Wandiwash

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15. Where did the practice of ‘Shadow Cabinet’ originate?

A) Italy

B) United States of America

C) France

D) Great Britain

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16. Whose teachings inspired the French Revolution?

A) Rousseau

B) Locke

C) Plato

D) Hegel

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17. When did the Soviet Union disintegrate into 15 independent Republics?

A) 1992

B) 1991

C) 1990

D) 1993

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18. The island of Corsica is associated with

A) Mussolini

B) Napolean Bonaparte

C) Winston Churchill

D) Hitler

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19. The United Kingdom is a classic example of a/an

A) Absolute monarchy

B) Constitutional monarchy

C) Polity

D) Aristocracy

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20. In Greek mythology, Apollo is the god of what?

A) Prophecy

B) Medicine

C) Love

D) Peace

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World History (SSC Previous Year Question) – 8

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1. Which of the following group of thinkers influenced Fascism?

A) Aristotle, St. Augustine and T.H. Green

B) Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin

C) Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Rosenberg

D) Plato, Machiavelli and Herbet Spencer

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2. The island of Corsica is associated with

A) Napolean Bonaparte

B) Hitler

C) Winston Churchill

D) Mussolini

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3. Whose teachings inspired the French Revolution?

A) Plato

B) Locke

C) Hegel

D) Rousseau

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4. In which of the following wars, were the French completely defeated by the English?

A) Battle of Buxar

B) Battle of Wandiwash

C) Battle of Adyar

D) Battle of Plassey

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5. ‘Anti-Semitism’ to Adolf Hitler meant

A) Anti Protestant policy

B) Anti German policy

C) Anti-Jewish policy

D) Anti Black policy

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6. The United Kingdom is a classic example of a/an

A) Absolute monarchy

B) Polity

C) Constitutional monarchy

D) Aristocracy

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7. Where did the practice of ‘Shadow Cabinet’ originate?

A) Great Britain

B) France

C) United States of America

D) Italy

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8. When did the Soviet Union disintegrate into 15 independent Republics?

A) 1991

B) 1993

C) 1990

D) 1992

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9. In Greek mythology, Apollo is the god of what?

A) Peace

B) Love

C) Prophecy

D) Medicine

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10. Waterloo is located in

A) England

B) France

C) Spain

D) Belgium

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11. The chief advocate of Fascism was:

A) Robert Owen

B) Mussolini

C) St. Simon

D) Adolf Hitler

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12. Who is the Duchess of Cornwall?

A) Diana

B) Camilla

C) Margaret

D) Anne

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13. Which two countries were involved in a Hundred Years War?

A) Turkey and Austria

B) England and France

C) Germany and Russia

D) Palestine and Israel

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14. Who among the following is referred to as ‘Desert Fox’?

A) Gen. Rommel

B) Gen. McArthur

C) Gen. Eisenhover

D) Lord Wavell

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15. Who is known as the “Lady with the Lamp”?

A) Joan of Arc

B) Helen Keller

C) Sarojini Naidu

D) Florence Nightingale

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16. Marx belonged to

A) France

B) Holland

C) Britain

D) Germany

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17. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below the Lists:

List-I (Names) List-II (Events)

Hobbes 1. French Revolution
Rousseau 2. Glorious Revolution
Locke 3. Execution of Charles I
Hitler 4. Second World War

Code:

A) ABCD – 3 1 24

B) ABCD – 2 3 14

C) ABCD – 1 2 43

D) ABCD – 1 4 23

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18. With the fall of which among the following, the French Revolution began?

A) Pillnitz

B) Jacobin Club

C) Communes

D) Bastille

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19. The ideology of fascism developed in

A) Russia

B) Germany

C) Italy

D) Japan

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20. The Industrial Revolution in En gland represented the climax of the transition from

A) Socialism to market socialism

B) Slavery to feudalism

C) Capitalism to socialism

D) Feudalism to capitalism

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World History (SSC Previous Year Question) – 9

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1. Who was the chairperson of the Chinese Communist Party at the time of the liberation of China?

A) Zhou Enlai

B) Deng Xiaoping

C) Mao Zedong

D) Liu Shaoqi

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2. In which country the Head of the State gets his office by the law of hereditary succession?

A) Sri Lanka

B) China

C) France

D) Japan

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3. Zend-Avesta is the sacred book of the

A) Parsees

B) Parsees

C) Buddhists

D) Jews

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4. The Wailing Wall is situated in

A) Beijing

B) Berlin

C) Tel Aviv

D) Jerusalem

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5. Peking is the sacred place of

A) Taoism

B) Shintoism

C) Judaism

D) Confucianism

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6. The Great Wall of China was built by

A) Li-tai-pu

B) Lao-tze

C) Shih Huang-ti

D) Confucius

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7. During the reign of which dynasty was the Great Wall of China constructed?

A) Sung

B) Tang

C) Han

D) Chin

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8. Japanese folk tradition and ritual, with no founder or single sacred scripture, is popularly known as

A) Zoroastrianism

B) Shintoism

C) Paganism

D) Taoism

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9. The world’s first drainage system was built by the people of

A) Egyptian civilization

B) Indus Valley civilization

C) Mesopotamian civilization

D) Chinese civilization

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10. Which of the following is not a religion developed in ancient times (i.e. In B.C.)?

A) Taoism

B) Shintoism

C) Islam

D) Zoroastrianism

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11. Synagogue is the place of worship of

A) Zoroastrianism

B) Taoism

C) Shintoism

D) Judaism

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12. Taoism is an ancient tradition of Philosophy and religious belief deeply rooted in

A) Chinese custom and world view

B) Taiwanese custom and world view

C) Vietnamese custom and world view

D) Japanese custom and world view

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13. The Chinese Nationalist Party Kuomintang was founded by

A) Sun Yat-sen

B) Chiang Kai-shek

C) Pu-yi

D) Mo Tse-tung

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14. The world’s oldest continuously inhabited city is

A) Damascus

B) Baghdad

C) Jerusalem

D) Istanbul

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15. Indonesia was a colony of which of the following countries?

A) Spain

B) Belgium

C) Dutch

D) Portugal

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16. Bangladesh was created in –

A) 1973

B) 1971

C) 1970

D) 1972

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17. On which side did Japan fight in the First World War?

A) Against Russia on its own

B) None, it was neutral

C) With Germany against United Kingdom

D) With United Kingdom against Germany

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18. East Timor, in Indonesian Archipelago, was the former colony of

A) Portuguese

B) English

C) French

D) Dutch

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19. The Crimean War in 1854–1856 was fought between

A) USA and England

B) Russia and Japan

C) England and France

D) Russia and Turkey

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20. The capital of Pakistan till 1959 was

A) Islamabad

B) Lahore

C) Karachi

D) Hyderabad

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