Deck 4: Trivia History and International Organizations: Part B

Question 1

Which nation was not a member of the Axis Powers?

A)japan
B)ussr
C)italy
D)germany

Answer 1

ussr

Question 2

Name the important aerial battle waged in the II World War?

A)battle of britain
B)battle of ambur
C)battle of piedmont
D)battle of munich

Answer 2

battle of britain

Question 3

The Great Depression began with which incident?

A)strike of the workers
B)looting of banks
C)plunder of banks
D)the wall street crash

Answer 3

the wall street crash

Question 4

Name the newspaper started by Mussolini

A)the royale
B)the people of italy
C)the news
D)none of these

Question 5

The Italian term 'Avanti' means

A)forward
B)fight
C)battle
D)struggle

Question 6

Anti Comintern Pact was made against

A)capitalism
B)feudalism
C)communism
D)islamisation

Question 7

Name the Serbian Terrorist who killed the heir to Austrian throne in 1914?

A)gavrilo princip
B)francis
C)gagan princep
D)none of these

Question 8

The Continental Congress was associated with which Revolution?

A)american civil war
B)american revolution
C)indian mutiny
D)english civil war

Question 9

Where was York Town located?

A)new york
B)georgia
C)connecticut
D)virginia

Question 10

Who was the First President of the US?

A)abraham lincoln
B)benjamin franklin
C)george washington
D)woodrow wilson

Question 11

To which nation the present Secretary General of the UN belongs?

A)north korea
B)south korea
C)egypt
D)columbia

Question 12

Who was the wife of Louis XVI of France?

A)anne boleyn
B)anne
C)mary com
D)mary antoinette

Question 13

Who authored the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?

A)louis carol
B)mrs. harriot beecher stowe
C)anita desai
D)vikram seth

Question 14

Who was the leading figure in the Congress of Vienna?

A)napoleon bonaparte
B)garibaldi
C)metternich
D)louis napoleon

Question 15

Which city was the capital of Bosnia at the beginning of the 20th century?

A)sarajevo
B)athens
C)crimea
D)herzegovina

Question 16

Who was the editor of the newspaper II Risorgimento of Italy?

A)mazzini
B)hitler
C)bismarck
D)cavour

Question 17

Name the army raised by Garibaldi for effecting Italian unification

A)black shirts
B)red turbans
C)brown shirts
D)red shirts

Question 18

Who was proclaimed as the first king of united Italy?

A)william
B)victor emmanuel ii
C)louis iv
D)john henry

Question 19

Name the member nation of the Triple Alliance

A)britain
B)france
C)austria- hungary
D)sri lanka

Question 20

The term Entente means

A)pact
B)agreement
C)understanding
D)none of these

Question 21

Name the heir to the Austrian throne at the second decade of the 20th century?

A)archduke francis ferdinand
B)william the junior
C)ferdinand francis
D)prince henry

Question 22

The Battle of Marne was associated with which war?

A)american war of independence
B)ii world war
C)i world war
D)english civil war

Question 23

Which of the following nations was not a member of the Triple Alliance?

A)germany
B)japan
C)france
D)italy

Question 24

Who was the king of Germany during the I World War?

A)nicholas ii
B)william ii
C)james iii
D)alexander

Question 25

Name the dynasty that had ruled over Austria Hungary till the end of the I World War

A)romanov
B)hohenzollern
C)stuart
D)hapsburg

Question 26

Who was the leader of the Mensheviks in Russia?

A)lenin
B)stalin
C)kerensky
D)sun yat sen

Question 27

The term 'Metropolis' simply means

A)colony
B)town
C)settlement
D)mother country

Question 28

Who authored Don Quixote?

A)dante
B)erasmus
C)cervantes
D)thomas more

Question 29

Where is the Pitti Palace located?

A)italy
B)germany
C)spain
D)england

Question 30

Who was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Bohemia?

A)martin luther
B)john calvin
C)zwingli
D)john huss

Question 31

The Church at Wittenberg located in

A)italy
B)india
C)spain
D)germany

Question 32

Which ruler of Portugal did encourage navigators at the beginning of the 15th century?

A)philip i
B)henry
C)elizabeth
D)henry viii

Question 33

To which country Ferdinand Magellan belonged?

A)portugal
B)spain
C)england
D)holland

Question 34

Which Continental Congress adopted the American Declaration of Independence?

A)third
B)second
C)first
D)none of these

Question 35

Who was Donatello?

A)thinker
B)actor
C)philosopher
D)sculptor

Question 36

The sculpture Pieta is sculptured by

A)donatello
B)leonardo da vinci
C)michelangelo
D)raphael

Question 37

In the 16th century, the German translation of Bible was made by

A)martin luther
B)john gutenberg
C)bismarck
D)john calvin

Question 38

Who was responsible for the invention of 'Mule'

A)john kay
B)richard arkwright
C)james hargreaves
D)samuel crompton

Question 39

Who invented the Sewing machine?

A)eli whitney
B)thomas savery
C)elias howe
D)thomas newcomen

Question 40

The magnum opus of Erasmus of Rotterdam is

A)in praise of folly
B)decameron
C)don quixote
D)othello

Question 41

To which country James Watt belonged

A)england
B)germany
C)france
D)scotland

Question 42

Who authored 'The Discourses?'

A)dante
B)machiavelli
C)john locke
D)thomas hobbes

Question 43

Which among the following is not a specialized agency of the UN

A)world health organisation
B)food and agriculture organisation
C)general assembly
D)international labour organisation

Question 44

Where is Manchuria situated?

A)india
B)russia
C)china
D)japan

Question 45

Who was the leader of Revolutionary Marxism in Germany in the Post First World War period?

A)lenin
B)rosa luxemburg
C)stalin
D)antonio gramsci

Question 46

In which country the Weimar republic existed?

A)italy
B)britain
C)usa
D)germany

Question 47

Name the political party formed by Mussolini

A)italian national party
B)italian fascist party
C)national socialist party
D)national fascist party

Question 48

Where was the Head quarter of the League of Nations?

A)hague
B)geneva
C)genoa
D)rome

Question 49

Name the newspaper published by the Bolshevik Party

A)avanti
B)pravda
C)popola
D)revolt

Question 50

With which country, the name of Rasputin involved?

A)russia
B)italy
C)germany
D)britain

Question 51

Who was responsible for developing romantic nationalism?

A)bismarck
B)garibaldi
C)herder
D)john locke

Question 52

To Herder, Volksgeist means

A)german ideology
B)national spirit
C)romantic spirit
D)none of these

Question 53

Gettysburg speech was delivered by

A)abraham lincoln
B)george washington
C)thomas jefferson
D)lenin

Question 54

The Reign of Terror in France was set up by

A)napoleon
B)louis xvi
C)louis xiv
D)robespierre

Question 55

Name the last battle waged by Napoleon Bonaparte

A)battle of vienna
B)battle of munich
C)battle of paris
D)battle of waterloo

Question 56

Who represented the Third Estate in France in the 18th century?

A)clergy
B)nobility
C)common people
D)press

Question 57

Who was English king during the course of the American War of Independence?

A)george iii
B)james iii
C)charles ii
D)george iv

Question 58

In which year the Petition of Rights was accepted in the history of England?

A)1689
B)1688
C)1649
D)1628

Question 59

Who invented the Pudding Furnace?

A)abraham durby
B)henry cort
C)george stephenson
D)james watt

Question 60

To which country Eli Whitney belonged?

A)england
B)scotland
C)usa
D)germany

Question 61

Who discovered the Law of Gravitation?

A)isaac newton
B)galileo
C)einstein
D)francis bacon

Question 62

Name the nations 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