Deck 12: Notable Figures, Concepts, and Events in History

Question 1

___________..., unlike Marxists, advocated a gradual, non-revolutionary transition to socialism based on humanist foundations.

A)Fabians
B)Liberals
C)Capitalists
D)Communalists

Answer 1

Fabians

Question 2

The Fabian Society took its name, suggested by one of its founding members, Frank Podmore, from the Roman General, Quintus Fabius Cunctator, who avoided a frontal attack on ..................army in the third century B.C., but used delaying tactics.

A)David Lloyd George's
B)William Gladstone's
C)H. H. Asquith's
D)Hannibal's

Answer 2

Hannibal's

Question 3

After the Second world war, which highlighted that so many people were deprived and poor, the Liberal politician . ___________identified five issues that needed to be tackled to make a better Britain.

A)Ramsay MacDonal
B)John Stuart Mill
C)Keynes
D)William Beveridge

Answer 3

William Beveridge

Question 4

___________...was an English biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

A)Thomas Henry Huxley
B)Samuel Wilberforce
C)Robert Chambers
D)Richard Owen

Question 5

................. most notable science fiction work is The Time Machine (1895),

A)H. G. Wells'
B)Clement Attlee
C)Harold Wilson
D)James Callaghan.

Question 6

................ 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work,

A)E. M. Forster's
B)Tony Blair
C)Gordon Brown
D),Edward Thomas

Question 7

___________. is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History (1934-1961).

A)Arnold Joseph Toynbee
B)W. B. Yeats
C)Edward Martyn
D),D.H Lawrence

Question 8

___________.. 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,

A)James Joyce
B)T. S. Eliot
C)W. H. Auden
D)Edward Thomas

Question 9

___________. was an Anglo-American poet, best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues,"

A)Wystan Hugh Auden
B)Isaac Rosenberg,
C)Wilfred Owen
D)Charles Sorely

Question 10

___________. is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen EightyFour (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945).

A)George Orwell
B)Dylan Thomas
C)Samuel Barclay Beckett
D)Charles Sorely

Question 11

___________.. is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture.

A)Arya Samaj
B)Commonwealth
C)NWO
D)Globalization

Question 12

The term . ___________. refers to the emergence of a totalitarian government.

A)NWO
B)Commonwealth
C)Globalization
D)Arya Samaj

Question 13

The symbol of the Commonwealth is.............. who is the Head of the Commonwealth.

A)Queen Elizabeth II
B)Warren Hastings
C)Jonathan Duncan
D)Macaulay,

Question 14

William James founded The Asiatic Society of ...................in 1784.

A)Bengal
B)Madras
C)Bombay
D)Delhi

Question 15

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.

A)Lord William Bentinck
B)Queen Elizabeth II
C)Jonathan Duncan
D)Warren

Question 16

Wood's Education Despatch formed the basis of the education policy of east India Company's government in India since. ___________....

A)1854
B)1864
C)1874
D)1884

Question 17

................, the founder of the Arya Samaj, gave the slogan, "India for the Indians".

A)Lord William Bentinck
B)Swami Dayanand Saraswati
C)Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Question 18

.................. famous book 'Anand Math', the Bible of modern Bengali patriotism, provided very great inspiration to the people.

A)Rabindranath Tagore's
B)Bankim Chandra's
C)Lakshminath Bezbarua's
D)Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar;s

Question 19

___________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.'

A)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B)Subramanya Bharati
C)Bhartendu Harishchandra
D)Altaf Hussain Mali

Question 20

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj at ...............in 1828.

A)Madras
B)Kolkata
C)Bombay
D)Delhi

Question 21

Noticeable magazines published by . ___________were the Brahmonical Magazine, the Sambad KaumudiandMirat-ul-Akbar.

A)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B)Toru Dutt
C),Sri Aurobindo
D)Thomas Paine

Question 22

___________, 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.

A)Rabindranath Tagore
B)Robert Graves,
C)Ivor Gurney
D)Siegfried Sassoon

Question 23

___________............ founded, Visva-Bharati University.

A)Rabindranath Tagore
B)Mrs Annie Besant,
C)Mahadev Govind Ranade
D)Rousseau,

Question 24

Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are . ___________his best-known works,

A)Rabindranath Tagore's
B)Robert H. Ross
C)Richard Aldington
D)Laurence Binyon

Question 25

"I am not a man of letters," wrote .................in one of his missives from jail to his daughter Indira, but of course he was.

A)Jawaharlal Nehru
B)Ibn Battutah
C)Marx,
D)Oswald Spengler