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1. Which two countries were involved in a Hundred Years War? [SSC CGL Tier-I (CBE) -1999]
(A) Turkey and Austria (B) England and France ✔
(C) Palestine and Israel (D) Germany and Russia
2. Waterloo is located in : [SSC -CPO Sub-Inspector-2004]
(A) England (B) France
(C) Spain (D) Belgium ✔
3. Where was Christopher Columbus from : [SSC MTS.-2013]
(A) Venice (B) Genoa ✔
(C) Spain (D) Portugal
4. of the following, in which did Napolenic France suffer final defeat? [SSC MTS.-2013]
(A) Battle of Trafalgar ✔ (B) Battle of Wagram
(C) Battle of Pyramids (D) Battle of Austerlitz
5. Pearl Harbour, where the American Pacific Fleet was stationed, was attacked by Japanese in : [SSC CGL-2000]
(A) 1935 (B) 1939
(C) 1941 ✔ (D) 1944
6. Who was the Chief Architect of the World Trade Centre ‘New York’? [SSC CGL-2002]
(A) Le Corbusier (B) Minoru Yamasaki ✔
(C) Edwin Lutyens (D) Charles Correa
7. Herodotus is considered as the father of : [SSC I.T.& C.Excise 2006]
(A) History ✔ (B) Geography
(C) Political Science (D) Philosophy
8. What is the name of the World’s smallest republic which has an area of 21 sq. km only? [SSC (South Zone) Investigator-2010]
(A) Nauru ✔ (B) Palermo
(C) Vatican City (D) Namur
9. Independence movement of Vietnam was headed by : [SSC Section Officer -1997]
(A) Ngo Dinh Diem (B) Zhou Enlai
(C) Pol Pot (D) Ho Chi Minh ✔
10. Which one country is still governed by a monarch? [SSC I.T.C- 2005]
(A) Afghanistan (B) Iran
(C) Iraq (D) Saudi Arabia ✔
11. Who among the following is referred to as ‘Desert Fox’? [SSC C.G.L. 2005]
(A) Lord Wavell (B) Gen. Eisenhover
(C) Gen. Rommel ✔ (D) Gen. McArthur
12. Which of the following group of thinkers influenced Fascism? [SSC C.G.L. 2005]
(A) Plato, Machiavelli and Herbet Spencer (B) Aristotle, St, Augustine and T.H. Green
(C) Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Rosenberg ✔ (D) Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin
13. Which among following is called "Gift of the Nile"?
(A) China (B) India
(C) Iraq (D) Egypt ✔
14. Who amongst the following was not associated with the Unification of Italy? [SSC (10+2) -2013]
(A) Cavour (B) Garibaldi
(C) Mussolini ✔ (D) Mazzini
15. Who among the following played a prominent role during the “Reign of Terror” In France? [SSC (10+2) -2013]
(A) Voltaire (B) Marat
(C) Robespierre ✔ (D) Montesquieu
16. Which one of the following U.S. President vis-ited China in 1972 for strengthening diplomaticties? [MTS-2013]
(A) Richard Nixon ✔ (B) George Bush (Senior)
(C) D Eisenhowar (D) J.F. Kennedy
17. The Declaration of American Independence was based on the theory of : [SSC CGL-2013]
(A) Civil Rights (B) Moral Rights
(C) Legal Rights (D) Natural Rights ✔
18. The famous painting ‘Monalisa’ was the creation of : [SSC MTS-2011]
(A) Michael-Angelo (B) Leonardo-da-Vinci ✔
(C) Picasso (D) Van Gogh
19. Who has given a call “Go back to nature? [SSC (10+2) 2012]
(A) Plato (B) Aristotle
(C) Rousseau ✔ (D) Hobbes
20. In which country the Head of the State gets his office by the law of hereditary succession? [SSC CML -2002]
(A) China (B) Sri Lanka
(C) France (D) Japan ✔
21. The Wailing wall is situated in : [SSC CML -2002]
(A) Berlin (B) Beijing
(C) Jerusalem ✔ (D) Tel Aviv
22. In which year Bartholomew Diaz reached Cape of Good Hope ?
(A) 1480 (B) 1487 ✔
(C) 1495 (D) 1500
23. The Industrial Revolution in England represented the climax of the transition from : [SSC CISF ASI -2010]
(A) slavery to feudalism (B) feudalism to capitalism ✔
(C) capitalism to socialism (D) socialism to market socialism
24. When did the Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 Independent Republics? [SSC CISF ASI-2010]
(A) 1990 (B) 1991 ✔
(C) 1992 (D) 1993
25. The policy of ‘imperial preferences’ adopted by Britain in its colonies in 1932 is also known as the : [SSC CGL (2013), 2014]
(A) Hong Kong Agreement (B) London Agreement
(C) Ottawa Agreement ✔ (D) Paris Agreement
26. Who said, “Adolf Hitler is Germany and Germany is Adolf Hitler. He who pledges himself to Hitler pledges himself to Germany”? [SSC CGL -2014]
(A) R. Hess ✔ (B) Mussolini
(C) Hitler (D) Communist International
27. Which of the following is a name of US Parliament? [SSC CGL -2016]
(A) Diet (B) Senate
(C) Congress ✔ (D) House of commons
28. The Policy of racial discrimination followed in South Africa was called : [SSC (10+2) -2012]
(A) Non-Aligned (B) Civil Rights Movement
(C) Apartheid ✔ (D) Suffrage
29. Who said “Liberty consists in obedience to the general will”? [SSC MTS-2013]
(A) Hobbes (B) Rousseau ✔
(C) Green (D) Laski
30. Who said: “Where there is no law, there is no freedom”? [SSC CAPF’s SI-& CISF ASI -2013]
(A) Bentham (B) Lenin
(C) Marx (D) Locke ✔
31. The chief advocate of Fascism was : [SSC CGL Tier-I (CBE) -1999]
(A) Mussolini ✔ (B) Adolf Hitler
(C) St. Simon (D) Robert Owen
32. Whose teachings inspired the French Revolution? [SSC CGL Tier-I (CBE) -1999]
(A) Locke (B) Rousseau ✔
(C) Hegel (D) Plato
33. Rome was founded around?
(A) 1000 BC ✔ (B) 1200 BC
(C) 1400 BC (D) 1600 BC
34. Who is the oldest British monarch to sit on the Throne? [SSC (10+2) -2012]
(A) Queen Victoria (B) Queen Elizabeth-II ✔
(C) Queen Mary Tudor (D) Queen Anne
35. Which country emerged as the biggest colonial power at the end of the nineteenth century? [SSC MTS.-2013]
(A) France (B) Spain
(C) Britain ✔ (D) Germany
36. In U.S.A. the President is elected by : [SSC Section Officer- 2010]
(A) The Senate (B) Universal Adult Franchise ✔
(C) The House of Representatives (D) The Congress
37. The declaration that Democracy is a Government ‘of the people, by the people’ was made by : [SSC Section Officer- 2010]
(A) George Washington (B) Winston Churchill
(C) Abraham Lincoln ✔ (D) Theodore Roosevelt
38. Who were the three eminent statesmen who started the Non-aligned Movement? [SSC CGL-2004]
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru, Anwar Sadat, Soekarno (B) Jawaharlal Nehru, Chou Enlai, Kwame Nkrumah
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru, Fidel Castro, Marshal Tito (D) Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Marshal Tito ✔
39. Who is called the “Greatest Investigator of Antiquity”? [SSC I.T.& C.Excise 2006]
(A) Aristotle (B) Darwin ✔
(C) Cuvier (D) Socrates
40. In which country is Karbala, the holy city of Shia Muslim located? [SSC Section Officer -1997]
(A) Iran (B) Iraq ✔
(C) Jordan (D) Syria
41. The city of “Tashkent” is located in :
(A) Uzbekistan ✔ (B) Kazakhstan
(C) Russia (D) Kyrgyzstan
42. In Greek mythology, Apollo is the god of what? [SSC Section Officer -2005]
(A) Prophecy ✔ (B) Medicine
(C) Love (D) Peace
43. Who is the Duchess of Cornwall? [SSSC Stat. invest. 2005]
(A) Oiana (B) Camilla ✔
(C) Anne (D) Margaret
44. “What is the Third Estate?” Pamphlet associated with the French Revolution, was written by : [SSC MTS.-2013]
(A) Marquis - Lafayette (B) Edmund Burke
(C) Joseph Foulon (D) Abbe Sieyes ✔
45. Which of the following countries is regarded as the home of ‘Fabian Socialism? [SSC MTS.-2013]
(A) Russia (B) England ✔
(C) France (D) Italy
46. Who was the American leader who led a non-violent movement to obtain full civil rights for American Negroes? [SSC CML-2006]
(A) Abraham Lincoln (B) John F. Kennedy
(C) Martin Luther King-Junior ✔ (D) George Washington
47. Who discovered America? [MTS-2011]
(A) Vasco-da Gama (B) Columbus ✔
(C) Captain Cook (D) Amundsen
48. Who said that “Man by nature is a political animal? [SSC CML-2002]
(A) Plato (B) Aristotle ✔
(C) Hobbes (D) Rousseau
49. The State is a necessary evil according to : [SSC CML-2002]
(A) Communists (B) Liberalists
(C) Individualists ✔ (D) Anarchists
50. Like Vedic Aryans, the custom of Sacrificialfire was also followed by : [SSC CAPFs SI, CISF ASI & OP. SI-2014]
(A) Romans (B) Greeks
(C) Iranians (D) All of the above ✔
1. Which two countries were involved in a Hundred Years War? [SSC CGL Tier-I (CBE) -1999]
(A) Turkey and Austria (B) England and France ✔
(C) Palestine and Israel (D) Germany and Russia
2. Waterloo is located in : [SSC -CPO Sub-Inspector-2004]
(A) England (B) France
(C) Spain (D) Belgium ✔
3. Where was Christopher Columbus from : [SSC MTS.-2013]
(A) Venice (B) Genoa ✔
(C) Spain (D) Portugal
4. of the following, in which did Napolenic France suffer final defeat? [SSC MTS.-2013]
(A) Battle of Trafalgar ✔ (B) Battle of Wagram
(C) Battle of Pyramids (D) Battle of Austerlitz
5. Pearl Harbour, where the American Pacific Fleet was stationed, was attacked by Japanese in : [SSC CGL-2000]
(A) 1935 (B) 1939
(C) 1941 ✔ (D) 1944
6. Who was the Chief Architect of the World Trade Centre ‘New York’? [SSC CGL-2002]
(A) Le Corbusier (B) Minoru Yamasaki ✔
(C) Edwin Lutyens (D) Charles Correa
7. Herodotus is considered as the father of : [SSC I.T.& C.Excise 2006]
(A) History ✔ (B) Geography
(C) Political Science (D) Philosophy
8. What is the name of the World’s smallest republic which has an area of 21 sq. km only? [SSC (South Zone) Investigator-2010]
(A) Nauru ✔ (B) Palermo
(C) Vatican City (D) Namur
9. Independence movement of Vietnam was headed by : [SSC Section Officer -1997]
(A) Ngo Dinh Diem (B) Zhou Enlai
(C) Pol Pot (D) Ho Chi Minh ✔
10. Which one country is still governed by a monarch? [SSC I.T.C- 2005]
(A) Afghanistan (B) Iran
(C) Iraq (D) Saudi Arabia ✔
11. Who among the following is referred to as ‘Desert Fox’? [SSC C.G.L. 2005]
(A) Lord Wavell (B) Gen. Eisenhover
(C) Gen. Rommel ✔ (D) Gen. McArthur
12. Which of the following group of thinkers influenced Fascism? [SSC C.G.L. 2005]
(A) Plato, Machiavelli and Herbet Spencer (B) Aristotle, St, Augustine and T.H. Green
(C) Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Rosenberg ✔ (D) Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin
13. Which among following is called "Gift of the Nile"?
(A) China (B) India
(C) Iraq (D) Egypt ✔
14. Who amongst the following was not associated with the Unification of Italy? [SSC (10+2) -2013]
(A) Cavour (B) Garibaldi
(C) Mussolini ✔ (D) Mazzini
15. Who among the following played a prominent role during the “Reign of Terror” In France? [SSC (10+2) -2013]
(A) Voltaire (B) Marat
(C) Robespierre ✔ (D) Montesquieu
16. Which one of the following U.S. President vis-ited China in 1972 for strengthening diplomaticties? [MTS-2013]
(A) Richard Nixon ✔ (B) George Bush (Senior)
(C) D Eisenhowar (D) J.F. Kennedy
17. The Declaration of American Independence was based on the theory of : [SSC CGL-2013]
(A) Civil Rights (B) Moral Rights
(C) Legal Rights (D) Natural Rights ✔
18. The famous painting ‘Monalisa’ was the creation of : [SSC MTS-2011]
(A) Michael-Angelo (B) Leonardo-da-Vinci ✔
(C) Picasso (D) Van Gogh
19. Who has given a call “Go back to nature? [SSC (10+2) 2012]
(A) Plato (B) Aristotle
(C) Rousseau ✔ (D) Hobbes
20. In which country the Head of the State gets his office by the law of hereditary succession? [SSC CML -2002]
(A) China (B) Sri Lanka
(C) France (D) Japan ✔
21. The Wailing wall is situated in : [SSC CML -2002]
(A) Berlin (B) Beijing
(C) Jerusalem ✔ (D) Tel Aviv
22. In which year Bartholomew Diaz reached Cape of Good Hope ?
(A) 1480 (B) 1487 ✔
(C) 1495 (D) 1500
23. The Industrial Revolution in England represented the climax of the transition from : [SSC CISF ASI -2010]
(A) slavery to feudalism (B) feudalism to capitalism ✔
(C) capitalism to socialism (D) socialism to market socialism
24. When did the Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 Independent Republics? [SSC CISF ASI-2010]
(A) 1990 (B) 1991 ✔
(C) 1992 (D) 1993
25. The policy of ‘imperial preferences’ adopted by Britain in its colonies in 1932 is also known as the : [SSC CGL (2013), 2014]
(A) Hong Kong Agreement (B) London Agreement
(C) Ottawa Agreement ✔ (D) Paris Agreement
26. Who said, “Adolf Hitler is Germany and Germany is Adolf Hitler. He who pledges himself to Hitler pledges himself to Germany”? [SSC CGL -2014]
(A) R. Hess ✔ (B) Mussolini
(C) Hitler (D) Communist International
27. Which of the following is a name of US Parliament? [SSC CGL -2016]
(A) Diet (B) Senate
(C) Congress ✔ (D) House of commons
28. The Policy of racial discrimination followed in South Africa was called : [SSC (10+2) -2012]
(A) Non-Aligned (B) Civil Rights Movement
(C) Apartheid ✔ (D) Suffrage
29. Who said “Liberty consists in obedience to the general will”? [SSC MTS-2013]
(A) Hobbes (B) Rousseau ✔
(C) Green (D) Laski
30. Who said: “Where there is no law, there is no freedom”? [SSC CAPF’s SI-& CISF ASI -2013]
(A) Bentham (B) Lenin
(C) Marx (D) Locke ✔
31. The chief advocate of Fascism was : [SSC CGL Tier-I (CBE) -1999]
(A) Mussolini ✔ (B) Adolf Hitler
(C) St. Simon (D) Robert Owen
32. Whose teachings inspired the French Revolution? [SSC CGL Tier-I (CBE) -1999]
(A) Locke (B) Rousseau ✔
(C) Hegel (D) Plato
33. Rome was founded around?
(A) 1000 BC ✔ (B) 1200 BC
(C) 1400 BC (D) 1600 BC
34. Who is the oldest British monarch to sit on the Throne? [SSC (10+2) -2012]
(A) Queen Victoria (B) Queen Elizabeth-II ✔
(C) Queen Mary Tudor (D) Queen Anne
35. Which country emerged as the biggest colonial power at the end of the nineteenth century? [SSC MTS.-2013]
(A) France (B) Spain
(C) Britain ✔ (D) Germany
36. In U.S.A. the President is elected by : [SSC Section Officer- 2010]
(A) The Senate (B) Universal Adult Franchise ✔
(C) The House of Representatives (D) The Congress
37. The declaration that Democracy is a Government ‘of the people, by the people’ was made by : [SSC Section Officer- 2010]
(A) George Washington (B) Winston Churchill
(C) Abraham Lincoln ✔ (D) Theodore Roosevelt
38. Who were the three eminent statesmen who started the Non-aligned Movement? [SSC CGL-2004]
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru, Anwar Sadat, Soekarno (B) Jawaharlal Nehru, Chou Enlai, Kwame Nkrumah
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru, Fidel Castro, Marshal Tito (D) Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Marshal Tito ✔
39. Who is called the “Greatest Investigator of Antiquity”? [SSC I.T.& C.Excise 2006]
(A) Aristotle (B) Darwin ✔
(C) Cuvier (D) Socrates
40. In which country is Karbala, the holy city of Shia Muslim located? [SSC Section Officer -1997]
(A) Iran (B) Iraq ✔
(C) Jordan (D) Syria
41. The city of “Tashkent” is located in :
(A) Uzbekistan ✔ (B) Kazakhstan
(C) Russia (D) Kyrgyzstan
42. In Greek mythology, Apollo is the god of what? [SSC Section Officer -2005]
(A) Prophecy ✔ (B) Medicine
(C) Love (D) Peace
43. Who is the Duchess of Cornwall? [SSSC Stat. invest. 2005]
(A) Oiana (B) Camilla ✔
(C) Anne (D) Margaret
44. “What is the Third Estate?” Pamphlet associated with the French Revolution, was written by : [SSC MTS.-2013]
(A) Marquis - Lafayette (B) Edmund Burke
(C) Joseph Foulon (D) Abbe Sieyes ✔
45. Which of the following countries is regarded as the home of ‘Fabian Socialism? [SSC MTS.-2013]
(A) Russia (B) England ✔
(C) France (D) Italy
46. Who was the American leader who led a non-violent movement to obtain full civil rights for American Negroes? [SSC CML-2006]
(A) Abraham Lincoln (B) John F. Kennedy
(C) Martin Luther King-Junior ✔ (D) George Washington
47. Who discovered America? [MTS-2011]
(A) Vasco-da Gama (B) Columbus ✔
(C) Captain Cook (D) Amundsen
48. Who said that “Man by nature is a political animal? [SSC CML-2002]
(A) Plato (B) Aristotle ✔
(C) Hobbes (D) Rousseau
49. The State is a necessary evil according to : [SSC CML-2002]
(A) Communists (B) Liberalists
(C) Individualists ✔ (D) Anarchists
50. Like Vedic Aryans, the custom of Sacrificialfire was also followed by : [SSC CAPFs SI, CISF ASI & OP. SI-2014]
(A) Romans (B) Greeks
(C) Iranians (D) All of the above ✔
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