British History MCQs, 2007 Paper I.

(1) Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle made in:
(a) 1748(b) 1744
(c) 1746
(d) None of these

(2) Pitt’s India Act was passed in:
(a) 1761
(b)1780
(c) 1784(d) None of these

(3) Lord Cornwallis was forced to surrender at Yorktown in:
(a) 1781(b) 1777
(c) 1783
(d) None of these

(4) The battle of Nations took place in:
(a) 1809
(b) 1812
(c) 1813(d) None of these

(5) The Union of England and Ireland took place in:
(a) 1799
(b) 1800(c) 1789
(d) None of these

(6) When George I ascended the throne, his age was:
(a) 61 years
(b) 54 years(c) 58 years
(d) None of these

(7) Pitt the Elder became Prime Minister in:
(a) 1755
(b) 1760
(c) 1766(d) None of these

(8) George III was taught by his:
(a) Father
(b) Mother
(c) Grand-father
(d) None of these (Bute , his teacher)

(9) “Reflections on the French Revolution” was written:
(a) Montague
(b) Voltaire
(c) Edmund Burke(d) None of these

(10) Bank of England was founded in:
(a) 1694(b) 1700
(c) 1698
(d) None of these

(11) “Wealth of Nations” is written by:
(a) David Ricardo
(b) Thomas Malthus
(c) Adam Smith(d) None of these

(12) From the Romantic poets, only one survived upto the reign of Queen Victoria. He was:
(a) Keats
(b) Byron
(c) Wordsworth(d) None of these

(13) Gibraltar was captured in 1704 by:
(a) Admiral Nelson
(b) Admiral Rooke(c) Admiral Vernon
(d) None of these

(14) Battle of Ramillies was fought:
(a) 1706(b) 1709
(c) 1708
(d) None of these

(15) The Durham Report was a valuable and beneficial document on the subject of:
(a) British Colonial Policy(b) Its war policy
(c) British Home Policy
(d) None of these

(16) Steam Engine was invented by:
(a) James Margreen
(b) James Watt(c) William Murdock
(d) None of these

(17) Robert Clive fought the battle of Plassey in:
(a) 1750
(b) 1757 (Defeated Nwab Siraj Uddaula) (c) 1760
(d) None of these

(18) Famos Munore Doctrine was enunciated in:
(a) 1820
(b) 1822
(c) 1823 (James Monroe 5th American President ) (d) None of these

(19) Castlereagh became Foreign Secretary in:
(a) 1810
(b) 1812 1812-22 (c) 1800
(d) None of these

(20) Seringapatam, the Capital of Tipu Sultan was Captured by:
(a) Marquis Wellesley
(b) Sir Arthur Wellesley
(c) Lord Cornwallis(d) None of these

British History MCQs, 2007 Paper II.

(1) The Reform Bill of 1867 was called ‘a Conservative Surrender’ by:
(a) Randolaph Churchill
(b) Salisbury(c) Ashbourne
(d) None of these

(2) The Treaty of SEATO was signed at Manila in:
(a) 1953
(b) 1954(c) 1955
(d) None of these

(3) After unconditional surrender in 1945, Japan was occupied by an Allied Army commanded by:
(a) General Mac Arthur(b) General Eisen Hower
(c) General Montgomery
(d) None of these

(4) The charge of the light Brigade was immortalized by the poet:
(a) Shelley
(b) Tennyson(c) Wordsworth
(d) None of these

(5) The Secret Ballot Act was passed in:
(a) 1870
(b) 1868
(c) 1872(d) None of these

(6) Who became Prime Minister of England in 1923:
(a) Stanley Baldwin(b) Marquis Curzon
(c) Austin Chamberlain
(d) None of these

(7) Entente Cordial was signed in:
(a) 1905
(b) 1906
(c) 1904 (With France) (d) None of these

(8) The Treaty of Versailles was signed in:
(a) 1929
(b) 1921
(c) 1919(d) None of these

(9) Chinese Communists established their new Regime at Peking in:
(a) 1949(b)1950
(c) 1951
(d) None of these

(10) Devalera came into power in Ireland in:
(a) 1930
(b) 1932(c) 1934
(d) None of these

(11) Who succeeded Gladstone when he resigned in 1894?
(a) Sir William Hart Court
(b) Balfour
(c) Lord Roseberry(d) None of these

(12) TREATY of TIENTSN was signed in:
(a) 1856
(b) 1860
(c) 1858(d) None of these

(13) The women were given the Right of Vote in:
(a) 1916
(b) 1926
(c) 1918(d) None of these

(14) In 1858 the TAKU forts of China were finally captured by:
(a) American
(b) French
(c) English (d) None of these

(15) Public Telephones were introduced in England in:
(a) 1913
(b) 1912
(c) 1911
(d) None of these

(16) In England who advocated the cause of ‘free education’ and promised “old age pension”?
(a) Joseph Chamberlain(b) Dike
(c) Salisbury
(d) None of these

(17) The fall of Sabastopol took place in:
(a) 1854
(b) 1857
(c) 1855(d) None of these

(18) Who succeeded Wilson when he retired in 1976?
(a) Dennis Healey
(b) Challaghan(c) Michael Foot
(d) None of these

(19) Fashoda (NILE) incident took place in:
(a) 1893
(b) 1895
(c) 1898(d) None of these

(20) Dis-establishment of the Irish Church by Gladstone took place in:
(a) 1857
(b) 1869 ( Irish Church Act 1869 ) (c) 1879
(d) None of these

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