British History MCQs, 2010 Paper I.

1) The bank of England was founded in:
A) 1690
b) 1695
c) 1694
d) None of These

2) Great Britain captured Gibralter in:
A) 1704
b) 1700
c) 1703
d) None of These

3) Queen Anne ascended on the throne of England in:
A)1700
b) 1702
c) 1701
d) None of These

4) The Septennial Act was passed in:
A) 1702
b) 1715
c) 1716
d) None of These

5) Walpole became Prime Minister in:
a) 1720
b) 1721
c) 1722
d) None of These

6) Riot ACT was passed in:
A) 1712
b) 1715
c) 1718
d) None of These
( It was passed in 1714 though it came into effect in 1715)

7)’Social Contract’ was written by:
a) Hobbes
b) Lock
c) Rousseau
d) None of These

8) The Estates General met for the last time in:
A) 1650
b) 1670
c) 1614
d) None of These

9) Congress of Troppau held in:
A) 1819
b) 1820(The Congress of Troppau was a conference of the Quintuple Alliance to discuss means of suppressing the revolution in Naples of July 1820, and at which the Troppau Protocol was signed on 19 November 1820.)
c) 1821
d) None of These

10) David Ricardo was:
A) Philosopher
B) Statesman
c) Economist
d) None of These

11) The organizer of victory was:
a) Prieur
B)Lindet
c) Carnot
(Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Carnot (13 May 1753 – 2 August 1823), the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary Wars, was a French politician, engineer, and mathematician.)
d) None of These

12) ‘Hogarth’ (d.1764) a painter belonged to the country and is a:
a) British(William Hogarth
10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764)
b) Dutch
c) German
d) None of These

13) Catholic Emancipation Act was passed on:
a) 1815
b)1829
c)1826
d) None of These

14) Battle of Wandewash won by:
a) Clive
b) Duplex
c) Eyre Coot
( January 1760 Wandiwash, India.
A decisive war between French and British forces, A part of Seven Years War)
d) None of These

15) American declaration of Independence issued from:
a) York Town
b) Massachauset
c) Philadelphia(July 4, 1776)
d) None of These

16) England began the peninsular war in Spain:
a) 1800
b) 1801
c) 1808( May 1808 )
d) None of These

17) Canning became Foreign Secretary in:
a) 1820
b) 1825
c) 1822( 1822–1827)
d) None of These

18) In the battle of Navarino, who was defeated?
a) Germany
b) Austria
c) Turkey(1827)
d) None of These

19) Which British Prime Minister established a civilian Police force for London?
a) Lord North
b) PIIT the younger
c) Peel
d) None of These

20) Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire in:
a) 1830
b) 1833
c) 1835
d) None of These

British History MCQs, 2010 Paper II.

1) Gladstone was born in :
a) London
b) Lancashire
c) Liverpool(1809)
d) None of these

2) The University Test Act was passed in:
a) 1870
b) 1871(The Universities Tests Act 1871)
c) 1872
d) None of these

3) Queen Victoria was the daughter of:
a) William IV
b) George III
c) Edward Duke of Kent
d) None of these
e)
4) ‘The History of Mr.Polly’ is written by:
a) Oscarwild
b) Stevenson
c) H.G.Wells
(The History of Mr. Polly is a 1910 comic novel by H. G. Wells.)
d) None of these

5) The Suez Canal was opened for traffic in:
a) 1863
b) 1867
c) 1869
d) None of these

6) The book on Liberty is written by:
a) James Mill
b) Jermy Benthem
c) J.S.Mill
d) None of these

7) The founder of modern Communist theory is:
a) Hegel
b) Karl Marx
c) Kropatkin
(Peter Alekseevich Kropotkin)

d) None of these

8) Guild Socialists advocated the use of:
a) Revolutionary methods
b) Anarchical methods
c) Constitutional and peaceful methods
d) None of these

9) According to Travelyon, ________ was the father of factory legislation:
a) Peel
b) Lord Shaftsbury
c) Robert own
(Its Robert Owen not Peel because Peel acted under Owen's influence)
d) None of these

10) Milosh Obrenovitch was recognized by Sultan in 1820 as ‘Prince of Serbia’ but in 1868. The Crown fell on a member of this family, he was _______:
a) Milan Obrenovitch-II
b) Michael Obrenovitch-III
c) Milan Obrenovitch-IV
d) None of these

11) Benjamin Disraeli became the PM 2nd time in:
a) 1870
b) 1873
c) 1874
d) None of these

12) Which ruler of Russia described Turkey as ‘ Sick man of Europe’ ________:
a) Alexander – II
b) Alexander – I
c) Nicholas-I
(The phrase "sick man of Europe" is commonly attributed to Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, referring to the Ottoman Empire, because it was increasingly falling under the financial control of the European powers and had lost territory in a series of disastrous wars.)
d) None of these

13) Who was Vladimir ilyich Ulyanor ________?
a) Stalin
b) Gorky
c) Lenin
d) None of these

14) Tolstoy wrote:
a) Crime and Punishment
b) Mother
c) Ware and Peace
(Published in 1869)
d) None of these

15) Treaty of Versailles (1919) ratified by U.S.A in:
a) 1920
b) June 1919
c) August 1920
d) None of these
(U.S.A didn't ratify it at all.)

16) In 1933, who was the President of Germany?
a) Hindenburg
(Paul von Hindenburg was field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany from 1925 to 1934.)
b) Ebert
c) Stressman
d) None of these

17) General Montgomery defeated the Rommel’s army at ________:
a) Tunis
b) Libya
c) El-Alamin
(El Alamein, Egypt
23 October – 11 November 1942)
d) None of these

18) The Inter Allied Military Tribunal set up at:
a) Rome
b) Sarajevo
c) Nuremberg
(Also known as Nuremburg Trials)
d) None of these

19) The charter of UNO was drawn up by the delegates of 50 states who met at:
a) Philadelphia
b) New York
c) San Francisco
d) None of these

20) The European Economic Community known in Britain as the Common Market was established by the Treaty of:
a) London
b) Paris
c) Rome
(Treaty of Rome, 1957)
d) None of these

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