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101. |
‘Wealth of Nations’was the work of ……….. |
A. | John Locke |
B. | Rene Descartes |
C. | Alfred Marshall |
D. | Adam Smith |
Answer» D. Adam Smith |
102. |
………….., one of the best scientists of his time, wrote an essay entitled, "On Liberty and Necessity: Man in the Newtonian Universe." |
A. | Benjamin Franklin |
B. | Robert Owen |
C. | John Calvin |
D. | Thomas Paine |
Answer» A. Benjamin Franklin |
103. |
……………..was "the founder of liberalism”. |
A. | John Locke |
B. | Montesquieu |
C. | Thomas Paine |
D. | Robert Fulton |
Answer» A. John Locke |
104. |
Two years after writing the Two Tracts on Government, …………….changed significantly in his views about magisterial authority and toleration in An Essay Concerning Toleration (1667). |
A. | John Locke |
B. | Thomas Paine |
C. | Michael Faraday |
D. | Jethro Tull |
Answer» A. John Locke |
105. |
The Advancement of Learning was written by ……………….. |
A. | Francis Bacon |
B. | Thomas Paine |
C. | Robert Fulton |
D. | Rousseau |
Answer» A. Francis Bacon |
106. |
Who wrote’Novum Organum Scientiarum’? |
A. | Newton |
B. | Thomas Paine |
C. | Francis Bacon |
D. | Montesquieu |
Answer» C. Francis Bacon |
107. |
Thomas Hobbes was an……………. Philosopher |
A. | French |
B. | Russian |
C. | English |
D. | Indian |
Answer» C. English |
108. |
Whose masterwork was Leviathan? |
A. | Aristotle |
B. | Plato |
C. | Thomas Hobbes |
D. | Locke |
Answer» C. Thomas Hobbes |
109. |
‘Meditations on First Philosophy’ was written by ………………. |
A. | Montesquieu |
B. | Thomas Paine |
C. | Descartes |
D. | Charles Telford |
Answer» C. Descartes |
110. |
Whose masterpiece was ‘The Spirit of the Laws’? |
A. | Thomas Paine |
B. | Thomas Aquinas |
C. | Aristotle |
D. | Montesquieu |
Answer» D. Montesquieu |
111. |
Persian Letters was written by ……………… |
A. | Montesquieu |
B. | Thomas Paine |
C. | Rousseau |
D. | Viscount Townsend |
Answer» A. Montesquieu |
112. |
Who wrote the philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts? |
A. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
B. | Thomas Paine |
C. | Charles Telford |
D. | Voltaire |
Answer» A. Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
113. |
The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality was written by ……………….. |
A. | Rousseau |
B. | Thomas Paine |
C. | Montesquieu |
D. | Robert Fulton |
Answer» A. Rousseau |
114. |
Whose major work on political philosophy was the The Social Contract? |
A. | Michael Faraday |
B. | Montesquieu |
C. | Charles Telford |
D. | Rousseau |
Answer» D. Rousseau |
115. |
‘The Confessions’ was the Autobiography of ……………….. |
A. | Jethro Tull |
B. | Thomas Paine |
C. | Montesquieu |
D. | Rousseau |
Answer» D. Rousseau |
116. |
Denis Diderot was the brightest light of the ……………Enlightenment-a man of intelligence, passion and genius. |
A. | Dutch |
B. | Spanish |
C. | Russian |
D. | French |
Answer» D. French |
117. |
Voltaire was a prolific writer, philosopher, poet and pamphletist, and the preeminent figure of the 18th century ………..Enlightenment. |
A. | French |
B. | American |
C. | Russian |
D. | German |
Answer» A. French |
118. |
Who Wrote Philosophical Dictionary? |
A. | Robert Fulton |
B. | Thomas Paine |
C. | Montesquieu |
D. | Voltaire |
Answer» D. Voltaire |
119. |
Who were The Physiocrats? |
A. | Historians |
B. | Sociologists |
C. | Scientists |
D. | Economists |
Answer» D. Economists |
120. |
Colbert was served as a minister in the Court of………….. |
A. | Louis XIV |
B. | James I |
C. | Edward VI |
D. | Charles I |
Answer» A. Louis XIV |
121. |
Thomas Paine was a radical writer who emigrated from …………to America in 1774. |
A. | England |
B. | Russia |
C. | Spain |
D. | Austria |
Answer» A. England |
122. |
Early in 1776, …………published Common Sense, a hugely influential pamphlet that convinced many American colonists that the time had finally come to break away from British rule. |
A. | Thomas Paine |
B. | Montesquieu |
C. | Michael Faraday |
D. | Ranke |
Answer» A. Thomas Paine |
123. |
In Common Sense, …………made a persuasive and passionate argument to the colonists that the cause of independence was just and urgent. |
A. | Thomas Paine |
B. | Karl Marx |
C. | Charles Darwin |
D. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Answer» A. Thomas Paine |
124. |
Who wrote the controversial work, The Age of Reason? |
A. | Thomas Paine |
B. | Montesquieu |
C. | Charles Telford |
D. | Robert Fulton |
Answer» A. Thomas Paine |
125. |
The …………..Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789. |
A. | French |
B. | Dutch |
C. | American |
D. | English |
Answer» A. French |
126. |
The French Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, …………. |
A. | 1789 |
B. | 1798 |
C. | 1799 |
D. | 1889 |
Answer» A. 1789 |
127. |
The French Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 and continued till ………………..rose to power. |
A. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
B. | Charles Telford |
C. | Robert Fulton |
D. | Louis XIV |
Answer» A. Napoleon Bonaparte |
128. |
Who gave good advice to his successor Louis XV saying "Do not imitate my fondness for building and for war, but work to lessen the misery of my people?" |
A. | Louis XIV |
B. | Charles I |
C. | James I |
D. | Elizabeth I |
Answer» A. Louis XIV |
129. |
When his ministers attempted to discuss affairs of the state with him, who merely remarked, "After me, the deluge." |
A. | Louis XV |
B. | Edward VI |
C. | James II |
D. | Henry VIII |
Answer» A. Louis XV |
130. |
Queen Marie Antoinette was the Queen of …………….. |
A. | Louis XV |
B. | Louis XVI |
C. | George I |
D. | Henry VIII |
Answer» B. Louis XVI |
131. |
………………, a lawyer and student of constitutional government summed up his ideas in his book ‘The Spirit of the Laws’. |
A. | Montesquieu |
B. | Robert Fulton |
C. | Voltaire |
D. | Rousseau |
Answer» A. Montesquieu |
132. |
Who put forward the theory of ‘the separation of powers’? |
A. | Voltaire |
B. | Montesquieu |
C. | Charles Telford |
D. | Robert Fulton |
Answer» B. Montesquieu |
133. |
The Bloodless or Glorious Revolution started in England in ………. |
A. | 1678 |
B. | 1688 |
C. | 1698 |
D. | 1699 |
Answer» B. 1688 |
134. |
The ………..Estate of France found the entrance of their meeting place blocked by the royal army on June 20, 1789 as a royal session was to be held there. Hence they rushed to a nearby place that was originally a tennis court and took the famous ‘Tennis Court Oath’. |
A. | First |
B. | Second |
C. | Third |
D. | fourth |
Answer» C. Third |
135. |
July 14, …………saw the fall of the Bastille, a royal fortress and symbol of Bourbon autocracy. |
A. | 1779 |
B. | 1789 |
C. | 1793 |
D. | 1798 |
Answer» B. 1789 |
136. |
Feudalism and serfdom was abolished in France in August ………….. by the National Assembly. |
A. | 1689 |
B. | 1789 |
C. | 1786 |
D. | 1797 |
Answer» B. 1789 |
137. |
The Constitution of ……….. was the first written constitution of France. |
A. | 1781 |
B. | 1791 |
C. | 1796 |
D. | 1799 |
Answer» B. 1791 |
138. |
The ………….were moderates who wanted a republican form of government in France. |
A. | Girondists |
B. | The Constitutionalists |
C. | The Jacobins |
D. | Liberals |
Answer» A. Girondists |
139. |
The Jacobins of ……………..were republicans of the extreme type. |
A. | Germany |
B. | France |
C. | Italy |
D. | Africa |
Answer» B. France |
140. |
King Louis XVI was found guilty of high treason by the National Convention and was guillotined on 21st January ……… |
A. | 1746 |
B. | 1769 |
C. | 1793 |
D. | 1795 |
Answer» C. 1793 |
141. |
The National Convention entrusted all executive authority to the "Committee of Public Safety", consisting of 12 members led by ………………….. |
A. | Robespierre |
B. | Shaftesbury |
C. | Diderot |
D. | Charles Telford |
Answer» A. Robespierre |
142. |
The National Convention entrusted all executive authority to the ‘Committee of Public Safety’, consisting of 12 members led by Robespierre. It let loose a ‘reign of terror’ in……….., from 1793 to 1794. |
A. | Germany |
B. | Portugal |
C. | France |
D. | Rome |
Answer» C. France |
143. |
The ’reign of terror’ came to an end with the revolt of the Parisian mob against Robespierre who was guillotined on March 13, …………. |
A. | 1736 |
B. | 1766 |
C. | 1794 |
D. | 1798 |
Answer» C. 1794 |
144. |
After the ……………a committee of nine members was appointed by the National Convention to draft a new constitution. |
A. | Monarchical rule |
B. | Constitutional rule |
C. | reign of terror |
D. | Moderate |
Answer» C. reign of terror |
145. |
After ruling France from 1792 to 1795, the National Convention was dissolved and the new constitution came to be called the Constitution of the Year …………… |
A. | Third |
B. | fourth |
C. | fifth |
D. | sixth |
Answer» A. Third |
146. |
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a fundamental document of the …………………….. |
A. | American Revolution |
B. | English Revolution |
C. | French Revolution |
D. | Bour war |
Answer» C. French Revolution |
147. |
Year of the U.S. Declaration of Independence …………….. |
A. | 2nd July 1742 |
B. | 4th July 1749 |
C. | 4th July 1776 |
D. | 4th July 1767 |
Answer» C. 4th July 1776 |
148. |
……………….was the primary author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. |
A. | John Eliot |
B. | Robert Fulton |
C. | Thomas Jefferson |
D. | Robert Owen |
Answer» C. Thomas Jefferson |
149. |
Who referred to his tactics thus: "I have fought sixty battles and I have learned nothing which I did not know at the beginning. Look at Caesar; he fought the first like the last." |
A. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
B. | Charles Telford |
C. | Alexandro Volta |
D. | James I |
Answer» A. Napoleon Bonaparte |
150. |
Napoleon crowned himself Emperor on 2 December ……….. at Notre Dame de Paris |
A. | 1704 |
B. | 1784 |
C. | 1798 |
D. | 1804 |
Answer» D. 1804 |
151. |
Year of the Battle of Trafalgar. |
A. | 1776 |
B. | 1785 |
C. | 1788 |
D. | 1805 |
Answer» D. 1805 |
152. |
"The battle of Austerlitz is the finest of all I have fought." Who said? |
A. | CharlesI |
B. | Henry VII |
C. | Alfred |
D. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
Answer» D. Napoleon Bonaparte |
153. |
Who defeated Prussia at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt ? |
A. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
B. | Robert Fulton |
C. | Michael Faraday |
D. | James II |
Answer» A. Napoleon Bonaparte |
154. |
In the Treaty of Fontainebleau, the victors exiled ……………..to Elba, an island of 12,000 inhabitants in the Mediterranean, 20 km off the Tuscan coast. |
A. | Louis XII |
B. | Charles Telford |
C. | Henry VIII |
D. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
Answer» D. Napoleon Bonaparte |
155. |
Napoleon escaped from Elba on 26 February ………….. |
A. | 1715 |
B. | 1789 |
C. | 1799 |
D. | 1815 |
Answer» D. 1815 |
156. |
Battle of Waterloo ,18 June …………….. |
A. | 1754 |
B. | 1764 |
C. | 1787 |
D. | 1815 |
Answer» D. 1815 |
157. |
Who was imprisoned and then exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, 1,870 km from the west coast of Africa. |
A. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
B. | Alexandro Volta |
C. | Edward VI |
D. | William III |
Answer» A. Napoleon Bonaparte |
158. |
…………..negotiated with Pope Pius VII. Finally, a Concordat was concluded in 1802. |
A. | Matternich |
B. | Elizabeth |
C. | Charles I |
D. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
Answer» D. Napoleon Bonaparte |
159. |
Who said: "My true glory is not to have won 40 battles...Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories. ... But...what will live forever is my Civil Code." |
A. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
B. | Robert Fulton |
C. | Edward VI |
D. | James II |
Answer» A. Napoleon Bonaparte |
160. |
The Continental System or Continental Blockade was the foreign policy of ……………. |
A. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
B. | Charles Telford |
C. | Victoria |
D. | George II |
Answer» A. Napoleon Bonaparte |
161. |
………….., by Orders in Council (1807), prohibited its trade partners from trading with France. |
A. | Britain |
B. | Germany |
C. | Poland |
D. | Malaysia |
Answer» A. Britain |
162. |
The members of the ………..take the famous ‘Tennis Court Oath’ and resolve to remain united until a constitution is established. |
A. | First Estate |
B. | Second Estate |
C. | third Estate |
D. | Fourth Estate |
Answer» C. third Estate |
163. |
The French Revolution of…………, also known as the July Revolution. |
A. | 1730 |
B. | 1768 |
C. | 1807 |
D. | 1830 |
Answer» D. 1830 |
164. |
The Congress of Vienna was headed by ……………….. |
A. | Metternich |
B. | Charles Telford |
C. | Alexandro Volta |
D. | Michael Faraday |
Answer» A. Metternich |
165. |
The term 'Industrial Revolution' was first used by the historian…………, to describe the economic development in England, from 1760 to 1840. |
A. | Arnold Toynbee |
B. | Robert Fulton |
C. | Alexandro Volta |
D. | Adam Smith |
Answer» A. Arnold Toynbee |
166. |
The Industrial Revolution first started in ……………. |
A. | France |
B. | Germany |
C. | Spain |
D. | England |
Answer» D. England |
167. |
Who introduced the continental system? |
A. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
B. | Robert Fulton |
C. | Alexandro Volta |
D. | Michael Faraday |
Answer» A. Napoleon Bonaparte |
168. |
In 1764, ……………..invented a machine called the ’Spinning Jenny.’ |
A. | James Hargreaves |
B. | John MacAdam |
C. | Charles Telford |
D. | John Smeaton |
Answer» A. James Hargreaves |
169. |
In 1769, ……………invented a machine run by waterpower instead of manpower. Hence it came to be called the ’Water-Frame’. |
A. | Richard Arkwright |
B. | John MacAdam |
C. | Robert Fulton |
D. | James Watt |
Answer» A. Richard Arkwright |
170. |
Samuel Crompton removed the defects of the Spinning Jenny and Water Frame, with his machine known as …………….. |
A. | Spinning Mule |
B. | John MacAdam |
C. | John Smeaton |
D. | Charles Telford |
Answer» A. Spinning Mule |
171. |
……………..removed the defects of the Spinning Jenny and Water Frame, with his machine known as ’Spinning Mule’( 1778) . |
A. | Samuel Crompton |
B. | Charles Telford |
C. | James Watt |
D. | Alexandro Volta |
Answer» A. Samuel Crompton |
172. |
In 1733, ………….had invented a device called the ’Flying Shuttle’. |
A. | John Kay |
B. | John MacAdam |
C. | Charles Telford |
D. | John Smeaton |
Answer» A. John Kay |
173. |
In 1785, ……………..invented the Automatic or Power Loom. |
A. | Dr. Edmund Cartwright |
B. | John Smeaton |
C. | Robert Fulton |
D. | James Watt |
Answer» A. Dr. Edmund Cartwright |
174. |
Who invented a machine called the ’Cotton Gin.’? |
A. | Eli Whitney |
B. | John MacAdam |
C. | Charles Telford |
D. | Thomas Newcomen |
Answer» A. Eli Whitney |
175. |
In 1816, …………….invented a machine called Davy’s Safety Lamp.’ |
A. | Sir Humphry Davy |
B. | John Smeaton |
C. | Thomas Newcomen |
D. | James Watt |
Answer» A. Sir Humphry Davy |
176. |
In 1856, ……………discovered a process by which impurities could be removed from iron. This purified refined iron came to be known as ’steel’, which helped in making more accurate tools, implements, weapons and machines. |
A. | Henry Bessemer |
B. | John MacAdam |
C. | Robert Fulton |
D. | Charles Telford |
Answer» A. Henry Bessemer |
177. |
In 1801, ………………invented the first steam locomotive. |
A. | Richard Trevithick |
B. | Charles Telford |
C. | Thomas Newcomen |
D. | James Watt |
Answer» A. Richard Trevithick |
178. |
Who is regarded as ’the father of the railway locomotive’? |
A. | John Smeaton |
B. | George Stephenson |
C. | Charles Telford |
D. | Robert Fulton |
Answer» B. George Stephenson |
179. |
George Stephenson is regarded as ’the father of the railway locomotive’, because he made great improvements on Trevithick’s locomotive in his ………….. in 1814. |
A. | Phone |
B. | ’Rocket’ |
C. | Computer |
D. | Railway |
Answer» B. ’Rocket’ |
180. |
In 1807, …………..invented the steamboat called the ’Clermont’. |
A. | Robert Fulton |
B. | James Watt |
C. | Alexandro Volta |
D. | Robert Bakewell |
Answer» A. Robert Fulton |
181. |
…………..invented the first steam engine in 1705, in order to pump water out of the mines. |
A. | Thomas Newcomen |
B. | Michael Faraday |
C. | Jethro Tull |
D. | Viscount Townsend |
Answer» A. Thomas Newcomen |
182. |
In 1769, ………….invented a better steam engine called the ’Beelzebub.’ |
A. | James Watt |
B. | Alexandro Volta |
C. | Michael Faraday |
D. | Robert Bakewell |
Answer» A. James Watt |
183. |
Who invented a Seed Drill that would distribute the seeds evenly in rows, over a large piece of land? |
A. | Jethro Tull |
B. | Viscount Townsend |
C. | Benjamin Disraeli |
D. | Robert Owen |
Answer» A. Jethro Tull |
184. |
The discovery of a new method of ’Crop Rotation’, was made by………………. |
A. | Viscount Townsend |
B. | Robert Bakewell |
C. | Adam Smith |
D. | Benjamin Disraeli |
Answer» A. Viscount Townsend |
185. |
In……………., Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels issued the ‘Communist Manifesto’ which introduced scientific socialism or Communism. |
A. | 1648 |
B. | 1748 |
C. | 1848 |
D. | 1948 |
Answer» C. 1848 |
186. |
In 1867 Marx and Engels published the first of three volumes, entitled……….., in which they explained the sum and substance of Marxian Socialism or Communism. |
A. | Communist Manifesto’ |
B. | Wealth of Nations |
C. | Das Kapital |
D. | Utopia |
Answer» C. Das Kapital |
187. |
……………means "leave to do, leave to pass" or more accurately "let things alone, let them pass". |
A. | Socialism |
B. | Communism |
C. | Laissez-faire |
D. | Chartism |
Answer» C. Laissez-faire |
188. |
The Chartist Movement had at its core the so-called "People's Charter" of 1838.This document, created for the London Working Men's Association, was primarily the work of ……………………… |
A. | William Lovett |
B. | Rousseau |
C. | Auguste Comte |
D. | Newton |
Answer» A. William Lovett |
189. |
The "People's Charter" of 1838 was a public petition aimed at redressing omissions from the electoral …………………….. |
A. | Representation of the People Act, 1918 |
B. | Representation of the People Act, 1928 |
C. | Reform Act of 1832 |
D. | Reform Act of 1884 |
Answer» C. Reform Act of 1832 |
190. |
Who formed a Consultative Council, known as the ’Witan’ (the Council of the wise men), which was composed of several learned men?. |
A. | James I |
B. | Thomas Jefferson |
C. | Robert Owen |
D. | King Alfred |
Answer» D. King Alfred |
191. |
On June 15, 1215 ……………affixed his seal on the ’Great Charter’, which is referred to as the ’Magna Carta.’ |
A. | Robert Owen |
B. | Charles I |
C. | Oliver Cromwell |
D. | King John |
Answer» D. King John |
192. |
Who is called as the "Father of Parliament"? |
A. | Louis Blanc |
B. | Saint Simon |
C. | Charles Fourier |
D. | Simon-De-Montford |
Answer» D. Simon-De-Montford |
193. |
In 1295, King Edward attempted to curb the nobles and the clergy, by securing the support of the third estate, consisting of the common people. To do so, he summoned the first complete English Parliament including representatives from all sections of society. This meeting came to be referred to as the…………….. |
A. | The Petition of Rights |
B. | Bill of Rights |
C. | Act of Settlement ,1701 |
D. | Model Parliament |
Answer» D. Model Parliament |
194. |
……………was a strong champion of the doctrine of the Divine Right of kings. |
A. | Karl Marx |
B. | Robert Owen |
C. | Abraham Lincoln |
D. | James I |
Answer» D. James I |
195. |
Charles I (1625-49) was forced to call a parliament, which laid certain conditions on him in the famous document known as ………………. |
A. | Bill of Rights |
B. | Act of Settlement ,1701 |
C. | Model Parliament |
D. | The Petition of Rights |
Answer» D. The Petition of Rights |
196. |
Who was called the "Great Protector?" |
A. | George V |
B. | Maria Theresa |
C. | James I |
D. | Oliver Cromwell |
Answer» D. Oliver Cromwell |
197. |
Which was year of The Glorious Revolution of England? |
A. | 1588 |
B. | 1658 |
C. | 1678 |
D. | 1688 |
Answer» D. 1688 |
198. |
Charles II was succeeded by his younger brother, …………in 1685, who ruled as an absolute autocrat. |
A. | James I |
B. | Henry I |
C. | Henry III |
D. | James II |
Answer» D. James II |
199. |
William of Orange was the Protestant ruler of Holland and the son-in-law of …………. |
A. | Charles I |
B. | Charles II |
C. | Charles IV |
D. | James II |
Answer» D. James II |
200. |
As James II would not be able to fight against the Parliament and William of Orange, he escaped to ………………. |
A. | Germany |
B. | Russia |
C. | Italy |
D. | France |
Answer» D. France |
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