Important Ancient World History MCQs GK Questions and Answers

Ancient World History Questions and Answers: Important 20 Ancient World History GK Questions with Answers on World History which have been specially prepared for various competitive examinations like UPSC-Prelims, IAS-Prelims, SSC, CDS, NDA, State Services and Railways etc.

1. Where did the practice of Shadow Cabinet’ originate?

  • (A) United States of America
  • (B) Great Britain
  • (C) Italy
  • (D) France

2. The Treaty of Versailles humiliated :

  • (A) Austria
  • (B) Germany
  • (C) England
  • (D) France

3. Napoleon-I and the Duke of Wellington fought the famous :

  • (A) Battle of Austerlitz
  • (B) Battle of Leipzig
  • (C) Battle of Borodini
  • (D) Battle of Waterloo

4. Absolute sovereign power of the Monarch was advocated by :

  • (A) Thomas Hobbes
  • (B) Rousseau
  • (C) John Locke
  • (D) Karl Marx

5. “What is the Third Estate?” Pamphlet associated with the French Revolution, was written by :

  • (A) Marquis – Lafayette
  • (B) Edmund Burke
  • (C) Joseph Foulon
  • (D) Abbe Sieyes

6. Which of the following countries is regarded as the home of ‘Fabian Socialism?

  • (A) Russia
  • (B) England
  • (C) France
  • (D) Italy

7. Who has called the Prime Ministerm Primus inter pares (first among equlas)?

  • (A) Morely
  • (B) Harcourt
  • (C) Laski
  • (D) Lowell

8. The slogan of the French Revolution was :

  • (A) One nation, one leader and one flag
  • (B) Government of the people, by the people and for the people
  • (C) Liberty, equality and fraternity
  • (D) None of these

9. The Greek viewed “politics” on the basis of :

  • (A) Both ethical and legalistic terms
  • (B) Ethical terms
  • (C) Terms of power
  • (D) Legalistic terms

10. “The Three Emperors League” 1873 was also known as :

  • (A) Dreikaiserbund Treaty
  • (B) Triple Alliance
  • (C) Reinsurance Treaty
  • (D) The Dual Alliance

11. Who was the American leader who led a non-violent movement to obtain full civil rights for American Negroes?

  • (A) Abraham Lincoln
  • (B) John F. Kennedy
  • (C) Martin Luther King-Junior
  • (D) George Washington

12. Who discovered America?

  • (A) Vasco-da Gama
  • (B) Columbus
  • (C) Captain Cook
  • (D) Amundsen

13. Who was popularly known as Africa’s Gandhi?

  • (A) Mir Karzai
  • (B) Firoz Gandhi
  • (C) Nelson Mandela
  • (D) M.K. Gandhi

14. Who discovered Cape of Good Hope in 1488?

  • (A) Magellan
  • (B) Columbus
  • (C) Bartholomew Oias
  • (D) Vasco da Gama

15. One of the ‘important factors that led to the World War IInd the humiliating provisions in one of the following treaties. Which is that treaty?

  • (A) Treaty of Paris
  • (B) Treaty of Versailles
  • (C) Treaty of Lorraine
  • (D) Treaty of Brussels

16. The first atomic bomb was thrown over :

  • (A) Nagasaki
  • (B) Hiroshima
  • (C) Tokyo
  • (D) Hong Kong

17. Who said that “Man by nature is a political animal?

  • (A) Plato
  • (B) Aristotle
  • (C) Hobbes
  • (D) Rousseau

18. The State is a necessary evil according to :

  • (A) Communists
  • (B) Liberalists
  • (C) Individualists
  • (D) Anarchists

19. Who said “Man is a social animal”?

  • (A) Aristotle
  • (B) Rousseau
  • (C) Laski
  • (D) Plato

20. Like Vedic Aryans, the custom of Sacrificial fire was also followed by :

  • (A) Romans
  • (B) Greeks
  • (C) Iranians
  • (D) All of the above

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