World History GK Quiz Questions and Answers for Competitive Exams

World History Quiz Questions and Answers : General Knowledge MCQs on World History for UPSC-Prelims, IAS-Prelims, SSC, CDS, NDA, State Services and Railways competitive exam and interview. Includes wide range of GK and General Awareness questions on World History which can be helpful for any Competitive Exams.

1. Economic dimensions of justice have been emphasised by :

  • (A) Idealists
  • (B) Capitalists
  • (C) Socialists
  • (D) Fascists

2. What was the original name of Santa Claus?

  • (A) St. Christopher
  • (B) St. Peter
  • (C) St. John
  • (D) St. Nicolas

3. Who said “Liberty consists in obedience to the general will”?

  • (A) Hobbes
  • (B) Rousseau
  • (C) Green
  • (D) Laski

4. Who said: “Where there is no law, there is no freedom”?

  • (A) Bentham
  • (B) Lenin
  • (C) Marx
  • (D) Locke

5. 1911 Revolution of China resulted in :

  • (A) Establishment of a Republic
  • (B) Federalism
  • (C) Democracy
  • (D) Increased problems of people

6. East Timor, in Indonesian, Archipelago, was the former colony of :

  • (A) Dutch
  • (B) English
  • (C) French
  • (D) Portuguese

7. Who was the chairperson of the Chinese Communist Party at the time of liberation of China?

  • (A) Zhou Enlai
  • (B) Deng Xiaoping
  • (C) Mao Zedong
  • (D) Liu Shaoqi

8. Peking is the sacred place of :

  • (A) Taoism
  • (B) Shintoism
  • (C) Confucianism
  • (D) Judaism

9. The chief advocate of Fascism was :

  • (A) Mussolini
  • (B) Adolf Hitler
  • (C) St. Simon
  • (D) Robert Owen

10. Whose teachings inspired the French Revolution?

  • (A) Locke
  • (B) Rousseau
  • (C) Hegel
  • (D) Plato

11. The United Kingdom is a classic example of a/ an :

  • (A) Aristocracy
  • (B) Absolute monarchy
  • (C) Constiutional monarchy
  • (D) Polity

12. With the fall of which among the following the French Revolution began?

  • (A) Bastille
  • (B) Communes
  • (C) Jacobin Club
  • (D) Pilinitz

13. The Opium wars were fought between :

  • (A) Britain and China
  • (B) Britain and India
  • (C) India and China
  • (D) Britain and Japan

14. Who was the first Prime-Minister of Great Britain?

  • (A) Oliver Cromweli
  • (B) Benjamin Disraeli
  • (C) Robert Walpole
  • (D) Gladstone

15. Who is the oldest British monarch to sit on the Throne?

  • (A) Queen Victoria
  • (B) Queen Elizabeth-II
  • (C) Queen Mary Tudor
  • (D) Queen Anne

16. Which country emerged as the biggest colonial power at the end of the nineteenth century?

  • (A) France
  • (B) Spain
  • (C) Britain
  • (D) Germany

17. Potato was introduced to Europe by :

  • (A) Portuguese
  • (B) Germans
  • (C) Spanish
  • (D) Dutch

18. Marxian materialism came from the idea of :

  • (A) Hegel
  • (B) Feuerbach
  • (C) Darwin
  • (D) Engels

19. Who was a founder member of the Russian Populist Movement “Anarchism”?

  • (A) Mikhail Bakunin
  • (B) Gorkhy
  • (C) Leo Tolstoy
  • (D) Turganew

20. Fascism believes in the application of the principle of :

  • (A) Dictatorship
  • (B) Democracy
  • (C) Utilitarianism
  • (D) Totalitarianism

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