World History - General Knowledge Questions

A)
Polybius
B)
Cicero
C)
Livy
D)
Sallust

Correct Answer :   Livy

Titus Livius Patavinus was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people.

A)
John Andrew Boyle
B)
Clifford Edmund Bosworth
C)
Gustaf John Ramstedt
D)
Annemarie Schimmel

Correct Answer :   John Andrew Boyle

Ata-Malek Juvayni wrote an account of the Mongol Empire entitled Tarikh-i Jahan-gusha. “The History of the World-Conquerer” was the English translation republished in 1997.

A)
Aristotle
B)
Herodotus
C)
Thucydides
D)
Hippocrates

Correct Answer :   Herodotus

A)
France
B)
Germany
C)
America
D)
England

Correct Answer :   England

A)
1935
B)
1936
C)
1937
D)
1938

Correct Answer :   1935

A)
Olympic Games
B)
French Revolution
C)
French Revolution
D)
Industrial Revolution

Correct Answer :   French Revolution

A)
American War of Independence
B)
Indian Freedom Straggle
C)
French Revolution
D)
Russian Revolution

Correct Answer :   American War of Independence

A)
Akbar
B)
Tippu Sultan
C)
Raja Raja Cholan
D)
Ashoka

Correct Answer :   Ashoka

A)
St. Thomas
B)
Julius Caesar
C)
King Nebuchadnezzar
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   King Nebuchadnezzar

A)
1237 to 1336
B)
1337 to 1453
C)
1456 to 1535
D)
1780 to 1879

Correct Answer :   1337 to 1453

The name the Hundred Years’ War has been used by historians since the beginning of the nineteenth century to describe the long conflict that pitted the kings and kingdoms of France and England against each other from 1337 to 1453.