1. Where was Pedro Alvares Cabral born?
a) Belmonte
b) Sines
c) Lisbon
d) Venice
2. When did Pedro Alvares Cabral begin his voyage to India?
a) 9 March 1500
b) 17 May 1496
c) 14 July 1521
d) 7 December 1526
3. Who of the following explorers accompanied Pedro Alvares Cabral in his voyage to India?
a) Bartholomeu Dias
b) Christopher Columbus
c) Ferdinand Magellan
d) Vasco da Gama
1. Which geographic region did the Persian Empire originate from?
(a) Anatolia
(b) Mesopotamia
(c) Iran
(d) Greece
2. What event is considered the start of the Greco-Persian Wars?
(a) Battle of Salamis
(b) Ionian Revolt
(c) Battle of Marathon
(d) Athenian Delian League
3. Which famous Athenian leader played a key role in the Battle of Marathon?
(a) Themistocles
(b) Darius I
(c) Miltiades
(d) Xerxes I
1) When was Andrew Johnson first sworn in as President of USA?
a) 20 January 1865
b) 4 March 1865
c) 15 April 1865
d) 4 March 1873
2) When was Andrew Johnson born?
a) 1 March 1825
b) 4 April 1803
c) 18 February 1806
d) 29 December 1808
3) Where was Andrew Johnson born?
a) Greeneville
b) Raleigh
c) Sacramento
d) Georgetown
1. When did Norman Angell get Nobel Prize for Peace?
a) 1933
b) 1937
c) 1935
d) 1938
2. When was Norman Angell born?
a) 9 March 1871
b) 21 April 1876
c) 14 September1878
d) 26 December 1873
3. Where was Norman Angell born?
a) Rochester
b) Holbeach
c) Hampshire
d) Bristol
1. When was George Nathaniel Curzon viceroy of India?
a) 1884-1888
b) 1899-1905
c) 1894-1898
d) 1906-1911
2. When was George Nathaniel Curzon born?
a) 11 January 1859
b) 8 April 1840
c) 2 September 1845
d) 12 December 1862
3. Where was George Nathaniel Curzon born?
a) Aberdeen
b) Elgin
c) Kedleston
d) Salisbury
1. What was the name of the pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that argued for American independence?
(a) The Intolerable Acts
(b) Common Sense
(c) The Declaration of Independence
(d) The Olive Branch Petition
2. The first battles of the American Revolution took place at:
(a) Yorktown and Saratoga
(b) Lexington and Concord
(c) Trenton and Princeton
(d) Valley Forge and Germantown
3. Which important document declared the reasons for the colonists’ desire for independence from Great Britain?
(a) The Articles of Confederation
(b) The Declaration of Independence
(c) The Constitution of the United States
(d) The Mayflower Compact
1. In what year did the French Revolution begin, an event that indirectly led to the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) 1776
(b) 1789
(c) 1802
(d) 1815
2. Who was the last king of France before the French Revolution?
(a) Louis XIV
(b) Louis XV
(c) Louis XVI
(d) Louis XVII
3. Napoleon Bonaparte rose to power through which military success?
(a) Battle of Austerlitz
(b) Battle of Waterloo
(c) Egyptian Campaign
(d) Italian Campaign
1. Ho Chi Minh, the leader of North Vietnam, was known for being:
(a) A French collaborator
(b) A nationalist and communist leader
(c) A US-backed dictator
(d) A religious leader
2. The guerilla fighters fighting alongside North Vietnam were known as the:
(a) Viet Minh (fought for independence from France)
(b) Viet Cong
(c) Khmer Rouge
(d) Pathet Lao
3. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964:
(a) Authorized a full-scale US invasion of North Vietnam
(b) Gave the president broad war powers in Southeast Asia
(c) Ended US involvement in the Vietnam War
(d) Marked the official beginning of the war
1. In what year did the Battle of Hastings take place?
(a) 966
(b) 1066
(c) 1166
(d) 1266
2. Who was the English king who died , sparking the conflict?
(a) Richard the Lionheart
(b) Edward the Confessor
(c) William the Conqueror
(d) Alfred the Great
3. Which Duke of Normandy invaded England and claimed the throne?
(a) Duke Richard I
(b) Duke William
(c) Duke Godfrey
(d) Duke Rollo