1) Which sea is to the north of Turkey?
a) North Sea
b) Black Sea
c) Caspian Sea
d) Dead Sea
2) When did the Turks conquer Constantinople?
a) 1260
b) 1425
c) 1453
d) 1526
3) How was Turkey known in the beginning of the 20th century?
a) Guardian of Europe
b) Leader of Europe
c) Sick man of Europe
d) Playground of Europe
1) When was Percy Bysshe Shelley born?
a) 31 January 1786
b) 4 August 1792
c) 4 May 1794
d) 19 December 1784
2) Where was Percy Bysshe Shelley born?
a) Connaught Place
b) Field Place
c) Ashoka Place
d) Nehru Place
3) Which university expelled Percy Bysshe Shelley?
a) Cambridge
b) Oxford
c) Paris
d) Berlin
Constantine Quiz
(This quiz about Roman Emperor Constantine aka Constantine I and Constantine the Great.)
1) Who was defeated in the battle of Milvian Bridge?
a) Diocletian
b) Justinian
c) Maxentius
d) Constantius
2) By which edict Constantine granted the right of worship to Christians?
a) Edict of Palermo
b) Edict of Milan
c) Edict of Fontainebleau
d) Edict of Florence
3) Who married Constantine’s sister Constantia?
a) Marcus Aurelius
b) Licinius
c) Vespasian
d) Titus
1. When did Gustav Stresemann get Nobel Prize for Peace?
a) 1926
b) 1937
c) 1935
d) 1938
2. When was Gustav Stresemann born?
a) 9 March 1871
b) 10 May 1878
c) 14 September1876
d) 26 December 1873
3. Where was Gustav Stresemann born?
a) Frankfurt
b) Munich
c) Hamburg
d) Berlin
(This quiz is about St. Isabella of France and St. Isabella of Portugal. Both are known as St. Isabel.
St. Isabella of Portugal is also known as St. Elizabeth.)
1) Who of the following was brother of St. Isabella of France?
a) St. Edward
b) St. Louis IX
c) St. Jerome
d) St. Clement
2) Who by a Bull of 26 May, 1254, allowed St. Isabella of France retain some Franciscan fathers as her special confessors?
a) Paul III
b) Innocent IV
c) Julius II
d) Martin V
3) Which convent did St. Isabella of France found?
a) Holy Family Convent
b) St. Joseph’s Convent
c) Monastery of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin
d) Monastery of St. Benedict
1. When did Fiji become a British crown colony?
a) 11 March 1548
b) 14 May 1798
c) 12 September 1836
d) 10 October 1874
2. Who was the first governor of Fiji?
a) Arthur Gordon
b) Christian Fletcher
c) James Cook
d) William Bligh
3. When did Fiji become independent?
a) 7 January 1966
b) 10 October 1970
c) 18 August 1969
d) 24 November 1971
1. When did Karnataka acquire its present name?
a) 1 January 1951
b) 15 June 1971
c) 21 August 1991
d) 1 November 1973
2. Which of the following states is to the north of Karnataka?
a) Maharashtra
b) Kerala
c) Tamil Nadu
d) Orissa
3. Which sea is to the west of Karnataka?
a) Ionian
b) Adriatic
c) Arabian
d) Beaufort
What do these words have in common?
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Assess
1) When was Konstantin Chernenko born?
a) 22 January 1909
b) 19 May 1912
c) 24 September 1911
d) 14 November 1918
2) Where was Konstantin Chernenko born?
a) Bolshaya Tes
b) Nagutskoye
c) Dushanbe
d) Tashkent
3) When did Konstantin Chernenko join the Communist Party?
a) 1921
b) 1925
c) 1931
d) 1945
1) Who surpassed Brian Lara’s record of 11,953 Test runs in Mohali Test October 2008?
a) Virender Sehwag
b) Rahul Dravid
c) Sourav Ganguly
d) Sachin Tendulkar
2) Who is the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in Test cricket?
a) Leonard Hutton
b) Garfield Sobers
c) Andrew Sandham
d) Sachin Tendulkar
3) Who scored 102 runs in India’s first Innings in Mohali Test October 2008?
a) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
b) Rahul Dravid
c) Sourav Ganguly
d) Zaheer Khan