SOCIAL STUDIES / SOCIAL SCIENCE – WORLD Ans : Battle of Waterloo

HISTORY
13. Around 1000 AD, which of these
1. In which year did Semi-permanent empires was the predominant power of
settlements come up in Africa, Asia and mainland southeast Asia?
Europe in the year? Ans : Khmer
Ans : 10,000 BC
14. The first battle of which war was the
2. Greek civilization was flourished in the Battle of Alma?
year ________ ? Ans : Crimean war
Ans : 800 BC
15. Buckingham Palace became the
3. Rome was founded in the year ___ ? official royal residence during the reign of
Ans : 753 BC which British monarch?
Ans : Queen Victoria
4. In the year ______, Victoria becomes
queen of British empire. 16. In which year Bangladesh was formed
Ans : 1837 AD as Separate Country?
Ans : 1971
5. Suez canal opened in the year ______ .
Ans : 1869 AD 17. The First Triumvirate was established
in 60 B.C. by Julius Caesar, Marcus
Licinius Crassus, and this Roman general
6. Queen Victoria�s Golden Jubliee was
and consul. He was one of Caesar's many
held in the year ______.
enemies and his son-in-law,he became a
Ans : 1887 AD
ruler of Rome. Who was he?
Ans : Pompey
7. The Eiffel Tower is built in ________.
Ans : 1889 AD
18. What was the other name given to the
French and Indian War (1756-1763)?
8. New Zeland becomes first country to
Ans : The Seven Years' War
grant woman to right to vote in the year
_____.
19. During which war in 1870 was the
Ans : 1869
Battle of Sedan fought?
Ans : Franco Prussian war
9. World War I commenced in
Ans : 1914
20. The 1513 Battle of Flodden Field was
the largest battle (in terms of numbers)
10. Who is considered the "Father of the
ever fought between which two countries?
Constitution"?
Ans : England and Scotland
Ans : James Madison
21. This Russian ruler was the first to be
11. Who was first to reach the South
crowned Czar(Tsar) when he defeated the
Pole?
boyars (influential families) in 1547. Who
Ans : Capt. Amundsen
was he?
Ans : Ivan IV (the Terrible)
12. Which was the Napoleon last battle in
which he was captured and exiled to St
22. The dominant civilization in the central
Helena?
valley of Mexico was which of the
following by 1000 AD?
Ans : Toltec

23. The Great Pyramid of Giza was built

for which Egyptian ruler?
Ans : Cheops

24. The first king of modern Greece, Otto

I, was the son of King Ludwig I of which
state?
Ans : Bavaria

25. Name the person who built Fort

Necessity.
Ans : George Washington

26. Bhumibol Adulyadej is the longest-

reigning monarch in which country's
history?
Ans : Thailand