General Awareness Quiz – History
General Awareness Quiz Set 27 for SSC CGL, SSC CHSL and Railways exams. Biology Quiz for SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, Railways etc.
Topic: History
- Who among the following played a prominent role duringthe ‘’REGION OF TERROR’’ in france?
A) Montesquieu
B) Marat
C) Robespierre
D) Voltaire
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Option C.
Explanation: Robespierre. The Reign of Terror (5 September 1793 -28 July 1794) was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of “enemies of the revolution.” Robespierre, a French lawyer and politician, was an important figure during the Reign of Terror, which ended a few months after his arrest and execution in July 1794; Montesquieu: French Political Philosopher for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers, which is implemented in many constitutions ; Marat: French Political theorists and a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes and seen as a radical voice ; Voltaire:French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity, especially the Roman Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and separation of church and state.
- Who said man is a social animal?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Rousseau
D) Laski
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Option A.
Explanation: Aristotle. Aristotle said: “Man is by nature a social animal , an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.” According to him, Society is something that precedes the individual.
- Who was the following was not associated with the unification of Italy?
A) Mazzini
B) Garibaldi
C) Mussolini
D) Mazzine
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Option C.
Explanation: Benito Mussolini is linked to Fascism, was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943.
- During IInd world war which one of the followingcountries was not one of the three Axis powers, which fought against the power?
A) Japan
B) Italy
C) China
D) Germany
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Option C.
Explanation: China. Axis Powers was the coalition headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan that opposed the Allied Powers in World War II. It originated in a series of agreements between Germany and Italy, followed by the proclamation of an “axis” binding Rome and Berlin (October 1936), followed by The German-Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact against the Soviet Union (November 1936).
- The Crimean war came to an end by the
A) Treaty of St.Germain
B) Treaty of Paris
C) Treaty of Versailles
D) Treaty of Trianon
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Option B.
Explanation: The Treaty of Paris of 1856 settled the Crimean War between Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire, Second French Empire, and the Kingdom af Sardinia. The treaty, signed on March 30, 1856 at the Congress of Paris, made the Black Sea neutral territory between the warring states.
The Treaty of St. Germain:was signed by Austria and twenty-seven Allied and associated countries in the Château Neuf in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, southwest of Paris, on 10 September 1919. It officially ended World War I for the successor states of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
Treaty of Versailles: (French: Traité de Versailles) was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
Treaty of Trianon:was the peace agreement of 1920 at France, that formally ended World War I between most of the Allies of World War I and the Kingdom of Hungary, the latter being one of the successor states to Austria-Hungary. The treaty regulated the status of an independent Hungarian state and defined its borders.
- Whi said ‘’Where there is no law, there is no freedom:
A) Locke
B) Marx
C) Leni
D) Bentham
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Option A.
Explanation: John Locke in his Second Treatise of Civil Government, Chapter 6, said that the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. According to him, in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
- Which of the following countries regarded as the home of FABIAN SOCIALISM :
A) Russia
B) England
C) France
D) Italy
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Option B.
Explanation: England.The Fabian Society is a British socialist organization whose purpose is to advance the principles of socialism via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary, means. It is best known for its initial ground-breaking work beginning late in the 19th century and continuing up to World War I.
- ‘’What is the ThirdEstate’’? Pamphlet associated with the french revolution wad wrritten by:
A) Joseph Foulon
B) Abbe Sieyes
C) Edmund Burkey
D) Marquis-Lafayette
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Option B.
Explanation:Abbe Sieyes. What Is the Third Estate? Is a political pamphlet written by French thinker and clergyman Abbe Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes in January 1789, shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution. In the pamphlet, Sieyes argued that the Third Estate- the common people of France – constituted a complete nation.
- The declaration of American Independence was based on the theory of:
A) Moral Rights
B) Legal Rights
C) Natural Rights
D) Civil Rights
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Option C.
Explanation: The declaration contained 3 sections: a general statement of natural rights theory and the purpose of government, a list of grievances against the British King, and the declaration of independence from England. These rights are found in eternal “Laws ofNature and of Nature’s God.”
- The word Impossible is found in the dictionary of fools’’ was the quote from
A) Hitler
B) Alexander
C) Julius Ceaser
D) Napoleon
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Option D.
Explanation: Napoleon Bonaparte
