World History General Knowledge Quiz with MCQ
World History General Knowledge quiz with MCQs for APSC, SSC, UPSC, and other competitive exams. This quiz features key questions on important events and figures in world history.
1. Who was the British Prime Minister at the start of World War II?
a) Winston Churchill
b) Neville Chamberlain
c) Anthony Eden
d) Harold Macmillan
2. Which country was previously known as Persia?
a) Iraq
b) Egypt
c) Iran
d) Syria
3. Who was the first emperor of China?
a) Wu Zetian
b) Kangxi
c) Qin Shi Huang
d) Liu Bang
4. Which treaty ended World War I?
a) Treaty of Tordesillas
b) Treaty of Versailles
c) Treaty of Paris
d) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
5. Who discovered America in 1492?
a) Amerigo Vespucci
b) Vasco da Gama
c) Christopher Columbus
d) Ferdinand Magellan
6. The Battle of Hastings in 1066 was fought in which country?
a) France
b) England
c) Spain
d) Germany
7. Who is known as the “Father of the Indian Nation”?
a) Subhas Chandra Bose
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Mahatma Gandhi
d) Sardar Patel
8. Who was the King of England during the American Revolution?
a) Henry VIII
b) James II
c) George III
d) Edward I
9. The Roman Empire split into two in which year?
a) 330 AD
b) 395 AD
c) 476 AD
d) 410 AD
10. The Berlin Wall fell in which year?
a) 1985
b) 1987
c) 1989
d) 1991
11. The Declaration of Independence was signed in which American city?
a) Boston
b) New York
c) Philadelphia
d) Washington D.C.
12. Who was the first ruler of the Mughal Empire in India?
a) Akbar
b) Babur
c) Aurangzeb
d) Humayun
13. The Taiping Rebellion occurred in which country?
a) Japan
b) India
c) China
d) Korea
14. Who was the famous Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps to attack Rome?
a) Hannibal
b) Scipio Africanus
c) Julius Caesar
d) Pompey
15. Which king was executed during the English Civil War?
a) James I
b) Charles I
c) Richard III
d) Henry V
16. Which country was the first to grant women the right to vote?
a) USA
b) UK
c) New Zealand
d) Canada
17. Who was known as the “Sun King”?
a) Louis XIV
b) Charles V
c) Henry IV
d) Philip II
18. The Boxer Rebellion was an anti-foreign, anti-colonial uprising in which country?
a) Japan
b) Vietnam
c) China
d) Korea
19. The Suez Canal connects which two bodies of water?
a) Atlantic and Mediterranean
b) Red Sea and Mediterranean
c) Black Sea and Mediterranean
d) Red Sea and Persian Gulf
20. The Russian Revolution of 1917 led to the rise of which political ideology?
a) Communism
b) Fascism
c) Capitalism
d) Socialism
21. Who is credited with inventing the printing press?
a) Thomas Edison
b) Johannes Gutenberg
c) Alexander Graham Bell
d) Nikola Tesla
22. In what year did the Titanic sink?
a) 1911
b) 1912
c) 1913
d) 1914
23. Which dynasty built the Great Wall of China?
a) Ming
b) Qing
c) Han
d) Tang
24. Who wrote “The Wealth of Nations”?
a) Karl Marx
b) John Locke
c) Adam Smith
d) Thomas Hobbes
25. Which Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb was discovered in 1922?
a) Ramses II
b) Akhenaten
c) Tutankhamun
d) Cleopatra
26. The Hundred Years’ War was fought between which two countries?
a) England and Scotland
b) France and Spain
c) England and France
d) France and Germany
27. Who was the leader of Germany during World War I?
a) Adolf Hitler
b) Kaiser Wilhelm II
c) Otto von Bismarck
d) Franz Ferdinand
28. The Crimean War took place in which century?
a) 17th
b) 18th
c) 19th
d) 20th
29. The Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II is known as what?
a) Operation Torch
b) Operation Overlord
c) Operation Neptune
d) Operation Husky
30. Who was the last emperor of Russia?
a) Nicholas I
b) Peter the Great
c) Alexander III
d) Nicholas II
31. The Mayan civilization was primarily located in which region?
a) South America
b) North America
c) Central America
d) Middle East
32. Who discovered penicillin?
a) Alexander Fleming
b) Louis Pasteur
c) Marie Curie
d) Gregor Mendel
33. The Cold War was primarily a conflict between which two superpowers?
a) USA and China
b) USA and USSR
c) USA and UK
d) USA and Germany
34. Which Italian city-state was the birthplace of the Renaissance?
a) Rome
b) Florence
c) Venice
d) Naples
35. Who was the German philosopher who developed the theory of communism with Karl Marx?
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Friedrich Engels
c) Immanuel Kant
d) Max Weber
36. What year did World War I begin?
a) 1912
b) 1914
c) 1916
d) 1918
37. The Kingdom of Prussia was located in which modern-day country?
a) France
b) Poland
c) Germany
d) Austria
38. Who led the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
a) Joseph Stalin
b) Nikita Khrushchev
c) Mikhail Gorbachev
d) Vladimir Putin
39. Who was the last queen of France before the French Revolution?
a) Marie Antoinette
b) Catherine de’ Medici
c) Eleanor of Aquitaine
d) Anne of Austria
40. Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
a) Leonardo da Vinci
b) Raphael
c) Donatello
d) Michelangelo