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 founder of the Mongol Empire?
a) Genghis Khan
b) Kublai Khan
c) Timur
d) Ogedei Khan
2. The Opium Wars were fought between China and which European country?
a) France
b) Spain
c) Britain
d) Portugal
3. The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the New World between which two countries?
a) France and Spain
b) Spain and Portugal
c) Britain and Portugal
d) Spain and France
4. Who was the famous Egyptian queen and last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt?
a) Nefertiti
b) Hatshepsut
c) Cleopatra
d) Boudica
5. Which Roman emperor is known for building a wall across Britain?
a) Augustus
b) Nero
c) Hadrian
d) Constantine
6. The Bolshevik Revolution took place in which year?
a) 1916
b) 1917
c) 1918
d) 1919
7. Who was the main author of the American Declaration of Independence?
a) George Washington
b) Alexander Hamilton
c) Thomas Jefferson
d) John Adams
8. The city of Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in which year?
a) 1453
b) 1463
c) 1473
d) 1483
9. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by which U.S. president?
a) Abraham Lincoln
b) Ulysses S. Grant
c) Andrew Johnson
d) Franklin D. Roosevelt
10. Who led the Cuban Revolution in 1959?
a) Che Guevara
b) Fidel Castro
c) Fulgencio Batista
d) Raul Castro
11. The Reign of Terror was a phase of which historical revolution?
a) American Revolution
b) French Revolution
c) Russian Revolution
d) Haitian Revolution
12. The Panama Canal was completed under the presidency of which U.S. president?
a) Theodore Roosevelt
b) Woodrow Wilson
c) Herbert Hoover
d) Calvin Coolidge
13. The Phoenician civilization was famous for what form of early writing?
a) Cuneiform
b) Hieroglyphics
c) Alphabet
d) Pictographs
14. Who was the king of Macedonia and known as one of the greatest conquerors in history?
a) Cyrus the Great
b) Darius the Great
c) Alexander the Great
d) Xerxes
15. The Magna Carta was signed in which year?
a) 1215
b) 1250
c) 1300
d) 1350
16. Who was the first Holy Roman Emperor?
a) Otto the Great
b) Charlemagne
c) Frederick Barbarossa
d) Charles V
17. Which Italian explorer is known for his travels to Asia and writings about them?
a) Christopher Columbus
b) Ferdinand Magellan
c) Marco Polo
d) Amerigo Vespucci
18. Who was the first President of South Africa after the end of apartheid?
a) F. W. de Klerk
b) Nelson Mandela
c) Thabo Mbeki
d) Jacob Zuma
19. The Industrial Revolution began in which country?
a) France
b) Germany
c) United States
d) Britain
20. The assassination of which Archduke led to the start of World War I?
a) Franz Ferdinand
b) Otto von Bismarck
c) Nicholas II
d) Wilhelm II
21. Who was the first emperor of Rome?
a) Julius Caesar
b) Augustus
c) Nero
d) Caligula
22. Who developed the heliocentric model of the solar system?
a) Galileo Galilei
b) Isaac Newton
c) Johannes Kepler
d) Nicolaus Copernicus
23. The Byzantine Empire was centered in which city?
a) Rome
b) Alexandria
c) Constantinople
d) Athens
24. Which battle is considered Napoleon’s final defeat?
a) Leipzig
b) Austerlitz
c) Trafalgar
d) Waterloo
25. Who was the longest-reigning British monarch before Queen Elizabeth II?
a) Queen Victoria
b) King George III
c) Queen Anne
d) King Edward VII
26. The Crimean Peninsula is located on which sea?
a) Mediterranean Sea
b) Baltic Sea
c) Black Sea
d) Caspian Sea
27. Who was the Greek philosopher who taught Alexander the Great?
a) Plato
b) Socrates
c) Aristotle
d) Heraclitus
28. Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
a) Theresa May
b) Angela Merkel
c) Margaret Thatcher
d) Indira Gandhi
29. The Roman city of Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of which volcano?
a) Mount Etna
b) Mount Vesuvius
c) Mount Stromboli
d) Mount Pelee
30. The Spanish Inquisition was established under which monarchs?
a) Ferdinand and Isabella
b) Charles V
c) Philip II
d) Alfonso VIII
31. Which year marked the end of World War II?
a) 1943
b) 1944
c) 1945
d) 1946
32. Who led the Indian independence movement with the strategy of non-violence?
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Bhagat Singh
c) Mahatma Gandhi
d) Subhas Chandra Bose
33. Who wrote “The Communist Manifesto”?
a) Adam Smith
b) John Locke
c) Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
d) Vladimir Lenin
34. Which ancient city was located on the banks of the Tigris River?
a) Babylon
b) Nineveh
c) Thebes
d) Alexandria
35. The “Iron Curtain” was a term coined by which leader?
a) Joseph Stalin
b) Franklin D. Roosevelt
c) Winston Churchill
d) Harry S. Truman
36. Who was the first President of the United States?
a) Benjamin Franklin
b) George Washington
c) Thomas Jefferson
d) John Adams
37. The Colosseum is located in which city?
a) Athens
b) Rome
c) Istanbul
d) Florence
38. Who was the Russian leader during World War II?
a) Leonid Brezhnev
b) Vladimir Lenin
c) Joseph Stalin
d) Nikita Khrushchev
39. The Egyptian pyramids were primarily constructed as tombs for whom?
a) Nobles
b) Pharaohs
c) Priests
d) Merchants
40. Which American civil rights leader gave the “I Have a Dream” speech?
a) Malcolm X
b) Booker T. Washington
c) Frederick Douglass
d) Martin Luther King Jr.