Recent posts under tag history

+1 vote

1 answer

Which thoroughfare was closed and blanketed with flowers, trees and grass for 3 days in May 2010?

posted Mar 6, 2020 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

+1 vote

1 answer

Who opened the 1980 Summer Olympic Games?

posted Mar 5, 2020 by Riteshwar

+1 vote

1 answer

Where are the pyramids which include that of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty pharaoh Taharqa, the oldest and the largest?

posted Mar 5, 2020 by Anamika

+1 vote

1 answer

Who was president of the USA when South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union on 20 December 1860?

posted Mar 4, 2020 by Vikram Luthra

+1 vote

1 answer

The Battles of Alamein, Britain and the Bulge took place in which war?

posted Mar 4, 2020 by Prithvi

+1 vote

1 answer

After Mao Zedong, chairman of the Communist Party of China, launched the Cultural Revolution on 16 May 1966.............

posted Mar 4, 2020 by Harshita Dhaliwal

+1 vote

1 answer

After Prime Minister Bishop had been executed by his Deputy, Bernard Coard, US President Reagan, publicly...............

posted Mar 3, 2020 by Ankur Athari

+1 vote

1 answer

For 17 years, until 1815, Switzerland was under the control of what country?

posted Mar 2, 2020 by Ujjwal Mehra

+1 vote

1 answer

What was the bowling technique developed by English cricketer Harold Larwood?

posted Mar 2, 2020 by Pankaj Deshmukh

+1 vote

1 answer

Which was an American baseball player who holds the record for most World Series home runs?

posted Feb 27, 2020 by Saif Khanam

+1 vote

1 answer

In 1525, ex-nun Katharina von Bora married whom, thereby violating a major point of Christian canon law?

posted Feb 27, 2020 by Tapesh Kulkarni

+1 vote

1 answer

What was agreed by the Treaty of Northampton in 1328?

posted Feb 26, 2020 by Kuldeep Apte

+1 vote

1 answer

The Battle of Balaclava was in which war?

posted Feb 26, 2020 by Samardeep Acharya

+1 vote

1 answer

In the middle ages, what infection was called "the king's evil", and, it was rumoured, could be cured by the............

posted Feb 25, 2020 by Simranjeet Singh

+1 vote

1 answer

Constance Heward and Joyce Lankester Brinsley are known for what?

posted Feb 25, 2020 by Nikita Sehgal

+1 vote

1 answer

In 17th century Italian theatre what commedia dell'arte character had two fathers?

posted Feb 25, 2020 by Pushpak Chauhan

+1 vote

1 answer

Where was the Year of the Great Stink (1858) which led to the installation of an efficient underground sewage system?

posted Feb 20, 2020 by Swati Arora

+1 vote

1 answer

What book was published by Florence Nightingale in 1860?

posted Feb 20, 2020 by Mridul

+1 vote

1 answer

The International Pageant of Pulchritude, held from 1926 to 1932, was the forerunner of what modern event?

posted Feb 18, 2020 by Anshika Utadi

+1 vote

1 answer

Why were the Winter Olympic Games at Lillehammer in 1994 held only 2 years after the previous ones, at Albertsville?

posted Feb 18, 2020 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

+1 vote

1 answer

In 1956, British and French forces invaded a country in North Africa due to a dispute over which engineering work?

posted Feb 14, 2020 by Prithvi

+1 vote

1 answer

At the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich, which 16-year-old Soviet gymnast won three gold medals?

posted Feb 14, 2020 by Varun Kumar

+1 vote

1 answer

Where is Howard Hughes's wooden aeroplane the Hughes H-4 Hercules (the "Spruce Goose") stored?

posted Feb 13, 2020 by Rahul Chandel

+2 votes

1 answer

Which harbour, a US naval base, was attacked by Japanese aeroplanes on 7 December 1941?

posted Feb 13, 2020 by Sandeep Otari

+1 vote

1 answer

Which celebrated British couple were first mentioned in a poem by Henry Woodfall which appeared in 1735.............

posted Feb 13, 2020 by Ankur Athari

+1 vote

1 answer

In the 1930s, who was the first to win all 4 tennis Grand Slam titles?

posted Feb 13, 2020 by Upma

+1 vote

1 answer

What nationality was the physician Paracelsus, prominent in the Renaissance revolution in medicine?

posted Feb 12, 2020 by Ujjwal Mehra

+1 vote

1 answer

In 1492, the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria were trying to reach which part of the world?

posted Feb 11, 2020 by Puneet Batra

+1 vote

1 answer

Ernest Lawrence of the University of California, Berkeley, is credited with the development in 1929 of what?

posted Feb 11, 2020 by Madhavi Latha

+1 vote

1 answer

From which country was Fulgencio Batista ousted in 1959?

posted Feb 10, 2020 by Brijesh Talwar

+1 vote

1 answer

Which was an 18th century Scottish philosopher and economist who wrote "Theory of Moral Sentiments" and............

posted Feb 10, 2020 by Saif Khanam

0 votes

1 answer

Which war ended as a result of peace negotiations at Panmunjom, completed on 27 July 1953?

posted Feb 8, 2020 by Kuldeep Apte

+1 vote

1 answer

Who was the British nurse executed on 12 October 1915 for harbouring wounded and refugee soldiers in Brussels?

posted Feb 7, 2020 by Simranjeet Singh

+1 vote

1 answer

Which trophy, damaged by Benjamin Peri Nathan with a sledgehammer in March 1997, was restored................

posted Feb 7, 2020 by Pushpak Chauhan

+1 vote

1 answer

In the late 16th century when the phrase was first recorded in England, what did the phrase "wild goose chase" refer to?

posted Feb 6, 2020 by Mishthy Mukherjee

+1 vote

1 answer

A painting by Sandro Botticelli that depicts a goddess, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman called what?

posted Feb 5, 2020 by Swati Arora

+1 vote

1 answer

Which country was proclaimed an independent republic under the leadership of Bernardo O'Higgins on 12 February 1818?

posted Feb 5, 2020 by Aman

+1 vote

1 answer

Who were the brothers of Helen of Troy?

posted Feb 5, 2020 by Dilbagh

+1 vote

1 answer

In what year did the airship Graf Zeppelin complete the first round-the-world flight in September, and inaugurate.......

posted Feb 4, 2020 by Vishal

+1 vote

1 answer

The World Cup for which sport is an annual international competition initiated in 1978 by Swiss journalist?

posted Feb 3, 2020 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

+1 vote

1 answer

What is the island known until 1956 as Bedloe's Island in the USA used for?

posted Feb 1, 2020 by Anamika

+1 vote

1 answer

Who opened their own business in 1885,by 1890 was recognized as one of France's foremost Art Nouveau jewellery designer?

posted Jan 31, 2020 by Prithvi

+1 vote

1 answer

Which ship was sunk in World War II on 17 June 1940 in the course of evacuating British nationals and troops?

posted Jan 31, 2020 by Varun Kumar

+1 vote

1 answer

Who was "the fourth man" in the Cambridge spy ring, whose name was not publicly known until 1979?

posted Jan 31, 2020 by Harshita Dhaliwal

+1 vote

1 answer

The first official World Cup for which sport, that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate?

posted Jan 29, 2020 by Pardeep Kohli

+1 vote

1 answer

Where was Expo 2010 held from 1 May to 31 October 2010, the most expensive Expo in the history of world's fairs?

posted Jan 29, 2020 by Ujjwal Mehra

+1 vote

1 answer

Which abolitionist was hung in 1859 for his role in the Harper's Ferry Raid and played a major role in the Civil War?

posted Jan 29, 2020 by Sandeep Bedi

+1 vote

1 answer

What Act was passed in 1800 in the United Kingdom, to enable the first national what for the UK?

posted Jan 27, 2020 by Brijesh Talwar

0 votes

0 answers

Which of the following explains how the Incas were different than most of the early civilizations

posted Jan 24, 2020 by anonymous

+1 vote

1 answer

One of the earliest European explorers to reach Australia and New Zealand has which island named after him?

posted Jan 24, 2020 by Kuldeep Apte