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1) When did John Cabot visit Cape Breton Island?

(A) 1497
(B) 1500
(C) 1524
(D) 1350
Correct Answer - Option (A)

Explanation:
On June 24, 1497, 50 days into the voyage, Cabot landed on the east coast of North America. The precise location of Cabot's landing is subject to controversy. Some historians believe that Cabot landed at Cape Breton Island or mainland Nova Scotia.

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4) What was the reason for the breakup of the Carolingan Empire?

(A) Charlemagne's descendants were politically weak and disunited
(B) Vikings began raiding northern France
(C) Charlemagne's grandsons divided the empire into three parts
(D) All the above
Correct Answer - Option (D)

Explanation:
The breakup of the Carolingian Empire was accompanied by invasions, migrations, and raids by external foes. The Atlantic and northern shores were harassed by the Vikings who raided the British Isles and settled there as well as in Iceland.

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5) Pearl Harbour, an American Naval and Airforce base was attacked by

(A) Germany
(B) Japan
(C) France
(D) England
Correct Answer - Option (B)

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6) Who was popularly known as Africa's Gandhi?

(A) Mir Karzai
(B) Firoz Gandhi
(C) Nelson Mandela
(D) M.K.Gandhi
Correct Answer - Option (C)

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7) Who made tripartite periodisation standard?

(A) Andreas Cellarius
(B) Christoph Cellarius
(C) Flavio Biondo
(D) Genseric
Correct Answer - Option (B)

Explanation:
The alternative term medieval derives from medium aevum, tripartite periodisation became standard after the German 17th-century historian Christoph Cellarius. This threefold periodization was first employed by George Hornius, a Dutch historian in his Arca Noae (1666), and became widely known later through Christophorus Cellarius, a German historian, in his Historia nova, hoc est XVI et XVII saeculorum (1696).

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8) Democracy is a "government in which everyone has a share" was the opinion of

(A) Jeovans
(B) Seeley
(C) Plato
(D) Abraham Lincoln
Correct Answer - Option (D)

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10) Who advanced Russia's boundary to the Black Sea?

(A) Catherine the Great
(B) Elizabeth of Russia
(C) Peter the Great
(D) Peter III of Russia
Correct Answer - Option (A)

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