Modern History - MCQs with answers - Part 3
1. Who was the original inventor of roller spinning?a) John Kay
b) Lewis Paul
c) Richard Arkwright
d) Samuel Crompton
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) Lewis Paul
Paul obtained a patent for this on 24 June 1738.
a) Albert Einstein
b) Alexander Graham Bell
c) Benjamin Franklin
d) Thomas Edison
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) Thomas Edison
It provided 110 volts direct current to fifty-nine customers in lower Manhattan in 1882.
a) 1682
b) 1721
c) 1725
d) 1762
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) 1721
Russia was recognized as a world power under Peter the Great.
a) Alexis of Russia
b) Ivan the Terrible
c) Peter the Great
d) Peter III of Russia
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) Peter the Great
Peter the Great founded Saint Petersburg on the Baltic Sea. It is known as Russia's Window to Europe.
a) Catherine the Great
b) Elizabeth of Russia
c) Peter the Great
d) Peter III of Russia
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) Catherine the Great
She defeated the Crimean Khanate.
a) Benedict Anderson
b) Ernest Gallner
c) Eric Hobsbawm
d) Karl Marx
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) Eric Hobsbawm
It refers to the period between the years 1789 and 1914.
a) 1884
b) 1898
c) 1899
d) 1900
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) 1884
German New Guinea was the first part of the German colonial empire.
a) 1898
b) 1899
c) 1900
d) 1901
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) 1900
Samoa was the only German colony in the Pacific basin.
a) 1879
b) 1898
c) 1899
d) 1900
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) 1879
It was fought between the British Empire and the Zulu Empire.
a) 1901
b) 1902
c) 1922
d) 1872
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) 1902
It had this name because British Empire territory was coloured red or pink on many political maps.
