World History Questions Answers

• 8. Which was not an Roman Philosopher ?

  1. Cicero
  2. Seneca
  3. Lucretius
  4. Octavian

  Answer And Explanation

  Answer: Option D

  Explanation:

  "Octavian" is considered as most powerful man in the Roman Empire.

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• 9. Who was among the famous Roman poets ?

  1. Tacitus
  2. Plinky
  3. Virgil
  4. Marcus

  Answer And Explanation

  Answer: Option C

  Explanation:

  Virgil and Horace were the famous Roman poets.
  
  Tacitus and Plinky were the famous Roman historians.
  
  Marcus was a Roman Philosopher.

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• 10. Marco Polo, Venetian traveller, travelled from Venice to China and Japan in :

  1. 1285 - 90
  2. 1288 - 93
  3. 1290 - 96
  4. 1295 - 1301

  Answer And Explanation

  Answer: Option B

  Explanation:

  Marco Polo was the first European to visit China.

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• 11. In which year Bartholomew Diaz reached Cape of Good Hope ?

  1. 1480
  2. 1487
  3. 1495
  4. 1500

  Answer And Explanation

  Answer: Option B

  Explanation:

  Bartholomew Diaz reached the point in 1487, which the Portuguese named Cape of Good Hope (the southern most point of Africa).

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• 12. Vasco da Gama reached in India in he year ?

  1. 1495
  2. 1496
  3. 1497
  4. 1498

  Answer And Explanation

  Answer: Option D

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• 13. Who was the first to sail round the world ?

  1. Francis Drake
  2. Columbus
  3. Magellan
  4. Vasco da Gama

  Answer And Explanation

  Answer: Option C

  Explanation:

  Magellan was a Portuguese sailor who was the first to sail round the world.

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• 14. America was discovered in ?

  1. 1491
  2. 1492
  3. 1493
  4. 1494

  Answer And Explanation

  Answer: Option B

  Explanation:

  America was discovered in 1492 by an Italian Christopher Columbus.

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