KQA History Quiz set by Manjith and Praveen

1. “Seek Under Porus”
KQA History Quiz 3.0

2. Prelims

3. 1.
 Complete the title of this famous poem by Percy Shelley, apparently
inspired by the inscription at the base of a statue of Rameses II.
The poem describes a collapsed statue in the desert, with nothing
but desolation around.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is _______, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

4.  Ozymandias

5. 2.*
 Story goes that the noble man was being carried away on a litter
(palanquin) when he was finally tracked down by Mark Antony’s
men. He calmly ordered his men to put the litter down, and held his
neck out to be cut by the assailants. His last eloquent words are said
to be “There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier,
but do try to kill me properly." Name.

6.  Marcus Tullius Cicero.

7. 3.
What famous offer was thus declined by Abraham Lincoln, during the
Civil War?
I appreciate most highly Your Majesty's tender of good offices in forwarding to this
Government a stock from which a supply of ____ might be raised on our own soil.
This Government would not hesitate to avail itself of so generous an offer if the
object were one which could be made practically useful in the present condition of the
United States.
Our political jurisdiction, however, does not reach a latitude so low as to favor the
multiplication of the ____, and steam on land, as well as on water, has been our
best and most efficient agent of transportation in internal commerce.
I shall have occasion at no distant day to transmit to Your Majesty some token of
indication of the high sense which this Government entertains of Your Majesty's
friendship.
Meantime, wishing for Your Majesty a long and happy life, and for the generous
and emulous People of Siam, the highest possible prosperity, I commend both to the
blessing of Almighty God.
Your Good Friend, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Washington, February 3, 1862.

8.  War Elephants, offered by the King of Siam to
help Lincoln win the Civil War.

9. 4.
 A national icon, one of his
most famous comments was
“They may crush the flowers, but
they can't stop the Spring.”
 Once, the foremost political
leader in his country, he was
later ousted from all
positions of power, and
ended up as a mechanic in
the forest service. Name this
gentleman.

10.  Alexander Dubcek, leader of Czechoslovakia
during the Prague Spring, famous for his policy
of “Socialism with a human face”.

11. 5.
 “Swastika flag-draped
coffins, beneath Nazi
flags, …… rest on a pier in
New York, May 19th,
1937, awaiting return to
Germany.”
– Life Magazine
 Who were the
unfortunate men ?

12.  Victims of the Hindenburg disaster of 1937.

13. 6.
 In 1903, the Second Congress of the RSLDP party was held in
Brussels. After the authorities interfered, the congress had to be
shifted to London. There was a keen tussle on the issue of who
should be allowed to join the party – some advocating a liberal
membership policy, while others demanding a stricter stance. The
“soft” faction won the vote 28-23 against the “hard” faction.
 Another contest was to decide the composition of the editorial
board of “Iskra”, the party newspaper.
The “hard” faction demanded that the board retain only three
leading members, who were already carrying out the main tasks.
The “soft” faction demanded that the status quo of six members
be maintained. The vote was settled 19-17 in favor of the “hard”
faction.
What description originated from this second vote ?

14.  The winning side in the Iskra board contest came to be
known as the “majority” or the “Bolsheviks” while the
other faction were labeled “Mensheviks” or the
“minority”.
 This was despite the fact that the “hard” faction did not
really have a majority at the congress. The liberal wing
of the Russian Social Democrat Party eventually took
control, leading a frustrated Vladimir Lenin to split the
party with fateful consequences for the world.

15. 7.
 On December 9, 1893, a French anarchist named Auguste
Vaillant made a sensational attempt to avenge the execution of
Ravachol, a fellow anarchist. His attempt injured several people
and he was arrested and sentenced to death. Vaillant defended
his actions during the trial, maintaining that he merely wanted to
wake up the privileged classes.
 How did Vaillant's actions and his words come back into the
lime light some 36 years later ?

16.  Bhagat Singh’s actions in
1929 were inspired by
Vaillant’s bombing of the
French assembly. He also
paraphrased Vaillant’s
statement “It takes a
loud voice to make the
deaf hear” in the
pamphlets thrown inside
the Central Assembly
Hall.

17. 8.
 Id the subject of this museum.

18.  Imelda Marcos, whose extravagant shoe
collection has now been turned into the “Imelda
Marcos Shoe Museum”.

19. 9.
 What is happening ?

20.  US Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr demonstrating “The
Great Seal Bug” (also known as “The Thing”) which the Soviets
had planted in the US embassy in Moscow.
 In 1946, the Soviets had used a group of school students to
present a wooden replica of the “The Great Seal of the United
States”. A listening device hidden inside was discovered in 1952.
Lodge's unveiling of this Great Seal before the Security Council
in 1960 provided proof that the Soviets also spied on the
Americans, and undercut a Soviet resolution before the Security
Council denouncing the United States for its U-2 espionage
missions

21. 10.
 An English poem written by Joanna Baillie in 1849 reads:
 "For thirty years her reign of peace,
The land in blessing did increase;
And she was blessed by every tongue,
By stern and gentle, old and young.
Yea, even the children at their mothers feet
Are taught such homely rhyming to repeat
"In latter days from Brahma came,
To rule our land, a noble Dame,
Kind was her heart, and tright her frame,
And ___ was her honoured name.“
 Name this enlightened monarch who ruled over a kingdom from
1767 to 1795.

22.  Ahilyabai Holkar.

23. 11.*
 Identify this gentleman who became the first president of
a newly independent country in 1960.

24.  Archbishop Makarios (Makarios III) of Cyprus.

25. 12.
 “I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions which
agitated my mind as I first approached and entered the eternal
[C]ity. After a sleepless night, I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins
of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or
Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and
several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could
descend to a cool and minute investigation.”
 What resulted from this moment known to history as
the “Capitoline vision” ?

26.  Edward Gibbon started work on the monumental
work, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire”.

27. 13.**
 At the age of 17, this stunning beauty was pictured, while working in
a metal factory in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her image was later used by
artist J. Howard Miller, making her a symbol for a generation. Claim
to fame ?

28.  “Rosie the Riveter”, the iconic propaganda poster symbolizing
American women during WWII, was based on a photograph of
Geraldine Doyle.

29. 14.
 Some of the disputed accounts of Stalin’s death state that, when
he died, he had some old letters in his desk. One of them was the
last letter written to him by Lenin and another was from Bukharin.
The third one was from 1950, written by one of his former allies.
It went like:
 “Stop sending assassins to murder me. We have already caught five, one with
a bomb, another with a rifle…If this doesn’t stop, I will send one man to
Moscow and there will be no need to send another.”
 Who was the alleged author ?

30.  Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia.

31. 15.
 This castle, located near Vienna, has a
name that means “bright stone” and is
responsible for the naming of a
European country. The family that
owned the castle desired a seat in the
“Reichstag”. But without any territory
held directly under the Imperial throne,
the dynasty was unable to meet a
primary requirement to qualify for a
seat in the Imperial parliament. They
purchased the lordship of Schellenberg
and the county of Vaduz which had no
feudal lords other than the Emperor.
The territory was soon declared a
sovereign state of the Holy Roman
Empire. the Princes of ___ did not set
foot in their new principality for over
120 years after their purchase. Name.

32.  Liechtenstein, which literally means “bright stone”.

33. 16.*
 The painting “A Very Gallant Gentleman” by
John Charles Dollman. Who is the subject ?

34.  Lawrence Oates, who chose to sacrifice himself to save R F
Scott’s expedition.
 Oates, worried that his ill health was compromising his
companions’ safety, walked out of his tent in the midst of a
blizzard with the words "I am just going outside and may be
some time".

35. 17.
 This enormous boulder, nicknamed the “Thunder Stone”, is often claimed to be
“largest stone ever moved by man”. In 1770, it was used to build the pedestal for
a famous statue. The stone was moved from its source to its destination over a
period of two years. Legend has it that while this statue stands in the middle of
the city, enemy forces can never take the city. True to the belief, the city did not
fall despite a 900 days long bloody siege during WWII. The statue derives its
more popular name from an 1833 poem, considered to be a literary landmark.
 Name the statue and the city.

36.  “The Bronze Horseman”, a statue of Peter the Great, in St.
Petersburg. This popular name was derived from an Alexander
Pushkin poem about the statue.

37. 18.
 The first modern one of its kind was the “Degania”, established
by sociologist Arthur Ruppin in 1920. What community
enterprise that literally means “gathering” or “clustering” ?

38.  Kibbutz, an agriculture based community settlement of
Jews.

39. 19.*
 A 1795 painting of the remains of a fort which was established in
the 1350s to house a walled city. The structure’s name, derived
from the successor of Muhammad bin Tughlaq, is famous for other
reasons. What name ?

40.  Feroze Shah Kotla.
 The fortress (“Kotla”), named after Feroze Shah
Tughlug, Sultan of Delhi, lent its name to the
Cricket stadium.

41. 20.**
 A high ranking bureaucrat
under the Ming Emperor, he
was a paragon of honesty
and integrity in government
service. In 1565, he
submitted a memorial,
impeaching the Emperor
himself and was promptly
imprisoned.
 Why would we be still
remembering this story?

42.  The official was Hairui.
 A theatre play titled “Hai Rui Dismissed from office” was
interpreted by “Gang of Four” member Yao Wenyuan to be an
allegory of Mao’s dismissal of Peng Dehuai, the Defense
minister. Thus began the “Cultural Revolution” aimed at
cleansing the society of bourgeoisie elements.

43. 21.
 Hazrat Mian Mir, a Sufi saint laid the first foundation stone of
this structure. Legend has it that a mason adjusted the position
of the stone. The man responsible for the construction of this
structure was very upset when he came to know of this. He
worried that as the mason had undone the work just completed
by the holy man, a disaster might come to the structure.
 This legend is often cited as an explanation for the many attacks
that have been launched on this structure. Name.

44.  The Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) at
Amritsar.

45. 22.
 After the Battle of Thermopylae, Xerxes, the Persian
Emperor, interrogated some Arcadian prisoners. He was
curious about the Spartans sending only 300 men to stop
the Persian army. When the prisoners cited _____ as the
reason for the absence of most of the Spartans, he asked
the prisoners if the Spartans received any reward for their
efforts in _____. The prisoners described the reward and
a very shocked Persian general exclaimed:
 Ye Gods, Mardonius, what men have you brought us to fight
against? Men that fight not for gold, but for glory."
 Fill up.

46.  Olympic Games.
 The prisoners explained that the winner of the
games would get “an Olive wreath” as the prize.

47. 23 which existed from 1100 to
 This archeological site was a great city
1450 AD. The name of the place is derived from a phrase in Shona
language meaning "large houses of stone". This site is a source of great
pride for the modern day state where this site is situated and takes its
name from it.

48.  Zimbabwe

49. 24
 South Court is a sea facing palatial bungalow located on Mount
Pleasant Road in South Mumbai. It was designed by architect
Claude Batley and constructed in 1936 using exquisite Italian
marble and walnut woodwork. This historic building has been a
subject of dispute between two countries and recently the owner's
daughter has been involved in a litigation claiming that Hindu Law
is applicable to it's owner as he was a Khoja Shia. ID the building.

50. This building is more famously known as Jinnah
House

51. 25.**
 They were SS paramilitary death squads that were responsible for
mass killings. Their modus operandi was typically shooting. They
were responsible for exterminating Jews in particular, but they
have murdered significant numbers of other population groups
and political categories as well. They were meant to hand out
only one sentence to prisoners and that was execution. Their
name can be literally translated from German as "One Sentence
Group”.
 ID.

52.  Einsatzgruppen -means one sentence group.

53. 26.
 After being expelled from his country Singhapur (present day
Singur), Prince Vijaya went with his daredevil comrades to this
country via crude wooden ships from Gadiara or Buttor Port of
Howrah. Vijaya is the first recorded King of this country and the
history of the native population started with his arrival. This
story is generally accepted by historians, however the most
striking evidence to this fact is that the people of this country
speak a language phonetically much similar to modern Bengali.
Which country?

54.  Vijaya was the first King of Sri Lanka

55. 27.*
 This pic was taken when Dr D.D.
David was attending a conference on
alternative medicine. He was an
expert in the field of alternative
medicine, bio energy, and
macrobiotic diet and also offered his
assistance in the treatment of sexual
problems and disorders by using
what he called Human Quantum
Energy. He had his own website and
used to sell metallic bullet-shaped
amulets there.
 How do we better know this man ?

56.  Radovan Karadzic, the
Bosnian Serb leader and
war criminal who was
captured in 2008.

57. 28.
 This French painter was born in
Louvre while his parents where
staying there during the French
Revolution. He specialized in battles,
portraits, and Oriental Arab
subjects. He was known for
representing war in a realistic way.
He accompanied the French Army
during the Crimean War, producing
several paintings.
 English speaking people however
remember his name for a totally
different reason, from something
which was first published in 1893.
 Name ?

58. Horace Vernet.
In Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure
of the Greek Interpreter”, Holmes claims to be related to Vernet,
stating, "My ancestors were country squires... my grandmother... was the
sister of Vernet, the French artist."

59. 29.
 Identify the two kids from this 1962 movie whose title
translated to “The two who stole the moon”.

60.  The Kaczyński twins. Lech and Jaroslav Kaczynski had acted in
this polish film.

61. 30.
 What does the purple line indicate?

62.  “String of pearls” , the Chinese strategy of
setting up naval bases around India.