World History: General Knowledge Questions and Answers

In the map, Italy is ______ shaped:
(a) Chicken
(b) Fish
(c) Shoestring
(d) Boot
Answer: (d)

Which of the following movements started in Italy?
(a) Reformation
(b) Renaissance
(c) Industrial Revolution
(d) Acupuncture
Answer: (b)

Which city is called the “Queen of the Adriatic”?
(a) Florence
(b) Naples
(c) Venice
(d) Rome
Answer: (c)

Italy is known as the “Land of ______.”
(a) Maple
(b) Marble
(c) Eagle
(d) Rabbits
Answer: (b)

Which city is called the “City of Water”?
(a) Rome
(b) Naples
(c) Florence
(d) Venice
Answer: (d)

“Creation of Adam” is a painting by:
(a) Raphael
(b) Leonardo da Vinci
(c) Michelangelo
(d) Van Gogh
Answer: (c)

Which city is called the “Empress of the Ancient World”?
(a) London
(b) Venice
(c) Rome
(d) Naples
Answer: (c)

Rome is called the:
(a) Empire City
(b) City of Seven Hills
(c) Eye of Greece
(d) All of these
Answer: (b)

Who among the following is a famous Italian painter?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci
(b) Michelangelo
(c) Raphael
(d) All of these
Answer: (d)

Which ideology originated in Italy?
(a) Nascism
(b) Communism
(c) Nihilism
(d) Fascism
Answer: (d)

Who advocated Fascism?
(a) Benito Mussolini
(b) Adolf Hitler
(c) Joseph Stalin
(d) Karl Marx
Answer: (a)

Benito Mussolini was killed by enemies in:
(a) 1943
(b) 1944
(c) 1945
(d) 1946
Answer: (c)

Who among the following was a famous Italian navigator?
(a) Magellan
(b) Amerigo Vespucci
(c) Captain Cook
(d) Vasco da Gama
Answer: (b)

Which city is called the “Eternal City”?
(a) Florence
(b) Naples
(c) Rome
(d) Venice
Answer: (c)

In which country was Columbus born?
(a) Spain
(b) Portugal
(c) Italy
(d) France
Answer: (c)

Who is the propounder of the Kindergarten system?
(a) Friedrich Froebel
(b) Benito Mussolini
(c) Bertha von Suttner
(d) Maria Montessori
Answer: (d)

Who was born in Pisa, Italy?
(a) Archimedes
(b) Kepler
(c) Galileo
(d) Copernicus
Answer: (c)

Which island is a part of Italy?
(a) Rubén
(b) Sicily
(c) Corsica
(d) St. Helena
Answer: (b)

Which is an Italian car company?
(a) Fiat
(b) Ford
(c) Volkswagen
(d) Honda
Answer: (a)

Which is the only volcano on the European mainland?
(a) Mount Etna
(b) Vesuvius
(c) Cotopaxi
(d) Mauna Loa
Answer: (b)

Mount Stromboli is situated in which sea?
(a) Black Sea
(b) Aegean Sea
(c) Mediterranean Sea
(d) Red Sea
Answer: (c)

The Colosseum, an elliptical amphitheatre, is located in:
(a) Venice
(b) Rome
(c) Genoa
(d) Florence
Answer: (b)

Who unified Italy?
(a) Benito Mussolini
(b) Friedrich Froebel
(c) Giuseppe Garibaldi
(d) Maria Montessori
Answer: (c)

The construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa began in the ______ century:
(a) 11th
(b) 12th
(c) 13th
(d) 14th
Answer: (b)

The Italian statesman who wrote “The Prince” in 1513:
(a) Machiavelli
(b) Galileo
(c) Montessori
(d) Mussolini
Answer: (a)