Topics from January 2021
- What is the history of Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy?
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- What is the history of the Colosseum in Rome Italy?
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- Tourists will be able to dive two miles in a submersible to the wreck of the TITANIC in 2021
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- Borrowed from a similar movement in Ireland, British social reformer Annie Besant set up the Home Rule League in 1916. In which city was it setup?
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- In which year did India come under the direct British rule?
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- A key chapter in Gandhi’s mass civil disobedience movement was the famous Dandi March or salt satyagraha in 1930. Where did it begin?
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- In which year was the Simon Commission – faced with “Simon, Go Back” protests – set up?
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- Just like Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi, the Begum of Awadh, who took control of Lucknow, fought the British during the 1857 rebellion?
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- In 1772, which Indian city became the capital of British India?
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- Which act in 1919 – allowing any person to be arrested – was called the Black Act?
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- In 1919, under whose order was the brutal and unprovoked massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, carried out?
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- On the midnight of August 14-15, 1947 Jawaharlal Nehru addressed the Constituent Assembly in New Delhi with a historic speech. What is it called?
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- What is the history of Jantar Mantar?
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- Who was the first Mughal emperor in India?
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- Which is the warrior ruler conqueror who unified the nomadic tribes of Mongolia and extended his empire across many parts of Asia in the 12th and 13th Centuries?
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- Which is the emperor of the Maurya Empire who renounced armed conquest after the Kalinga war in 3rd Century BC?
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- Which queen ruled Great Britain when India came under the British rule in 1858?
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- Who is the best-known ruler of Babylon (present-day Iraq), he’s most noted for his codes or set of laws, said to be among the oldest in human history?
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- Who hailed the “queen of kings”, the daughter of Ptolemy XII ruled Egypt for over two decades in 1st Century B.C.?
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- Who created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to India?
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- Who is popularly said to have played the fiddle when Rome was burning?
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- What is the name of 14th Century B.S. queen, who, along with her husband Akhenaten, is said to have given ancient Egypt a period of wealth and prosperity?
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- What is the history of Angkor Wat?
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- A Copenhagen icon, the Little Mermaid celebrated her 100th birthday in 2013. Do you know who sculpted her?
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- On the southernmost of tip of India – Kanyakumari, is a 133-ft tall statue of a Tamil poet and philosopher?
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- Many versions of The Thinker, a statue of a pensive human, exists in marble and bronze. Which French artist created this iconic work?
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- On which island off Chile can one find hundreds of centuries-old monolithic and historically significant statues of the Moai?
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- The Bust of Nefertiti is a depiction of the powerful queen from which civilization of North Africa?
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- The iconic Statue of Liberty in the U.S. was a gift from the people of which country?
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- In which country was the tiny Old Stone Age sculpture Venus of Willendorf, discovered in 1908?
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- In which country would you find the 169-ft Buddha Dordenma statue?
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- In which country were the two tall statues of the Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban – located?
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- The Lion Man, a sculpture considered an Ice Age masterpiece and about 40,000 years old, was carved out of which material?
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- What is the history of Kaziranga National Park in Assam?
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