Question 1

Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright created the first airplane in..............

Accepted Answer

A)  1903
B)  1905
C)  1908
D)  1923 A

Question 2

In 1836 Cornish cabinet-maker .................formed the London Working Men's Association.

Accepted Answer

A)  william lovett
B)  oliver cromwell
C)  william iii
D)  robert peel A

Question 3

The British economist ................. wrote Principles of Political Economy (1848),

Accepted Answer

A)  adam smith
B)  john stuart mill
C)  turgot
D)  robert owen B

Question 4

........................ created the sewing machine in 1844.

Accepted Answer

A)  elias howe
B)  isaac singer
C)  jean lenoir
D)  thomas

Question 5

............................ wrote a book 'Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867).

Accepted Answer

A)  karl marx
B)  william pitt
C)  robert owen
D)  henry hetherington

Question 6

The Bill of Rights was enacted in.........................

Accepted Answer

A)  1689
B)  1692
C)  1685
D)  1698

Question 7

The death of Queen Anne in ................. led her successor, George I Duke of Hannover to the throne of England.

Accepted Answer

A)  1714
B)  1718
C)  1724
D)  1734

Question 8

...................... invented the internal combustion engine in 1858.

Accepted Answer

A)  jean lenoir
B)  alexander graham bell
C)  thomas edison
D)  robert owen

Question 9

....................... invented the power loom in 1785.

Accepted Answer

A)  edmund cartwright
B)  robert owen
C)  samuel f. b.
D)  elias howe

Question 10

...................... is a policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society.

Accepted Answer

A)  globalisation
B)  laissez-faire
C)  communism
D)  socialism

Question 11

The doctrine of laissez-faire is usually associated with the ...........................known as Physiocrats, who flourished in France from about 1756 to 1778.

Accepted Answer

A)  sociologists
B)  economists
C)  historians
D)  anthropologists

Question 12

After the English Civil War had established a protectorate under......................

Accepted Answer

A)  robert peel
B)  william ii
C)  charles
D)  oliver cromwell

Question 13

........................ patented the cotton gin (short for cotton engine) in 1794.

Accepted Answer

A)  eli whitney
B)  samuel f. b.
C)  elias howe
D)  jean lenoir

Question 14

.......................... is often termed the 'father of British socialism'.

Accepted Answer

A)  robert owen
B)  henry hetherington
C)  john cleave
D)  james watson

Question 15

Methodism was an 18th-century movement founded by ........... that sought to reform the Church of England from within.

Accepted Answer

A)  john wesley
B)  william ewart gladstone
C)  david ricardo
D)  john russell

Question 16

.......................... created the phonograph in 1877.

Accepted Answer

A)  thomas edison
B)  robert owen
C)  henry hetherington
D)  william lovett

Question 17

The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death, on 22 January........................

Accepted Answer

A)  1801
B)  1876
C)  1897
D)  1901

Question 18

Repeal of the Corn Act in ......................

Accepted Answer

A)  1846
B)  1856
C)  1866
D)  1876

Question 19

............................Morse created the telegraph in 1836.

Accepted Answer

A)  alexander graham bell
B)  elias howe
C)  jean lenoir
D)  samuel f. b.

Question 20

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, controller general of finance under King Louis XIV of .........................

Accepted Answer

A)  britain
B)  france
C)  china
D)  usa

Exam 2: Inventors, Economists, and Historical Events That Shaped Society