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Historical Dates and Firsts

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Historical dates and firsts questions test your memory of significant global milestones in sports, science, technology, and literature. These factual questions appear regularly in SSC, banking, and state PSC general awareness papers. Use these questions to quickly memorize important historical events and their exact years.

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Historical Dates and Firsts Questions

Multiple choice botany taxonomy and systematic botany taxonomy and systematics systematics of living world kingdom plantae plant taxonomy classification of biodiversity

From which year, the current system of International Code of Botanical Nomenclature was adopted?

  1. 1878

  2. 1978

  3. 1968

  4. 1976
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

  • The International code of botanical nomenclature (ICBN) is the organization that is responsible for rules and recommendations which are proposed whenever organisms are named. 
  • There were different codes that were put forward in the years of 1800 and 1900s. 
  • The final revised code for ICBN was revised and accepted in the year 1978. 
Thus, the correct answer is option B. 

Multiple choice business organisation and correspondence meaning and factors of business environment dimensions of business environment business environment and its dimensions business environment

What is the watershed year in the history of e-mail marketing

  1. 1976

  2. 1974

  3. 1972

  4. 1970
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

1976 was a watershed year in the history of e-mail marketing. By 1976 email had really taken off, and commercial packages began to appear. Within a couple of years, 75% of all ARPANET traffic was email.

Multiple choice business organisation and correspondence meaning and factors of business environment dimensions of business environment business environment and its dimensions business environment

The importance of environmental scanning was first recognized by life insurance firms in the late _______.

  1. 1670s

  2. 1770s

  3. 1870s

  4. 1970s
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Environment Scanning is careful monitoring of an organization's internal and external environments for detecting early signs of opportunities and threats that may influence its current and future plans.The importance of environmental scanning was recognized by life insurance firms in the late 1970s.

Multiple choice business studies advent of the europeans to india advent of the europeans cultural and social impact of british from trade to power

In which year was the Suez Canal opened?

  1. 1769

  2. 1801

  3. 1850

  4. 1869
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

D.  1869

Labor disputes and a cholera epidemic slowed construction, and the Suez Canal was not completed until 1869–four years behind schedule. On November 17, 1869, the Suez Canal was opened to navigation. Ferdinand de Lesseps would later attempt, unsuccessfully, to build a canal across the Isthmus of Panama.


Multiple choice civics last phase of struggle for independence poorna swaraj and civil disobedience poorna swaraj and launch of civil disobedience movement quit india movement

When was the First Round Table Conference held?

  1. $1933$
  2. $1931$
  3. $1930$
  4. $1903$
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The first Round Table Conference convened by Labour Government Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald in 1930 in London. While the Congress and most business leaders boycotted it, the Muslim League, the Hindu Mahasabha, the Liberals, and princes attended it. The outcomes of the first Round Table Conference were minimal and the British Government realized that the Indian National Congress needed to be part of deciding the future of constitutional government in India.