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The french and British knights in 1288 tried to get this deadly weapon banned by the church.
general knowledge history

  1. The Longbow

  2. The Crosbow

  3. The Spear

  4. Broadswords

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Correct Option: B

During the Attack of Constantinople by the Turkish army and its subsiquent fall the following was used to destroy the great walls of Constantinople?
general knowledge history

  1. Great Bombards

  2. Trebuchets

  3. Seige Towers

  4. British Fireships

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Correct Option: A

Which of the following are seige engines used for demolishing Walls and Towers (before the advent of Gunpowder)
general knowledge history

  1. Ballistae

  2. Battering Rams

  3. Trebuchets

  4. Mangorel

  5. Longbows

  6. Yari Samurai's

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Correct Option: B,C,D

Parathian/Phartian Tactics are a well known defensive tactic which was used even during the Second World war, the tactic is-?
general knowledge history

  1. Skirmist and retreat

  2. All out Assault

  3. Guerilla warfare

  4. Phalanx formations

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Correct Option: A

Getting hoisted on one's own Petard is a phrase attributed to what?
general knowledge history

  1. Getting blown up by your own bomb

  2. Becoming freinds with a sailor

  3. Using the wrong units to attack

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: A

I am a 20th century weapon, ironically I was concieved in the mind of a 14th Century Artist and Inventer--Who am I?
general knowledge history

  1. The Tank

  2. The Bazoka

  3. The Sub Machine Pistol

  4. The Helicopter

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Correct Option: D

The tank was invented in Great Britain during the first world war in 1917 as an AFV desigened to stop trench warfare and was called a tank because?
general knowledge history

  1. It was round like a tank of water hence the name

  2. The first tanks required fuel tanks strapped nearby and from this they got their name

  3. As an act of secrecy to prevent the plans of the invention from falling into german hands

  4. Tanks stands for Technological And New-age Knights of War

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Correct Option: C

The Power of Dreams
general knowledge history

  1. HONDA

  2. VOLKSWAGEN

  3. FIAT

  4. NISSAN

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Correct Option: A

In how many languages face value of indian currency is wrriten?
general knowledge history

  1. 15

  2. 16

  3. 17

  4. 14

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Correct Option: C

The word 'Rupee' is derived from word?
general knowledge history

  1. Gold

  2. Sliver

  3. Copper

  4. Bronze

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Correct Option: B