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NTSE SAT History - Sports and Clothing Important Questions with Answer

SAT History - Sports and Clothing

Exam Duration: 45 Mins Total Questions : 30

1 )

Cricket matches are organised:

(a)
News of cricket hits newspaper headlines
(b)
Cricketers are seen as ambassadors
(c)
Game represents the unity of India
(d)
To establish friendship between nations

2 )

Game of cricket was invented in:

(a)
England
(b)
India
(c)
Australia
(d)
Pakistan

3 )

Cricket was said to represent:

(a)
English values of fair play and discipline
(b)
English racial superiority
(c)
English sense of enterprise
(d)
English sportsmen spirit

4 )

Cricket in 19^th century India was linked to:

(a)
politics of colonialism
(b)
politics of nationalism
(c)
Civilising mission of the British
(d)
colonialism and nationalism

5 )

Cricket grew out of:

(a)
hockey
(b)
volleyball
(c)
stick and ball games
(d)
baseball

6 )

First written laws of cricket were in:

(a)
1474
(b)
1447
(c)
1774
(d)
1744

7 )

Where and when was the world's first cricket club formed?

(a)
Hambledon 1760s
(b)
Marylebone 1760s
(c)
London 1670s
(d)
Melbourne 1760s

8 )

Cricket is a:

(a)
post industrial sport
(b)
19th century sport
(c)
pre industrial sport
(d)
20^th century sport

9 )

Rural origins of cricket are not visible in:

(a)
bat and stumps
(b)
ball and bats
(c)
field size
(d)
protective equipment

10 )

Post industrial influence in cricket:

(a)
pads
(b)
bat
(c)
ball
(d)
stumps

11 )

Who were 'Amateurs'?

(a)
Those who did not know how to play the game well
(b)
Those proficient at the game
(c)
The rich who played for pleasure
(d)
Those who played for the money

12 )

Professionals were described as:

(a)
Gentlemen
(b)
batsmen
(c)
Players
(d)
spinners

13 )

Amateurs were generally:

(a)
Bowlers
(b)
Aristocrats
(c)
Fast bowlers
(d)
Miners

14 )

State the period when people of France were expected to strictly follow the 'Sumptuary Laws'?

(a)
1294 to 1798
(b)
1300 to 1799
(c)
1308 to 1800
(d)
1350 to 1809

15 )

Simplicity of clothing was the symbol of which of the following in France?

(a)
Liberty
(b)
Fraternity
(c)
Equality
(d)
None of these

16 )

England passed a law which compelled all persons over 6 years of age, except those of high position, to wear woollen caps made in England on Sundays and all holy days. What does this mean?

(a)
All sumptuary laws were meant to emphasize social hierarchy
(b)
Some sumptuary laws were passed to protect home production against imports
(c)
Some sumptuary laws were made to promote the religion
(d)
None of the above

17 )

In Victorian England why were women from childhood tightly laced up arid dressed in stays, because:

(a)
they were dutiful and docile
(b)
these clothes helped in creating the expected image of girls
(c)
women were trained to bear and suffer
(d)
women looked graceful in these dresses

18 )

When did women in England start agitating for democratic rights?

(a)
1820s
(b)
1830s
(c)
1840s
(d)
1850s

19 )

Who said the following;'It is evident physiologically that air is the pabulum of life, and that the effect of a tight cord round the neck and of tight lacing differ only in degrees ... for the strangulations are both fatal. To wear tight stays in many cases is to wither, to waste, to die

(a)
The Registrar General in the Ninth Annual Report of 1857
(b)
Martha Somerville
(c)
John Keats
(d)
Thackeray

20 )

On what grounds were the traditional feminine clothes criticised in the USA?

(a)
Long skirts swept the grounds collecting filth and causing, illness
(b)
The skirts were voluminous and difficult to handle
(c)
They hampered movement and prevented women from working and earning
(d)
All the above

21 )

Which of the following associations in the USA campaigned for dress reform in the 1870s?

(a)
National Woman Suffrage Association
(b)
American Woman Suffrage Association
(c)
Global Woman Suffrage Association
(d)
Both (a) and (b)

22 )

Who was the first American dress reformer to launch loose tunics?

(a)
Mrs. Amelia Bloomer
(b)
Martha Somerville
(c)
Queen Victoria
(d)
None of the above

23 )

When and where was 'Rational Dress Society' started?

(a)
1880, USA
(b)
1881, England
(c)
1882, France
(d)
1883, Russia

24 )

The first professional to lead the English team:

(a)
Vijay Hazare
(b)
Thomas Hughes
(c)
Len Hutton
(d)
Garry Sobersntse 2001

25 )

The first among Indian communities to set up a cricket club:

(a)
Parsis
(b)
Hindus
(c)
Muslims
(d)
Christians

26 )

Spread of the game cricket was confined to:

(a)
British colonies
(b)
Australia and New Zealand
(c)
Africa and West Indies
(d)
Third World

27 )

Elites of colonies viewed playing cricket as symbolising:

(a)
progress
(b)
equality
(c)
superior, social and racial status
(d)
English values

28 )

Radical changes in women's clothing came about due to the:

(a)
Russian Revolution
(b)
World War I
(c)
World War II
(d)
Both and (c)

29 )

Which of the statements given below is correct?

(a)
After 1600, trade with India brought cheap and beautiful 'chintz' within the reach of many Europeans
(b)
During the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, cotton clothes became more accessible to people in Europ
(c)
By the late 1870s, heavy, restrictive underclothes were gradually discarded
(d)
All the above

30 )

Which of the following events had an impact on the dressing style of women?