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QUIZ -- CRUEL ARE THE WAYS OF MAN
By : M.R.Sethi

QUESTIONS

1. During the reign of which Chinese tyrant, officials said their last goodbye to their families if they were required at a morning audience and exchanged congratulations with fellow officials if they survived until the evening?

2. Which Dynasty of China buried alive many scholars in its bid to suppress the learning of Confucianism?

3. Barely five months before the nuclear attack on Hiroshima, more people were killed in one-night firebomb attack on another Japanese city than in the nuclear attack. Which city?

4. A French judge ordered the death of 6,000 citizens of Lyons. Reason? Once when he was an actor, the audience had booed his performance on the stage. Who was he?

5. The total loss of lives during World War II was about 6 times more than in the First World War. How many people died during the two World Wars?

6. In the "civilised West" more people were killed legally or illegally during the later half of the last century than in the rest of the world. What was the rate of killing?

7. The `highly civilised' USA tops in the number of murders, rape and robberies. What is the annual figure of these crimes?

8. When he became the President in 1801, twenty per cent of the people of USA were slaves. Can you name the president?

9. At least twice as many Americans were killed at the "homefront" in crimes with firearms alone in the Vietnam-War-decade of 1963-73 than were killed in the South-east Asia. What are the figures of both these `fronts'?

10. The discovery of the New World by Columbus led to an unprecedented orgy of massacre. How many people were killed?

Answers


1. Hung Wu (1368-98), an emperor of the Ming dynasty. He has been called the harshest and most unreasonable tyrant in the Chinese history .

2. The Ch'in Dynasty (221-207 BC).

3. Tokyo. In march, 1945, The US B-29 force bombarded Tokyo thorough out the night killing 1,80,000, one lakh more than the people who died in Hiroshima.

4. Collot D'Herbois (1750-96). He was appointed judge by Roberspierre, his co-revolutionist.

5. About 10 million people perished in World War I whereas the numnber of those dead in the Second World War was 55 to 60 millions. Over a third of this number were Russians.

6. A human being was killed every twenty second.

7. Forty million people are murdered, maimed, raped, mugged or robbed every year in the USA.

8. Thomas Jefferson. Out of a total population of five million, one million were slaves.

9. 46,752 people died during the Vietnam War, while 84,633 people lost their lives at the home frong.

10. It has been estimated that the Spaniards killed 1.5 million Indians within a few years of Columbus' landing.



 

  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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