More Questions on History
- Q. The exclusive right of trading between __________ was granted to the East India Company
A)Red Sea and Caspian Sea
B)North America and South America
C)The Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan
D)France and Poland
Answer: The Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan
- Q. Which Viceroy of India had largest tenure during British rule:
A)Lord Mountbatten
B)Lord Linlithgow
C)Lord Bentick
D)None of above
Answer: Lord Linlithgow
- Q. The Indian National Congress had been formed with the knowledge and approval of Lord
A)Mountbatten
B)Dufferin
C)Ripon
D)Curzon
Answer: Dufferin
- Q. Harshacharita the biography of Harsha, was written by
A)Sudraka
B)Banabhatta
C)Sri Harsha
D)Gunadhva
Answer: Banabhatta
- Q. How many spokes are there in the Dharma Chakra of the National flag?
A)18
B)22
C)24
D)14
Answer: 24
- Q. Who was the spatial (Sthaanik) during Mauryan’s period?
A)Provincial Administrator
B)District Administrator
C)Village Administrator
D)City Administrator
Answer: District Administrator
- Q. When was the first train steamed off in India?
A)1853
B)1848
C)1875
D)1880
Answer: 1853
- Q. Which emperor wrote the play ‘Nagananda’ in Sanskrit language?
A)Harshavardhana
B)Prabhakara vardhana
C)Chandragupta II
D)Bindusara
Answer: Harshavardhana
- Q. Who said “Curzon’s partition of Bengal gave unwitting initiative to events of such magnitude which returned many years later to port with the cargo of freedom”?
A)Dr. S.Gopal
B)Syed Hasan Imam
C)M.A. Ansari
D)Bharat Kumar
Answer: Dr. S.Gopal
- Q. The first constitutional measure introduced by the British in India which worked till the framing of the Indian Constitution was
A)the Act of 1935
B)the Act of 1919
C)Indian Independence Bill
D)Cabinet Mission Plan
Answer: the Act of 1935
- Q. Sarvodaya stands for
A)Non-cooperation
B)Total revolution
C)Upliftment of all
D)Non-violence
Answer: Upliftment of all
- Q. Which Sikh guru was executed by Aurangzeb?
A)Arjun Dev
B)Tegh Bahadur
C)Hargobind
D)Gobind Singh
Answer: Tegh Bahadur
- Q. Who was appointed by Akbar as his Court Musician?
A)Miyan Tansen
B)Abul Fazal
C)Raja Birbal
D)Raja Todar Mal
Answer: Miyan Tansen
- Q. Assertion (A): There is no conclusive proof of the presence of temples or public places of worship in the Indus civilization. Reason (R): To the Harappans, religion was perhaps more a personal and a private matter than a public affair
A)Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
C)A is true but R is false
D)A is false but R is true
Answer: A is true but R is false
- Q. The term used to denote a group of families in the vedic society was
A)Jana
B)Vish
C)Grama
D)Gotra
Answer: Grama
- Q. Swami Vivekananda’s father, __________, was a successful attorney with interests in a wide range of subjects
A)Narendra Nath Datta
B)Vishwanath Datta
C)Sri Ramakrishna
D)Rashik Krishna Mallik
Answer: Vishwanath Datta
- Q. Who was the founder of Banaras Hindu University?
A)Madan Mohan Malviya
B)Sukumar Dutt
C)Dr. Rajendra Prasad
D)Motilal Nehru
Answer: Madan Mohan Malviya
- Q. Atala Masjid which was built by Sultan Ibrahim is located at?
A)Kanpur
B)Jaunpur
C)Agra
D)Mysore
Answer: Jaunpur
- Q. The capital city of Umayyad Caliphate was
A)Madina
B)Baghdad
C)Kahira
D)Damascus
Answer: Damascus
- Q. India attained ‘Dominion status’ on
A)15th August, 1947
B)15th January, 1947
C)15th August, 1950
D)15th October, 1947
Answer: 15th August, 1947
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