More Questions on History
- Q. The High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom must be appointed by __________
A)The Government of India
B)Secretary of State for India
C)Parliament of England
D)By Indian National Congress
Answer: The Government of India
- Q. Who founded Satya Shodhak Samaj in 1873 ?
A)Purushottam Das Tandon
B)Shri Bharat Kumar
C)Bankim Chandra Chattopashyay
D)Jyotiba Phule
Answer: Jyotiba Phule
- Q. Who among of the following was the Viceroy of India when Indian University Act, 1904 was passed?
A)Lord Lansdowne
B)Lord Dufferin
C)Lord Minto
D)Lord Curzon
Answer: Lord Curzon
- Q. The monolithic image of Jain Saint ‘Gomatiswara’ is at __________
A)Shravanbelagola
B)Mount Abu
C)Kusinagara
D)Kalinga
Answer: Shravanbelagola
- Q. Which of the following leader who presided All India Congress Committee session on 9th August?
A)Aruna Asif Ali
B)Jawaharlal Nehru
C)Mahatma Gandhi
D)Annie Besant
Answer: Aruna Asif Ali
- Q. Bahadur Shah was the
A)Successor of Sher Shah Suri
B)Last ruler of the Lodis
C)Last Mughal ruler
D)Successor of the Maratha ruler Shivaji
Answer: Last Mughal ruler
- Q. In 1614 Sir Thomas Roe was instructed by __________ to visit the court of Jahangir, the Mughal emperor of India
A)Babur
B)James I
C)Shajahan
D)Humayun
Answer: James I
- Q. The famous Kailashnath Temple at Kanchi was built by
A)Narasimhavarman II
B)Mahendravarman 1
C)Nandivarman II
D)Daritivarrnan
Answer: Narasimhavarman II
- Q. Which of the following is not an important limb of Vedas?
A)Kalpa (Ritual)
B)Siksha (Phonetics)
C)Vyakarna (Grammar)
D)Ashtadhyayi
Answer: Ashtadhyayi
- Q. Which Indian revolutionary was called by the Britishers as ‘The Father of Indian Disaffection and biggest traitor’?
A)Lala Hardyal
B)Lala Lajpat Rai
C)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D)M G Ranade
Answer: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Q. What was the charge against Bal Gangadhar Tilak, for which he was sentenced to six years transportation in July 1908?
A)for insiting violence during the Surat session of the INC
B)for being the chief exponent of the cult of extremism
C)for seditious writings in his paper Kesari
D)for being instrumental in the murder of the British Plaque commissioner in Poona.
Answer: for seditious writings in his paper Kesari
- Q. My Experiments with Truth is the work of Mahatma Gandhi published in
A)1902
B)1901
C)1906
D)1946
Answer: 1906
- Q. The two colossal images of the Buddha at Bamiyan are an instance of the __________ art?
A)Maurya
B)Early Mathura
C)Gupta
D)Gandhara
Answer: Gupta
- Q. The Tomar Rajputs, were defeated in the middle of the twelfth century by the Chauhans of __________
A)Ajmer
B)Ayodhya
C)Gwalior
D)Dwarka
Answer: Ajmer
- Q. In the history of Indian National Movement Santhal Rebellion took place between :
A)1849-50
B)1845-47
C)1855-56
D)1866-67
Answer: 1855-56
- Q. Who founded the philosophy of Stoicism in Athens?
A)Cleanthes
B)Chrysippus
C)Epictetus
D)Zeno of Citium
Answer: Zeno of Citium
- Q. The Russo-Turkish war was started in the year
A)1768
B)1762
C)1773
D)1782
Answer: 1768
- Q. The Peasant and the Raj is the work of __________
A)A. R. Desai
B)Eric Stokes
C)D. N. Dhanagare
D)Shirin Mehta
Answer: Eric Stokes
- Q. Which was the main cause for starting of the Quit India Movement in 1942 ?
A)Report of Simon Commission
B)Severe unrest among the people
C)Failure of the Cripps Mission
D)British involved in the world was-II
Answer: Failure of the Cripps Mission
- Q. Arrange the following historical events in the chronological order of their occurrence I. Non-Cooperation Movement II. Civil Disobedience Movement III. Chauri – Chaura
A)I, III, II
B)I, II, III
C)II, I, III
D)III, II, I
Answer: I, III, II
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