More Questions on History
- Q. __________ , the viceroy of India decided to partition Bengal for administrative purposes, creating a new province of East Bengal and Assam, with a population of 31 million people and with its capital at Dhaka
A)Lord Rippon
B)Lord Curzon
C)Lord Hastings
D)Wellesley
Answer: Lord Curzon
- Q. Who invented kerosene?
A)Benjamin Silliman
B)Abraham Pineo Gesner
C)Edwin Drake
D)John William Dawson
Answer: Abraham Pineo Gesner
- Q. The ‘Ajivikas’ were
A)Breakaway branch of the Buddhists
B)Sect contemporary to the Buddha
C)Sect founded by Charvaka
D)Sect founded by Shankaracharya
Answer: Sect contemporary to the Buddha
- Q. The famous Buddhist scholar Ashvaghosha was a contemporary of which one of the following?
A)Bindusara
B)Ashoka
C)Harsha
D)Kanishka
Answer: Kanishka
- Q. The Delhi Sultan who fell to his death while playing polo was
A)Alauddin Khalji
B)Qutb-din-Aibak
C)Feroz Shah Tughlaq
D)Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
Answer: Qutb-din-Aibak
- Q. The Vedic Aryans first settled in the region of
A)Gangetic Doab
B)Central India
C)Saptasindhu
D)Kashmir and Punjab
Answer: Saptasindhu
- Q. The Buland Darwaza was built to mark Akbar’s conquest of
A)Malwa
B)Awadh
C)Gujarat
D)Chittor
Answer: Gujarat
- Q. The Vernacular Press Act was passed in __________
A)1881
B)1878
C)1888
D)1898
Answer: 1878
- Q. The Mughal troops were largely drawn from
A)Tributary Chiefs
B)The Rajput Chiefs
C)Mansabdars
D)Central Contingents
Answer: Mansabdars
- Q. Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
A)George Washington
B)Abraham Lincoln
C)John F. Kennedy
D)William Wallace Lincoln
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
- Q. Whom had Gandhi named as Mira Behn?
A)Kamla Devi
B)Annie Besant
C)Indira Gandhi
D)Madeline Slade
Answer: Madeline Slade
- Q. Independence movement of Vietnam was headed by
A)Zhou Enlai
B)Ngo Dinh Diem
C)Pol Pot
D)Ho Chi Minh
Answer: Ho Chi Minh
- Q. Shivaji’s administration owed its origin to the principles laid down by
A)Sher Shah
B)Kautilya
C)Akbar
D)Adi Granth
Answer: Kautilya
- Q. The Sikh Guru who was executed by Aurangzeb was
A)Guru Arjan
B)Guru Nanak
C)Guru Gobind
D)Guru Tegh Bahadur
Answer: Guru Tegh Bahadur
- Q. The Times of India’ which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1988, was first published in 1838 as
A)Bombay Times
B)Bombay Chronicle
C)Indian Times
D)National Times
Answer: Bombay Times
- Q. What was the name of first Gandhar of Abhinandannath Tirthankar?
A)Vipul
B)Vajrnath
C)Chandra Prabhu
D)Vasu
Answer: Vajrnath
- Q. Two most important acts and rituals associated with the Vedic marriage system was/were
A)Sapta-Padi
B)Pani-Grahana
C)Marriage Vows
D)Both A and B above
Answer: Both A and B above
- Q. On which date was the announcement formally made that India and Pakistan would be made free?
A)June 3, 1947
B)May 2, 1947
C)July 4, 1947
D)August 5, 1957
Answer: June 3, 1947
- Q. A Royal Commission on the Public Service was appointed in the year
A)1915
B)1912
C)1910
D)1918
Answer: 1912
- Q. The Monk whom Chandragupta Maurya accompanied to South India was __________
A)Vasumitra
B)Asvaghosa
C)Upagupta
D)Bhadrabahu
Answer: Bhadrabahu
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