More Questions on History

  • Q. Which of the following act of India ensured the partition of India?
    A)Government of India Act, 1919
    B)Government of India Act, 1909
    C)Government of India Act, 1935
    D)None of these
    Answer: Government of India Act, 1935
  • Q. Alberuni came to India with
    A)Alexander
    B)Mahmud of Ghazni
    C)Babur
    D)Tamur
    Answer: Mahmud of Ghazni
  • Q. Who are the earliest migrants from Europe to South America
    A)French
    B)Britishers
    C)Portuguese
    D)Spaniards
    Answer: Spaniards
  • Q. In whose reign did the Mughal painting reach its zenith?
    A)Akbar
    B)Jahangir
    C)Shah Jahan
    D)Humayun
    Answer: Jahangir
  • Q. In which year, America joined the Second World War
    A)1940
    B)1939
    C)1941
    D)1942
    Answer: 1941
  • Q. Which of the following statement is not true about “Doctrine of Lapse”?
    A)It was in operations between 1848 and 1856
    B)It was started by Lord Dalhousie
    C)Nagpur was the first state annexed under this rule
    D)Satara, jaipur, Jhansi and Nagpur states were annexed under this rule
    Answer: Nagpur was the first state annexed under this rule
  • Q. The Buddhist monk who spread Buddhism in Tibet was
    A)Ananda
    B)Nagarjuna
    C)Asanga
    D)Padmasambhava
    Answer: Padmasambhava
  • Q. The ritualistic precepts pertaining to the hymns of the Vedas are known as the
    A)Aranyakas
    B)Samhitas
    C)Brahmanas
    D)Upanishads
    Answer: Brahmanas
  • Q. Vaikhanasa the five-fold conception of Vishnu consists of brahmanpurushaprakritisatyaachyutaaniruddha
    A)II, III, IV, V and VI
    B)I, II, III, IV and V
    C)I, II, IV, V and VI
    D)I, III, IV, V and VI
    Answer: I, III, IV, V and VI
  • Q. Wahabis were __________ fanatics
    A)Muslim
    B)Hindu
    C)Christian
    D)Sikh
    Answer: Muslim
  • Q. Assertion (A): In some places artisans and craftsmen participated in the Revolt of 1857. Reason (R): The British policy of ‘one-way’ free trade destroyed village industries and handicrafts in India
    A)Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
    B)Both A and R is 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. Provision was made by the Charter Act of 1813 for the establishment of a Church at __________
    A)Bombay
    B)Madras
    C)Calcutta
    D)Pondicherry
    Answer: Calcutta
  • Q. Which of the following is not the “Tri Ratna” of Jainism?
    A)Right knowledge
    B)Right faith
    C)Right view
    D)Right conduct
    Answer: Right view
  • Q. The Battle of Waterloo was fought in the year
    A)1805
    B)1800
    C)1807
    D)1815
    Answer: 1815
  • Q. The first Congress and nationalist leader to face repeated imprisonment was
    A)Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    B)Pheroze Shah Mehta
    C)Dadabhai Naoroji
    D)BG Tilak
    Answer: BG Tilak
  • Q. Who defined the “Long Nineteenth Century”?
    A)Ernest Gallner
    B)Benedict Anderson
    C)Eric Hobsbawm
    D)Karl Marx
    Answer: Eric Hobsbawm
  • Q. How did Saint Boniface help to shape the German church?
    A)Preaching against the importance of monasteries
    B)Preaching against divorce, incest, and polygamy
    C)Writing the epic 'Beowulf'
    D)Writing 'The Rule of Saint Benedict'
    Answer: Preaching against divorce, incest, and polygamy
  • Q. From where the Mansabdari system was borrowed?
    A)Turkey
    B)Afghanistan
    C)Mongolia
    D)Persia
    Answer: Mongolia
  • Q. Who founded the faith on a ritual-free, simple “Sat Shri Akal” or the worship of God and truth?
    A)Guru Nanak
    B)Dadu Dayal
    C)Sri Chaitanya
    D)Guru Govind Singh
    Answer: Guru Nanak
  • Q. The medieval city of Vijayanagar is now known as
    A)Aravidu
    B)Chandragiri
    C)Hampi
    D)Kondavidu
    Answer: Hampi

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