More Questions on History

  • Q. Who was popularly known as Africa’s Gandhi?
    A)Firoz Gandhi
    B)Mir Karzai
    C)Nelson Mandela
    D)M.K.Gandhi
    Answer: Nelson Mandela
  • Q. Who was the mastermind of bomb attack on Lord Hardinge at chandani chowk in Delhi in 1912?
    A)Avadh Behari
    B)Amir Chand
    C)Rasbihari Bose
    D)Basant Kumar Biswas
    Answer: Rasbihari Bose
  • Q. Which world Heritage Monument has been acclaimed as the “Necropolis of the Mughal dynasty”?
    A)Mahabodhi Temple Complex
    B)Humayun's Tomb
    C)Qutub Minar
    D)Red Fort Complex
    Answer: Humayun's Tomb
  • Q. Who among the following initiated reforms among Muslims?
    A)Sayyid Ahmad Khan
    B)Muhammad Iqbal
    C)Naoriji Furdonji
    D)Altaf Husain Hali
    Answer: Sayyid Ahmad Khan
  • Q. Who had founded the Deccan Educational Society?
    A)CR Das
    B)Dadabhai Naoroji
    C)Swami Vivekananda
    D)Mahadeva Govind Ranade
    Answer: Mahadeva Govind Ranade
  • Q. In which of the following Satyagraha campaigns, Mahatma Gandhi did not participate directly?
    A)Non-Cooperation Movement
    B)Rajkot Satyagraha
    C)Kheda Satyagraha
    D)Vaikom Satyagraha
    Answer: Rajkot Satyagraha
  • Q. Though Ashoka had many sons, the inscriptions mentioned only one who is not mentioned in any other source. He is
    A)Tivara
    B)Kunala
    C)Mahendra
    D)Jalauka
    Answer: Tivara
  • Q. The greatest Kushana ruler whose contribution to Buddhism was even greater than that of Ashoka, was
    A)Kanishka I
    B)Kadphises
    C)Vasishka
    D)Huvishka
    Answer: Kanishka I
  • Q. Who was the king during the french revolution
    A)Louis XV
    B)Napoleon
    C)Louis XVI
    D)Charles IX
    Answer: Louis XVI
  • Q. When the August Offer 1940 was offered to India the Prime Minister of England was
    A)Baldwin
    B)Chamberlain
    C)Churchill
    D)Asquith
    Answer: Churchill
  • Q. Mzal Khan who fought with Shivaji was the ruler of
    A)Mewar
    B)Bijapur
    C)Gujarat
    D)Bengal
    Answer: Bijapur
  • Q. Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man’.Who said this?
    A)Sri Ramakrishna
    B)Swami Vivekananda
    C)Chandra Sekhar Deb
    D)Sri Narayana Guru
    Answer: Swami Vivekananda
  • Q. When was the Hindu College, Calcutta established?
    A)1817
    B)1829
    C)1858
    D)1853
    Answer: 1817
  • Q. Zend-Avesta is the sacred book of the
    A)Jains
    B)Parsis
    C)Jews
    D)Buddhists
    Answer: Parsis
  • Q. Who established the Edo society?
    A)Kuroda Yoshitaka
    B)Akechi Mitsuhide
    C)Oda Nobunaga
    D)Toyotomi Hideyoshi
    Answer: Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  • Q. The theory of “natural rights” was propounded by
    A)Locke
    B)Hobbes
    C)Bentham
    D)Marx
    Answer: Locke
  • Q. “India Wins Freedom” is the autobiography of
    A)Muhammad Ali
    B)Abdul Kalam Azad
    C)Zakir Hussain
    D)Sayyed Ahmad Khan
    Answer: Abdul Kalam Azad
  • Q. What is Gandhi’s definition of Rama Raj?
    A)Sovereignty of the people based on pure moral authority
    B)The rule as it was during the time of Rama
    C)The greatest good of all
    D)The absolute powerconcentrated in the hands ofa king
    Answer: Sovereignty of the people based on pure moral authority
  • Q. Who had rounded the first women’s university in India?
    A)Ishwar Chandra Vidayasagar
    B)Rani Ahilya Devi
    C)Rani of Thomi
    D)Dhondo Keshav Karve
    Answer: Dhondo Keshav Karve
  • Q. Who was the National leader who wrote History of India on the walls of the Andaman Cellular Jail?
    A)Ambedkar
    B)Nandalal Bose
    C)Vir Savarkar
    D)Jyotiba Phule
    Answer: Vir Savarkar

Leave a Comment