More Questions on History

  • Q. Which of the following objects was not worshipped by the Indus valley people
    A)Pashupati Shiva
    B)Mother Goddess
    C)Trees such as Peepal and Acacia
    D)Trimurti
    Answer: Trimurti
  • Q. Which foreigner arrived in India on Nov. 16, 1893?
    A)W A Hume
    B)Khan Abdul Gaffar
    C)Annie Besant
    D)None of these
    Answer: Annie Besant
  • Q. Which of the following leader was associated with the Home Rule League?
    A)G. K. Gokhale
    B)B. G. Tilak
    C)M. G. Ranade
    D)M. K. Gandhi
    Answer: B. G. Tilak
  • Q. The Mayo College was started at
    A)Calcutta
    B)Delhi
    C)Agra
    D)Ajmer
    Answer: Ajmer
  • Q. Which of the following is/are poetry and drama?
    A)Raghuvamsa
    B)Kumarasambhava
    C)Abhijnanashakuntalam
    D)All of the above
    Answer: All of the above
  • Q. Anti Semitism’ to Adolf Hitler meant
    A)Anti Jewish policy
    B)Anti Black policy
    C)Anti Protestant policy
    D)Anti German policy
    Answer: Anti Jewish policy
  • Q. Mansabdari System was founded by Akbar. The Mansabdars were
    A)provincial governors
    B)military commanders
    C)high civil and military officers
    D)all of the above
    Answer: all of the above
  • Q. Bimbisara was succeeded by
    A)Ajatashatru
    B)Ashoka
    C)Vasudeva
    D)Chandragupta Maurya
    Answer: Ajatashatru
  • Q. Prince of Piligrims’ was the name attributed to
    A)Hiuen-tsang
    B)Fa-Hien
    C)I-tsing
    D)Megasthenes
    Answer: Hiuen-tsang
  • Q. Which of the following reasons can be attributed to the success of Ramakrishna mission?
    A)Popularized the saying" for our own motherland a junction of both Hinduism and Islam is necessary"
    B)Focused mainly on teachings of Upanishads and Vedas
    C)Though a religious body never considered itself as a sect of Hinduism
    D)Worked for upliftment of depressed classes
    Answer: Though a religious body never considered itself as a sect of Hinduism
  • Q. China invaded Indian frontiers in the year __________
    A)1960
    B)1956
    C)1962
    D)1965
    Answer: 1962
  • Q. When was Charlemagne crowned as Roman Emperor?
    A)860
    B)800
    C)871
    D)899
    Answer: 800
  • Q. During the tenure of which Governor general was the resolution of total independence passed?
    A)Lord Minto
    B)Lord Irwin
    C)Lord Chelmsford
    D)Lord Reading
    Answer: Lord Irwin
  • Q. The Indian National Congress was formed __________
    A)1887
    B)1885
    C)1888
    D)1895
    Answer: 1885
  • Q. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a scholar in
    A)Arabic
    B)Persian
    C)Sanskrit
    D)French
    Answer: Arabic
  • Q. Through which one of the following, the king exercised his control over villages in the Vijayanagar Empire?
    A)Sumanta
    B)Dannayaka
    C)Nayaka
    D)Mahanayakacharya
    Answer: Mahanayakacharya
  • Q. The institution of varna appeared in the
    A)Later vedic period
    B)Rigvedic period
    C)Period of the Manava Dharm Shastra
    D)Period of consolidation of text of the Mahabharata
    Answer: Rigvedic period
  • Q. Who declared that Bolshevism must be “strangled in its cradle”?
    A)Benito Mussolini
    B)Adolf Hitler
    C)Franklin D. Roosevelt
    D)Winston Churchill
    Answer: Winston Churchill
  • Q. Who is the creator of the world famous statue ‘David’ in Florence
    A)Raphael
    B)Leonardo da Vinci
    C)Filippo Brunelleschi
    D)Michelangelo
    Answer: Michelangelo
  • Q. Who among the following 8th century Sanskrit poet wrote Gandavadha which describes the exploits of Yasoverman (king of Kanyakubj) ?
    A)Vemana
    B)Vagabhatta
    C)Vidyapati
    D)Vakpati
    Answer: Vakpati

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