More Questions on History
- Q. Who said that “Man by nature is a political animal”?
A)Aristotle
B)Plato
C)Hobbes
D)Rousseau
Answer: Aristotle
- Q. The rulers of which dynasty started the practice of granting tax-free villages to Brahmanas and Buddhist Monks?
A)Mauryas
B)Satavahanas
C)Guptas
D)Cholas
Answer: Satavahanas
- Q. The Buddhist sect Mahayana formally came into existence during the reign of
A)Ashoka
B)Ajatashatru
C)Dharmapala
D)Kanishka
Answer: Kanishka
- Q. Who played an important role in bringing all the states in the independent India into the country’s unity?
A)Hume
B)Sardar Patel
C)Subhash Chandra Bose
D)Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Answer: Sardar Patel
- Q. The swadeshi movement in Bengal started on __________
A)1905
B)1902
C)1908
D)1909
Answer: 1905
- Q. Name the Indian king who warmly received the Portuguese traveller Vasco da Gama when he landed at Calicut
A)Devaraya
B)Asaf Jah Ismail Mulk
C)Zamorin
D)Krishnadevaraya
Answer: Zamorin
- Q. Buddhism made an important impact by allowing two sections of society into its fold. They were
A)Moneylenders and Slaves
B)Merchants and Priests
C)Warriors and Traders
D)Women and Sudras
Answer: Women and Sudras
- Q. In which country the Head of the State gets his office by the law of hereditary succession?
A)Sri Lanka
B)China
C)France
D)Japan
Answer: Japan
- Q. Where did Mahatma Gandhi first apply his technique of Satyagraha?
A)Noakhali
B)Dandi
C)England
D)South Africa
Answer: South Africa
- Q. The first economic thinker of India who showed through his writings that the basic cause of India’s poverty lay in the British exploitation and drain of wealth was
A)Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
B)Badruddin Tyabji
C)Dadabhai Naoroji
D)N.G. Chandavarkar
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Q. Which of the following was established first?
A)University of Bombay
B)Banaras Hindu University
C)Aligarh Muslim University
D)University of Allahabad
Answer: University of Bombay
- Q. Dara Shikoh was killed in conflict with his brother__________
A)Aurangzeb
B)Jahangir
C)Babur
D)Shahjahan
Answer: Aurangzeb
- Q. 1911 Revolution of China resulted in
A)Federalism
B)Establishment of a Republic
C)Democracy
D)Increased problems of people
Answer: Establishment of a Republic
- Q. Who was “The First American”?
A)James Madison
B)Benjamin Franklin
C)John Adams
D)George Washington
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
- Q. The first Sultan who requested and obtained letters of investiture from the Caliph (Khalifa) was
A)Balban
B)Iltutmish
C)Firoz Tughlaq
D)Alauddin Khalji
Answer: Iltutmish
- Q. An ambassador of the British King James I, who secured favourable privileges for the East India Company from Emperor Jahangir, was
A)Henry Middleton
B)Hawkins
C)Thomas Roe
D)Josiah Child
Answer: Thomas Roe
- Q. When was the August Kranti pulled back?
A)1942
B)1947
C)1943
D)1945
Answer: 1942
- Q. Which of the following was not one of the points stressed by Mahatma Gandhi while exhorting the people to join the Quit India Movement?
A)our quarrel is not with British people, we fight their imperialism and we must purge ourselves of hatred.
B)Forget the differences between the Hindus and Muslims and think of yourselves as Indians only.
C)Feel from today that you are a free man and pot a dependent. Do or die. Either free India or die in the the attempt.
D)Freedom of India is an end that will purify all means employed to achieve it.
Answer: Freedom of India is an end that will purify all means employed to achieve it.
- Q. What did the Rowlatt Act, 1919 empower the British government to do
A)Shut down any industrial unit at will
B)Foment class and caste strife
C)Extend the period of imprisonment for Indians
D)Detain a person for any duration without a trial
Answer: Detain a person for any duration without a trial
- Q. The architectural raw material generally used in Akbar’s period was
A)Brick
B)Marble
C)Limestone
D)Redstone
Answer: Redstone
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