More Questions on History
- Q. Which of the following statement is not correct about Raja Ram Mohan Roy?
A)He died in Indian in 1833
B)Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born in a well-to-do family in Bengal, probably in 1772
C)He was given the title of Raja by the Mughal Emperor
D)He started the newspaper named "Sambad Kaumudi"
Answer: He died in Indian in 1833
- Q. Shah Jahan built Taj Mahal in memory of
A)Jodha Bai
B)Ruqayya Sultan Begum
C)Mumtaz Mahal
D)Nur Jahan
Answer: Mumtaz Mahal
- Q. In which year the Battle of the Hydaspes was fought between Alexander and Porus
A)310 BC
B)302 BC
C)312 BC
D)326 BC
Answer: 326 BC
- Q. Who introduced Mansabdari system in India?
A)Humayun
B)Babur
C)Akbar
D)Jahangir
Answer: Akbar
- Q. Find the correct pair of Poet in the Court of the King during Ancient India
A)Harisena : Chandragupta II
B)Vasumitra : Kanishka
C)Kalidasa : Samudragupta II
D)Banabhatta : Pulkesin II
Answer: Vasumitra : Kanishka
- Q. The Peloponnesian War was fought between which cities?
A)Carthage and Athens
B)Athens and Macedonia
C)Sparta and Carthage
D)Sparta and Athens
Answer: Sparta and Athens
- Q. Who wrote the song ‘Sare Jahan Se Accha Hindoostan Hamara’?
A)Sahir Ludhianvi
B)Ashafaqullah Khan
C)Mohammad Iqbal
D)Ramprasad Bisrnil
Answer: Mohammad Iqbal
- Q. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of Lokmanya during
A)Home Rule Movement
B)His imprisonment in 1908
C)Revolutionary Movement
D)Swadeshi Movement
Answer: Home Rule Movement
- Q. The immediate forerunner of the Indian National congress was
A)Indian National Conference
B)Indian Association of Calcutta
C)British India association
D)Indian Union
Answer: Indian National Conference
- Q. Which of the following was not to be ceded by Mir Kasim to the Company as per the treaty signed between Mir Kasim and Calcutta Council?
A)Midnapur
B)Burdwan
C)Chittagong
D)Monghyr
Answer: Monghyr
- Q. Chahalghani under IItutmish represented __________
A)Slaves inherited by him from his predecessors
B)His Turkish slaves
C)General cadre of slaves
D)The elite cadre of slave officers under him
Answer: His Turkish slaves
- Q. Earlier mathematicians (i.e. those who came before medieval Indian mathematicians) had taught that X/O = X; who among the following proved that it was infinity?
A)Bhaskara
B)Aryabhatta
C)Brahmagupta
D)Mahavira
Answer: Bhaskara
- Q. Who was the the founder of the Ramanandi Sampradaya, the largest monastic Hindu renunciant community in modern times?
A)Tukaram
B)Ramananda
C)Mirabai
D)Kabir
Answer: Ramananda
- Q. Nagarjuna is known as the Einstein of India because
A)He was one of the greatest physicists of all time
B)Like Einstein he had a rare insight into the nature of the universe
C)He propounded the theory of Shunyavada similar to Einstein's theory of Relativity
D)He was a great dialectician
Answer: He propounded the theory of Shunyavada similar to Einstein's theory of Relativity
- Q. Which of the following influenced the makers of Indian Constitution?
A)The Constitution of USSR
B)The Constitution of China
C)The Constitution of USA
D)The Constitution of Japan
Answer: The Constitution of USA
- Q. On which side did Japan fight in the First World War?
A)With Germany against United Kingdom
B)None, it was neutral
C)Against Russia on its own
D)With United Kingdom against Germany
Answer: With United Kingdom against Germany
- Q. Which one of the following monuments in Delhi is not included as a World Heritage Site?
A)Humayun's Tomb
B)Red Fort
C)Qutub Minar
D)Jantar Mantar
Answer: Jantar Mantar
- 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. What was the name of the secret police party of Nazi in Germany
A)NKVD
B)Gestapo
C)OVRA
D)Palace Guard
Answer: Gestapo
- Q. Which of the following is not an important limb of Vedas?
A)Kalpa (Ritual)
B)Siksha (Phonetics)
C)Vyakarna (Grammar)
D)Ashtadhyayi
Answer: Ashtadhyayi
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