More Questions on History
- Q. Who advanced Russia’s boundary to the Black Sea?
A)Elizabeth of Russia
B)Catherine the Great
C)Peter the Great
D)Peter III of Russia
Answer: Catherine the Great
- Q. What did the ninth-century Scandinavian invasions do in England?
A)Led to disintegration of a large kingdom into smaller kingdoms
B)Promoted various small kingdoms to merge into a large kingdom
C)Gave way to colonization by the Vikings
D)Brought down Anglo-Saxon alliance
Answer: Promoted various small kingdoms to merge into a large kingdom
- Q. Birbal was an advisor in the court of?
A)Akbar
B)Babur
C)Aurangzeb
D)Jahangir
Answer: Akbar
- Q. Who was the French Governor of Pondicherry who tried to make the French Company as a powerful company?
A)Godeheu
B)Thomas Arthur, Comte de Lally
C)La Bourdonnais
D)Joseph Francois Dupleix
Answer: Joseph Francois Dupleix
- Q. The term ‘Upanishad’ Literally implies
A)Wisdom
B)Knowledge
C)Sitting near
D)Recitation
Answer: Sitting near
- Q. Which one of the following sequences represents the correct chronological order?
A)Shahji, Shivaji, Sambhaji, Rajaram
B)Shahji, Shivaji, Rajaram, Sambhaji
C)Shahji, Sambhaji, Shivaji, Rajaram
D)Sambhaji, Shivaji, Shahji, Rajaram
Answer: Shahji, Shivaji, Sambhaji, Rajaram
- Q. The Cabinet mission arrived in Delhi on:
A)May 24, 1946
B)August 24, 1946
C)March 24, 1946
D)April 24, 1946
Answer: March 24, 1946
- Q. After the Bardoli Satyagraha, the title of ‘Sardar’ to Vallabhbhai Patel was given by
A)Motilal Nehru
B)Jawaharlal Nehru
C)Mahatma Gandhi
D)Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. The famous dialogue between Nachiketa and Yama is mentioned in the
A)Mundakopanishad
B)Chhandogyopanishad
C)Kathopanishad
D)Kenopanishad
Answer: Kathopanishad
- Q. What was the age of Akbar at the time of his coronation at Kalanaur?
A)Fifteen
B)Thirteen
C)Eighteen
D)Twenty
Answer: Thirteen
- Q. Justice movement was started by? I. C. N. Mudaliar II. T. M. Nair III. P. Tyagaraja
A)Only b
B)Only a
C)By both A and B
D)All the three
Answer: By both A and B
- Q. In 1908, Bal Gangadhar Tilak was imprisoned for six years and sent to
A)Delhi
B)Mandalay
C)Singapore
D)Andaman and Nicobar Island
Answer: Mandalay
- Q. Name the ruler whose reign was a witness to both Vardhaman Mahavira and the Buddha preaching their respective doctrines?
A)Bimbisara
B)Udayin
C)Ajatashatru
D)Harshvardhana
Answer: Bimbisara
- Q. The Company lost all its administrative powers__________
A)By the Government of India Act of 1758
B)By the Government of India Act of 1658
C)By the Government of India Act of 1858
D)By the Government of India Act of 1958
Answer: By the Government of India Act of 1858
- Q. Who called Government of India Act 1935 as thoroughly rotten, fundamentally bad and totally unacceptable?
A)Mohammad Ali Jinnah
B)Subhash Chandra Bose
C)Mahatma Gandhi
D)Balkrishana Chapekar
Answer: Mohammad Ali Jinnah
- Q. Who was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence?
A)George Washington
B)Benjamin Franklin
C)Thomas Edison
D)Thomas Jefferson
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
- Q. Gandhi wanted the students to spend their vacations in
A)Social service
B)Studies
C)Games
D)Rebellious deeds
Answer: Social service
- Q. Two popular Assemblies of the Vedic period were
A)Mahasabha and Ganasabha
B)Sabha and Mahasabha
C)Sabha and Samiti
D)Ur and Kula
Answer: Sabha and Samiti
- Q. Which country emerged as the biggest colonial power at the end of the nineteenth century?
A)Spain
B)France
C)Britain
D)Germany
Answer: Britain
- Q. Visakhadatta sketches the event after the death of Samudragupta in his work
A)Devi Chand Guptam
B)Mudrarakasam
C)Mrichekakatika
D)Malavikagnimitra
Answer: Mudrarakasam
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