More Questions on History
- Q. Guru Gobind Singh was the son of
A)Arjan Dev
B)Tegh Bahadur
C)Har Gobind
D)Nanak
Answer: Tegh Bahadur
- Q. The __________ was run by Tarachand Chakravarty
A)Hesperus
B)Quill
C)Enquirer
D)Bengal Spectator
Answer: Quill
- Q. In which year, America joined the Second World War
A)1940
B)1939
C)1941
D)1942
Answer: 1941
- Q. Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. in
A)Babylon
B)Persia
C)Macedonia
D)Taxila
Answer: Babylon
- Q. The dead body of Babur by his own choice lies buried in
A)Farghana
B)Agra
C)Samarqand
D)Kabul
Answer: Kabul
- Q. Who was the Viceroy when the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place?
A)Chelmsford
B)Hardinge-II
C)Reading
D)Irwin
Answer: Chelmsford
- Q. The Hindu of Madras started in 1868 as a weekly, became a Daily in
A)1899
B)1889
C)1890
D)1855
Answer: 1889
- Q. Who among the following propagated Dvaita or dualism of Jivatma and Pramatma in Kannada region?
A)Nimbarka
B)Mirabai
C)Vallabhacharya
D)Madhav
Answer: Madhav
- Q. Abdul Hamid Lahori is the author of
A)Padshah Nama
B)Muntakhab-ul-Tawarikh
C)Alamgir Nama
D)Muntakhab-ul-Lubab
Answer: Padshah Nama
- Q. Most of the Chola temples were dedicated to
A)Shiva
B)Ganesh
C)Durga
D)Vishnu
Answer: Shiva
- Q. Who said “Spanish ulcer was the cause of my ruin”
A)Napoleon
B)Matternich
C)Marshal Fouch
D)Chamberlain
Answer: Napoleon
- Q. Who was the first to give the call for Swarajya – “India for Indians”?
A)Lokmanya Tilak
B)Dayanand Saraswati
C)Sri Aurobindo
D)Bhagat Singh
Answer: Dayanand Saraswati
- Q. The First Opium War was fought between British and __________
A)Indian
B)Chinese
C)Japanese
D)Thai
Answer: Chinese
- Q. Purana Qila at Delhi was built by
A)Sher Shah
B)Akbar
C)Humayun
D)Shah Jahan
Answer: Sher Shah
- Q. As per the Act of 1919 which of the following statements was not correct?
A)Responsible Government would be realised only by the progressive stages.
B)British India must remain an integral part of the British Empire.
C)Provincial subjects were classified into Reserved subjects and Transferred subjects.
D)The salary of the Secretary of State for India was not to be paid by Parliament.
Answer: The salary of the Secretary of State for India was not to be paid by Parliament.
- Q. Who brought the famous Persian painter named Khwaja Abdus Samad to India?
A)Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
B)Humayun
C)Akbar
D)Alauddin Khalji
Answer: Humayun
- Q. Who gave the concept of Total Revolution?
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Jayaprakash Narayan
C)Karl Marx
D)Lenin
Answer: Jayaprakash Narayan
- Q. The peacock throne was constructed by the Mughal Emperor
A)Shah Jahan
B)Akbar
C)Jahangir
D)Aurangzeb
Answer: Shah Jahan
- Q. Who put on the statute book two obnoxious measures the Vernacular press Act and the Indian Arms Act
A)Lytton
B)Lord Ripon
C)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
D)Queen Victoria
Answer: Lytton
- Q. In March 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed the Cripps Mission to resolve Indian political crisis because
A)of the gravity of the Japanese war menace on India's borders
B)he was under pressure from the US President Roosevelt
C)both A and B above
D)of INA's initial success on India's eastern borders
Answer: both A and B above
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