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Q. What is pietra dura?

A
Pictorial mosaic work using semi-precious stones
B
A form of music
C
Armour
D
None of the above

Correct Answer

Pictorial mosaic work using semi-precious stones

More Questions on History

  • Q. Which of the following does not represent an important source material for the Mauryan period?
    A)Foreign accounts
    B)Literary works
    C)Numismatic evidence
    D)Epigraphic sources
    Answer: Numismatic evidence
  • Q. Who was the Mughal emperor at the time of Ahmad Shah Abdali’s invasion of India?
    A)Bahadur Shah-II
    B)Bahadur Shah-I
    C)Shah Alam-I
    D)Shah Alam-II
    Answer: Shah Alam-I
  • Q. The famous resolution on Non-Cooperation under the inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi was adopted in a special session of Congress held at Calcutta in
    A)December 1922.
    B)September 1920.
    C)October 1924.
    D)November 1925.
    Answer: September 1920.
  • Q. Gupta Empire declined in the fifth century A. D. as a consequence of
    A)Greek invasion
    B)Chalukya raids
    C)Hun invasion
    D)Pallava raids
    Answer: Hun invasion
  • Q. Todar Mal was associated with
    A)literature
    B)music
    C)land revenue reforms
    D)law
    Answer: land revenue reforms
  • Q. Who was the first to use the term ‘Adivasi’ to refer to the tribal people?
    A)Thakkar Bappa
    B)Jyotiba Phule
    C)M N Srinivas
    D)B R Ambedkar
    Answer: Thakkar Bappa
  • Q. Upon whom was the title ‘Punjab Kesari’ conferred?
    A)Sardar Baldev Singh
    B)Bhagat Singh
    C)Lala Lajpat Rai
    D)Ranjit Singh
    Answer: Lala Lajpat Rai
  • Q. Who of the following was a contemporary of Alexander the Great?
    A)Chandragupta Maurya
    B)Bimbisara
    C)Ashoka
    D)Pushyamitra Sunga
    Answer: Chandragupta Maurya
  • Q. Which is a treatise on the science of governance?
    A)Ramayana
    B)Mahabharata
    C)Kautilya's Arthshastra
    D)Chandrawati Ramayana
    Answer: Kautilya's Arthshastra
  • Q. Justice C. Y. Chintamani called Government of India Act 1935?
    A)Lame Duck
    B)Lazy Duck
    C)Lazy Federation
    D)Lame Federation
    Answer: Lame Federation
  • Q. When was Mahatma Gandhi arrested during the ‘Quit India Movement’ of 1942?
    A)30th April, 1942
    B)7th August, 1942
    C)9th August, 1942
    D)5th July, 1942
    Answer: 9th August, 1942
  • Q. The momentous decision to transfer the capital from Calcutta to Delhi, to annul the partition of Bengal and to abolish Indian indentured labour were taken during the Viceroyalty of Lord
    A)Minto
    B)Hardinge
    C)Chelmsford
    D)Reading
    Answer: Hardinge
  • Q. The Prime causes of the 1857 mutiny did not include
    A)The Widow Remarriage Act
    B)The new system of education
    C)The despatch of Indian Sepoys to Afghanistan
    D)Laws forbidding intermarriages between Indians and the British
    Answer: Laws forbidding intermarriages between Indians and the British
  • Q. When did Alexander the Great die?
    A)385 BC
    B)399 BC
    C)335 BC
    D)323 BC
    Answer: 323 BC
  • Q. To campaign for Home Rule, Mrs Annie Besant published the newspaper (s)
    A)Young India and Home Rule News
    B)New India and Commonweal
    C)Mahratta and Kesari
    D)Home Rule Courier
    Answer: New India and Commonweal
  • Q. Which Goddess was worshipped as the “Goddess of Wisdom” by the Greeks
    A)Apollo
    B)Athena
    C)Zeus
    D)Diana
    Answer: Athena
  • Q. Who switched on the world’s first large-scale electrical supply network?
    A)Alexander Graham Bell
    B)Albert Einstein
    C)Benjamin Franklin
    D)Thomas Edison
    Answer: Thomas Edison
  • Q. Which one of the following Indus cities has houses with doors on the main streets?
    A)Surkotada
    B)Lothal
    C)Chanhudaro
    D)Banawali
    Answer: Lothal
  • Q. Who said, “Adolf Hitler is Germany and Germany is Adolf Hitler. He who pledges himself to Hitler pledges himself to Germany”?
    A)Mussolini
    B)R. Hess
    C)Hitler
    D)Communist International
    Answer: R. Hess
  • Q. The Industrial Revolution in England represented the climax of the transition from
    A)Feudalism to capitalism
    B)Slavery to feudalism
    C)Capitalism to socialism
    D)Socialism to market socialism
    Answer: Feudalism to capitalism

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