More Questions on History
- Q. Tripitakas’ are sacred books of
A)Jains
B)Hindus
C)Parsis
D)Buddhists
Answer: Buddhists
- Q. Whose teachings inspired the French Revolution?
A)Rousseau
B)Locke
C)Hegel
D)Plato
Answer: Rousseau
- Q. Who in the year 1907 unfurled the first national flag at the International socialist conference in Stuttgart (Germany)?
A)Subash Chandra Bose
B)Madame Bhikaji Cama
C)Jawahar Lal Nehru
D)Sardar Patel
Answer: Madame Bhikaji Cama
- Q. The caves and rock-cut temples at Ellora are?
A)Hindu and Muslim
B)Buddhist and Jain
C)Buddhist only
D)Hindu, Buddhist and Jain
Answer: Hindu, Buddhist and Jain
- Q. Megasthanes, the ambassador of Selucus at the Mauryan court in Pataliputra, wrote an account of the period in his book
A)Indika
B)Travels of Megasthanes
C)Indicoplecusts
D)Both (B) and (C)
Answer: Indika
- Q. In Tamil Nadu, the movement started with __________ and __________
A)The Vaisnava Alvars
B)The Saiva Nayanars
C)Nirguna Saints
D)Both A & B
Answer: Both A & B
- Q. Which Viceroy of India had largest tenure during British rule:
A)Lord Mountbatten
B)Lord Linlithgow
C)Lord Bentick
D)None of above
Answer: Lord Linlithgow
- Q. During the reign of which ruler Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta visited India?
A)Akbar
B)Aurangazeb
C)Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
D)Alauddin Khalji
Answer: Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
- Q. Who was the founder of ‘Gadhar party’
A)Chandarshekhar Azad
B)Sachindranath Sanyal
C)Lala Har Dayal
D)Batukeshwar Dutt
Answer: Lala Har Dayal
- Q. Who was the Emperor of Russia during Russian Revolution
A)Nicholas II
B)Alexander III
C)Nicholas I
D)Alexander II
Answer: Nicholas II
- Q. Who, among the following rulers, organised the Second Buddhist Council?
A)Kalasoka
B)Ajatashatru
C)Ashoka
D)Ananda
Answer: Kalasoka
- Q. Aurangzeb, in his attempt to annex Marwar to the Mughal empire, was involved in a 30-year war. During these long years the most valiant struggle from the side of Marwar was fought by
A)Durgadas
B)Ajit Singh
C)Hadas of Bundi
D)Indra Singh
Answer: Durgadas
- Q. Subsidiary Alliance was introduced by __________
A)Sir John Shore
B)Lord Wellesley
C)Robert Clive
D)Lord Dalhousie
Answer: Lord Wellesley
- Q. What was the official language of the Sultanate?
A)Urdu
B)Persian
C)Arabic
D)Hindi
Answer: Persian
- Q. Humayun was born in the year
A)1608
B)1508
C)1708
D)1808
Answer: 1508
- Q. Which of the following are the reasons for which Wahabi / Walliullah movement was started?
A)Encouraging to give up puradh system
B)Spreading education among Muslim women
C)Reviving Muslim principles in response to western influences
D)Propagating Quran as the only source
Answer: Reviving Muslim principles in response to western influences
- Q. The striking feature of the Indus Valley Civilization was
A)Agrarian Civilization
B)Urban Civilization
C)Mesolithic Civilization
D)Paleolithic Civilization
Answer: Urban Civilization
- Q. Which of the following newspaper was started by Annie Besant?
A)Indian Express
B)The Hindu
C)The Times of India
D)New India
Answer: New India
- 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. Who was the first known Gupta ruler?
A)Chandragupta - I
B)Sri Gupta
C)Ghatotkacha
D)Kumaragupta - I
Answer: Sri Gupta
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