More Questions on History
- Q. After which Tirthankar, Sambhavanath Tirthankar was born?
A)Ajitnath
B)Rishabnath
C)Abhinandan
D)Padyaprabhu
Answer: Ajitnath
- Q. The organization of Khudai Khidmatgar was established:
A)Under the leadership of Abul Kalam Azad
B)Under the leadership of Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan.
C)Under the leadership of M.A. Ansari
D)Under the leadership of Syed Hasan Imam
Answer: Under the leadership of Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan.
- Q. Where is the longest corridor of the temple?
A)Madurai
B)Shreerangam
C)Tiruchendur
D)Rameshwaram
Answer: Rameshwaram
- Q. Which foreigner arrived in India on Nov. 16, 1893?
A)W A Hume
B)Khan Abdul Gaffar
C)Annie Besant
D)None of these
Answer: Annie Besant
- Q. Adilabad fort and the city of Jahanpanah was built by?
A)Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
B)Alauddin Khalji
C)Muhammad bin Tughluq
D)None of the above
Answer: Muhammad bin Tughluq
- Q. The Mohammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh was founded by
A)Mohammad Ali
B)Md. Ali Jinnah
C)Saukat Ali
D)Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan
Answer: Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan
- Q. Till when did the Hundred Years’ War last?
A)1377
B)1327
C)1376
D)1453
Answer: 1453
- Q. Where had Qutub-ud-din Aibak got constructed the Adhai-din-ka Jhonpra (Hut of Two-and-a-half- Days)?
A)Ajmer
B)Agra
C)Delhi
D)Fatehpur Sikri
Answer: Ajmer
- Q. In early 1898 Swami Vivekananda acquired a big plot of land on the western bank of the Ganga at a place called . . . . . to have a permanent abode for the monastery and monastic order originally started at Baranagar, and got it registered as Ramakrishna Math after a couple of years
A)Lahore
B)Allahabad
C)Amritsar
D)Belur
Answer: Belur
- Q. The ‘Sepoy Mutiny’ was in the year __________
A)1757
B)1657
C)1765
D)1857
Answer: 1857
- Q. The original Buddhist religious texts had been written in
A)Sanskrit
B)Brahmi
C)Pali
D)Magadhi
Answer: Pali
- Q. What did the Hunter Commission appointed by the Viceroy probe?
A)Khilafat Agitation
B)Bardoli Satyagraha
C)Jallianwala Bagh tragedy
D)Chauri Chaura incident
Answer: Jallianwala Bagh tragedy
- Q. The Battle of the Hydaspes was fought by Alexander the Great against
A)Bessus
B)King Darius III
C)King Porus
D)Spitamenes
Answer: King Porus
- Q. Where is the Bada Imambara located?
A)Lucknow
B)Agra
C)Patna
D)Allahabad
Answer: Lucknow
- Q. Despite holding a monopoly, the East India Company had faced competition from what it had termed as the ‘interlopers’ represented by the
A)Indigenous merchants
B)Portuguese
C)British free merchants
D)Dutch
Answer: British free merchants
- Q. Which country first invented Gunpowder in around 270 AD
A)India
B)China
C)Korea
D)England
Answer: China
- Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct about Alvars and Nayanars? I. Some of the earliest bhakti movements (c. sixth century) were led by the Alvars (literally, those who are “immersed” in devotion to Vishnu) and Nayanars (literally, leaders who were devotees of Shiva). II. They travelled from place to place singing hymns in Tamil in praise of their gods. III. During their travels the Alvars and Nayanars identified certain shrines as abodes of their chosen deities
A)I and II
B)Only I
C)I and III
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. In which one of the following do we come across a detailed account of the municipal administration of Mauryas?
A)The account of Megasthenes
B)The Arthashastra of Kautilya
C)The Mudrarakshasa
D)Mauryan inscription
Answer: The account of Megasthenes
- Q. Which of the following statement is not true about the Indian National Congress?
A)W.C. Bannerjee was the first president of congress
B)It was formed in 1885
C)It was formed when 72 delegates from all the presidencies and provinces of India met at Bombay
D)Its founder, Allan Octavian Hume, was a retired British professor in India
Answer: Its founder, Allan Octavian Hume, was a retired British professor in India
- Q. Ibn Batuta visited India during the reign of
A)Alauddin Khalji
B)Iltutmish
C)Muhammad bin Tughlaq
D)Balban
Answer: Muhammad bin Tughlaq
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