More Questions on History
- Q. Who received the title of ‘shogun’ in 1603?
A)Kuroda Yoshitaka
B)Ishida Mitsunari
C)Oda Nobunaga
D)Tokugawa Leyasu
Answer: Tokugawa Leyasu
- Q. The Buland Darwaza was built to mark Akbar’s conquest of
A)Malwa
B)Awadh
C)Gujarat
D)Chittor
Answer: Gujarat
- Q. Who, among the following, was not a part of the Mauryan dynasty?
A)Bindusara
B)Ajatsatru
C)Chandragupta Maurya
D)None of these
Answer: Ajatsatru
- Q. Cold War refers to
A)Ideological rivalry between Capitalist and Communist world
B)Tension between East and West
C)Tension between Superpowers
D)Tension between Superpowers
Answer: Tension between East and West
- Q. The Mughal School of Painting was interested in portraying
A)Domestic subjects
B)Mughal court
C)Scenes from the Indian classics
D)The scenes of their motherland
Answer: Mughal court
- Q. Shivaji attacked Shaista Khan in the night at
A)Konkan
B)Agra
C)Bijapur
D)Poona
Answer: Poona
- Q. What was the suitable language for source material in Ancient Times?
A)Pali
B)Sanskrit
C)Brahmi
D)Kharoshthi
Answer: Sanskrit
- Q. Mahatma Gandhi launched Kheda Satyagrah on Gujrat in 1918 to support the cause of :
A)Land Lords
B)Mill Owners
C)The peasants
D)Kol Rebellion
Answer: The peasants
- Q. Who was the founder of Satyashodhak Samaj?
A)Gopal Hari Deshmukh
B)Jyotiba Phule
C)Mahadew Govind Ranade
D)Ramakrishna Bhandarkar
Answer: Jyotiba Phule
- Q. The Congress ministries gave up office in October 1939 over the issue of
A)propaganda of the Muslim League against the Congress
B)constant interference by Governors in day-to-day administration
C)India having been unwillingly dragged into the Second World War
D)failure of the British to define their war aims
Answer: failure of the British to define their war aims
- Q. Who had paned the Vernacular Press Act into law?
A)Lord Hardinge
B)Lord Mayo
C)Lord Dalhousie
D)Lord Lytton
Answer: Lord Lytton
- Q. The British Government intervened in the affairs of the Company and passed an Act in 1773 A.D., known as the
A)Pitt's India Act
B)Regulating Act
C)Charter Act
D)Company Act
Answer: Regulating Act
- Q. When was Socrates born?
A)465 BC
B)469 BC
C)460 BC
D)449 BC
Answer: 469 BC
- Q. Bal Gangadhar Tilak popularly known as Lokamanya Tilak was born in 1856 at
A)Pune
B)Ratnagiri
C)Mumbai
D)None of these
Answer: Ratnagiri
- Q. Who built Red Fort?
A)Akbar
B)Humayun
C)Shah Jahan
D)Aurangzeb
Answer: Shah Jahan
- Q. When Alexander invaded India, Taxila was ruled by
A)Porus
B)Ambhi
C)Ashoka
D)Bimbisara
Answer: Ambhi
- Q. Who, among the following, has been known as the ‘Frontier Gandhi’?
A)Khan Saheb
B)Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
C)Chaudhary Shaukatullah
D)Liaquat Ali Khan
Answer: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
- Q. Who said “Man is a social animal”?
A)Rousseau
B)Aristotle
C)Laski
D)Plato
Answer: Aristotle
- Q. In the Mughal period the registers of the agricultural lands were maintained by
A)Qanungo
B)Kotwal
C)Amin
D)Krori
Answer: Qanungo
- Q. The declaration of the Rights of Man is related with
A)The French Revolution
B)The Russian Revolution
C)The American War of Independence
D)The Glorious Revolution of England
Answer: The French Revolution
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