More Questions on History
- Q. Which of the following Sikh Guru compiled the Adi Granth?
A)Guru Govind Singh
B)Guru Nanak
C)Guru Arjan Dev
D)Guru Har rai
Answer: Guru Arjan Dev
- Q. When did the British East India Company establish a capital in Calcutta?
A)1818
B)1772
C)1858
D)1857
Answer: 1772
- Q. Under the Mughals the Governor was popularly known as
A)Wazir
B)Subahdar
C)Vakil
D)Faujdar
Answer: Subahdar
- Q. The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on :
A)June 5, 1931
B)July 5, 1931
C)March 5, 1931
D)January 5, 1931
Answer: March 5, 1931
- Q. Which Satyagraha was held at Nagpur in 1923?
A)Individual Satyagraha
B)Salt Satyagraha
C)Ryots Satyagraha
D)Flag Satyagraha
Answer: Flag Satyagraha
- Q. The accounts of Kalinga war is depicted by
A)Ruminidei
B)Rock edict XIII
C)Kalsi
D)Junagarh
Answer: Rock edict XIII
- Q. Diu was the colony of the __________
A)English
B)Portuguese
C)Dutch
D)French
Answer: Portuguese
- Q. The earliest specimen of Kavya style is found in?
A)Ellora
B)Ajanta
C)Kathiawar
D)Mohenjodaro
Answer: Kathiawar
- Q. Which dynasty ruled over ‘Magadha’ after Mauryan Dynasty?
A)Shunga
B)Satavahan
C)Nanda
D)Kanva
Answer: Shunga
- Q. Which one of the following sequences represents the correct chronological order?
A)Shahji, Shivaji, Sambhaji, Rajaram
B)Shahji, Shivaji, Rajaram, Sambhaji
C)Shahji, Sambhaji, Shivaji, Rajaram
D)Sambhaji, Shivaji, Shahji, Rajaram
Answer: Shahji, Shivaji, Sambhaji, Rajaram
- Q. Assuming the title of Alamgir, Aurangzeb crowned himself as Emperor on July 21, 1658 at
A)Aurangabad
B)Agra
C)Fatehpur Sikri
D)Delhi
Answer: Delhi
- Q. In the year 1582, Akbar took the momentous step of
A)Removing Jaziya
B)Banning Sati
C)Forming an army of jackals
D)Propounding a new religion Din-i-Ilahi
Answer: Propounding a new religion Din-i-Ilahi
- Q. Assertion (A): Akbar claimed divinity for himself. Reason (R): He thought that in the country of many beliefs such as India, the sovereign should not be associated with any one particular religion.
A)Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
C)A is true but R is false
D)A is false but R is true
Answer: A is true but R is false
- Q. The film Mangal Pandey released in August 2005 deals with
A)Netaji Subash Bose's fight against British occupation of India
B)Jallianwala Bagh tragedy
C)The first war of Indian Independence in 1857
D)The partition of India and Pakistan
Answer: The first war of Indian Independence in 1857
- Q. Who said – “patriotism is religion and religion is love for India?”
A)Bipin Chandra Pal
B)Bhagat Singh
C)Ashok Mehta
D)Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Answer: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
- Q. Indonesia was a colony of which of the following countries?
A)Portugal
B)Dutch
C)Spain
D)Belgium
Answer: Dutch
- Q. Potato was introduced to Europe by
A)Germans
B)Portuguese
C)Spanish
D)Dutch
Answer: Spanish
- Q. Who contemptuously referred to Mahatma Gandhi as a halfnaked fakir?
A)Lord Irwin
B)Lord Wavell
C)Lord Willingdon
D)Winston Churchill
Answer: Winston Churchill
- Q. Which of the following was common to both the Harappan society and the Rigvedic society?
A)Female deities
B)Horse
C)Urban centres
D)Iron implements
Answer: Horse
- Q. Who was the 1st President of South Africa after apartheid?
A)Nelson Mandela
B)Zuma
C)Kofi Annan
D)Booker T. Washington
Answer: Nelson Mandela
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