More Questions on History
- Q. Who established the four monasteries Sringeri, Badrinath, Dwarka & Puri?
A)Ashoka
B)Ramanuj
C)Shankaracharya
D)Madhav Vidhyaranya
Answer: Shankaracharya
- Q. __________was the first Mughal Emperor to acquire Koh-i-noor diamond
A)Akbar
B)Humayun
C)Jahangir
D)Shah Jahan
Answer: Jahangir
- Q. The Hindu College was started in 1817 at
A)Bombay
B)Calcutta
C)Madras
D)Pondicherry
Answer: Calcutta
- Q. During whose reign did the Gandhara School of Art blossom?
A)Ashok
B)Harsha
C)Kanishka
D)Chandragupta-II
Answer: Kanishka
- Q. Which was probably the most popular assembly in which even women enjoyed an equal status with men in the Early Vedic period?
A)Samiti
B)Sabha
C)Gana
D)Vidatha
Answer: Vidatha
- Q. The great silk-route to the Indians was opened by
A)Ashoka
B)Kanishka
C)Harsha
D)Fa-Hien
Answer: Kanishka
- Q. Which Nazi Field Marshal is known as the ‘Desert Fox’
A)Erwin Rommel
B)Viktor Brack
C)Hans Frank
D)Hermann Goring
Answer: Erwin Rommel
- Q. The State Jhansi was made a part of the British Empire in India through
A)Policy of Subsidiaty Alliance
B)Doctrine of Lapse
C)War against Rani Lakshmi Bai
D)None of the above
Answer: Doctrine of Lapse
- Q. Identify the body among the following that was not founded by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar?
A)People's Education Society
B)Samaj Samato Sangh
C)Deccan Education Society
D)Depressed Classes Institute
Answer: Deccan Education Society
- Q. The greatest Kushana ruler whose contribution to Buddhism was even greater than that of Ashoka, was
A)Kanishka I
B)Kadphises
C)Vasishka
D)Huvishka
Answer: Kanishka I
- Q. This Vedic God was ‘a breaker of the forts’ and also a ‘war god’
A)Yama
B)Indra
C)Marut
D)Varuna
Answer: Indra
- Q. Bengal British India Society founded in Calcutta on 20 April 1843, was the __________ political public association to be formed in British India, the first being the zamindari association (1837)
A)Second
B)First
C)Third
D)Fourth
Answer: Second
- Q. Who was the first English President of the Indian National Congress?
A)William Wedderburn
B)George Yule
C)A. O. Hume
D)Henry Cotton
Answer: George Yule
- Q. Where does Dutch founded their first factory in India?
A)Masaulipatam
B)Nagapatam
C)Pulicat
D)Cochin
Answer: Masaulipatam
- Q. Who founded the Central Hindu School and College in Banaras (now Varanasi)?
A)Dr. Bhagavan Das
B)Annie Besant
C)Govinda Das
D)G. N. Chakravarti
Answer: Annie Besant
- Q. Who was known as the Morning star of Renaissance
A)Dante
B)Montesquieu
C)Shakespeare
D)Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Q. Which ruler murdered his father, Bimbisara to ascend the throne?
A)Ajatshatru
B)Ashoka
C)Kanishka
D)Simukha
Answer: Ajatshatru
- Q. What name was given to Rishabhnath Tirthankar due to his father Nabhiraya?
A)Anantnath
B)Dharam Nath
C)Chandra Prabhu
D)Nabhisunu
Answer: Nabhisunu
- Q. The Non-Cooperation Movement was withdrawn in 1922 because of
A)The Congress' extremist policies
B)Gandhi's ill health
C)Afervent appeal by the government to do so
D)Violence erupting at Chauri Chaura
Answer: Violence erupting at Chauri Chaura
- 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
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