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Q. Who was the first sailor to sail around the world

A
Vasco da Gama
B
Ferdinand Magellan
C
Christopher Columbus
D
Amerigo Vespucci

Correct Answer

Ferdinand Magellan

More Questions on History

  • Q. Who started the Saka Era which is still used by the Government of India?
    A)Vikramaditya
    B)Kanishka
    C)Samudra Gupta
    D)Ashoka
    Answer: Kanishka
  • Q. In violation of the Salt Laws, Gandhiji started a movement called
    A)Swadeshi Movement
    B)Non-Cooperation movement
    C)Civil Disobedience movement
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Civil Disobedience movement
  • Q. The day (22 December 1939) the Congress Ministries resigned in the Provinces the Muslim League observed
    A)Direct Action Day
    B)Deliverance Day
    C)Victory Day
    D)Alliance Day
    Answer: Deliverance Day
  • Q. Who spoke “At the stroke of midnight, when the world sleeps, India awakes to life and freedom”?
    A)Mahatma Gandhi
    B)Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
    C)Jawaharlal Nehru
    D)Rajagopalachari
    Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Q. To whom is the introduction of Buddhism into China traditionally attributed?
    A)Samprati
    B)Nagarjuna
    C)Vasubandhu
    D)Kashyapa Matanga
    Answer: Kashyapa Matanga
  • Q. By which act of British India, was the Governor General empowered to issue ordinance ?
    A)Charter Act of 1853
    B)Indian Councils Act, 1861
    C)Government of India Act, 1858
    D)Indian Council Act, 1892
    Answer: Indian Councils Act, 1861
  • Q. Who from the following leaders was not assassinated?
    A)Liaqat Ali Khan
    B)Mahatma Gandhi
    C)Muhammad Ali Jinnah
    D)Lord Louis Mountbatten
    Answer: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • Q. The inaugural issue of Bombay Darpan, a Marathi weekly, was published on November 12, 1832 started by a publisher reformer named
    A)Vishnu Shastri
    B)Jagannath Shankar
    C)Bal Shastri
    D)Krishna Shastri
    Answer: Bal Shastri
  • Q. According to Jainis, at which place Abhinandannath attained Nirvana?
    A)Shri Keshriyaji Tirtha
    B)Sammed Shikhar
    C)Parasnath
    D)Sarnath
    Answer: Sammed Shikhar
  • Q. The war of Falklands was fought between which two countries
    A)England and French
    B)USA and Brazil
    C)Japan and Korea
    D)England and Argentina
    Answer: England and Argentina
  • Q. The most famous Chera ruler was
    A)Nedunjeraladan
    B)Udiyanjeral
    C)Senguttuvan
    D)Sengannan
    Answer: Senguttuvan
  • Q. The Muslim League demanded creation of Pakistan (Pakistan Resolution) in its session held on March 24, 1940 at
    A)Lahore
    B)Karachi
    C)Islamabad
    D)Aligarh
    Answer: Lahore
  • Q. Who is also known as ‘Bard of Avon’
    A)Karl Marx
    B)William Wordsworth
    C)William Shakespeare
    D)John Milton
    Answer: William Shakespeare
  • Q. Where Ajitnatha Tirthankar was born?
    A)Kiskindha
    B)Ayodhya
    C)Nasik
    D)Ujjain
    Answer: Ayodhya
  • Q. In 1906 Dadabhai Naoroji had passed a resolution approving the issues of swadeshi and national education in:
    A)The Lucknow Session of the Indian National congress
    B)The Calcutta Session of the Indian National congress
    C)The Meerut Session of the Indian National congress
    D)The Lahore Session of the Indian National congress
    Answer: The Calcutta Session of the Indian National congress
  • Q. During the reign of Kanishka, Buddhism for the first time went to China and from China it went to
    A)Thailand and Cambodia
    B)Burma and Tibet
    C)Korea and Japan
    D)Indonesia and Vietnam
    Answer: Korea and Japan
  • Q. Find out the correct match of the following
    A)Adam Khan - Akbar
    B)Asaf Khan - Akbar
    C)Bairam Khan - Akbar
    D)Shaista Khan - Akbar
    Answer: Bairam Khan - Akbar
  • Q. Which Indian literature is a collection of 1028 hymns written in Vedic Sanskrit?
    A)Sama Vedas
    B)Rig Vedas
    C)Brahamans
    D)Aryankas
    Answer: Rig Vedas
  • Q. Assertion (A): Wazir Nizam-ul-Mulk left Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah to realize his own ambition of founding the State of Hyderabad. Reason (R): Muhammad Shah, instead of supporting his able Wazir, intrigued against him.
    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: Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
  • Q. Who is regarded as as the ‘father of modern India’
    A)Swami Dayananda Saraswati
    B)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
    C)Sri Aurobindo
    D)Bhagat Singh
    Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy

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