Q. Who were the three eminent statesmen who started the Non-aligned Movement?

Correct Answer

Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Marshal Tito

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    A)1876
    B)1863
    C)1893
    D)1897
    Answer: 1893
  • Q. Who was Lord Morley?
    A)Viceroy of India
    B)Secretary of the state
    C)Governor General of India
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Secretary of the state
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    A)Karl Marx
    B)Bernard Shaw
    C)Lenin
    D)Leo Tolstoy
    Answer: Leo Tolstoy
  • Q. The first atomic bomb was thrown over
    A)Hiroshima
    B)Nagasaki
    C)Tokyo
    D)Hong Kong
    Answer: Hiroshima
  • Q. The Rig Veda consists of
    A)1028 hymns
    B)1000 hymns
    C)500 hymns
    D)2000 hymns
    Answer: 1028 hymns
  • Q. Montagu who toured in India in 1918 was a
    A)Member of Viceroy's Council
    B)Member of Privy Council
    C)Secretary of State for India
    D)Viceroy of India
    Answer: Secretary of State for India
  • Q. Which of the following is the single most important source of the history of Ashoka?
    A)Buddhist works Divyavadana and Ashokavadana
    B)Sri Lankan chronicles Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa
    C)Inscriptions of Ashoka
    D)Archaeological Sources and the Puranas
    Answer: Inscriptions of Ashoka
  • Q. In 1848, an incident took place in his life that later sparked off the dalit-revolution in the Indian society. Jyotirao was invited to attend a wedding of one of his __________friends
    A)Christian
    B)Brahmin
    C)Pulaya
    D)Nayar
    Answer: Brahmin
  • Q. The famous painting ‘Monalisa’ was the creation of
    A)Leonardo-da-Vinci
    B)Michael Angelo
    C)Picasso
    D)Van Gogh
    Answer: Leonardo-da-Vinci
  • Q. Who among the following British Officials suppressed the Revolt of Jhansi?
    A)Henry Havelock
    B)Colin Campbell
    C)Henry Lawrence
    D)Hugh Rose
    Answer: Hugh Rose
  • Q. Who was one of the teachers of Alexander the Great
    A)Aristotle
    B)Plato
    C)Socrates
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Aristotle
  • Q. Who was called India’s Napoleon because of his victories?
    A)Chandragupta
    B)Skandagupta
    C)Brahmagupta
    D)Samudragupta
    Answer: Samudragupta
  • Q. Who was the Chief Architect of the World Trade Centre, New York?
    A)Minoru Yamasaki
    B)Le Corbusier
    C)Edwin Lutyens
    D)Charles Correa
    Answer: Minoru Yamasaki
  • Q. The first political association of India founded in 1891 was the
    A)Indian Association
    B)Landholders Society of Calcutta
    C)British Indian Association
    D)Madras Native Association
    Answer: Landholders Society of Calcutta
  • Q. Warren Hastings was appointed as the Governor of __________ in 1772
    A)Madras
    B)Bengal
    C)Bombay
    D)Delhi
    Answer: Bengal
  • Q. Of the following who was a poet and political thinker?
    A)Jinnah
    B)Gandhi
    C)Mohammed Iqbal
    D)Patel
    Answer: Mohammed Iqbal
  • Q. What was the strength of Indus economy?
    A)Business
    B)Agriculture
    C)Pottery
    D)Crockery
    Answer: Agriculture
  • Q. Who were associated with Indian league established in 1875 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) ?
    A)Kali Mohan Das and Arvindo Ghosh
    B)Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Arvindo Ghosh
    C)Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Sambhu Charan Mukherjee
    D)None of these
    Answer: Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Sambhu Charan Mukherjee
  • Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct about the women devotees of the period? I. Karaikkal Ammaiyar, a devotee of Shiva, adopted the path of extreme asceticism in order to attain her goal. II. Andal and Karaikkal Ammaiyar renounced their social obligations, but did not join an alternative order or become nuns.
    A)Only II
    B)Only I
    C)Both I & II
    D)none of the above
    Answer: Both I & II
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    A)Mahatma Gandhi
    B)Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
    C)Jawaharlal Nehru
    D)Rajagopalachari
    Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

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