More Questions on History
- Q. The script of the Indus Valley Civilization was
A)Persian
B)Dravidian
C)Sanskrit
D)Undecipherable
Answer: Undecipherable
- Q. Who invented kerosene?
A)Benjamin Silliman
B)Abraham Pineo Gesner
C)Edwin Drake
D)John William Dawson
Answer: Abraham Pineo Gesner
- Q. Who has been called the ‘Heroine’ of the 1942 Quit India Movement?
A)Sucheta Kripalani
B)Annie Besant
C)Sarojini Naidu
D)Aruna Asaf Ali
Answer: Aruna Asaf Ali
- Q. What is ‘Milind panho’?
A)One of the names of Buddha
B)A Buddhist place
C)A Buddhist Specimen of Art
D)Buddhist text
Answer: Buddhist text
- Q. __________edited the journal of Poona Sarvajanik Sabha
A)W. C. Banerjee
B)Gokhale
C)Ranade
D)S. N. Banerjee
Answer: Gokhale
- 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
- Q. Madame HP Blavatsky had laid the foundation of the Theosophical Society in the year
A)1864
B)1853
C)1875
D)1886
Answer: 1875
- Q. The quintessence of Gandhian thought is
A)Metaphysics
B)Satyagraha
C)Spiritualism
D)Moksha
Answer: Satyagraha
- Q. Who is the first crowned Czar (Tsar) of Russia
A)Ivan IV (the Terrible)
B)Peter I
C)Nicholas I
D)John Adams
Answer: Ivan IV (the Terrible)
- Q. Where can the finest examples of medieval architecture be seen?
A)Castles
B)Cathedrals
C)Homes of townspeople
D)Universities
Answer: Cathedrals
- Q. Who established the Sadr-Di-wani-Adalat during the British East India Company’s rule?
A)Warren Hastings
B)Wellesley
C)Dalhousie
D)Cornwallis
Answer: Warren Hastings
- Q. Who coined the phrase “survival of the fittest”?
A)Charles Darwin
B)Auguste Comte
C)Emile Durkheim
D)Herbert Spencer
Answer: Herbert Spencer
- Q. The Hundred Years’ War (from 1337 to 1453) was fought between
A)Germany and Russia
B)England and France
C)America and Argentina
D)England and Germany
Answer: England and France
- Q. The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system prevalent in
A)Mongolia
B)Persia
C)Afghanistan
D)Turkey
Answer: Mongolia
- Q. In which of following Buddhist councils compilation of holy books was completed?
A)Pataliputra
B)Rajgir
C)Kashmir
D)Vaishali
Answer: Rajgir
- Q. In which language were the Buddhist-texts ‘Pitakas’ composed?
A)Ardhamagadhi
B)Sanskrit
C)Pali
D)Prakrit
Answer: Pali
- Q. Who was the ruler of the kingdom between the rivers Jhelum and Chenab?
A)Darius III
B)Alexander the Great
C)King Porus
D)Chandragupta Maurya
Answer: King Porus
- Q. Abhinandannath Tirthankar initiated first Parna after how many days of receipt of Diksha?
A)Two
B)One
C)Three
D)Four
Answer: Two
- Q. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
A)Lord Minto - India Councils Act, 1909
B)Lord Dalhousie - Doctrine of Lapse
C)Lord Wellesley - Subsidiary Alliance
D)Lord Curzon - Vernacular Press Act, 1878
Answer: Lord Curzon - Vernacular Press Act, 1878
- Q. The first Viceroy of India was
A)Lord Hardinge
B)Lord Canning
C)Lord Dalhousie
D)Lord Elgin
Answer: Lord Canning
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