More Questions on History
- Q. What was the name of architect of Humayun’s Tomb?
A)Baram Khan
B)Man Singh
C)Mirak Mirza
D)Abul Fazal
Answer: Mirak Mirza
- Q. The East India Company was founded in India during the reign of
A)Jahangir
B)Shah Jahan
C)Akbar
D)Aurangzeb
Answer: Akbar
- Q. Which of the following writers has called Akbar’s Din-i-Ilahi as a monument of his folly, not of wisdom?
A)Vincent Smith
B)Badayuni
C)Barni
D)W.Haig
Answer: Vincent Smith
- Q. The year of accession of Kanishka to throne was
A)78 AD
B)108 AD
C)58 AD
D)128AD
Answer: 78 AD
- Q. The Atharva Veda does not discuss the ideal of
A)Jnana
B)Karma
C)Upasana
D)Moksha
Answer: Moksha
- Q. What was the number of monks in the religious family of Ajitnath Tirthankar?
A)One lakh
B)50 thousand
C)One lakh fifty thousand
D)Two lakh
Answer: One lakh
- Q. Who among the following was the first grammarian of the Sanskrit language?
A)Maitreyi
B)Kalhana
C)Kalidasa
D)Panini
Answer: Panini
- Q. Gandhi wanted the students to spend their vacations in
A)Social service
B)Studies
C)Games
D)Rebellious deeds
Answer: Social service
- Q. Which of the following Congress leader rejected the ‘August Offer’ of 1940?
A)Lord Linlithgow
B)Lord Wavell
C)Sir George Stanley
D)Lord Willingdon
Answer: Lord Linlithgow
- Q. The building of the famous Kailasa temple at Ellora was executed under the Rashtrakuta king
A)Govinda-III
B)Amoghavarsha-I
C)Indra-III
D)Krishna-I
Answer: Krishna-I
- Q. Who among the following, propounded the theory of zero?
A)Chanakya
B)Charak
C)Aryabhatta
D)Varahamihira
Answer: Aryabhatta
- Q. The Vijayanagara king who employed skilled archers of the Turkish clan and raised the fighting capacity of his bowmen was
A)Devaraya I
B)Bukka I
C)Krishnadevaraya
D)Ramaraya
Answer: Devaraya I
- Q. The use of spinning wheel (Charkha) became common during the
A)10th Century AD
B)9th Century AD
C)12th Century AD
D)14th Century AD
Answer: 14th Century AD
- Q. Shivaji attacked Shaista Khan in the night at
A)Konkan
B)Agra
C)Bijapur
D)Poona
Answer: Poona
- Q. Till when did the Wars of the Roses last?
A)1431
B)1420
C)1453
D)1487
Answer: 1487
- Q. __________, second President of The Theosophical Society from 1907 to 1933, was described as a ‘Diamond Soul’, for she had many brilliant facets to her character
A)Krishnamohan Banerjee
B)Annie Besant
C)Hari Mohan
D)Govind Chandra Sen
Answer: Annie Besant
- Q. Assertion (A): British excluded the Indian middle and upper classes from the high administrative and military posts. Reason (R): Many of the traditional zamindars lost their zamindaris to the new class of urban-based absentee landlords
A)Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R is 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 false but R is true
- Q. Mahatma Gandhi gave up the title of Kaiser-i-Hind and returned all the war medals which were awarded to him by the British for his war services (during the First World War)
A)during the Non-Cooperation Movement
B)in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy
C)in support of the Khilafat demand when the Central Khilafat Committee organised a general all-India hartal on August 1, 1920
D)during the Champaran Satyagraha
Answer: in support of the Khilafat demand when the Central Khilafat Committee organised a general all-India hartal on August 1, 1920
- Q. Which Rashtrakuta ruler built the famous Kailash temple of Shiva at Ellora?
A)Amoghvarsha-I
B)Dantidurga
C)Krishna-I
D)Vatsraja
Answer: Krishna-I
- Q. As per Pitt’s India Act the Committee of Secrecy would consist of three members of __________
A)The Court of Directors
B)The Board of Control
C)The House of Commons
D)The House of Lords
Answer: The Court of Directors
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