More Questions on History
- 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. 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. When Narayana Guru attained the age of sixty, his birthday was observed throughout the west-coast from Mangalore to __________
A)Sri Lanka
B)Varkala
C)Kottayam
D)Calicut
Answer: Sri Lanka
- Q. Where is the Bara Imambara located?
A)Lucknow
B)Agra
C)Patna
D)Allahabad
Answer: Lucknow
- Q. When did the Battle of Crecy take place?
A)1337
B)1327
C)1346
D)1376
Answer: 1346
- Q. Which metal was first used by the Vedic people?
A)Gold
B)Silver
C)Iron
D)Copper
Answer: Copper
- Q. Annie Besant joined The Theosophical Society on 21 May __________
A)1878
B)1867
C)1879
D)1889
Answer: 1889
- Q. The ‘Three Jewels’ (Triratnas) of Jainism are
A)right action, right livelihood and right effort
B)right faith or intentions, right knowledge and right conduct
C)right thoughts, non-violence and non-attachment
D)right speech, right thinking and right behaviour
Answer: right faith or intentions, right knowledge and right conduct
- Q. Which was the first garden tomb in the Indian subcontinent?
A)Humayun's Tomb
B)Tomb of Jahangir
C)Taj Mahal
D)Tomb of Muhammad Iqbal
Answer: Humayun's Tomb
- Q. Who was the founder of Advaita vada or the doctrine of non-dualism?
A)Surdas
B)Adi Shankaracharya
C)Ramanuj
D)Kapil
Answer: Adi Shankaracharya
- Q. Who among the following writer’s book gives the detail information about the invasion of India by Alexander?
A)Megasthenes
B)Herodotus
C)Arrian
D)Ptolemy
Answer: Arrian
- Q. Wavell Plan- essentially dealing with Indian demand of self-rule and reconstitution of Viceroy’s Council was put forth by Lord Wavell in:
A)1942
B)1935
C)1945
D)1943
Answer: 1945
- Q. The Hindu Dharma Sangrakshini Sabha was formed in :
A)1883
B)1872
C)1886
D)1893
Answer: 1893
- Q. Which of these is not one of the titles adopted by Aurangzeb?
A)Padshah
B)Alamgir
C)Sultan Sulaiman
D)Ghazi
Answer: Sultan Sulaiman
- Q. From where did Acharya Vinoba Bhave start the Individual Satyagraha in 1940?
A)Pavnar in Maharashtra
B)Nadiad in Gujrat
C)Adyar in Tamil Nadu
D)Guntur in Andhra Pradesh
Answer: Pavnar in Maharashtra
- Q. Who among the following was impeached in the UK for his actions in India?
A)Lord Ripon
B)Lord Wavell
C)Lord Hastings
D)Lord Cornwallis
Answer: Lord Hastings
- Q. The Constituent Assembly was formed on the recommendations of the
A)Cabinet Mission Plan
B)Government of India Act, 1935
C)Cripps' Mission
D)Mountbatten Plan
Answer: Cabinet Mission Plan
- Q. The medieval Hindu ruler who was a contemporary of Akbar, and took the title of Vikramaditya was
A)Sadasiva Raya (of Vijayanagar)
B)Rana Pratap (of Mewar)
C)Raja Man Singh (of Amber)
D)Hemachandra (Hemu)
Answer: Hemachandra (Hemu)
- Q. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was an ascetic Hindu monk and social reformer in 16th century was from
A)Assam
B)Bihar
C)Orissa
D)Bengal
Answer: Bengal
- Q. Assertion (A): The invasions of Krishnadeva Raya into the territories of Prataparudra were inconclusive. Reason (R): Krishnadeva Raya invaded the territories of the Gajpathi not for the latter’s extinction but only for the recovery of lost territories.
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: A is false but R is true
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