Q. Ashoka’s prime claim to greatness lay in

Correct Answer

The promotion of people's welfare by him

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    A)Chattambi Swamikal
    B)Sree Narayana Guru
    C)K. Madhvan Nair
    D)Dr. Palpu
    Answer: Sree Narayana Guru
  • Q. The first President of the Ghadar Party – founded in 1913 in USA was
    A)Sohan Singh Bhakna
    B)Lata Hardayal
    C)Bhai Parmanand
    D)Sardar Ajit Singh
    Answer: Sohan Singh Bhakna
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    A)Dharma Sabha
    B)Arya Samaj
    C)Tattvabodhini Sabha
    D)Tattvabodhini Samaj
    Answer: Tattvabodhini Sabha
  • Q. The Portuguese built their first fort on India soil in the territory of the Raja of
    A)Cochin
    B)Calicut
    C)Daman
    D)Bijapur
    Answer: Cochin
  • Q. The court language of the Delhi Sultanate was
    A)Persian
    B)Urdu
    C)Hindi
    D)Arabic
    Answer: Persian
  • 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. The text of the document called Mahzar, by which Akbar assumed the role of supreme arbiter in the matters of religion is found in
    A)Arif Quandahari's Tarikh-I-Alfi
    B)Nizamuddin's Tabaqat-I-Akbari
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    Answer: Abul Fazl's Akbarnama
  • Q. The author of ‘Arthashastra’ was a contemporary of
    A)Chandragupta Maurya
    B)Ashoka
    C)Samudragupta
    D)Chandragupta Vikramaditya
    Answer: Chandragupta Maurya
  • Q. Chandragupta Maurya was born in
    A)563 BC
    B)340 BC
    C)189 BC
    D)99 BC
    Answer: 340 BC
  • Q. The Bahmani Kingdom was founded by
    A)Alauddin Hasan
    B)Ahmad Shah-I
    C)Mahmud Gavan
    D)Firoz shah Bahmani
    Answer: Alauddin Hasan
  • Q. The major Muslim organizations which opposed the partition of India were
    A)Khudai Khidmatgar
    B)The Jamiat-Ulema-hind
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  • Q. The monolithic image of Jain Saint ‘Gomatiswara’ is at __________
    A)Shravanbelagola
    B)Mount Abu
    C)Kusinagara
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    Answer: Shravanbelagola
  • Q. In what respect did Jainism differ from Buddhism?
    A)In denying the authority of the Vedas
    B)In its stress on the doctrine of ahimsa
    C)In opposing animal sacrifice
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    Answer: In its stress on the doctrine of ahimsa
  • Q. The revolt of 1857 had its beginning in
    A)Plassey
    B)Meerut
    C)Madras
    D)Bombay
    Answer: Meerut
  • Q. The writers of the East India Company had their training in the college at __________ in England
    A)Manchester
    B)London
    C)Liverpool
    D)Haileybury
    Answer: Haileybury
  • Q. Megasthenes was succeeded as ambassador by
    A)Demetrius
    B)Darius
    C)Deimachos
    D)Philip
    Answer: Deimachos
  • Q. Murshid Quli Khan, Alivardi Khan and Sirajuddaullah were all nawabs of__________ ?
    A)Varanasi
    B)Lucknow
    C)Hyderabad
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  • Q. According to Gregory of Tours, which of the following was true about Clovis’s conversion?
    A)He began to consider conversion when his army was defeated by the Christian Alamanni
    B)He was forced to convert by the bishops
    C)He forced his army to be baptized after he was
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  • Q. Who declared “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it”?
    A)Bal Gangadhara Tilak
    B)Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    C)Lala Lajpat Rai
    D)K.T Telang
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    B)Mumbai
    C)Kanyakumari
    D)Chennai
    Answer: Kanyakumari

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