Q. Ashoka’s prime claim to greatness lay in

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The promotion of people's welfare by him

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    A)Nelson Mandela
    B)Bertrand Russel
    C)Albert Einstein
    D)Leo Tolstoy
    Answer: Albert Einstein
  • Q. Abdul Hamid Lahori is the author of
    A)Padshah Nama
    B)Muntakhab-ul-Tawarikh
    C)Alamgir Nama
    D)Muntakhab-ul-Lubab
    Answer: Padshah Nama
  • Q. Babur (1526-1530 AD) was the ruler of which dynasty?
    A)Nanda
    B)Mughal
    C)Maurya
    D)Haryanka
    Answer: Mughal
  • Q. Which one of the following Harappan sites is NOT located in Gujarat?
    A)Rangpur
    B)Surkotada
    C)Sutkagendor
    D)Desalpur
    Answer: Sutkagendor
  • Q. Who introduced the Subsidiary Alliance System in India?
    A)Lord Ripan
    B)Lord Dalhousie
    C)Lord Wellesley
    D)None of these
    Answer: Lord Wellesley
  • Q. During the freedom struggle a parallel movement launched in the Indian states (in the states ruled by the Indian rulers such as Kashmir, Nizam’s Hyderabad, Travancore, etc.) was/were
    A)Praja Mandal Movement
    B)State People's Movement
    C)Both A and B above
    D)Swaraj Movement
    Answer: Both A and B above
  • Q. Who was the second President of America
    A)Andrew Jackson
    B)Thomas Jefferson
    C)Abraham Lincoln
    D)John Adams
    Answer: John Adams
  • Q. Who wrote in 1900 to the Secretary of state for India-‘It is my firm belief that the congress is staggering towards its downfall and it is my great desire that during my stay in India I should help in its peaceful demise?”
    A)Lord Hardinge
    B)Lord Curzon
    C)Lord Chelmsford
    D)Lord Minto
    Answer: Lord Curzon
  • Q. Who is called the “Greatest Investigator of Antiquity”?
    A)Darwin
    B)Aristotle
    C)Cuvier
    D)Socrates
    Answer: Darwin
  • Q. During the first Carnatic War, the French Governor-General of Pondicherry was
    A)Captain Paradise
    B)La Bourdonnais
    C)Dupleix
    D)Count-de-Lally
    Answer: Dupleix
  • Q. Which of the following statement is not true about the Indian National Congress?
    A)W.C. Bannerjee was the first president of congress
    B)It was formed in 1885
    C)It was formed when 72 delegates from all the presidencies and provinces of India met at Bombay
    D)Its founder, Allan Octavian Hume, was a retired British professor in India
    Answer: Its founder, Allan Octavian Hume, was a retired British professor in India
  • Q. Akbar (1556-1605 AD) was the ruler of which dynasty?
    A)Maurya
    B)Nanda
    C)Mughal
    D)Haryanka
    Answer: Mughal
  • Q. The immediate cause for the outbreak of the first World War was
    A)The imprisonment of Lenin
    B)The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
    C)The ambition of America to dominate the world
    D)The sudden death of Lloyd George
    Answer: The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
  • Q. Which of the following is not correct about Prarthana Samaj?
    A)The Prarthana Samaj was founded by Athmaram panduranga (with the help of Keshav Chandra Sen)
    B)The Prarthana Samaj was founded in Bombay in1867
    C)The main aim behind the establishment of the Prarthana Samaj was to make people believe in one God and worship only one God
    D)This society was against the widow remarriage
    Answer: This society was against the widow remarriage
  • Q. Under the Mughal rule the judicial service was formed by
    A)Diwan
    B)Vakil
    C)Kazis
    D)Mansabdars
    Answer: Kazis
  • Q. Sumtinath Tirthankara was born from whose womb?
    A)Marudevi
    B)Tara
    C)Vijaya
    D)Sumangla
    Answer: Sumangla
  • Q. Alauddin Khalji’s commander who led the campaign to South India was
    A)Ulugh Khan
    B)Alpkhan
    C)Nusarat Khan
    D)Malik Kafur
    Answer: Malik Kafur
  • Q. The first Indian Governor of a British Province (Bihar) in India was
    A)Sir Shaukat Hayat
    B)Sir SP Sinha
    C)Sir Hari Singh Gaur
    D)VJ Patel
    Answer: Sir SP Sinha
  • Q. The English established their first factory in India at
    A)Surat
    B)Bombay
    C)Sutanati
    D)Madras
    Answer: Surat
  • Q. The title of ‘Viceroy’ was added to the office of the Governor-General of India for the first time in
    A)1856 AD
    B)1848 AD
    C)1858 AD
    D)1862 AD
    Answer: 1858 AD

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