More Questions on History
- Q. The battle of Plassey was fought between
A)East India Company and Tipu Sultan
B)East India Company and Ahmad Shah
C)East India Company and Sirajuddaulla
D)East India Company and Anwaruddin
Answer: East India Company and Sirajuddaulla
- Q. From where the Mansabdari system was borrowed?
A)Turkey
B)Afghanistan
C)Mongolia
D)Persia
Answer: Mongolia
- Q. Sri Narayana Guru Swamy initiated a programme of action called Sri Narayana Guru Dharma Paripalana yogam which took up issues regarding depressed classes, contains which of the issues? I. Encouraging inter caste marriages II. Right of admission to public schools III. Recruitment to government schools IV. Access to temples and roads
A)I, II and III
B)Only II and III
C)I, II and IV
D)All four are correct
Answer: All four are correct
- Q. Who is said to be responsible for the spread of Jainism in Karnataka?
A)Chandragupta Maurya
B)Ajatashatru
C)Bimbisara
D)Mahapadma Nanda
Answer: Chandragupta Maurya
- Q. Rabindranath Tagore had renounced his knighthood because
A)Of a sense of solidarity with the Indian royalty robbed of its power and honour
B)He wanted to join the Congress
C)Of the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy
D)He was given to occasional eccentric quirks
Answer: Of the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy
- Q. Who was the trusted General of the Mughal emperor Akbar?
A)Man Singh I
B)Raja Todar Mal
C)Birbal
D)Tansen
Answer: Man Singh I
- Q. Which dynasty was ruling in Vijaynagar empire at the time of the Battle of Talikota?
A)Aravidu
B)Sangam
C)Tuluva
D)Saluva
Answer: Tuluva
- Q. Gandhara school of art came into existence in
A)Mahayana sect
B)Hinayana sect
C)Vaishnava sect
D)Shaiva sect
Answer: Mahayana sect
- Q. Who was the selected as first satyagrahi by Mahatma Gandhi to begin individual satyagraha in 1940?
A)Jawahar Lal Nehru
B)Vinoba Bhave
C)Brahma Datt
D)Annie Besant
Answer: Vinoba Bhave
- Q. Who discovered Cape of Good Hope in 1488?
A)Columbus
B)Magellan
C)Bartholomew Dias
D)Vasco da Gama
Answer: Bartholomew Dias
- Q. The Upanishads are the__________
A)Story Books
B)Great Epics
C)Source of Hindu Philosophy
D)Law Books
Answer: Source of Hindu Philosophy
- Q. Who switched on the world’s first large-scale electrical supply network?
A)Alexander Graham Bell
B)Albert Einstein
C)Benjamin Franklin
D)Thomas Edison
Answer: Thomas Edison
- Q. Kabir was contemporary of
A)Sultan Sikandar Lodi
B)Guru Nanak
C)Both (A) and (B) above
D)Babur
Answer: Both (A) and (B) above
- Q. When was Sputnik 1 launched?
A)1957
B)1970
C)1980
D)1990
Answer: 1957
- Q. The Charter Act of 1813 left intact the Company’s monopoly of __________ trade
A)Jawa
B)China
C)Ceylon
D)Japan
Answer: China
- 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. Who was the second Great Khagan of the Mongol Empire
A)Ogedei Khan
B)Guyuk Khan
C)Kublai Khan
D)Temur Khan
Answer: Ogedei Khan
- Q. As per Act of 1919 the lower house of the Central Legislature was known as __________
A)Legislative Assembly
B)Legislative Council
C)House of Representatives
D)House of Commons
Answer: Legislative Assembly
- Q. Name of the Bengali poet who was conferred with the title of Gunraj Khan in the Sultanate period?
A)Rahim
B)Maladhar Basu
C)Chaitanya
D)Jaydeva
Answer: Maladhar Basu
- Q. When was the last Bulgarian noble surrendered to the Byzantine Empire?
A)927
B)924
C)1014
D)1018
Answer: 1018
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