More Questions on History
- Q. Which was the earliest settlement of the Dutch in India?
A)Pulicat
B)Masulipatnam
C)Surat
D)Ahmedabad
Answer: Pulicat
- Q. The Gandhi-lrwin Pact (1931) was vehemently criticised and opposed by the people on the ground that
A)the sufferings of thousands of people in the Civil Disobedience Movement were wasted
B)the Civil Disobedience Movement was suspended
C)It was contrary to the pledge of the Congress for Poorna Swaraj
D)Gandhi did nothing to save the lives of Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru who had been awarded the death sentence
Answer: Gandhi did nothing to save the lives of Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru who had been awarded the death sentence
- Q. Akbar married a bride from
A)Jaisalmer
B)Bikaner
C)Jaipur
D)Udaipur
Answer: Udaipur
- Q. Who defeated Hannibal at Battle of Zama?
A)Scipio Aemilianus
B)Cato the Elder
C)Scipio Africanus
D)Hasdrubal
Answer: Scipio Africanus
- Q. Treaty of Versailles was signed at the end of which of the following wars
A)First World War
B)Austro-Prussian War
C)Second World War
D)Russia-Japan War
Answer: First World War
- Q. Which state was the first victim of “The Subsidiary Alliance System”?
A)Mysore
B)Satara
C)Hyderabad
D)Awadh
Answer: Hyderabad
- Q. Dholavira is situated at the bank of River
A)Ravi
B)Indus
C)Luni
D)Ghaggar
Answer: Luni
- Q. The foreign traveller who visited India during the Mughal Period and who left us and expert’s description of the Peacok Throne, was
A)Omrah' Danishmand khan
B)Geronimo Verroneo
C)Tavernier
D)Austinof Bordeaux
Answer: Tavernier
- Q. The Sultans of which dynasty ruled for the longest time?
A)Tughlaq dynasty
B)Khalji dynasty
C)Slave dynasty
D)Lodi dynasty
Answer: Tughlaq dynasty
- Q. Which of the following ideas propagated through Ramakrishna Mission? I. Social and religious reform II. Women education III. Doctrine of service IV. Service of jiva and worship of Shiva
A)II, III and IV
B)Both I and II
C)III and IV
D)I, III and IV
Answer: I, III and IV
- Q. What was the reason for Franks rapid rise in western Europe?
A)Clovis's conversion to Arian Christianity
B)Clovis's conversion to Roman Christianity
C)Clovis's alliance with the Islamic world
D)Clovis's defeat of the Muslims at the Battle of Tours
Answer: Clovis's conversion to Roman Christianity
- Q. Who was the first Tudor monarch of England
A)Mary I
B)Elizabeth I
C)Henry VII
D)Edward VI
Answer: Henry VII
- Q. Bal Gangadhar Tilak earned the epithet of Lokmanya during
A)the Lucknow pact of 1916
B)his trial in 1907-08
C)the Home Rule Movement
D)the Congress Session in 1917
Answer: the Home Rule Movement
- Q. Who among the following freedom fighter opposes the Annie Besant’s idea of launching Home Rule Movement?
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)G. K. Gokhale
C)Aurobindo Ghosh
D)B. G. Tilak
Answer: G. K. Gokhale
- Q. Who speaks of Cabinet system as “the steering wheel of the ship of state”?
A)Muin
B)Lowell
C)Marriot
D)Bagehot
Answer: Muin
- Q. When did Greco-Persian Wars end?
A)449 BC
B)460 BC
C)447 BC
D)424 BC
Answer: 449 BC
- Q. The partition of Bengal had to be annulled in __________
A)1911
B)1907
C)1928
D)1929
Answer: 1911
- Q. The State Jhansi was made a part of the British Empire in India through
A)Policy of Subsidiaty Alliance
B)Doctrine of Lapse
C)War against Rani Lakshmi Bai
D)None of the above
Answer: Doctrine of Lapse
- Q. After Alexander’s death the Eastern part of his empire came under
A)Menander
B)Seleucus Nicator
C)Rudradaman
D)Kanishka
Answer: Seleucus Nicator
- Q. Satyarth Prakash was written by __________
A)Lala Hardyal
B)Lala Lajpat Rai
C)Dayanand Saraswati
D)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Answer: Dayanand Saraswati
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