More Questions on History
- Q. National Socialist German Workers Party was also known as
A)The Left
B)Nazi Party
C)National Fascist Party
D)None of Above
Answer: Nazi Party
- Q. Who started the journal ‘The Commonweal’?
A)Annie Besant
B)N. G. Chandavarkar
C)M. G. Ranade
D)R. G. Bhandarkar
Answer: Annie Besant
- Q. Which book described the Arab invasion of Sindh for the very first time?
A)Baburnama
B)Shahnama
C)Akbarnama
D)Chachnama
Answer: Chachnama
- Q. Who among the following British persons admitted the Revolt of 1857 as a national revolt?
A)Lord Canning
B)Lord Dalhousie
C)Lord Ellenborough
D)Disraeli
Answer: Disraeli
- Q. The policy of ‘imperial preferences’ adopted by Britain in its colonies in 1932 is also known as the
A)London Agreement
B)Hong Kong Agreement
C)Ottawa Agreement
D)Paris Agreement
Answer: Ottawa Agreement
- Q. Which of the following text introduces bhakti marga (the path of faith/devotion) as one of three ways to spiritual freedom and release?
A)Vedanta
B)Vedas
C)Brahamans
D)Bhagwat Gita
Answer: Bhagwat Gita
- Q. Sakhi, Sabad and Ramaini were the notable work of?
A)Rahim
B)Tansen
C)Kabir
D)Tulsidas
Answer: Kabir
- Q. Who invented kerosene?
A)Benjamin Silliman
B)Abraham Pineo Gesner
C)Edwin Drake
D)John William Dawson
Answer: Abraham Pineo Gesner
- Q. The famous resolution on Non-Cooperation under the inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi was adopted in a special session of Congress held at Calcutta in
A)December 1922.
B)September 1920.
C)October 1924.
D)November 1925.
Answer: September 1920.
- Q. Who called Government of India Act 1935 as thoroughly rotten, fundamentally bad and totally unacceptable?
A)Mohammad Ali Jinnah
B)Subhash Chandra Bose
C)Mahatma Gandhi
D)Balkrishana Chapekar
Answer: Mohammad Ali Jinnah
- Q. As the unrest continued unabatedly, the Madras government appointed . . . . . . the collector of Malabar as special commissioner to enquire into the causes of the uprisings and recommend remedial measures.
A)William Logan
B)Connolly
C)S. N. Banerjee
D)Gokahale
Answer: William Logan
- Q. The first political association of India founded in 1891 was the
A)Indian Association
B)Landholders Society of Calcutta
C)British Indian Association
D)Madras Native Association
Answer: Landholders Society of Calcutta
- Q. The Delhi Sultan who fell to his death while playing polo was
A)Alauddin Khalji
B)Qutb-din-Aibak
C)Feroz Shah Tughlaq
D)Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
Answer: Qutb-din-Aibak
- Q. What was the main inspiration for establishing Theosophical Society?
A)Women's education and their upliftment
B)Tackling zamindars issue
C)Propagate Indian thought and culture there by revival of ancient religions of Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Buddhism
D)Work for depressed classes
Answer: Propagate Indian thought and culture there by revival of ancient religions of Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Buddhism
- Q. Which of the following leader is correctly matched with their association/party/ books/ newspaper?
A)Rabindranath Tagore: Patrika
B)Devendranath Tagore: Young India
C)M. K. Gandhi: Gitanjali
D)B. G. Tilak: Kesari
Answer: B. G. Tilak: Kesari
- Q. Tulsidas composed his Ramacharitamanas during the reign of
A)Alauddin Khalji
B)Harsha
C)Akbar
D)Krishnadeva Raya
Answer: Akbar
- Q. Who received the title of ‘shogun’ in 1603?
A)Kuroda Yoshitaka
B)Ishida Mitsunari
C)Oda Nobunaga
D)Tokugawa Leyasu
Answer: Tokugawa Leyasu
- Q. Who said, “India is for Indians?”
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Syed Hasan Imam
C)Dr. S.Gopal
D)Dayanand Saraswati
Answer: Dayanand Saraswati
- Q. Who was the first to use the term ‘Adivasi’ to refer to the tribal people?
A)Thakkar Bappa
B)Jyotiba Phule
C)M N Srinivas
D)B R Ambedkar
Answer: Thakkar Bappa
- Q. The spark for the Swadeshi Movement was the __________ decision to partition Bengal
A)British
B)French
C)Dutch
D)Portuguese
Answer: British
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