More Questions on History
- Q. What is ‘Milind panho’?
A)One of the names of Buddha
B)A Buddhist place
C)A Buddhist Specimen of Art
D)Buddhist text
Answer: Buddhist text
- Q. The Vernacular press Act as a safety valve against vernacular newspapers was passed by Lord Lytton on
A)March 14, 1878
B)April 14, 1878
C)March 14, 1876
D)March 14, 1870
Answer: March 14, 1878
- Q. By the Charter Act of 1813 the Indian trade except in __________ was thrown open to all British subjects
A)Spices
B)Tea
C)Coffee
D)Cotton
Answer: Tea
- Q. Vasco da Gama a sailor belongs to __________.
A)American
B)Portuguese
C)German
D)South American
Answer: Portuguese
- Q. Satyarth Prakash was written by __________
A)Lala Hardyal
B)Lala Lajpat Rai
C)Dayanand Saraswati
D)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Answer: Dayanand Saraswati
- Q. Who said this message, the name Ezhava does not denote a caste or a religion and he made temple rights to everyone. Therefore people can be admitted to this organization without paying heed to differences of caste
A)T. K. Madhavan
B)Chattambi Swamikal
C)Narayana Guru
D)Rajaram Mohan Roy
Answer: Narayana Guru
- Q. Marco Polo was a traveller from __________
A)England
B)Portugal
C)Italy
D)Spain
Answer: Italy
- Q. What was the role of Tatia Tope in 1857 mutiny? I. He was commander-in-chief of the army of Nana Saheb II. He organized Bhils of Panchamahal region against the British III. He helped Begum Hazrat Mahal to capture Awadh
A)I and II only
B)II only
C)II and III only
D)All of the above
Answer: I and II only
- Q. When did the October Revolution occur?
A)1918
B)1917
C)1920
D)1923
Answer: 1917
- Q. Which of these is not one of the titles adopted by Aurangzeb?
A)Padshah
B)Alamgir
C)Sultan Sulaiman
D)Ghazi
Answer: Sultan Sulaiman
- Q. The immortal national Song ‘Vande Mataram’ has been written by
A)Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya
B)Rabindranath Tagore
C)Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
D)Surendranath Bandopadhyaya
Answer: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
- Q. The treaty of Allahabad took place between __________
A)Shuja-ud-daulah, Mir jafar and Shah Alam II
B)Shuja-ud-daulah, Robert Clive and Shah Alam II
C)Shuja-ud-daulah, Wajid Ali Shah and Shah Alam II
D)None of the Above
Answer: Shuja-ud-daulah, Robert Clive and Shah Alam II
- Q. The Government of India Act of 1935 had divided India into __________ provinces
A)8
B)5
C)11
D)14
Answer: 11
- Q. Who is called the “Greatest Investigator of Antiquity”?
A)Darwin
B)Aristotle
C)Cuvier
D)Socrates
Answer: Darwin
- Q. Varahamihira is
A)A space shuttle
B)An astronaut
C)A power station
D)An ancient astronomer
Answer: An ancient astronomer
- Q. The Governor-General was given power to issue ordinances by the act of
A)1861
B)1858
C)1860
D)1871
Answer: 1861
- Q. Mrs Annie Besant became the first woman President of the INC in
A)1917
B)1916
C)1918
D)1920
Answer: 1917
- Q. Through which principle/device did Mahatma Gandhi strive to bridge economic inequalities?
A)Establishment of village industries
B)Abolition of machinery
C)Adoption of non-violence
D)Trusteeship theory
Answer: Trusteeship theory
- Q. When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, who said, “None will believe that a man like this in body and soul ever walked on this earth.”?
A)Leo Tolstoy
B)Bertrand Russell
C)Albert Einstein
D)Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Answer: Albert Einstein
- Q. In 1905 __________ laid the foundation of the ‘servants of India society’, with a view to the training of national missionaries for the service of India, and to promote by all constitutional means, the true interest of the Indian people
A)Dadabai Naoroji
B)Gokhale
C)R. C. Dutt
D)Ranade
Answer: Gokhale
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