More Questions on History
- Q. Buddhism made an important impact by allowing two sections of society into its fold. They were
A)Moneylenders and Slaves
B)Merchants and Priests
C)Warriors and Traders
D)Women and Sudras
Answer: Women and Sudras
- Q. SN Banerjee was appointed Professor in English in the Metropolitan Institute at
A)Madras
B)Bombay
C)Calcutta
D)Bangalore
Answer: Calcutta
- Q. The congress nationalist party was formed to act as a powerful pressure group within the congress by:
A)Madan Mohan Malviya and M.S. Aney
B)Madan Mohan Malviya and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C)Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D)Annie Bessant and Md. Ali Jinha
Answer: Madan Mohan Malviya and M.S. Aney
- Q. Pablo Picasso, the famous painter was
A)Italian
B)French
C)Flemish
D)Spanish
Answer: Spanish
- Q. Upto where did Chandragupta Maurya’s empire extend in the north west?
A)Indus river
B)Ravi river
C)Satluj river
D)Hindukush range
Answer: Hindukush range
- Q. Which of the following is a wonder of the ancient world?
A)The colosseum of Rome
B)The statue of Jupiter Zeus at Olympia
C)The Leaning Tower of Pisa
D)The Mosque at St. Sophia (Constantinople)
Answer: The statue of Jupiter Zeus at Olympia
- Q. The first General Secretary of the Indian National Congress was
A)A.O. Hume
B)Dadabhai Naoroji
C)Ferozshah Mehta
D)Badruddin Tayyabji
Answer: A.O. Hume
- Q. Which of the following are two works of Kalidasa?
A)Kumara Sambhav and Raghuvamsha
B)Raghuvamsha and Kiratarjuniya
C)Malti Madhava and Kumara Sambhava
D)Malti Madhav and Kumara Sambhava
Answer: Kumara Sambhav and Raghuvamsha
- Q. While delivering the presidential address’ The Congress president who advocated the introduction of Roman Script for Hindi language was
A)Dadabhai Naoroji
B)Surendranath Banerjee
C)Subhash Chandra Bose
D)Sankaran Nair
Answer: Subhash Chandra Bose
- Q. The Non-Cooperation Movement started in
A)1920
B)1870
C)1921
D)1942
Answer: 1920
- Q. As per the Act of 1919 which of the following was not a transferred subject?
A)Museum
B)Education
C)Medical Relief
D)Land Revenue
Answer: Land Revenue
- Q. The largest standing army of the Delhi Sultanate directly paid by the State was created by
A)IIitutmish
B)Balban
C)Muhammad bin Tughlaq
D)Alauddin Khalji
Answer: Alauddin Khalji
- Q. The third person who presented himself for individual Satyagrah launched by Mahatma Gandhi in October 1940 was:
A)Acharya Vinoba Bhave
B)Brahma Datt
C)Jawahar Lal Nehru
D)None of these
Answer: Brahma Datt
- Q. Who told that Indian National Congress represents only microscopic minorities?
A)Lord Dufferin
B)Lord Curzon
C)Lord Minto
D)None of these
Answer: Lord Dufferin
- Q. Battle for Delhi was fought in the year __________
A)1526
B)1764
C)1556
D)1857
Answer: 1556
- Q. The last great ruling dynasty of Magadha was
A)Kanva
B)Sunga
C)Kusana
D)Gupta
Answer: Gupta
- Q. __________ made a whirlwind tour of the country in 1916 and in his speeches he said, “Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it.”
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Tilak
C)Gokhale
D)Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Tilak
- Q. Mahatma Gandhi gave up the title of Kaiser-i-Hind and returned all the war medals which were awarded to him by the British for his war services (during the First World War)
A)during the Non-Cooperation Movement
B)in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy
C)in support of the Khilafat demand when the Central Khilafat Committee organised a general all-India hartal on August 1, 1920
D)during the Champaran Satyagraha
Answer: in support of the Khilafat demand when the Central Khilafat Committee organised a general all-India hartal on August 1, 1920
- Q. Which nationalist had stoutly preached “Be proud that you are an Indian, proudly claim I am an Indian”?
A)Lala Lajpat Rai
B)MK Gandhi
C)Swami Vivekanand
D)Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Swami Vivekanand
- Q. Out of the following remains excavated in Indus Valley, which one indicates the commercial and economic development?
A)Seals
B)The Pottery
C)The boats
D)The houses
Answer: Seals
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