More Questions on History
- 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. Who started the Young Men’s Indian Association in 1914?
A)Swarnakumari Devi
B)Annie Besant
C)Devendranath Tagore
D)Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: Annie Besant
- Q. When was the construction of Great Wall of China started?
A)252 BC
B)294 BC
C)249 BC
D)221 BC
Answer: 221 BC
- Q. In which century did the first movement against vedic ritualistic practices start?
A)14th century BC
B)19th century BC
C)5th century AD
D)600 BC
Answer: 600 BC
- Q. Akbar founded the Din-i-Ilahi primarily to
A)Ensure racial and communal harmony
B)Establish a national religion which would be acceptable to the Muslims and the Hindus
C)Found a religious institution
D)Put an end to differences between Hindus and Muslims
Answer: Establish a national religion which would be acceptable to the Muslims and the Hindus
- 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 theory of “natural rights” was propounded by
A)Locke
B)Hobbes
C)Bentham
D)Marx
Answer: Locke
- Q. What is the correct order (first to last) of states annexed under the policy of “Doctrine of Lapse”?
A)Jaipur > Satara > Sambhalpur> Bahat
B)Satara > Jaipur > Sambhalpur> Bahat
C)Bahat >Satara > Jaipur > Sambhalpur
D)Satara > Jaipur > Bahat> Sambhalpur
Answer: Satara > Jaipur > Sambhalpur> Bahat
- Q. The Religious lessons of ‘Jews’ are called
A)Musa Sanhita (Torah)
B)Gnome Collection (Sukti Sangraha)
C)Tripitaka
D)Tend Alesta
Answer: Musa Sanhita (Torah)
- Q. Who was the last Emperor of Rome
A)Romulus Augustulus
B)Nero
C)Julius Nepos
D)Julius Caesar
Answer: Romulus Augustulus
- Q. Which of the following was not a common social reform attempted by all the Hindu social reformers of the 19th century
A)monogamy
B)emancipation of women
C)female education
D)untouchability
Answer: untouchability
- Q. Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. in
A)Babylon
B)Persia
C)Macedonia
D)Taxila
Answer: Babylon
- Q. Kalidasa’s works include: I. Abhijnanashakuntalam II. Meghadutam III. Raghuvamsa IV. Malvikagnimitram V. Ritusamhara VI. Kumarasambhava Select the correct option
A)I, II, IV, V and VI
B)I, II, III and IV
C)I, III , IV and V
D)All of them
Answer: All of them
- Q. Which of the following is an intensely emotional form of Hinduism that flourished from the sixteenth century, mainly in Bengal and eastern Orissa?
A)Krishna cult of Vallabhacharya
B)Gaudiya Sampradaya
C)Shiva cult of Vallabhacharya
D)None of the above
Answer: Gaudiya Sampradaya
- Q. The philosophical essence, The world is but God manifest and God is my own soul may be traced to the
A)Upanishadas
B)Vedas
C)Puranas
D)Manusmriti
Answer: Upanishadas
- Q. Where is Muslim mosque situated where a hair of pagamber Mohammad Sahed has been preserved
A)Ahmedabad
B)Ajmer
C)Srinagar
D)Mecca
Answer: Srinagar
- Q. The Falklands War was fought in the year
A)1977
B)1973
C)1982
D)1989
Answer: 1982
- Q. Mohenjo-Daro is situated in
A)Larkana district
B)Montgomery district
C)Chandigarh area
D)Gujarat
Answer: Larkana district
- Q. The Poona Pact (1932) was an agreement between
A)Gandhi and Ambedkar
B)Nehru and Ambedkar
C)Malaviya and Ambedkar
D)Gandhi and Nehru
Answer: Gandhi and Ambedkar
- Q. The original name of Swami Dayananda Saraswati was
A)Gowri Shankar
B)Abhi Shankar
C)Daya Shankar
D)Mula Shankar
Answer: Mula Shankar
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