More Questions on History

  • Q. Who was the architect who designed “Taj Mahal” ?
    A)Ustad Ahmed Lahori
    B)Muhammad Hussain
    C)Shah Isa
    D)Ismail
    Answer: Ustad Ahmed Lahori
  • Q. Who is the author of ‘Social Background of Indian Nationalism’?
    A)Dharam Kumar
    B)A. R. Desai
    C)Ray Chaudhuri
    D)K. Rajayyan
    Answer: A. R. Desai
  • Q. Mahatma Gandhi had been joined the Champaran struggle by
    A)Rajendra Prasad and Anugraha Narayan Sinha
    B)Vallabhbhai Patel and Vinoba Bhave
    C)Mahadev Desai and Maniben Patel
    D)Rajendra Prasad and Jawaharlal Nehru
    Answer: Rajendra Prasad and Anugraha Narayan Sinha
  • Q. Who among the following was the real founder of the Aligarh Muslim University?
    A)Syed Ahmad Khan
    B)Nawab Salimullah
    C)Abul Kalam Azad
    D)Muhhammed Ali Jinnah
    Answer: Syed Ahmad Khan
  • Q. Which of the following has not been found in the excavation in Terracotta of Indus Valley sites?
    A)Sheep
    B)Buffalo
    C)Cow
    D)Pig
    Answer: Cow
  • Q. Who defeated Darius III in the Battle of Gaugamela?
    A)Aristotle
    B)Alexander the Great
    C)Julius Caesar
    D)Napoleon Bonaparte
    Answer: Alexander the Great
  • Q. Name the Commission that came to India in 1928 to reform India’s constitutional system
    A)Pitt's India Act
    B)Rowaltt Act
    C)Partition of Bengal
    D)Simon Commission
    Answer: Simon Commission
  • Q. Humayun had to run away from India after he was defeated in the battle of
    A)Ghagra
    B)Panipat
    C)Khanwa
    D)Kannauj
    Answer: Kannauj
  • Q. The first truly revolutionary organisation in Bengal was
    A)Yugantar
    B)Anusilan Samiti
    C)Abhinava Bharata
    D)Abhinava Bharat Society
    Answer: Anusilan Samiti
  • Q. In which European country feudalism process was first started
    A)England
    B)Italy
    C)French
    D)Russia
    Answer: French
  • Q. Arab merchant, Suleiman, came to India in 9th century in the kingdom of
    A)Mihira Bhoja of Prathihara dynasty
    B)Vijaysena of Sena dynasty
    C)Gopala of the Pala dynasty
    D)Dantidurga of Rashtrakuta dynasty
    Answer: Mihira Bhoja of Prathihara dynasty
  • Q. Who was the first historian to use tripartite periodisation?
    A)Coluccio Salutati
    B)Bernardo Rossellino
    C)Leonardo Bruni
    D)Lorenzo Valla
    Answer: Leonardo Bruni
  • Q. Which one of the following was an important Port of the eastern coast during Gupta period?
    A)Tamralipti
    B)Kalyan
    C)Sopara
    D)Baroch
    Answer: Tamralipti
  • Q. Which was the main cause for starting of the Quit India Movement in 1942 ?
    A)Report of Simon Commission
    B)Severe unrest among the people
    C)Failure of the Cripps Mission
    D)British involved in the world was-II
    Answer: Failure of the Cripps Mission
  • Q. The Bombay Association, the first political association in Bombay presidency was founded by __________ in 1852
    A)Pulinbehari Sarkar
    B)Dadabhai Naoroji
    C)Amaresh Chakravarty
    D)Prankrishna Parija
    Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
  • Q. Which of the following upheavals took place In Bengal immediately after the revolt of 1857?
    A)Indigo disturbances
    B)Santhal rebellion
    C)Sanyasi rebellion
    D)Pabna disturbances
    Answer: Indigo disturbances
  • Q. Joseph François Dupleix was the commander of the __________ forces in India
    A)British
    B)French
    C)American
    D)Dutch
    Answer: French
  • Q. Who is the excavator of Harappa site?
    A)Rakhal das Bannerji
    B)Daya ram sahni
    C)Mackey
    D)B.K. Thapar
    Answer: Daya ram sahni
  • 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. The Buddha
    A)was non-committal on the theory of Karma
    B)rejected the theory of Karma
    C)believed in the theory of Karma
    D)suggested an alternative to the theory of Karma
    Answer: believed in the theory of Karma

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