More Questions on History

  • Q. India is in favour of __________ in the economic field
    A)Private Sector
    B)Public Sector
    C)Mixed Economy
    D)Capitalistic Economy
    Answer: Mixed Economy
  • Q. The Sikh military sect ‘the Khalsa’ was introduced by
    A)Guru Har Krishan
    B)Guru Har Rai
    C)Guru Gobind Singh
    D)Guru Tegh Bahadur
    Answer: Guru Gobind Singh
  • Q. Buddha has been described as ‘an ocean of wisdom and compassion’ In
    A)Amarakosa
    B)The Light of Asia
    C)Buddhacharita
    D)Jatak Tales
    Answer: Amarakosa
  • Q. Who among the following was the first to sign the ‘Instruments of Accession’?
    A)The Dewan of Travancore
    B)The Maharaja of Baroda
    C)The Nizam of Hyderabad
    D)The Raja of Jodhpur
    Answer: The Dewan of Travancore
  • Q. Where is the longest corridor of the temple?
    A)Madurai
    B)Shreerangam
    C)Tiruchendur
    D)Rameshwaram
    Answer: Rameshwaram
  • Q. Kalinga’s ruler Kharavela gave his protection to
    A)Shaivism
    B)Hinduism
    C)Buddhism
    D)Jainism
    Answer: Jainism
  • Q. The sepoy mutiny of 1857 occurred during the Governor Generalship to
    A)Charles wood dispatch on education, influenced it towards female education
    B)Break priestly monopoly of scriptural knowledge(Sanskrit) and opening to non- Brahmins
    C)Lady Hardinge medical college at Delhi
    D)Both A and B
    Answer: Both A and B
  • Q. Who was the first Governor General of India?
    A)William Bentick
    B)Warren Hastings
    C)Lord Delhousie
    D)Lord Canning
    Answer: William Bentick
  • Q. Babur was succeeded to the Mughal throne by
    A)Akbar
    B)Sher Shah
    C)Humayun
    D)Bhadur Shah
    Answer: Humayun
  • Q. Who was the first Prime Minister of Great Britain?
    A)Benjamin Disraeli
    B)Oliver Cromweli
    C)Robert Walpole
    D)Gladstone
    Answer: Robert Walpole
  • Q. Madras was returned by the French to the British in 1748 by the Treaty of
    A)Delhi
    B)Paris
    C)London
    D)Aix-la-Chapelle
    Answer: Aix-la-Chapelle
  • Q. At the historic Tripuri Session of the Congress (March 1939) Subhas Bose defeated Mahatma Gandhi’s official candidate for the Presidentship of the Congress. Who was Mahatma Gandhi’s nominee?
    A)Jawaharlal Nehru
    B)Abdul Kalam Azad
    C)Pattabhi Sitaramayya
    D)Vallabhbhai Patel
    Answer: Pattabhi Sitaramayya
  • Q. When the Congress Ministries were formed in the provinces in June 1937, the Viceroy of India was
    A)Lord Irwin
    B)Lord Willingdon
    C)Lord Linlithgow
    D)Viscount Wavell
    Answer: Lord Linlithgow
  • Q. The Dandi March undertaken by Gandhi was
    A)A part of the Quit India Movement
    B)A routine March
    C)A part of the Civil Disobedience Movement
    D)A demonstration of Congress power
    Answer: A part of the Civil Disobedience Movement
  • Q. In . . . . . Derozio founded with his students the ‘Academic Association’ which organised debates on various subjects
    A)1825
    B)1824
    C)1828
    D)1834
    Answer: 1828
  • Q. After the Kalinga War, Ashoka decided never to wage any war because?
    A)Ashoka felt apologetic about the destruction of men and material on both sides in the war
    B)After the conquest of Kalinga the political unity of Mauryan India had been achieved
    C)He was moved by the violence, slaughter and sufferings to the combatants and noncombatants in the war
    D)Shortly after the war he adopted Buddhism which was opposed to violence
    Answer: He was moved by the violence, slaughter and sufferings to the combatants and noncombatants in the war
  • Q. Apart from the Quit India Movement which started on 9th August 1942, what other sensational activity of the freedom fighters was done on 9th August?
    A)Boycott of Simon Commission
    B)Salt Satyagraha
    C)Champaran Satyagraha
    D)Kakori Mail train robbery
    Answer: Kakori Mail train robbery
  • Q. Who among the following Bhakti Saints scored a triumph over the Saivas in public debate at the court of Krishna Deva Raya of Vijyanagar?
    A)Chaitanya Maha Prabhu
    B)Guru Nanak
    C)Shankaracharya
    D)Vallabhacharya
    Answer: Vallabhacharya
  • Q. Which of the following is not a religious text?
    A)Sangam
    B)Rigveda
    C)Upanishad
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Sangam
  • Q. In 1904 the then Maharaja of . . . . . . exempted Narayana Guru from personal appearances in court, an honour recognizing the Guru as a distinguished living personality
    A)Thalassery
    B)Kannur
    C)Travancore
    D)Cochi
    Answer: Travancore

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