More Questions on History

  • Q. Which script was used in Ashoka’s inscriptions?
    A)Devanagiri
    B)Brahmi
    C)Gurmukhi
    D)Sanskrit
    Answer: Brahmi
  • Q. Which Roman Emperor had banned the ancient Olympic games
    A)Arcadius
    B)Julius Caesar
    C)Theodosius
    D)Tacitus
    Answer: Theodosius
  • Q. Who was the court poet of Harsha-vardhana?
    A)Ravi Kirti
    B)Bhani
    C)Banabhatta
    D)Vishnu Sharma
    Answer: Banabhatta
  • Q. After reading Thomas Paine’s famous book __________Jyotirao was greatly influenced by his ideas
    A)Prince
    B)The Rights of Man
    C)Utopia
    D)Advaitha Deepika
    Answer: The Rights of Man
  • Q. With which religion is Kaivalya associated?
    A)Jainism
    B)Buddhism
    C)Hinduism
    D)Sikhism
    Answer: Jainism
  • Q. The office of the Secretary of State for India was created by the Act of
    A)1858
    B)1853
    C)1861
    D)1892
    Answer: 1858
  • Q. How many years did Elizabeth I reign England
    A)36 Years
    B)32 Years
    C)40 Years
    D)44 Years
    Answer: 44 Years
  • Q. In 1921, Mahatma Gandhi resolved to wear only a loin cloth to propagate home spun cotton to signify
    A)the ruin of India's handloom textiles
    B)the poverty of the Indian people
    C)his identification with the Indian people
    D)his resolve to wear tailored clothes only when India became independent
    Answer: his identification with the Indian people
  • Q. The Act constituting the first legislative interference by the British Parliament in the affairs of India was the
    A)Pitt's India Act, 1784
    B)Fox's India Act, 1783
    C)Regulating Act, 1773
    D)Declaratory Act, 1781
    Answer: Regulating Act, 1773
  • Q. Ashoka’s prime claim to greatness lay in
    A)The promotion of people's welfare by him
    B)His extensive conquests
    C)His marathon army
    D)His exclusive patronage of Buddhism
    Answer: The promotion of people's welfare by him
  • Q. Who was the mother of Mahavira?
    A)Anojja
    B)Yasoda
    C)Trishala
    D)Devanandi
    Answer: Trishala
  • Q. The first Congress and nationalist leader to face repeated imprisonment was
    A)Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    B)Pheroze Shah Mehta
    C)Dadabhai Naoroji
    D)BG Tilak
    Answer: BG Tilak
  • Q. In which Nakshatra (constellation) Sumtinath Tirthankar was born?
    A)Dhanishtha
    B)Satbhisha Nakshatra
    C)Shravan
    D)Magha Nakshtra
    Answer: Magha Nakshtra
  • Q. Which Government of India Act/Charter Act generated the post of Governor-General of India?
    A)Charter Act-1833
    B)Government of India Act-1858
    C)Charter Act-1853
    D)Charter Act-1813
    Answer: Charter Act-1833
  • Q. The system of philosophy with which the name of Kapila is prominently associated is
    A)Samkhya
    B)Purva Mimamsa
    C)Nyaya
    D)Uttara Mimamsa
    Answer: Samkhya
  • Q. The main contribution of Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar to education and in particular to women education are
    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. Which of the following Tamil literature was written by Ilango Adigal, brother of Senguvattan, a Chera King and who was a Jain monk is a highly regarded epic?
    A)Elathi
    B)Kainnilai
    C)Silappatikaram
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Silappatikaram
  • Q. The Presidents of early English Settlements (Madras, Bombay and Calcutta) were responsible to __________
    A)The House of Lords
    B)The House of Common
    C)The Home Government of the Company
    D)The Council of Senior Merchants
    Answer: The Home Government of the Company
  • Q. The United Nations declared __________ as the International Year of Women
    A)1878
    B)1875
    C)1975
    D)1956
    Answer: 1975
  • Q. Who called Government India Act 1935 a Charter of Slavery ?
    A)Subhash Chandra Bose
    B)Mahatma Gandhi
    C)Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel
    D)Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
    Answer: Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

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