More Questions on History
- Q. Who wrote the article “The Gospel of Wealth”?
A)Cornelius Vanderbilt
B)Andrew Carnegie
C)Dale Carnegie
D)Napoleon Hill
Answer: Andrew Carnegie
- Q. Mahatma Gandhi got his inspiration for Civil Disobedience from
A)Ruskin
B)Thoureau
C)Confucius
D)Tolstoy
Answer: Thoureau
- Q. Which of the following leaders were associated with the Revolt of Khasis in 1820-32?
A)Sambu Singh
B)Tirut Singh and Bar Manik
C)Sidhu and Kanu
D)Vir Manik
Answer: Tirut Singh and Bar Manik
- Q. Bagh painting of Gupta Empire was found in which of the following Indian states?
A)Madhya Pradesh
B)Bihar
C)Chattisgarh
D)Maharashtra
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
- Q. One of the earliest and the best known mutinies before the Revolt of 1857 was
A)Indian Soldiers Mutiny at Vellore (1806)
B)the Native Infantry Mutiny (1824)
C)Sholapur Mutiny (1838)
D)Assam Soldiers Mutiny (1824)
Answer: Indian Soldiers Mutiny at Vellore (1806)
- Q. Which of the following ladies wrote an historical account during the Mughal period?
A)Noorjahan Begum
B)Gulbadan Begum
C)Jahanara Begum
D)Zebun-nissah Begum
Answer: Gulbadan Begum
- Q. Who succeeded Guru Nanak?
A)Guru Ramdas
B)Guru Angad
C)Guru Arjun
D)Guru Hargobind
Answer: Guru Angad
- Q. The first session of Indian National Congress was held in
A)Calcutta
B)Surat
C)Bombay
D)Lahore
Answer: Bombay
- Q. Warren Hastings was appointed as the Governor of __________ in 1772
A)Madras
B)Bengal
C)Bombay
D)Delhi
Answer: Bengal
- Q. Who is the only women historian to have written a historical account of Mughal Period?
A)Zebun-nissa Begum
B)Noorjahan Begum
C)Gulbadan Begum
D)Jahanara Begum
Answer: Gulbadan Begum
- Q. Who was the mother of Mahavira?
A)Anojja
B)Yasoda
C)Trishala
D)Devanandi
Answer: Trishala
- Q. Find out the odd one
A)AI-Biruni: Given valuable account about Harshavardhana
B)Hiuen-Tsang: Acquired knowledge of Indian society through literature
C)Megasthenes: Describes about the Indo-Persian relations
D)Ptolemy: Written a geographical treatise on India
Answer: Ptolemy: Written a geographical treatise on India
- Q. The first economic thinker of India who showed through his writings that the basic cause of India’s poverty lay in the British exploitation and drain of wealth was
A)Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
B)Badruddin Tyabji
C)Dadabhai Naoroji
D)N.G. Chandavarkar
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Q. To face the Maratha Army the Rohelas chief entered into a pact with
A)The French
B)The Nawab of Awadh
C)The Portuguese
D)The Sikhs
Answer: The Nawab of Awadh
- Q. Who said that “India’s Soul live in villages”?
A)Jayaprakash Narayan
B)Vinoba Bhave
C)Jawahar Lal Nehru
D)Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- 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. Who deciphered Ashokan inscription?
A)Lady Hardinge
B)Robert Clive
C)James Prinsep
D)Dalhousie
Answer: James Prinsep
- Q. The Sayyid dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate is called so because__________?
A)Its founder and his successors belonged to the Sayyid tribe of eastern Turkistan
B)Its founder and his successors adopted the title Sayyid
C)Its founder and his successors were descendant of the prophet Muhammad
D)Its founder was a scholar of Islamic theology
Answer: Its founder and his successors were descendant of the prophet Muhammad
- Q. Battle of Panipat was fought in the year 1526 between Babur and__________
A)Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
B)Rana Sanga
C)Hemu
D)Ibrahim Lodi
Answer: Ibrahim Lodi
- Q. Which of the following Indian literature is the earliest known works?
A)Rig Vedas
B)Puranas
C)Sama Vedas
D)Rajtrangini
Answer: Rig Vedas
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