More Questions on History
- Q. Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati was an important Hindu religious scholar, reformer, and founder of the __________
A)Brahma Samaj
B)Arya Samaj
C)Ramakrishna Mission
D)Theosophical society
Answer: Arya Samaj
- Q. Cereal(s) grown by the people of the Harappan Civilisation was/were
A)Rice
B)Wheat
C)Millet
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- Q. The Vedic Aryans first settled in the region of
A)Gangetic Doab
B)Central India
C)Saptasindhu
D)Kashmir and Punjab
Answer: Saptasindhu
- Q. In which year America got independence
A)1776
B)1760
C)1780
D)1782
Answer: 1776
- Q. Who among the following propagated Dvaita or dualism of Jivatma and Pramatma in Kannada region?
A)Nimbarka
B)Mirabai
C)Vallabhacharya
D)Madhav
Answer: Madhav
- Q. What benefits did the Poona Pact offer to the depressed classes?
A)20% reservation in the provincial legislature
B)44 seats in the central legislature
C)18% seats in the central legislature and 148 seats in the provincial legislature
D)50% reservation in the ICS
Answer: 18% seats in the central legislature and 148 seats in the provincial legislature
- Q. Crimean War was started in the year
A)1857
B)1853
C)1862
D)1870
Answer: 1853
- Q. The Sikh guru who had fought the Mughals was
A)Guru Hargobind
B)Guru Nanak Dev
C)Guru Tegh Bahadur
D)Guru Gobind Singh
Answer: Guru Gobind Singh
- Q. Consider the following according to the correct chronological order of the Governors-General during British India I. Wellesley II. Marquess of Hastings III. Amherst IV. Bentinck
A)II, I, IV & III
B)I, II, III & IV
C)I, III, II & IV
D)III, I, II & IV
Answer: I, II, III & IV
- Q. When did Nanda dynasty come into power?
A)404 BC
B)424 BC
C)399 BC
D)385 BC
Answer: 424 BC
- Q. The Treaty of Surat was in the year __________
A)1575
B)1475
C)1675
D)1775
Answer: 1775
- Q. Which one of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
A)Sutudri - Sutlej
B)Askini - Chenab
C)Vipas - Jhelum
D)Parushni - Ravi
Answer: Vipas - Jhelum
- Q. Who of the following became a member of the “Din-i-Ilahi”?
A)Raja Birbal
B)Todarmal
C)Raja Man Singh
D)Tansen
Answer: Raja Birbal
- Q. One of the important factors that led to the World War-II the humiliating provisions in one of the following treaties. Which is that treaty?
A)Treaty of Versailles
B)Treaty of Paris
C)Treaty of Lorraine
D)Treaty of Brussels
Answer: Treaty of Versailles
- Q. The Harappan civilizations do not have homogeneity or uniformity in
A)Cereal crops
B)Weights and measures
C)Burial practices
D)Both (B) and (C)
Answer: Burial practices
- Q. Who wrote the book Ninety-Five Theses, which is regarded as initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation
A)Martin Luther
B)Michelangelo
C)John Calvin
D)Huldrych Zwingli
Answer: Martin Luther
- 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 Portuguese built their first fort on India soil in the territory of the Raja of
A)Cochin
B)Calicut
C)Daman
D)Bijapur
Answer: Cochin
- Q. Who was the governor-general during the Second Anglo Mysore War?
A)Lord Cornwallis
B)Lord Wellesley
C)Sir John Shore
D)Warren Hastings
Answer: Warren Hastings
- Q. When was NATO signed?
A)1990
B)1949
C)1948
D)1950
Answer: 1949
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