More Questions on History
- Q. The last constitutional provision (covering undivided India) passed by the House of Commons was
A)Cabinet Mission Plan
B)Government of India Act 1935
C)Mountabatten (or June 3) Plan
D)Indian Independence Bill
Answer: Government of India Act 1935
- Q. Who was the American leader who led a non-violent movement to obtain full civil rights for American Negroes?
A)John F. Kennedy
B)Abraham Lincoln
C)Martin Luther King Junior
D)George Washington
Answer: Martin Luther King Junior
- Q. The song ‘Jana-Gana-Mana’ composed by Rabindra Nath Tagore was first published in January 1912 under the title of
A)Rashtra Jagriti
B)Jay He
C)Bharat Vidhata
D)Matribhoomi
Answer: Bharat Vidhata
- Q. Which of the following saint wrote Sri-Bhasya?
A)Vallabh
B)Ramanuja
C)Tukaram
D)Eknath
Answer: Ramanuja
- Q. Indian Association formed in __________ was one of the pioneer political associations with an all India outlook
A)1776
B)1769
C)1874
D)1876
Answer: 1876
- Q. The paintings of Ajanta depict the stories of
A)Mahabharta
B)Ramayana
C)Jataka
D)Panchatantra
Answer: Jataka
- Q. The first lawful Hindu widow remarriage among upper castes in our country was celebrated under which of the following reformer
A)Keshub Chandra Sen
B)Raja Rammohan Roy
C)Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
D)Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Answer: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- Q. The llbert Bill controversy during the period of Lord Ripon exposed the racial bitterness of the British and united the Indians
A)Lord Ripon
B)Lytton
C)Queen Elizabeth
D)Queen Anne
Answer: Lord Ripon
- Q. Which of the following is the Journal published in Britain by the Committee of the Indian National Congress?
A)India
B)Calcutta Gazette
C)Bengal Tribune
D)Calcutta Tribune
Answer: India
- Q. Birbal was an advisor in the court of?
A)Akbar
B)Babur
C)Aurangzeb
D)Jahangir
Answer: Akbar
- Q. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (1674-1680 AD) was the ruler of which dynasty?
A)Haryanka
B)Nanda
C)Maurya
D)Maratha
Answer: Maratha
- Q. Under the Mughal rule the main occupation of the people was
A)Agriculture
B)Sea faring
C)Working in mines
D)Service in the army
Answer: Agriculture
- Q. Who was the second President of America
A)Andrew Jackson
B)Thomas Jefferson
C)Abraham Lincoln
D)John Adams
Answer: John Adams
- Q. The Swaraj Party was organised by
A)Sarojini Naidu and Annie Besant
B)Lala Lajapat Rai and Feroze Shah Mehta
C)CR Das and Motilal Nehru
D)C Rajagopalachari and CY Chintamani
Answer: CR Das and Motilal Nehru
- Q. Which Ottoman Sultan defeat Byzantine Empire and capture Constantinople city in 1453
A)Bayezid II
B)Mehmed II
C)Murad II
D)Mehmed IV
Answer: Mehmed II
- Q. Who was the selected as first satyagrahi by Mahatma Gandhi to begin individual satyagraha in 1940?
A)Jawahar Lal Nehru
B)Vinoba Bhave
C)Brahma Datt
D)Annie Besant
Answer: Vinoba Bhave
- Q. The Jaina saint credited with the spread of Jainism in Karnataka (south India) was
A)Adinatha
B)Bhadrabahu
C)Parshvanatha
D)Mahavira
Answer: Bhadrabahu
- Q. The Delhi Sultanate reached its maximum geographical limits during the reign of __________
A)Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah Khalji
B)Alauddin Khalji
C)Muhammad bin Tughlaq
D)Firuz Tughlaq
Answer: Muhammad bin Tughlaq
- Q. What was the symbol of Sambhavanatha Tirthankar?
A)Cow
B)Elephant
C)Horse
D)Tortoise
Answer: Horse
- Q. In which country the Head of the State gets his office by the law of hereditary succession?
A)Sri Lanka
B)China
C)France
D)Japan
Answer: Japan
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