More Questions on History
- Q. With which of the following centres of learning, Chanakya the famous teacher of Chandragupta Maurya, was associated?
A)Nalanda
B)Taxila
C)Vikramshila
D)Vaishali
Answer: Taxila
- Q. “Go back to Vedas” This call is given by
A)Vivekananda
B)Ramakrishna Paramhansa
C)Jyotiba Phule
D)Dayanand Saraswati
Answer: Dayanand Saraswati
- Q. Most of the large Harappan towns had for fortifications which served the purpose of
A)protection against cattle raiders
B)safety from robbers
C)protection against floods
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- Q. Which of the following statements about the Guptas is NOT true?
A)Kingship was hereditary and the throne always went to the eldest son
B)They ruled mainly over parts of north and central India
C)The judicial system was far more developed than in earlier times
D)Land taxes increased and taxes on trade and commerce decreased
Answer: Kingship was hereditary and the throne always went to the eldest son
- Q. Who among the following renowned Scholar wrote the biography of King Harsha and Kadambari?
A)Bhartrihari
B)Bharavi
C)Bana
D)Magha
Answer: Bana
- Q. Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man’.Who said this?
A)Sri Ramakrishna
B)Swami Vivekananda
C)Chandra Sekhar Deb
D)Sri Narayana Guru
Answer: Swami Vivekananda
- Q. Who were the immediate successors of the Mauryas in Magadha?
A)Sungas
B)Pandyas
C)Kushanas
D)Satvahanas
Answer: Sungas
- Q. Who murdered Julius Caesar?
A)Marcus Brutus
B)Augustus
C)Mark Antony
D)Pompey
Answer: Marcus Brutus
- Q. Assertion (A): Shivaji aimed at establishing Maratha rule in Delhi. Reason (R): Shivaji took the leadership of the Maratha resistance against the Mughals.
A)Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
C)A is true but R is false
D)A is false but R is true
Answer: A is false but R is true
- Q. Doctrine of Passive Resistance was published in the daily Vande Mataram in:
A)April 1906
B)April 1907
C)April 1905
D)April 1904
Answer: April 1907
- Q. Who said “Knowledge is Power”?
A)Milton
B)Shakespeare
C)Francis Bacon
D)Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Francis Bacon
- Q. In which of the following Mudra did Gautam Buddha delivered his first sermon at Saranath?
A)Dhyana Mudra
B)Abhaya Mudra
C)Dharmchakra Mudra
D)Bhumisparasa Mudra
Answer: Dharmchakra Mudra
- Q. The correct chronological order in which the given monuments were built is
A)Gol Gumbaz, Red Fort, Buland Darwaza, Qutab Minar
B)Qutab Minar, Buland Darwaza, Gol Gumbaz, Red Fort
C)Qutab Minar, Gol Gumbaz, Buland Darwaza, Red Fort
D)Gol Gumbaz, Buland Darwaza, Red Fort, Qutab Minar
Answer: Qutab Minar, Buland Darwaza, Gol Gumbaz, Red Fort
- Q. Which one of the following sources states that Srinagar was built by Ashoka?
A)Divyavadana
B)Kalhana's Rajatarangini
C)Tarantha's History of Tibet
D)Mahavamsa
Answer: Kalhana's Rajatarangini
- Q. A Study in Consciousness was written by __________
A)Mrinal Gore
B)Annie Besant
C)Prasanna Kumar Tagore
D)Rajkamal Sen
Answer: Annie Besant
- Q. When did the Space Age bring the first human spaceflight?
A)1970
B)1961
C)1975
D)1980
Answer: 1961
- Q. Who was the first chairman of Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
A)Liu Shaoqi
B)Mao Zedong
C)Hua Guofeng
D)Hu Yaobang
Answer: Mao Zedong
- Q. Which of the following statement is incorrect about the Act of 1919?
A)Responsible government would be realised only by progressive stages
B)British India must an integral part of the British Empire
C)Provincial subjects were classified into reserved subjects & transferred subjects
D)The salary of the Secretary of State for India was drawn out of the revenues of Indian government
Answer: The salary of the Secretary of State for India was drawn out of the revenues of Indian government
- Q. The city of “Tashkent” is located in
A)Kazakhstan
B)Uzbekistan
C)Russia
D)Kyrgyzstan
Answer: Uzbekistan
- Q. Charminar was built by?
A)Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah
B)Humayun
C)Ashoka
D)Narasimha
Answer: Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah
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