More Questions on History
- Q. During the Mughal rule the finance minister was known as
A)Diwan
B)Vakil
C)Kotwal
D)Amin
Answer: Diwan
- Q. When the Governor-General was away from Bengal a Vice President appointed by __________ would act for him
A)Parliament
B)Crown
C)Board of Control
D)Governor-General
Answer: Governor-General
- Q. Zend-Avesta is the sacred book of the
A)Jains
B)Parsis
C)Jews
D)Buddhists
Answer: Parsis
- Q. Which of the following is related to Etymology?
A)Kalpa
B)Shiksha
C)Nirukta
D)Vyakaran
Answer: Nirukta
- Q. Which one of the following battles led to the foundation of the Mughal rule at Delhi?
A)Second Battle of Panipat
B)Third Battle of Panipat
C)Battle of Haldighati
D)First Battle of Panipat
Answer: First Battle of Panipat
- Q. Which of the following statements is not correct? Provision was made In the Act of 1935 for
A)Provincial Subjects
B)The Central Subjects
C)Concurrent Lists
D)A List of Subjects for Princely States
Answer: A List of Subjects for Princely States
- Q. In order to study the position of education Indian constitutional commission was constituted in 1929 under the chairmanship of
A)Phillip Reading
B)Phillip Uartog
C)Uartog Reading
D)None of these
Answer: Phillip Uartog
- Q. Qutub Minar, as we find at present, was finally re-built by
A)Alauddin Khalji
B)Balban
C)Sikandar Lodi
D)Firoz Tughlaq
Answer: Firoz Tughlaq
- Q. Who was the Greek ambassador in the court of Chandragupta Maurya?
A)Seleucos
B)Megasthanes
C)Menander
D)Demetrias
Answer: Megasthanes
- Q. Who was the first Vijayanagar ruler to wrest the important fort of Goa from the Bahamanis?
A)Harihara-I
B)Reva Rayali
C)Harihara-II
D)Bukka-I
Answer: Harihara-II
- Q. Assertion (A): Akbar’s official historian Abul Fazl neither gives the prices of slaves nor does he mention slave markets. Reason (R): Akbar prohibited slave trade in his empire
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 true but R is false
- Q. Which of the following state was not the victim of “The Subsidiary Alliance System”?
A)Satara
B)Mysore
C)Awadh
D)Hyderabad
Answer: Satara
- Q. The First World Conference on Women in __________, generated a new interest in and debate on women’s issues
A)Hyderabad
B)Delhi
C)Mexico
D)Copenhagen
Answer: Mexico
- Q. What were the crops raised by the Harappans? I. Cotton II. Wheat III. Barley IV. Peas Select the correct option
A)I, II and III
B)I, II, III and IV
C)II, III and IV
D)II and III
Answer: I, II, III and IV
- Q. By the Act of 1858, the powers of the Board of Control and the Court of Directors were transferred to __________
A)Parliament
B)The Secretary of State
C)Viceroy
D)Commander-in-Chief
Answer: The Secretary of State
- Q. The first Tirthankara of the Jains was
A)Parshvanath
B)Arishtanemi
C)Ajitanath
D)Rishabha
Answer: Rishabha
- Q. What was the name of the assassinator of John F. Kennedy
A)John Wilkes Booth
B)Lee Harvey Oswald
C)John Surratt
D)None of the above
Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald
- 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 was the capital of Surasena Mahajanapada?
A)Junagarh
B)Viratnagar
C)Mathura
D)Kashi
Answer: Mathura
- Q. The permanent settlement was made in Bengal in the sphere of revenue administration by
A)Hastings
B)William Pitt
C)William Bentic
D)Lord Cornwallis
Answer: Lord Cornwallis
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