More Questions on History
- Q. The Presidents of early English Settlements (Madras, Bombay and Calcutta) were responsible to __________
A)The House of Lords
B)The House of Common
C)The Home Government of the Company
D)The Council of Senior Merchants
Answer: The Home Government of the Company
- Q. Who was among the following Bhakti saints gave a new orientation of Hinduism through his doctrine of Advaita or Monism?
A)Sankara
B)Ramanuja
C)Guru Nanak
D)Chaitanya
Answer: Sankara
- Q. The Indian Civil Service Examination was thrown open to all by the Act of
A)1858
B)1853
C)1813
D)1784
Answer: 1858
- Q. Who has completed the annexation of Ahmednagar?
A)Shahjahan
B)Jahangir
C)Akbar
D)Aurangzeb
Answer: Shahjahan
- Q. Which one of the following famous ruler is called as ‘Father of Inscriptions’?
A)Chandragupta Maurya
B)Samudra Gupta
C)Ashoka
D)Kanishka
Answer: Samudra Gupta
- Q. Which of the following does not represent an important source material for the Mauryan period?
A)Foreign accounts
B)Literary works
C)Numismatic evidence
D)Epigraphic sources
Answer: Numismatic evidence
- Q. Ashoka’s claim to be one of the greatest rulers in world history life in the fact that
A)he worked for the material moral and spiritual uplift of the people
B)his aims covered both the religious and secular aspects of life
C)after a single conquest he dedicated himself completely to the cause of peace
D)he attempted to unify the people of different castes and communities into a bound of common moral ideal
Answer: after a single conquest he dedicated himself completely to the cause of peace
- Q. By which Charter Act, the East India Company’s monopoly of trade with China come to an end?
A)Charter Act of 1813
B)Charter Act of 1793
C)Charter Act of 1833
D)Charter Act of 1853
Answer: Charter Act of 1833
- Q. Which of the following statements is/are not correct regarding the age of Vedic Civilisation? I. Bal Gangadhar Tilak, on astronomical grounds, dated Rig Veda to 6000 B.C. to Harmon Jacobi, Vedic civilization flourished between 4500 B.C. and 2500 B.C. and the Samhitas were composed in the latter half of the period. II. Famous Sanskritist, Winternitz felt that the Rig Veda was probably composed in the third millennium B.C.
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I and II
D)Neither I nor II
Answer: Neither I nor II
- Q. Who was the Governor-General when Pindaris had created havoc in Central India by indulging in large-scale looting?
A)Lord Hastings
B)Lord William Bentinck
C)Lord Cornwallis
D)Lord Wellesley
Answer: Lord Hastings
- Q. The Buddhist monk who spread Buddhism in Tibet was
A)Ananda
B)Nagarjuna
C)Asanga
D)Padmasambhava
Answer: Padmasambhava
- Q. Assertion (A): On 25th April, 1809, the Treaty of Amritsar was signed between Ranjit Singh and East India Company. Reason (R): Ranjit Singh wanted to increase the realm of his empire with the help of the company
A)Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R is 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. Whom did the Britishers call the father of Indian disaffection and the biggest traitor?
A)Lala Hardayal
B)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C)Lala Lajpat Rai
D)None of these
Answer: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Q. Who was the first woman President of Congress?
A)Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
B)Mrs. Annie Besant
C)Mrs. Nelline Sengupta
D)Aruna Asaf Ali
Answer: Mrs. Annie Besant
- Q. When was the modern petroleum industry started?
A)1829
B)1808
C)1846
D)1898
Answer: 1846
- Q. Provincial autonomy was introduced in India by the
A)Govemment of India Act, 1919
B)Indian Councils Act, 1909
C)Govemment of India Act, 1935
D)Indian Independence Act, 1947
Answer: Govemment of India Act, 1935
- Q. Jahangir (1605-1627 AD) was the ruler of which dynasty?
A)Haryanka
B)Nanda
C)Maurya
D)Mughal
Answer: Mughal
- Q. Who established East India Association in London 1866?
A)Dadabhai Naoroji
B)Subhash Chandra Bose
C)V. O. Chidambaram Pillai
D)Hemu Kalani
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Q. The National Emblem of Italy is
A)White Eagle
B)Eagle
C)White Lily
D)Lily
Answer: White Lily
- Q. The young Nanu had a keen mind and was sent to a famous scholar, __________ Asan at Karunagapally, a village fifty miles away from his home, at the age of 21
A)Kummampilli Raman Pillai
B)Madan Asan
C)Krishnan Vaidyan
D)Kumaran Asan
Answer: Kummampilli Raman Pillai
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