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. The Harappan site that had a dock is
A)Harappa
B)Alamgirpur
C)Lothal
D)Mohenjo-Daro
Answer: Lothal
- Q. Who, according to the Buddhist, is believed to be the next incarnation of Gautam Buddha?
A)Maitreya
B)Atreya
C)Nagarjuna
D)Kalki
Answer: Maitreya
- Q. How did Europeans use the term ‘middle ages’?
A)The medieval era of European history
B)The crisis of Western Europe
C)The fact that Europe became mature from 500 to 1500
D)The time between the fall of Rome and the emergence of Christianity
Answer: The medieval era of European history
- Q. The term Khalisa in Mughal administration signified the
A)land owned by the emperor himself
B)entire Imperial establishment
C)religious land grants
D)land from where revenue was collected for the Imperial Treasury
Answer: land owned by the emperor himself
- Q. Assertion (A): The Sultans may not have been too eager to encourage large scale conversion. Reason (R): The increasing conversion could lead to a loss of revenue, as jizya paying citizens to Islam
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. The Aligarh Institute Gazette, an organ of the Scientific Society was started in March . . . . . and succeeded in transforming the minds in the traditional Muslim Society
A)1866
B)1766
C)1869
D)1870
Answer: 1866
- Q. When did the October Revolution occur?
A)1918
B)1917
C)1920
D)1923
Answer: 1917
- Q. The newspapers ‘The Punjabi and The pupil’ were published by :
A)Lala Lajpat Rai
B)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C)Bhagat Singh
D)Lala Hardyal
Answer: Lala Lajpat Rai
- Q. The famous Vedic river which had long ago become extinct and now supposed to be flowing underground in Rajasthan is
A)Sabastu
B)Sindhu
C)Shatudri
D)Saraswati
Answer: Saraswati
- Q. The Congressmen who wanted to contest the elections under the Act of 1919 and enter the legislature, formed a party (1923) called
A)Congress Swarajya Party
B)Swaraj Party
C)Nationalist Party
D)Liberal Party
Answer: Swaraj Party
- Q. Who wrote Shiksha Ashtak which was called as the cream of the Shastras?
A)Tulsidas
B)Mirabai
C)Kabir
D)Chaitanya
Answer: Chaitanya
- Q. Jantar Mantar is in
A)Assam
B)Rajasthan
C)Bihar
D)Gujrat
Answer: Rajasthan
- Q. Chandra Gupta Maurya spent his last days here
A)Pataliputra
B)Kashi
C)Ujjain
D)Shravanabelagola
Answer: Shravanabelagola
- Q. Consider the following statement (s) related to the administrative causes of 1857 revolt. I. Deprivation of the traditional ruling classes of their luxury due to the establishment of the company’s suzerainty over the Indian states. II. Introduction of new and revenue system which snatched the land from cultivator and gave it to the moneylender or traitor. III. Lord Canning’s announcement to that Mughals would lose the title of King and be mere Princess.
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I and II
D)Both I and III
Answer: Both I and II
- Q. Mahatma Gandhi spent a year of complete silence in 1926 to
A)work for harijan welfare
B)consolidate Khadi programme
C)cl do penance for Chauri-Chaura violence
D)write his autobiography
Answer: work for harijan welfare
- Q. In 1848, an incident took place in his life that later sparked off the dalit-revolution in the Indian society. Jyotirao was invited to attend a wedding of one of his __________friends
A)Christian
B)Brahmin
C)Pulaya
D)Nayar
Answer: Brahmin
- Q. When did Xinhai Revolution occur?
A)1900
B)1872
C)1911
D)1912
Answer: 1911
- Q. Who compiled the tales of “The Panchatantra”?
A)Veda Vyasa
B)Valmiki
C)Vishnu Sharma
D)Tulsidas
Answer: Vishnu Sharma
- Q. Who was the writer of Rukmini Swayamwar Hastamalak, which was comprised 764 owees and based on a 14-shlok Sanskrit hymn with the same name by Shankaracharya?
A)Eknath
B)Ramananda
C)Mirabai
D)Tukaram
Answer: Eknath
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