More Questions on History
- Q. Who is the author of Vande Mataram?
A)Rabindranath Tagore
B)Mahatma Gandhi
C)Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
D)Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
Answer: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
- Q. The foreign traveller who visited Indian during the Mughal Period and who left us and expert description of the Peacock Throne, was
A)Omrah' Danishmand khan
B)Geronimo Verroneo
C)Travernier
D)Austinof Bordeaux
Answer: Travernier
- Q. The French East India Company was founded in
A)1620
B)1600
C)1664
D)1604
Answer: 1664
- Q. The Vedic economy was based on
A)crafts and industries
B)trade and commerce
C)agriculture and cattle rearing
D)all the above
Answer: agriculture and cattle rearing
- Q. Who coined the phrase “survival of the fittest”?
A)Charles Darwin
B)Auguste Comte
C)Emile Durkheim
D)Herbert Spencer
Answer: Herbert Spencer
- Q. Assertion (A): Nalanda was the centre of Buddhist learning in the post-Gupta period. Reason (R): It was patronised by the Pala rulers.
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: Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
- Q. Who made remarkable contribution to the development of Local government?
A)Gladstone
B)Lord Ripon
C)W.W Hunter
D)Hastings
Answer: Lord Ripon
- 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. Which of the following statements best explains the nature of revolt of 1857?
A)Mutiny of a section of sepoys of the British Army
B)The last effort of the old political order to regain power
C)A struggle of the common people to overthrow common rule
D)An effort to establish a limited Indian nation
Answer: The last effort of the old political order to regain power
- Q. Sardar Patel brought all the Indian States into the Country’s unity
A)By using armed forces
B)By a bloody revolution
C)By a bloodless revolution
D)With the help of the English
Answer: By a bloodless revolution
- Q. Wahabi movement aimed to organize Muslims around two fold ideas, which of the following forms the ideas among them? I. Harmony among 4 schools of Muslim which were divided at that time II. Recognition of the role of individual conscience in religion as conflicting interpretations were derived from quran and other practices
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I and II
D)None of the above stated
Answer: Both I and II
- Q. Muhammad BinTughlaq transferred his capital from
A)Delhi to Devagiri
B)Delhi to Warangal
C)Delhi to Madurai
D)Delhi to Vijayanagar
Answer: Delhi to Devagiri
- Q. The sepoy mutiny of 1857 occurred during the Governor Generalship to
A)Charles wood dispatch on education, influenced it towards female education
B)Break priestly monopoly of scriptural knowledge(Sanskrit) and opening to non- Brahmins
C)Lady Hardinge medical college at Delhi
D)Both A and B
Answer: Both A and B
- Q. During the Mughal period there was continuous emigration of the __________ to places ruled by Hindu Rajas
A)Poor
B)Nobles
C)Middle Class
D)Foreign residents
Answer: Poor
- Q. Which Rashtrakuta ruler built the famous Kailash temple of Shiva at Ellora?
A)Amoghvarsha-I
B)Dantidurga
C)Krishna-I
D)Vatsraja
Answer: Krishna-I
- Q. Earlier mathematicians (i.e. those who came before medieval Indian mathematicians) had taught that X/O = X; who among the following proved that it was infinity?
A)Bhaskara
B)Aryabhatta
C)Brahmagupta
D)Mahavira
Answer: Bhaskara
- Q. Of the following who was a poet and political thinker?
A)Jinnah
B)Gandhi
C)Mohammed Iqbal
D)Patel
Answer: Mohammed Iqbal
- Q. Who, among the following rulers, organised the Second Buddhist Council?
A)Kalasoka
B)Ajatashatru
C)Ashoka
D)Ananda
Answer: Kalasoka
- 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. When was the Gandhi Irwin Pact made?
A)1931
B)1935
C)1929
D)1932
Answer: 1931
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