More Questions on History
- Q. Till when did the Hundred Years’ War last?
A)1377
B)1327
C)1376
D)1453
Answer: 1453
- Q. The Mauryan sculptors had attained the highest perfection in the carving of
A)pillars
B)floral designs
C)animal figures
D)yaksha figures
Answer: animal figures
- Q. Which of following Chalcolithic sites comes under Ganges system?
A)Alamgirpur
B)Hanumangarh
C)Ropar
D)Mohenjodaro
Answer: Alamgirpur
- Q. Who started the journal ‘The Commonweal’?
A)Annie Besant
B)N. G. Chandavarkar
C)M. G. Ranade
D)R. G. Bhandarkar
Answer: Annie Besant
- Q. Narayana Guru was the son of__________
A)Krishnan Vaidyan
B)Madan Asan
C)Kummampilli Raman Pillai Asan
D)Kumaran
Answer: Madan Asan
- Q. Which of the following statement (S) is/are correct related to the Ancient Indian Literature? I. Vedas, Puranas, Kautilya’s Arthashastra, and other literature besides foreign accounts are only available literary sources that restructure the Ancient Indian History. II. The archaeological sources like epigraphic, numismatic and architectural remains besides archaeological explorations and excavations also help in restructuring Ancient Indian History.
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I and II
D)Neither I nor II
Answer: Both I and II
- Q. When did the Turkish army defeat the Byzantine army?
A)1060
B)1040
C)1070
D)1071
Answer: 1071
- Q. Joseph François Dupleix was the commander of the __________ forces in India
A)British
B)French
C)American
D)Dutch
Answer: French
- Q. Who said this message, the name Ezhava does not denote a caste or a religion and he made temple rights to everyone. Therefore people can be admitted to this organization without paying heed to differences of caste
A)T. K. Madhavan
B)Chattambi Swamikal
C)Narayana Guru
D)Rajaram Mohan Roy
Answer: Narayana Guru
- Q. Which of the following statement (s) is correct about Alvar Saints?
A)The 63 Alvars saints were the Shiva devotional poets, who lived between 5th and 10th centuries
B)The twelve Alvars were Tamil poet-saints, who lived between 6th and 9th centuries AD and espoused 'emotional devotion' or bhakti to Visnu-Krishna in their songs
C)Only B
D)Both A & B
Answer: The twelve Alvars were Tamil poet-saints, who lived between 6th and 9th centuries AD and espoused 'emotional devotion' or bhakti to Visnu-Krishna in their songs
- Q. Of the following who was a poet and political thinker?
A)Jinnah
B)Gandhi
C)Mohammed Iqbal
D)Patel
Answer: Mohammed Iqbal
- Q. When did the Germans establish colonies in Samoa?
A)1899
B)1898
C)1900
D)1901
Answer: 1900
- Q. What is ‘Patriarchal Society’?
A)System that values men more than women
B)System that values women more than men
C)System that values both men and women equally
D)System that values elders
Answer: System that values men more than women
- Q. One of the earliest and the best known mutinies before the Revolt of 1857 was
A)Indian Soldiers Mutiny at Vellore (1806)
B)the Native Infantry Mutiny (1824)
C)Sholapur Mutiny (1838)
D)Assam Soldiers Mutiny (1824)
Answer: Indian Soldiers Mutiny at Vellore (1806)
- Q. In 1893 Mahatma Gandhi went to South Africa in connection with the trial of a merchant:
A)Sachindra Bakshi
B)Hemu Kalani
C)Manmath Nath Gupta
D)Abdulla Seth
Answer: Abdulla Seth
- Q. Akbar’s mausoleum is situated at
A)Sikandra
B)Sasaram
C)Agra
D)Delhi
Answer: Sikandra
- Q. The socialist group in the INC during, the 1930s had been led by
A)Rajendra Prasad
B)Bipin Chandra Pal
C)Lala Lajpat Rai
D)Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: Subhas Chandra Bose
- Q. The Simon Commission was boycotted by Indians because
A)It proposed to partition India
B)It sought to curb civil liberties of the Indians
C)It was an all-white commission without Indian representation
D)It proposed measures to contain nationalism
Answer: It was an all-white commission without Indian representation
- Q. Which of the following is the Journal published in Britain by the Committee of the Indian National Congress?
A)India
B)Calcutta Gazette
C)Bengal Tribune
D)Calcutta Tribune
Answer: India
- Q. What is the name of the The collection of hymns of Alvar Saints?
A)Tamil Veda
B)Divya Prabandha
C)Kabir Wani
D)Granthawali
Answer: Divya Prabandha
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