More Questions on History
- Q. Who is the most prominent god of ‘Rig Veda’?
A)Agni
B)Indra
C)Pashupati
D)Vishnu
Answer: Indra
- Q. When did Saladin captured Jerusalem?
A)1187
B)1118
C)1193
D)1203
Answer: 1187
- Q. Hamza-nama paintings were produced during the reign of?
A)Akbar
B)Humayun
C)Jahangir
D)Shahjahan
Answer: Akbar
- Q. The island of Bombay had been given to the British Prince Charles II as dowry by the
A)Portuguese
B)Dutch
C)Danish
D)French
Answer: Portuguese
- Q. Who among the following renowned Scholar wrote the biography of King Harsha and Kadambari?
A)Bhartrihari
B)Bharavi
C)Bana
D)Magha
Answer: Bana
- Q. The reformer from Maharashtra popularly known as ‘Lokhitavadi’ (For the well of others) was
A)Gopal Hari Deshmukh
B)MG Ranade
C)Pt Ramabai
D)GK Gokhale
Answer: Gopal Hari Deshmukh
- Q. Who was the Nawab when Dalhousie annexed Awadh in 1854?
A)Wajid Ali Shah
B)Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah
C)Sirajud daulla
D)Alivardi Khan
Answer: Wajid Ali Shah
- Q. Who among the following visited Gandhiji in South Africa?
A)Vallabhbhai Patel
B)B. G. Tilak
C)G. K. Gokhale
D)J. L. Nehru
Answer: G. K. Gokhale
- Q. An emigre (a person or thing who/which has emigrated) communist journal brought out by M N Roy was
A)The Worker
B)Anushilan
C)Kisan Sabha
D)Vanguard
Answer: Vanguard
- Q. When Narayana Guru attained the age of sixty, his birthday was observed throughout the west-coast from Mangalore to __________
A)Sri Lanka
B)Varkala
C)Kottayam
D)Calicut
Answer: Sri Lanka
- Q. When did the USS ‘Panay’ incident happen?
A)1936
B)1935
C)1937
D)1939
Answer: 1937
- Q. Which of the following revolts during Aurangzeb’s period had a peasant agrarian background?
A)Jats and Satnamis
B)Rajputs
C)Marathas
D)Sikhs
Answer: Jats and Satnamis
- Q. The single biggest item of British capital investment in India was
A)Plantations and mines
B)Railways
C)Banking and insurance
D)Shipping
Answer: Railways
- Q. Who defined the “Long Nineteenth Century”?
A)Ernest Gallner
B)Benedict Anderson
C)Eric Hobsbawm
D)Karl Marx
Answer: Eric Hobsbawm
- Q. The Battle of Haldighati was fought between
A)Akbar and Medini Rai
B)Akbar and Rana Sangram Singh
C)Akbar and Rana Pratap Singh
D)Akbar and Uday Singh
Answer: Akbar and Rana Pratap Singh
- Q. Which of the Act made the governor of Bengal as Governor General of India?
A)Charter Act, 1813
B)Pitt's India Act, 1784
C)Charter Act, 1833
D)Regulating Act, 1773
Answer: Charter Act, 1813
- Q. The two principles monuments of Alaud-din Khilji’s reign – the Jama Masjid at Kana and Alai Darwaza – were constructed at
A)Delhi
B)Agra
C)Dhar
D)Gulbarga
Answer: Delhi
- Q. Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
A)George Washington
B)Abraham Lincoln
C)John F. Kennedy
D)William Wallace Lincoln
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
- Q. When was the Fourth Crusade diverted from the Holy Land to Constantinople?
A)1204
B)1203
C)1261
D)1291
Answer: 1203
- Q. The greatest historian of the reign of Akbar, who wrote Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari, was
A)Abdur Qadir Badauni
B)Nizamuddin Ahmad
C)Abul Fazl
D)Abdas Khan Arwani
Answer: Abul Fazl
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