More Questions on History
- Q. Which movement got the support from both Hindus and Muslims?
A)Quit India Movement
B)Non-Cooperation Movement
C)Champaran Stayagraha
D)Anti-Partition Movement
Answer: Non-Cooperation Movement
- Q. During the first Carnatic War, the French Governor-General of Pondicherry was
A)Captain Paradise
B)La Bourdonnais
C)Dupleix
D)Count-de-Lally
Answer: Dupleix
- Q. Which among the following has not been found in the excavation of Harappan sites?
A)Fort
B)Drains and well
C)Reservoirs
D)Temple with Shikhar
Answer: Temple with Shikhar
- Q. The capital of Pakistan till 1959 was
A)Karachi
B)Islamabad
C)Lahore
D)Hyderabad
Answer: Karachi
- Q. Who said that the constant ‘drain of wealth’ from India was responsible for India’s economic miseries?
A)BP Wadia
B)BC Pal
C)Dadabhai Naoroji
D)GS Arundale
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Q. In 1821 Raja Ram Mohan Roy started the Bengal quarterly:
A)Bengali renaissance
B)Samvad Kaumudi
C)Bengal Gazette
D)The Brahmonical
Answer: Samvad Kaumudi
- Q. Which was the first garden tomb in the Indian subcontinent?
A)Humayun's Tomb
B)Tomb of Jahangir
C)Taj Mahal
D)Tomb of Muhammad Iqbal
Answer: Humayun's Tomb
- Q. The transfer of Government from the ‘Company’ to the ‘Crown’ was pronounced by Lord Canning (November 1, 1858) at
A)Delhi
B)Calcutta
C)Patna
D)Allahabad
Answer: Allahabad
- Q. The decline of the Nandas at the hands of Kautilya and Chandragupta Maurya has been vividly portrayed in the Sanskrit play written by Kalidasa
A)Devichandragupta
B)Mudrarakshas
C)Malavikagnimitram
D)Mrichhakatika
Answer: Mudrarakshas
- Q. Universities in the Presidency towns in India were established in
A)1858
B)1857
C)1900
D)1909
Answer: 1857
- Q. Who among the following had authored the book, ‘At the Feet of Mahatma Gandhi’?
A)Rajendra Prasad
B)JB Kripalani
C)Jayaprakash Narayan
D)Vinoba Bhave
Answer: Rajendra Prasad
- Q. Chandragupta Maurya with the help of Chanakya decided to overthrow the Nandas because
A)the Nandas were low-born
B)Chanakya had been humiliated by the Nandas
C)the Nandas had accumulated a great deal of wealth by extortion and oppression of the people
D)Chanakya wanted to restore the ideal of Kshatriya rule
Answer: the Nandas had accumulated a great deal of wealth by extortion and oppression of the people
- Q. When did Xinhai Revolution occur?
A)1900
B)1872
C)1911
D)1912
Answer: 1911
- Q. All India State’s Peoples Conference formed in 1927 launched popular movements in
A)British Provinces
B)Princely States
C)Hill Regions
D)Tribal Areas
Answer: Princely States
- Q. Who of the following was sent as an ambassador to the royal court of Jahangir by James I, the king of England?
A)Willia Todd
B)John Hawkins
C)Sir Thomas Roe
D)Sir Walter Raleigh
Answer: Sir Thomas Roe
- Q. Author of Poverty and Un-British Rule in India is__________
A)Irfan Habib
B)Romila Thapar
C)S.C.Ghosh
D)Naoroji Dadabhai
Answer: Naoroji Dadabhai
- Q. In 1875, Sir Syed founded the Madarsatul Uloom in __________
A)Aligarh
B)Delhi
C)Bengal
D)Agra
Answer: Aligarh
- Q. Which of the following leader was associated with the formation of the Congress Socialist Party?
A)Subhas Chandra Bose
B)P. C. Joshi
C)Acharya Narendra Dev
D)Ram Manohar Lohia
Answer: Acharya Narendra Dev
- Q. Who was the architect who designed “Taj Mahal” ?
A)Ustad Ahmed Lahori
B)Muhammad Hussain
C)Shah Isa
D)Ismail
Answer: Ustad Ahmed Lahori
- Q. What was the reason for Franks rapid rise in western Europe?
A)Clovis's conversion to Arian Christianity
B)Clovis's conversion to Roman Christianity
C)Clovis's alliance with the Islamic world
D)Clovis's defeat of the Muslims at the Battle of Tours
Answer: Clovis's conversion to Roman Christianity
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