More Questions on History
- Q. Who was the architect of North and South Blocks of the central Secretariat in Delhi?
A)Herbert Bakers
B)Sir Edward Lutyens
C)Robert Tor Tussell
D)Antonin Raymond
Answer: Sir Edward Lutyens
- Q. In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi started the Civil Disobedience Movement from
A)Sevagram
B)Wardha
C)Sabarmati
D)Dandi
Answer: Sabarmati
- Q. Who discovered Cape of Good Hope in 1488?
A)Columbus
B)Magellan
C)Bartholomew Dias
D)Vasco da Gama
Answer: Bartholomew Dias
- Q. Which Bhakti Saint did not believe in the qualified monism of Ramanuja and emphasised the doctrine of duality, based mainly upon the Bhagavata Purana?
A)Ramananda
B)Madhava
C)Vallabhacharya
D)Chaitnaya
Answer: Madhava
- Q. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of
A)Ram Krishna Mission
B)Arya Samaj
C)Brahmo Samaj
D)Prathna Samaj
Answer: Brahmo Samaj
- Q. Which of the following provision is a part of the Government of India Act of 1919?
A)The enlargement of the Viceroy's Executive Council
B)Transfer of power to the Indians
C)Remodelling of the Central legislature
D)Doing away with the distinction between the regulation and non-regulation provinces
Answer: Transfer of power to the Indians
- Q. Which of the following was not one of the historic decisions of the Lahore Session (1929) of the Indian National Congress?
A)Complete independence (Poorna Swaraj) as the goal of the Indian National Congress
B)Decision to launch a programme of civil disobedience
C)Decision to observe January 26 as the Poorna Swaraj Day
D)To treat the communal problem as a national issue
Answer: To treat the communal problem as a national issue
- Q. The oldest Jain scriptures are regarded to be the
A)Twelve Upangas
B)Fourteen Purvas
C)Twelve Angas
D)Fourteen Uparvas
Answer: Twelve Angas
- Q. Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha together are known as
A)Trivarga
B)Triratna
C)Trisarga
D)Trimurti
Answer: Triratna
- Q. __________, succeeded to the throne of Ferghana in 1494 when he was only 12 years old
A)Akbar
B)Humayun
C)Jahangir
D)Babur
Answer: Babur
- Q. Which of the following statement is correct definition of Nirguna?
A)It is the concept of a formless Guru
B)It is the concept of a formless God
C)It is the concept of spirituality
D)None of the above
Answer: It is the concept of a formless God
- Q. Who among the following revolutionaries was executed by the British
A)Chandrashekhar Azad
B)Jitin Das
C)Rajguru
D)Kalpana - Dutt
Answer: Rajguru
- Q. Who founded Satya Shodhak Samaj in 1873 ?
A)Purushottam Das Tandon
B)Shri Bharat Kumar
C)Bankim Chandra Chattopashyay
D)Jyotiba Phule
Answer: Jyotiba Phule
- Q. Ghazni was a small principality in
A)Turkey
B)Mongolia
C)Persia
D)Afghanistan
Answer: Afghanistan
- Q. The first Indian to enter the Indian Civil Service was
A)Satyendra Nath Tagore
B)Gokhale
C)Ramanuja
D)Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: Satyendra Nath Tagore
- Q. What was the most important cause of the invasion of Mahmud of Ghazni?
A)To gain possession of the wealth of India
B)To destroy idolatry
C)To spread Islam into India
D)To establish a Muslim State in India
Answer: To gain possession of the wealth of India
- Q. Which of the following songs was so dear to Mahatma Gandhi’s heart, that he wrote: ‘That one song is enough to sustain me, even if I were to forget the ‘Bhagavad Gita’
A)Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram
B)Hare Ram
C)Vaishnava Jana To Tene Kahiye
D)Ishwar Allah Tero Nam
Answer: Vaishnava Jana To Tene Kahiye
- Q. A Janapadin was the __________ of a janapada.
A)Minister
B)Servant
C)Army General
D)Ruler
Answer: Ruler
- Q. Which of the following Mughal emperors is credited with composition of Hindi songs?
A)Akbar
B)Babur
C)Jahangir
D)Shahjahan
Answer: Jahangir
- Q. The British colonial policies in India proved most ruinous for Indian
A)trade
B)agriculture
C)industry
D)handicrafts
Answer: handicrafts
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