More Questions on History
- Q. Under which tree Sumtinath Tirthankar received Kaivalya Gyan?
A)Neem
B)Devdar
C)Priyangu
D)Vat
Answer: Priyangu
- Q. Which of the following Government of India Act/Indian Council Act brought three separate presidencies (Madras, Bombay and Bengal) into a common system?
A)Government of India Act, 1935
B)Indian Council Act of 1861
C)Government of India Act, 1919
D)Indian Council Act of 1909
Answer: Indian Council Act of 1861
- Q. The Peloponnesian War was fought between which cities?
A)Carthage and Athens
B)Athens and Macedonia
C)Sparta and Carthage
D)Sparta and Athens
Answer: Sparta and Athens
- Q. The Saviour of the Delhi Sultanate was
A)Minas-us-Siraj
B)Qutub-din-Aibak
C)Iltutmish
D)Ghiyasuddin Balban
Answer: Ghiyasuddin Balban
- Q. Mahatma Gandhi got his inspiration for Civil Disobedience from
A)Ruskin
B)Thoureau
C)Confucius
D)Tolstoy
Answer: Thoureau
- Q. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of the
A)Forward Block
B)Communist Party of India
C)Socialist-Swarajist Party
D)Swarajya Party
Answer: Swarajya Party
- Q. The first image of the Buddha was carved out during the reign of
A)Pusyamitra Shunga
B)Ashoka
C)Kanishka I
D)Menander
Answer: Kanishka I
- Q. The actual name of Dayanand Saraawati, the founder of the Arya Samaj was
A)Mula Shankar
B)Daya Shankar
C)Virjanand
D)Mool Chandra
Answer: Mula Shankar
- Q. Who opened the First Round Table Conference?
A)MK Gandhi
B)King George V
C)Lord Irwin
D)Ramsay McDonald
Answer: King George V
- Q. Which of the following statement (s) is/are correct related with the Kautilya’s Arthashastra? I. Kautilya’s Arthashastra is a book on statecraft was written in Gupta Period. II. Arthashastra was written in the fourth century B.C. by Kautilya, from which it appeared a tradition of writing on and teaching of statecrafts because Kautilya acknowledges his debt to his predecessors in the field
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I & II
D)None of the above
Answer: Only II
- Q. The Indian National Congress was formed __________
A)1887
B)1885
C)1888
D)1895
Answer: 1885
- Q. Montague – Chelmsford report was prepared on the basis of
A)The Government of India act, 1919
B)The Government of India act 1913
C)The Government of India act 1935
D)None of these
Answer: The Government of India act, 1919
- Q. Which of the following is not among the regions where the Britishers had first set up trading posts?
A)Goa
B)Bengal
C)Coromandel Coast
D)Gujarat
Answer: Goa
- Q. Who is called the “Greatest Investigator of Antiquity”?
A)Darwin
B)Aristotle
C)Cuvier
D)Socrates
Answer: Darwin
- Q. Who was the Governor-General when Pindaris had created havoc in Central India by indulging in large-scale looting?
A)Lord Hastings
B)Lord William Bentinck
C)Lord Cornwallis
D)Lord Wellesley
Answer: Lord Hastings
- Q. Where did Sumtinath Tirthankar receive Shiksha (enlightenment)?
A)Nasik
B)Ayodhya
C)Ujjain
D)Kiskindha
Answer: Ayodhya
- 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. We hear of two envoys being sent to the Roman kings, one in 27-28 AD to the court of Augustus and the other in 110-20 AD to the court of
A)Trajan
B)Cartius
C)Nero
D)Brutus
Answer: Trajan
- Q. Faraizi Movement which aimed at removing social reforms in muslims started in which of the following regions?
A)Madhya Pradesh
B)East Bengal
C)Kerala
D)Delhi
Answer: East Bengal
- Q. Who said’ ‘I am the State’?
A)Napoleon-I of France
B)James-II of England
C)Louis-XIV of France
D)Hitler of Germany
Answer: Louis-XIV of France
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