More Questions on History
- Q. Which of the following personality is related with the “Deepavali Declaration”?
A)Lord Linlithgow in 1940
B)Lord Irwin in 1929
C)Gandhiji in 1930
D)Subhas Chandra Bose in 1941
Answer: Lord Irwin in 1929
- Q. Mahe was a colony of __________
A)French
B)English
C)Dutch
D)Germany
Answer: French
- Q. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of Lokmanya during
A)Home Rule Movement
B)His imprisonment in 1908
C)Revolutionary Movement
D)Swadeshi Movement
Answer: Home Rule Movement
- Q. Which of the following reform movements was the first to be started in the 19th Century?
A)Brahmo Samaj
B)Prathana Samaj
C)Arya Samaj
D)Rama Krishna Mission
Answer: Brahmo Samaj
- Q. Who is known as the founder of Tudor dynasty in England
A)Richard III
B)Elizabeth I
C)Henry VII
D)None of the above
Answer: Henry VII
- Q. What was the name of the mother of Rishabhnath?
A)Sharemestha
B)Tara
C)Marudevi
D)Anuradha
Answer: Marudevi
- Q. Which one of the following ruler was not contemporary to ‘Buddha’?
A)Bimbisara
B)Udayin
C)Ajatshatru
D)Mahapadma Nanda
Answer: Mahapadma Nanda
- Q. __________ comprises the archaeological remains of a monastic and scholastic institution
A)Rani ki vav
B)Nalanda
C)Hill Forts of Rajasthan
D)Fatehpur Sikri
Answer: Nalanda
- Q. The first Indian national leader who began building, organizing and promoting the freedom struggle was
A)Lala Lajpat Rai
B)Dadabhai Naoroji
C)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D)Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Q. Who invented kerosene?
A)Benjamin Silliman
B)Abraham Pineo Gesner
C)Edwin Drake
D)John William Dawson
Answer: Abraham Pineo Gesner
- Q. Assertion (A): The Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Sikri was built by Akbar in 1602. Reason (R): He wanted to commemorate his conquest of Gujarat
A)Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
C)A is true but R is false
D)A is false but R is true
Answer: Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Q. Assertion (A): The nobility under Muhammad bin Tughlaq was a highly homogeneous one. Reason (R): Royal intervention in the iqta system was as its peak under Muhammad Tughlaq.
A)Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
C)A is true but R is false
D)A is false but R is true
Answer: A is false but R is true
- Q. What do you consider to be the least important cause for Alauddin’s south Indian campaigns?
A)Imperialism
B)Political condition of South India
C)Fabulous wealth
D)Religion
Answer: Religion
- Q. Who defeated Darius III in the Battle of Gaugamela?
A)Aristotle
B)Alexander the Great
C)Julius Caesar
D)Napoleon Bonaparte
Answer: Alexander the Great
- Q. Bal Gangadhar Tilak earned the epithet of Lokmanya during
A)the Lucknow pact of 1916
B)his trial in 1907-08
C)the Home Rule Movement
D)the Congress Session in 1917
Answer: the Home Rule Movement
- Q. The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system prevalent in
A)Mongolia
B)Persia
C)Afghanistan
D)Turkey
Answer: Mongolia
- Q. That the Rig Vedic Aryana were a pastoral people is borne out by the fact that
A)Most of the wars were fought for the sake of cows
B)there are many references to the cow in the Rig Veda
C)Gifts made to priests were usually cows and not land
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. Buddhism in Nepal was introduced during the reign of
A)Ashoka
B)Samudragupta
C)Chandragupta
D)Harshavardhana
Answer: Ashoka
- Q. Name the oldest civilization
A)Mesopotamian civlization
B)Indus Valley civilization
C)Egyptian civilization
D)Chandragupta Vikramaditya
Answer: Mesopotamian civlization
- Q. According to Gregory of Tours, which of the following was true about Clovis’s conversion?
A)He began to consider conversion when his army was defeated by the Christian Alamanni
B)He was forced to convert by the bishops
C)He forced his army to be baptized after he was
D)At the behest of his wife, the queen Clotilde
Answer: At the behest of his wife, the queen Clotilde
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