More Questions on History
- Q. Select the incorrect pair
A)Hiuen-Tsang : Promotes the term Yin-Tu to refer India.
B)Chinese : Used the term Tien-Chu or Chuantu for India during the 1st century A.D.
C)I-Tsing : Mentioned the terms such as Arya-desa and Brahmarashtra for India.
D)Panini : Mentioned the term 'Bharata' for a region of 60 Janapadas.
Answer: Panini : Mentioned the term 'Bharata' for a region of 60 Janapadas.
- Q. When was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria assassinated?
A)1907
B)1906
C)1910
D)1914
Answer: 1914
- Q. When did Otto I secure recognition of his title?
A)972
B)936
C)973
D)967
Answer: 972
- Q. The “Arya Samaj” was founded by
A)Swami Vivekananda
B)Swami Dayananda Saraswati
C)Keshav Chandra Sen
D)Ishwar Chandra VidyaSagar
Answer: Swami Dayananda Saraswati
- Q. At Jallianwala Bagh meeting __________ ordered the troops to open fire
A)Irwin
B)Benn
C)Dyer
D)Montagu
Answer: Dyer
- Q. Who among the following was the first Bhakti saint to use Hindi for the propagation of his message?
A)Kabir
B)Dadu
C)Ramananda
D)Tulsidas
Answer: Ramananda
- Q. The Communist Party of India was founded in 1921 by
A)SM Joshi
B)Hiren Mukherjee
C)MN Roy
D)RC Dutt
Answer: MN Roy
- Q. The ‘Mohammadan Anglo-Oriental College’ later became the
A)JamiaMilia Muslim University
B)Osmania University
C)Baraktullah University
D)Aligarh Muslim University
Answer: Aligarh Muslim University
- Q. Chahalghani under IItutmish represented __________
A)Slaves inherited by him from his predecessors
B)His Turkish slaves
C)General cadre of slaves
D)The elite cadre of slave officers under him
Answer: His Turkish slaves
- Q. The most famous Indo-Greek ruler of India, famous for his sense of Justice and dialogues with a Buddhist monk Nagasena (as described in the Buddhist work Milinda Panho) was
A)Menander
B)Demetrius
C)Eukratises
D)Heliocles
Answer: Menander
- Q. __________ was the Founder Father of Aligarh movement
A)Maqsud Ali
B)Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
C)Abul kalam Azad
D)Karim Ali
Answer: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
- Q. The original Buddhist religious texts had been written in
A)Sanskrit
B)Brahmi
C)Pali
D)Magadhi
Answer: Pali
- Q. The Mughal School of Painting was interested in portraying
A)Domestic subjects
B)Mughal court
C)Scenes from the Indian classics
D)The scenes of their motherland
Answer: Mughal court
- Q. Who among the following freedom fighter opposes the Annie Besant’s idea of launching Home Rule Movement?
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)G. K. Gokhale
C)Aurobindo Ghosh
D)B. G. Tilak
Answer: G. K. Gokhale
- Q. The Buland Darwaza was built to mark Akbar’s conquest of
A)Malwa
B)Awadh
C)Gujarat
D)Chittor
Answer: Gujarat
- Q. The first martyrdom in Sikh history in the reign of Jahangir was of
A)Guru Tegh Bahadur
B)Guru Ram Das
C)Guru Angad
D)Guru Arjan
Answer: Guru Arjan
- Q. One of the best known tribal rebellions in Bihar, known as Ulgulan (meaning Great Tumult), was launched by the Mundas under the leadership of
A)Sidhu
B)Kanhu
C)Birsa Munda
D)Rampa Munda
Answer: Birsa Munda
- Q. Who is called the ‘Father of the Indian National Congress?
A)A. O. Hume
B)Mahatma Gandhi
C)Lokmanya Tilak
D)Surendra Nath Banerjee
Answer: A. O. Hume
- Q. Which one of the following is associated with the Gupta Age of Indian History?
A)Significant contribution to Indian astronomy by Aryabhatta
B)Visit of Chinese pilgrim Hiuen Tsang
C)Significant contribution to poetry and literature by Banabhatta
D)Macedonian invasion
Answer: Significant contribution to Indian astronomy by Aryabhatta
- Q. Second battle of Panipat was fought between which two armies?
A)Babur and Rana Sanga
B)Babur and Lodi Empire
C)Akbar and Hemu
D)Akbar and Rana of Mewar
Answer: Akbar and Hemu
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