More Questions on History
- Q. Which one of the following was not a French settlement in India?
A)Mahe
B)Puducherry
C)Goa
D)Chandannagar
Answer: Goa
- Q. The famous Sikh leader Banda Bahadur was captured and executed during the reign of the Mughal emperor?
A)Bahadur Shah I
B)Aurangzeb
C)Jahandar Shah
D)Farrukhsiyar
Answer: Farrukhsiyar
- Q. Tulsidas composed his Ramacharitamanas during the reign of
A)Alauddin Khalji
B)Harsha
C)Akbar
D)Krishnadeva Raya
Answer: Akbar
- Q. Mahatma Gandhi considered preconditions as necessary for a satyagrahi to fulfill namely :
A)Prefect Chastity
B)Follow truth and cultivate fearlessness.
C)Adopts poverty
D)All of these
Answer: All of these
- Q. The Governor General who came to be known as father of communal electorate in India was
A)Lord Hardinge
B)Lord Chelmsford
C)Lord Lainthgo
D)Lord Minto
Answer: Lord Minto
- Q. The Government of India Act of 1935 borrowed its preamble from
A)The Constitution of Australia
B)The Constitution of the USA
C)From the Government of India Act of 1919
D)From Pitt's India Act
Answer: From the Government of India Act of 1919
- Q. Who was called Lichchavi Dauhitra?
A)Skandagupta
B)Chandragupta-I
C)Kumaragupta
D)Samudragupta
Answer: Samudragupta
- Q. Under the Mughals, in urban area the judicial powers were exercised by
A)Faujdar
B)Kazis
C)Kotwal
D)Wazir
Answer: Kotwal
- Q. Which one was the slogan during French Revolution
A)Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
B)Liberty, Authority, Fraternity
C)Liberty, Equality, Freedom
D)Liberty, Law, Fraternity
Answer: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
- Q. Which of the following statement relates the Dadabhai Naoroji’s definition of ‘Drain of Wealth’?
A)That a part of India's national wealth or total annual product was being exported to Britain for which India got no material return
B)Those resources of the country were being utilized in the interest of Britain
C)That the British industrialists were being given an opportunity to invest in India under the protection of the imperial power
D)That the British goods were being imported into the country making it poorer day by day
Answer: That a part of India's national wealth or total annual product was being exported to Britain for which India got no material return
- Q. Name the river on the banks of which the city of Vijayanagar is located?
A)Krishna
B)Kaveri
C)Wainganga
D)Tungabhadra
Answer: Tungabhadra
- Q. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had proclaimed the formation of the Provisional Government of Independent India (Azad Hind) in
A)Rangoon
B)Vienna
C)Tokyo
D)Singapore
Answer: Singapore
- Q. Which of the following is not the provision of government of India act, 1935?
A)The structure for "Federation of India" was established for both British India and some or all of the "princely states"
B)This act ended the system of diarchy
C)Burma became the part of India
D)The introduction of direct elections, thus increasing the franchise from seven million to thirty-five million people
Answer: Burma became the part of India
- Q. Who spoke “At the stroke of midnight, when the world sleeps, India awakes to life and freedom”?
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
C)Jawaharlal Nehru
D)Rajagopalachari
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
- Q. Guru died on 20 September, __________
A)1908
B)1902
C)1918
D)1928
Answer: 1928
- Q. During the Second World War Churchill replaced __________ as Prime Minister of England
A)Attlee
B)Chamberlain
C)Disraeli
D)Asquith
Answer: Chamberlain
- Q. Kabir was a disciple of
A)Ramanujana
B)Ramananda
C)Shakracharya
D)None of the above
Answer: Ramananda
- Q. Who is the Duchess of Cornwall?
A)Camilla
B)Diana
C)Anne
D)Margaret
Answer: Camilla
- Q. The Indian Civil Service Act was passed during the Viceroyalty of
A)Canning
B)Elgin
C)Minto
D)Lytton
Answer: Canning
- Q. When did the Soviet Union collapse?
A)1980
B)1970
C)1990
D)1991
Answer: 1991
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