More Questions on History
- Q. Harappan weapons were made of
A)Copper
B)Stone
C)Bronze
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- Q. Who was the Chairman of the Partition Council ?
A)Lord Mountbatten
B)M. A. Jinnah
C)Jawaharlal Nehru
D)V. P. Menon
Answer: Lord Mountbatten
- Q. When was the Gandhi Irwin Pact made?
A)1931
B)1935
C)1929
D)1932
Answer: 1931
- Q. In 1934 Mahatma Gandhi withdrew from active politics and even resigned his membership of the Congress because
A)the political climate of India was unsuitable for any political movement
B)of the failure of the Civil Disobedience Movement
C)he wanted to devote himself fully to constructive programme and Harijan welfare
D)of his opposition to the desire of congressmen to enter legislatures under the Government of India Act of 1935
Answer: he wanted to devote himself fully to constructive programme and Harijan welfare
- 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. Where did the traveller Ibn Batuta come from?
A)Persia
B)Morocco
C)Turkey
D)Central Asia
Answer: Morocco
- Q. The Kalinga was fought in
A)301 BC
B)321 BC
C)261 BC
D)241 BC
Answer: 261 BC
- Q. The Iron Pillar at Mehrauli in Delhi is believed to record the achievements of
A)Chandragupta Maurya
B)Ashoka
C)Samudragupta
D)Chandragupta II
Answer: Chandragupta II
- Q. On April 12, 1944 Subhash Chandra Bose hoisted the INA Flag in a town. In which State/Union Territory is that town now?
A)Culcutta
B)Tripura
C)Manipur
D)Mizoram
Answer: Manipur
- Q. Which of the following revolutions is related to the thirteen English colonies
A)Industrial Revolution
B)Russian Revolution
C)French Revolution
D)American Revolution
Answer: American Revolution
- Q. When the East India Company was formed, the Mughal emperor in India was
A)Humayun
B)Jahangir
C)Aurangzeb
D)Akbar
Answer: Akbar
- Q. The first interim government during the British rule in India was formed in
A)November, 1945
B)September, 1945
C)September, 1946
D)January, 1947
Answer: September, 1946
- Q. Who founded Anushulin Samiti in 1907 in Dhaka?
A)Kali Mohan Das
B)Shambhuchand Mukherjee
C)Barindra Ghosh and Bhupendra Nath Dutt
D)Jogesh Chandra Dutt
Answer: E
- Q. Which of the following was the ‘Newspaper’ of Annie Besant?
A)Indian Express
B)The Hindu
C)The Times of India
D)New India
Answer: New India
- Q. Which one of the following was NOT introduced by Shivaji?
A)Chauth
B)Land-tax
C)Sardeshmukhi
D)Pilgrim tax
Answer: Pilgrim tax
- Q. “Treaty of Rajpurghat” was signed on December 25, 1805 between Holkar and __________
A)British
B)French
C)Portuguese
D)Dutch
Answer: British
- Q. Who had observed that “Political freedom is the life-breath of a nation”?
A)Annie Besant
B)BG Tilak
C)Sri Aurobindo Ghose
D)Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: Sri Aurobindo Ghose
- Q. The Minto Morley reforms was in the year __________
A)1907
B)1906
C)1909
D)1919
Answer: 1909
- Q. Who established Chishti order in India?
A)Nizamuddin Aulia
B)Baba Farid
C)Al biruni
D)Moinuddin Chishti
Answer: Moinuddin Chishti
- Q. Lahore was Ranjeet Singh’s political capital. Which city was called his religious capital?
A)Anandpur Sahib
B)Amritsar
C)Gujranwala
D)Peshawar
Answer: Amritsar
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