More Questions on History

  • Q. Name the Commission that came to India in 1928 to reform India’s constitutional system
    A)Pitt's India Act
    B)Rowaltt Act
    C)Partition of Bengal
    D)Simon Commission
    Answer: Simon Commission
  • Q. The revolt of 1857 had its beginning in
    A)Plassey
    B)Meerut
    C)Madras
    D)Bombay
    Answer: Meerut
  • Q. The British Government intervened in the affairs of the Company and passed an Act in 1773 A.D., known as the
    A)Pitt's India Act
    B)Regulating Act
    C)Charter Act
    D)Company Act
    Answer: Regulating Act
  • Q. The arrival of Vasco da Gama in Calicut, India on __________
    A)1495
    B)1398
    C)1496
    D)1498
    Answer: 1498
  • Q. Who among the following was Akbar’s teacher?
    A)Abul Fazl
    B)Kabir
    C)Bairam Khan
    D)Abdul Latif
    Answer: Abdul Latif
  • Q. During the Mughal period there was continuous emigration of the __________ to places ruled by Hindu Rajas
    A)Poor
    B)Nobles
    C)Middle Class
    D)Foreign residents
    Answer: Poor
  • Q. The Sikh military sect ‘the Khalsa’ was introduced by
    A)Guru Har Krishan
    B)Guru Har Rai
    C)Guru Gobind Singh
    D)Guru Tegh Bahadur
    Answer: Guru Gobind Singh
  • Q. Who said “Knowledge is Power”?
    A)Milton
    B)Shakespeare
    C)Francis Bacon
    D)Jawaharlal Nehru
    Answer: Francis Bacon
  • Q. From which year did the Muslim League started demanding a separate nation for the Muslims?
    A)1940
    B)1942
    C)1929
    D)1919
    Answer: 1940
  • Q. Shivaji crowned himself at
    A)Konkan
    B)Poona
    C)Bijapur
    D)Raigarh
    Answer: Raigarh
  • Q. Sawai Raja Jai Singh was the ruler of __________
    A)Ajmer
    B)Amber
    C)Satara
    D)Kannauj
    Answer: Amber
  • Q. In which year, the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg
    A)1910
    B)1905
    C)1911
    D)1912
    Answer: 1912
  • Q. Under the Mughal rule the Chief Minister was known as
    A)Vakil
    B)Diwan
    C)Kazi
    D)Mansabdar
    Answer: Diwan
  • Q. Mahatma Gandhi gave the title of Sardar to Vallabhbhai Patel for his great organizational skill in:
    A)Champaran Satyagraha
    B)Kheda Satyagraha
    C)The Bardoli Satyagraha
    D)None of these
    Answer: The Bardoli Satyagraha
  • Q. Banda Bahadur, a Sikh leader who led a revolt against the Mughals after the assassination of Guru Gobind Singh, was captured and executed during the reign of
    A)Aurangzeb
    B)Bahadur Shah
    C)Jahandar Shah
    D)Farrukh Siyar
    Answer: Farrukh Siyar
  • Q. When Mahatma Gandhi was arrested who among the following took over the leadership of Salt Satyagraha ?
    A)Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
    B)Vinoba Bhave
    C)Abbas Tayyabji
    D)Maulana Abdul Kalarn Azad
    Answer: Abbas Tayyabji
  • Q. Where does Dutch founded their first factory in India?
    A)Masaulipatam
    B)Nagapatam
    C)Pulicat
    D)Cochin
    Answer: Masaulipatam
  • Q. Who was the founder of Kushan Empire?
    A)Virna Kadphises
    B)Kanishka
    C)Kujula Kadphises
    D)Vasiskha
    Answer: Kujula Kadphises
  • Q. What is the name of the preaching mudra of gesture, in which the Buddha is depicted delivering his first sermon, In the Gandhara Sculptures?
    A)Dhyana
    B)Abhaya
    C)Dharmachakra
    D)Bhumisparsha
    Answer: Dharmachakra
  • Q. Madame HP Blavatsky had laid the foundation of the Theosophical Society in the year
    A)1864
    B)1853
    C)1875
    D)1886
    Answer: 1875

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