More Questions on History

  • Q. The currency of Thailand is
    A)Rupiah
    B)Baht
    C)Yuan
    D)Yen
    Answer: Baht
  • Q. Who among the following was named as Zinda Pir or Living Saint in Mughal period?
    A)Akbar
    B)Babur
    C)Jahangir
    D)Aurangzeb
    Answer: Aurangzeb
  • Q. Select the correct language in which Jain and Buddhist literature were written?
    A)Pali
    B)Prakrit
    C)Sanskrit
    D)Both A & B
    Answer: Both A & B
  • Q. The dead body of Babur by his own choice lies buried in
    A)Farghana
    B)Agra
    C)Samarqand
    D)Kabul
    Answer: Kabul
  • Q. What is the meaning of Masi?
    A)Defence
    B)Teaching
    C)Agriculture
    D)Business
    Answer: Teaching
  • Q. Who gave the concept of Total Revolution?
    A)Mahatma Gandhi
    B)Jayaprakash Narayan
    C)Karl Marx
    D)Lenin
    Answer: Jayaprakash Narayan
  • Q. The Falklands War was fought in the year
    A)1977
    B)1973
    C)1982
    D)1989
    Answer: 1982
  • Q. Who was the first Indian to be made a fellow of the Royal Society of London?
    A)A. C. Wadia
    B)Srinivas Ramanujam
    C)C. V. Raman
    D)P. C. Mahalanobis
    Answer: A. C. Wadia
  • Q. Who was the greatest Bhakti poet of Maharasthra?
    A)Tukaram
    B)Ramdas
    C)Namdeva
    D)Eknath
    Answer: Tukaram
  • Q. Kabir was contemporary of
    A)Sultan Sikandar Lodi
    B)Guru Nanak
    C)Both (A) and (B) above
    D)Babur
    Answer: Both (A) and (B) above
  • Q. The archaeologist to initially discover the Mohenjo-Daro site of the Indus Valley Civilization was
    A)Daya Ram Sahni
    B)Sir John Marshall
    C)Sir Martimir Wheeler
    D)Rakhal Das Banerji
    Answer: Rakhal Das Banerji
  • Q. Which of the following ladies wrote an historical account during the Mughal period?
    A)Noorjahan Begum
    B)Gulbadan Begum
    C)Jahanara Begum
    D)Zebun-nissah Begum
    Answer: Gulbadan Begum
  • Q. Which ancient literature contains short stories that have the priceless treasure of morality and knowledge?
    A)Hitopdesha
    B)Panchtanra
    C)Mahabharata
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Hitopdesha
  • Q. Who was the in-charge of a pargana?
    A)Pattidar
    B)Amin
    C)Shiqdar
    D)Oanungo
    Answer: Shiqdar
  • Q. Aruvipuram installation was done by __________
    A)Narayana Guru
    B)Mahatma Gandhi
    C)Chattambi Swamikal
    D)C.Kesavan
    Answer: Narayana Guru
  • Q. Who is known as ‘The Father of English History’
    A)Alfred the Great
    B)Jerome
    C)John Chrysostom
    D)Bede
    Answer: Bede
  • Q. The Red fort in Delhi was the residence of emperors of which dynasty in the 16th century?
    A)Khalji
    B)Rajput
    C)Tughlaq
    D)Mughal
    Answer: Mughal
  • Q. Under the Mountbatten Plan of 1947 the people of ___ were given the right to decide through a plebiscite whether they wished to join Pakistan or India.
    A)Punjab
    B)Assam
    C)Bengal
    D)N.W.F.P and the Sylhet district of Assam
    Answer: N.W.F.P and the Sylhet district of Assam
  • Q. Who is known as the first pope of Vatican City
    A)Clement XIII
    B)Pope Benedict XV
    C)Pope Pius XI
    D)Benedict XIII
    Answer: Pope Pius XI
  • Q. Which one is the oldest existing University in the World
    A)University of al-Karaouine
    B)University of Oxford
    C)Al-Azhar University
    D)University of Bologna
    Answer: University of al-Karaouine

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