More Questions on History

  • Q. What was Jagat Seth’s claim to fame in Bengal?
    A)Leading popular poet
    B)Diwan of Siraj-ud-Daulah
    C)Biggest banker in Bengal
    D)Commander of the Nawab's troops
    Answer: Biggest banker in Bengal
  • Q. The Greek viewed ‘politics’ as the basis of
    A)Ethical terms
    B)Both ethical and legalistic terms
    C)Terms of power
    D)Legalistic terms
    Answer: Ethical terms
  • Q. Which of the following scholars, who was the first to discover the Harappan Civilization?
    A)R.D. Banerjee
    B)Sir Johan Marshall
    C)A. Cunningham
    D)Daya Ram Sahani
    Answer: A. Cunningham
  • Q. Who scripted Gandhiji’s favorite song ‘Vaishnav Jan to __________ ‘?
    A)Premanand
    B)Narsi Mehta
    C)Chunilal
    D)Dharmiklal
    Answer: Narsi Mehta
  • Q. Who wrote Mudrarakshasa?
    A)Panini
    B)Vishakhadatta
    C)Patanjali
    D)Shudrak
    Answer: Vishakhadatta
  • Q. Who among the following was Akbar’s teacher?
    A)Abul Fazl
    B)Kabir
    C)Bairam Khan
    D)Abdul Latif
    Answer: Abdul Latif
  • Q. Who give the famous quote ‘Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth’
    A)Abraham Lincoln
    B)Winston Churchill
    C)Vladimir Lenin
    D)George Washington
    Answer: Abraham Lincoln
  • Q. Which one of the following stages of the life of man in Aryan Society, in ascending order of age, is correct?
    A)Grihastha- Brahmacharya- Vanaprashta- Sanyasa
    B)Brahmacharya- Grihashta- Vanaprastha- Sanyasa
    C)Brahmacharya- Vanprastha- Sanyasa- Grihastha
    D)Grihastha- Sanyasa- Vanaprastha- Brahmacharya
    Answer: Brahmacharya- Grihashta- Vanaprastha- Sanyasa
  • Q. During their rule the British persuaded or forced cultivators in Bengal to grow__________
    A)Tea
    B)Jute
    C)Sugarcane
    D)Wheat
    Answer: Jute
  • Q. The Indian National Congress and the Muslim League came to each other in 1916 at
    A)Amritsar
    B)Lahore
    C)Lucknow
    D)Haripura
    Answer: Lucknow
  • Q. Who quoted “The problems of day cannot be solved by motions, resolutions and can be solved only by blood and iron.”
    A)Bismarck
    B)Hitler
    C)Kaiser William IV
    D)King Frederick William IV
    Answer: Bismarck
  • Q. The death of millions of Indian in frequent famines which visited India during the 19th century, were mainly due to
    A)commercialisation of agriculture
    B)overall shortage of food and its improper distribution
    C)poor purchasing power of the people due to their extreme poverty and rise in prices
    D)unremunerative agriculture and fall in agricultural production
    Answer: poor purchasing power of the people due to their extreme poverty and rise in prices
  • Q. Which of the following is not among the regions where the Britishers had first set up trading posts?
    A)Goa
    B)Bengal
    C)Coromandel Coast
    D)Gujarat
    Answer: Goa
  • Q. The staple food of the Vedic Aryans was
    A)Milk and its products
    B)Barley and rice
    C)Rice and pulses
    D)Vegetables and fruits
    Answer: Milk and its products
  • Q. The Mughals imported fruits from
    A)Arabia
    B)Samarkand
    C)Kabul
    D)Portugal
    Answer: Samarkand
  • Q. Who was the founder of Vikramshila Vihar?
    A)Gopala
    B)Dharmapala
    C)Nagpala
    D)Mahipala
    Answer: Dharmapala
  • Q. The Brahmin minister of Sambhaji (Son and Successor of Shivaji) upon whom he invested the title of ‘Pinnacle of Poets’ was
    A)Kavindra Acharya
    B)Kavi Kalash
    C)Kavi Bhusan
    D)Kavi Martanda
    Answer: Kavi Kalash
  • Q. The first elected Indian President of the Legislative Assembly was
    A)Rangachariar
    B)Motilal Nehru
    C)CR Das
    D)VJ Patel
    Answer: VJ Patel
  • Q. Dayananda was born on February 12 in 1824, in the town of Tankara, near Morvi (Morbi) in the Kathiawar region of the princely state of__________
    A)Uttar Pradesh
    B)Assam
    C)Bihar
    D)Gujarat
    Answer: Gujarat
  • Q. __________ joined the National Secular Society in 1874 and worked in the free thought and radical movements led by Charles Bradlaugh, MP
    A)Tarachand Chakravarty
    B)Annie Besant
    C)D. R. Mukhopadhyaya
    D)Brojnath Dhar
    Answer: Annie Besant

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