More Questions on History

  • Q. The Inca civilization was raised in which country
    A)Colombia
    B)Bolivia
    C)Peru
    D)Chile
    Answer: Peru
  • Q. Which of the following pair leader associated with the Revolt of 1857 is not correctly matched?
    A)Khan Bahadur Khan : Bareilly
    B)Hazrat Mahal : Kanpur
    C)Kunwar Singh : Bihar
    D)Bakht Khan : Delhi
    Answer: Hazrat Mahal : Kanpur
  • Q. In Jain literature, which of the following Tirthankar is also known as Prajapati, Adibrahma and Aadinath?
    A)Ajitnath
    B)Rishabhnath
    C)Sambhav nath
    D)Abhnindan Nath
    Answer: Rishabhnath
  • Q. While delivering the presidential address’ The Congress president who advocated the introduction of Roman Script for Hindi language was
    A)Dadabhai Naoroji
    B)Surendranath Banerjee
    C)Subhash Chandra Bose
    D)Sankaran Nair
    Answer: Subhash Chandra Bose
  • Q. Who said “Truth is the ultimate reality and it is God”?
    A)Rabindra Nath Tagore
    B)Swamy Vivekananda
    C)M. K. Gandhi
    D)Radhakrishnan
    Answer: M. K. Gandhi
  • Q. Which Roman Emperor had banned the ancient Olympic games
    A)Arcadius
    B)Julius Caesar
    C)Theodosius
    D)Tacitus
    Answer: Theodosius
  • Q. The Prime causes of the 1857 mutiny did not include
    A)The Widow Remarriage Act
    B)The new system of education
    C)The despatch of Indian Sepoys to Afghanistan
    D)Laws forbidding intermarriages between Indians and the British
    Answer: Laws forbidding intermarriages between Indians and the British
  • Q. Who had first sought the legalisation of widow remarriage in India?
    A)Badruddin Tyabji
    B)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
    C)Ishwar Chandra Vidayasagar
    D)Swami Dayanand Saraswati
    Answer: Ishwar Chandra Vidayasagar
  • Q. Alexander the Great died at __________
    A)Babylon
    B)Susa
    C)Macedonia
    D)Kabul
    Answer: Babylon
  • Q. The reputed musician duo, Tansen and Baiju Bawra, flourished during the reign of
    A)Bahadur Shah Zafar
    B)Jahangir
    C)Akbar
    D)Shah Jahan
    Answer: Akbar
  • Q. Ashoka’s conquest of Kalinga has been described in the minor rock edict number.
    A)IV
    B)I
    C)VIII
    D)XIII
    Answer: XIII
  • Q. Which of the following treaty ended the First Carnatic War?
    A)Bassein
    B)Salbai
    C)Aix-Ia-Chapelle
    D)Paris
    Answer: Aix-Ia-Chapelle
  • Q. The proceedings of the Third Buddhist Council led to the issue of Edict?
    A)Sarnath
    B)Sanchi
    C)Bhabra
    D)Kalinga
    Answer: Sarnath
  • Q. In the Vedic age, who was the head of “Grama”?
    A)Gramini
    B)Kulapa
    C)Vispati
    D)Gopati
    Answer: Gramini
  • Q. Nalanda University was a great centre of learning, especially in
    A)Jainism
    B)Buddhism
    C)Vaishnavism
    D)Tantra
    Answer: Buddhism
  • Q. Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station was designed by
    A)Santiago Calatrava
    B)Frederick William Stevens
    C)Fazlur Rahman Khan
    D)Frei Otto
    Answer: Frederick William Stevens
  • Q. What was the policy of “doctrine of lapse”?
    A)States were not allowed to adopt son as an heir
    B)States were allowed to adopt son as an heir
    C)According to this system, every ruler in India had to accept to pay a subsidy to the British for the maintenance of British army
    D)None of these
    Answer: States were not allowed to adopt son as an heir
  • Q. My strongest bulwark is gone lamented Mahatma Gandhi on the death of
    A)Motilal Nehru
    B)Gopalakrishna Gokhale
    C)Pheroze Shah Mehta
    D)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    Answer: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • Q. The varnas came to be transformed into the hereditary castes during the
    A)Gupta period
    B)Later Vedic period
    C)Mauryan period
    D)Vedic period
    Answer: Later Vedic period
  • Q. Which of the following British Prime Minister headed the First Round Table Conference in London?
    A)Ramsay McDonald
    B)Churchill
    C)Chamberlain
    D)Disraeli
    Answer: Ramsay McDonald

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