More Questions on History

  • Q. The Mughal Emperor who discouraged ‘Sati’ was
    A)Humayun
    B)Babur
    C)Akbar
    D)Jehangir
    Answer: Akbar
  • Q. When the Simon Commission visited India the Viceroy was
    A)Lord Irwin
    B)Lloyd George
    C)Lord Reading
    D)Lord Ripon
    Answer: Lord Irwin
  • Q. As per the Act of 1919, the Council of India would consist of a minimum of 8 and a maximum of __________ members
    A)12
    B)15
    C)10
    D)20
    Answer: 12
  • Q. The Muslim League advocated a separate Muslim State
    A)During the Khilafat Movement
    B)At its birth in 1906
    C)In 1930, when it opposed the Civil Disobedience Movement
    D)At the Lahore Session of 1940
    Answer: At the Lahore Session of 1940
  • Q. The Bhoodan Movement had been started by
    A)Acharya Kripalani
    B)M K Gandhi
    C)Jayaprakash Narayan
    D)Vinoba Bhave
    Answer: Vinoba Bhave
  • Q. Swami Vivekananda’s contribution to society and educating masses is through following ways: I. Condemned caste system and current rituals and superstitions II. Criticized for having lost touch with rest of world and for becoming stagnant and mummified III. Subscribed to Vedanta which he considered fully rational system
    A)Only II
    B)Only I
    C)Only III
    D)All the above
    Answer: All the above
  • Q. Which of the following events made the English East India Company the legitimate masters of the Bengal Suba?
    A)Battle of Plassey, 1757
    B)Battle of Buxar, 1764
    C)Farrukh Siyar's Farman, 1717
    D)Ibrahim Khan's Farman, 1690
    Answer: Battle of Buxar, 1764
  • Q. What was the name of the mother of Abhinandananatha Tirthankar?
    A)Tara
    B)Vijaya
    C)Siddharta Devi
    D)Marudevi
    Answer: Siddharta Devi
  • Q. What did the Rowlatt Act, 1919 empower the British government to do
    A)Shut down any industrial unit at will
    B)Foment class and caste strife
    C)Extend the period of imprisonment for Indians
    D)Detain a person for any duration without a trial
    Answer: Detain a person for any duration without a trial
  • Q. The Non-Cooperation Movement under Gandhi was in full swing during the Viceroyalty of
    A)Irwin
    B)Chelmsford
    C)Reading
    D)Hardinge
    Answer: Reading
  • Q. What was meant by the secretary of State of India during the British?
    A)A Secretary level official appointed in each Presidency of India
    B)An official who worked as the Secretary to the Viceroy of India
    C)A British minister given full control over the Government of India
    D)A senior officer appointed the Viceroy to look into his internal administration in India
    Answer: A British minister given full control over the Government of India
  • Q. The territory of Porus who offered strong resistance to Alexander was situated between the rivers of
    A)Jhelum and Chenab
    B)Sutlej and Beas
    C)Ravi and Chenab
    D)Ganga and Yamuna
    Answer: Jhelum and Chenab
  • Q. The Indian Universities were first founded in the time of
    A)Warren Hastings
    B)Macaulay
    C)Lord Canning
    D)Lord William Bentinck
    Answer: Lord Canning
  • Q. The famous Sikh leader Banda Bahadur was captured and executed during the reign of the Mughal emperor?
    A)Bahadur Shah I
    B)Aurangzeb
    C)Jahandar Shah
    D)Farrukhsiyar
    Answer: Farrukhsiyar
  • Q. Buddhism was first propagated outside India In
    A)Cambodia
    B)China
    C)Thailand
    D)Ceylon
    Answer: Ceylon
  • Q. The first Indian to enter the Indian Civil Service was
    A)Satyendra Nath Tagore
    B)Gokhale
    C)Ramanuja
    D)Rabindranath Tagore
    Answer: Satyendra Nath Tagore
  • Q. The first national leader to decry the salt tax in the Indian legislature was
    A)M. K. Gandhi
    B)G. K. Gokhale
    C)J. L. Nehru
    D)Netaji S C Bose
    Answer: G. K. Gokhale
  • Q. What was the name of the assassinator of John F. Kennedy
    A)John Wilkes Booth
    B)Lee Harvey Oswald
    C)John Surratt
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Q. Who is the author of ‘Social Background of Indian Nationalism’?
    A)Dharam Kumar
    B)A. R. Desai
    C)Ray Chaudhuri
    D)K. Rajayyan
    Answer: A. R. Desai
  • Q. Under which British Act was the provision to establish a Federation of India concession of Governor’s provinces and Princely states made?
    A)Government of India Act 1925
    B)Government of India Act 1918
    C)Government of India Act 1930
    D)Government of India Act 1935
    Answer: Government of India Act 1935

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