More Questions on History

  • Q. Which of the following countries is regarded as the home of ‘Fabian Socialism’?
    A)England
    B)Russia
    C)France
    D)Italy
    Answer: England
  • Q. Till when did the Wars of the Roses last?
    A)1431
    B)1420
    C)1453
    D)1487
    Answer: 1487
  • Q. In which year the Battle of the Hydaspes was fought between Alexander and Porus
    A)310 BC
    B)302 BC
    C)312 BC
    D)326 BC
    Answer: 326 BC
  • Q. The Harappan civilizations do not have homogeneity or uniformity in
    A)Cereal crops
    B)Weights and measures
    C)Burial practices
    D)Both (B) and (C)
    Answer: Burial practices
  • Q. The writers of the East India Company had their training in the college at __________ in England
    A)Manchester
    B)London
    C)Liverpool
    D)Haileybury
    Answer: Haileybury
  • Q. Which one of the following battles led to the foundation of the Mughal rule at Delhi?
    A)Second Battle of Panipat
    B)Third Battle of Panipat
    C)Battle of Haldighati
    D)First Battle of Panipat
    Answer: First Battle of Panipat
  • Q. The Home Rule Movement was aimed at
    A)complete autonomy to India
    B)complete independence for India
    C)self-government for India within the British Commonwealth
    D)larger participation of Indians in India's administration
    Answer: self-government for India within the British Commonwealth
  • Q. Which Mughal emperor was a great musician, a great patron of Hindustani Music and was popularly known as Rangila?
    A)Bahadur Shah II
    B)Bahdur Shah I
    C)Muhammad Shah
    D)Ahmad Shah
    Answer: Muhammad Shah
  • Q. The use of the mother tongue in India in the law Court was permitted by
    A)Cornwallis
    B)Lord Hastings
    C)Lord Dalhousie
    D)Bentinck
    Answer: Bentinck
  • Q. Which of the following is considered as the main reason for division of Brahmo Samaj?
    A)Internal conflicts among Debendranath Tagore and Keshub Chandra Sen for including teachings of all religions
    B)Resolutely opposing Christian missionaries and their work against Hinduism
    C)Lack of strong propagator of views
    D)Opposition by people for disturbing traditional caste practices like abolition of sati, widow remarriage and women education
    Answer: Internal conflicts among Debendranath Tagore and Keshub Chandra Sen for including teachings of all religions
  • Q. The great silk-route to the Indians was opened by
    A)Ashoka
    B)Kanishka
    C)Harsha
    D)Fa-Hien
    Answer: Kanishka
  • Q. Which of the following is the Journal published in Britain by the Committee of the Indian National Congress?
    A)India
    B)Calcutta Gazette
    C)Bengal Tribune
    D)Calcutta Tribune
    Answer: India
  • Q. Who among the following Governor-General repealed the Vernacular Press Act of Lytton?
    A)Dufferin
    B)Northbrook
    C)Elgin-II
    D)Ripon
    Answer: Ripon
  • Q. The All India Muslim League was founded in 1906 primarily to promote among Indian Muslims
    A)political consciousness
    B)mutual unity and goodwill
    C)feeling of loyalty to the British Government
    D)hatred for the Congress
    Answer: feeling of loyalty to the British Government
  • Q. I. It favoured Dominion Status. II. It favoured a federal system. III. It rejected the system of Communal Electorate. IV. It was against the setting up of a Supreme Court. Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct related to the Nehru Report?
    A)I & III
    B)I & IV
    C)II, III & IV
    D)I, II & III
    Answer: I, II & III
  • Q. Whose statement is this –“The Indians should no longer be satisfied with mere mendicancy neither should they beg the English for concessions”?
    A)Lala Lajpat Rai
    B)V N Mandalik
    C)Bipin Chandra Pal
    D)Abdul Kalam Azad
    Answer: Lala Lajpat Rai
  • Q. Which Ottoman Sultan defeat Byzantine Empire and capture Constantinople city in 1453
    A)Bayezid II
    B)Mehmed II
    C)Murad II
    D)Mehmed IV
    Answer: Mehmed II
  • Q. Who among the following Mughal Emperor became the first pensioner of the East India Company?
    A)Akbar II
    B)Ahmed Shah
    C)Bahadur Shah
    D)Muhammed Shah
    Answer: Bahadur Shah
  • Q. Where is the longest corridor of the temple?
    A)Madurai
    B)Shreerangam
    C)Tiruchendur
    D)Rameshwaram
    Answer: Rameshwaram
  • Q. Who said that “Man by nature is a political animal”?
    A)Aristotle
    B)Plato
    C)Hobbes
    D)Rousseau
    Answer: Aristotle

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