More Questions on History

  • Q. The Vijaynagar ruler Krishna Dev Raya’s work ‘Amuktamalayada’ was written in which language?
    A)Malayalam
    B)Tamil
    C)Kanada
    D)Telugu
    Answer: Telugu
  • Q. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh was born in the year :
    A)1982
    B)1872
    C)1884
    D)1892
    Answer: 1872
  • Q. The pioneer of Indian communism was
    A)G.N Ganguly
    B)M.N. Roy
    C)P.C Chandra
    D)None of these
    Answer: M.N. Roy
  • Q. I. Jahangir had set up his court at Allahabad, assumed royal titles and struck coins in his name II. He banned slaughter of animals on two days in every week viz – Sunday & Thursday. Which of the above statement (s) is/are correct related to Jahangir?
    A)Only II
    B)Only I
    C)Both I and II
    D)Neither I nor II
    Answer: Both I and II
  • Q. The Ibadat Khana was a meeting house built by which Mughal Emperor?
    A)Humayun
    B)Babur
    C)Akbar
    D)Aurangzeb
    Answer: Akbar
  • Q. Who said that the exploitative nature of British rule was ‘Bleeding India White’?
    A)Dadabhai Naoroji
    B)Tilak
    C)Hume
    D)Annie Besant
    Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
  • Q. The building of the famous Kailasa temple at Ellora was executed under the Rashtrakuta king
    A)Govinda-III
    B)Amoghavarsha-I
    C)Indra-III
    D)Krishna-I
    Answer: Krishna-I
  • Q. The last Buddhist king who was a great Sanskrit scholar and a writer was
    A)Ashoka
    B)Kanishka
    C)Bimbisara
    D)Harshavardhana
    Answer: Harshavardhana
  • Q. The Moplah Rebellion in 1921 in Malabar was Muslim Peasants Rabellion against :
    A)The British Government Authority
    B)Muslim Land Holders
    C)The non-tribal outsiders
    D)Hindu Land Holders
    Answer: Hindu Land Holders
  • Q. Who called Government of India Act 1935 as thoroughly rotten, fundamentally bad and totally unacceptable?
    A)Mohammad Ali Jinnah
    B)Subhash Chandra Bose
    C)Mahatma Gandhi
    D)Balkrishana Chapekar
    Answer: Mohammad Ali Jinnah
  • Q. Where did the practice of Shadow Cabinet originate?
    A)Great Britain
    B)United States of America
    C)Italy
    D)France
    Answer: Great Britain
  • Q. Recognize the medicinal trio of ancient India from the following options
    A)Charak, Sushruta and Patanjali
    B)Charaka, Sushruta, and Bharata
    C)Charak, Sushruta, and Banabhatta
    D)Charak, Vatsyayana, and Banabhatta
    Answer: Charak, Sushruta and Patanjali
  • Q. Which is the oldest trade Union organisation in India?
    A)Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
    B)Indian National Trade Union Cogress (INTUC)
    C)All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
    D)Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
    Answer: All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
  • Q. Which of the following books is not written by Harshavardhan?
    A)Nagananda
    B)Harshacharita
    C)Ratnavali
    D)Priyadarshika
    Answer: Harshacharita
  • Q. Who preached the idea of Home Rule through his two news papers – the Kesari and the Maratha?
    A)Annie Besant
    B)Gokhale
    C)Tilak
    D)Jawaharlal Nehru
    Answer: Tilak
  • Q. What is meant by “The Forty”?
    A)The pick of the intellectuals among the Khaljis
    B)The cream of Afghan nobles
    C)The select body of the Turkish aristocracy
    D)The Ulema or the Muslim divines
    Answer: The select body of the Turkish aristocracy
  • Q. Who was the greatest Bhakti poet of Maharasthra?
    A)Tukaram
    B)Ramdas
    C)Namdeva
    D)Eknath
    Answer: Tukaram
  • Q. Satyagraha Sabha was formed by Gandhi at
    A)Calcutta
    B)Bombay
    C)Gujarat
    D)Poona
    Answer: Bombay
  • Q. Who was the first European to translate the Bhagavad Gita into English?
    A)William Jones
    B)Alexander Cunningham
    C)James Prinsep
    D)Charles Wilkins
    Answer: Charles Wilkins
  • Q. Who among the following had written down the ‘Ramcharita’?
    A)Chand Bardoi
    B)Sandhyakara Nandi
    C)Banabhatta
    D)Kalhana
    Answer: Sandhyakara Nandi

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