More Questions on History
- Q. The All India Muslim League was formed in 1906 at
A)Dacca
B)Lucknow
C)Lahore
D)Aligarh
Answer: Dacca
- Q. Which war was formally ended with the Treaty of Portsmouth
A)World War II
B)World War I
C)Russo-Japanese War
D)China Japan War
Answer: Russo-Japanese War
- Q. Babur (1526-1530 AD) was the ruler of which dynasty?
A)Nanda
B)Mughal
C)Maurya
D)Haryanka
Answer: Mughal
- 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. Akbar’s son and successor Salim, on becoming the emperor, assumed the name of
A)Jahangir Alampanah
B)Jahangir
C)Jahangir Alamgir
D)Nuruddin Muhammad Jahangir
Answer: Nuruddin Muhammad Jahangir
- Q. According to Guru Nanak Salvation could be obtained
A)Taking the Brahmans and Mullahs as their guides
B)In the service of God
C)In fighting for the country
D)In fighting against Islam
Answer: In the service of God
- Q. A Study in Consciousness was written by __________
A)Mrinal Gore
B)Annie Besant
C)Prasanna Kumar Tagore
D)Rajkamal Sen
Answer: Annie Besant
- Q. Who made remarkable contribution to the development of Local government?
A)Gladstone
B)Lord Ripon
C)W.W Hunter
D)Hastings
Answer: Lord Ripon
- Q. The fourth and the last Buddhist Council was convened by
A)Menander
B)Ashoka
C)Kanishka
D)Huvishka
Answer: Kanishka
- Q. To which personality Mahatma Gandhi gave the title “Deen Bandhu”?
A)CF Andrews
B)Sri Aurobindo
C)Vinoba Bhave
D)CR Das
Answer: CF Andrews
- Q. Which one of the following Mughal buildings is said to possess the unique feature of being exactly equal in length and breath?
A)Red Fort
B)Agra Fort
C)Taj Mahal
D)Buland Darwaza
Answer: Taj Mahal
- Q. As a result of the partition of Bengal announced by Lord Curzon in 1905, Bengal was partitioned into two provinces of
A)Bengal and Eastern Bengal & Assam
B)East Bengal and West Bengal
C)Bengal and Assam
D)Bengal and Odisha and East Bengal and Assam
Answer: Bengal and Eastern Bengal & Assam
- Q. In the Battle of Buxar the English army was commanded by
A)Clive
B)Major Munro
C)Rojer Drake
D)Boughton
Answer: Major Munro
- Q. Of the following, with whom Akbar did not come into contact?
A)Parsis
B)Jains
C)Buddhists
D)Christians
Answer: Buddhists
- Q. Before the Regulating Act was passed in 1773, there was __________ at home to administer the East India Company
A)A Secretary
B)A Committee of 24
C)A Council of Lords
D)A Board of Revenue
Answer: A Committee of 24
- Q. During the Second World War Churchill replaced __________ as Prime Minister of England
A)Attlee
B)Chamberlain
C)Disraeli
D)Asquith
Answer: Chamberlain
- Q. In 1921, Mahatma Gandhi resolved to wear only a loin cloth to propagate home spun cotton to signify
A)the ruin of India's handloom textiles
B)the poverty of the Indian people
C)his identification with the Indian people
D)his resolve to wear tailored clothes only when India became independent
Answer: his identification with the Indian people
- Q. In which of the following provinces the Congress Ministry was not formed in June 1937?
A)Central Provinces
B)United Provinces
C)Madras
D)Assam
Answer: Assam
- Q. The strategy of ‘divide and rule’ had been actually practised by
A)Lord Wellesley
B)Lord Curzon
C)Lord Minto
D)Lord Dufferin
Answer: Lord Minto
- Q. Which one of the following sequences represents the correct chronological order?
A)Shahji, Shivaji, Sambhaji, Rajaram
B)Shahji, Shivaji, Rajaram, Sambhaji
C)Shahji, Sambhaji, Shivaji, Rajaram
D)Sambhaji, Shivaji, Shahji, Rajaram
Answer: Shahji, Shivaji, Sambhaji, Rajaram
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