More Questions on History

  • Q. Which of the following act led to the introduction of dual system of government in India?
    A)The Regulating Act, AD 1773
    B)Pitt's India Act, AD 1784
    C)Charter Act, 1793 AD
    D)Charter Act, 1813 AD
    Answer: Pitt's India Act, AD 1784
  • Q. The first grammarian of the Sanskrit language was
    A)Maitreyi
    B)Kalhana
    C)Kalidasa
    D)Panini
    Answer: Panini
  • Q. Who said “Every blow on my body will prove a nail in the coffin of the British Empire”?
    A)Kunwar Singh
    B)Lala Lajpat Rai
    C)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    D)Chandra Sekhar Azaad
    Answer: Lala Lajpat Rai
  • Q. On imprisonment in 1908 by the British, Bal Gangadhar Tilak was in
    A)Rangoon
    B)Andaman and Nicobar
    C)Singapore
    D)Mandalay
    Answer: Mandalay
  • Q. The first one, among the following, to deal with music was
    A)Yajur Veda
    B)Rig Veda
    C)Sama Veda
    D)Atharva Veda
    Answer: Sama Veda
  • Q. Who built Imambara and Rumi Darwaza?
    A)Asaf-ud-daula
    B)Wajid Ali Shah
    C)Shuja-ud-daula
    D)Adbdul Mansur
    Answer: Asaf-ud-daula
  • Q. Under the Mughals, the Police duties in urban areas were entrusted to the officers known as
    A)Kazi
    B)Kotwal
    C)Vakil
    D)Amin
    Answer: Kotwal
  • Q. The philosophy propounded in the Upanishads is known as
    A)Vedanta
    B)Advaita
    C)Yoga
    D)Samkhya
    Answer: Vedanta
  • Q. The Indian Civil Service Act was passed during the Viceroyalty of
    A)Canning
    B)Elgin
    C)Minto
    D)Lytton
    Answer: Canning
  • Q. An English weekly called ‘New India’ was started by;
    A)Devendra Nath Tagore
    B)K M Pannikar
    C)Annie Besant
    D)Mahatma Gandhi
    Answer: Annie Besant
  • Q. Who said “The Simmon Commission Report should be thrown on a heap of rubbish”?
    A)Shivaswami Iyer
    B)Mahatma Gandhi
    C)Mohammad Ali Jinnah
    D)Jawaharlal Nehru
    Answer: Shivaswami Iyer
  • Q. Aurangzeb sent Mukarrab Khan against
    A)Shivaji
    B)Shaji Bhonsle
    C)Sambaji
    D)Shahu
    Answer: Sambaji
  • Q. Whom had the rebels of 1857 enthroned as the emperor/emperess of India?
    A)Tantia Tope
    B)Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi
    C)Bahadur Shah Zafar
    D)Faqir-ud-din
    Answer: Bahadur Shah Zafar
  • Q. Swami Vivekananda attended the World’s Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in __________
    A)1876
    B)1863
    C)1893
    D)1897
    Answer: 1893
  • Q. When was Sputnik 1 launched?
    A)1957
    B)1970
    C)1980
    D)1990
    Answer: 1957
  • Q. The immediate cause of the Battle of Plassey was
    A)The English support and asylum to the political rivals of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah
    B)The English attempts to strengthen their fortifications at Fort William
    C)Misuse of Dastaks (passes for free trade) by the Company and its officials
    D)Siraj-ud-Daulah's attack on Fort William and capture of Calcutta (Alinagar)
    Answer: Siraj-ud-Daulah's attack on Fort William and capture of Calcutta (Alinagar)
  • Q. Which of the following pairs of persons are correctly matched? I. Chandragupta-II : Fa-Hien II. Skandagupta: I-tsing III. Harsha: Hiuen Tsang
    A)I, II and III
    B)I and II
    C)I and III
    D)II and III
    Answer: I and III
  • Q. Which of the following works taken up even after the decline of the movement?
    A)Carry forward Raja Ram Mohan Roy's tradition of public education on social, economic and political questions
    B)Fight for women's rights and education
    C)Took up farmers issues and fought for their better treatment and against oppressive zamindars
    D)All the above
    Answer: All the above
  • Q. Which of the following are the basis tenants of Bhakti Movement?
    A)Ideas were the Bhakti movement—devotion to God with the help of a priest. Bhakti to God was accepted as damnation
    B)Ideas was the Bhakti movement—devotion to God. Bhakti to God was accepted as salvation
    C)Spiritual sessions in meeting places known as zawiyas, khanqahs, or tekke
    D)Described as the interiorization, and intensification of human faith and practice
    Answer: Ideas was the Bhakti movement—devotion to God. Bhakti to God was accepted as salvation
  • Q. An emigre (a person or thing who/which has emigrated) communist journal brought out by M N Roy was
    A)The Worker
    B)Anushilan
    C)Kisan Sabha
    D)Vanguard
    Answer: Vanguard

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