More Questions on History

  • Q. Who said that he had not become His Majesty’s first Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire?
    A)Churchill
    B)Attlee
    C)Disraeli
    D)Loyd George
    Answer: Churchill
  • Q. Name the Indian king who warmly received the Portuguese traveller Vasco da Gama when he landed at Calicut
    A)Devaraya
    B)Asaf Jah Ismail Mulk
    C)Zamorin
    D)Krishnadevaraya
    Answer: Zamorin
  • Q. The famous Kohinoor diamond was produced from one of the mines in
    A)Chota Nagpur
    B)Orissa
    C)Bijapur
    D)Golconda
    Answer: Golconda
  • Q. The Government of India, 1919 is also known as
    A)Montague - Chelmsford Reforms
    B)Morley - Minto Reforms
    C)Regulating Act
    D)Pitts India Act
    Answer: Montague - Chelmsford Reforms
  • Q. Who were called “Kukas”?
    A)Nirankari
    B)Namdhari
    C)Tilak
    D)Sri Aurobindo
    Answer: Namdhari
  • Q. Who was the founder of the Sena dynasty?
    A)Hemanta Sena
    B)Ballal Sena
    C)Lakshman Sena
    D)Vijay Sena
    Answer: Hemanta Sena
  • Q. Why was the Khilafat Movement started?
    A)To protest against the injustice done to Arabia
    B)To protest against the injustice done to Egypt
    C)To protest against the injustice done to Persia
    D)To protest against the injustice done to Turkey
    Answer: To protest against the injustice done to Turkey
  • Q. Which of the following was not one of the actual cause for the decline of the Mauryan empire?
    A)Division of the empire after Ashoka
    B)Ashoka's pacifist policies
    C)Foreign aggressions particularly Greek
    D)Economic and financial crisis
    Answer: Ashoka's pacifist policies
  • Q. Who was governor general when the 1857 revolt broke out?
    A)Lawrence
    B)Canning
    C)Dalhousie
    D)Curzon
    Answer: Canning
  • Q. The theosophical society was marked by the close understanding of the cosmos and the mundane life. Which among the listed options is not a part of their curriculum?
    A)Salvation
    B)Divinity
    C)Means of enlightenment
    D)Mystic superstition
    Answer: Mystic superstition
  • Q. Which of the following rivers does not find frequent mention in Rigvedic Hymns?
    A)Sindhu
    B)Ganges
    C)Brahmaputra
    D)Saraswati
    Answer: Brahmaputra
  • Q. The year 788 AD was a good one for Hinduism. Why?
    A)Harsha Vardhana, the last Buddhist king, died.
    B)Shankracharya was born that year.
    C)Samudragupta converted to Hinduism.
    D)All Muslim invaders were defeated.
    Answer: Shankracharya was born that year.
  • Q. The ultimate ownership of land during the post-Gupta period lay with
    A)The village community
    B)The cultivator
    C)The king
    D)The joint family
    Answer: The king
  • Q. The English rounded Calcutta after obtaining the zamindari of three villages, viz Sutanuti, Kalikata and Govindpur, from the Mughal Viceroy of Bengal in 1698. The nucleus of the British settlement in Calcutta was
    A)Victoria Memeorial
    B)San Thome
    C)Fort William
    D)Howrah Port
    Answer: Fort William
  • Q. The Venetian traveler who travelled with his wife and reached Vijayanagar around 1420 was
    A)Niccolo de Conti
    B)Athanasius Nikitin
    C)Ibn Batuta
    D)Ferishta
    Answer: Niccolo de Conti
  • Q. Who said, “Adolf Hitler is Germany and Germany is Adolf Hitler. He who pledges himself to Hitler pledges himself to Germany”?
    A)Mussolini
    B)R. Hess
    C)Hitler
    D)Communist International
    Answer: R. Hess
  • Q. Consider the following statement (s) related to the Dara Shikoh I. Dara Shikoh was the youngest son of Shahjahan. II. Dara Shikoh was the devotee of Qadiri Silsila.
    A)Both I and II are incorrect
    B)Both I and II are correct
    C)Only I is correct
    D)Only II is correct
    Answer: Only II is correct
  • Q. The Uprising of 1857 was described as the first Indian war of Independence by
    A)R.C. Mazumdar
    B)S.N. Sen
    C)B.G. Tilak
    D)V.D. Savakar
    Answer: V.D. Savakar
  • Q. In 1893 Mahatma Gandhi went to South Africa in connection with the trial of a merchant:
    A)Sachindra Bakshi
    B)Hemu Kalani
    C)Manmath Nath Gupta
    D)Abdulla Seth
    Answer: Abdulla Seth
  • Q. Who was among the following Bhakti saints gave a new orientation of Hinduism through his doctrine of Advaita or Monism?
    A)Sankara
    B)Ramanuja
    C)Guru Nanak
    D)Chaitanya
    Answer: Sankara

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