More Questions on History

  • Q. The Prime causes of the 1857 mutiny did not include
    A)The Widow Remarriage Act
    B)The new system of education
    C)The despatch of Indian Sepoys to Afghanistan
    D)Laws forbidding intermarriages between Indians and the British
    Answer: Laws forbidding intermarriages between Indians and the British
  • Q. The main outlet for foreign trade during Akbar’s reign was the port of
    A)Calcutta
    B)Karachi
    C)Surat
    D)Bombay
    Answer: Surat
  • Q. What was Jagat Seth’s claim to fame in Bengal?
    A)Leading popular poet
    B)Diwan of Siraj-ud-Daulah
    C)Biggest banker in Bengal
    D)Commander of the Nawab's troops
    Answer: Biggest banker in Bengal
  • Q. The most famous Indo-Greek ruler of India, famous for his sense of Justice and dialogues with a Buddhist monk Nagasena (as described in the Buddhist work Milinda Panho) was
    A)Menander
    B)Demetrius
    C)Eukratises
    D)Heliocles
    Answer: Menander
  • Q. Swami Vivekananda was born in an affluent family in __________ on 12 January 1863
    A)Ajmer
    B)Bombay
    C)Kolkata
    D)Orrisa
    Answer: Kolkata
  • Q. Who ruled that pilgrims could wear yellow clothes – the colour of the garments Sri Buddha wore
    A)Govindan Vaidyar
    B)P. K. Kesavan
    C)P. K. Divakara Panicker
    D)Sree Narayana Guru
    Answer: Sree Narayana Guru
  • Q. The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system prevalent in
    A)Mongolia
    B)Persia
    C)Afghanistan
    D)Turkey
    Answer: Mongolia
  • Q. Whose army did Alexander the Greek ruler confront on the banks of the river Jhelum?
    A)Ambi
    B)Chandragupta Maurya
    C)Ohanananda
    D)Porus
    Answer: Porus
  • Q. The famous painting ‘Monalisa’ was the creation of
    A)Leonardo-da-Vinci
    B)Michael Angelo
    C)Picasso
    D)Van Gogh
    Answer: Leonardo-da-Vinci
  • Q. Who had become the first Governor-General of India after independence?
    A)Jawaharlal Nehru
    B)Dr. Rajendra Prasad
    C)Lord Pethick Lawrence
    D)Lord Mountbatten
    Answer: Lord Mountbatten
  • Q. Rana Pratap Singh of Mewar was defeated by the Mughal army in the battle of
    A)Chittor
    B)Mewar
    C)Haldighati
    D)Udaipur
    Answer: Haldighati
  • Q. The ruler of Kharavela was the greatest ruler of which Chedi Dynasty?
    A)Kalinga
    B)Cholamandalam
    C)Kannoj
    D)Purushpura
    Answer: Kalinga
  • Q. Assertion (A): Akbar’s official historian Abul Fazl neither gives the prices of slaves nor does he mention slave markets. Reason (R): Akbar prohibited slave trade in his empire
    A)Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
    B)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
    C)A is true but R is false
    D)A is false but R is true
    Answer: A is true but R is false
  • Q. Two great socio-religious reformers of the 19th century who provided inspiration to the Indian National Movement were
    A)Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Debendra Nath Tagore
    B)Dayanand Saraswati and Vivekananda
    C)MG Ranade and DK Karve
    D)Keshab Chandra Sen and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
    Answer: Dayanand Saraswati and Vivekananda
  • Q. The name of the Indian Astronomer (who knew five astronomical systems), who lived in the 6th century was
    A)Bhandarkar
    B)Varahamihira
    C)Pujyapada
    D)Prasastapada
    Answer: Varahamihira
  • Q. During the course of his numerous invasions, Muhammad Ghori (Before his conquest in the Second Battle of Tarain) was defeated by
    A)Prithviraja Chauhan III of Ajmer
    B)Chalukya king Bhima II of Gujarat
    C)Both (a) and (b) above
    D)(b) and the Chandela king Paramardi
    Answer: Both (a) and (b) above
  • Q. Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man’.Who said this?
    A)Sri Ramakrishna
    B)Swami Vivekananda
    C)Chandra Sekhar Deb
    D)Sri Narayana Guru
    Answer: Swami Vivekananda
  • Q. The ‘Three Jewels’ (Triratnas) of Jainism are
    A)right action, right livelihood and right effort
    B)right faith or intentions, right knowledge and right conduct
    C)right thoughts, non-violence and non-attachment
    D)right speech, right thinking and right behaviour
    Answer: right faith or intentions, right knowledge and right conduct
  • Q. When was Gandhi-Irvin Pact taken place?
    A)March 15, 1933
    B)September 23, 1932
    C)March 5, 1931
    D)February 10, 1930
    Answer: March 5, 1931
  • Q. Who has called the Prime Minister Primus inter pares (first among equlas)?
    A)Harcourt
    B)Morely
    C)Laski
    D)Lowell
    Answer: Morely

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