More Questions on History

  • Q. Which Act provided for the establishment of an All India federation at the centre consisting of the provinces of British India and the princely states?
    A)Government of India Act 1918
    B)The Government of India Act 1935
    C)Government of India Act 1925
    D)Government of India Act 1930
    Answer: The Government of India Act 1935
  • Q. Which great war was fought between the years 1914 and 1918?
    A)The First World War
    B)The Battle of Tarain
    C)The Battle of Plassey
    D)The Second World War
    Answer: The First World War
  • Q. Who was the governor-general during the Revolt of 1857?
    A)Lord Irwin
    B)Lord Canning
    C)Lord Lytton
    D)Lord Willington
    Answer: Lord Canning
  • Q. Who contemptuously referred to Mahatma Gandhi as a halfnaked fakir?
    A)Lord Irwin
    B)Lord Wavell
    C)Lord Willingdon
    D)Winston Churchill
    Answer: Winston Churchill
  • Q. Prince Salim was the name of the future Emperor__________
    A)Humayun
    B)Babur
    C)Jahangir
    D)Akbar
    Answer: Jahangir
  • Q. Mzal Khan who fought with Shivaji was the ruler of
    A)Mewar
    B)Bijapur
    C)Gujarat
    D)Bengal
    Answer: Bijapur
  • Q. The well-known painting showing the arrival at the Mughal Court of the great singer Tansen exhibits
    A)Gandhara Style
    B)The Persian Style
    C)Hindu Style
    D)The fusion of the Mughal and Hindu Styles
    Answer: The fusion of the Mughal and Hindu Styles
  • Q. Gautama Buddha was born at
    A)Sarnath
    B)Kusinagar
    C)Bodha Gaya
    D)Lumbini
    Answer: Lumbini
  • Q. Which among the following was the most appropriate cause for the failure of Raziya?
    A)Her intention to be the ruler not only in name but also in fact
    B)Her gender
    C)Her unpopularity with the people of Delhi
    D)Her incompetence
    Answer: Her intention to be the ruler not only in name but also in fact
  • Q. Which of the following books is not written by Harshavardhan?
    A)Nagananda
    B)Harshacharita
    C)Ratnavali
    D)Priyadarshika
    Answer: Harshacharita
  • Q. Which of the following Kushan kings, who assumed the title “the Lord of the Whole World”?
    A)Kadphises II
    B)Kadphises I
    C)Kanishka
    D)Huvishka
    Answer: Kadphises II
  • Q. The two names which were associates with the publication of the paper ‘Yugantar’ are:
    A)Bhupendranath Dutta and Arbindo Ghosh
    B)Barindra kumar Ghose and Arbindo Ghosh
    C)Barindra kumar Ghose and Bhupendranath Dutta
    D)Arbindo Ghosh and V.D. Sawarkar
    Answer: Barindra kumar Ghose and Bhupendranath Dutta
  • Q. Through which principle/device did Mahatma Gandhi strive to bridge economic inequalities?
    A)Establishment of village industries
    B)Abolition of machinery
    C)Adoption of non-violence
    D)Trusteeship theory
    Answer: Trusteeship theory
  • Q. British Indian Association was founded on October 29, 1851 at__________
    A)Pune
    B)Calcutta
    C)Madras
    D)Bombay
    Answer: Calcutta
  • Q. Who among the following writer’s book gives the detail information about the invasion of India by Alexander?
    A)Megasthenes
    B)Herodotus
    C)Arrian
    D)Ptolemy
    Answer: Arrian
  • Q. Provision was made in the Act of 1919, for the appointment of a Commission in __________ to investigate the working of the Constitution
    A)1929
    B)1930
    C)1939
    D)1925
    Answer: 1929
  • Q. The INC for the first time passed the resolutions on Swaraj, Boycott and National Education at its annual session held at
    A)Calcutta (1906)
    B)Banaras (1905)
    C)Surat (1907)
    D)Madras (1908)
    Answer: Calcutta (1906)
  • Q. In 1884 __________founded the Indian National Union
    A)A. M. Bose
    B)A. O. Hume
    C)Lord Dufferin
    D)W. C. Banerjee
    Answer: A. O. Hume
  • Q. Narayana Guru was born on August 22, 1856, in the village of __________ near Thiruvananthapuram
    A)Karunagapally
    B)Chempazhanthi
    C)Kayamkulam
    D)Kannur
    Answer: Chempazhanthi
  • Q. Who is the most prominent god of ‘Rig Veda’?
    A)Agni
    B)Indra
    C)Pashupati
    D)Vishnu
    Answer: Indra

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