More Questions on History

  • Q. Who was the founder of ‘Gadhar party’
    A)Chandarshekhar Azad
    B)Sachindranath Sanyal
    C)Lala Har Dayal
    D)Batukeshwar Dutt
    Answer: Lala Har Dayal
  • Q. Which of the following statement is not true about “Doctrine of Lapse”?
    A)It was in operations between 1848 and 1856
    B)It was started by Lord Dalhousie
    C)Nagpur was the first state annexed under this rule
    D)Satara, jaipur, Jhansi and Nagpur states were annexed under this rule
    Answer: Nagpur was the first state annexed under this rule
  • Q. Who is generally consider as the first pharaoh of Egypt
    A)Semerkhet
    B)Menes
    C)Takelot I
    D)Tutankhamun
    Answer: Menes
  • Q. Nalanda University was a great centre of learning, especially in
    A)Jainism
    B)Buddhism
    C)Vaishnavism
    D)Tantra
    Answer: Buddhism
  • Q. Which of the following movement was NOT led by Mahatma Gandhi?
    A)Wahabi Movement
    B)Champarah Satyagraha
    C)Non-Coorperation Movement
    D)Civil Disobedience Movenment
    Answer: Wahabi Movement
  • Q. The first Indian to be elected as a member of the British House of Commons was
    A)Surendra Nath Banerjee
    B)Dadabhai Naoroji
    C)Dr. BR Ambedkar
    D)C. R. Das
    Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
  • Q. The writers of the East India Company had their training in the college at __________ in England
    A)Manchester
    B)London
    C)Liverpool
    D)Haileybury
    Answer: Haileybury
  • Q. Who was the first president of the Republic of China?
    A)Mao Zedong
    B)Chiang Kai-shek
    C)Sun Yat-sen
    D)Yuan Shikai
    Answer: Sun Yat-sen
  • Q. Who defined the “Long Nineteenth Century”?
    A)Ernest Gallner
    B)Benedict Anderson
    C)Eric Hobsbawm
    D)Karl Marx
    Answer: Eric Hobsbawm
  • Q. From which country, the tradition of written Constitution began
    A)India
    B)Japan
    C)Britain
    D)America
    Answer: America
  • Q. Nana Sahib the adopted son of Peshwa Baji Rao II had become a great enemy of the British because
    A)He had lost his title
    B)The Queen had humiliated him
    C)The British had stopped his pension
    D)His estate had been snatched from him
    Answer: The British had stopped his pension
  • Q. The Mughal Emperor who discouraged ‘Sati’ was
    A)Humayun
    B)Babur
    C)Akbar
    D)Jehangir
    Answer: Akbar
  • Q. Which one of the following was the cause of disintegration of the Mughal Empire?
    A)Attacks of Nadir Shah and Ahmad Shah Abdali
    B)War of succession among sons of Aurangzeb
    C)Revolts of various communities like Jats, Sikhs, Rajputs etc.
    D)All of the above mentioned factors contributed to the downfall of the Mughal Empire.
    Answer: All of the above mentioned factors contributed to the downfall of the Mughal Empire.
  • Q. The Great Depression in the 1930s refers to
    A)An ailment afflicting millions overhung to a new vector borne disease
    B)A tropical storm that raged for weeks
    C)An economic hollowing out leading to widespread unemployment and collapse of stock values
    D)A prolonged seasonal influence of unpredictable weather owing to earthquakes and tsunamis
    Answer: An economic hollowing out leading to widespread unemployment and collapse of stock values
  • Q. Subhash Bose established the Provisional Government of Free India at
    A)Bangkok
    B)Berlin
    C)Singapore
    D)Tokyo
    Answer: Singapore
  • Q. __________, succeeded to the throne of Ferghana in 1494 when he was only 12 years old
    A)Akbar
    B)Humayun
    C)Jahangir
    D)Babur
    Answer: Babur
  • Q. Which of the following event compel the Rabindranath Tagore to renounce his knighthood?
    A)To protest against lathi charge on Lala Lajpat Rai that caused his death
    B)To protest against the Jallianwalla Bagh incident
    C)To express solidarity with the leaders of Non-Cooperation Movement
    D)To express solidarity with the protestors against the arrival of Simon Commission
    Answer: To protest against the Jallianwalla Bagh incident
  • Q. Which of the following are beliefs of Buddhism? I. The world is full of sorrows. II. People suffer on account of desires. III. If desires are conquered, nirvana will be attained. IV. The existence of God and Soul must be recognised.
    A)II and III
    B)I, II, III and IV
    C)I, II and III
    D)II, III and IV
    Answer: I, II and III
  • Q. The correct chronological order in which the given monuments were built is
    A)Gol Gumbaz, Red Fort, Buland Darwaza, Qutab Minar
    B)Qutab Minar, Buland Darwaza, Gol Gumbaz, Red Fort
    C)Qutab Minar, Gol Gumbaz, Buland Darwaza, Red Fort
    D)Gol Gumbaz, Buland Darwaza, Red Fort, Qutab Minar
    Answer: Qutab Minar, Buland Darwaza, Gol Gumbaz, Red Fort
  • Q. Who were associated with Indian league established in 1875 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) ?
    A)Kali Mohan Das and Arvindo Ghosh
    B)Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Arvindo Ghosh
    C)Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Sambhu Charan Mukherjee
    D)None of these
    Answer: Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Sambhu Charan Mukherjee

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