More Questions on History

  • Q. In the history of Indian National Movement Santhal Rebellion took place between :
    A)1849-50
    B)1845-47
    C)1855-56
    D)1866-67
    Answer: 1855-56
  • Q. Which one of the following Mughal buildings is said to possess the unique feature of being exactly equal in length and breadth?
    A)Red Fort
    B)Agra Fort
    C)Taj Mahal
    D)Buland Darwaza
    Answer: Taj Mahal
  • Q. Gautama Buddha was born at
    A)Sarnath
    B)Kusinagar
    C)Bodha Gaya
    D)Lumbini
    Answer: Lumbini
  • Q. In 1920 under her leadership the__________, the Ahmedabad textile mill workers union was established
    A)Ushabai Dange
    B)Majoor Mahajan
    C)Parvati Bhore
    D)Maniben Kara
    Answer: Majoor Mahajan
  • Q. During the first Carnatic War, the French Governor-General of Pondicherry was
    A)Captain Paradise
    B)La Bourdonnais
    C)Dupleix
    D)Count-de-Lally
    Answer: Dupleix
  • Q. Mahabalipuram is an important city that reveals the interest of arts of
    A)Cholas
    B)Pallavas
    C)Pandyas
    D)Chalukyas
    Answer: Pallavas
  • Q. In which century Bhakti movement began?
    A)7th century
    B)6th century
    C)8th century
    D)9th century
    Answer: 7th century
  • Q. Where did the traveller Ibn Batuta come from?
    A)Persia
    B)Morocco
    C)Turkey
    D)Central Asia
    Answer: Morocco
  • Q. The original name of Swami Dayananda Saraswati was
    A)Gowri Shankar
    B)Abhi Shankar
    C)Daya Shankar
    D)Mula Shankar
    Answer: Mula Shankar
  • Q. Which one of the following indicates the correct chronological order of the Later Mughal Emperors?
    A)Farrukh Siyar, Bahadur Shah-I, Jahandar Shah, Muhammad Shah
    B)Bahadur Shah-I, Farrukh Siyar, Jahandar Shah, Muhammad Shah
    C)Bahadur Shah-l, Jahandar Shah, Farrukh Siyar, Muhammad Shah
    D)Jahandar Shah, Bahadur Shah-l, Muhammad Shah, Farrukh Siyar
    Answer: Bahadur Shah-l, Jahandar Shah, Farrukh Siyar, Muhammad Shah
  • Q. When did Saladin captured Jerusalem?
    A)1187
    B)1118
    C)1193
    D)1203
    Answer: 1187
  • Q. The administrative consequence of the Revolt of 1857 was transferred to power from
    A)British Crown to the East India Company
    B)East India Company to the British Crown
    C)East India Company to the Governor General
    D)British Crown to the Board of Directors
    Answer: East India Company to the British Crown
  • Q. Who was the Chief Architect of the World Trade Centre, New York?
    A)Minoru Yamasaki
    B)Le Corbusier
    C)Edwin Lutyens
    D)Charles Correa
    Answer: Minoru Yamasaki
  • Q. The demand for Swarajya or self- government within the British empire was made from the Congress platform by
    A)Dadabhai Naoroji
    B)Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    C)Both Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Dadabhai Naoroji
    D)None of these
    Answer: Both Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Dadabhai Naoroji
  • Q. Who among the following wrote the Kural, which deals with many aspects of life and religion?
    A)Ayaikar
    B)Thiruvalluvar
    C)Shankracharya
    D)Rishi Agasta
    Answer: Thiruvalluvar
  • Q. The All India Muslim League was founded in December 1906 at
    A)Dacca
    B)Karachi
    C)Calcutta
    D)Aligarh
    Answer: Dacca
  • Q. Who among the following was the first to sign the ‘Instruments of Accession’?
    A)The Dewan of Travancore
    B)The Maharaja of Baroda
    C)The Nizam of Hyderabad
    D)The Raja of Jodhpur
    Answer: The Dewan of Travancore
  • Q. Which of the following Mughal Emperors wrote their own autobigraphies?
    A)Babur and Jahangir
    B)Shah Alam and Farukh Siyar
    C)Jahangir and Shah Jahan
    D)Akbr and Aurangzeb
    Answer: Babur and Jahangir
  • Q. Which of the following was not contained in the Cripps Offer?
    A)Constituent Assembly
    B)Dominion Status to India
    C)Control of Defence of India by the Indian National Government
    D)Right to take part in highest Counsels
    Answer: Control of Defence of India by the Indian National Government
  • 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

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