More Questions on History

  • Q. The first to invade India were the
    A)Greeks
    B)Aryans
    C)Persians
    D)Arabs
    Answer: Aryans
  • Q. Who among the following was responsible for making “Sikhism’ a militant force?
    A)Guru Teg Bahadur
    B)Guru Har Govind Singh
    C)Guru Govind Singh
    D)Guru Arjun Singh
    Answer: Guru Har Govind Singh
  • Q. The Regulating Act was passed in the year
    A)1773
    B)1793
    C)1763
    D)1783
    Answer: 1773
  • Q. Assertion (A): The Sultans may not have been too eager to encourage large scale conversion. Reason (R): The increasing conversion could lead to a loss of revenue, as jizya paying citizens to Islam
    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. Which of the following leader associated with Barout in Uttar Pradesh during 1857 revolts?
    A)Maulavi Ahamadullah Shah
    B)Shah Mal
    C)Tatya Tope
    D)Veer Kuwar Singh
    Answer: Shah Mal
  • Q. The family of the Rig Vedic Aryans was
    A)Patriarchal
    B)Patrilineal
    C)Matriarchal
    D)Matrilineal
    Answer: Patriarchal
  • Q. Which of the following was the achieved milestone of the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1921?
    A)Indian obtains some political rights
    B)It stopped the injustice done to the Khilafat
    C)The Hindus and the Muslims came closer in political pursuit
    D)It avenged the Punjab atrocities
    Answer: The Hindus and the Muslims came closer in political pursuit
  • Q. Akbar (1556-1605 AD) was the ruler of which dynasty?
    A)Maurya
    B)Nanda
    C)Mughal
    D)Haryanka
    Answer: Mughal
  • Q. What was the age of Akbar at the time of his coronation at Kalanaur?
    A)Fifteen
    B)Thirteen
    C)Eighteen
    D)Twenty
    Answer: Thirteen
  • Q. On account of his differences with Mahatma Gandhi, Subhas Bose resigned the Presidentship of the Congress (April 1939) and organised a new party called
    A)Azad Hind Fauz
    B)Congress Socialist Party
    C)Congress Liberal party
    D)Forward Block
    Answer: Forward Block
  • Q. Unification of Germany took place under the leadership of which state
    A)Saxony
    B)Wurtemberg
    C)Prussia
    D)Hanover
    Answer: Prussia
  • Q. Of the following scholars who was the first to discover the traces of the Harappan Civilisation?
    A)RD Banerji
    B)Sir John Marshall
    C)A Cunningham
    D)Daya Ram Sahani
    Answer: A Cunningham
  • Q. Who founded the Pala Empire?
    A)Dharmapala
    B)Devapala
    C)Dhruva
    D)Gopala
    Answer: Gopala
  • Q. Bicameral Legislature was first provided to India by the
    A)Government of India Act of 1935
    B)Pitt's India Act
    C)Government of India Act of 1919
    D)Council Act of 1861
    Answer: Government of India Act of 1919
  • Q. The dead body of Babur by his own choice lies buried in
    A)Farghana
    B)Agra
    C)Samarqand
    D)Kabul
    Answer: Kabul
  • Q. Which one of the following was not a French settlement in India?
    A)Mahe
    B)Puducherry
    C)Goa
    D)Chandannagar
    Answer: Goa
  • Q. Muslim League was established in December
    A)1905
    B)1906
    C)1925
    D)1926
    Answer: 1906
  • Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct about the early traditions of Bhakti? I. In the course of the evolution of forms of worship, in many instances, poet-saints emerged as leaders around whom there developed a community of devotees. II. Brahmanas remained important intermediaries between gods and devotees in several forms of bhakti. III. At a different level, historians of religion often classify bhakti traditions into two broad categories: saguna (with attributes) and nirguna (without attributes)
    A)I and II
    B)Only I
    C)I and III
    D)All of the above
    Answer: All of the above
  • Q. When was Charlemagne crowned as Roman Emperor?
    A)860
    B)800
    C)871
    D)899
    Answer: 800
  • Q. Harappan weapons were made of
    A)Copper
    B)Stone
    C)Bronze
    D)All the above
    Answer: All the above

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