More Questions on History
- Q. Which of the following brought Aurobindo Ghose into the fold of the Indian National Movement?
A)The partition of Bengal
B)The famines of 1896-97 and 1899-1900
C)The Surat Split
D)The Jallianwala Bagh episode
Answer: The partition of Bengal
- Q. AI Hilal’ was a newspaper launched for propagating nationalism by
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Syed Ahmed Khan
C)Abul Kalam Azad
D)DE Wacha
Answer: Abul Kalam Azad
- Q. Which of the following rivers does not find frequent mention in Rigvedic Hymns?
A)Sindhu
B)Ganges
C)Brahmaputra
D)Saraswati
Answer: Brahmaputra
- Q. Which of the following literatures is known as Apaurusheya?
A)Brahman
B)Vedas
C)Upanishad
D)Aranyak
Answer: Vedas
- Q. Who among the following Governor-General repealed the Vernacular Press Act of Lytton?
A)Dufferin
B)Northbrook
C)Elgin-II
D)Ripon
Answer: Ripon
- Q. The earliest nationalist to commit political dacoities (a feature of the later revolutionary movements) was
A)Chapekar brothers
B)Jyotiba Phule
C)Vasudev Balwant Phadke
D)Yatindra Das
Answer: Vasudev Balwant Phadke
- Q. Champaran Satyagraha was related to
A)Mill-owners
B)Indigo
C)Plague
D)Fresh assessment of land
Answer: Indigo
- Q. The newspapers ‘The Punjabi and The pupil’ were published by :
A)Lala Lajpat Rai
B)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C)Bhagat Singh
D)Lala Hardyal
Answer: Lala Lajpat Rai
- Q. Razia Sultan, the first woman to sit on the throne of Delhi, was the daughter of which Sultan
A)Mohammed of Ghori
B)Mohammed Ghori
C)Iltutmish
D)Alauddin Khalji
Answer: Iltutmish
- Q. Benito Mussolini was the prime minister of which country
A)Belgium
B)French
C)Italy
D)Turkey
Answer: Italy
- Q. I. The Amritsar Session of the INC gave a great fillip to the Khilafat agitation. II. Khilafat conference held in Calcutta under Presidentship of Jinnah. III. Khilafat Movement was started to support Ottoman Empire. Which of the above statement (s) is/are correct regarding Khilafat Movement?
A)Both I and II
B)Only I
C)Both I and III
D)I, II and III
Answer: Both I and III
- Q. According to Jainis, at which place Abhinandannath attained Nirvana?
A)Shri Keshriyaji Tirtha
B)Sammed Shikhar
C)Parasnath
D)Sarnath
Answer: Sammed Shikhar
- Q. Who was the mastermind of bomb attack on Lord Hardinge at chandani chowk in Delhi in 1912?
A)Avadh Behari
B)Amir Chand
C)Rasbihari Bose
D)Basant Kumar Biswas
Answer: Rasbihari Bose
- Q. Ustad Mansur was a famous painter in the reign of
A)Akbar
B)Shajahan
C)Humayun
D)Jahangir
Answer: Jahangir
- Q. When were ancient Olympic games held first?
A)780 BC
B)776 BC
C)790 BC
D)800 BC
Answer: 776 BC
- Q. Who among the following British persons admitted the Revolt of 1857 as a national revolt?
A)Lord Canning
B)Lord Dalhousie
C)Lord Ellenborough
D)Disraeli
Answer: Disraeli
- Q. What was the capital of Shivaji’s Kingdom?
A)Raigarh
B)Pune
C)Karwar
D)Purandhar
Answer: Raigarh
- Q. From which country, the tradition of written Constitution began
A)India
B)Japan
C)Britain
D)America
Answer: America
- Q. Which Viceroy of India had largest tenure during British rule:
A)Lord Mountbatten
B)Lord Linlithgow
C)Lord Bentick
D)None of above
Answer: Lord Linlithgow
- Q. Shivaji started his public career at the age of
A)21
B)18
C)23
D)24
Answer: 18
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