More Questions on History

  • Q. Who wrote Mudrarakshasa?
    A)Panini
    B)Vishakhadatta
    C)Patanjali
    D)Shudrak
    Answer: Vishakhadatta
  • Q. Who among the following leader draws his inspiration from M.K Gandhi?
    A)Jayaprakash Narayan
    B)Jawaharlal Nehru
    C)Abdul Ghaffar Khan
    D)Subhas Chandra Bose
    Answer: Abdul Ghaffar Khan
  • Q. Which of the following Government of India Act/Indian Council Act brought three separate presidencies (Madras, Bombay and Bengal) into a common system?
    A)Government of India Act, 1935
    B)Indian Council Act of 1861
    C)Government of India Act, 1919
    D)Indian Council Act of 1909
    Answer: Indian Council Act of 1861
  • Q. Who among the following was the counter part of Tipu Sultan during the Treaty of Seringapatnam?
    A)Robert Clive
    B)Warren Hastings
    C)Cornwallis
    D)Dalhousie
    Answer: Cornwallis
  • Q. When Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed, the Secretary of State for India was
    A)Curzon
    B)Salisbury
    C)Wedgwood Benn
    D)Montagu
    Answer: Wedgwood Benn
  • Q. When did Europe captured Jerusalem?
    A)1088
    B)1081
    C)1095
    D)1099
    Answer: 1099
  • Q. In Greek mythology, Apollo is the god of what?
    A)Medicine
    B)Prophecy
    C)Love
    D)Peace
    Answer: Prophecy
  • Q. Cold War refers to
    A)Ideological rivalry between Capitalist and Communist world
    B)Tension between East and West
    C)Tension between Superpowers
    D)Tension between Superpowers
    Answer: Tension between East and West
  • Q. Who among the following Kushan Emperors was the first to introduce the gold coinage in India?
    A)Vima Taktu
    B)Vima Kadphises
    C)Vasishka
    D)Kujula Kadphises
    Answer: Vima Kadphises
  • Q. According to Gandhi, ahimsa could not be construed to mean
    A)a positive state of law
    B)truth
    C)tolerance of the wrong and unjust
    D)doing good even to the evildoers
    Answer: tolerance of the wrong and unjust
  • Q. Who among the following was the court physician of Kanishka?
    A)Nagarjuna
    B)Vasumitra
    C)Charaka
    D)Patanjali
    Answer: Charaka
  • Q. India is in favour of __________ in the economic field
    A)Private Sector
    B)Public Sector
    C)Mixed Economy
    D)Capitalistic Economy
    Answer: Mixed Economy
  • Q. Who preached the idea of Home Rule through his two news papers – the Kesari and the Maratha?
    A)Annie Besant
    B)Gokhale
    C)Tilak
    D)Jawaharlal Nehru
    Answer: Tilak
  • Q. The Qutub Minar was completed by the famous ruler
    A)Iltutmish
    B)Qutubuddin Aibak
    C)Firoz Shah Tughlaq
    D)Alauddin Khalji
    Answer: Iltutmish
  • Q. Who was the author of United States Declaration of Independence
    A)George Washington
    B)Thomas Jefferson
    C)Abraham Lincoln
    D)Benjamin Franklin
    Answer: Thomas Jefferson
  • Q. Who propounded the ‘Eight-Fold Path’ for the end of misery of mankind?
    A)Gautam Buddha
    B)Mahavir
    C)Adi Shankaracharya
    D)Kabir
    Answer: Gautam Buddha
  • Q. The main contribution of Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar to education and in particular to women education are
    A)Charles wood dispatch on education, influenced it towards female education
    B)Break priestly monopoly of scriptural knowledge(Sanskrit) and opening to non-Brahmins
    C)Lady Hardinge medical college at Delhi
    D)Both A and B
    Answer: Both A and B
  • Q. In which of the following system of land settlement adopted by the English did provide more protection to the interest of farmers?
    A)Ryotwari Settlement of Madras
    B)Permanent Settlement of Bengal
    C)Zamindari Settlement of Central States
    D)Malgujari (land revenue) Settlement of United State
    Answer: Ryotwari Settlement of Madras
  • Q. The Gupta Saka was founded by
    A)Chandra Gupta, the Second
    B)Chandra Gupta, the First
    C)Samudra Gupta
    D)Kumara Gupta
    Answer: Chandra Gupta, the First
  • Q. When did Abyssinian crisis end?
    A)1936
    B)1935
    C)1937
    D)1939
    Answer: 1937

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