More Questions on History
- Q. Which of the following Mughal emperors is credited with composition of Hindi songs?
A)Akbar
B)Babur
C)Jahangir
D)Shahjahan
Answer: Jahangir
- Q. When did the Soviet Union disintegrated into Independent Republics?
A)1991
B)1990
C)1992
D)1993
Answer: 1991
- Q. Which Sufi’s dargah is at Ajmer?
A)Qutbdin Bakhtiyar Kaki
B)Baba Farid
C)Moinuddin Chisti
D)Khwaja Bahuddin
Answer: Moinuddin Chisti
- Q. The East India Company was established in the year
A)1600 AD
B)1607 AD
C)1700 AD
D)1669 AD
Answer: 1600 AD
- Q. __________ was prominent in the Labour and Socialist movements, a member of the Fabian Society and Social Democratic Federation, and took an active part in Trade Union work among unskilled labourers
A)H. P. Blavatsky
B)Annie Besant
C)W. T. Stead
D)H. S. Olcott
Answer: Annie Besant
- Q. Who was the first woman President of Congress?
A)Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
B)Mrs. Annie Besant
C)Mrs. Nelline Sengupta
D)Aruna Asaf Ali
Answer: Mrs. Annie Besant
- Q. Under which British Act was the provision to establish a Federation of India concession of Governor’s provinces and Princely states made?
A)Government of India Act 1925
B)Government of India Act 1918
C)Government of India Act 1930
D)Government of India Act 1935
Answer: Government of India Act 1935
- Q. Who among the following Gupta rulers faced invasion of Hunas?
A)Kumaragupta-I
B)Budhagupta
C)Kumaragupta-II
D)Skandagupta
Answer: Skandagupta
- Q. Who founded India House in London and guided other revolutionaries
A)Lokmanya Tilak
B)Sri Aurobindo
C)Shyamji Krishna Varma
D)Bhagat Singh
Answer: Shyamji Krishna Varma
- Q. The Peasant and the Raj is the work of __________
A)A. R. Desai
B)Eric Stokes
C)D. N. Dhanagare
D)Shirin Mehta
Answer: Eric Stokes
- Q. Chinese travellers visited India primarily because-
A)They were invited by ten Indian kings
B)They were interested in Buddhism
C)They were interested to study Indian culture
D)They were interested to stay in India
Answer: They were interested in Buddhism
- Q. Who of the following was the biographer of Akbar?
A)Faizi
B)Abul Fazl
C)Abdul Nabi Khan
D)Birbal
Answer: Abul Fazl
- Q. Who was the founder of the Kanva dynasty?
A)Vishnusarma
B)Suserman
C)Vasudeva
D)Vasumitra
Answer: Vasudeva
- Q. The Constituent Assembly was formed on the recommendations of the
A)Cabinet Mission Plan
B)Government of India Act, 1935
C)Cripps' Mission
D)Mountbatten Plan
Answer: Cabinet Mission Plan
- Q. When was Mahatma Gandhi arrested during the ‘Quit India Movement’ of 1942?
A)30th April, 1942
B)7th August, 1942
C)9th August, 1942
D)5th July, 1942
Answer: 9th August, 1942
- Q. __________, a judge of the Supreme Court founded the Asiatic society of Bengal in 1784 A.D.
A)Warren Hastings
B)Sir William Jones
C)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
D)Lord Macaulay
Answer: Sir William Jones
- Q. Under the Mughals, in urban area the judicial powers were exercised by
A)Faujdar
B)Kazis
C)Kotwal
D)Wazir
Answer: Kotwal
- Q. Who was the Governor General of India during the Civil Disobedience Movement?
A)Lord Reading
B)Lord Chelmsford
C)Lord Irwin
D)Lord Wavell
Answer: Lord Irwin
- Q. The Muslim League advocated a separate Muslim State
A)During the Khilafat Movement
B)At its birth in 1906
C)In 1930, when it opposed the Civil Disobedience Movement
D)At the Lahore Session of 1940
Answer: At the Lahore Session of 1940
- Q. Mansabdari System was founded by Akbar. The Mansabdars were
A)provincial governors
B)military commanders
C)high civil and military officers
D)all of the above
Answer: all of the above
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