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- Q. On behalf of Aurangzeb Shivaji attacked
A)Konkan
B)Gujarat
C)Surat
D)Poena
Answer: Konkan
- Q. Under the Mughals the Commander-in-Chief of the Army was
A)Mansabdar
B)The crown prince
C)Emperor
D)Zamindar
Answer: Emperor
- Q. Muslim League was founded in the year
A)1905
B)1900
C)1906
D)1902
Answer: 1906
- Q. The Headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission established by Vivekananda in 1898 are at
A)Belur
B)Kanyakumari
C)Hyderabad
D)Murshidabad
Answer: Belur
- Q. When did Battle of Marathon take place?
A)480 BC
B)490 BC
C)479 BC
D)475 BC
Answer: 490 BC
- Q. During the First World War, which country signed the Peace Treaty (1917) with Germany
A)USA
B)England
C)Russia
D)Austria
Answer: Russia
- Q. Where did the February Revolution take place
A)Petrograd
B)Moscow
C)Paris
D)London
Answer: Petrograd
- Q. The Chinese Nationalist Party Kuomintang was found by
A)Mao-Tse-tung
B)Pu-yi
C)Chiang-Kai-shek
D)Sun-Yat-Sen
Answer: Sun-Yat-Sen
- Q. Mahe was a colony of __________
A)French
B)English
C)Dutch
D)Germany
Answer: French
- Q. The family of the Rig Vedic Aryans was
A)Patriarchal
B)Patrilineal
C)Matriarchal
D)Matrilineal
Answer: Patriarchal
- Q. Who was the ruler of the kingdom between the rivers Jhelum and Chenab?
A)Darius III
B)Alexander the Great
C)King Porus
D)Chandragupta Maurya
Answer: King Porus
- Q. Under which tree Sumtinath Tirthankar received Kaivalya Gyan?
A)Neem
B)Devdar
C)Priyangu
D)Vat
Answer: Priyangu
- Q. Gautama Buddha was born at
A)Sarnath
B)Kusinagar
C)Bodha Gaya
D)Lumbini
Answer: Lumbini
- Q. Rudra Sampradaya School was founded by
A)Vallabhacharya
B)Ramananda
C)Narasi
D)Chaitanya
Answer: Vallabhacharya
- Q. Why Simon commission was established?
A)To enquire into the working of the Marley-Minto reforms
B)To enquire into the working of the Government of India Act, 1919 and to suggest further reforms in the system of administration
C)To declare India as republic state
D)None of these
Answer: To enquire into the working of the Government of India Act, 1919 and to suggest further reforms in the system of administration
- Q. The Simla Conference called by Viceroy Lord Wavell (to discuss the so-called Wavell Plan) in June 1945 failed on account of
A)the demand of the Congress to include the members of all communities in their quota to the Executive Council
B)Jinnah's demand that the Muslim League alone would nominate Muslim members to the Executive Council
C)the demand of the Scheduled Castes to reserved seats in the Executive Council in Proportion to their population
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- Q. Permission to the British to establish their trading centre at Surat had been given by the Mughal emperor
A)Akbar
B)Babur
C)Jahangir
D)Humayun
Answer: Jahangir
- Q. Which of the following Tamil literature was written by Ilango Adigal, brother of Senguvattan, a Chera King and who was a Jain monk is a highly regarded epic?
A)Elathi
B)Kainnilai
C)Silappatikaram
D)None of the above
Answer: Silappatikaram
- Q. Which of the following is one of the social reasons for 1857 revolt?
A)The racial arrogance of the British created a difference between the rulers and the ruled
B)The English could not establish any social relationship with the Indians
C)Both A & B
D)The company's trade policy destroyed Indian handicrafts
Answer: Both A & B
- Q. The Hundred Years’ War (from 1337 to 1453) was fought between
A)Germany and Russia
B)England and France
C)America and Argentina
D)England and Germany
Answer: England and France
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