More Questions on History
- Q. In which year, America joined the Second World War
A)1940
B)1939
C)1941
D)1942
Answer: 1941
- Q. Which one of following pairs is not correctly matched?
A)Atharvaveda Samhita - Origins of Indian medicine
B)Samaveda Samhita - Origins of Indian music
C)Rigveda Samhita - Earliest prose
D)Yajurveda Samhita - Origins of rituals
Answer: Rigveda Samhita - Earliest prose
- Q. When did the Battle of France take place?
A)1941
B)1940
C)1945
D)1942
Answer: 1940
- Q. Which among the following is the sacred book of the Buddhists?
A)Vedas
B)Upanishad
C)Tripitaka
D)Jatakas
Answer: Tripitaka
- Q. Who among the following was the reformer and philosopher from Ramanandi Sampradaya in the lineage of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya renowned for his devotion to the Lord Shri Rama?
A)Tukaram
B)Ramananda
C)Valmiki
D)Tulsidas
Answer: Tulsidas
- Q. Which of the following principle propagated by Aligarh school which helped in bringing reforms in Muslims? I. Intolerance to other religions and religious texts II. Quran was the only authoritative work for Islam and all others are secondary. Therefore said belief in only Islam III. Incorporate modern western thought
A)Both I and II
B)Only I
C)Both II and III
D)All the above
Answer: Both II and III
- Q. Which of the following place, Buddha was never depicted in a human form but was represented only as a symbol of either two footprints or wheel?
A)Loria
B)Sanchi
C)Kesaria
D)All of the above
Answer: Sanchi
- Q. The policy of Doctrine of lapse was introduced by __________
A)Lord William Bentinck
B)Lord Wellesley
C)Lord Macaulay
D)Lord Dalhousie
Answer: Lord Dalhousie
- Q. In 1942 who appealed the Britishers to leave India in God’s hands?
A)Mohhamad Ali Jinnah
B)Jawahar Lal Nehru
C)Sardar patel
D)Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. Where was the ‘Azad Hind Fauj’ founded?
A)Thailand
B)Singapore
C)Britain
D)Italy
Answer: Singapore
- Q. Which of the following is one of the causes for the passing of the Act of 1773?
A)Success of Double Government
B)Failure of Double Government
C)Agitation in India
D)Desire of the Indian Merchants
Answer: Failure of Double Government
- Q. The Governor General who came to be known as father of communal electorate in India was
A)Lord Hardinge
B)Lord Chelmsford
C)Lord Lainthgo
D)Lord Minto
Answer: Lord Minto
- Q. On September 20, 1932 Mahatma Gandhi began a fast unto death in Yervada jail against
A)Violation of the Gandhi - Irwin Pact
B)British repression of the Satyagrahis
C)Communal award of Ramsay MacDonald
D)Communal Roits in Calcutta
Answer: Communal award of Ramsay MacDonald
- Q. Aravippuram movement which is considered as a precursor to all south Indian socio religious reform movement started in which of the following places?
A)Kerala
B)Tamil Nadu
C)Andra Pradesh
D)Karnataka
Answer: Kerala
- Q. Which of the following statement is wrong?
A)Ashoka the great Mauryan king died in 332 BC
B)Sunga dynasty was founded by pushyamitra
C)Ashoka invaded the Kalinga in 261 BC
D)Chandragupta Maurya earned the title of the Liberator
Answer: Ashoka the great Mauryan king died in 332 BC
- Q. Which of the following Governor-General introduced the services of Railway and telegraph systems?
A)Lord Dalhousie
B)Lord Cornwallis
C)Lord Wellesley
D)Lord Bentinck
Answer: Lord Dalhousie
- Q. The immediate cause for the outbreak of the first World War was
A)The imprisonment of Lenin
B)The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
C)The ambition of America to dominate the world
D)The sudden death of Lloyd George
Answer: The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
- 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. To whom is the statement “Cowardice and ahimsa do not go together any more than water and fire” attributed?
A)M K Gandhi
B)Acharya Narendra Dev
C)Swami Vivekananda
D)Jayaprakash Narayan
Answer: M K Gandhi
- Q. In 1913, the Guru founded an Ashram at __________ called the Advaita Ashram
A)Palluruthi
B)Vaikom
C)Aluva
D)Trichur
Answer: Aluva
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