More Questions on History
- Q. What is the full name of Aurangzeb?
A)Nuruddin Mohammed Aurangzeb
B)Muin-ud-din Mohammed Aurangzeb
C)Jalal-ud-din Mohammed Aurangzeb
D)Nasiruddin Mohammed Aurangzeb
Answer: Muin-ud-din Mohammed Aurangzeb
- Q. Which of the following forts was not built by Akbar?
A)Agra Fort
B)Gwalior Fort
C)Lahore Fort
D)Allahabad Fort
Answer: Gwalior Fort
- Q. China invaded Indian frontiers in the year __________
A)1960
B)1956
C)1962
D)1965
Answer: 1962
- Q. Who said that he had not become His Majesty’s first Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire?
A)Churchill
B)Attlee
C)Disraeli
D)Loyd George
Answer: Churchill
- Q. Who ruled that pilgrims could wear yellow clothes – the colour of the garments Sri Buddha wore
A)Govindan Vaidyar
B)P. K. Kesavan
C)P. K. Divakara Panicker
D)Sree Narayana Guru
Answer: Sree Narayana Guru
- Q. Bicameral Legislature was first provided to India by the
A)Government of India Act of 1935
B)Pitt's India Act
C)Government of India Act of 1919
D)Council Act of 1861
Answer: Government of India Act of 1919
- Q. Who wrote biography of Chaitanya?
A)Namadeva
B)Krishnadasa Kaviraja
C)Shankar Dev
D)Both A & B
Answer: Krishnadasa Kaviraja
- Q. Who composed the Allahabad Pillar inscription?
A)Mahasena
B)Harisena
C)Veerasena
D)Vishnusena
Answer: Harisena
- Q. Who founded the city of Singapore?
A)Herman Willem Daendels
B)Francis Light
C)Lee Kuan Yew
D)Stamford Raffles
Answer: Stamford Raffles
- Q. The Sage who is said to have Aryanised South India, was
A)Vashistha
B)Yagnavalkya
C)Agastya
D)Vishwamitra
Answer: Agastya
- Q. Arrange in chronological order: 1. Cabinet Mission 2. Cripps Mission 3. Montague-Chelmsford Reforms 4. Minto-Morley Reforms
A)1, 2, 3, 4
B)3, 2, 4, 1
C)4, 3, 2, 1
D)2, 3, 4, 1
Answer: 4, 3, 2, 1
- Q. Under Shivaji’s rule, the head of a unit of 25 in the Cavalry was known as
A)Havaldar
B)Jumadar
C)Faujdar
D)Hazari
Answer: Havaldar
- Q. Pablo Picasso, the famous painter was
A)Italian
B)French
C)Flemish
D)Spanish
Answer: Spanish
- Q. The Declaration of American Independence was based on the theory of
A)Moral Rights
B)Civil Rights
C)Legal Rights
D)Natural Rights
Answer: Natural Rights
- Q. The Prarthana Samaj had been established by
A)Keshub Chandra Sen
B)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
C)Swami Vivekananda
D)MN Roy
Answer: Keshub Chandra Sen
- Q. The text of the document called Mahzar, by which Akbar assumed the role of supreme arbiter in the matters of religion is found in
A)Arif Quandahari's Tarikh-I-Alfi
B)Nizamuddin's Tabaqat-I-Akbari
C)Abul Fazl's Akbarnama
D)Badauni's Muntakahab-ut-Tawarikh
Answer: Abul Fazl's Akbarnama
- Q. Who among the following built the famous Alai Darwaza?
A)Babur
B)Allaudin Khalji
C)Ibrahim Lodi
D)Shahjahan
Answer: Allaudin Khalji
- Q. The ‘political philosophy’ was the work of __________
A)Dadabai Naoroji
B)Gopala Krishna Gokhale
C)R. C. Dutt
D)Lala Lajpath Rai
Answer: Gopala Krishna Gokhale
- Q. The immediate cause for the Mutiny was
A)The Social Legislation of 1856
B)Doctrine of Lapse
C)The Episode of the Greased Cartridges
D)The fear of me Indians that they would be converted to Christianity
Answer: The Episode of the Greased Cartridges
- Q. Which of the following is an intensely emotional form of Hinduism that flourished from the sixteenth century, mainly in Bengal and eastern Orissa?
A)Krishna cult of Vallabhacharya
B)Gaudiya Sampradaya
C)Shiva cult of Vallabhacharya
D)None of the above
Answer: Gaudiya Sampradaya
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