More Questions on History
- Q. The immortal national Song ‘Vande Mataram’ has been written by
A)Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya
B)Rabindranath Tagore
C)Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
D)Surendranath Bandopadhyaya
Answer: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
- Q. Zend-Avesta is the sacred book of the
A)Jains
B)Parsis
C)Jews
D)Buddhists
Answer: Parsis
- Q. The Bardoli Satyagraha was led by
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Rajendra Prasad
C)Vallabhbhai Patel
D)Morarji Desai
Answer: Vallabhbhai Patel
- Q. Ayurveda’ has its origin in
A)Sama Veda
B)Rig Veda
C)Yajur Veda
D)Atharva Veda
Answer: Atharva Veda
- Q. Who has called the Prime Minister Primus inter pares (first among equlas)?
A)Harcourt
B)Morely
C)Laski
D)Lowell
Answer: Morely
- Q. What was the another name of ‘Quit India movement’?
A)Swadeshi Movement
B)Khilafat Movement
C)Home Rule Movement
D)August Kranti
Answer: August Kranti
- Q. To which professions earlier leaders who struggled for freedom of India mainly belonged?
A)Teachers
B)Lawyers
C)Journalists
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. The first Mughal Garden in India had been laid out by
A)Shah Jahan
B)Babur
C)Akbar
D)Jahangir
Answer: Babur
- Q. Leonardo da Vinci was born in the city of
A)Milan
B)Rome
C)Florence
D)Madrid
Answer: Florence
- 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. Who said that ‘the real seat of taste is not the tongue but the mind.’?
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Aurobindo Ghosh
C)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D)Swami Vivekananda
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. Which one of the following is not included in the ‘Eight Fold Path’ of Buddhism?
A)Right Effort
B)Right Speech
C)Right Desire
D)Right Conduct
Answer: Right Desire
- Q. Which noted scholar wrote Vikramankadevacharita?
A)Bilhana
B)Kalhan
C)Kalidas
D)Jaydeva
Answer: Bilhana
- Q. Arrange the following events in a correct sequence of Indian National Movement I. Foundation of Indian National Congress II. Simon Commission III. Home Rule Movement IV. Cabinet Mission
A)III, I, IV, II
B)I, III, II, IV
C)I, II, IV, III
D)I, IV, III, II
Answer: I, III, II, IV
- Q. Name the oldest civilization
A)Mesopotamian civlization
B)Indus Valley civilization
C)Egyptian civilization
D)Chandragupta Vikramaditya
Answer: Mesopotamian civlization
- Q. Which of the following objects was not worshipped by the Indus valley people
A)Pashupati Shiva
B)Mother Goddess
C)Trees such as Peepal and Acacia
D)Trimurti
Answer: Trimurti
- Q. Who was the prominent leader in Lucknow during the Revolt of 1857?
A)Rani Laxmi Bai
B)Begum Hazrat Mahal
C)Kuar Singh
D)Bahadur Shah Zafar
Answer: Begum Hazrat Mahal
- Q. Who said that “India’s Soul live in villages”?
A)Jayaprakash Narayan
B)Vinoba Bhave
C)Jawahar Lal Nehru
D)Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. Prithivyah Pratham Veer was the title of?
A)Rajendra I
B)Samudragupta
C)Amoghavarsha
D)Gautamiputra Shatkarni
Answer: Samudragupta
- Q. The Red fort in Delhi was the residence of emperors of which dynasty in the 16th century?
A)Khalji
B)Rajput
C)Tughlaq
D)Mughal
Answer: Mughal
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