More Questions on History
- Q. Which war lord is also known as ‘little corporal’
A)Julius Caesar
B)Alexander
C)Napoleon Bonaparte
D)Genghis Khan
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
- Q. Though Ashoka had many sons, the inscriptions mentioned only one who is not mentioned in any other source. He is
A)Tivara
B)Kunala
C)Mahendra
D)Jalauka
Answer: Tivara
- Q. The first Indian to enter the Indian Civil Service was
A)Satyendra Nath Tagore
B)Gokhale
C)Ramanuja
D)Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: Satyendra Nath Tagore
- Q. The Indian National Congress had been formed with the knowledge and approval of Lord
A)Mountbatten
B)Dufferin
C)Ripon
D)Curzon
Answer: Dufferin
- Q. Who is known as the “Lady with the Lamp”?
A)Helen Keller
B)Joan of Arc
C)Florence Nightingale
D)Sarojini Naidu
Answer: Florence Nightingale
- Q. The Kalinga was fought in
A)301 BC
B)321 BC
C)261 BC
D)241 BC
Answer: 261 BC
- Q. Pablo Picasso, the famous painter was
A)Italian
B)French
C)Flemish
D)Spanish
Answer: Spanish
- Q. Which great war was fought between the years 1914 and 1918?
A)The First World War
B)The Battle of Tarain
C)The Battle of Plassey
D)The Second World War
Answer: The First World War
- Q. The third person who presented himself for individual Satyagrah launched by Mahatma Gandhi in October 1940 was:
A)Acharya Vinoba Bhave
B)Brahma Datt
C)Jawahar Lal Nehru
D)None of these
Answer: Brahma Datt
- Q. The earlier Buddhist sculptures had shied away from depicting the image of the Buddha, except through such symbols as
A)The Bodhi Tree
B)Footprints
C)Stupas
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. As the unrest continued unabatedly, the Madras government appointed . . . . . . the collector of Malabar as special commissioner to enquire into the causes of the uprisings and recommend remedial measures.
A)William Logan
B)Connolly
C)S. N. Banerjee
D)Gokahale
Answer: William Logan
- Q. The capital of Tipu Sultan, where he died while fighting the Fourth Anglo-Mysore war in 1799, was
A)Mysore
B)Bangalore
C)Seringapatam
D)Hellebid or Halebid
Answer: Seringapatam
- 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. Mrs Annie Besant became the first woman President of the INC in
A)1917
B)1916
C)1918
D)1920
Answer: 1917
- Q. The Harappan Civilisation declined as a result of
A)Decline in foreign trade
B)Aryan invasion
C)Ecological factors
D)Not definitely known factors
Answer: Not definitely known factors
- Q. In which year was the title of Governor general chanced to that of the Viceroy?
A)1861
B)1858
C)1878
D)1885
Answer: 1858
- Q. Who wrote the history of Aurangzeb’s reign in total secrecy because of the emperor’s opposition to it and what was the name of that historical work?
A)Mirza Muhammad Kazim's Alamgir Nama
B)Khafi Khan's Muntakhab-ul-Lubab
C)Muhammad Saqi's Masir-i-Alamgiri
D)Aquil Khan Razi's Zafar Nama-i-Alamgir
Answer: Khafi Khan's Muntakhab-ul-Lubab
- Q. Who among the following had observed, upon Gandhi’s assassination. “None will believe that a man like this body and soul ever walked on this earth”?
A)Nelson Mandela
B)Bertrand Russel
C)Albert Einstein
D)Leo Tolstoy
Answer: Albert Einstein
- Q. Queen Elizabeth I of England belongs to which dynasty
A)York
B)Stuart
C)Tudor
D)Normandy
Answer: Tudor
- Q. Which mughal emperor was a good veena player?
A)Akbar
B)Aurangazeb
C)Jahangir
D)Shahjahan
Answer: Aurangazeb
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