More Questions on History
- Q. Which of the following leader was not present in the very first meeting of Indian National Congress?
A)Kashinath Trimbak Telang
B)Dadabhai Naoroji
C)Pherozeshah Mehta
D)Surendranath Banerjee
Answer: Surendranath Banerjee
- Q. What were the collective farms under Stalin’s Collectivization Programme in Russia known as
A)Ferma
B)Kolkhoz
C)Lider
D)Kollektsiya
Answer: Kolkhoz
- Q. The Apostolate of the Sikhs consisted of leaders
A)Ten
B)Eighteen
C)Only Two
D)Seven
Answer: Ten
- Q. When was Constantinople captured by Ottomans?
A)1378
B)1305
C)1453
D)1414
Answer: 1453
- Q. During Karikala’s rule the important Chola port was
A)Puhar
B)Calicut
C)Korkai
D)Thondi
Answer: Puhar
- Q. Who was the governor-general during the Second Anglo Mysore War?
A)Lord Cornwallis
B)Lord Wellesley
C)Sir John Shore
D)Warren Hastings
Answer: Warren Hastings
- Q. Who was the Governor General of India during the Civil Disobedience Movement?
A)Lord Reading
B)Lord Chelmsford
C)Lord Irwin
D)Lord Wavell
Answer: Lord Irwin
- Q. Who has completed the annexation of Ahmednagar?
A)Shahjahan
B)Jahangir
C)Akbar
D)Aurangzeb
Answer: Shahjahan
- Q. As per the Regulating Act a Supreme Court was established in
A)Bombay
B)Bengal
C)Delhi
D)Madras
Answer: Bengal
- Q. The last constitutional provision (covering undivided India) passed by the House of Commons was
A)Cabinet Mission Plan
B)Government of India Act 1935
C)Mountabatten (or June 3) Plan
D)Indian Independence Bill
Answer: Government of India Act 1935
- Q. Who advanced Russia’s boundary to the Black Sea?
A)Elizabeth of Russia
B)Catherine the Great
C)Peter the Great
D)Peter III of Russia
Answer: Catherine the Great
- Q. The reformer from Maharashtra popularly known as ‘Lokhitavadi’ (For the well of others) was
A)Gopal Hari Deshmukh
B)MG Ranade
C)Pt Ramabai
D)GK Gokhale
Answer: Gopal Hari Deshmukh
- 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. Which of the following was not one of the actual cause for the decline of the Mauryan empire?
A)Division of the empire after Ashoka
B)Ashoka's pacifist policies
C)Foreign aggressions particularly Greek
D)Economic and financial crisis
Answer: Ashoka's pacifist policies
- 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. The principles of Ashoka’s Dharma (Dhamma) were taken from
A)Jainism
B)Buddhism
C)Brahmanism
D)The moral virtues of all Indian religions of that period
Answer: The moral virtues of all Indian religions of that period
- Q. After the 1935 elections, the only two provinces out of eleven which had non-Congress ministries were
A)Assam and Kerala
B)Bengal and Punjab
C)Bengal and Assam
D)Punjab and Kerala
Answer: Bengal and Punjab
- Q. Indian Association formed in __________ was one of the pioneer political associations with an all India outlook
A)1776
B)1769
C)1874
D)1876
Answer: 1876
- Q. Which Ancient Indian literature deals with concepts about origin of universe, death and birth, material and spiritual world?
A)AtharvaVedas
B)Rig Vedas
C)Aryankas
D)Upanishad
Answer: Upanishad
- Q. Of the following, in which did Napolenic France suffer final defeat?
A)Battle of Wagram
B)Battle of Trafalgar
C)Battle of Pyramids
D)Battle of Austerlitz
Answer: Battle of Trafalgar
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