More Questions on History
- Q. The famous Sikh leader Banda Bahadur was captured and executed during the reign of the Mughal emperor?
A)Bahadur Shah I
B)Aurangzeb
C)Jahandar Shah
D)Farrukhsiyar
Answer: Farrukhsiyar
- Q. One of the following Indus Valley site is in Pakistan
A)Kalibangan
B)Lothal
C)Alamgirpur
D)Harappa
Answer: Harappa
- Q. Which Bhakti saint preached the concept of Vishishtadvaita?
A)Ramanuja
B)Sankara
C)Madhava
D)Nimbarka
Answer: Ramanuja
- Q. Which of the following Kushan kings, who assumed the title “the Lord of the Whole World”?
A)Kadphises II
B)Kadphises I
C)Kanishka
D)Huvishka
Answer: Kadphises II
- Q. Who was the founder of a society known as ‘Abhinav Bharat’ ?
A)B B Upadhyay
B)J K Hikki
C)Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
D)None of the above
Answer: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
- Q. Fakir-Sannyasi Resistance against the East India Company dominated in __________
A)Kerala
B)Gujarat
C)Karnataka
D)Bengal
Answer: Bengal
- Q. Who had written the book “poverty and Un-British rule in India”
A)Dadabhai Naoroji
B)R. C. Dutta
C)D. R. Gadgil
D)P. C. Mahalnobis
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Q. Who usurped power from the Mauryas after killing the last Mauryan ruler Brihadratha?
A)Agnimitra
B)Pushyamitra Sunga
C)Vasumitra
D)Jyesthamitra
Answer: Pushyamitra Sunga
- Q. Which of the following was not one of the cardinal principles of Mahatma Gandhi doctrine of Satyagraha?
A)Non-Violence
B)Truthfulness
C)Fearlessness
D)Abstinence
Answer: Abstinence
- Q. By whom among the following was the Paramdham Ashram established?
A)Swami Vivekananda
B)Acharya Kripalani
C)Acharya Vinoba Bhave
D)Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Answer: Acharya Vinoba Bhave
- 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. Which of the following is not among the regions where the Britishers had first set up trading posts?
A)Goa
B)Bengal
C)Coromandel Coast
D)Gujarat
Answer: Goa
- Q. In which year, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was established
A)1948
B)1945
C)1949
D)1952
Answer: 1949
- Q. Who among the following attacked the Somnath temple?
A)Muhammad Ghori
B)Mahmud of Ghazni
C)Iltutmish
D)Qutb-ud-din Aibak
Answer: Mahmud of Ghazni
- Q. Assertion (A): The announcement of the Simon Commission aroused widespread Indian resentment. Reason (R): The British Government in defiance of the opinion of all parties in India had deliberately decided to appoint an all British Commission
A)Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R is true and R is the correct explanation of A
C)A is true but R is false
D)A is false but R is true
Answer: Both A and R is true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Q. The first to come and last to leave India were
A)The French
B)The Portuguese
C)The English
D)The Dutch
Answer: The Portuguese
- Q. The Upanishads are
A)Books of ancient Hindu laws
B)A source of Hindu philosophy
C)Books on social behavior of man
D)Prayers to God
Answer: A source of Hindu philosophy
- Q. The organic relationship between the ancient culture of the Indus Valley and Hinduism of today is proved by the worship of
A)Stones, trees and animals
B)Pashupati, Indra and the Mother Goddess
C)Vishnu and Lakshmi
D)Siva and Sakti
Answer: Stones, trees and animals
- Q. Who among the following propagated Dvaita or dualism of Jivatma and Pramatma in Kannada region?
A)Nimbarka
B)Mirabai
C)Vallabhacharya
D)Madhav
Answer: Madhav
- Q. Which is the ultimate goal of education in Jainism?
A)Renunciation
B)Non-violence
C)Moksha
D)Voluntary promotion of human welfare
Answer: Moksha
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