More Questions on History
- Q. The organisation ‘League of Nations’ was founded after the end of
A)World War II
B)World War I
C)Crimean War
D)Vietnam War
Answer: World War I
- Q. A great astronomer and mathematician during the Gupta period was
A)Vagabhatta
B)Bhanugupta
C)Aryabhatta
D)Varahamihira
Answer: Aryabhatta
- Q. Who gave the slogan DO OR DIE during the quit India movement in 1942?
A)Subhash Chandra Bose
B)Mahatma Gandhi
C)Bhagat Singh
D)Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. When were Morley-Minto reforms taken place?
A)1909
B)1905
C)1919
D)1857
Answer: 1909
- Q. Who was the successor of Charlemagne?
A)Lothair I
B)Charles the Bald
C)Louis the German
D)Louis the Pious
Answer: Louis the Pious
- Q. Which city is known as the birthplace of the Renaissance
A)Venice
B)Florence
C)Rome
D)London
Answer: Florence
- Q. Wavell Plan was announced in the year
A)1942
B)1945
C)1946
D)1940
Answer: 1945
- Q. When Mahatma Gandhi was arrested who among the following took over the leadership of Salt Satyagraha ?
A)Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
B)Vinoba Bhave
C)Abbas Tayyabji
D)Maulana Abdul Kalarn Azad
Answer: Abbas Tayyabji
- Q. Akbar’s concept of Sulh-i-kul (or Qul) means
A)common brotherhood
B)friendship and goodwill to all
C)fraternity and friendship
D)harmony and peace to all
Answer: harmony and peace to all
- Q. Who murdered Julius Caesar?
A)Marcus Brutus
B)Augustus
C)Mark Antony
D)Pompey
Answer: Marcus Brutus
- Q. The Vedic economy was based on
A)crafts and industries
B)trade and commerce
C)agriculture and cattle rearing
D)all the above
Answer: agriculture and cattle rearing
- Q. The town planning in the Harappan Civilisation was inspired by a regard for
A)uniformity
B)beauty and utility
C)sanitation and public health
D)demographic factor
Answer: sanitation and public health
- Q. In early 1898 Swami Vivekananda acquired a big plot of land on the western bank of the Ganga at a place called . . . . . to have a permanent abode for the monastery and monastic order originally started at Baranagar, and got it registered as Ramakrishna Math after a couple of years
A)Lahore
B)Allahabad
C)Amritsar
D)Belur
Answer: Belur
- Q. Concerning the caste system, __________said the following to Narayana Guru: “The casteHindus and the low caste-Hindus are both the sons of Hinduism. The caste-Hindu is the elder brother who shoulders responsibility, and he therefore exercises certain privileges. The low casteHindu is his younger brother who is to be cared for. If the elder brother turns out to be somewhat rough and aggressive that should not make the younger brother a runaway from his mother Hinduism.”
A)Dadabhai Naoroji
B)Chattambi Swamikal
C)Tilak
D)Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. Which sage or scholar had recast the original single Veda into four distinct Vedas?
A)Kapila
B)Patanjali
C)Vyasa
D)Shankaracharya
Answer: Vyasa
- Q. Who was the Chairman of the Union Powers Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India?
A)Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
B)Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
C)Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar
D)Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
- Q. Dholavira is situated at the bank of River
A)Ravi
B)Indus
C)Luni
D)Ghaggar
Answer: Luni
- Q. Who was the master of imperial mint at Delhi during the reign of Akbar?
A)Mansur
B)Khwaza Abdus Samad
C)Mir Sayyid Ali
D)Jehangir
Answer: Khwaza Abdus Samad
- Q. The Treaty between Ranjit Singh and the British was signed at
A)Amritsar
B)Allahabad
C)Kashmir
D)Agra
Answer: Amritsar
- Q. When was ‘Hammer of the Witches’ published?
A)1471
B)1414
C)1484
D)1487
Answer: 1487
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