More Questions on History
- Q. The Simon Commission was formed to review
A)Fitness of India for further reforms
B)Legislatures in India
C)The position of the viceroy
D)A constitution for India
Answer: Fitness of India for further reforms
- Q. The language of discourses of Gautama Buddha was
A)Magadhi
B)Bhojpuri
C)Pali
D)Sanskrit
Answer: Pali
- Q. Who among the following were contemporaries of Kanishka?
A)Nagarjuna, Ashvagosha, Vasumitra
B)Kamban, Banabhatta, Ashvagosha
C)Asvagosha, Kalidasa, Banabhatta
D)Kalidas, Kamba, Vasumitra
Answer: Nagarjuna, Ashvagosha, Vasumitra
- Q. Name the ‘Political Guru’ of Mahatma Gandhi
A)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B)Gopalkrishna Gokhle
C)Aurobindo Ghosh
D)Lala Lajpat Rai
Answer: Gopalkrishna Gokhle
- Q. Two women who, while conducting the affairs of their states faced Akbar’s wars of conquest were Rani Durgawati and Chand Bibi (or Sultana), respectively of
A)Malwa and Gujarat
B)Jaisalmer and Khandesh
C)Gondwana and Ahmadnagar
D)Ranathambhor and Khandesh
Answer: Gondwana and Ahmadnagar
- 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. Vardhamana Mahavira the 24 th Tirthankar of Jainism was born at __________ and died at __________
A)Kusinara and Pava
B)Vaishali and Rajagriha
C)Kundagrama and Pava
D)Kashi and Champa
Answer: Kundagrama and Pava
- Q. Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
A)George Washington
B)Abraham Lincoln
C)John F. Kennedy
D)William Wallace Lincoln
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
- Q. When did the British East India Company establish a capital in Calcutta?
A)1818
B)1772
C)1858
D)1857
Answer: 1772
- Q. Who was given the title of “The Ambassador of Hindu – Muslim Unity” for being the architect and mastermind of the historic Lucknow Pact?
A)Fazl-ul-Haq
B)Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
C)Sayyid Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri
D)Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Answer: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Q. Mahatma Gandhi began his political activities in India first from
A)Kheda
B)Dandi
C)Sabarmati
D)Champaran
Answer: Champaran
- Q. A hearty welcome was extended to the English captain Hawkins by the Mughal Emperor
A)Humayun
B)Babur
C)Akbar
D)Jahangir
Answer: Jahangir
- Q. Which of the following Mughal Emperors wrote their own autobigraphies?
A)Babur and Jahangir
B)Shah Alam and Farukh Siyar
C)Jahangir and Shah Jahan
D)Akbr and Aurangzeb
Answer: Babur and Jahangir
- Q. Who called Sree Narayana Guru as ‘The Second Buddha’?
A)Swami Vivekananda
B)G. Sankara Kurup
C)Bodhananda Swamikal
D)Moorkoth Kumaran
Answer: G. Sankara Kurup
- Q. Which of the following was not included in the early three English Settlements in India?
A)The Punjab
B)Madras
C)Bombay
D)Calcutta
Answer: The Punjab
- Q. Before assuming the office of the Sultan of Delhi, Balban was the Prime Minister of Sultan
A)Qutb-din-Aibak
B)Nasir-ud-din
C)Bahram Shah
D)Aram Shah
Answer: Nasir-ud-din
- Q. Under the Government of India act 1935 it was decided to establish a federation consisting of :
A)Princely states
B)Governor’s provinces
C)Governor’s provinces and princely states
D)None of these
Answer: Governor’s provinces and princely states
- Q. Who wrote famous thesis entitled ‘South India in 1857: war of Independence’:
A)K M Pannikar
B)J K Hikki
C)M G Ranade
D)V.D. Savarkar
Answer: V.D. Savarkar
- Q. Who of the following was a contemporary of Alexander the Great?
A)Chandragupta Maurya
B)Bimbisara
C)Ashoka
D)Pushyamitra Sunga
Answer: Chandragupta Maurya
- Q. Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin died in the year
A)1922
B)1924
C)1920
D)1921
Answer: 1924
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