More Questions on History
- Q. Mahabhasya was written by
A)Manu
B)Gargi
C)Bana
D)Patanjali
Answer: Patanjali
- Q. To campaign for Home Rule, Mrs Annie Besant published the newspaper (s)
A)Young India and Home Rule News
B)New India and Commonweal
C)Mahratta and Kesari
D)Home Rule Courier
Answer: New India and Commonweal
- Q. Dadabhai Naoroji’s book ‘poverty and un British rule in India’ published in __________ analysed the nature of the British rule in India
A)1901
B)1898
C)1908
D)1946
Answer: 1901
- 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. Who defeated Humayun in the battle of Chausa?
A)Firoz Shah Suri
B)Muhammad Adil Shah
C)Sikandar Shah Suri
D)Sher Shah Suri
Answer: Sher Shah Suri
- Q. Who was the first Prime Minister of Great Britain?
A)Benjamin Disraeli
B)Oliver Cromweli
C)Robert Walpole
D)Gladstone
Answer: Robert Walpole
- Q. When was the first train steamed off in India?
A)1853
B)1848
C)1875
D)1880
Answer: 1853
- Q. Who called Muazzam as Shahi-i- Bekhabar?
A)Zulfikar khan
B)Kafi Khan
C)Kam Baksh
D)Nur Jahan
Answer: Kafi Khan
- Q. In which of the following years 26th January was celebrated as an independence day?
A)1929
B)1930
C)1942
D)1946
Answer: 1930
- Q. Which of the following leader gave the safety valve theory for Indian National Congress and said that it was brain child of Lord Dufferin?
A)M N Roy
B)Dadabhai Nairoji
C)Lala Lajpat Rai
D)Motilal Nehru
Answer: Lala Lajpat Rai
- Q. Who is the second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
A)Ogedei Khan
B)Guyuk Khan
C)Kublai Khan
D)Mongke Khan
Answer: Ogedei Khan
- Q. The Kailasha temple is located in the caves of
A)Ellora
B)Ajanta
C)Elephanta
D)Karle
Answer: Ellora
- Q. The main centre of Wahabi Movement during the freedom movement was
A)Mysore
B)Lucknow
C)Patna
D)Delhi
Answer: Patna
- Q. Who was the first historian to use tripartite periodisation?
A)Coluccio Salutati
B)Bernardo Rossellino
C)Leonardo Bruni
D)Lorenzo Valla
Answer: Leonardo Bruni
- Q. The Sufi Saint, contemporary of Prithviraj Chauhan, was
A)Sheikh Salim Chisti
B)Khwaja Muinuddin Chisti
C)Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya
D)Baba Farid
Answer: Khwaja Muinuddin Chisti
- Q. Name the poet who wrote “Prithviraj Raso”, a poem describing Prithviraj Chauhan’s life
A)Chand Bardai
B)Vir Siroja
C)Meerja Umed
D)Nur Fateh
Answer: Chand Bardai
- Q. The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on :
A)June 5, 1931
B)July 5, 1931
C)March 5, 1931
D)January 5, 1931
Answer: March 5, 1931
- Q. Swaathanthrya gadha’ – was written by the great poet __________
A)O. N. V. Kurup
B)Cherusseri
C)G. Sankara kurup
D)Kumaranaasan
Answer: Kumaranaasan
- Q. Who established East India Association in London 1866?
A)Dadabhai Naoroji
B)Subhash Chandra Bose
C)V. O. Chidambaram Pillai
D)Hemu Kalani
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Q. First Indian Commander-in-Chief was
A)Gen. K. M. Kariappa
B)Gen. K. S. Thimayya
C)S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
D)None of the above
Answer: Gen. K. M. Kariappa
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