More Questions on History

  • Q. Economy of Vedic period was based on?
    A)Agriculture
    B)Pastureland
    C)Mining
    D)Cotton Cultivation
    Answer: Agriculture
  • 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. Akbar (1556-1605 AD) was the ruler of which dynasty?
    A)Maurya
    B)Nanda
    C)Mughal
    D)Haryanka
    Answer: Mughal
  • Q. Who invented kerosene?
    A)Benjamin Silliman
    B)Abraham Pineo Gesner
    C)Edwin Drake
    D)John William Dawson
    Answer: Abraham Pineo Gesner
  • Q. Which Indian ruler fought the Kalinga War?
    A)Chandragupta
    B)Samudragupta
    C)Shivaji
    D)Ashoka
    Answer: Ashoka
  • Q. The Secretary of State for India was given powers by
    A)The Act of 1919
    B)The Act of 1909
    C)The Act of 1858
    D)The Act of 1861
    Answer: The Act of 1858
  • Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct about the early traditions of Bhakti? I. In the course of the evolution of forms of worship, in many instances, poet-saints emerged as leaders around whom there developed a community of devotees. II. Brahmanas remained important intermediaries between gods and devotees in several forms of bhakti. III. At a different level, historians of religion often classify bhakti traditions into two broad categories: saguna (with attributes) and nirguna (without attributes)
    A)I and II
    B)Only I
    C)I and III
    D)All of the above
    Answer: All of the above
  • Q. Sundar Vilas is the work of a famous Bhakti Saint
    A)Guru Nanak
    B)Ramananda
    C)Dadu
    D)Tukaram
    Answer: Dadu
  • Q. The greatest Kushana ruler whose contribution to Buddhism was even greater than that of Ashoka, was
    A)Kanishka I
    B)Kadphises
    C)Vasishka
    D)Huvishka
    Answer: Kanishka I
  • Q. Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi was called as ‘Mahatma’ by
    A)Motilal Nehru
    B)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    C)Jawaharlal Nehru
    D)Rabindra Nath Tagore
    Answer: Rabindra Nath Tagore
  • Q. The High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom must be appointed by __________
    A)The Government of India
    B)Secretary of State for India
    C)Parliament of England
    D)By Indian National Congress
    Answer: The Government of India
  • Q. How did Abu al-Abbas become well known in the court of Charlemagne?
    A)Distinguished diplomat from the Islamic world
    B)Beloved pet from an Indian king
    C)Gift from the Abbasid court
    D)Muslim enemy of the king
    Answer: Gift from the Abbasid court
  • Q. Ashoka expresses his faith in the Buddhist creed in the
    A)Schism edict
    B)Rummindei inscription
    C)Kandhar inscription
    D)Bhabru edict
    Answer: Bhabru edict
  • Q. The greatest development in the Kushana period was in the field of
    A)Art
    B)Religion
    C)Literature
    D)Architecture
    Answer: Art
  • Q. The Third battle of Panipat was fought in the year
    A)1556 A.D.
    B)1526 A.D.
    C)1761 A.D.
    D)1776 A.D.
    Answer: 1761 A.D.
  • 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. The office of the Secretary of State for India was created by the Act of
    A)1858
    B)1853
    C)1861
    D)1892
    Answer: 1858
  • Q. The Vijaynagar ruler Krishna Dev Raya’s work ‘Amuktamalayada’ was written in which language?
    A)Malayalam
    B)Tamil
    C)Kanada
    D)Telugu
    Answer: Telugu
  • Q. The Indian tricolour was unfurled for the first time by Jawaharlal Nehru
    A)On the bank of Ravi at Lahore in 1929
    B)At the ramparts of the red ford in 1947
    C)When India became a democratic republic in 1950
    D)When The Government of India Act was passed in 1935
    Answer: On the bank of Ravi at Lahore in 1929
  • Q. Akbar established Ibadat Khana at
    A)Delhi
    B)Lahore
    C)Agra
    D)Fatehpur Sikri
    Answer: Fatehpur Sikri

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