More Questions on History

  • Q. What was the significance of the Battle of Tours in 732?
    A)Charles Martel became King of France
    B)Charlemagne converted many Muslims to Christianity
    C)It stopped the Muslim advance into Europe
    D)Muslims gained control of Spain
    Answer: It stopped the Muslim advance into Europe
  • Q. Which Nazi Field Marshal is known as the ‘Desert Fox’
    A)Erwin Rommel
    B)Viktor Brack
    C)Hans Frank
    D)Hermann Goring
    Answer: Erwin Rommel
  • Q. Which emperor shifted his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad?
    A)Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
    B)Aurangzeb
    C)Sher Shah Suri
    D)Genghis Khan
    Answer: Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
  • Q. Jyotiba Phule, popularly known as Baba Phule, was a social reformer in Maharashtra. Which of the following is not true about him
    A)Phule through his book Ghulamagiri (1872) and his organization Satyashodhak Mandal, proclaimed the need to save the lower castes from the hypocritical Brahmans and their scriptures
    B)He was the first to raise his voice against Brahmans in Maharashtra in the 1870s
    C)His Satyashodhak Mandal contained both an elite based conservative trend and a genuine mass-based radicalism
    D)The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers
    Answer: The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers
  • Q. Shivaji’s administration owed its origin to the principles laid down by
    A)Sher Shah
    B)Kautilya
    C)Akbar
    D)Adi Granth
    Answer: Kautilya
  • Q. Muhammad Ghori laid the foundation of the Turkish Empire in India by defeating
    A)Jayachanda in the Battle of Chandawar
    B)Prithviraj Chauhan in Second Battle of Tarain
    C)The Chandelas
    D)Both (A) and (B) above
    Answer: Both (A) and (B) above
  • Q. When did Warring States period began in China?
    A)475 BC
    B)479 BC
    C)469 BC
    D)465 BC
    Answer: 475 BC
  • Q. Which of the following British official intiated the Doctrine of Lapse?
    A)Lord Auckland
    B)Lord Wellesley
    C)Lord Dalhousie
    D)Warren Hastings
    Answer: Lord Dalhousie
  • Q. In 1893 __________ landed in India, made a tour of the country in the company of H. S. Olcott, and by her splendid presentation of Indian philosophy and her undisguised personal preference for the Indian spiritual heritage, won the support of orthodox Brahmins to Theosophy
    A)Upendranath Basu
    B)Annie Besant
    C)I. N. Gurtu
    D)George Thompson
    Answer: Annie Besant
  • Q. Shuja-ud-Daulah wanted to acquire the territory of
    A)Marathas
    B)Rohelas
    C)Sikhs
    D)Tamils
    Answer: Rohelas
  • Q. Assertion (A): British excluded the Indian middle and upper classes from the high administrative and military posts. Reason (R): Many of the traditional zamindars lost their zamindaris to the new class of urban-based absentee landlords
    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: A is false but R is true
  • Q. The Buland Darwaza was built to mark Akbar’s conquest of
    A)Malwa
    B)Awadh
    C)Gujarat
    D)Chittor
    Answer: Gujarat
  • Q. Consider the following statement (s) is/are correct related to the literature in Ancient India? I. The earliest known work of the Aryans in India was the Rig Veda which is a collection of 1048 hymns in Vedic Sanskrit. II. Most of the hymns are in praise of different Vedic deities and were intended for recitation at the Yajnas or sacrifices
    A)Only II
    B)Only I
    C)Both I and II
    D)Neither I nor II
    Answer: Only II
  • Q. Satavahana dynasty originated from?
    A)South of Vindhya
    B)South of Arawali
    C)South of Satpura
    D)South of Satmola
    Answer: South of Vindhya
  • Q. The term ‘Khalisa’ in the Sultanate and Mughal periods was used for
    A)Lands owned by the Sufi establishment
    B)Crown lands
    C)Lands revenue which was directly deposited in the imperial treasury
    D)Land revenue which was assigned to the nobles for maintaining troops
    Answer: Land revenue which was assigned to the nobles for maintaining troops
  • Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct about Alvars and Nayanars? I. Some of the earliest bhakti movements (c. sixth century) were led by the Alvars (literally, those who are “immersed” in devotion to Vishnu) and Nayanars (literally, leaders who were devotees of Shiva). II. They travelled from place to place singing hymns in Tamil in praise of their gods. III. During their travels the Alvars and Nayanars identified certain shrines as abodes of their chosen deities
    A)I and II
    B)Only I
    C)I and III
    D)All of the above
    Answer: All of the above
  • Q. Which of the following was not included in Pakistan by the Independence Act?
    A)The West Punjab
    B)East Bengal
    C)Sind
    D)West Bengal
    Answer: West Bengal
  • Q. The only Hindu Courtier of Akbar who accepted Din-i-Ilahi was
    A)Birbal
    B)Todermal
    C)Tansen
    D)Man Singh
    Answer: Birbal
  • Q. Who defeated whom in the second Battle of Tarain (AD 1192)?
    A)Mahmud Ghazni defeated Prithviraj
    B)Prithviraj defeated Muhammad Ghori
    C)Prithviraj defeated Mahmud Ghazni
    D)Muhammad Ghori defeated Prithviraj
    Answer: Muhammad Ghori defeated Prithviraj
  • Q. Mrs Annie Besant became the first woman President of the INC in
    A)1917
    B)1916
    C)1918
    D)1920
    Answer: 1917

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