More Questions on History

  • Q. Under the Mughals __________ was administered as a department of the household
    A)cavalry
    B)infantry
    C)artillery
    D)navy
    Answer: artillery
  • Q. Who constructed Humayun’s tomb in Delhi?
    A)Akbar
    B)Babur
    C)Haji Begum
    D)Humayun
    Answer: Haji Begum
  • Q. When did the Vietnam war occur?
    A)1948
    B)1937
    C)1950
    D)1955
    Answer: 1955
  • Q. India’s trade with the Roman Empire came to an end with the invasion of Rome by the
    A)Hungarians
    B)Arabs
    C)Hunas
    D)Turks
    Answer: Hunas
  • Q. The Renaissance movement is described as the ending of
    A)Ancient Era
    B)Pre Historic Era
    C)Medieval Era
    D)Modern Era
    Answer: Medieval Era
  • Q. Which of the following Kushan kings, who assumed the title “the Lord of the Whole World”?
    A)Kadphises II
    B)Kadphises I
    C)Kanishka
    D)Huvishka
    Answer: Kadphises II
  • Q. Which of the following European Colonisers did not have a settlement on the Eastern Coast of India ?
    A)Portuguese
    B)French
    C)Dutch
    D)Danish
    Answer: Danish
  • Q. During the reign of Kanishka, Buddhism for the first time went to China and from China it went to
    A)Thailand and Cambodia
    B)Burma and Tibet
    C)Korea and Japan
    D)Indonesia and Vietnam
    Answer: Korea and Japan
  • Q. Who played Socrates to the first generation of the English educated young men of Bengal
    A)Rai Narain Bose
    B)Swami Vivekananda
    C)Henry Vivian Derozio
    D)Drinkwater Bethun
    Answer: Henry Vivian Derozio
  • Q. Tulsidas, the author of Ramcharitmanas, was a contemporary of which of the following rulers?
    A)Humayun
    B)Akbar
    C)Shahjahan
    D)Sher Shah Suri
    Answer: Akbar
  • Q. During the Mughal rule in India tobacco was first cultivated in
    A)Gujarat
    B)Madras
    C)Delhi
    D)Calcutta
    Answer: Gujarat
  • Q. Which of the following statement is correct definition of Nirguna?
    A)It is the concept of a formless Guru
    B)It is the concept of a formless God
    C)It is the concept of spirituality
    D)None of the above
    Answer: It is the concept of a formless God
  • Q. Which of the following statement is not correct about Portuguese?
    A)They spread Catholicism in western and eastern coast of India
    B)They brought tobacco cultivation in India
    C)They established first printing press in India at Goa in AD 1556
    D)The Indian Medicinal Plants was the first scientific work which was published at Andhra Pradesh in 1563
    Answer: The Indian Medicinal Plants was the first scientific work which was published at Andhra Pradesh in 1563
  • Q. Govind Dhondu Pant, popularly known was Nanasaheb, and one of the principal leaders of the Revolt of 1857, was the adopted heir and successor of
    A)King of Jhansi
    B)Peshwa Baji Rao II
    C)Madhav Rao Sindhia
    D)Malhar Rao Holkar
    Answer: Peshwa Baji Rao II
  • Q. The Buddhist monk who spread Buddhism in Tibet was
    A)Ananda
    B)Nagarjuna
    C)Asanga
    D)Padmasambhava
    Answer: Padmasambhava
  • Q. SN Banerjee was appointed Professor in English in the Metropolitan Institute at
    A)Madras
    B)Bombay
    C)Calcutta
    D)Bangalore
    Answer: Calcutta
  • Q. When were Jewish communities expelled from England?
    A)1306
    B)1290
    C)1492
    D)1453
    Answer: 1290
  • Q. Who declared as his ultimate aim the wiping of every tear from every eye?
    A)Gandhiji
    B)Jawaharlal Nehru
    C)Bal Gangadhar
    D)Sardar Patel
    Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Q. Kalidasa’s works include: I. Abhijnanashakuntalam II. Meghadutam III. Raghuvamsa IV. Malvikagnimitram V. Ritusamhara VI. Kumarasambhava Select the correct option
    A)I, II, IV, V and VI
    B)I, II, III and IV
    C)I, III , IV and V
    D)All of them
    Answer: All of them
  • Q. Which among the following statements is/ are not correct? I. The theosophical society preached the Aryan philosophy and religion II. It laid great emphasis on the Vedas and Upanishad. III. It considered Hinduism to be the best religion and the only means to attain salvation. IV. It called for universal brotherhood. V. The Upanishads revealed the essence of life
    A)II, II and V
    B)I, III and V
    C)Only III
    D)I and III
    Answer: Only III

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