More Questions on History
- Q. The East India Company was established in the year
A)1600 AD
B)1607 AD
C)1700 AD
D)1669 AD
Answer: 1600 AD
- Q. Who translated Ramayana into Persian?
A)Badauni
B)Abul Fazal
C)Abdul Latif
D)Isar Das
Answer: Badauni
- Q. The first atomic bomb was thrown over
A)Hiroshima
B)Nagasaki
C)Tokyo
D)Hong Kong
Answer: Hiroshima
- Q. The ritualistic precepts pertaining to the hymns of the Vedas are known as the
A)Aranyakas
B)Samhitas
C)Brahmanas
D)Upanishads
Answer: Brahmanas
- Q. Whose speeches at the World’s Parliament of Religions held in September 1893 made him famous as an ‘orator by divine right’ and as a ‘Messenger of Indian wisdom to the Western world’
A)Sri Ramakrishna
B)Swami Vivekananda
C)Chandra Sekhar Deb
D)Shyama Charan Sen
Answer: Swami Vivekananda
- Q. Which monarch is known as ‘the Sun King’ and also the longest of monarchs of major countries in European history
A)Henry III of England
B)Louis XIV of France
C)Louis XIII of France
D)Edward I of England
Answer: Louis XIV of France
- Q. The revolutionary who died of a 64 days hunger strike was
A)Batukeshwar Dutt
B)Sukh Dev
C)Jatin Das
D)Raj Guru
Answer: Jatin Das
- Q. Name the ruler whose reign was a witness to both Vardhaman Mahavira and the Buddha preaching their respective doctrines?
A)Bimbisara
B)Udayin
C)Ajatashatru
D)Harshvardhana
Answer: Bimbisara
- Q. Bande Matram was a series of articles published in the year 1907 by :
A)Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
B)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C)Domadar Chapekar
D)Balkrishana Chapekar
Answer: Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
- Q. A collective term used by the Jains for their sacred books is
A)Angas
B)Prabandhas
C)Nibandhas
D)Chartis
Answer: Angas
- Q. Who said that the constant ‘drain of wealth’ from India was responsible for India’s economic miseries?
A)BP Wadia
B)BC Pal
C)Dadabhai Naoroji
D)GS Arundale
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Q. John Locke profounded
A)Theory of Divine Rights
B)Social Contract Theory
C)Patriarchal Theory
D)Theory of Force
Answer: Social Contract Theory
- Q. Narayana Guru was born on August 22, 1856, in the village of __________ near Thiruvananthapuram
A)Karunagapally
B)Chempazhanthi
C)Kayamkulam
D)Kannur
Answer: Chempazhanthi
- Q. Which was the world- famous treatise of the amorous arts?
A)Vemanasatakam
B)Kamasutra
C)Both A & B
D)Neither A & B
Answer: Kamasutra
- Q. What is the full name of Aurangzeb?
A)Nuruddin Mohammed Aurangzeb
B)Muin-ud-din Mohammed Aurangzeb
C)Jalal-ud-din Mohammed Aurangzeb
D)Nasiruddin Mohammed Aurangzeb
Answer: Muin-ud-din Mohammed Aurangzeb
- Q. Aligarh Muslim University was founded by
A)Syed Ahmed Khan
B)Jinnah
C)Abul Kalam Azad
D)Bhutto
Answer: Syed Ahmed Khan
- Q. Which of the following place where the first meeting/session of the Indian National Congress was held?
A)Bombay
B)Calcutta
C)Madras
D)Allahabad
Answer: Bombay
- Q. The Opium wars were fought between
A)Britain and India
B)Britain and China
C)India and China
D)Britain and Japan
Answer: Britain and China
- Q. Partition of Bengal was revoked in 1911 during the Viceroyalty of
A)Lord Minto
B)Lord Hardinge
C)Lord Chelmsford
D)Lord Reading
Answer: Lord Hardinge
- Q. Cortez discovered Mexico in the year
A)1519
B)1506
C)1532
D)1560
Answer: 1519
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