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Q. Where was Christopher Columbus from

A
Genoa
B
Venice
C
Spain
D
Portugal

Correct Answer

Genoa

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  • Q. When was the kingdom between the Rhine and Rhone rivers created?
    A)864
    B)843
    C)876
    D)877
    Answer: 843
  • Q. Whom had the rebels of 1857 enthroned as the emperor/emperess of India?
    A)Tantia Tope
    B)Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi
    C)Bahadur Shah Zafar
    D)Faqir-ud-din
    Answer: Bahadur Shah Zafar
  • Q. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar took place on :
    A)April 13, 1919
    B)March 13, 1919
    C)May 13, 1919
    D)June 13, 1919
    Answer: April 13, 1919
  • Q. The founder of Jainism was
    A)Neminath
    B)Rishbha
    C)Parsvanatha
    D)Vardhaman Mahavira
    Answer: Vardhaman Mahavira
  • Q. Who spoke “At the stroke of midnight, when the world sleeps, India awakes to life and freedom”?
    A)Mahatma Gandhi
    B)Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
    C)Jawaharlal Nehru
    D)Rajagopalachari
    Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Q. After the Bardoli Satyagraha, the title of ‘Sardar’ to Vallabhbhai Patel was given by
    A)Motilal Nehru
    B)Jawaharlal Nehru
    C)Mahatma Gandhi
    D)Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
    Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
  • Q. In which one of the following do we come across a detailed account of the municipal administration of Mauryas?
    A)The account of Megasthenes
    B)The Arthashastra of Kautilya
    C)The Mudrarakshasa
    D)Mauryan inscription
    Answer: The account of Megasthenes
  • Q. Who built Imambara and Rumi Darwaza?
    A)Asaf-ud-daula
    B)Wajid Ali Shah
    C)Shuja-ud-daula
    D)Adbdul Mansur
    Answer: Asaf-ud-daula
  • Q. Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station was designed by
    A)Santiago Calatrava
    B)Frederick William Stevens
    C)Fazlur Rahman Khan
    D)Frei Otto
    Answer: Frederick William Stevens
  • Q. An emigre (a person or thing who/which has emigrated) communist journal brought out by M N Roy was
    A)The Worker
    B)Anushilan
    C)Kisan Sabha
    D)Vanguard
    Answer: Vanguard
  • Q. Who wrote the book ‘A Gift to monotheists’?
    A)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
    B)David Hare
    C)Mahadev Govind Ranade
    D)Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
    Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy
  • 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. What is the meaning of Kaivalya Gyan (enlightenment) received by Abhinandannath Tirthankar?
    A)Sangeet Siksha
    B)Shastra Gyan
    C)Nartya Siksha
    D)Brahma Vidya
    Answer: Brahma Vidya
  • Q. When did the Third Battle of Panipat take place?
    A)1761
    B)1707
    C)1751
    D)1765
    Answer: 1761
  • Q. The Non-Cooperation Movement started in
    A)1920
    B)1870
    C)1921
    D)1942
    Answer: 1920
  • Q. The war criminals of the World War-II were put to trial in
    A)Peitersburg
    B)Nuremburg
    C)Gettysburg
    D)Peitsburg
    Answer: Nuremburg
  • Q. When were Morley-Minto reforms taken place?
    A)1909
    B)1905
    C)1919
    D)1857
    Answer: 1909
  • Q. The famous painting ‘Monalisa’ was the creation of
    A)Leonardo-da-Vinci
    B)Michael Angelo
    C)Picasso
    D)Van Gogh
    Answer: Leonardo-da-Vinci
  • Q. In July 1933 the Congress decided to launch:
    A)Satyagrah
    B)An Individual Civil Disobedience
    C)Bharat Chhoro Aandolan
    D)None of these
    Answer: An Individual Civil Disobedience
  • Q. In 1913 . . . . . founded the Advaita Ashram at Aluva.
    A)Mahatma Gandhi
    B)Narayana Guru
    C)Chattambi Swamikal
    D)K.Madhavan
    Answer: Narayana Guru

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