History Jainism And Buddhism

Q. Where was the first Buddhist Council held?

A
Kashmir
B
Vaishali
C
Rajagriha
D
Pataliputra

Correct Answer

Rajagriha

More Questions on History

  • Q. Chandragupta Maurya was an ardent follower of __________
    A)Jainism
    B)Sikhism
    C)Buddhism
    D)Jewism
    Answer: Jainism
  • Q. Who built Red Fort?
    A)Akbar
    B)Humayun
    C)Shah Jahan
    D)Aurangzeb
    Answer: Shah Jahan
  • Q. Slash and burn agriculture is known as ‘Milpa’ in
    A)Brazil
    B)Venezuela
    C)Central Africa
    D)Mexico and Central America
    Answer: Mexico and Central America
  • Q. Lord Mountbatten had replaced Lord __________ as the viceroy of India in 1947
    A)Lytton
    B)Wavell
    C)Linlithgow
    D)Cornwallis
    Answer: Wavell
  • Q. The Apostolate of the Sikhs consisted of leaders
    A)Ten
    B)Eighteen
    C)Only Two
    D)Seven
    Answer: Ten
  • Q. The people of the Indus Valley civilization worshipped __________
    A)Pashupati
    B)Vishnu
    C)Indra
    D)Brahma
    Answer: Pashupati
  • Q. On imprisonment in 1908 by the British, Bal Gangadhar Tilak was in
    A)Rangoon
    B)Andaman and Nicobar
    C)Singapore
    D)Mandalay
    Answer: Mandalay
  • Q. The song Jana-Gana-Mana composed by Rabindranath Tagore was first published in January 1912 under the title of
    A)Morning Song of India
    B)Tatva Bodhini
    C)Bharat Vidhata
    D)Rashtra Jagrati
    Answer: Bharat Vidhata
  • Q. The Government of India Act of 1935 borrowed its preamble from
    A)The Constitution of Australia
    B)The Constitution of the USA
    C)From the Government of India Act of 1919
    D)From Pitt's India Act
    Answer: From the Government of India Act of 1919
  • Q. For the annexation of which Indian Kingdom, the “Doctrine of Lapse” was not followed?
    A)Nagpur
    B)Satara
    C)Jhansi
    D)Punjab
    Answer: Punjab
  • Q. The battle of Thermopylae was fought between
    A)Athens and Rome
    B)Sparta and Athens
    C)Greece City States and Persia
    D)Rome and Carthage
    Answer: Greece City States and Persia
  • Q. Which foreigner arrived in India on Nov. 16, 1893?
    A)W A Hume
    B)Khan Abdul Gaffar
    C)Annie Besant
    D)None of these
    Answer: Annie Besant
  • Q. Which of the following was not a common social reform attempted by all the Hindu social reformers of the 19th century
    A)monogamy
    B)emancipation of women
    C)female education
    D)untouchability
    Answer: untouchability
  • Q. The Muslim adventurer who destroyed the Nalanda University was
    A)Muhammad bin Tughlaq
    B)Allauddin Khalji
    C)Muhammad bin Bhaktiyar
    D)Muhamad bin Quasim
    Answer: Muhammad bin Bhaktiyar
  • Q. Which of the following reform movements was the first to be started in the 19th Century?
    A)Brahmo Samaj
    B)Prathana Samaj
    C)Arya Samaj
    D)Rama Krishna Mission
    Answer: Brahmo Samaj
  • Q. When the East India Company came into existence, England was ruled by the__________
    A)Stuarts
    B)Hanoverians
    C)Normans
    D)Tudors
    Answer: Stuarts
  • Q. Bagh painting of Gupta Empire was found in which of the following Indian states?
    A)Madhya Pradesh
    B)Bihar
    C)Chattisgarh
    D)Maharashtra
    Answer: Madhya Pradesh
  • Q. Who was the American leader who led a non-violent movement to obtain full civil rights for American Negroes?
    A)John F. Kennedy
    B)Abraham Lincoln
    C)Martin Luther King Junior
    D)George Washington
    Answer: Martin Luther King Junior
  • Q. The capital of British India was transferred from Calcutta to Delhi in the year
    A)1912
    B)1911
    C)1920
    D)1925
    Answer: 1911
  • Q. Gokhale was born in a Marathi Brahmin family at __________
    A)Poona
    B)Ratnagiri
    C)Allahabad
    D)Assam
    Answer: Ratnagiri

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