More Questions on History
- Q. The words “Satyameva Jayate” in the State Emblem of India were taken from
A)Sama Veda
B)Upanishads
C)Rig Veda
D)Ramayana
Answer: Upanishads
- Q. __________ is remembered as the ‘Grand old man of India’
A)Dadabhai Naoroji
B)Ranade
C)Pulinbehari Sarkar
D)Amaresh Chakravarty
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Q. What was the name of the mother of Abhinandananatha Tirthankar?
A)Tara
B)Vijaya
C)Siddharta Devi
D)Marudevi
Answer: Siddharta Devi
- Q. What was the charge against Bal Gangadhar Tilak, for which he was sentenced to six years transportation in July 1908?
A)for insiting violence during the Surat session of the INC
B)for being the chief exponent of the cult of extremism
C)for seditious writings in his paper Kesari
D)for being instrumental in the murder of the British Plaque commissioner in Poona.
Answer: for seditious writings in his paper Kesari
- Q. Who proclaimed the First Crusade?
A)Peter the Hermit
B)Alexios I Komnenos
C)Pope Gregory VII
D)Pope Urban II
Answer: Pope Urban II
- Q. Who said about Mahatma Gandhi that he is a “half naked Fakir”?
A)Lord Mountbatten
B)Winston Churchill
C)Lord Wavell
D)Lord Lirrlithgow
Answer: Winston Churchill
- Q. Which of the following Government of India Act/Indian Council Act brought three separate presidencies (Madras, Bombay and Bengal) into a common system?
A)Government of India Act, 1935
B)Indian Council Act of 1861
C)Government of India Act, 1919
D)Indian Council Act of 1909
Answer: Indian Council Act of 1861
- Q. The Hindu College was started in 1817 at
A)Bombay
B)Calcutta
C)Madras
D)Pondicherry
Answer: Calcutta
- Q. Who strongly opposed sectarianism and rites and insisted on adoption of Hindi in place of Sanskrit?
A)Ramanuja
B)Chaitanya
C)Sankaracharya
D)Ramananda
Answer: Ramananda
- Q. Theosophical society was started by whom and where, initially?
A)Blavatsky and Olcott in united states
B)A.O Hume in India
C)M.G Ranade in India
D)Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa
Answer: Blavatsky and Olcott in united states
- Q. Which of the following writers has called Akbar’s Din-i-Ilahi as a monument of his folly, not of wisdom?
A)Vincent Smith
B)Badayuni
C)Barni
D)W.Haig
Answer: Vincent Smith
- Q. The main contribution of Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar to education and in particular to women education are
A)Charles wood dispatch on education, influenced it towards female education
B)Break priestly monopoly of scriptural knowledge(Sanskrit) and opening to non-Brahmins
C)Lady Hardinge medical college at Delhi
D)Both A and B
Answer: Both A and B
- Q. The members of the Board of Control must be paid from
A)Indian Revenues
B)The Consolidated Fund of England
C)Funds Voted by Parliament
D)The revenues of Princely States
Answer: Indian Revenues
- Q. Three major powers that emerged in southern India in the 7th century AD were I. Cheras II. Cholas III. Chalukyas iV. Pallavas V. Pandyas
A)II, III, IV
B)I, II, V
C)III, IV, V
D)I, II, IV
Answer: I, II, V
- Q. During the reign of which ruler use of Halo or Divine Lights were started in paintings?
A)Aurangazeb
B)Iltutmish
C)Jahangir
D)Akbar
Answer: Jahangir
- Q. The Treaty of Bassein (1802) was signed between
A)The British and the Nizam
B)The British and the Peshwa
C)The British and Sikh
D)The British and Nawab of Arcot
Answer: The British and the Peshwa
- Q. Who led the revolt in 1857 in Bihar and defeated the British Army near Aara?
A)Kunwar Singh
B)Bahadur Shah Jafar
C)Tatya Tope
D)Mangal Pandey
Answer: Kunwar Singh
- Q. By the Act of 1858, India was to be governed
A)In the name of the Crown
B)By the Company
C)By a Board of Directors
D)In the name of Governor-General of India
Answer: In the name of the Crown
- Q. The upliftment of the backward classes had been the prime concern of the
A)Prarthana Samaj
B)Arya Samaj
C)Satyashodhak Samaj
D)Ramakrishna Mission
Answer: Satyashodhak Samaj
- Q. Who contemptuously referred to Mahatma Gandhi as a halfnaked fakir?
A)Lord Irwin
B)Lord Wavell
C)Lord Willingdon
D)Winston Churchill
Answer: Winston Churchill
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