More Questions on History
- Q. During the reign of which dynasty was the Great Wall of China constructed?
A)Tang
B)Sung
C)Han
D)Chin
Answer: Chin
- Q. Who was elected as First Consul of the Consulate of France?
A)Napoleon Bonaparte
B)Adolf Hitler
C)Napoleon III
D)Maximiliean Robespierre
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
- Q. The Greeks were driven out of India by
A)Chandragupta Vikramaditya
B)Chandragupta Maurya
C)Ashoka
D)Bindusara
Answer: Chandragupta Maurya
- Q. An English weekly called ‘New India’ was started by;
A)Devendra Nath Tagore
B)K M Pannikar
C)Annie Besant
D)Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: Annie Besant
- Q. Who wrote Panchatantra?
A)Vishnu Sharma
B)Kalidas
C)Chanakya
D)Nagarjun
Answer: Vishnu Sharma
- Q. With which conspriracy case Aurobindo Ghosh’s name is conected?
A)Lahore Conspiracy Case
B)Kakori Conspiracy Case
C)Meerut Conspiracy Case
D)Alipore Conspiracy Case
Answer: Alipore Conspiracy Case
- Q. Which of the following Tamil literature was written by Ilango Adigal, brother of Senguvattan, a Chera King and who was a Jain monk is a highly regarded epic?
A)Elathi
B)Kainnilai
C)Silappatikaram
D)None of the above
Answer: Silappatikaram
- Q. The Presidents of early English Settlements (Madras, Bombay and Calcutta) were responsible to __________
A)The House of Lords
B)The House of Common
C)The Home Government of the Company
D)The Council of Senior Merchants
Answer: The Home Government of the Company
- Q. The Gandhi-lrwin Pact (1931) was vehemently criticised and opposed by the people on the ground that
A)the sufferings of thousands of people in the Civil Disobedience Movement were wasted
B)the Civil Disobedience Movement was suspended
C)It was contrary to the pledge of the Congress for Poorna Swaraj
D)Gandhi did nothing to save the lives of Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru who had been awarded the death sentence
Answer: Gandhi did nothing to save the lives of Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru who had been awarded the death sentence
- Q. The Ibadat Khana was a meeting house built by which Mughal Emperor?
A)Humayun
B)Babur
C)Akbar
D)Aurangzeb
Answer: Akbar
- Q. The immediate forerunner of the Indian National congress was
A)Indian National Conference
B)Indian Association of Calcutta
C)British India association
D)Indian Union
Answer: Indian National Conference
- Q. The Hindustan Republican Association, subsequently styled as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) was founded in 1924 by
A)Chandra Shekhar Azad
B)Bhagat Singh
C)Jogesh Chandra Chatterji
D)Sachindra Sanyal
Answer: Sachindra Sanyal
- Q. The Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire started in the year
A)1821
B)1805
C)1852
D)1895
Answer: 1821
- Q. Who was the architect of North and South Blocks of the central Secretariat in Delhi?
A)Herbert Bakers
B)Sir Edward Lutyens
C)Robert Tor Tussell
D)Antonin Raymond
Answer: Sir Edward Lutyens
- Q. Select the correct statement (s) with reference to the Bhakti Movement
A)Compilation of Alvar Saints poetry / literature Tirumurai is called "Tamil Veda"
B)Collection of Alvar Saints hymns is known as Divya Prabandha
C)Both A & B
D)None of the above
Answer: Collection of Alvar Saints hymns is known as Divya Prabandha
- Q. Who constructed Humayun’s tomb in Delhi?
A)Akbar
B)Babur
C)Haji Begum
D)Humayun
Answer: Haji Begum
- Q. A collective term used by the Jains for their sacred books is
A)Angas
B)Prabandhas
C)Nibandhas
D)Chartis
Answer: Angas
- Q. The Monk whom Chandragupta Maurya accompanied to South India was __________
A)Vasumitra
B)Asvaghosa
C)Upagupta
D)Bhadrabahu
Answer: Bhadrabahu
- Q. The First Opium War was fought between British and __________
A)Indian
B)Chinese
C)Japanese
D)Thai
Answer: Chinese
- Q. The first Indian to enter the Indian Civil Service was
A)Satyendra Nath Tagore
B)Gokhale
C)Ramanuja
D)Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: Satyendra Nath Tagore
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