More Questions on History
- Q. Where did the practice of Shadow Cabinet originate?
A)Great Britain
B)United States of America
C)Italy
D)France
Answer: Great Britain
- Q. The court language of the Delhi Sultanate was
A)Persian
B)Urdu
C)Hindi
D)Arabic
Answer: Persian
- Q. When was Hong Kong leased to Britain for 99 years by China
A)1900
B)1898
C)1901
D)1903
Answer: 1898
- Q. The Sayyid dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate is called so because__________?
A)Its founder and his successors belonged to the Sayyid tribe of eastern Turkistan
B)Its founder and his successors adopted the title Sayyid
C)Its founder and his successors were descendant of the prophet Muhammad
D)Its founder was a scholar of Islamic theology
Answer: Its founder and his successors were descendant of the prophet Muhammad
- Q. Who was the only Indian to be elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly?
A)V. K. Krishna Menon
B)Vijayalakshmi Pandit
C)Jawaharlal Nehru
D)Rajeswar Dayal
Answer: Vijayalakshmi Pandit
- Q. Tansen, a great musician of his time, was in the Court of
A)Akbar
B)Jahangir
C)Shahjahan
D)Bahadur Shah
Answer: Akbar
- Q. Baba Ram Singh passed away on November 29, __________
A)1887
B)1885
C)1889
D)1923
Answer: 1885
- Q. Which among the following place, was not an important centre of the Revolt of 1857 ?
A)Kanpur
B)Agra
C)Jhansi
D)Lucknow
Answer: Agra
- Q. Which is representative of Dravida style of temple architecture?
A)Shikhara
B)Viman
C)Mandapa
D)Gopuram
Answer: Viman
- Q. On April 12, 1944 Subhash Chandra Bose hoisted the INA Flag in a town. In which State/Union Territory is that town now?
A)Culcutta
B)Tripura
C)Manipur
D)Mizoram
Answer: Manipur
- Q. The Government of India Act of 1919 made provision for the appointment of a/an __________ for India in the United Kingdom
A)Council
B)Ambassador
C)High Commissioner
D)Indian Member in the parliament of England
Answer: Council
- Q. Industrial Revolution was started from which country
A)Germany
B)Franch
C)Italy
D)England
Answer: England
- Q. Tuluva Narasa who ruled the Vijaynagara Empire for the period 1491-1503 belonged to which dynasty?
A)Saluva Dynasty
B)Sangama Dynasty
C)Tuluva Dynasty
D)Aravidu Dynasty
Answer: Tuluva Dynasty
- Q. Which of the following are two works of Kalidasa?
A)Kumara Sambhav and Raghuvamsha
B)Raghuvamsha and Kiratarjuniya
C)Malti Madhava and Kumara Sambhava
D)Malti Madhav and Kumara Sambhava
Answer: Kumara Sambhav and Raghuvamsha
- Q. Guru Arjan Dev transferred the headquarters to
A)Amritsar
B)Agra
C)Karachi
D)Allahabad
Answer: Amritsar
- Q. Which of the following is not correct about Montegu- Chelmsford’s Reform & Government of India Act, 1919?
A)In this Act the central legislative council was replaced by two houses-the imperial legislative assembly and the council of state
B)It changed the administrative system in India
C)Education and public health were placed under charge of ministers responsible to the legislature
D)All of the above are incorrect
Answer: All of the above are incorrect
- Q. When was Jin Dynasty established?
A)280
B)238
C)285
D)313
Answer: 280
- Q. __________’s Darsana Mala is written in Sanskrit
A)Chattambi Swamikal
B)Sree Narayana Guru
C)C. Kesavan
D)Dr. Palpu
Answer: Sree Narayana Guru
- Q. Who wrote Mrichhakatikam?
A)Vishnu Sharma
B)Vishakhadatta
C)Kalidasa
D)Shudrak
Answer: Shudrak
- Q. The correct chronological order of the four Buddhist councils held Is
A)Vaishali, Rajagriha, Kashmir or Jullandhar, Pataliputra
B)Rajagriha, Kashmir or Jullandhar, Pataliputra, Vaishali
C)Rajagriha, Vaishali, Pataliputra, Kashmir or Jullandhar
D)Pataliputra, Rajagriha, Kashmir or Jullandhar, Vaishali
Answer: Rajagriha, Vaishali, Pataliputra, Kashmir or Jullandhar
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