More Questions on History
- Q. Which one of the following Indus cities has houses with doors on the main streets?
A)Surkotada
B)Lothal
C)Chanhudaro
D)Banawali
Answer: Lothal
- Q. Marxian materialism came from the idea of
A)Feuerbach
B)Hegel
C)Drwin
D)Engels
Answer: Feuerbach
- Q. When did the Germans establish colonies in New Guinea?
A)1898
B)1884
C)1899
D)1900
Answer: 1884
- Q. The Venetian traveler who travelled with his wife and reached Vijayanagar around 1420 was
A)Niccolo de Conti
B)Athanasius Nikitin
C)Ibn Batuta
D)Ferishta
Answer: Niccolo de Conti
- Q. Name the Rajput General who bravely fought the Battle of Khanwa before losing to Babur
A)Raja Jai Singh
B)Rana Man Singh
C)Rana Sanga
D)Rana Pratap
Answer: Rana Sanga
- Q. The most common animal figure found at all the Harappan sites is
A)cow
B)unihorn bull
C)bull
D)tiger
Answer: unihorn bull
- Q. Which of the following Gods lost his importance as the first deity during the later Vedic period?
A)Agni
B)Varuna
C)Vishnu
D)Rudra
Answer: Varuna
- Q. Pablo Picasso, the famous painter was
A)Italian
B)French
C)Flemish
D)Spanish
Answer: Spanish
- 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. Who is known as the founder of the Rome city in 753 BC
A)Augustus
B)Julius Caesar
C)Romulus and Remus
D)Camillus
Answer: Romulus and Remus
- 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. In which year (in A.D) did Babur invaded India?
A)1520
B)1530
C)1526
D)1550
Answer: 1526
- Q. When was Government of India Act passed?
A)1819
B)1818
C)1858
D)1800
Answer: 1858
- Q. In which year the Battle of the Hydaspes was fought between Alexander and Porus
A)310 BC
B)302 BC
C)312 BC
D)326 BC
Answer: 326 BC
- Q. Alexander was the son of Philip II of __________
A)Athens
B)Sparta
C)Macedonia
D)Carthage
Answer: Macedonia
- Q. Shivaji’s Agra Adventure was planned by
A)Shayista Khan
B)Afzal Khan
C)Jai Singh
D)Mir Jumla
Answer: Jai Singh
- Q. Who said, “this (the revolt 1857) was an eruption of social volcano, where many spent forces found vent. After the eruption, the whole social topography had changed; the scars if rebellion remained deep and shining?”
A)Ashok Mehta
B)J K Hikki
C)K M Pannikar
D)None of the above
Answer: Ashok Mehta
- Q. Sumtinath Tirthankara was born from whose womb?
A)Marudevi
B)Tara
C)Vijaya
D)Sumangla
Answer: Sumangla
- Q. Who was among the following Bhakti saints gave a new orientation of Hinduism through his doctrine of Advaita or Monism?
A)Sankara
B)Ramanuja
C)Guru Nanak
D)Chaitanya
Answer: Sankara
- Q. During the last 25 years of his reign, Aurangzeb was mainly involved in long-drawn wars against
A)Golcunda
B)Bijapur
C)Marathas
D)All the above
Answer: Marathas
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