More Questions on History
- Q. Who pioneered Christian cenobitic monasticism?
A)Athanasius of Alexandria
B)Anthony the Great
C)Basil of Caesarea
D)Pachomius the Great
Answer: Pachomius the Great
- Q. Poorna Swaraj’ (Complete Independence) was declared to be the goal of the Indian National Congress in its session of
A)Lahore, 1929
B)Lucknow, 1916
C)Tripuri, 1939
D)Lahore, 1940
Answer: Lahore, 1929
- Q. Who among the following had been the leader of a number of anti-British revolts in Sambalpur?
A)Surendra Sai
B)Kattabomman
C)Utirat Singh
D)Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi
Answer: Surendra Sai
- Q. The Wailing wall is situated in
A)Beijing
B)Berlin
C)Jerusalem
D)Tel Aviv
Answer: Jerusalem
- Q. When did the British East India Company establish a capital in Calcutta?
A)1818
B)1772
C)1858
D)1857
Answer: 1772
- Q. Shivaji attacked Shaista Khan in the night at
A)Konkan
B)Agra
C)Bijapur
D)Poona
Answer: Poona
- Q. Arrange the following in chronological order: I. Viceroy Lytton II. Viceroy Mayo III. Viceroy Lansdowne IV. Viceroy Linlithgow
A)II, I, III, IV
B)II, III, I, IV
C)IV, III, II, I
D)III, IV, I, II
Answer: II, I, III, IV
- Q. Tipu sultan was the ruler of
A)Madurai
B)Hyderabad
C)Mysore
D)Vijayanagar
Answer: Mysore
- Q. Which of the following incident ended the historic fast of Gandhi?
A)Issue of White Paper
B)Poona Pact
C)Gandhi-Irwin Pact
D)Arrival of Simon Commission
Answer: Poona Pact
- Q. The famous painting ‘Monalisa’ was the creation of
A)Leonardo-da-Vinci
B)Michael Angelo
C)Picasso
D)Van Gogh
Answer: Leonardo-da-Vinci
- Q. Sumtinath Tirthankara was born from whose womb?
A)Marudevi
B)Tara
C)Vijaya
D)Sumangla
Answer: Sumangla
- Q. The Mongols under__________ invaded Transoxiana in north-east Iran in 1219
A)Nadir Shah
B)Timur Lang
C)Ahmed Shah Abdali
D)Genghis Khan
Answer: Genghis Khan
- Q. Which of the following influenced the makers of Indian Constitution?
A)The Constitution of USSR
B)The Constitution of China
C)The Constitution of USA
D)The Constitution of Japan
Answer: The Constitution of USA
- Q. Which of the following is not correct about Arya Samaj?
A)It was founded in 1875
B)The Arya Samajists opposed child marriages and encouraged remarriage of widows
C)Its main motive was to promote faith in one God
D)None of the above is correct
Answer: The Arya Samajists opposed child marriages and encouraged remarriage of widows
- Q. Swami Vivekananda’s father, __________, was a successful attorney with interests in a wide range of subjects
A)Narendra Nath Datta
B)Vishwanath Datta
C)Sri Ramakrishna
D)Rashik Krishna Mallik
Answer: Vishwanath Datta
- Q. Who is the first European to reach New Zealand
A)James Cook
B)Abel Tasman
C)Willem Janszoon
D)Anthony van Diemen
Answer: Abel Tasman
- Q. Whom did Akbar defeat in the 2nd battle of Panipat in 1556?
A)Nadir Shah
B)Genghis Khan
C)Hemu Vikramaditya
D)Bajirao-I
Answer: Hemu Vikramaditya
- Q. Alauddin Khalji rigidly enforced ‘market control’ or economic regulations for
A)the general welfare of the people
B)building up a large and contented army with small salaries
C)both (A) and (B) above
D)curbing dishonest merchants and traders
Answer: both (A) and (B) above
- Q. “What is the Third Estate?” pamphlet associated with the French Revolution, was written by
A)Edmund Burke
B)Marquis - Lafayette
C)Joseph Foulon
D)Abbe Sieyes
Answer: Abbe Sieyes
- Q. At Jallianwala Bagh meeting __________ ordered the troops to open fire
A)Irwin
B)Benn
C)Dyer
D)Montagu
Answer: Dyer
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