More Questions on History
- Q. For how many days did Mahatma Gandhi’s volunteers of the Salt satyagraha walk?
A)36
B)24
C)12
D)6
Answer: 24
- Q. According to the terms of the treaty of Srirangapattanam, . . . . . . was ceded to the British
A)Cochi
B)Malabar
C)Travancore
D)Mysore
Answer: Malabar
- Q. Where did Babur died?
A)Kabul
B)Agra
C)Lahore
D)Delhi
Answer: Agra
- Q. Who designated the administrative head of the district as Collector?
A)Cornwallis
B)Warren Hastings
C)MacPherson
D)Clive
Answer: MacPherson
- Q. Two major crops introduced in India during the Mughal period were
A)Potato and Mustard
B)Millet and Groundnut
C)Tobacco and Maize
D)Indigo and Maize
Answer: Tobacco and Maize
- Q. Cortez discovered Mexico in the year
A)1519
B)1506
C)1532
D)1560
Answer: 1519
- Q. The roots of the 1857 revolt lay in
A)Exploitative land revenue policy
B)Blatantly discriminatory policies
C)The policy of greased cartridges
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- 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 illustrious names of Aryabhatta and Varahamihira are associated with the age of the
A)Kushanas
B)Guptas
C)Mauryas
D)Palas
Answer: Guptas
- Q. Who united Norway, Denmark and, Sweden?
A)Eric of Pomerania
B)Albert, King of Sweden
C)Haakon VI of Norway
D)Margaret I of Denmark
Answer: Margaret I of Denmark
- Q. Who gave the title or “Mahamana” to Madan Mohan Malviya?
A)Gopal Krishna Gokhale
B)Dada Bhai Naoroji
C)Rabindra Nath Tagore
D)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer: Rabindra Nath Tagore
- Q. When did the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen?
A)1942
B)1941
C)1945
D)1940
Answer: 1945
- Q. Against Lord and State was written by
A)Sri Ramakrishna
B)K. N. Panikkar
C)Chandra Sekhar Deb
D)Shyama Charan Sen
Answer: K. N. Panikkar
- Q. In which year, New Zealand became the first country in world to grant women vote
A)1893
B)1887
C)1898
D)1905
Answer: 1893
- Q. When quit India Resolution was passed in 1942, the Viceroy of India was :
A)Lord Wavell
B)Lord Linlithgow
C)Lord Willingdon
D)Lord Mountbatten
Answer: Lord Linlithgow
- Q. The English rounded Calcutta after obtaining the zamindari of three villages, viz Sutanuti, Kalikata and Govindpur, from the Mughal Viceroy of Bengal in 1698. The nucleus of the British settlement in Calcutta was
A)Victoria Memeorial
B)San Thome
C)Fort William
D)Howrah Port
Answer: Fort William
- Q. Assertion (A): The culture of the Mughal period is generally termed as the Mughal court culture. Reason (R): The Mughal court culture was an antithesis of Indian culture
A)Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
C)A is true but R is false
D)A is false but R is true
Answer: Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Q. Babur summoned the pupils of the famous architect Sinan from
A)Kabul
B)Constantinople
C)Syria
D)Egypt
Answer: Constantinople
- Q. On account of severe British repression the Civil Disobedience movement was again suspended In July 1933 and people were asked to offer Satyagraha
A)in groups
B)individually
C)locally
D)against liquor shops
Answer: individually
- Q. The term yavanika meant
A)Dancer
B)Foreign goods
C)Curtain
D)Theatre
Answer: Curtain
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