More Questions on History
- Q. Hernan Cortez was a Conquistador from
A)Holland
B)England
C)Portugal
D)Spain
Answer: Spain
- Q. The medieval Indian literary work ‘Darbar-i- Akbari’ was written by
A)Malik Muhammad Jayasi
B)Muhammad Hussain
C)Abul Fazl
D)Amir Khusrau
Answer: Muhammad Hussain
- Q. Which of the following is not one of the reasons why Mahatma Gandhi is known as the Father of Nation?
A)Starting with opposition to the Rowlatt Acts, till the Quit India Movement he was the supreme leader and the main spirit behind the national movement
B)He was universally adored, admired and respected by all castes, communities and classes
C)His social political, economic and religious ideologies were based on Indian values with a very strong moral and ethical content
D)He was the founder President of the Indian National Congress
Answer: He was the founder President of the Indian National Congress
- Q. Who among the following visited Gandhiji in South Africa?
A)Vallabhbhai Patel
B)B. G. Tilak
C)G. K. Gokhale
D)J. L. Nehru
Answer: G. K. Gokhale
- Q. Iltutmish established a centre of learning at
A)Calcutta
B)Multan
C)Alwar
D)Delhi
Answer: Delhi
- Q. When was Xerxes I murdered?
A)460 BC
B)465 BC
C)449 BC
D)447 BC
Answer: 465 BC
- Q. The famous Vedic river which had long ago become extinct and now supposed to be flowing underground in Rajasthan is
A)Sabastu
B)Sindhu
C)Shatudri
D)Saraswati
Answer: Saraswati
- Q. Which of the following was established by B. R. Ambedkar?
A)Samaj Samata Party
B)Swaraj Party
C)All India Schedule Castes Federation
D)Congress Party
Answer: All India Schedule Castes Federation
- Q. In which session of the Indian National congress did the historic union of congress and Muslim League take place?
A)Lahore session in 1940
B)Tripuri Session in 1939
C)Meerut Session in 1946
D)Lucknow session in 1916
Answer: Lucknow session in 1916
- Q. Who was the Mughal emperor at the time of Ahmad Shah Abdali’s invasion of India?
A)Bahadur Shah-II
B)Bahadur Shah-I
C)Shah Alam-I
D)Shah Alam-II
Answer: Shah Alam-I
- Q. The people of the Indus Valley civilization worshipped __________
A)Pashupati
B)Vishnu
C)Indra
D)Brahma
Answer: Pashupati
- Q. In 1939 Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as President of the Congress Party defeating
A)Jawaharlal Nehru
B)Pattabhi Sitharamayy
C)Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
D)VB Patel
Answer: Pattabhi Sitharamayy
- Q. Narayana Guru started a Sanskrit school in __________
A)Kottayam
B)Varkala
C)Mahi
D)Calicut
Answer: Varkala
- Q. Under the Mughal rule the judicial service was formed by
A)Diwan
B)Vakil
C)Kazis
D)Mansabdars
Answer: Kazis
- Q. I. The rebels lacked effective leadership. II. They did not get the support of the civilian people anywhere in the country. III. There was no central organisation to guide them. IV. Their military equipment was inferior to that of the English. Which of these statements is/are correct related the causes for the failure of the Great Revolt of 1857?
A)I, II & III
B)I, III & IV
C)III & IV
D)II, III & IV
Answer: I, III & IV
- Q. The earliest nationalist to commit political dacoities (a feature of the later revolutionary movements) was
A)Chapekar brothers
B)Jyotiba Phule
C)Vasudev Balwant Phadke
D)Yatindra Das
Answer: Vasudev Balwant Phadke
- Q. SN Banerjee was appointed Professor in English in the Metropolitan Institute at
A)Madras
B)Bombay
C)Calcutta
D)Bangalore
Answer: Calcutta
- Q. Which of the following does not represent an important source material for the Mauryan period?
A)Foreign accounts
B)Literary works
C)Numismatic evidence
D)Epigraphic sources
Answer: Numismatic evidence
- Q. Who started the Indian Reforms Association?
A)Swami Vivekananda
B)Narayan Guru
C)Krishna swami Aiyar
D)Keshav Chandra Sen
Answer: Keshav Chandra Sen
- Q. Whose model is based on the Mandate of Heaven?
A)Li Ling
B)Ban Gu
C)Qin Shi Huang
D)Sima Qian
Answer: Sima Qian
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