More Questions on History
- Q. In which year Genghis Khan was proclaimed as Emperor or Khagan
A)1998
B)1192
C)1200
D)1206
Answer: 1206
- Q. In which of the following places Vardhaman attained the state of enlightenment?
A)Pavapuri
B)Kundagram
C)Jrimbhik Gram
D)Kashmir
Answer: Jrimbhik Gram
- Q. When did the British East India Company establish a capital in Calcutta?
A)1818
B)1772
C)1858
D)1857
Answer: 1772
- Q. Which of the following provisions are included under female infanticide act of 1870? I. Declared female infanticide illegal equivalent to murder II. Parents to register the birth of all babies compulsorily. III. Verification of female children after some years of birth particularly in areas where the custom is still prevalent
A)All the above statement
B)Only I
C)Only II and III
D)Only I and II
Answer: All the above statement
- Q. Who has called the Prime Minister Primus inter pares (first among equlas)?
A)Harcourt
B)Morely
C)Laski
D)Lowell
Answer: Morely
- Q. Who was the Nawab of Bengal during “Battle of Plassey”?
A)Mir Qasim
B)Mir Jafar
C)Sirajudduala
D)None of these
Answer: Sirajudduala
- Q. Who is the author of Meghdoot?
A)Vishakhadatta
B)Shundraka
C)Kalidasa
D)Chanakya
Answer: Kalidasa
- Q. The culmination of the series of the uprisings was the Mappila revolt of
A)1895
B)1921
C)1821
D)1721
Answer: 1921
- Q. Presently Daulatabad where Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq had transferred the capital from Delhi is situated near
A)Nizamabad
B)Mysore
C)Aurangabad
D)Bhopal
Answer: Aurangabad
- Q. The quintessence of Gandhian thought is
A)Metaphysics
B)Satyagraha
C)Spiritualism
D)Moksha
Answer: Satyagraha
- Q. That all appointments made by the President and an treaties signed by him must be ratified by the Senate in U.S.A. indicates
A)Theory of checks and balances
B)Theory of separation of powers
C)Due process of law
D)Rule of law
Answer: Theory of checks and balances
- Q. Who founded the ‘All India Harijan Samaj’ in 1932?
A)Acharya Narendra Dev
B)B R Ambedkar
C)Mahatma Gandhi
D)Jagjivan Ram
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. Fascism believes in the application of the principle of
A)Democracy
B)Dictatorship
C)Utilitarianism
D)Totalitarianism
Answer: Totalitarianism
- Q. After the Kalinga War, Ashoka decided never to wage any war because?
A)Ashoka felt apologetic about the destruction of men and material on both sides in the war
B)After the conquest of Kalinga the political unity of Mauryan India had been achieved
C)He was moved by the violence, slaughter and sufferings to the combatants and noncombatants in the war
D)Shortly after the war he adopted Buddhism which was opposed to violence
Answer: He was moved by the violence, slaughter and sufferings to the combatants and noncombatants in the war
- Q. Who is the author of “The History of the World-Conquerer”?
A)Clifford Edmund Bosworth
B)Annemarie Schimmel
C)Gustaf John Ramstedt
D)John Andrew Boyle
Answer: John Andrew Boyle
- Q. The Mohamedan Association was founded in __________in 1856
A)Adayar
B)Calcutta
C)Madras
D)Maharashtra
Answer: Calcutta
- Q. Robert Clive, the Governor General of the __________
A)French
B)Dutch
C)British
D)Portuguese
Answer: British
- Q. Shivaji attacked Shaista Khan in the night at
A)Konkan
B)Agra
C)Bijapur
D)Poona
Answer: Poona
- Q. The Harappans were the earliest people to produce
A)Bronze implements
B)Seals
C)Cotton
D)Barely
Answer: Cotton
- Q. Consider the following statement (s) related to the administrative causes of 1857 revolt. I. Deprivation of the traditional ruling classes of their luxury due to the establishment of the company’s suzerainty over the Indian states. II. Introduction of new and revenue system which snatched the land from cultivator and gave it to the moneylender or traitor. III. Lord Canning’s announcement to that Mughals would lose the title of King and be mere Princess.
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I and II
D)Both I and III
Answer: Both I and II
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