More Questions on History

  • Q. A day of deliverance and thanks giving’ was celebrated in 1939 by
    A)Muslim League
    B)Congress Party
    C)Forward Bloc
    D)Communist Party
    Answer: Muslim League
  • 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. My strongest bulwark is gone lamented Mahatma Gandhi on the death of
    A)Motilal Nehru
    B)Gopalakrishna Gokhale
    C)Pheroze Shah Mehta
    D)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    Answer: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • Q. In 1912 Mohammad Ali started the paper
    A)The New India
    B)The Native Opinion
    C)Al-Balagh
    D)The Comrade
    Answer: The Comrade
  • Q. Alexander was trained by
    A)Aristotle
    B)Socrates
    C)Plato
    D)Homer
    Answer: Aristotle
  • Q. The Alipore conspiracy case was launched against the revolutionary activities of
    A)Abhinava Bharat
    B)Anusilan Samiti
    C)Abhinava Bharat Society
    D)Ghadar Party of India
    Answer: Anusilan Samiti
  • Q. The Sikh Guru who fought in the Mughal ranks during the reign of Aurangzeb was
    A)Har Rai
    B)Tegh Bahadur
    C)Amar Das
    D)Angad
    Answer: Tegh Bahadur
  • Q. Who was the first Indian ruler to organize Haj pilgrimage at the expense of the state?
    A)Feroz Tughlaq
    B)Alauddin Khalji
    C)Akbar
    D)Aurangzeb
    Answer: Akbar
  • Q. The Vedic deity Indra was the god of
    A)Rain and Thunder
    B)Fire
    C)Eternity
    D)Wind
    Answer: Rain and Thunder
  • Q. Subject matter which Manu Smriti deals with is related to
    A)Politics
    B)Economics
    C)Law
    D)Arts
    Answer: Law
  • Q. Who conveyed to the Indians – “I am with you wholeheartedly and in terms of culture I am one of you”?
    A)Badruddin Tyabji
    B)Annie Besant
    C)George Yule
    D)Sir William Wedderburn
    Answer: Annie Besant
  • Q. Which of the following statement is correct definition of Nirguna?
    A)It is the concept of a formless Guru
    B)It is the concept of a formless God
    C)It is the concept of spirituality
    D)None of the above
    Answer: It is the concept of a formless God
  • Q. Who said, The Congress is tottering to its fall and one of my greatest ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise?
    A)Lord Curzon
    B)Lord Dufferin
    C)Lord Lansdowne
    D)Lord Elgin
    Answer: Lord Curzon
  • Q. Who was appointed by Akbar as his Court Musician?
    A)Miyan Tansen
    B)Abul Fazal
    C)Raja Birbal
    D)Raja Todar Mal
    Answer: Miyan Tansen
  • Q. Which of the following is an intensely emotional form of Hinduism that flourished from the sixteenth century, mainly in Bengal and eastern Orissa?
    A)Krishna cult of Vallabhacharya
    B)Gaudiya Sampradaya
    C)Shiva cult of Vallabhacharya
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Gaudiya Sampradaya
  • Q. We hear of two envoys being sent to the Roman kings, one in 27-28 AD to the court of Augustus and the other in 110-20 AD to the court of
    A)Trajan
    B)Cartius
    C)Nero
    D)Brutus
    Answer: Trajan
  • Q. The Revolt of 1857 failed mainly because
    A)it was poorly organised and the rebels had no common ideal
    B)of superior resources of the British empire
    C)it had very little nationalist sentiment
    D)it was localised, restricted and scattered
    Answer: it was poorly organised and the rebels had no common ideal
  • Q. The All India Muslim league was founded by
    A)Mohammad Ali Jinnah
    B)Maulana Ahmed Ali
    C)Agha Khan
    D)Hakim Ajmal Khan
    Answer: Agha Khan
  • Q. The people of the Indus Valley Civilization usually built their houses of
    A)Stone
    B)Burnt bricks
    C)Wood
    D)All of the above
    Answer: Burnt bricks
  • Q. Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak hailed form
    A)Kashmir
    B)Bengal
    C)Maharashtra
    D)Tamil Nadu
    Answer: Maharashtra

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