More Questions on History

  • Q. The most learned medieval Muslim ruler who was well versed in various branches of learning including astronomy, mathematics and medicine was
    A)Iltutmish
    B)Sikandar Lodi
    C)Muhammad bin Tughlaq
    D)Alauddin Khalji
    Answer: Muhammad bin Tughlaq
  • Q. Champaran Satyagraha was related to
    A)Mill-owners
    B)Indigo
    C)Plague
    D)Fresh assessment of land
    Answer: Indigo
  • Q. Who is generally consider as the first pharaoh of Egypt
    A)Semerkhet
    B)Menes
    C)Takelot I
    D)Tutankhamun
    Answer: Menes
  • Q. Which Mughal Emperor transferred the Mughal Capital from Agra to Delhi?
    A)Aurangzeb
    B)Jahangir
    C)Shahjahan
    D)Bahadur Shah
    Answer: Shahjahan
  • Q. Who was the first to distinguish between cause and immediate origins of an event?
    A)Pericles
    B)Herodotus
    C)Plutarch
    D)Thucydides
    Answer: Thucydides
  • Q. When were concave spectacles invented?
    A)1320
    B)1286
    C)1360
    D)1000
    Answer: 1286
  • Q. By whom among the following was the Paramdham Ashram established?
    A)Swami Vivekananda
    B)Acharya Kripalani
    C)Acharya Vinoba Bhave
    D)Ramakrishna Paramhansa
    Answer: Acharya Vinoba Bhave
  • Q. The decline of the Nandas at the hands of Kautilya and Chandragupta Maurya has been vividly portrayed in the Sanskrit play written by Kalidasa
    A)Devichandragupta
    B)Mudrarakshas
    C)Malavikagnimitram
    D)Mrichhakatika
    Answer: Mudrarakshas
  • Q. To whom did Akbar gave the title Mian?
    A)Man Singh-I
    B)Raja Todar Mal
    C)Birbal
    D)Tansen
    Answer: Tansen
  • Q. The Home Rule Movement was aimed at
    A)complete autonomy to India
    B)complete independence for India
    C)self-government for India within the British Commonwealth
    D)larger participation of Indians in India's administration
    Answer: self-government for India within the British Commonwealth
  • Q. When were Morley-Minto reforms taken place?
    A)1909
    B)1905
    C)1919
    D)1857
    Answer: 1909
  • Q. Atala Masjid which was built by Sultan Ibrahim is located at?
    A)Kanpur
    B)Jaunpur
    C)Agra
    D)Mysore
    Answer: Jaunpur
  • Q. The greatest Chola king in the dynasty of the Cholas of Thanjavur was
    A)Rajaraja-I
    B)Parantaka
    C)Rajendra-I
    D)Kulottunga
    Answer: Rajaraja-I
  • Q. Titu mir’s movement considered one of the Muslim reform movement mainly aimed at eradicating which of the following systems?
    A)Against Hindu landlords and British indigo planters
    B)Polygamy
    C)Easy divorce
    D)Working against Indian national movement
    Answer: Against Hindu landlords and British indigo planters
  • Q. Name the ruler whose reign was a witness to both Vardhaman Mahavira and the Buddha preaching their respective doctrines?
    A)Bimbisara
    B)Udayin
    C)Ajatashatru
    D)Harshvardhana
    Answer: Bimbisara
  • Q. Which of the following was not to be ceded by Mir Kasim to the Company as per the treaty signed between Mir Kasim and Calcutta Council?
    A)Midnapur
    B)Burdwan
    C)Chittagong
    D)Monghyr
    Answer: Monghyr
  • Q. Purna Swaraj was declared as the goal of the Congress in the Congress session held at Lahore under the Presidentship of
    A)CR Das
    B)Jawaharlal Nehru
    C)Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
    D)Gokhale
    Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Q. Who said – “Our Life and religion are useless without the attainment of Swaraj”?
    A)Veer Kunwar
    B)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    C)Lala Lajpat Rai
    D)Bhagat Singh
    Answer: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • Q. Which Bhakti Saints venerated in Sikhism, as well as Hindu warrior-ascetic traditions such as the Dadupanthis and the Niranjani Sampraday that emerged in north India during the Islamic rule?
    A)Eknath
    B)Ramananda
    C)Mirabai
    D)Namdeva
    Answer: Namdeva
  • Q. In 1907, after the passing of Col. H. S. Olcott, __________ became the second International President of the Theosophical Society
    A)Sarojini Naidu
    B)Annie Besant
    C)Ahalya Rangnekar
    D)Bhabani Charan Mitra
    Answer: Annie Besant

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