More Questions on History

  • Q. The famous Indo-Greek Kin, who embraced Buddhism was __________
    A)Menander
    B)Strato I
    C)Demetrios
    D)Alexander
    Answer: Menander
  • Q. The communal electorate was introduced for the first time in India in
    A)1935
    B)1919
    C)1906
    D)1909
    Answer: 1909
  • Q. Who was popularly known as Africa’s Gandhi?
    A)Firoz Gandhi
    B)Mir Karzai
    C)Nelson Mandela
    D)M.K.Gandhi
    Answer: Nelson Mandela
  • Q. The Revolt of 1857 was a prolonged period of armed uprising as well as rebellions in Northern and Central India against British. It began in Meerut by Indian troops (sepoys) in the service of the British East India Company and later spread to Delhi, Agra, Awadh, Kanpur, Chambal and Lucknow.
    A)Awadh
    B)Delhi
    C)Bombay
    D)The Chambal Region
    Answer: Bombay
  • Q. Who among the following was impeached in the UK for his actions in India?
    A)Lord Ripon
    B)Lord Wavell
    C)Lord Hastings
    D)Lord Cornwallis
    Answer: Lord Hastings
  • Q. When Narayana Guru attained the age of sixty, his birthday was observed throughout the west-coast from Mangalore to __________
    A)Sri Lanka
    B)Varkala
    C)Kottayam
    D)Calicut
    Answer: Sri Lanka
  • Q. Who had stated with regard to the formation and raison d’etre of the Indian National Congress, a safety valve for the escape of great and growing forces generated by our own action was urgently needed?
    A)M. A. Jinnah
    B)Lord Curzon
    C)Annie Beasnt
    D)A. O. Hume
    Answer: A. O. Hume
  • Q. Who among the following was born into a Rathore royal family of Kudki district of Pali, Rajasthan and was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna?
    A)Mirabai
    B)Ramananda
    C)Tukaram
    D)Kabir
    Answer: Mirabai
  • Q. The Taj Mahal is called ‘a dream in marble’. Which monument is called as ‘a dream in stone’?
    A)The Panch Mahal
    B)The Rang Mahal
    C)The Red Fort
    D)The Bahai temple
    Answer: The Panch Mahal
  • Q. The normal form of government during the Vedic period was
    A)republics
    B)democracy
    C)oligarchy
    D)monarchy
    Answer: monarchy
  • Q. Which of the following was not a common social reform attempted by all the Hindu social reformers of the 19th century
    A)monogamy
    B)emancipation of women
    C)female education
    D)untouchability
    Answer: untouchability
  • Q. With which of the following was Annie Besant Associated?
    A)Arya Samaj
    B)Ramakrishna Mission
    C)ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
    D)Theosophical Society
    Answer: Theosophical Society
  • Q. Who constructed Humayun’s tomb in Delhi?
    A)Akbar
    B)Babur
    C)Haji Begum
    D)Humayun
    Answer: Haji Begum
  • Q. I. The Vedanta, or Uttara Mimamsa, school concentrates on the philosophical teachings of the Upanishads (mystic or spiritual contemplations within the Vedas), rather than the Brahmanas (instructions for ritual and sacrifice). II. The Vedanta focus on meditation, self-discipline and spiritual connectivity, more than traditional ritualism. Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct related to the Uttara Mimamsa or Vedanta?
    A)II only
    B)I only
    C)Both I and II
    D)Neither I nor II
    Answer: Both I and II
  • 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. Noor Jahan was the wife of which Mughal emperor?
    A)Akbar
    B)Babur
    C)Shahjahan
    D)Jahangir
    Answer: Jahangir
  • Q. Select the correct order
    A)Mirabai, Kabir Nizamuddin Auliya, Tulsidas
    B)Nizamuddin Auliya, Kabir, Mirabai, Tulsidas
    C)Kabir, Nizamuddin Auliya, Tulsidas, Mirabai
    D)Tulsidas, Mirabai, Kabir, Nizamuddin Auliya
    Answer: Nizamuddin Auliya, Kabir, Mirabai, Tulsidas
  • Q. Kabir was a disciple of
    A)Ramanujana
    B)Ramananda
    C)Shakracharya
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Ramananda
  • Q. The Maratha dominion of Shivaji was known as
    A)Mulk-i-qadim
    B)Swaraj
    C)Maharajya
    D)Maratha Rastra
    Answer: Swaraj
  • 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

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