More Questions on History

  • Q. Which was the backbone of Indus Economy?
    A)Trade
    B)Agriculture
    C)Wheel Made
    D)Carpentry
    Answer: Agriculture
  • Q. When did John Cabot visit Cape Breton Island?
    A)1500
    B)1497
    C)1524
    D)1350
    Answer: 1497
  • Q. Which of the following languages was in vogue during Mughal period in the courts of India?
    A)Persian
    B)French
    C)Portugese
    D)Arabic
    Answer: Persian
  • Q. The East India Company was founded in India during the reign of
    A)Jahangir
    B)Shah Jahan
    C)Akbar
    D)Aurangzeb
    Answer: Akbar
  • Q. First Anglo Sikh War fought between __________
    A)The English & Portuguese
    B)The English & French
    C)The English & king Dalip Singh
    D)None of the above
    Answer: The English & king Dalip Singh
  • Q. Who defined the “Long Nineteenth Century”?
    A)Ernest Gallner
    B)Benedict Anderson
    C)Eric Hobsbawm
    D)Karl Marx
    Answer: Eric Hobsbawm
  • Q. Select correct pair of book and author
    A)Brihat Samhita: Ravi Kriti
    B)Mudrarakshasa: Somdeva
    C)Kathasaritsagar: Visakdatta
    D)Panchsidhantika : Varharmihara
    Answer: Panchsidhantika : Varharmihara
  • Q. Neel Darpan’ a play depicting the revolt against the Indigo planters was written by
    A)Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
    B)Dinbandhu Mitra
    C)Rabindranath Tagore
    D)Naveen Chandra Sen
    Answer: Dinbandhu Mitra
  • Q. Which of the following revolts during Aurangzeb’s period had a peasant agrarian background?
    A)Jats and Satnamis
    B)Rajputs
    C)Marathas
    D)Sikhs
    Answer: Jats and Satnamis
  • Q. Which Mountain’s volcano buried Pompeii city with ash in 79 AD
    A)Mount Tambora
    B)Mount Pelee
    C)Mount Etna
    D)Mount Vesuvius
    Answer: Mount Vesuvius
  • Q. The strategy of ‘divide and rule’ had been actually practised by
    A)Lord Wellesley
    B)Lord Curzon
    C)Lord Minto
    D)Lord Dufferin
    Answer: Lord Minto
  • Q. The Greatest Kushan leader who got converted to Buddhism was
    A)Virna
    B)Kujala
    C)Kanishka
    D)Kadphises
    Answer: Kanishka
  • Q. What is the correct meaning of Khanqah?
    A)A form of veena
    B)A form of music
    C)The place where Sufi Mystics lived
    D)None of the above
    Answer: The place where Sufi Mystics lived
  • Q. Which of these battles proved decisive in the Anglo French rivalry in India?
    A)Battle of Plassey
    B)Battle of Wandiwash
    C)Battle of Mysore
    D)Battle of Seringapatnam
    Answer: Battle of Wandiwash
  • Q. By the Act of 1773, Parliament granted a loan of __________ to the East India Company
    A)Rs. 400,000
    B)Rs. 480,000
    C)Rs. 500,000
    D)Rs. 300,000
    Answer: Rs. 400,000
  • Q. The official court language of the Guptas was
    A)Prakrit
    B)Pali
    C)Hindi
    D)Sanskrit
    Answer: Sanskrit
  • Q. Who among the following rulers was first to embrace Buddhism?
    A)Ajatasatru
    B)Ashoka
    C)Bindusara
    D)Bimbisara
    Answer: Ashoka
  • Q. Who established the Hindu Dharma Sangrakshini Sabha in the year 1893 by :
    A)Raja Ram Mohan Rai
    B)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    C)Dyanand Sarshawati
    D)Damodar and Balkrishana Chapekar
    Answer: Damodar and Balkrishana Chapekar
  • Q. Which of the following statement is wrong?
    A)Ashoka the great Mauryan king died in 332 BC
    B)Sunga dynasty was founded by pushyamitra
    C)Ashoka invaded the Kalinga in 261 BC
    D)Chandragupta Maurya earned the title of the Liberator
    Answer: Ashoka the great Mauryan king died in 332 BC
  • Q. Which foreigner arrived in India on Nov. 16, 1893?
    A)W A Hume
    B)Khan Abdul Gaffar
    C)Annie Besant
    D)None of these
    Answer: Annie Besant

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