More Questions on History

  • Q. Which of the following was not one of the actual cause for the decline of the Mauryan empire?
    A)Division of the empire after Ashoka
    B)Ashoka's pacifist policies
    C)Foreign aggressions particularly Greek
    D)Economic and financial crisis
    Answer: Ashoka's pacifist policies
  • Q. Before the Regulating Act was passed in 1773, there was __________ at home to administer the East India Company
    A)A Secretary
    B)A Committee of 24
    C)A Council of Lords
    D)A Board of Revenue
    Answer: A Committee of 24
  • Q. What was the main inspiration for establishing Theosophical Society?
    A)Women's education and their upliftment
    B)Tackling zamindars issue
    C)Propagate Indian thought and culture there by revival of ancient religions of Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Buddhism
    D)Work for depressed classes
    Answer: Propagate Indian thought and culture there by revival of ancient religions of Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Buddhism
  • 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. __________ started an all-India campaign for restoring the entrance age of 21 and for simultaneous ICS examination in India
    A)S. N. Banerjee
    B)Gokahale
    C)Tilak
    D)William Logan
    Answer: S. N. Banerjee
  • Q. Who received the title of ‘shogun’ in 1603?
    A)Kuroda Yoshitaka
    B)Ishida Mitsunari
    C)Oda Nobunaga
    D)Tokugawa Leyasu
    Answer: Tokugawa Leyasu
  • Q. Napoleon-I and the Duke of Wellington fought the famous
    A)Battle of Leipzig
    B)Battle of Austerlitz
    C)Battle of Borodini
    D)Battle of Waterloo
    Answer: Battle of Waterloo
  • Q. Which one of the following indicates the correct chronological order of the Later Mughal Emperors?
    A)Farrukh Siyar, Bahadur Shah-I, Jahandar Shah, Muhammad Shah
    B)Bahadur Shah-I, Farrukh Siyar, Jahandar Shah, Muhammad Shah
    C)Bahadur Shah-l, Jahandar Shah, Farrukh Siyar, Muhammad Shah
    D)Jahandar Shah, Bahadur Shah-l, Muhammad Shah, Farrukh Siyar
    Answer: Bahadur Shah-l, Jahandar Shah, Farrukh Siyar, Muhammad Shah
  • Q. When did the Battle of Nicopolis take place?
    A)1453
    B)1396
    C)1305
    D)1378
    Answer: 1396
  • Q. Which of the following events made the English East India Company the legitimate masters of the Bengal Suba?
    A)Battle of Plassey, 1757
    B)Battle of Buxar, 1764
    C)Farrukh Siyar's Farman, 1717
    D)Ibrahim Khan's Farman, 1690
    Answer: Battle of Buxar, 1764
  • Q. The most famous woman disciple of Vivekananda was
    A)Annie Besant
    B)Madam Blavatsky
    C)Sister Nivedita
    D)Sarojini Naidu
    Answer: Sister Nivedita
  • Q. The policy of ‘imperial preferences’ adopted by Britain in its colonies in 1932 is also known as the
    A)London Agreement
    B)Hong Kong Agreement
    C)Ottawa Agreement
    D)Paris Agreement
    Answer: Ottawa Agreement
  • Q. The Turko-Afghan rule in India lasted for about
    A)three centuries
    B)two centuries
    C)four centuries
    D)a little over one century
    Answer: three centuries
  • Q. What was the strength of Indus economy?
    A)Business
    B)Agriculture
    C)Pottery
    D)Crockery
    Answer: Agriculture
  • Q. Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man’.Who said this?
    A)Sri Ramakrishna
    B)Swami Vivekananda
    C)Chandra Sekhar Deb
    D)Sri Narayana Guru
    Answer: Swami Vivekananda
  • Q. When was Bulgaria founded?
    A)864
    B)681
    C)917
    D)923
    Answer: 681
  • Q. During Kanishka’s reign, the centre of political activity shifted from Magadha to
    A)Ayodhya
    B)Delhi
    C)Kannauj
    D)Purushapura (Peshawar)
    Answer: Purushapura (Peshawar)
  • Q. Swami Vivekananda, known in his pre-monastic life as__________
    A)Vishwanath Datta
    B)Narendra Nath Datta
    C)Upendranath Datta
    D)Vasava Datta
    Answer: Narendra Nath Datta
  • Q. Abdul Hamid Lahori is the author of
    A)Padshah Nama
    B)Muntakhab-ul-Tawarikh
    C)Alamgir Nama
    D)Muntakhab-ul-Lubab
    Answer: Padshah Nama
  • Q. Who give the famous quote ‘Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth’
    A)Abraham Lincoln
    B)Winston Churchill
    C)Vladimir Lenin
    D)George Washington
    Answer: Abraham Lincoln

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