More Questions on History

  • Q. Group of Monuments at Hampi was built by?
    A)Udayin and Shishunaga
    B)Harihara and Bukka
    C)Devavarman and Vainya
    D)Mahendraverman and Sirmara
    Answer: Harihara and Bukka
  • Q. The song ‘Jana-Gana-Mana’ composed by Rabindra Nath Tagore was first published in January 1912 under the title of
    A)Rashtra Jagriti
    B)Jay He
    C)Bharat Vidhata
    D)Matribhoomi
    Answer: Bharat Vidhata
  • Q. Which one of the following Vedas contains sacrificial formula?
    A)Rig Veda
    B)Sama Veda
    C)Yajur Veda
    D)Atharva Veda
    Answer: Yajur Veda
  • Q. Who was the writer of Rukmini Swayamwar Hastamalak, which was comprised 764 owees and based on a 14-shlok Sanskrit hymn with the same name by Shankaracharya?
    A)Eknath
    B)Ramananda
    C)Mirabai
    D)Tukaram
    Answer: Eknath
  • Q. Which of the following according to Mahatma Gandhi, is the strongest force in the world?
    A)Non-violence of the weak
    B)Non-violence of the brave
    C)Non-violence of the coward
    D)Non-violence of the down-trodden
    Answer: Non-violence of the brave
  • Q. Who was the 1st President of South Africa after apartheid?
    A)Nelson Mandela
    B)Zuma
    C)Kofi Annan
    D)Booker T. Washington
    Answer: Nelson Mandela
  • Q. __________ made a whirlwind tour of the country in 1916 and in his speeches he said, “Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it.”
    A)Mahatma Gandhi
    B)Tilak
    C)Gokhale
    D)Jawaharlal Nehru
    Answer: Tilak
  • Q. According to __________ the mutiny was a purely military outbreak
    A)VASmith
    B)VD Sarkar
    C)Sir John Lawrence
    D)Roberts
    Answer: Sir John Lawrence
  • Q. Economic dimensions of justice have been emphasised by
    A)Capitalists
    B)Idealists
    C)Socialists
    D)Fascists
    Answer: Socialists
  • Q. Who was the ruler of Delhi when Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the Marathas in the third Battle of Panipat in 1761?
    A)Muhammad Shah
    B)Alamgir-I
    C)Jahadar Shah
    D)Shah Alam-II
    Answer: Shah Alam-II
  • Q. The declaration that Democracy is a Government ‘of the people, by the pebple’ was made by
    A)Winston Churchill
    B)George Washington
    C)Abraham Lincoln
    D)Theodore Roosevelt
    Answer: Abraham Lincoln
  • Q. Shivaji attacked Shaista Khan in the night at
    A)Konkan
    B)Agra
    C)Bijapur
    D)Poona
    Answer: Poona
  • Q. Which of the following statement is not related to the Akbar’s reign?
    A)A syncretic religion, called "divine faith," which stressed loyalty to the emperor
    B)Religious toleration for Hindus and Sikhs
    C)A centralized administrative structure with ministers appointed to regional provinces
    D)Education and basic rights for Indian women
    Answer: Education and basic rights for Indian women
  • Q. Narayana Guru was born on August 22, 1856, in the village of __________ near Thiruvananthapuram
    A)Karunagapally
    B)Chempazhanthi
    C)Kayamkulam
    D)Kannur
    Answer: Chempazhanthi
  • Q. Which of the following writers has called Akbar’s Din-i-Ilahi as a monument of his folly, not of wisdom?
    A)Vincent Smith
    B)Badayuni
    C)Barni
    D)W.Haig
    Answer: Vincent Smith
  • Q. Prithviraja-III (1168-1192) was a best known __________ruler
    A)Gahadavala
    B)Chauhan
    C)Chalukya
    D)Brahmana
    Answer: Chauhan
  • Q. Which of the following Government of India Act/Indian Council Act brought three separate presidencies (Madras, Bombay and Bengal) into a common system?
    A)Government of India Act, 1935
    B)Indian Council Act of 1861
    C)Government of India Act, 1919
    D)Indian Council Act of 1909
    Answer: Indian Council Act of 1861
  • Q. Of the five vows (Panch Anuvratas) of Jainism, four existed before Mahavira. The one which he added was
    A)not to steal
    B)not to kill (non-injury)
    C)non-attachment to worldly things
    D)celibacy
    Answer: celibacy
  • Q. The Simla Conference called by Viceroy Lord Wavell (to discuss the so-called Wavell Plan) in June 1945 failed on account of
    A)the demand of the Congress to include the members of all communities in their quota to the Executive Council
    B)Jinnah's demand that the Muslim League alone would nominate Muslim members to the Executive Council
    C)the demand of the Scheduled Castes to reserved seats in the Executive Council in Proportion to their population
    D)All the above
    Answer: All the above
  • Q. Which of the following are the basis tenants of Bhakti Movement?
    A)Ideas were the Bhakti movement—devotion to God with the help of a priest. Bhakti to God was accepted as damnation
    B)Ideas was the Bhakti movement—devotion to God. Bhakti to God was accepted as salvation
    C)Spiritual sessions in meeting places known as zawiyas, khanqahs, or tekke
    D)Described as the interiorization, and intensification of human faith and practice
    Answer: Ideas was the Bhakti movement—devotion to God. Bhakti to God was accepted as salvation

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