More Questions on History
- Q. Under the Mughal rule the main occupation of the people was
A)Agriculture
B)Sea faring
C)Working in mines
D)Service in the army
Answer: Agriculture
- Q. Banga Darshan – a monthly magazine – was started in 1872 from Behrampur by:
A)Umakant desai
B)Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
C)Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
D)None of these
Answer: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Q. What was the contribution of Sayyid Ahmad Khan towards education of Muslims? I. Brought translation of books to Urdu II. Founded Aligarh Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College for spreading western sciences III. Encouraged people to send their children to schools
A)Only I and II
B)Only II
C)Only I and III
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- 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. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan had started a reform movement among the Muslim, called the __________ Movement
A)Aligarh
B)Sufi
C)Jaipur
D)Wahabi
Answer: Aligarh
- Q. Muslim League was established in December
A)1905
B)1906
C)1925
D)1926
Answer: 1906
- Q. Who were the three eminent statesmen who started the Non-aligned Movement?
A)Jawaharlal Nehru, Chou Enlai, Kwame Nkrumah
B)Jawaharlal Nehru, Anwar Sadat, Soekarno
C)Jawaharlal Nehru, Fidel Castro, Marshal Tito
D)Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Marshal Tito
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Marshal Tito
- Q. Who said “Spanish ulcer was the cause of my ruin”
A)Napoleon
B)Matternich
C)Marshal Fouch
D)Chamberlain
Answer: Napoleon
- Q. Who is called the ‘Father of the Indian National Congress?
A)A. O. Hume
B)Mahatma Gandhi
C)Lokmanya Tilak
D)Surendra Nath Banerjee
Answer: A. O. Hume
- Q. The “Arya Samaj” was founded by
A)Swami Vivekananda
B)Swami Dayananda Saraswati
C)Keshav Chandra Sen
D)Ishwar Chandra VidyaSagar
Answer: Swami Dayananda Saraswati
- Q. When was Operation ‘Condor’ implemented?
A)1975
B)1970
C)1980
D)1990
Answer: 1975
- 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. Who declared as his ultimate aim the wiping of every tear from every eye?
A)Gandhiji
B)Jawaharlal Nehru
C)Bal Gangadhar
D)Sardar Patel
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
- Q. Lord Mountbatten had held detailed discussions on the approaching partition of India with
A)Jawaharlal Nehru
B)Mohammed Ali Jinnah
C)Mahatma Gandhi
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. During the first hundred years of the British rule in India, people’s resentment and opposition to the British policies mainly surfaced in the form of
A)Peasant uprisings
B)Tribal uprisings
C)Civil uprisings
D)Both A and B above
Answer: Both A and B above
- Q. In the year 1582, Akbar took the momentous step of
A)Removing Jaziya
B)Banning Sati
C)Forming an army of jackals
D)Propounding a new religion Din-i-Ilahi
Answer: Propounding a new religion Din-i-Ilahi
- Q. Which painting is made from Fresco style?
A)Piklikhal
B)Bhimbetka
C)Ajanta
D)Ellora
Answer: Ajanta
- Q. Name the Commission that came to India in 1928 to reform India’s constitutional system
A)Pitt's India Act
B)Rowaltt Act
C)Partition of Bengal
D)Simon Commission
Answer: Simon Commission
- Q. The Buddhist Doctrines were written in
A)Pali
B)Sanskrit
C)Tibetan
D)Not written in any language but orally transmitted
Answer: Pali
- Q. Sindhia’s troops were defeated by General Wellesley at
A)Assaye
B)Bessein
C)Tanjore
D)Poona
Answer: Assaye
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