More Questions on History
- Q. Who said that ‘the real seat of taste is not the tongue but the mind.’?
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Aurobindo Ghosh
C)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D)Swami Vivekananda
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. The immortal national Song ‘Vande Mataram’ has been written by
A)Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya
B)Rabindranath Tagore
C)Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
D)Surendranath Bandopadhyaya
Answer: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
- Q. The original name of Swami Dayananda Saraswati was
A)Gowri Shankar
B)Abhi Shankar
C)Daya Shankar
D)Mula Shankar
Answer: Mula Shankar
- Q. When Babur invaded India in 1525, Humayun was the Governor of
A)Fargana
B)Kabul
C)Badakhshan
D)Herat
Answer: Badakhshan
- 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 one of the following is not included in the ‘Eight Fold Path’ of Buddhism?
A)Right Effort
B)Right Speech
C)Right Desire
D)Right Conduct
Answer: Right Desire
- 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 Bhakti Saint popularised Vaishnava cult in Gujarat?
A)Narasi
B)Chaitanya
C)Tulsidas
D)Sankar Dev
Answer: Narasi
- Q. What is ‘Milind panho’?
A)One of the names of Buddha
B)A Buddhist place
C)A Buddhist Specimen of Art
D)Buddhist text
Answer: Buddhist text
- Q. Different Sufi schools or orders in India were known as
A)Qalandars
B)Khangahs
C)Silsilahs
D)Darveshs
Answer: Silsilahs
- Q. Which of the following statements about Mahatma Gandhi’s views on Satyagraha is not correct?
A)It is the exercise of the purest soul force against all injustice, oppression and exploitation
B)It denotes assertion of the power of the human soul against social, political and economic dominance
C)It is the best weapon of the weak against the strong
D)Mahatma Gandhi's theory of Satayagraha was based on the acceptance of the concept of self-suffering
Answer: It is the best weapon of the weak against the strong
- Q. Who founded Anushulin Samiti in 1907 in Dhaka?
A)Kali Mohan Das
B)Shambhuchand Mukherjee
C)Barindra Ghosh and Bhupendra Nath Dutt
D)Jogesh Chandra Dutt
Answer: E
- Q. Panchasidhantika, written by Varahmihir is based on?
A)Science
B)Mathematics
C)Astrology
D)Astronomy
Answer: Astronomy
- Q. Under the Government of India act 1935 it was decided to establish a federation consisting of :
A)Princely states
B)Governor’s provinces
C)Governor’s provinces and princely states
D)None of these
Answer: Governor’s provinces and princely states
- Q. The slogan of ‘Vande Matram’ was first adopted during the __________ Movement?
A)Civil Disobedience
B)Non-cooperation
C)Swadeshi
D)Quit India
Answer: Swadeshi
- Q. Champaran Satyagraha was in __________
A)Bombay
B)Gujarat
C)Bihar
D)Madras
Answer: Bihar
- Q. In which year Napoleon I crowned himself as Emperor of France
A)1804
B)1799
C)1807
D)1812
Answer: 1804
- Q. Herodotus is considered as the father of
A)Geography
B)History
C)Political Science
D)Philosophy
Answer: History
- Q. Assertion (A): Babur won the first Battle of Panipat. Reason (R): Babur was the first to introduce the use of cannons in India.
A)Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
C)A is true but R is false
D)A is false but R is true
Answer: Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Q. Baba Ram Singh, born at Bhaini, in __________district in 1816
A)Jodhpur
B)Haryana
C)Kashmir
D)Ludhiana
Answer: Ludhiana
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