More Questions on History
- Q. That the Rig Vedic Aryana were a pastoral people is borne out by the fact that
A)Most of the wars were fought for the sake of cows
B)there are many references to the cow in the Rig Veda
C)Gifts made to priests were usually cows and not land
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- 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. The language which contributed to the spread of Buddhism was
A)Pali
B)Sanskrit
C)Tamil
D)Greek
Answer: Pali
- Q. The war criminals of the World War-II were put to trial in
A)Peitersburg
B)Nuremburg
C)Gettysburg
D)Peitsburg
Answer: Nuremburg
- Q. Which was the main cause for starting of the Quit India Movement in 1942 ?
A)Report of Simon Commission
B)Severe unrest among the people
C)Failure of the Cripps Mission
D)British involved in the world was-II
Answer: Failure of the Cripps Mission
- Q. The Atharva Veda does not discuss the ideal of
A)Jnana
B)Karma
C)Upasana
D)Moksha
Answer: Moksha
- Q. Who were called “Kukas”?
A)Nirankari
B)Namdhari
C)Tilak
D)Sri Aurobindo
Answer: Namdhari
- Q. The objective(s) of the Kuka Movement in the Punjab was/were
A)The revival of Sikh sovereignty
B)To purify Sikh religion of its abuses and superstitions
C)Both A and B above
D)The revival of the Khalsa
Answer: Both A and B above
- Q. Who had founded the Deccan Educational Society?
A)CR Das
B)Dadabhai Naoroji
C)Swami Vivekananda
D)Mahadeva Govind Ranade
Answer: Mahadeva Govind Ranade
- Q. Which king of England was forced to signed the ‘Magna Carta’
A)King Louis
B)King Richard I
C)Henry III
D)King John
Answer: King John
- Q. What was the name of architect of Humayun’s Tomb?
A)Baram Khan
B)Man Singh
C)Mirak Mirza
D)Abul Fazal
Answer: Mirak Mirza
- Q. What was the official language of the Sultanate?
A)Urdu
B)Persian
C)Arabic
D)Hindi
Answer: Persian
- Q. Mahatma Gandhi began his political activities in India first from
A)Kheda
B)Dandi
C)Sabarmati
D)Champaran
Answer: Champaran
- Q. Which of the following leader given the term ‘insenate waste’ on the burning of the foreign clothes during the Non-Cooperation Movement?
A)Motilal Nehru
B)Lord Reading
C)Rabindra Nath Tagore
D)Mohammad Ali
Answer: Rabindra Nath Tagore
- Q. Who had founded the Indian Home Rule Society?
A)V D Savarkar
B)Madan Lal Dhingra
C)Lala Hardayal
D)Shyamji Krishna Varma
Answer: Shyamji Krishna Varma
- Q. Tulsidas, the author of Ramcharitmanas, was a contemporary of which of the following rulers?
A)Humayun
B)Akbar
C)Shahjahan
D)Sher Shah Suri
Answer: Akbar
- Q. Who was the supreme body in the Britain at the time of commencement of the Government of India Act- 1858?
A)The British Parliament
B)Queen Victoria
C)Government of Britan
D)None of these
Answer: The British Parliament
- Q. Who wrote the history of Aurangzeb’s reign in total secrecy because of the emperor’s opposition to it and what was the name of that historical work?
A)Mirza Muhammad Kazim's Alamgir Nama
B)Khafi Khan's Muntakhab-ul-Lubab
C)Muhammad Saqi's Masir-i-Alamgiri
D)Aquil Khan Razi's Zafar Nama-i-Alamgir
Answer: Khafi Khan's Muntakhab-ul-Lubab
- Q. The people of the Indus Valley civilization worshipped __________
A)Pashupati
B)Vishnu
C)Indra
D)Brahma
Answer: Pashupati
- Q. Which of the following Government of India Act gave separate representation to the Muslims?
A)Act of 1919
B)Act of 1909
C)Act of 1935
D)Act of 1947
Answer: Act of 1909
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