More Questions on History
- Q. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh was born in the year :
A)1982
B)1872
C)1884
D)1892
Answer: 1872
- Q. Who discovered a direct sea route to India?
A)Germans
B)Portuguese
C)The French
D)The Dutch
Answer: Portuguese
- Q. In 1939 Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as President of the Congress Party defeating
A)Jawaharlal Nehru
B)Pattabhi Sitharamayy
C)Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
D)VB Patel
Answer: Pattabhi Sitharamayy
- Q. The Mutiny was brought to an end with the fall of __________ into the hands of the British in India
A)Awadh
B)Meerut
C)Gwalior
D)Rohilkhand
Answer: Gwalior
- Q. When was the Communist Party of China founded?
A)1920
B)1918
C)1919
D)1923
Answer: 1919
- Q. Sarojini Naidu was elected Congress President at :
A)Bombay, 1934
B)Haripura, 1938
C)Madras Session, 1927
D)Kanpur Session ,1925
Answer: Kanpur Session ,1925
- Q. The Indian National Congress passed Quit India Resolution at :
A)Bombay Session, 1934
B)Wardha Session, 1942.
C)Tripuri Session, 1939
D)Ramgarh Session, 1940
Answer: Wardha Session, 1942.
- Q. Warren Hastings was appointed as the Governor of __________ in 1772
A)Madras
B)Bengal
C)Bombay
D)Delhi
Answer: Bengal
- Q. Who was the selected as first satyagrahi by Mahatma Gandhi to begin individual satyagraha in 1940?
A)Jawahar Lal Nehru
B)Vinoba Bhave
C)Brahma Datt
D)Annie Besant
Answer: Vinoba Bhave
- Q. The Bloodless Revolution of 1688 was started in which country
A)Italy
B)England
C)Portugal
D)France
Answer: England
- Q. The Cabinet Mission which arrived Delhi in 1946 was headed by
A)Sir Stafford Cripps
B)Lord Pethrick Lawrence
C)AV Alexander
D)Lord Attlee
Answer: Lord Pethrick Lawrence
- Q. The tomb of Jahangir was built at
A)Delhi
B)Gujrat
C)Lahore
D)Agra
Answer: Lahore
- Q. Who among the following British persons admitted the Revolt of 1857 as a national revolt?
A)Lord Canning
B)Lord Dalhousie
C)Lord Ellenborough
D)Disraeli
Answer: Disraeli
- Q. The writers of the East India Company had their training in the college at __________ in England
A)Manchester
B)London
C)Liverpool
D)Haileybury
Answer: Haileybury
- Q. Who was the first Indian civil servant?
A)S N Banerjee
B)Motilal Nehru
C)C R Das
D)Bhagat Singh
Answer: S N Banerjee
- Q. Charminar was built by?
A)Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah
B)Humayun
C)Ashoka
D)Narasimha
Answer: Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah
- Q. Which of the following books were written by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru? I. Discovery of India II. Outline of History III. Glimpses of World History IV. A Study of History
A)II & IV
B)I & IV
C)I & III
D)I, II, III & IV
Answer: I & III
- Q. The English established their first factory in India at
A)Surat
B)Bombay
C)Sutanati
D)Madras
Answer: Surat
- Q. Tarabai, who conducted the affairs of the Maratha government from 1700 to 1707 AD, was the widow of the Maratha King
A)Shivaji II
B)Shambhaji
C)Raja Ram
D)Shivaji III
Answer: Raja Ram
- 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
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