More Questions on History
- Q. Who defeated Hannibal at Battle of Zama?
A)Scipio Aemilianus
B)Cato the Elder
C)Scipio Africanus
D)Hasdrubal
Answer: Scipio Africanus
- Q. In 1614 Sir Thomas Roe was instructed by __________ to visit the court of Jahangir, the Mughal emperor of India
A)Babur
B)James I
C)Shajahan
D)Humayun
Answer: James I
- Q. Two Sayid brothers Sayid Abdullah Khan and Sayid Hussan Ali Khan (who rose to become the king makers during the later Mughal period) met their downfall during the reign of
A)Rafi-ud-DaIjat
B)Farrukhsiyar
C)Rafi-ud-Daula
D)Muhammad Shah
Answer: Muhammad Shah
- Q. Which of the following is a wonder of the ancient world?
A)The colosseum of Rome
B)The statue of Jupiter Zeus at Olympia
C)The Leaning Tower of Pisa
D)The Mosque at St. Sophia (Constantinople)
Answer: The statue of Jupiter Zeus at Olympia
- Q. The Bardoli Satyagraha was led by
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Rajendra Prasad
C)Vallabhbhai Patel
D)Morarji Desai
Answer: Vallabhbhai Patel
- Q. Who gave the slogan DO OR DIE during the quit India movement in 1942?
A)Subhash Chandra Bose
B)Mahatma Gandhi
C)Bhagat Singh
D)Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. Which of the following Vedas deals with magic spells and witchcraft?
A)Samaveda
B)Rigveda
C)Yajurveda
D)Atharvaveda
Answer: Atharvaveda
- Q. The Pitaka that contains pronouncements attributed to the Buddha, laying down numerous rules for the conduct of the order is
A)Sutta Pitaka
B)Vinaya Pitaka
C)Abhidhamma Pitaka
D)All the three Pitakas
Answer: Vinaya Pitaka
- Q. Who among the following was first initiated disciple of Akbar’s Din-i-Ilahi?
A)Tansen
B)Todarmal
C)Birbal
D)Mansingh
Answer: Birbal
- Q. The Mughal General, who decisively defeated Shivaji and forced him to conclude the Treaty of Purandar, was
A)Mirza Raja Jai Singh
B)Shaista Khan
C)Prince Muazzam
D)Dilir Khan
Answer: Mirza Raja Jai Singh
- Q. The Shuddhi Movement, involving the conversion of non-Hindus to Hinduism, was started by
A)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B)Swami Vivekanand
C)Swami Dayanand Saraswati
D)Aurobindo Ghosh
Answer: Swami Dayanand Saraswati
- Q. Which of the following pair leader associated with the Revolt of 1857 is not correctly matched?
A)Khan Bahadur Khan : Bareilly
B)Hazrat Mahal : Kanpur
C)Kunwar Singh : Bihar
D)Bakht Khan : Delhi
Answer: Hazrat Mahal : Kanpur
- Q. Who introduced the Subsidiary Alliance System in India?
A)Lord Ripan
B)Lord Dalhousie
C)Lord Wellesley
D)None of these
Answer: Lord Wellesley
- Q. The main contribution of Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar to education and in particular to women education are
A)Charles wood dispatch on education, influenced it towards female education
B)Break priestly monopoly of scriptural knowledge(Sanskrit) and opening to non-Brahmins
C)Lady Hardinge medical college at Delhi
D)Both A and B
Answer: Both A and B
- Q. Which of the following sect is emphasised on nirguni Bhakti – devotion to a divine without Gunas (qualities or form), but it accepts both nirguni and saguni forms of the divine?
A)Shaivism
B)Sikhism
C)Vaishanvism
D)All of the above
Answer: Sikhism
- Q. The leader who quit politics, retired to Pondicherry and set up an ashram there, was
A)Dadabhai Naoroji
B)Lokmanya TiIak
C)Bhikaji Cama
D)Sri Aurobindo Ghose
Answer: Sri Aurobindo Ghose
- Q. Who established the Indian Civil Liberties Union in 1936?
A)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B)Subhash Chandra Bose
C)Jawahar Lal Nehru
D)Rajendra Prasad
Answer: Jawahar Lal Nehru
- Q. Which one of the following was NOT introduced by Shivaji?
A)Chauth
B)Land-tax
C)Sardeshmukhi
D)Pilgrim tax
Answer: Pilgrim tax
- Q. What is called the magna carta of Western Education system in Indian?
A)Slavery Bill for Education
B)Dispatch of Charles wood secretary of state 1854
C)Wonder of Education refoms
D)None of these
Answer: Dispatch of Charles wood secretary of state 1854
- Q. Megasthenes was succeeded as ambassador by
A)Demetrius
B)Darius
C)Deimachos
D)Philip
Answer: Deimachos
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