More Questions on History
- Q. East Timor, in Indonesian, Archipelago, was the former colony of
A)English
B)Dutch
C)French
D)Portuguese
Answer: Portuguese
- Q. Who defeated whom in the second Battle of Tarain (AD 1192)?
A)Mahmud Ghazni defeated Prithviraj
B)Prithviraj defeated Muhammad Ghori
C)Prithviraj defeated Mahmud Ghazni
D)Muhammad Ghori defeated Prithviraj
Answer: Muhammad Ghori defeated Prithviraj
- Q. The Timariots Governors and the Revenue Contractors, on their part reason in this manner: “Why should the neglected state of this land create uneasiness in our minds and why should we expend our money and time to render it fruitful? We may be deprived of it in a single moment, and our exertions would benefit neither ourselves nor our children.” This statement was made by
A)Tavernier
B)Monserrate
C)Manrique
D)Bernier
Answer: Bernier
- Q. With whom is ‘Junagarh Rock Inscription’ associated?
A)Bimbisara
B)Rudradaman
C)Chandragupta-II
D)Gautamiputra Satakarni
Answer: Rudradaman
- Q. Assertion (A): The Sultans may not have been too eager to encourage large scale conversion. Reason (R): The increasing conversion could lead to a loss of revenue, as jizya paying citizens to Islam
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: A is true but R is false
- Q. Which of the following writers did not have a profound influence on the thinking of Mahatma Gandhi?
A)Thoreau
B)Tolstoy
C)Ruskin
D)Marx
Answer: Marx
- Q. The British Prime Minister Atlee announced the withdrawal of the Britishers in the House of Commons from India on
A)February 20, 1947
B)February 20, 1942
C)March 20, 1947
D)March 20, 1942
Answer: February 20, 1947
- Q. The Civil Disobedience Movement had been led in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) by
A)Dr. M. A. Ansari
B)Sheikh Mohammed Tyabji
C)Badruddin Tyabji
D)Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Answer: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
- Q. Razia Sultan, the first woman to sit on the throne of Delhi, was the daughter of which Sultan
A)Mohammed of Ghori
B)Mohammed Ghori
C)Iltutmish
D)Alauddin Khalji
Answer: Iltutmish
- Q. In which year Russo-Japanese war was started
A)1898
B)1894
C)1904
D)1907
Answer: 1904
- Q. Who was known as the Morning star of Renaissance
A)Dante
B)Montesquieu
C)Shakespeare
D)Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Q. Which of the following statement is not true about the Indian National Congress?
A)W.C. Bannerjee was the first president of congress
B)It was formed in 1885
C)It was formed when 72 delegates from all the presidencies and provinces of India met at Bombay
D)Its founder, Allan Octavian Hume, was a retired British professor in India
Answer: Its founder, Allan Octavian Hume, was a retired British professor in India
- Q. What was the main objective of the Wahabi movement which during 1852-70 was particularly active in the Punjab, Bengal, Bihar and the NWFP?
A)To overthrow the Sikhs in the Punjab and the British in Bengal and to restore Muslim power in India
B)To oust the British from India
C)To eradicate religious corruption from Muslim society
D)To organise the Muslims into a nationalist community
Answer: To overthrow the Sikhs in the Punjab and the British in Bengal and to restore Muslim power in India
- Q. The most outstanding representative of Militant Nationalist School of thought was
A)Bhagat Singh
B)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C)Bismil
D)Lala Lajpat Rai
Answer: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Q. Which one of the following was the first English ship that came to India?
A)Bengal
B)Elizabeth
C)Red Dragon
D)Mayflower
Answer: Red Dragon
- Q. Guru Arjan Dev transferred the headquarters to
A)Amritsar
B)Agra
C)Karachi
D)Allahabad
Answer: Amritsar
- Q. Who was the founder of a society known as ‘Abhinav Bharat’ ?
A)B B Upadhyay
B)J K Hikki
C)Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
D)None of the above
Answer: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
- Q. Who is the oldest British monarch to sit on the Throne?
A)Queen Elizabeth-II
B)Queen Victoria
C)Queen Mary Tudor
D)Queen Anne
Answer: Queen Elizabeth-II
- Q. In Buddhism ‘Bull’ is related to what incident of Buddha’s life?
A)Mahabhimiskramana
B)Birth
C)Enlightenment
D)Mahaparinirvana
Answer: Birth
- Q. Which Indian ruler had requested Napoleon for help in driving the British away from India?
A)Jai Singh
B)Shivaji
C)Tipu Sultan
D)Rani of Jhansi
Answer: Tipu Sultan
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