More Questions on History
- Q. The English East Company achieved a major victory over the Portuguese in the Battle of __________ in 1612
A)Plassey
B)Buxar
C)Swally
D)Trafalgar
Answer: Swally
- Q. Author of Poverty and Un-British Rule in India is__________
A)Irfan Habib
B)Romila Thapar
C)S.C.Ghosh
D)Naoroji Dadabhai
Answer: Naoroji Dadabhai
- Q. Which European power was the last who reached India?
A)Germans
B)Portuguese
C)The French
D)The Dutch
Answer: The French
- Q. The Servants of India Society was founded in 1905 by
A)Lala Lajpat Rai
B)BG Tilak
C)Gopal Krishna Gokhale
D)Aurobindo Ghosh
Answer: Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- Q. Who among the following leader presided the historic 1916 Lucknow Session of the Congress?
A)Madan Mohan Malviya
B)Annie Besant
C)Ambika Charan Majumdar
D)Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: Ambika Charan Majumdar
- Q. Arrange the following in chronological order: I. Viceroy Lytton II. Viceroy Mayo III. Viceroy Lansdowne IV. Viceroy Linlithgow
A)II, I, III, IV
B)II, III, I, IV
C)IV, III, II, I
D)III, IV, I, II
Answer: II, I, III, IV
- Q. From which port of England, Titanic started its journey
A)Southampton
B)Liverpool
C)Manchester
D)Sunderland
Answer: Southampton
- Q. Who was the court poet of Harsha-vardhana?
A)Ravi Kirti
B)Bhani
C)Banabhatta
D)Vishnu Sharma
Answer: Banabhatta
- Q. What was the number of Gandhars of Abhinandannath Tirthankar?
A)114
B)112
C)116
D)118
Answer: 116
- Q. In which descent Abhinandannath Tirthankar was born?
A)Nand Vansh
B)Ikswakshu Vansh
C)Gulam Vansh
D)Duguwa Vansh
Answer: Ikswakshu Vansh
- Q. The term ‘Cold War’ was coined by
A)Prof. Lippmann
B)Bernard Baruch
C)Palmer Perkins
D)Roosevelt
Answer: Bernard Baruch
- Q. The coins of which of the following reveal their love for music?
A)Nandas
B)Mauryas
C)Guptas
D)Cholas
Answer: Guptas
- Q. Which of the following event was the reason for the withdrawn of non cooperation movement?
A)Jallianwala massacre
B)Chauri Chaura incident
C)Gandhi Imprisionment
D)None
Answer: Chauri Chaura incident
- Q. Upto where did Chandragupta Maurya’s empire extend in the north west?
A)Indus river
B)Ravi river
C)Satluj river
D)Hindukush range
Answer: Hindukush range
- Q. The Rig-Vedic Aryans were a pastoral people is born 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
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. Which nationalist had stoutly preached “Be proud that you are an Indian, proudly claim I am an Indian”?
A)Lala Lajpat Rai
B)MK Gandhi
C)Swami Vivekanand
D)Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Swami Vivekanand
- Q. Who give the famous quote ‘Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth’
A)Abraham Lincoln
B)Winston Churchill
C)Vladimir Lenin
D)George Washington
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
- Q. Which of the following statement (s) is/are correct about Panini’s great grammar the Ashtadhyayi?
A)It was stated that with Panini the language attained its highest state of development and thereafter there was improvement only in its vocabulary
B)It was most probably composed towards the 4th century BC
C)Both A & B
D)None of the above
Answer: Both A & B
- Q. Defeated Humayun in the Battle of Kannauj (1540) also constructed the Purana Qila of New Delhi
A)Malik Kafur
B)Adil Shah
C)Bin-Kasim
D)Sher Shah Suri
Answer: Sher Shah Suri
- Q. The term Khalisa in Mughal administration signified the
A)land owned by the emperor himself
B)entire Imperial establishment
C)religious land grants
D)land from where revenue was collected for the Imperial Treasury
Answer: land owned by the emperor himself
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