More Questions on History
- Q. In which year ‘University of Oxford’ was founded
A)1562
B)1096
C)1117
D)1342
Answer: 1096
- Q. During Mughal rule, excellent cotton goods were woven in which one of the following centres?
A)Surat
B)Agra
C)Delhi
D)Calcutta
Answer: Agra
- Q. Which two countries were involved in a Hundred Years War?
A)England and France
B)Turkey and Austria
C)Palestine and Israel
D)Germany and Russia
Answer: England and France
- Q. The first General Secretary of the Indian National Congress was
A)A.O. Hume
B)Dadabhai Naoroji
C)Ferozshah Mehta
D)Badruddin Tayyabji
Answer: A.O. Hume
- Q. When did the October Revolution occur?
A)1918
B)1917
C)1920
D)1923
Answer: 1917
- Q. Which of the following statement (s) is/are correct related to the Charter Act of 1793? I. Renewed the Charter of the Company for 20 more years. II. Regulated the finances of the Company. III. Lay down that the salaries of the Board of Control and their staffs were to be paid from the British revenues. IV. Prohibited the Commander-in-Chief from being a member of the Governor General’s Council
A)I, II & IV
B)I, II & III
C)I & II
D)II & III
Answer: I, II & IV
- Q. Provision was made by the Charter Act of 1813 for the establishment of a Church at __________
A)Bombay
B)Madras
C)Calcutta
D)Pondicherry
Answer: Calcutta
- Q. India Home Rule Society, founded in London in February 1905, was one of the earliest revolutionary societies set up outside India. This society was founded by
A)VD Savarkar
B)Lala Har Dayal
C)Shyamji Krishnavarma
D)Madan Lal Dhingra
Answer: Shyamji Krishnavarma
- Q. The British government declared Communist Party of India illegal in:
A)1934
B)1924
C)1930
D)1939
Answer: 1934
- Q. The immediate cause for the Mutiny was
A)The Social Legislation of 1856
B)Doctrine of Lapse
C)The Episode of the Greased Cartridges
D)The fear of me Indians that they would be converted to Christianity
Answer: The Episode of the Greased Cartridges
- Q. __________ joined the National Secular Society in 1874 and worked in the free thought and radical movements led by Charles Bradlaugh, MP
A)Tarachand Chakravarty
B)Annie Besant
C)D. R. Mukhopadhyaya
D)Brojnath Dhar
Answer: Annie Besant
- Q. A collective term used by the Jains for their sacred books is
A)Angas
B)Prabandhas
C)Nibandhas
D)Chartis
Answer: Angas
- Q. Who was advocated of the famous INA Trials?
A)Asaf Ali
B)Bhulabhai Desai
C)Subhash Chandra Bose
D)C. Rajagopalachari
Answer: Bhulabhai Desai
- Q. The Religious lessons of ‘Jews’ are called
A)Musa Sanhita (Torah)
B)Gnome Collection (Sukti Sangraha)
C)Tripitaka
D)Tend Alesta
Answer: Musa Sanhita (Torah)
- Q. There are similarities between the seals found at Mohenjo-Daro and __________
A)China
B)Egypt
C)Sumeria
D)Afghanistan
Answer: Sumeria
- Q. Which city is known as the birthplace of the Renaissance
A)Venice
B)Florence
C)Rome
D)London
Answer: Florence
- Q. __________in his book ‘Economic history of India’ wrote ‘If India is poor today it is through the operation of economic causes’
A)R. C. Dutt
B)Dadhabai Naoroji
C)Ranade
D)R. P. Datt
Answer: R. C. Dutt
- Q. Sir Huge Rose described whom as ‘the best and bravest military leader of the rebel’?
A)Rani Laxmi Bai
B)Begum Hazrat Mahal
C)Kunwar Singh
D)Bahadur Shah Zafar
Answer: Rani Laxmi Bai
- Q. The Indians were allowed to frame their Constitution by
A)Montford Reforms
B)The Council Act of 1909
C)August Offer
D)The Government of India Act of 1935
Answer: August Offer
- Q. India is in favour of __________ in the economic field
A)Private Sector
B)Public Sector
C)Mixed Economy
D)Capitalistic Economy
Answer: Mixed Economy
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