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Q. Who invented kerosene?

A
Benjamin Silliman
B
Abraham Pineo Gesner
C
Edwin Drake
D
John William Dawson

Correct Answer

Abraham Pineo Gesner

More Questions on History

  • Q. The famous Kohinoor diamond was produced from one of the mines in
    A)Chota Nagpur
    B)Orissa
    C)Bijapur
    D)Golconda
    Answer: Golconda
  • Q. Which British Governor General introduced Postage Stamp in India?
    A)Lord Auckland
    B)Lord Dalhousie
    C)Lord Canning
    D)Lord William Bentinck
    Answer: Lord Dalhousie
  • Q. Which philosopher said about the Holy Roman Empire that “it is neither Holy nor Roman nor Empire”
    A)Montesquieu
    B)Voltaire
    C)Diderot
    D)Rousseau
    Answer: Voltaire
  • Q. Which of the doctrines of Jainism was added by Mahavira?
    A)Observe continence
    B)Do not speak a lie
    C)Do not commit violence
    D)Do not steal
    Answer: Observe continence
  • Q. Which of the following is an intensely emotional form of Hinduism that flourished from the sixteenth century, mainly in Bengal and eastern Orissa?
    A)Krishna cult of Vallabhacharya
    B)Gaudiya Sampradaya
    C)Shiva cult of Vallabhacharya
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Gaudiya Sampradaya
  • Q. Which of the following trio leaders referred to as Lal, Bal and Pal during the freedom movement?
    A)Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
    B)Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
    C)Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Gopala Krishna Gokhale
    D)Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and C. Rajagopalachari
    Answer: Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
  • Q. In which state was the first non-Congress Government set up in independent India?
    A)Bihar
    B)Punjab
    C)Maharashtra
    D)Kerala
    Answer: Kerala
  • Q. My strongest bulwark is gone lamented Mahatma Gandhi on the death of
    A)Motilal Nehru
    B)Gopalakrishna Gokhale
    C)Pheroze Shah Mehta
    D)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    Answer: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • Q. Sardar Patel brought all the Indian States into the Country’s unity
    A)By using armed forces
    B)By a bloody revolution
    C)By a bloodless revolution
    D)With the help of the English
    Answer: By a bloodless revolution
  • Q. Who said “Patriotism is religion and religion is love for India”?
    A)Bankim chandra Chatterjee
    B)Raj Narain Bose
    C)Swami Vivekanand
    D)Acharya Vinoba Bhave
    Answer: Bankim chandra Chatterjee
  • Q. Who instituted Scientific Society in 1863 to create a scientific temperament among the Muslims and to make the Western knowledge available to Indians in their own language?
    A)Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
    B)Mohammad Iqbal
    C)Karim Ali
    D)Inayat Ali
    Answer: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
  • Q. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was the author of
    A)New India
    B)India Wins Freedom
    C)Gita Rahasya
    D)Discovery of India
    Answer: India Wins Freedom
  • Q. The Treaty of Surat was in the year __________
    A)1575
    B)1475
    C)1675
    D)1775
    Answer: 1775
  • Q. Which amidst the following sites/monuments in India is on the UNESCO’s list of World Cultural Heritages?
    A)Kashi Viswanath Temple
    B)Ellora Caves
    C)Qutab Minar
    D)Manas Wildlife - Sancturary
    Answer: Kashi Viswanath Temple
  • Q. In __________ , Jyotiba Phule formed the Satya Shodhak Samaj (Society of Seekers of Truth)
    A)1853
    B)1773
    C)1873
    D)1889
    Answer: 1873
  • Q. Buddhism was first propagated outside India In
    A)Cambodia
    B)China
    C)Thailand
    D)Ceylon
    Answer: Ceylon
  • Q. Rana Pratap Singh of Mewar was defeated by the Mughal army in the battle of
    A)Chittor
    B)Mewar
    C)Haldighati
    D)Udaipur
    Answer: Haldighati
  • Q. In which year George Washington became the first president of USA
    A)1765
    B)1735
    C)1770
    D)1789
    Answer: 1789
  • Q. Banabhatta was the court poet of which emperor?
    A)Kumaragupta
    B)Vikramaditya
    C)Harshavardhana
    D)Kanishka
    Answer: Harshavardhana
  • Q. When did the Chinese Civil War began?
    A)1948
    B)1927
    C)1950
    D)1937
    Answer: 1927

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