More Questions on History
- Q. Assertion (A): The announcement of the Simon Commission aroused widespread Indian resentment. Reason (R): The British Government in defiance of the opinion of all parties in India had deliberately decided to appoint an all British Commission
A)Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R is 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: Both A and R is true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Q. Whose statement is this –“The Indians should no longer be satisfied with mere mendicancy neither should they beg the English for concessions”?
A)Lala Lajpat Rai
B)V N Mandalik
C)Bipin Chandra Pal
D)Abdul Kalam Azad
Answer: Lala Lajpat Rai
- Q. Who established the Edo society?
A)Kuroda Yoshitaka
B)Akechi Mitsuhide
C)Oda Nobunaga
D)Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Answer: Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Q. Which country emerged as the biggest colonial power at the end of the nineteenth century?
A)Spain
B)France
C)Britain
D)Germany
Answer: Britain
- Q. Outside India, Buddhism was first accepted in
A)Japan
B)China
C)Sri Lanka
D)Tibet
Answer: Sri Lanka
- Q. The Indus Valley civilisation can be said to belong to the
A)Primitive age
B)Paleolithic age
C)Neolithic age
D)Bronze age
Answer: Bronze age
- Q. Who called Muazzam as Shahi-i- Bekhabar?
A)Zulfikar khan
B)Kafi Khan
C)Kam Baksh
D)Nur Jahan
Answer: Kafi Khan
- Q. Who was the Viceroy when the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place?
A)Chelmsford
B)Hardinge-II
C)Reading
D)Irwin
Answer: Chelmsford
- Q. Which one of the following coins was issued in silver during the Gupta period?
A)Nishka
B)Kakini
C)Rupyaka
D)Dinar
Answer: Rupyaka
- Q. Which of the following statement is not correct about the provisions of the Government of India Act,1858?
A)A council of fifteen members was appointed to assist the Secretary of State for India
B)The Queen's Principal Secretary of State received the powers and duties of the Company's Court of Directors
C)For all the communications between Britain and India, the Secretary of State became the real channel
D)All the above statements are incorrect
Answer: All the above statements are incorrect
- Q. Who was the founder of the Boy Scouts and Civil Guides Movement in India?
A)Baden Powell
B)Richard Temple
C)Charles Andrew
D)Robert Montgomery
Answer: Baden Powell
- Q. The guerilla warfare was pioneered by
A)Akbar
B)Aurangzeb
C)Shivaji
D)Balaji Rao
Answer: Shivaji
- Q. __________ was prominent in the Labour and Socialist movements, a member of the Fabian Society and Social Democratic Federation, and took an active part in Trade Union work among unskilled labourers
A)H. P. Blavatsky
B)Annie Besant
C)W. T. Stead
D)H. S. Olcott
Answer: Annie Besant
- Q. To which personality Mahatma Gandhi gave the title “Deen Bandhu”?
A)CF Andrews
B)Sri Aurobindo
C)Vinoba Bhave
D)CR Das
Answer: CF Andrews
- Q. Most of the Chola temples were dedicated to
A)Shiva
B)Ganesh
C)Durga
D)Vishnu
Answer: Shiva
- Q. The Moplahs of Malabar (Kerala) who were largely Muslim leaseholders and cultivators, indulged in a series of rebellions in Kerala between 1836-1919. Which of the following regarding these Moplah uprisings is not true?
A)These uprisings were a peculiar form of rural terrorism
B)They were mainly directed against the upper caste Hindu landlords
C)Most of the Moplah martyrs were poor peasants of landless lobourers
D)A small band of Moplahs committed collective suicides in the belief of being called Shahids (martyrs)
Answer: A small band of Moplahs committed collective suicides in the belief of being called Shahids (martyrs)
- Q. Buland Darwaza is the main entrance to the palace at
A)Gwalior Fort
B)Amer Fort
C)Fatehpur Sikri
D)Agra Fort
Answer: Fatehpur Sikri
- Q. The Interim Government which took office on September 2, 1946 was headed by
A)Jawaharlal Nehru
B)Rajendra Prasad
C)Vallabhbhai Patel
D)C Rajagopalachari
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
- Q. Which one of the following is not a salient features of the renaissance age
A)Feudalism
B)Humanism
C)Rationalism
D)Scientific Temperament
Answer: Feudalism
- Q. Who said “Man is a social animal”?
A)Rousseau
B)Aristotle
C)Laski
D)Plato
Answer: Aristotle
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