More Questions on History
- Q. Who was the last Byzantine Emperor during the fall of Constantinople in 1453
A)John V
B)Manuel II
C)John VIII
D)Constantine XI
Answer: Constantine XI
- Q. The caste system of India was created for
A)Recognization of the dignity of labour
B)Immobility of labour
C)Economic uplift
D)Occupational division of labour
Answer: Occupational division of labour
- Q. Which of the following statement (s) is/are correct about Bhakti Movement? I. The leader of the bhakti movement focusing on the Lord as Rama was Ramananda. II. Sri Ramanuja Acharya was an Indian philosopher and is recognized as the most important saint of Sri Vaishnavism
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I & II
D)Neither I nor II
Answer: Both I & II
- Q. From where did Acharya Vinoba Bhave start the Individual Satyagraha in 1940?
A)Pavnar in Maharashtra
B)Nadiad in Gujrat
C)Adyar in Tamil Nadu
D)Guntur in Andhra Pradesh
Answer: Pavnar in Maharashtra
- Q. The Mughal Emperor who discouraged ‘Sati’ was
A)Humayun
B)Babur
C)Akbar
D)Jehangir
Answer: Akbar
- Q. Under the Mughals the jizya was collected from
A)Muhammadans
B)Persians
C)Hindus
D)Foreign visitors
Answer: Hindus
- Q. Where did the so-called ‘Black Hole Tragedy’ take place ?
A)Monghyr
B)Daccan
C)Calcutta
D)Murshidabad
Answer: Calcutta
- Q. Who was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence?
A)George Washington
B)Benjamin Franklin
C)Thomas Edison
D)Thomas Jefferson
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
- Q. What was the capital of Shivaji’s Kingdom?
A)Raigarh
B)Pune
C)Karwar
D)Purandhar
Answer: Raigarh
- Q. It is said that Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar’s contribution to making of modern India is many sided. Which of the following aspects contribute to it?
A)New methodology of teaching Sanskrit
B)Farmers and depressed class upliftment
C)Uplifting downtrodden women, abolishing child marriage , widow re marriage
D)Both B and C
Answer: Both B and C
- Q. Who among the following Bhakti Saints was responsible for founding many punyakshetras along the length and breadth of India, by taming avatars of Parvati and imprisoning her essence in Sri Chakras?
A)Ramanada Saraswati
B)Shankaracharya
C)Tulsidas
D)Valmiki
Answer: Shankaracharya
- Q. Which Sikh guru was executed by Aurangzeb?
A)Arjun Dev
B)Tegh Bahadur
C)Hargobind
D)Gobind Singh
Answer: Tegh Bahadur
- Q. Select the correct statement (s) is/are correct about Upanishad philosophy
A)Indicates learning from best teacher
B)Indicates learning from a spiritual teacher
C)Indicates learning from best teacher who have morality and knowledge
D)All of the above
Answer: Indicates learning from a spiritual teacher
- Q. Who was the commander of ‘Seventh Coalition’ army that defeated Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo
A)Jean-de-Dieu Soult
B)Arthur Wellesley
C)Robert Clive
D)John Carnac
Answer: Arthur Wellesley
- Q. Which scripture was called his ‘mother’ by Gandhiji?
A)The New Testament
B)Ramayana
C)Bhagwat Gita
D)The Holy Quran
Answer: Bhagwat Gita
- Q. The Minto Morley reforms was in the year __________
A)1907
B)1906
C)1909
D)1919
Answer: 1909
- Q. The previous name of Zaire was
A)Liberia
B)Benin
C)Congo
D)Sierra Leone
Answer: Congo
- Q. Who wrote famous thesis entitled ‘South India in 1857: war of Independence’:
A)K M Pannikar
B)J K Hikki
C)M G Ranade
D)V.D. Savarkar
Answer: V.D. Savarkar
- Q. Alberuni came to India with
A)Alexander
B)Mahmud of Ghazni
C)Babur
D)Tamur
Answer: Mahmud of Ghazni
- Q. The British Governor General and Viceroy who served for the longest period in India was
A)Lord Dalhousie
B)Lord Irwin
C)Lord Curzon
D)Lord Linlithgow
Answer: Lord Dalhousie
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