More Questions on History
- Q. The world’s oldest continuously inhabited city is
A)Baghdad
B)Jerusalem
C)Istanbul
D)Damascus
Answer: Damascus
- Q. The first Round Table conference was held on:
A)August 12, 1930
B)December 12, 1930
C)April 12, 1930
D)November 12, 1930
Answer: November 12, 1930
- Q. When Ramakrishna Mission was founded?
A)1797
B)1795
C)1894
D)1897
Answer: 1897
- Q. The term used to denote a group of families in the vedic society was
A)Jana
B)Vish
C)Grama
D)Gotra
Answer: Grama
- Q. Alexander sent back home a portion of his army under an admiral called __________
A)Nearchos
B)Ptolemy
C)Menander
D)Porus
Answer: Nearchos
- Q. Who said that he had not become His Majesty’s first Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire?
A)Churchill
B)Attlee
C)Disraeli
D)Loyd George
Answer: Churchill
- Q. Indian handicrafts rapidly declined due to
A)growing craze for imported goods
B)lack of patronage
C)stiff competition from the machine-made goods of England
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- Q. Who got the monumental ‘Rayagopurams’ in front of the temples at Hampi, Tiru-pati, etc., constructed?
A)Krishnadeva Raya
B)Vidyaranya
C)Harihara
D)Raja raj
Answer: Krishnadeva Raya
- Q. What was the name of the atom bomb dropped in Hiroshima city
A)Fat Man
B)Fat Boy
C)Little Boy
D)Scorpion
Answer: Little Boy
- Q. Which one of the following works deals with the history of Kashmir?
A)Harshacharita
B)Gaudavaho
C)Rajatarangini
D)Vikramankadevacharita
Answer: Rajatarangini
- Q. From which country, the tradition of written Constitution began
A)India
B)Japan
C)Britain
D)America
Answer: America
- Q. At which place in Bengal was the East India Company given permission to trade and build a factory by the Mughals in 1651 ?
A)Qasim Bazar
B)Calcutta
C)Singur
D)Burdwan
Answer: Qasim Bazar
- Q. The Pakistan panacea was sponsored by
A)Jinnah
B)Azad Kalam
C)Md Iqbal
D)Liyakat All Khan
Answer: Md Iqbal
- Q. Which of the following is the single most important source of the history of Ashoka?
A)Buddhist works Divyavadana and Ashokavadana
B)Sri Lankan chronicles Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa
C)Inscriptions of Ashoka
D)Archaeological Sources and the Puranas
Answer: Inscriptions of Ashoka
- Q. In which year was the partition of Bengal scrapped?
A)1911
B)1908
C)1923
D)1931
Answer: 1911
- Q. Who was not among the three revolutionaries who were hanged on March 23, 1931?
A)Azad
B)Bhagat Singh
C)Rajguru
D)Sukhdev
Answer: Azad
- Q. Who among the following built the famous Alai Darwaza?
A)Babur
B)Allaudin Khalji
C)Ibrahim Lodi
D)Shahjahan
Answer: Allaudin Khalji
- Q. Vasco da Gama a sailor belongs to __________.
A)American
B)Portuguese
C)German
D)South American
Answer: Portuguese
- Q. Whom did Akbar defeat in the 2nd battle of Panipat in 1556?
A)Nadir Shah
B)Genghis Khan
C)Hemu Vikramaditya
D)Bajirao-I
Answer: Hemu Vikramaditya
- Q. Like Vedic Aryans, the custom of Sacrificial fire was also followed by
A)Greeks
B)Romans
C)Iranians
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
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