More Questions on History
- Q. Vishvambhara Mishra was the original name of
A)Chaitanya Maha Prabhu
B)Guru Nanak
C)Shankaracharya
D)Kabir
Answer: Chaitanya Maha Prabhu
- Q. The capital of Kanishka was
A)Benares
B)Puruspura
C)Allahabad
D)Sarnath
Answer: Puruspura
- Q. The temple of Konark was built by Narasimha of the
A)Chola Administration
B)Maratha Administration
C)Ganga Administration
D)Vijayanagar Administration
Answer: Ganga Administration
- Q. In July 1933 the Congress decided to launch:
A)Satyagrah
B)An Individual Civil Disobedience
C)Bharat Chhoro Aandolan
D)None of these
Answer: An Individual Civil Disobedience
- Q. The trident-shaped symbol of Buddhism does not represent
A)Sangha
B)Nirvana
C)Buddha
D)Dhamma
Answer: Nirvana
- Q. Under the Mughals the Commander-in-Chief of the Army was
A)Mansabdar
B)The crown prince
C)Emperor
D)Zamindar
Answer: Emperor
- Q. The previous name of Zaire was
A)Liberia
B)Benin
C)Congo
D)Sierra Leone
Answer: Congo
- Q. The Maratha Kingdom under the Peshwas was
A)a military State
B)a loose federation
C)a confederacy (Mandala or Sangha)
D)a regency of the Peshwa
Answer: a confederacy (Mandala or Sangha)
- Q. Of the following who did not oppose the Non-cooperation resolution?
A)Madan Mohan Malaviya
B)C R Das
C)Mrs Besant
D)Nehru
Answer: Nehru
- Q. When did the invasion of Poland begin?
A)1936
B)1935
C)1937
D)1939
Answer: 1939
- Q. Of the following who transferred the capital from Murshidabad to Monghyr?
A)Mir Jaffar
B)Mir Kasim
C)Siraj-ud-Daulah
D)Mir Mudan
Answer: Mir Kasim
- Q. Who was the prime minister of Britain at the time of commencement of the Government of India Act, 1858?
A)Russell II
B)Lord Palmerston
C)Edward Smith-Stanley
D)Benjamin Disraeli
Answer: Lord Palmerston
- Q. The largest standing army of the Delhi Sultanate directly paid by the State was created by
A)IIitutmish
B)Balban
C)Muhammad bin Tughlaq
D)Alauddin Khalji
Answer: Alauddin Khalji
- Q. The word Pakistan was coined by
A)Jinnah
B)Mohammed Iqbal
C)Abul Kalam Azad
D)Rahmat Ali
Answer: Rahmat Ali
- Q. Who has called the Prime Minister Primus inter pares (first among equlas)?
A)Harcourt
B)Morely
C)Laski
D)Lowell
Answer: Morely
- Q. Identify, among the following, the saint who had preached non-sectarianism in Medieval times
A)Ramananda
B)Tukaram
C)Dadu
D)Raghunandan
Answer: Dadu
- Q. Provision was made in the Act of 1919, for the appointment of a Commission in __________ to investigate the working of the Constitution
A)1929
B)1930
C)1939
D)1925
Answer: 1929
- Q. The socialist group in the INC during, the 1930s had been led by
A)Rajendra Prasad
B)Bipin Chandra Pal
C)Lala Lajpat Rai
D)Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: Subhas Chandra Bose
- Q. The founder of Jainism was
A)Neminath
B)Rishbha
C)Parsvanatha
D)Vardhaman Mahavira
Answer: Vardhaman Mahavira
- Q. The ultimate ownership of land during the post-Gupta period lay with
A)The village community
B)The cultivator
C)The king
D)The joint family
Answer: The king
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