More Questions on History
- Q. Who was the author of Kitab-ul-Hind?
A)Abul Fazl
B)Abu Said
C)Firdausi
D)AI-Beruni
Answer: AI-Beruni
- Q. Which symbol shows renunciation of Gautama Buddha?
A)Bull
B)Lotus
C)Elephant
D)Horse
Answer: Horse
- Q. The writer of Ram Charit Manas, Tulsidas, was related to which ruler?
A)Nawab Vajib Ali Sah
B)Chandragupta Maurya
C)Harsha
D)Akbar
Answer: Akbar
- Q. British Prime Minister Attlee made the historic announcement of the end of British rule in India (and transfer of power to responsible Indian hands by a date not later than June1948) on
A)February 20, 1947
B)May 16, 1946
C)March 10, 1946
D)December 31, 1946
Answer: February 20, 1947
- Q. Who established the ‘Sharda Sadan’, a school for Indian Widows in colonial India?
A)Sarojini Naidu
B)Mahadev Govind Ranade
C)Dayanand Saraswati
D)Pandita Ramabai
Answer: Pandita Ramabai
- Q. __________ joined the National Secular Society in 1874 and worked in the free thought and radical movements led by Charles Bradlaugh, MP
A)Tarachand Chakravarty
B)Annie Besant
C)D. R. Mukhopadhyaya
D)Brojnath Dhar
Answer: Annie Besant
- Q. Who among the following built the Gomateshwara statue at Sravanabelagola ?
A)Kharvela
B)Chandragupta Maurya
C)Amoghavarsha
D)Chamundaraya
Answer: Chamundaraya
- Q. Who said that “India’s Soul live in villages”?
A)Jayaprakash Narayan
B)Vinoba Bhave
C)Jawahar Lal Nehru
D)Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. The great silk-route to the Indians was opened by
A)Ashoka
B)Kanishka
C)Harsha
D)Fa-Hien
Answer: Kanishka
- Q. The Governor of the East India Company was
A)Appointed by the British Parliament
B)Appointed by the monarch of England
C)Elected by the members of the East India Company
D)Nominated by the Mughal Emperor
Answer: Elected by the members of the East India Company
- Q. Who was the first Gandhar of Sumtinath Tirthankar?
A)Vishwasen
B)Bhanuraj
C)Kritverma
D)Charam Swami
Answer: Charam Swami
- Q. Akbar married a bride from
A)Jaisalmer
B)Bikaner
C)Jaipur
D)Udaipur
Answer: Udaipur
- Q. When Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed, the Secretary of State for India was
A)Curzon
B)Salisbury
C)Wedgwood Benn
D)Montagu
Answer: Wedgwood Benn
- Q. The Dyarchy which was introduced on 1921 in province was in force till the year
A)1935
B)1927
C)1937
D)1947
Answer: 1937
- Q. Who is the excavator of Harappa site?
A)Rakhal das Bannerji
B)Daya ram sahni
C)Mackey
D)B.K. Thapar
Answer: Daya ram sahni
- Q. Who tried to rediscover India’s past?
A)Max Muller
B)Lord Lytton
C)S. N. Banerjee
D)Gokahale
Answer: Max Muller
- Q. In which year was the partition of Bengal scrapped?
A)1911
B)1908
C)1923
D)1931
Answer: 1911
- Q. Who is the oldest British monarch to sit on the Throne?
A)Queen Elizabeth-II
B)Queen Victoria
C)Queen Mary Tudor
D)Queen Anne
Answer: Queen Elizabeth-II
- Q. In the battle of Panipat, Babur faced the armies of
A)Hemu
B)Jaichand
C)Daulat khan
D)Ibrahim Lodi
Answer: Ibrahim Lodi
- Q. What was the capital of Pallava Dynasty?
A)Tiruchirapalli
B)Kanchipuram
C)Tanjore
D)Chennai
Answer: Kanchipuram
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