More Questions on History
- Q. Who among the following is the great disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and helped in spreading the message that there are many roads to god and salvation and service of god for man was embodiment of god?
A)Swami Vivekananda
B)Raja Rammohan Roy
C)Swami Dayananda Saraswati
D)Annie Besant
Answer: Swami Vivekananda
- Q. Who was the first known Gupta ruler?
A)Chandragupta - I
B)Sri Gupta
C)Ghatotkacha
D)Kumaragupta - I
Answer: Sri Gupta
- Q. Who was the Chairman of the Partition Council ?
A)Lord Mountbatten
B)M. A. Jinnah
C)Jawaharlal Nehru
D)V. P. Menon
Answer: Lord Mountbatten
- Q. Koh-i-noor diamond was presented to Aurangzeb by
A)Mir Jumla
B)Mirkasim
C)Shivaji
D)Shah Jahan
Answer: Mir Jumla
- Q. Who said – “Our Life and religion are useless without the attainment of Swaraj”?
A)Veer Kunwar
B)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C)Lala Lajpat Rai
D)Bhagat Singh
Answer: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Q. Who was the commander of 1857 revolt in Rohilkhand?
A)Begum Hazrat Mahal
B)Ahmadullah
C)Jung Bahadur Rana
D)Tatya Tope
Answer: Ahmadullah
- Q. The Simon Commission was formed to review
A)Fitness of India for further reforms
B)Legislatures in India
C)The position of the viceroy
D)A constitution for India
Answer: Fitness of India for further reforms
- Q. Which of the following temples were destroyed by Aurangzeb? I. Somnath temple II. Vishwanath temple III. Keshav Rai temple IV. Meenakshi temple
A)I, II and IV
B)I, II and III
C)II, III and IV
D)All the above
Answer: I, II and III
- Q. Jahangir (1605-1627 AD) was the ruler of which dynasty?
A)Haryanka
B)Nanda
C)Maurya
D)Mughal
Answer: Mughal
- Q. During the Anglo-French struggle in the Carnatic, the French were finally defeated by the English in the battle of
A)Arcot
B)Trichinopoly
C)Wandiwash
D)Pondicherry
Answer: Wandiwash
- Q. Which of the following group of thinkers influenced Fascism?
A)Aristotle, St, Augustine and T.H, Green
B)Plato, Machiavelli and Herbet Spencer
C)Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Rosenberg
D)Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin
Answer: Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Rosenberg
- Q. Aurangzeb put his father under house arrest in Agra Fort
A)Shah Jahan
B)Humayun
C)Akbar
D)Bahadur Shah
Answer: Shah Jahan
- Q. Which of the following reform movements was the first to be started in the 19th Century?
A)Brahmo Samaj
B)Prathana Samaj
C)Arya Samaj
D)Rama Krishna Mission
Answer: Brahmo Samaj
- Q. Temple entry movement started mainly in Kerala aimed at which of the following
A)Keeping the monopoly of temples to Brahmin class
B)Allowing untouchables to Hindu temples and roads
C)Allowing women to enter temple
D)Sanskrit lessons to be imparted only to Brahmin family members and others to be devoid of it in order to preserve its purity
Answer: Allowing untouchables to Hindu temples and roads
- Q. Gautama Buddha was brought up by
A)Mayadevi
B)Mahaprajapati
C)Kundavi
D)Sangamitra
Answer: Mahaprajapati
- Q. I. Raja Ram Mohan Roy established the “Calcutta Unitarian Committee”. II. Social Service League was established by Mahadev Govind Ranade. III. Deccan Education Society was founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale. IV. Annie Besant started the Central Hindu School. Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct with reference to the reformers & leaders of India’s Struggle for Independence?
A)I & IV
B)I, II & IV
C)II & III
D)III Only
Answer: I & IV
- Q. As per the Indian Independence Act of 1947, which of the following did not form a part of Pakistan?
A)Sind and British Baluchistan
B)East Bengal and the West Punjab
C)The North West Frontier
D)Assam
Answer: Assam
- Q. __________first became the capital of a kingdom under the Tomar Rajputs
A)Patliputra
B)Delhi
C)Calcutta
D)Taxila
Answer: Delhi
- Q. Bande Matram was a series of articles published in the year 1907 by :
A)Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
B)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C)Domadar Chapekar
D)Balkrishana Chapekar
Answer: Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
- Q. The Rowlatt Act was passed in :
A)1913
B)1905
C)1919
D)1925
Answer: 1919
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