More Questions on History
- Q. Which of the following is known as the Jain Temple City?
A)Allahabad
B)Girnar
C)Rajagriha
D)Varanasi
Answer: Girnar
- Q. Who, among the following, has been known as the ‘Frontier Gandhi’?
A)Khan Saheb
B)Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
C)Chaudhary Shaukatullah
D)Liaquat Ali Khan
Answer: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
- Q. Who was popularly known as Africa’s Gandhi?
A)Firoz Gandhi
B)Mir Karzai
C)Nelson Mandela
D)M.K.Gandhi
Answer: Nelson Mandela
- Q. Which of the following trio leaders referred to as Lal, Bal and Pal during the freedom movement?
A)Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
B)Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
C)Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Gopala Krishna Gokhale
D)Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and C. Rajagopalachari
Answer: Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
- Q. On which date was the announcement formally made that India and Pakistan would be made free?
A)June 3, 1947
B)May 2, 1947
C)July 4, 1947
D)August 5, 1957
Answer: June 3, 1947
- Q. The battle of Thermopylae was fought between
A)Athens and Rome
B)Sparta and Athens
C)Greece City States and Persia
D)Rome and Carthage
Answer: Greece City States and Persia
- Q. When did Charlemagne conquer the Lombards?
A)753
B)752
C)757
D)774
Answer: 774
- Q. Which is the oldest trade Union organisation in India?
A)Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
B)Indian National Trade Union Cogress (INTUC)
C)All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
D)Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)
Answer: All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
- Q. Velu Thampi led a revolt against the British in state of
A)Baroda
B)Travancore
C)Hyderabad
D)Mysore
Answer: Travancore
- Q. Find the correct pair of Poet in the Court of the King during Ancient India
A)Harisena : Chandragupta II
B)Vasumitra : Kanishka
C)Kalidasa : Samudragupta II
D)Banabhatta : Pulkesin II
Answer: Vasumitra : Kanishka
- Q. Name the king who invaded Delhi and plundered the Kohinoor diamond __________
A)Firuz Shah
B)Nadir Shah
C)Mohammed Shah
D)Mohammed Ghori
Answer: Nadir Shah
- Q. During the reign of which ruler Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta visited India?
A)Akbar
B)Aurangazeb
C)Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
D)Alauddin Khalji
Answer: Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
- Q. Which of the following is not a religion developed in ancient time (i.e. In B.C)?
A)Zorastranianism
B)Shintoism
C)Islam
D)Tasism
Answer: Islam
- Q. Which of the following is not true about Tipu Sultan?
A)His autobiography was Tarikh-i-Khudai
B)He was a Great admirer of Jagadguru Sankracharya of Sringeri
C)He died during the fourth Anglo-Mysore war
D)He laid the foundation of Krishnaraj Sagar Dam on Cauvery
Answer: His autobiography was Tarikh-i-Khudai
- Q. Who started the Saka Era which is still used by the Government of India?
A)Vikramaditya
B)Kanishka
C)Samudra Gupta
D)Ashoka
Answer: Kanishka
- Q. The permanent settlement was made in Bengal in the sphere of revenue administration by
A)Hastings
B)William Pitt
C)William Bentic
D)Lord Cornwallis
Answer: Lord Cornwallis
- Q. Boston Tea Party’ protest was associated with the revolution of
A)Italy
B)America
C)Franch
D)India
Answer: America
- Q. “Middle Ages” in Western Europe includes the period __________
A)Beginning of Byzantine through the end of the Roman Empire
B)AD 300 - AD 1600
C)Beginning of Early Christian through the 13th or 14th centuries
D)End of the Roman Empire through the Byzantine period
Answer: Beginning of Early Christian through the 13th or 14th centuries
- Q. After leaving the Congress, Subhash Chandra Bose formed, in 1939, his own party, named
A)Revolutionary Socialist Bloc
B)Socialist Bloc
C)Forward Bloc
D)Socialist-Congress Bloc
Answer: Forward Bloc
- Q. Who said “Curzon’s partition of Bengal gave unwitting initiative to events of such magnitude which returned many years later to port with the cargo of freedom”?
A)Dr. S.Gopal
B)Syed Hasan Imam
C)M.A. Ansari
D)Bharat Kumar
Answer: Dr. S.Gopal
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