More Questions on History
- Q. The Khalji Sultans of Delhi were
A)Afghans
B)Mongols
C)Turks
D)A Jat tribe
Answer: Turks
- Q. In the Battle of Haldighati the Mughal troops were commanded by
A)Raja Man Singh of Amber
B)Asaf khan
C)Qazi Khan
D)Todar Mal
Answer: Raja Man Singh of Amber
- Q. MSP means __________
A)Mysore Special police
B)Malabar Special Police
C)Madras Special police
D)Mappila Special Police
Answer: Malabar Special Police
- Q. Who said “The Simmon Commission Report should be thrown on a heap of rubbish”?
A)Shivaswami Iyer
B)Mahatma Gandhi
C)Mohammad Ali Jinnah
D)Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Shivaswami Iyer
- Q. Absolute sovereign power of the Monarch was advocated by
A)Rousseau
B)Thomas Hobbes
C)John Locke
D)Karl Marx
Answer: Thomas Hobbes
- Q. The Bengal Regulation Act of 1829 dealt with which of the following issues primarily
A)Female infanticide
B)Abolition of sati
C)Child marriages
D)Dowry prohibition
Answer: Abolition of sati
- Q. Cortez discovered Mexico in the year
A)1519
B)1506
C)1532
D)1560
Answer: 1519
- Q. Who started the Sharda Sadan in Bombay?
A)Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
B)Ramabai Saraswati
C)Lord Edwin Montague
D)Dorothy Jinarajadasa
Answer: Ramabai Saraswati
- Q. Who had succeeded Mir Jumla as governor of Bengal in the reign of Aurangzeb?
A)Izid Bakhsh
B)Siphr Sukoh
C)Shaista Khan
D)Shah Shuja
Answer: Shaista Khan
- Q. Under the Mughals the Governor was popularly known as
A)Wazir
B)Subahdar
C)Vakil
D)Faujdar
Answer: Subahdar
- Q. Where is the Bada Imambara located?
A)Lucknow
B)Agra
C)Patna
D)Allahabad
Answer: Lucknow
- Q. Gandhi wanted the students to spend their vacations in
A)Social service
B)Studies
C)Games
D)Rebellious deeds
Answer: Social service
- Q. Which book described the Arab invasion of Sindh for the very first time?
A)Baburnama
B)Shahnama
C)Akbarnama
D)Chachnama
Answer: Chachnama
- Q. Who proclaimed the First Crusade?
A)Peter the Hermit
B)Alexios I Komnenos
C)Pope Gregory VII
D)Pope Urban II
Answer: Pope Urban II
- Q. Jathi Nirnayam is the work of __________
A)C. Kesavan
B)Sree Narayana Guru
C)Nataraja Guru
D)T. K. Madhavan
Answer: Sree Narayana Guru
- Q. Waterloo is located in
A)France
B)England
C)Spain
D)Belgium
Answer: Belgium
- Q. Who composed ‘The History of the Kings of Britain’?
A)Geoffrey of Monmouth
B)Ambrosius Aurelianus
C)Thomas Malory
D)Vortigern
Answer: Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Q. The Indian Civil Service Examination was thrown open to all by the Act of
A)1858
B)1853
C)1813
D)1784
Answer: 1858
- Q. From which of the following Upanishads the words ‘Satyameva Jayate’ inscribed in Devanagari Script below the abacus of the state Emblem are?
A)Yajurveda
B)Prashna
C)Mundaka
D)Ishavasya
Answer: Mundaka
- Q. After the 1935 elections, the only two provinces out of eleven which had non-Congress ministries were
A)Assam and Kerala
B)Bengal and Punjab
C)Bengal and Assam
D)Punjab and Kerala
Answer: Bengal and Punjab
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