More Questions on History
- Q. The original Buddhist religious texts had been written in
A)Sanskrit
B)Brahmi
C)Pali
D)Magadhi
Answer: Pali
- Q. Who tried to rediscover India’s past?
A)Max Muller
B)Lord Lytton
C)S. N. Banerjee
D)Gokahale
Answer: Max Muller
- Q. Who attended the Congress of Oppressed Nationalities at Brussels in 1927, on behalf of the National Congress?
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Jawaharlal Nehru
C)Dr. Ansari
D)Motilal Nehru
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
- Q. Who among the following was ruler from The Kushan dynasty?
A)Danti Durga
B)Vikarmaditya
C)Khadphises I
D)Pushyamitra
Answer: Khadphises I
- Q. Who propounded the ‘Eight-Fold Path’ for the end of misery of mankind?
A)Gautam Buddha
B)Mahavir
C)Adi Shankaracharya
D)Kabir
Answer: Gautam Buddha
- Q. What was the name of the father of Rishabhanatha Tirthankar?
A)Sambhavnath
B)Nabhiraya
C)Sumitnath
D)Vasupujya
Answer: Nabhiraya
- Q. Who has written the book “Tuzuk-i- jahangiri”?
A)Jahangir
B)Abul fazl
C)Mulla daud
D)Abdul haq
Answer: Jahangir
- Q. The twenty-third Jaina teacher, Parsva, the immediate predecessor of Mahavira enjoined on his disciples four great vows. To these Mahavira adds which of the followings as the fifth vow?
A)Non-injury
B)Abstention from stealing
C)Brahmacharya or continence
D)Non-attachment
Answer: Brahmacharya or continence
- Q. The striking feature of the Indus Valley Civilization was
A)Agrarian Civilization
B)Urban Civilization
C)Mesolithic Civilization
D)Paleolithic Civilization
Answer: Urban Civilization
- Q. Who wrote, “On the Geneology of Morals”?
A)Immanual Kant
B)Friedrich Nietzsche
C)Karl Marx
D)Sigmund Freud
Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Q. Name the Muslim Invader who destroyed Nalanda University?
A)Muhammad Bin Tuglaq
B)Allaudin Khalji
C)Muhammad Bin Bakhtiyar
D)Muhammad Bin Qasim
Answer: Muhammad Bin Bakhtiyar
- Q. To which of the republic of Buddha belong?
A)Sakyas
B)Licchavis
C)Mallas
D)None of the above
Answer: Sakyas
- Q. The monk who influenced Ashoka to embrace Buddhism was
A)Upagupta
B)Vishnu Gupta
C)Brahma Gupta
D)Brihadratha
Answer: Upagupta
- Q. The second session of the congress met in Calcutta on December 1886, under the president ship of __________
A)Kadambini Ganguli
B)Dadabhai Naoroji
C)Pherozeshah Mehta
D)D.Ewacha
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Q. Shree Narayana Guru was a great socio-religious reformer of
A)Tamil Nadu
B)Kerala
C)Andhra Pradesh
D)Karnataka
Answer: Kerala
- Q. The doctrine of lapse had been put to much use by
A)Lord Bentick
B)Lord Dalhousie
C)Lord Curzon
D)Lord Ripon
Answer: Lord Dalhousie
- Q. Which of the following writers has called Akbar’s Din-i-Ilahi as a monument of his folly, not of wisdom?
A)Vincent Smith
B)Badayuni
C)Barni
D)W.Haig
Answer: Vincent Smith
- Q. Akbar’s concept of Sulh-i-kul (or Qul) means
A)common brotherhood
B)friendship and goodwill to all
C)fraternity and friendship
D)harmony and peace to all
Answer: harmony and peace to all
- Q. Who was famously known as the Tuti-e-Hindustan?
A)Nakhshabi
B)Utbi
C)Amir Khusarau
D)Tansen
Answer: Amir Khusarau
- Q. After the initial success of the Revolt of 1857, the objective for which the leaders of the revolt worked was
A)to form a Federation of Indian States under the aegis of Bhadur Shah II
B)to restore the former glory to the Mughal empire
C)elimination of foreign rule and return of the old order
D)each leader wanted to establish his own power in his respective region
Answer: elimination of foreign rule and return of the old order
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