More Questions on History
- Q. Which noted scholar wrote Vikramankadevacharita?
A)Bilhana
B)Kalhan
C)Kalidas
D)Jaydeva
Answer: Bilhana
- Q. The capital city of Umayyad Caliphate was
A)Madina
B)Baghdad
C)Kahira
D)Damascus
Answer: Damascus
- Q. Where Ajitnatha Tirthankar was born?
A)Kiskindha
B)Ayodhya
C)Nasik
D)Ujjain
Answer: Ayodhya
- Q. Who strongly opposed sectarianism and rites and insisted on adoption of Hindi in place of Sanskrit?
A)Ramanuja
B)Chaitanya
C)Sankaracharya
D)Ramananda
Answer: Ramananda
- Q. In which of the following sects was Bindusara interested?
A)Jainism
B)Buddhism
C)Ajivakas
D)Lokayata
Answer: Ajivakas
- Q. Who was the first Caliph?
A)Abu Bakr
B)Sulaiman, the Great
C)Imam Hussain
D)Constantine
Answer: Abu Bakr
- Q. Lytton held an Imperial Durbar at Delhi in 1877 to announce __________ as the Empress of India at a time when a large part of the country was in the grip of a severe famine
A)Queen Victoria
B)Queen Elizabeth
C)Queen Anne
D)Queen Marie
Answer: Queen Victoria
- Q. The Ghadar Party was founded (November 1913) at San Francisco USA by
A)Lala Hardayal
B)Madam Bhikaji Cama
C)Shyamji Krishana Verma
D)Both A and B above
Answer: Lala Hardayal
- Q. Which of the following statements about the Rigvedic Aryans is incorrect?
A)We have some indications of polyandry in this period
B)We do not find any trace of widow remarriage in the Rigvedic period
C)There are no examples of child marriage in this period
D)The practice of levirate was known
Answer: We do not find any trace of widow remarriage in the Rigvedic period
- Q. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
A)Lord Minto - India Councils Act, 1909
B)Lord Dalhousie - Doctrine of Lapse
C)Lord Wellesley - Subsidiary Alliance
D)Lord Curzon - Vernacular Press Act, 1878
Answer: Lord Curzon - Vernacular Press Act, 1878
- Q. Who among the following was the first grammarian of the Sanskrit language?
A)Maitreyi
B)Kalhana
C)Kalidasa
D)Panini
Answer: Panini
- Q. Which of the following literary personalities made the greatest contribution in arousing patriotism in the 19th century?
A)Bankim Chandra with his historical novels culminating with Ananda Math (1882)
B)Dinbandhu Mitra's exposure of Indigo planters in Nil Darpana
C)Vishnu Krishna Chiplunkar's Journal Nibandhamaka (1874-81)
D)Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850-85) through his plays, poems and journals advocating use of Swadeshi articles and use of Hindi in courts
Answer: Bankim Chandra with his historical novels culminating with Ananda Math (1882)
- Q. The first to come and last to leave India were
A)The French
B)The Portuguese
C)The English
D)The Dutch
Answer: The Portuguese
- Q. Which of the following are the main reasons for failure of Young Bengal Movement? I. Suppression by British new law II. Did not involve peasant cause III. Radicalism was bookish in character and did not develop links with masses
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both II and III
D)All the above
Answer: Both II and III
- Q. When was the All India Women’s Conference founded?
A)1925
B)1924
C)1926
D)1927
Answer: 1927
- Q. From which language, has the term ‘democracy’ been derived?
A)Hebrew
B)Greek
C)English
D)Latin
Answer: Greek
- Q. Which of the following was the basic premise of Bhakti Movement?
A)Bhakti or Single minded, uninterrupted and extreme devotion to God was the only means of Salvation
B)Bhakti or Single minded, uninterrupted and extreme devotion to God with the help of Brahmins was the only means of Salvation
C)Both A & B
D)None of the above
Answer: Bhakti or Single minded, uninterrupted and extreme devotion to God was the only means of Salvation
- Q. When did the Soviet Union disintegrated into Independent Republics?
A)1991
B)1990
C)1992
D)1993
Answer: 1991
- Q. Narendra MandaI was inaugurated by Duke of Connaught in the year
A)1921
B)1920
C)1931
D)1910
Answer: 1921
- Q. Who was the founder of a society known as ‘Abhinav Bharat’ ?
A)B B Upadhyay
B)J K Hikki
C)Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
D)None of the above
Answer: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
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