More Questions on History
- Q. In whose reign did the Mughal painting reach its zenith?
A)Akbar
B)Jahangir
C)Shah Jahan
D)Humayun
Answer: Jahangir
- Q. Who was the first chairman of Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
A)Liu Shaoqi
B)Mao Zedong
C)Hua Guofeng
D)Hu Yaobang
Answer: Mao Zedong
- Q. The British attitude towards granting India independence changed partly owing to the
A)Impact of World War II
B)Change in the government of the UK
C)Growing tide of Indian Nationalism
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. Who said, “The State exists because crime exists in society, otherwise there would be no need of a State”?
A)J. S. Mill
B)Herbert Spencer
C)John Locke
D)Tocqueville
Answer: Herbert Spencer
- Q. The eminent Bengali novelist and composer of national song Vande Mataram who aroused a new consciousness in the 19th century Bengal Society was :
A)Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
B)Rabindranath Tagore
C)Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
D)None of the above
Answer: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Q. Who among the following rulers was first to embrace Buddhism?
A)Ajatasatru
B)Ashoka
C)Bindusara
D)Bimbisara
Answer: Ashoka
- Q. Which of the following Sikh Guru compiled the Adi Granth?
A)Guru Govind Singh
B)Guru Nanak
C)Guru Arjan Dev
D)Guru Har rai
Answer: Guru Arjan Dev
- Q. Aruvipuram installation was done by __________
A)Narayana Guru
B)Mahatma Gandhi
C)Chattambi Swamikal
D)C.Kesavan
Answer: Narayana Guru
- 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. Which civilization is known as the birthplace of democracy
A)Indian
B)Romans
C)Greeks
D)Persians
Answer: Greeks
- Q. The word ‘Veda’ has been derived from the root word ‘Vid’ which means
A)Sacredness
B)Divinity
C)Doctrine
D)Knowledge
Answer: Knowledge
- Q. The author of the “The Peri plus of the Erythraean Sea” was a
A)Poet
B)Historian
C)Sailor
D)Musician
Answer: Sailor
- Q. Who built Brihadeshwara Temple at Tanjore?
A)Raja Raj Chola
B)Aditya Chola
C)Rajendra Chola
D)Karikala Chola
Answer: Raja Raj Chola
- Q. The capital of Tipu Sultan, where he died while fighting the Fourth Anglo-Mysore war in 1799, was
A)Mysore
B)Bangalore
C)Seringapatam
D)Hellebid or Halebid
Answer: Seringapatam
- 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. Brahmavidya Panchakam is a Sanskrit work of __________
A)Chattambi Swamikal
B)Sree Narayana Guru
C)K. Madhvan Nair
D)Dr. Palpu
Answer: Sree Narayana Guru
- Q. The pioneer of Indian communism was
A)G.N Ganguly
B)M.N. Roy
C)P.C Chandra
D)None of these
Answer: M.N. Roy
- Q. Who made the famous statement “Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.”
A)Mirabeau
B)John Locke
C)Voltaire
D)Jean Jacques Rousseau
Answer: Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Q. When was the office of District Collector created?
A)1772
B)1786
C)1771
D)1773
Answer: 1772
- Q. In November 1781, Sir Eyre Coote defeated __________ at Porto Nova
A)Marthanda Verma
B)Hyder Ali
C)British
D)Tipu Sultan
Answer: Hyder Ali
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