More Questions on History
- Q. Who designated the administrative head of the district as Collector?
A)Cornwallis
B)Warren Hastings
C)MacPherson
D)Clive
Answer: MacPherson
- Q. Who said the given statement – “I came alone and I am going alone. I have not done well to the country and the people, and of the future there is no hope”
A)Dara Shikoh
B)Mir Jumla
C)Jahangir
D)Aurangzeb
Answer: Aurangzeb
- Q. Vardhamana Mahavira is also known as
A)Great teacher
B)Jina
C)Great preacher
D)Jain
Answer: Jina
- Q. When was Xerxes I murdered?
A)460 BC
B)465 BC
C)449 BC
D)447 BC
Answer: 465 BC
- Q. Who said “one religion one caste and one God for mankind?”
A)Swami Sachidanand Sarshwati
B)Dayanand Sarshwati
C)Swami Ramanand Sarshwati
D)Narayan Guru
Answer: Narayan Guru
- Q. Which of the following state was not the victim of “The Subsidiary Alliance System”?
A)Satara
B)Mysore
C)Awadh
D)Hyderabad
Answer: Satara
- Q. Which language was mostly used for the propagation of Buddhism?
A)Prakrit
B)Sanskrit
C)Pali
D)Sauraseni
Answer: Pali
- Q. Which of the following pair of Congress Session is not correctly matched?
A)Madras Session 1927: Independence Resolution passed for the first time at the instance of Jawaharlal Nehru
B)Nagpur Session 1920: Changes in the Constitution of the Congress
C)Calcutta Session 1928: Return of Gandhi to active politics after six years
D)Lahore Session 1929: Resolution on Fundamental Rights and National Economic Policy
Answer: Lahore Session 1929: Resolution on Fundamental Rights and National Economic Policy
- Q. Which of the following pair of author & book is incorrectly matched?
A)Dadabhai Naoroji: Poverty and the Un-British rule in India
B)Rabindra Nath Tagore: Gora
C)Dinabandhu Mitra: Nil Darpan
D)R. C. Dutt: History of India
Answer: R. C. Dutt: History of India
- Q. The Renaissance movement is described as the ending of
A)Ancient Era
B)Pre Historic Era
C)Medieval Era
D)Modern Era
Answer: Medieval Era
- Q. The original Buddhist religious texts had been written in
A)Sanskrit
B)Brahmi
C)Pali
D)Magadhi
Answer: Pali
- Q. The Religious lessons of ‘Jews’ are called
A)Musa Sanhita (Torah)
B)Gnome Collection (Sukti Sangraha)
C)Tripitaka
D)Tend Alesta
Answer: Musa Sanhita (Torah)
- Q. Who wrote Dasa Sloki, which deals with three realities (tri-tattava) –Brahma (Krishna), soul (Chit) and matter (Achit)?
A)Ramanuja
B)Nimbarka
C)Madhva
D)Vallabhacharya
Answer: Nimbarka
- Q. The Quit India Movement was Launched in 1942 in the month of
A)March
B)January
C)August
D)December
Answer: August
- Q. Vivekananda felt that the Parliament would provide the right forum to present his Master’s message to the world, and so he decided to go to America. Another reason which prompted Swamiji to go to America was to seek financial help for his project of uplifting the masses. Swamiji, however, wanted to have an inner certitude and divine call regarding his mission. Both of these he got while he sat in deep meditation on the rock-island at __________
A)America
B)Mumbai
C)Kanyakumari
D)Chennai
Answer: Kanyakumari
- Q. Akbar held his religious discussion in
A)Panch Mahal
B)Jodhabai's Palace
C)Ibadat Khana
D)Buland Darwaza
Answer: Ibadat Khana
- 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. According to Jains, what was the number of Gandhars of Sumtinath Tirthankar?
A)100
B)50
C)150
D)200
Answer: 100
- Q. Assertion (A): The invasions of Krishnadeva Raya into the territories of Prataparudra were inconclusive. Reason (R): Krishnadeva Raya invaded the territories of the Gajpathi not for the latter’s extinction but only for the recovery of lost territories.
A)Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
C)A is true but R is false
D)A is false but R is true
Answer: A is false but R is true
- Q. The Sikh military sect ‘the Khalsa’ was introduced by
A)Guru Har Krishan
B)Guru Har Rai
C)Guru Gobind Singh
D)Guru Tegh Bahadur
Answer: Guru Gobind Singh
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