More Questions on History
- Q. Lakh Baksh’ was a title given to ruler
A)Balban
B)Iltutmish
C)Raziya
D)Qutb-din-Aibak
Answer: Qutb-din-Aibak
- Q. Who among the following attacked the Somnath temple?
A)Muhammad Ghori
B)Mahmud of Ghazni
C)Iltutmish
D)Qutb-ud-din Aibak
Answer: Mahmud of Ghazni
- Q. The objective(s) of the Kuka Movement in the Punjab was/were
A)The revival of Sikh sovereignty
B)To purify Sikh religion of its abuses and superstitions
C)Both A and B above
D)The revival of the Khalsa
Answer: Both A and B above
- Q. Who wrote Si- Yu- ki?
A)Selucas Nicator
B)Harshavardhan
C)Hieun Tsiang
D)Megasthanese
Answer: Hieun Tsiang
- Q. Cripps Mission came to India
A)1945
B)1946
C)1942
D)1940
Answer: 1942
- Q. Where was the Ottonian dynasty established?
A)Germany
B)Denmark
C)Iceland
D)Scandinavia
Answer: Germany
- Q. Mahatma Gandhi had been joined the Champaran struggle by
A)Rajendra Prasad and Anugraha Narayan Sinha
B)Vallabhbhai Patel and Vinoba Bhave
C)Mahadev Desai and Maniben Patel
D)Rajendra Prasad and Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Rajendra Prasad and Anugraha Narayan Sinha
- Q. The Government of India Act of 1935 consists of __________ sections and 10 schedules
A)330
B)300
C)321
D)331
Answer: 321
- Q. The first Sultan of Delhi to issue regular currency and declare Delhi as the capital of his empire was
A)Aram Shah
B)Iltutmish
C)Qutb-ud-din Albak
D)Balban
Answer: Iltutmish
- Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding Poona Pact (1932)? I. It refers to an agreement between Babasaheb Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi signed on 24 September 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail in Pune (now in Maharashtra), India. II. It was signed by Pt Madan Mohan Malviya and B. R. Ambedkar and some Dalit leaders to break the fast unto death undertaken by Gandhi in Yerwada prison to annul the Macdonald Award giving separate electorates to Dalits for electing members of state legislative assemblies in British India
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I and II
D)Neither I nor II
Answer: Both I and II
- Q. William Shakespeare was born in the year
A)1523
B)1487
C)1564
D)1588
Answer: 1564
- Q. Find out the odd one
A)AI-Biruni: Given valuable account about Harshavardhana
B)Hiuen-Tsang: Acquired knowledge of Indian society through literature
C)Megasthenes: Describes about the Indo-Persian relations
D)Ptolemy: Written a geographical treatise on India
Answer: Ptolemy: Written a geographical treatise on India
- Q. Who discovered a direct sea route to India?
A)Germans
B)Portuguese
C)The French
D)The Dutch
Answer: Portuguese
- 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. Which revolutionary was associated with the foundation of the Punjab Navjivan Bharat Sabha in 1926?
A)Amir Chand
B)Rash Behari Bose
C)Basant Kumar Biswas
D)Bhagat Singh
Answer: Bhagat Singh
- Q. In 1904 the then Maharaja of . . . . . . exempted Narayana Guru from personal appearances in court, an honour recognizing the Guru as a distinguished living personality
A)Thalassery
B)Kannur
C)Travancore
D)Cochi
Answer: Travancore
- Q. The year 788 AD was a good one for Hinduism. Why?
A)Harsha Vardhana, the last Buddhist king, died.
B)Shankracharya was born that year.
C)Samudragupta converted to Hinduism.
D)All Muslim invaders were defeated.
Answer: Shankracharya was born that year.
- Q. What benefits did the Poona Pact offer to the depressed classes?
A)20% reservation in the provincial legislature
B)44 seats in the central legislature
C)18% seats in the central legislature and 148 seats in the provincial legislature
D)50% reservation in the ICS
Answer: 18% seats in the central legislature and 148 seats in the provincial legislature
- Q. When was First Anglo Sikh War fought?
A)1826 A.D.
B)1846 A.D.
C)1725 A.D.
D)1816 A.D.
Answer: 1846 A.D.
- Q. The Third Buddhist Council was patronised by
A)Ashoka
B)Kanishka
C)Mahakashyap Upali
D)Sabakarni
Answer: Ashoka
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