Question: By which one of the following Acts did the Governor General of Bengal become the Governor General of India?
1. The Charter Act of 1793
2. The Regulating Act
3. The Pitt’s India Act
4. The Charter Act of 1833
Answer: 4
Question: During whose reign did Sir Thomas Roe have regular attendance at the Moghul Court to secure commercial privileges?
1. Akbar
2. Jehangir
3. Shahjahan
4. Aurangzeb
Answer: 2
Question: Who destroyed Empire of Chalukyas of Badami?
1. Pallavas
2. Cholas
3. Rastrakutas
4. Pandyas
Answer: 3
Question: Who among the following was an ally of Mir Qasim in the battle of Buxar?
1. Shah Alam II
2. Haider Ali
3. Mirzafar
4. Mirmadan
Answer: 1
Question: ‘Fire Temple’ is the worship place of which of the following?
1. Christians
2. Jews
3. Muslims
4. Parses
Answer: 4
Question: The first metal to be used by man was
1. Aluminium
2. copper
3. Iron
4. Silver
Answer: 2
Question: Who, among the following great Mughals, was also a first rate poet?
1. Akbar
2. Babur
3. Jahangir
4. Shah Jahan
Answer: 2
Question: The words ‘Satyameva Jayate’ inscribed in Devanagari script below the abacus of the state Emblem of India have been taken from
1. Mundaka Upanishad
2. Katha Upanished
3. Samaveda
4. Yajurveda
Answer: 1
Question: Aryabhatta , believed to have been born in the 5th century AD, was the most renowned scholar of
1. Astronomy
2. 5
3. Medicine
4. Physiology
Answer: 1
Question: The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in the year
1. 1930
2. 1931
3. 1925
4. 1940
Answer: 2
Question: The magnificent temple at ‘Halebid’ was established by the
1. Rayas
2. Haysalas
3. Cholas
4. Pandyas
Answer: 2
Question: The Indian Independence League was set up by
1. Rashbehari Bose
2. S.M. Joshi
3. Aruna Asaf Ali
4. Jayaprakash Narayan
Answer: 1
Question: India House is Located in
1. London
2. New Delhi
3. Mumbai
4. Kolkata
Answer: 1
Question: Mahatma Gandhi started his first Satyagraha on the Indian soil in 1917 at
1. Ahmedabad
2. Champaran
3. Sabarmati
4. Bardoli
Answer: 2
Question: Chandigarh was designed by
1. Edward Lutyens
2. Michelangelo
3. Wren
4. Le Corbusier
Answer: 4
Question: Pulakesin II was defeated by
1. Narasimhavarman
2. Simhavishnu
3. Mahendravarman
4. Rajaraja
Answer: 1
Question: Rabindranath Tagore renounced the Knighthood in 1919 as a Protest against the
1. Mob Violence that took place
2. Jallianwala Bagh massacre
3. Racial violence between the Hindus and the Muslims
4. The British refusing to grant independence to India
Answer: 2
Question: To which personality Gandhiji gave the title ‘Deen Bandhu’?
1. Aurobindo Ghosh
2. C.F.Andrews
3. Vinoba Bhave
4. C.R.Das
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following rulers belongs to Slave Dynasty?
1. Humayun
2. lltutmish
3. Alauddin Khilji
4. Shershah Suri
Answer: 2
Question: “The Home Rule Movement” during the First World War was launched by
1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Motilal Nehru and C.R. Das
3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
4. Mrs. A. Besant and B.G. Tilak
Answer: 4
Question: India switched to the decimal system of coinage in
1. 1947
2. 1950
3. 1957
4. 1962
Answer: 3
Question: Third Battle of Panipat was fought between
1. Babar and Ibrahim Lodi
2. Ahmed Shah Abdali and the Marathas
3. Shivaji and the Mughals
4. Akbar and Hemu
Answer: 2
Question: Who was the Italian traveller to visit Vijayanagar during the heydays of Vijayanagar Empire?
1. Durate Barobose
2. Bernier
3. Thomas Roe
4. Nicolo Conti
Answer: 4
Question: Chalukya ruler, Pulakesin II, defeated
1. Samudragupta
2. Chandragupta
3. Harshavardhan
4. Dharmapala
Answer: 3
Question: Tirupati temple is located in
1. Karnataka
2. Andhra Pradesh
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Kerala
Answer: 2
Question: Who presided over the first session of the Indian National Congress in 1885?
1. A.O. Hume
2. Dadabhai Naoroji
3. W.C. Bannerjee
4. Pherozeshah Mehta
Answer: 3
Question: Alberuni was the historian during the period of
1. Mahmud of Ghazni
2. Balban
3. Akbar
4. Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq
Answer: 1
Question: The Vijayanagar empire owes its origin to
1. Krishnadeva Raya
2. Harihara and Bukka
3. Balaji Viswanath
4. Rajaraja Chola
Answer: 2
Question: Who propounded the Saptanga Theory?
1. Manu
2. Charaka
3. Kautilya
4. Tulsidas
Answer: 3
Question: Which one of the following Indus Culture sites gives evidence of a dockyard?
1. Harappa
2. Lothal
3. Mohenjo-Daro
4. Rakhigarhi
Answer: 2