GK History MCQ's




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 1 :
The number of the Zamindar’ retainers in Akbar’s reign according to Abul Fazi was—-

  1. 1868
  2. 1869
  3. 1870
  4. 1872
  

Question 2 :
Lord Mahavira was the last of the Tirthankaras of

  1. Agriculture
  2. Learning
  3. Fighting
  4. Ruling
  

Question 3 :
Who was the noble serving Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud who lost the top post due to the machinations of Balban?

  1. Mayurasarman
  2. Anantavarman Chodaganga
  3. Yayati Mahasivagupta I
  4. Vishnuvardhana
  

Question 4 :
The Council of the ‘Nine Gems’ is associated with

  1. Ballala Sena
  2. Harshavardhana
  3. Chandragupta II
  4. Devapala
  

Question 5 :
About the 5th century B. C. the Indian satrapy was paying an annual tribute of 320 talent of gold to—

  1. About 44 lakhs
  2. About 48 lakhs
  3. About 52 lakhs
  4. About 55 lakhs
  

Question 6 :
The economic policy of the British in India was to—

  1. Pasupatas
  2. Jainas
  3. Buddha’s
  4. Bhagavatas
  

Question 7 :
Under the supervision of which one of the following European trading companies the town of Qasimbazar produced the largest amount of silk yarn during the seventeenth century?

  1. Oudh
  2. Bihar
  3. Bengal
  4. Andhra
  

Question 8 :
The birthplace of Swami Vivekananda is in which of the following cities?

  1. Cotton only
  2. Cotton - silk
  3. Cotton - wool
  4. Cotton, wool - silk
  

Question 9 :
In the age of Cholas Uraiyur was famous for —

  1. Cotton
  2. Ship building
  3. Pearls
  4. Spices
  

Question 10 :
Among the Panchviras who belonged to the Vrisbni clan, samba was the son of—

  1. 1, 2 - 3
  2. l, 2 - 4
  3. 1, 3 - 4
  4. 2, 3 - 4
  

Question 11 :
Who propounded the theory of ‘Drain of wealth’?

  1. Dadabhai Nauroji
  2. Gandhiji
  3. Nehru
  4. Tilak
  

Question 12 :
In India Wahabi Movement’s important centre was at—

  1. Shankaracharya — Bihar
  2. Chaitanya — Bengal
  3. Mira—Bai — Rajasthan
  4. Dadu — Gujarat
  

Question 13 :
Which among the following is not a feature of village?

  1. Less population
  2. Less diversity
  3. Impersonal relationship
  4. Predominance of primary occupation
  

Question 14 :
The founder of Gadar Party was?

  1. Basudev Balwant Phadke
  2. Vinay Damodar Savarkar
  3. Lala Hardayal
  4. Bhagat Singh
  

Question 15 :
......is considerd as the first historcal chronicle of Kerala

  1. Rajatarangini
  2. Harsha charita
  3. Prithvirja vijaya
  4. Mushakavamsa kavya
  

Question 16 :
Which of the following was not responsible for the spread of Buddhism?

  1. Made further rigid
  2. As usual
  3. Further libralised
  4. none of these
  

Question 17 :
The East India Company began to use the term ‘investments in India’ for—

  1. Their bullion imports to purchase Indian goods
  2. The loot from Buxar for purchasing Indian goods
  3. The profits made from duty free inland trade and the surplus from Diwani revenue
  4. The borrowed money from Indian money lenders for purchases in India
  

Question 18 :
Which one of the following adumbrated principles and constitutional provisions which were later incorporated in the MontaguChelmsford Reforms?

  1. Nehru Report
  2. Wavel Plan
  3. Lucknow Pact
  4. Poona Pact
  

Question 19 :
According to D.D.Kosambi, interpretation of myths is , in order to study early cultures.

  1. unnecessary
  2. irrelevant
  3. necessary
  4. a burden
  

Question 20 :
This site was granted to French East-India Company in 1674 by Shaista Khan, a governor under the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, During the Seven Years' War (1756—63) this town was captured (1757) by the John Company but later (1763) restored to the French. Recaptured by the English in 1778, after the outbreak of the American war of Independence (1776—84) it was restored to the French by the Treaty of Pairs ‘1785). Wrested again by the British in 1793, on the outbreak of the revolutionary wars in Europe, it was finally restored to the French in I15 and remained part of their overseas empire until its transfer to the Indian republic in 1951'. The reference here is to—

  1. Pondicherry
  2. Karaikkal
  3. Chandernagore
  4. Mahe
  

Question 21 :
Bismarck was called the man who gave Germany the policy of

  1. blood - iron
  2. holy wars
  3. holy alliance
  4. triple alliance
  

Question 22 :
Gupta ruler revived one of the following religions —

  1. The cultivation
  2. The village community
  3. The king
  4. The joint family
  

Question 23 :
Which of the following statements regarding the Indus Valley Civilization is not true ?

  1. 12 July, 1789
  2. 13 July, 1789
  3. 14 July, 1789
  4. 16 July, 1790
  

Question 24 :
Nehru's economic policies have often been considered to be ________.in nature.

  1. Socialist
  2. Communist
  3. Capitalist
  4. 1951
  

Question 25 :
Export-trade in pre-Gupta age was most extensive with—

  1. Gandharva marriage
  2. Paisacha marriage
  3. Rakshasa marriage
  4. Brahma marriage
  

Question 26 :
The Special Economic Zone (SEZ) policy in India first came into inception on April 1, _____________

  1. 1900
  2. 1947
  3. 1991
  4. 1991
  

Question 27 :
William Bentink’s far reaching social reforms were meant to remove evils of society, which of the following was not included in these reforms —

  1. Holding of a referendum in the Northwest Frontier Province
  2. Absorption of the State of Hyderabad with the Indian Union
  3. Summoning of the Simla Conference
  4. The Constitution of the Constituent Assembly
  

Question 28 :
In the systems of philosophy created by Indians, we find elements of materialistic philosophy in which of the following systems?

  1. Khwaja Abdus Samad
  2. Syed Au Tabrizi
  3. Basawan
  4. Mansur
  

Question 29 :
In which month Quit India Movement of 1942 started ?

  1. January
  2. July
  3. August
  4. December
  

Question 30 :
The Central Hindu Schoo1 Banaras which served as a nucleus of the Banaras Hindu University was establisl1ed by—

  1. First Anglo-Mysore war
  2. Second Anglo-Mysore war
  3. Third Anglo-Mysore war
  4. Fourth Anglo-Mysore wait