GK History MCQ's




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 511 :
According to Aryan Invasion Theory, where did the Aryans initially settled in India?

  1. Bihar
  2. Punjab
  3. Gujarat
  4. U.P
  

Question 512 :
Austria, Russia and Prussia formed an alliance called

  1. Brahma Siddhanta
  2. Mahabharata
  3. Panchtantra
  4. Sursuta Samhita
  

Question 513 :
‘Dipavamsa’ was written in—•

  1. Dasas
  2. Dasyus
  3. Mlecchas
  4. Yadus
  

Question 514 :
The Non-co-operation Movement remained relatively weak in —

  1. Gold
  2. House
  3. Cattle wealth
  4. Land
  

Question 515 :
Austria, Russia and Prussia formed an alliance called

  1. l, 2 and 3
  2. 2, 3 and 4
  3. 1 and 4
  4. l, 3 and 4
  

Question 516 :
An All India Khilafat Conference was held at _______on November 23,1919 with Gandhi as its president.

  1. Calcutta
  2. Punjab
  3. Gujarat
  4. Delhi
  

Question 517 :
Which one of the following were included in the ‘antyaja’ category of people mentioned in the ‘Dharamshastras’?

  1. Industrialise India
  2. Bring India to the level of Western countries
  3. Promote the material prosperity of the Indians
  4. Convent India into an agrarian satellite of metropolitan capitalism
  

Question 518 :
Firdausi was the Poet laureate at the court of —

  1. Mohd. Ghori
  2. Jaipal
  3. Mahmud Ghaznavi
  4. None of these
  

Question 519 :
Which of the following stands for ‘Iqta’?

  1. Law of primogeniture
  2. Crown land donated to army officers
  3. State’s share in the war booty
  4. The grant of revenue from a territory in lieu of salary
  

Question 520 :
Cholas were known from the time of —

  1. Parantaka
  2. Vijayalaya
  3. Raja-Raja
  4. Rajendra
  

Question 521 :
The statement that the revolt of 1857 was 'neither the first, nor national, nor war of independence' was made by?

  1. V. D. Savarkar
  2. S. N. Sen
  3. R. C. Majumdar
  4. Benjamin Disraeli
  

Question 522 :
Ancient Indian society was

  1. Indo-Greek art
  2. Indo-Roman art
  3. Indo-European art
  4. Indo-African art
  

Question 523 :
The Egyptian Kings were all called the

  1. Without Nile it would be a desert
  2. It would not develop
  3. It would not be fertile
  4. No transport was possible
  

Question 524 :
Which one of the following Vijayanagar rulers was the author of Amuktamalyada?

  1. Bombay
  2. Hooghly
  3. Surat
  4. Calcutta
  

Question 525 :
Which one of the following was known as Manigramam?

  1. The quarters for jewellers
  2. The principal seat of the worship of Yaska manibhadra
  3. An association of traders
  4. Villages granted tax free to brahmanas in the Chola kingdom
  

Question 526 :
Simon Bolivar was a great leader of the

  1. Illegitimate birth
  2. Revolt against the Varna system
  3. Transgression of Varna boundaries for marriage
  4. Championing the varnashram dharma
  

Question 527 :
The Rigvedic Aryans first used

  1. Chandvardai
  2. Jaisiugh Suri
  3. Nyayacband Sur
  4. Hemachandra
  

Question 528 :
Hammurabi was the greatest king of

  1. Buddhism
  2. Jainism
  3. Hinduism
  4. Sikhism
  

Question 529 :
Common territory is a feature of-

  1. SC
  2. ST
  3. OBC
  4. All of the above
  

Question 530 :
Under Cholas village administration the land revenue was collected by —

  1. Ur
  2. Mahasabha
  3. Uparika
  4. A Special Dal
  

Question 531 :
The Bengal Nawab who collected revenue directly from the ryots thought his agents called ijaradars was —

  1. Aliwardi Khan
  2. Murshid Quli Khan
  3. Shujauddin
  4. Sarfaraz Khan
  

Question 532 :
The Cabinet Delegation consisted of —

  1. Chera : Karikaia
  2. Chola : Simuka
  3. Pandya : Nedunchezhian
  4. Satavahana : Senguttuvan
  

Question 533 :
Kaivalya means—

  1. Square
  2. Round
  3. Cylindrical
  4. Oval
  

Question 534 :
Dramas were written in India by 2nd century AD by the greatest poets of India

  1. Ka1idasa
  2. Bhasa
  3. Ashvagosha
  4. Kamban
  

Question 535 :
The Uprising of 1857 was described as the first-Indian war of independence by—

  1. Ahmed Shah Abdali
  2. Safdarjung
  3. Saadat Khan Burhan-ul-Mulk
  4. Zulfiqar Khan
  

Question 536 :
Fatwa ­i ­ Jahandari is written in which language ?

  1. Arabic
  2. Hindi
  3. Persian
  4. Sanskrit
  

Question 537 :
Which of the following terms denote monastic establishments of different religious affiliations? 1) Vihara 2) Matha 3) Basadi 4) Mandapa . Choose the correct answer from the codes given below —

  1. Samkarshana - Vasudeva
  2. Samkarshana, pradyumna - Vasudeva
  3. Vasudeva only
  4. All the panchviras
  

Question 538 :
Consider the following events— 1) Cornwallis Code 2) North’s Regulating Act 3) Pitt’s India Act . The correct chronological sequence of these events is—

  1. Mirzapur
  2. Jagdishpur
  3. Patna
  4. Muzaffarpur
  

Question 539 :
Of the four events mentioned below, which one was chronologically the last to take place?

  1. Simla conference
  2. Election of July 1946
  3. The offer of the Cabinet Mission Plan
  4. Muslim League joining the Interim Government
  

Question 540 :
Which group of scholars described the Indian post as oriental despotism ?

  1. Indian
  2. colonial
  3. Arab
  4. Cambridge