GK History MCQ's




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 541 :
What was the normal form of government during the Rigvedic age?

  1. Sangapur
  2. Kaimur range
  3. Mirzapur District
  4. Maski
  

Question 542 :
Which of the following pairs of dynasties and cognomens used by them is/are correctly matched? 1) Cholas : Rajkesari and Parakesari 2) Pandyas : Satyavakya and Nitimarga 3) Western Gangas : Marvarman and Chadaiyavarman

  1. 1908
  2. 1907
  3. 1909
  4. 1910
  

Question 543 :
Which Technique was known as prepared core technique?

  1. 1 and 2
  2. I and 3
  3. 2 and 3
  4. 1, 2 and 3
  

Question 544 :
Who among the following rulers held a religious assembly at Prayag every five years?

  1. Ashoka
  2. Kanishka
  3. Harshavardhana
  4. Chandragupta Vikramaditya
  

Question 545 :
Who said, 'I therefore want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn if it can be had'?

  1. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  2. J. B. Kripalani
  3. Jawahar1a1 Nehru
  4. Rajendra Prasad
  

Question 546 :
18th century has been correctly called the

  1. 3rd century AD
  2. 4th century AD
  3. 5th century AD
  4. 6th century AD
  

Question 547 :
The paintings of Palaeolithic age have not been found in—

  1. Central Asia
  2. Iran
  3. Europe
  4. Asia Minor
  

Question 548 :
Who among the following had set up an association called Mitra Mela?

  1. P. Mitra
  2. V.D. Savarkar
  3. Barindra Kumar Ghosh
  4. Chapekar Brothers
  

Question 549 :
The Mughal Emperor, who built the Peacock Throne? – -

  1. Angula — Unit of linear measure
  2. Veli — Unit for measuring space
  3. Kalam — Unit of liquid measure
  4. Kalanju— Unit of weight
  

Question 550 :
Which of the following is correct?

  1. Arikamedu
  2. Uraiyar
  3. Karkai
  4. Alangulam
  

Question 551 :
By which Act, Rule of East India Company ended in India?

  1. Regulating Act, 1773
  2. Pitt’s India Act, 1784
  3. Government of India Act,1858
  4. Morley-Minto Act, 1909
  

Question 552 :
Mesopotamian math’s was called sexagesimal because they counted

  1. Constellations
  2. Eclipses
  3. The solar system
  4. 12 division of the sky
  

Question 553 :
Which one of the following philosophies is associated with Jainism?

  1. Boddhisatva
  2. Kirg
  3. Merchant
  4. Physician
  

Question 554 :
Consider the following persons — 1) Sir Attar Singh 2) Bhai Teja Singh 3) Sohan Singh Bhakna 4) Kartar Singh Jhabbar . Who among these were not the organizers of the Singh-Sabha Movement?

  1. 1and4
  2. 3and4
  3. 2 and 3
  4. 1 and 2
  

Question 555 :
The High Courts at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras to replace the Sadar Courts of Diwali and Nizamat were established in the year—

  1. 1793
  2. 1831
  3. 1833
  4. 1865
  

Question 556 :
Who among the following was a Satavahana ruler?

  1. Karm Mimamsa
  2. Yoga
  3. Samkhya
  4. Vaisesika
  

Question 557 :
Highest tribal population can be found in-

  1. India
  2. Africa
  3. Australia
  4. Sri Lanka
  

Question 558 :
The British Government decided and declared to leave India by June 1948 in—

  1. 1946A.D.
  2. February 1947A.D.
  3. April 1947A.D.
  4. June 1947 A.D.
  

Question 559 :
The Dutch established their first trading centre at—

  1. Surat
  2. Calicut
  3. Cochin
  4. Pondicherry
  

Question 560 :
Louis XVI and Marie Antonitte were executed alongwith their children in

  1. 1, 2-4
  2. 2, 3-5
  3. 3, 4-6
  4. 4, 5-6
  

Question 561 :
During the reign of Bind Sara there was unrest at—

  1. Ujjayani
  2. Pushkalavati
  3. Takshasila
  4. Rajagriha
  

Question 562 :
‘Kumarsambhavam’ describes the story of birth of—

  1. Buddhist
  2. Jama
  3. Shakta
  4. Vaishanava
  

Question 563 :
Who among the following had written a play ‘Neel Darpan’ in 1860?

  1. Dinbandhu Mitra
  2. Sharat Chand Chatopadhya
  3. Bankim Chandra Chatterji
  4. Rabindra Nath Tagore
  

Question 564 :
Kunwar Singh was a ruined - discontented Zamindar of—

  1. Kabir
  2. Dadu
  3. Guru Nanak
  4. Ravidas
  

Question 565 :
As part of the Civil Disobedience Movement there was defiance of forest laws in—

  1. The Madras Presidency and Orissa
  2. Maharashtra, Karnataka and the Central Provinces
  3. Kerala, Gujarat and Assam
  4. Bengal and Orissa
  

Question 566 :
Mushakavamsa kavya deals with the dynastic history of the rulers of which region ?

  1. Valluvanadu
  2. Thiruvitamkur
  3. Kolathunadu
  4. Venadu
  

Question 567 :
Consider the following events: 1) August Offer 2) Poona Pact 3) Third Round Table Conference 4) Communal Award ..The correct chronological sequence of these events is —

  1. M.N.Roy
  2. Jayaprakash Narayan
  3. Subhash Chandra Bose
  4. Jawaharlal Nehru
  

Question 568 :
However, __________ shocked everybody by declaring Lok Sabha elections in January 1977 bringing an end to draconian Emergency.

  1. Indira Gandhi
  2. Ramakrishna Hegde,
  3. HD Deve Gowda,
  4. LK Advani,
  

Question 569 :
What was considered as Varna Samkara?

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

Question 570 :
The Congress ministries in the seven provinces of British India resigned in October 1939 because—

  1. The village court of justice
  2. An assembly of adult men in agraharas
  3. A Committee of People from all castes
  4. A Committee of nattars