GK History MCQ's




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 871 :
Yahiya Sirhindi, the author of Tarikh-i-Mubarakshahi, lived during the period of

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

Question 872 :
Kautilya was the Prime Mjnister of which of the following Indian rulers?

  1. Chandragupta Maurya
  2. Chandragupta I
  3. Ashoka
  4. Harshavardhana
  

Question 873 :
The office of the Wakil-us saltanate was held during the first four years of Akbar’s reign by—

  1. Aryans
  2. Kushans
  3. Guptas
  4. Kushanas
  

Question 874 :
Ancient Monuments Preservation Act was passed daring the Viceroyalty of

  1. P. C. Joshi
  2. Acharya Narendra Dev
  3. B. R. Ambedkar
  4. Subhas Chandra Bose
  

Question 875 :
The Huns (barbarians) attacked India in

  1. Hanging
  2. Drinking poison
  3. Shot dead
  4. None of the above
  

Question 876 :
Mira-Bai, the most popular female saint of medieval India, believed in the worship of —

  1. Col. Smith
  2. Col. Mitchell
  3. General Hearsay
  4. Lieutenant Baugh
  

Question 877 :
Aurangzeb face toughest opposition from—

  1. An epic poem
  2. A work on poetics
  3. A play
  4. A work on Buddhist epistemology
  

Question 878 :
Sculptures of the Gandhara School reflect the influence of the

  1. Greeks
  2. Chinese
  3. Romans
  4. Persians
  

Question 879 :
The well known literature of Iran was written by

  1. 1930
  2. 1940
  3. 1950
  4. 1960
  

Question 880 :
Which of the following are characteristics ascribed to Buddhism? - 1) Rejection of the authority of the Vedas - 2) Emphasis on the role of the individual - 3) Belief in the categories of Jiva and Ajiva - 4) Choose of Prakriti and Purusha - Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

  1. Banabhatta
  2. Mayur
  3. Divakar
  4. Jayasena
  

Question 881 :
Yadu - Turvasu referred to the Rigveda were —

  1. Brahmana
  2. Kshatriya
  3. Vaisya
  4. None of these
  

Question 882 :
Which of the Vedas is partly in verse and partly in prose?

  1. Rig
  2. Sama
  3. Yajur
  4. Atharva
  

Question 883 :
Which author translated Bhagawad Gita from Sanskrit to Persian ?

  1. Bana
  2. Abul Fazl
  3. Dara Shikoh
  4. Vyasa
  

Question 884 :
From the scattered skeletal remains of the Harappans found at different sites, the most appropriate conclusion to be drawn would be that there was :

  1. Mass execution
  2. Casual burial of human bodies
  3. Some kind of military assault
  4. Great epidemic
  

Question 885 :
Consider the following passage: His records proclaim him as a feudatory of the emperor Somesvara II. He had his capitals at Talakad in the South and Bankapura in the North. It was in A. D. 1137 that he performed the great ceremony of Tulapursha. The above passage refers to—

  1. Damodar Chapekar
  2. Barindra Ghosh
  3. Jatindranath Banerjee
  4. Prafulla Chaki
  

Question 886 :
The Neolithic Age dates bark to—

  1. Agricultural labor
  2. Working in guilds
  3. Domestic service in Households
  4. Settlement in newly cleared areas
  

Question 887 :
The treaty of Srirangpattnam was signed between the British and—

  1. Haider Ali
  2. Tipu Sultan
  3. Dupllix
  4. Nanjaraj
  

Question 888 :
Which one of the following European trading groups first established its factory at Surat?

  1. The Portuguese
  2. The Dutch
  3. The ‘English
  4. The French
  

Question 889 :
The spiritual leader associated with the founding of Vijayanagara kingdom was

  1. Cholas
  2. Pallavas
  3. Pandyas
  4. Rashtrakutas
  

Question 890 :
The drain of Wealth from Bengal began in—

  1. Tabaqat-i-Akbari
  2. Ain-i-Akbari
  3. Tuhfah-i-Akbarshahi
  4. Badshahnama
  

Question 891 :
At which place the All India Khilafat Conference was held in 1919?

  1. Vinoba Bhave
  2. Sundar Lal Bahuguna
  3. Jawahar Lal Nehru
  4. Acharya Kriplani
  

Question 892 :
In which of the following areas was the Mahalwari system introduced by the English?

  1. North-west provinces
  2. The Gangetic valley
  3. The parts of central India and Punjab
  4. All of the above
  

Question 893 :
Ain­I­Akbari is the ….......... part of Akbar­nama

  1. First
  2. Second
  3. Third
  4. Fourth
  

Question 894 :
GHG stands for

  1. Green House Grant
  2. Green House Gas
  3. Geographical House Grant
  4. Green Hosting Gear
  

Question 895 :
SNDP Yogam was formed in the year

  1. 1903
  2. 1896
  3. 1908
  4. 1914
  

Question 896 :
The tenure of the Lok Sabha is ____________ years.

  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 25
  

Question 897 :
The term Nirgrantha is associated with—

  1. Chambal
  2. Ganga
  3. Yumuna
  4. Godavari
  

Question 898 :
Who among the following were the allies of Mir Qasim in the battle of Buxar in 1764?

  1. Muzaffar Jung and Muhammad Khan Bangash
  2. Shuja-ud-Daulah and Muhammad Ali
  3. Shuja-ud-Daulah and Shah Alam II
  4. Shah Alam II and Muhammad Ali
  

Question 899 :
The main object of Khilafat Movement was to force the _______Government to change its attitude towards Turkey and to restore the Sultan.

  1. British
  2. Austrian
  3. American
  4. Serbian
  

Question 900 :
The president of the All India Kishan Sabha in 1936 was—18th century has been correctly called theThe first Rashtrakuta-ruler who successfully invaded North India was —

  1. Knowledge
  2. Worship
  3. Visiting Tirthas
  4. None of these