GK History MCQ's




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 1051 :
William Digbey, a British Writer had calculated that the number of who died during famines from 1854 to 1901 was almost over—

  1. 28825000
  2. 30575000
  3. 32853000
  4. 305500
  

Question 1052 :
As part of the Civil Disobedience Movement there was defiance of forest laws in—

  1. the monarchy
  2. socialism
  3. revolutionaries
  4. kingship
  

Question 1053 :
The British East India Company became Zamindar in Bengal after renting the village of—

  1. Matriarchal
  2. Patriarcha1
  3. Rigid
  4. Narrow
  

Question 1054 :
The Kheda Satyagraha and Champaran agitation in 1918 was one of_________.first significant steps to achieve Indian independence.

  1. Rabindranath Tagore’s
  2. Gandhiji
  3. Motilal Nehru’s
  4. Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s
  

Question 1055 :
Raj Ballabh, Ghasiti Begam, Shaukat Jung were the arch foes of—

  1. Alivardi .Khan
  2. Siraj-ud-daulah
  3. Mir Qasim
  4. Nanda Kumar
  

Question 1056 :
Thervada is a branch associated with

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

Question 1057 :
Who were the most popular Sufis?

  1. The Chalukayas
  2. The Rashtrakutas
  3. The Pahallavas
  4. The Cholas
  

Question 1058 :
The Emergency draft was hurriedly sent to the President of India ________ who signed it immediately.

  1. Fakruddin Ali Ahmed
  2. George Fernandes
  3. Dr.Rajendra Prasad
  4. EMS
  

Question 1059 :
The four varnas are mentioned for the first time in the—

  1. The people were not settled permanently in one locality
  2. The expenditure of the government was low
  3. The king was not considered as the proprietor of the land
  4. The people were not accustomed to paying land tax
  

Question 1060 :
The First census in India was held in—

  1. 1861
  2. 1871
  3. 1881
  4. 1891
  

Question 1061 :
Megasthenese was succeeded as ambassador to the Mauryan court by—

  1. workers rights
  2. landlords rights
  3. industrialists rights
  4. people rights
  

Question 1062 :
Which of the following officers held the office of minister under the Mughals?

  1. Akbar
  2. Aurangazeb
  3. Nadirshah
  4. Shah Jahan
  

Question 1063 :
______.visited Malabar in 1921, giving a further impetus to the Khilafat movement.

  1. Gandhiji
  2. Motilal Nehru
  3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  4. Sri Aurobindo
  

Question 1064 :
The fundamental principles of Pancha shila were laid down in the year;

  1. 1961
  2. 1955
  3. 1954
  4. 1950
  

Question 1065 :
‘Manusmriti’ regards the reign lying between -the rivers Sarasvati and Drishadwati as—

  1. Kaveripattanam
  2. Muzisir
  3. Korkai
  4. Tandai
  

Question 1066 :
Which one of the following is not matched correctly?

  1. Amri
  2. Surkotda
  3. Lothal
  4. Kalibanga
  

Question 1067 :
Which of the following were exported from meluhha sometimes identified as an Harrappa area? 1) Black wood 2) Ivory 3) Gold 4) Lead

  1. Cattle and land disputes
  2. Foreign invasions
  3. Showing supremacy
  4. Intrigues of the leaders
  

Question 1068 :
Which of the following is called ‘Yavanpria’?

  1. They are atheist
  2. They are welcomed by the vaishyas
  3. They advocated ahimsa
  4. They believed in rigorous asceticism
  

Question 1069 :
Ziggurat was a temple in the city of

  1. 3, 2, 1, 4
  2. 4, 3, 2, 1
  3. 2, 4, 1, 3
  4. 4, 1, 3, 2
  

Question 1070 :
Who among the following Mughal rulers has been called as the ‘Prince of Builders?’

  1. Babar
  2. Akbar
  3. Jehangir
  4. Shahjehan
  

Question 1071 :
The first ruler of India who defeafed Muhammad of Ghor was —

  1. Mularaja II of Gujarat
  2. Prathviraj Chauhan of Delhi
  3. Jayachandra of Kannauj
  4. Parmaldeva of Bundelkhanda
  

Question 1072 :
Which of the following were not the new industries introduced by the Britishers?

  1. Ur
  2. Sabha
  3. Nagaram
  4. Nadu
  

Question 1073 :
The word Veda derived from the word

  1. Ved
  2. Dev
  3. Vadam
  4. Vid
  

Question 1074 :
Buddhist scriptures were written in—

  1. Mularaja II of Gujarat
  2. Prathviraj Chauhan of Delhi
  3. Jayachandra of Kannauj
  4. Parmaldeva of Bundelkhanda
  

Question 1075 :
Rabindra Nath Tagore gave up his knighthood because of—

  1. Jalianwalla Bagh tragedy
  2. Brutal Suppression of Civil Disobedience Movement
  3. Execution of Bhagat Singh
  4. Chauri-Chaura incident
  

Question 1076 :
. Every voter of ________.years or above of age is eligible to contest elections to the Lok Sabha.

  1. 21
  2. 23
  3. 24
  4. 18
  

Question 1077 :
Which one among the following has different. kind of cannotation from the other three?

  1. 1910
  2. 1912
  3. 1914
  4. 1916
  

Question 1078 :
Which one of the following was not included in the Navratnas of Akbar?

  1. birbal
  2. Todarmal
  3. Mansingh
  4. Badaoni
  

Question 1079 :
The Palas of Bengal patronised —

  1. Rajasthan
  2. Maharashtra
  3. Afghanistan
  4. The territory between the rivers Saraswati - Ganga
  

Question 1080 :
which of the following distinguish the Vedic Aryans form the Indus people?

  1. belief in supernatural powers
  2. cultivation of land
  3. domestication of animals
  4. use of iron