GK History MCQ's




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 91 :
According to the estimate of W.H. Moreland the Population of India m A. D. 1600 was—

  1. Achyuta Patwardhan
  2. Jawaharlal Nehru
  3. Jayaprakash Narayana
  4. Acharya Narendra Dev
  

Question 92 :
The Gupta gold and silver issues were initially based on the coins of the —

  1. Ochre coloured pottery
  2. Black and red ware
  3. Painted grey ware
  4. Northern black polished ware
  

Question 93 :
Of the four events mentioned below, which one was chronologically the last to Lake 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 94 :
How many incarnations of Vishnu according to Bhagvatism?

  1. American War of Independence
  2. French Revolution
  3. Italian Unification
  4. German Unification
  

Question 95 :
Egyptian empire came to an end in the

  1. Never lived together
  2. Came into contact, but never lived together
  3. Came into contact, but lived in different settlements in the same area
  4. Came into contact - lived in the same settlements
  

Question 96 :
Which of the following was a common feature to all Bhakti Saints?

  1. Nagaland
  2. Manipur
  3. Tripura
  4. Mizorm
  

Question 97 :
Excavations at which one of the following sites give evidence of continuous habitation and cultural evolution from the Stone Age to the Harappan culture?

  1. Kalpi
  2. Lakhanauti
  3. Kalinjar
  4. Badaun
  

Question 98 :
The term Nadukul mentioned in the sangam literature—

  1. Srivaishanavism
  2. Kalamukha sect
  3. Virashaivism
  4. Jainism
  

Question 99 :
The earliest-Indian coins are not earlier than—

  1. 7th century B.C.
  2. 5thcentury B.C.
  3. 3rdcenturyl3.C.
  4. 2nd century A. D.
  

Question 100 :
The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was used by Tilak to popularise —

  1. The legal rights of ryots in a famine situation
  2. The Swadeshi Movement in the Bombay Province
  3. Civil Disobedience Movement
  4. The demand for social reforms
  

Question 101 :
Excepting two Jaina Tirthankaras, all the others mentioned in tradition are mythical. The two exceptions include—

  1. Perundevanar
  2. Kamban
  3. Sundaramurthi
  4. Bharavi
  

Question 102 :
Which one of the following was a Buddhist sect which held that constituents of phenomena were not wholly momentary, but existed forever in a latent from?

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

Question 103 :
During the First World War, ________joined the central powersagainst Britain.

  1. America
  2. Britain
  3. France
  4. Turkey
  

Question 104 :
Which one of the following was well known for the production of indigo during the seventeenth century?

  1. Balasore
  2. Kalpi
  3. Lahore
  4. Sarkhej
  

Question 105 :
The Fourth Buddhist Council was held by:

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

Question 106 :
Ramayan in Tamil was written by—

  1. Burhanpur and Sindh
  2. Gujarat
  3. Bengal and Orissa
  4. Bihar
  

Question 107 :
The first translator of Mahabharata into Tamil was —

  1. 10th May
  2. 11th May
  3. 12th May
  4. 13th May
  

Question 108 :
During the later Vedic age the centre of Aryan civilization was —

  1. Jhum
  2. Meglithis
  3. Totem
  4. Microliths
  

Question 109 :
The firebrand trade union leader __________had successfully organised an all India Railways strike bringing the public transport and economy to a halt.

  1. George Fernandes
  2. Fakruddin Ali Ahmed
  3. Jaya Prakash Narayan
  4. AKG
  

Question 110 :
Nagarjuna’s Shunyavada is expounded in—

  1. Yogachara
  2. Vaibhashika
  3. Madhyamika
  4. Sautrantilca
  

Question 111 :
The expression anyavrata (following other practices) is used in the Rigveda with reference to the—

  1. Only Brahman girls
  2. Brahman - Kshatriya girls
  3. Brahman, Kshatriya - Vaisya girls
  4. Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya - Shudra girls
  

Question 112 :
The French King Louis XVI ruled according to

  1. Foldings of the robe
  2. Depicting the physiognomy
  3. Iconography
  4. Style
  

Question 113 :
Among the four sites mentioned below, the earliest cultural phase comes from—

  1. Akkad
  2. Agade
  3. Babolon
  4. Iran
  

Question 114 :
‘The Battle of Ten Kings’ was fought on the land—

  1. Andaman Islands
  2. Chhota Nagpur Plateau
  3. Nagaland region
  4. None of the above
  

Question 115 :
Which among the following remained immune from the impact of the invasion of the Greeks on the North-west of India?

  1. Dipavamsa
  2. Mahavamsa
  3. Divyavadana
  4. None of these
  

Question 116 :
Which one of the following was a Buddhist seat which held that constituents of but existed forever in a latent form? phenomena were not wholly momentary,

  1. Sangam period
  2. Pallava period
  3. Chola period
  4. Nayaka period
  

Question 117 :
Ardashir ruled over the Sassanad Empire in

  1. Bhas
  2. Dandin
  3. Subandhu
  4. Kalidas
  

Question 118 :
Nishat Garden was built by

  1. Babar
  2. Jehangir
  3. Sher Shah
  4. Shabjehan
  

Question 119 :
The head of a guild in ancient and early medieval India was called—

  1. Vishnu Gupta
  2. Brahma Gupta
  3. Paninu
  4. Aryabhatta
  

Question 120 :
The Kalyana-mandapa was a notable feature of temple architecture in the kingdom of —

  1. Hyderabad
  2. Calcutta
  3. Madras
  4. Patna