GK History MCQ's




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 1171 :
Which of the following pairs are correctly matched? 1) Rabbeting: Shipbuilding 2) Flintlock: Gun-making 3) ‘Wootz’: Textile 4) Filatures: Metallurgy.Choose the correct answer from the codes given below —Codes:

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

Question 1172 :
Who is the author of Discovery of India?

  1. Gandhiji
  2. Vivekananda
  3. Nehru
  4. Gokhale
  

Question 1173 :
Which was not one of the storm-centres of the Revolt of 1857?

  1. Ambala
  2. Meerut
  3. Lahore
  4. Lucknow
  

Question 1174 :
Which among the following is not a feature of tribal community?

  1. Common name
  2. Common language
  3. Common culture
  4. Exogamy
  

Question 1175 :
To which of the following castes did Gautam Buddha belong?

  1. Three groups
  2. Four groups
  3. Five groups
  4. Six groups
  

Question 1176 :
Which one of the following statements regarding the stupa is incorrect?

  1. Megasthenese
  2. Fa-Hien
  3. Hiuen-Tsang
  4. Ai-Biruni
  

Question 1177 :
Who Coined the term Hydraulic Society

  1. Prof Max muller
  2. Karl August Wittfogel
  3. James mill
  4. Karl Marx
  

Question 1178 :
Who is the author of historical work The Cholas?

  1. D. D. Kosambi
  2. Champakalakshmi
  3. K.A. Nilakanta Sastri
  4. Charles Allan
  

Question 1179 :
The chief organiser of the Revolt of 1857 in Bihar was —

  1. King of Travucore
  2. King of Vijianagaram
  3. King Vira Raja of Koorga
  4. Wynaad King Kerla Varma
  

Question 1180 :
The greatest Chinese teacher philosopher was

  1. Devarya II
  2. Sambasivarya
  3. Krishnadevraya
  4. Vaktaka I
  

Question 1181 :
The doctrine of the ‘manyness of reality’ is a characteristic feature of—

  1. monarchs
  2. landlords (Junkers)
  3. lords
  4. industrialists
  

Question 1182 :
Who said Ram and Rahim are the two different name of the same God?

  1. Gopurams or gateways
  2. Vimanas or towers
  3. Assembly halls for the devotees
  4. Massive Pillars
  

Question 1183 :
Karl Marx was the first man to introduce

  1. Greece
  2. Persia
  3. Bactria
  4. China
  

Question 1184 :
Nilalohita, a type of earthenware mentioned in the Vedic texts, may be identified with—

  1. Govindpur, Sutanati and Kolkata
  2. Chandranagar, Sutanati and Kolkata
  3. Chandranagar, Sutanati and Govindpur
  4. Kolkata, Govindpur and Plassey
  

Question 1185 :
We have now an open Conspiracy to free the country from foreign rule and you, Comrades, and all our countrymen and countrywomen are imated to join it.' Who among the following made this declaration?

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

Question 1186 :
The Gandhara school of art depicted

  1. Banwali
  2. Kotdiji
  3. Surkotda
  4. Mehargarh
  

Question 1187 :
The official credited with the construction of the sudarshana lake in saurashtra during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya was —

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

Question 1188 :
Buddhist doctrines are contained in—

  1. Pali
  2. Sanskrit
  3. Kharosthi
  4. Marathi
  

Question 1189 :
The script of Indus valley has been

  1. Adhipati
  2. Gahapati
  3. Jethaka
  4. Adhikari
  

Question 1190 :
The crop which does not seem to have been known to the people of the Harrappan culture is —

  1. Asvaghosha
  2. Sanghraksha
  3. Nagasena
  4. Vasumitra
  

Question 1191 :
The French society was divided into

  1. 1760
  2. 1757
  3. 1765
  4. 1813
  

Question 1192 :
Abundance of source material and absence of histories ' is told about

  1. Ancient Indian history
  2. Greek hisory
  3. Chinese history
  4. Roman history
  

Question 1193 :
The Indus Valley Civilisation is a civilisation.

  1. Iron Age
  2. Palaeolithic
  3. Bronze Age
  4. Mesolithic
  

Question 1194 :
Which of the following cultures practiced the use of urns and phallus worship?

  1. Kalibangan
  2. Mehargarh
  3. Dholavira
  4. Allahdino
  

Question 1195 :
Among other nations it is usual, in the contests of war to ravage the soil; among Indians, the tillers of soil, even when battle is raging in their neighbourhood, are undisturbed by any sense of danger and remain unmolesteel'—-This statement was made by —

  1. Huien Tsang
  2. Herodotus
  3. Megasthenese
  4. Fa Hien
  

Question 1196 :
Salaka-Purusha is a concept associated with the—

  1. Ranjit Singh
  2. Mir Quasim
  3. Saadat Khan
  4. Tipu Sultan
  

Question 1197 :
Asvamedha Yajna from among Chalukya rulers was performed by —

  1. 1000 BC
  2. 1200 BC
  3. 1500 BC
  4. 1300 BC
  

Question 1198 :
The leaders of 1857 Mutineers who was caught - hanged was —

  1. Sindh
  2. Gujarat
  3. Punjab
  4. Both (a) and (b)
  

Question 1199 :
Which of the following falls into the category of quasi­histroy?

  1. Ballads
  2. Epics
  3. Annals of rulers
  4. All the above
  

Question 1200 :
The largest number of seals of the Harrappan culture are made of—

  1. Himachal Pradesh
  2. West Bengal
  3. Uttar Pradesh
  4. Rajasthan