GK History (Ancient - Modern History,Social Science) MCQ's

Question 1 :
Which Mauryan ruler was called ‘Amitraghat’ by Greek writers?

1. Chandragupta Maurya
2. Bindusara
3. Ashoka
4. Dasharatha

Question 2 :
Under the presidency of Jawahahar Lai Nehru, the Lahore Congress Session of 1929 formalised the demand of

1.     abolition of Salt Tax
2.    ‘Puma Swaraj’ or complete independence
3.      boycott of Simon Commission
4.    separate electorate for the ‘dalits’

Question 3 :
Who formed the ‘Swaraj Party’ within the Congress?

1. Jawahar Lai Nehru and Motilal Nehru
2. Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Mahatma Gandhi
3.      Jawahar Lai Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose
4.    C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru

Question 4 :
Shivaji conqurred many forts. Which was first—?

1. He founded Din-i-Ilahi
2. He appointed Hindus to the highest posts in the empire
3. He invited the representatives of all religions for religious debates at the Ibadat Khana
4. He issued an infallibility decree in 1579

Question 5 :
Baba Ramchandra, a sanyasi, was the leader of which of the following movements?

1. Khilafat Movement
2.    Militant Guerrilla Movement of Andhra Pradesh
3.      Peasants’ Movement of Awadh
4.    Plantation Workers’ Movement in Assam

Question 6 :
Which industrialist attacked colonial control over Indian economy and supported the Civil Disobedience Movement?

1.     Dinshaw Petit
2.    Purshottamdas Thakurdas
3.      Dwarkanath Tagore
4.    Seth Hukumchand

Question 7 :
 Who was the writer of the book ‘Hind Swaraj’?

1.     Rabindranath Tagore
2.    B.R. Ambedkar
3.      Mahatma Gandhi
4.    Jawahar Lai Nehru

Question 8 :
Who founded the ‘Depressed Classes Association’ in 1930?

1.     Alluri Sitaram Raju
2.    C.R. Das
3.      M.R. Jayakar
4.    Dr B.R. Ambedkar

Question 9 :
Which party did not boycott the Council elections held in the year 1921?

1. Swaraj Party
2. Justice Party
3.      Muslim League
4.    Congress Party

Question 10 :
The Sabha during the Chola period comprised of—

1. Gandhara and Ajanta
2. Mathura and Amaravati
3. Mathura - Gandhara
4. Ajanta - Amaravati

Question 11 :
The ‘Simon Commission’ was boycotted because

1. there was no British Member in the Commission.
2. it demanded separate electorates for Hindus and Muslims.
3. there was no Indian Member in the Commission.
4.   it favoured the Muslims over the Hindus.

Question 12 :
Which of the following was the reason for calling off the Non-cooperation Movement by Gandhiji?

1.     Pressure from the British Government
2.    Second Round Table Conference
3.      Gandhiji’s arrest
4.    Chauri-Chaura incident

Question 13 :
 Khilafat Committee was formed in 1919 in the city of

1.     Bombay
2.    Calcutta
3.      Lucknow
4.    Amritsar

Question 14 :
The Non-cooperation Khilafat Movement began in

1.     January 1921
2.    February 1922
3.      December 1929
4.    April 1919

Question 15 :
A form of demonstration used in the Noncooperation Movement in which people block the entrance to a shop, factory or office is

1.     Boycott
2.    Begar
3.      Picketing
4.    Bandh

Question 16 :
What do you mean by the term ‘Begar’l

1. An Act to prevent plantation workers to leave the tea gardens without permission.
2. The forced recruitment of soldiers in rural areas during World War I.
3.   Labour that villagers were forced to contribute without any payment.
4. Refusal to deal and associate with people, or participate in activities as a form of protest.

Question 17 :
Who visualised and depicted the image of ‘Bharat Mata’ through a painting?

1.     Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
2.    Rabindranath Tagore
3.      Natesa Sastri
4.    Abanindranath Tagore

Question 18 :
Where did Mahatma Gandhi start his famous ‘Salt March’ on 12th March 1930?

1.     Dandi
2.    Chauri-Chaura
3.      Sabarmati
4.    Surat

Question 19 :
Who set up the ‘Oudh Kisan Sabha’?

1.     Alluri Sitaram Raju
2.    Jawahar Lai Nehru and Baba Ramchandra
3.      Jawaharlal Nehru and Shaukat Ali
4. Mahatma Gandhi

Question 20 :
Malik Kafur was a general of

1. Sikander Lodhi
2. Qutub-ud-din Aibak
3. Ala-ud-din Khilji
4. Humayun

Question 21 :
What event is commemorated by the Hijari calendar in Islam?

1. Birth of the prophet
2. Demise of the prophet
3. Migration of the prophet
4. Revelation of the book to the prophet

Question 22 :
An area which was relatively neglected by the Hindus, but where Muslim writers showed their skill, was —

1. The Battle of Attack
2. The Battle of Amritsar
3. The Battle of Balakot
4. The Battle of Charsadda

Question 23 :
The Community. Development Project and ‘National Extension Service’ were initiated for the welfare of the villagers in the year —

1. 1951A.D.
2. 1952A.D.
3. 1954A.D.
4. 1956A.D.

Question 24 :
The Non-Cooperation Movement launched by _________had fanned the fire of this discontentment.

1. Gandhi
2. Jawaharlal Nehru
3. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
4. 1919

Question 25 :
Author of Gendering Caste through a feminist Lens is

1. Romila Thapar
2. Uma Chakravarti
3. Annie Besant
4. Sarojini Naidu

Question 26 :
The drain of wealth from Bengal began in—

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

Question 27 :
Which of the following is the chronological order - 1) Vallabhachary - 2) Ramanand - 3) Madhvachary - 4) Ramanuja

1. Unity of God
2. Devotion to God
3. Need of a Guru or Pir to attain God
4. Family saint

Question 28 :
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 29 :
The unusually excessive proliferation of castes in the early medieval period was mostly due to —

1. Lord Cornwallis
2. Lord Mayo
3. Lord Hardinge
4. Lord Irwin

Question 30 :
Which one of the following philosophies is associated with Jainism?

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