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




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 271 :
The president of the All India Kishan Sabha in 1936 was—

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

Question 272 :
Rana Sanga is related with?

  1. Malwa
  2. Khajuraho
  3. Mandu
  4. Mewar
  

Question 273 :
In Neolithic age, the image of an animal or a plant as a symbol for a clan, or group of families living together was called?

  1. Kamban
  2. Kulhan
  3. Jayangondur
  4. Kalladanor
  

Question 274 :
Vakatakas belong to the period of

  1. Mauryas
  2. Guptas
  3. Kushans
  4. Harsha
  

Question 275 :
How many times did the term Jana occur in Rigveda?

  1. 275
  2. 300
  3. 250
  4. 400
  

Question 276 :
In 1751 Alivardi virtually ceded Orissa to—

  1. Nanaji Holkar
  2. Raghuji Bhonsle
  3. Mahajadi Sindhia
  4. BajiRao
  

Question 277 :
Who among the following is credited with the authorship Maju-al-Bahrain?

  1. Akbar
  2. Dara Shikoh
  3. Jahangir
  4. Humayun
  

Question 278 :
Which one of the following was known as Manigramam?

  1. The quarters for jewellers
  2. The principal seat of the worship of Yaska manibhadra
  3. An association of traders
  4. Villages granted tax free to brahmanas in the Chola kingdom
  

Question 279 :
Fakir Azizuddin and Dewan Dina Nath were minister under—

  1. Muhammad Shah
  2. Suraj Mal
  3. Muhammad Khan Bangash
  4. Ranjit Singh
  

Question 280 :
Which one of the following Vijayanagar rulers was the author of Amuktamalyada?

  1. Bombay
  2. Hooghly
  3. Surat
  4. Calcutta
  

Question 281 :
Who did not participate in the First Round Table Conference?

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Bernard Shaw
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Lenin
  

Question 282 :
In which year Mohammed Ali- Jinnah was elected to the Imperial Legislative Council from Bombay?

  1. 1910
  2. 1914
  3. 1919
  4. 1924
  

Question 283 :
The States Reorganization Act was passed by parliament in November_______

  1. 1916
  2. 1926
  3. 1946
  4. 1919
  

Question 284 :
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 285 :
Mahatma Gandhi undertook fast unto death in September 1932 because —

  1. Brahmanas - Kshatriyas
  2. Vaisyas - Sudras
  3. Sudras only
  4. People outside the Varna classification
  

Question 286 :
The Babmani Kingdom was founded by

  1. Mandalam
  2. Kottam
  3. Kurram
  4. Valanadu
  

Question 287 :
The prime objective of ________was to enhance foreign investment and provide an internationally competitive and hassle free environment for exports.

  1. SEZ
  2. Land Grabbing
  3. Liberalization
  4. 2000
  

Question 288 :
The Paris Commune took place in the year

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

Question 289 :
‘Kalilah wa Dimna’ is an Arabic version of the —

  1. Cotton
  2. Jute
  3. Iron, steel
  4. Ordinance
  

Question 290 :
The Cholas, the Pandyas, the Kealaputras and the Satyaputras are mentioned as his neighbouring powers by Ashoka in—

  1. Hiuen-Tsang
  2. Bana
  3. Subandhu
  4. Dandin
  

Question 291 :
Which of the following is correct?

  1. 57 B.C.
  2. 78 A.D.
  3. 57 A.D.
  4. 78 B.C.
  

Question 292 :
The Egyptian Kings were all called the

  1. Without Nile it would be a desert
  2. It would not develop
  3. It would not be fertile
  4. No transport was possible
  

Question 293 :
The first Danish Settlement of trade at Tranquebar was established in the year—

  1. 1620
  2. 1630
  3. 1660
  4. 1616
  

Question 294 :
Ancient Indian society was

  1. Indo-Greek art
  2. Indo-Roman art
  3. Indo-European art
  4. Indo-African art
  

Question 295 :
Which one of the following was a Portuguese coin that was in circulation in the western coastal areas of the Vijynagar kingdom?

  1. Dinar
  2. Guzado
  3. Florin
  4. Ducat
  

Question 296 :
Consider the following pairs— - (1) Settlement site: Chirand - (2) Grave site: Porkalam - (3) Settlement and Grave site: Piklihal . - . Which of these pairs are correctly matched?

  1. Indra
  2. Marut
  3. Dyaus
  4. Varuna
  

Question 297 :
Which one of the following is correctly matched?

  1. Hegesander
  2. Deimachos
  3. Athenaeus
  4. Nearchus
  

Question 298 :
V.D. Savarkar published his book the ‘Indian War of Independence’ in London in—

  1. Bhakti
  2. Dharma
  3. Moksha
  4. None of these
  

Question 299 :
The statement that the revolt of 1857 was 'neither the first, nor national, nor war of independence' was made by?

  1. V. D. Savarkar
  2. S. N. Sen
  3. R. C. Majumdar
  4. Benjamin Disraeli
  

Question 300 :
We have how an open conspiracy to free the country from foreign rule and you. Comrades, and all our countrymen and countrywomen are invited to join it.

  1. M.N.Roy
  2. Jayaprakash Narayan
  3. Subhash Chaudray Bose
  4. Jawahar La! Nehru