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




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 541 :
Which one of the following correctly describe the function of the Amatya in the Ashtapradhan System’?

  1. The Prime Minister
  2. The Finance Minister
  3. The minister who preserved a daily record of the king’s acts and the proceedings of his court
  4. The minister for ecclesiastical matter
  

Question 542 :
With whom was the Rayotwari settlement a made?

  1. Zamindars
  2. Cultivators
  3. Muqqadams
  4. Village Panchayats
  

Question 543 :
The valleys of Indus, Ganga and Jamuna were brought together for the first time under one political authority by

  1. Chandragupta Maurya
  2. Ashoka
  3. Chandragupta I
  4. Prithvi Raj Chan ban
  

Question 544 :
The valangai (right hand) and idangai (left hand) divison of South Indian Society is first noticed in the —

  1. Sangam period
  2. Pahallava period
  3. Chola period
  4. Nayka period
  

Question 545 :
_________. started his career as the Prime Minister of independent India in 1947, and immediately launched a number of economic reforms.

  1. Nehru
  2. Indira Gandhi
  3. Morarji Desai
  4. 1980
  

Question 546 :
Swadeshi Movement started after —

  1. Subhash Chandra Bose
  2. Mahatma Gandhi
  3. Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
  4. Jawahar Lal Nehru
  

Question 547 :
Barabar caves are associated with—

  1. 6
  2. 8
  3. 10
  4. 12
  

Question 548 :
only a poet can bring the past with eye of this mind by divine institution ' who statement is this

  1. Bana
  2. Jayanga
  3. Kalhana
  4. Athula
  

Question 549 :
Project Tiger was launched in the year

  1. 1973
  2. 1965
  3. 2004
  4. 1999
  

Question 550 :
In________., Nehru directed the CSIR to prepare National Register of Scientific and Technical personnel.

  1. 1908
  2. 1938
  3. 1948
  4. Vajpayee
  

Question 551 :
What is the correct chronological order of the following British Officials in India? 1) Sir John Sore 2) Marquis Cornwallis 3) Earl of Minto 4) Marquess of Wellesley .Select the correct answer using the codes given below—Codes:

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

Question 552 :
Theravada school is associated with—

  1. Painted grey ware
  2. Redware
  3. Black - Redware
  4. Northern Black polished ware
  

Question 553 :
Mahakachchayana, traditionally the founder of the Theravada sect, hailed from—

  1. Karl Peters
  2. Babeuf
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Stalin
  

Question 554 :
The famous temple of Kailasha hewnout of the rock, is at?

  1. Gandharva marriage
  2. Paisach marriage
  3. Rakshasa marriage
  4. Brahma marriage
  

Question 555 :
Kushinagar, where Buddha died was then a part of which Kingdom—

  1. Lack of religious preaches
  2. Absence of royal patronage
  3. The division of Jainism in two strong sects
  4. Attack of foreigners
  

Question 556 :
Where is Kalibangan situated?

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

Question 557 :
Dadmani system refers to—

  1. 1st century B.C.
  2. 1st century A.D.
  3. IInd century A.D.
  4. III century A.D.
  

Question 558 :
There is no doubt that J.L Nehru's India's first Prime Minister was fully analysed the indispensability of science and technology in the economic and the social independence.

  1. J.L Nehru's
  2. Narasimha Rao
  3. Prof. P.M.S Blackett
  4. 1947
  

Question 559 :
The date of Sangam age is—

  1. Politics
  2. Grammar
  3. Religion
  4. Logic
  

Question 560 :
Amir Khusrau’s Khazain-ul-futuh gives an account of the military campaign of —

  1. Lack of industries
  2. Exported food grains a lot
  3. First world war
  4. Exported the cotton and wool
  

Question 561 :
The historical site wherein and early inscription referring to the five heroes of the Vrishnis is found is —

  1. Is a reference to a Velir chief
  2. Means memorial stone
  3. Was a tax on nadus
  4. Was an item of export in Indo-Roman
  

Question 562 :
Which one of the following sets of powers constituted the anti-British front in 1780?

  1. Increasing Varnasamkara
  2. Increasing greater absorption of tribes as castes
  3. Occupational groups turning into castes
  4. Religious sects being converted into castes
  

Question 563 :
Rani Gaidilineu a rebel leader against the British, was from—

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

Question 564 :
Mesopotamians divide the sky into

  1. Copper ware
  2. Bronze ware
  3. Glass ware
  4. Silver ware
  

Question 565 :
The President of the Indian National Congress at the time of Indian Independence was

  1. Lord Wavell
  2. Stafford Cripps
  3. Lord Mountbatten
  4. Cyril Radcliffe
  

Question 566 :
In the Nineteenth century, there was a phenomenal increase in the pressure of population on land because the—

  1. Introduction of commercial crop attracted the peasantry to agriculture
  2. Rum of handicrafts and village industries drove the population to agriculture
  3. Fall of native governments had reduced the avenues of employment
  4. Urban population began to migrate to the rural areas for reason of security
  

Question 567 :
The bill to cancel the exemption given to the European community from the jurisdiction of the Magistrates and the Criminal Courts established by the East-India Company was proposed in—

  1. 1849
  2. 1861
  3. 1879
  4. 1882
  

Question 568 :
Birth place of Buddha is—

  1. Katyayani
  2. Vatsayayan
  3. Bhadrabahu
  4. Patanjali
  

Question 569 :
Indus valley did not maintain trade relation with—

  1. Peppar
  2. Clove
  3. Muslin
  4. Silk
  

Question 570 :
Gopis (cowherd girls) became an important part of the Krishana legend in art and literature in—

  1. Rohini
  2. Rukmani
  3. Jambavati
  4. Devaki