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




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 691 :
The crops cultivated by the harrapans included—

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

Question 692 :
Vikrama era started from:

  1. According to the Vedic thinkers, monarch was the ultimate source of law
  2. According to the Vedic thinkers, People were the ultimate source of law
  3. According to the Vedic thinkers, the nature was the ultimate source of law
  4. According to the Vedic thinkers, Dharma which sustained the world as the ultimate source of law
  

Question 693 :
Kinship relations established through blood is called-

  1. Affinal
  2. Conjugal
  3. Consanguineous
  4. None of the above
  

Question 694 :
Romila Thaper was the student of …........

  1. Basham
  2. Bipan Chandra
  3. Eric Hobsbawn
  4. Kosambi
  

Question 695 :
Aryans cleared the forests in the initial stages using

  1. Copper axe
  2. Iron axe
  3. Fire
  4. Animals.
  

Question 696 :
In Ancient and early medieval India the uncultivated and untaxed land was called —

  1. Namdev
  2. Mauluk Das
  3. Vallabhacharya
  4. Chaitanya
  

Question 697 :
In ancient Indian social structure the term aniravasita related to—

  1. BraInnanas and Kshatriyas
  2. Vaisyas and Sudras
  3. Sudras only
  4. People outside the Varna classification
  

Question 698 :
The Jaina temples known for the finest marble carvings in India are situated at—

  1. Landed magnates
  2. Peasants
  3. Artisans
  4. Menials
  

Question 699 :
An address to the working class' was drafted by

  1. October
  2. July
  3. June
  4. December
  

Question 700 :
In the Sangam age, Uraiyur was important for

  1. Its being a great centre of spice trade.
  2. Its being a great centre of cotton trade.
  3. its being a great emporium of foreign trade.
  4. Its being a great centre of indigenous trade.
  

Question 701 :
The Factory Act of 1881 was passed with a view to—

  1. Prohibit the employment of children below the age of 7 in any factory
  2. Allow the workers to trade unions
  3. Fix the wages of industrial workers
  4. Reduce the working hours for women employees
  

Question 702 :
Which among the following is true about a Hydraulic Society?

  1. societies with lucid social bonds
  2. societies based on large scale irrigation
  3. liberal society
  4. society inclined towards criminality
  

Question 703 :
The conceusces among historians that the vedic age began earliest in—

  1. 4
  2. 6
  3. 8
  4. 10
  

Question 704 :
The Author of Hamir Mahakavya was—

  1. Bronze Metal
  2. Copper Metal
  3. Wheel Made
  4. Hand Made
  

Question 705 :
Swaraj is my birth right.' Who said?

  1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  2. Dadabhai Naoroji
  3. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
  4. BhagatSingh
  

Question 706 :
The theory of ‘Cultural Nationalism’ was expounded by

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

Question 707 :
Oracles foretold the

  1. 900 BC
  2. 1000 BC
  3. 2000 BC
  4. 3000 BC
  

Question 708 :
The first translator of Mahabharata into Tamil was—

  1. Gwalior
  2. Kiradu
  3. Modhera
  4. Dilwara
  

Question 709 :
The Swaraj Party decided to take part in the Reforms Scheme under the Government of India Act, 1919 because—

  1. It wanted to gain political experience by forming government
  2. It wanted to expose the hollowness of the reforms provided in the Act
  3. It wanted to cooperate with the government
  4. It wanted to curtail the influence of ‘no changers’
  

Question 710 :
Tipu Sultan of Mysore was killed in a bloody engagement in—

  1. The fourth Mysore War
  2. The third Mysore War
  3. The first Mysore War
  4. The second Mysore War
  

Question 711 :
Kalidas in his works shows a leaning towards worship of—

  1. Asanga
  2. Nagarjuna
  3. Vasumitra
  4. Aryadeva
  

Question 712 :
Which among the following was not a cause of the decline of Jainism?

  1. Jatakas
  2. Satapathas
  3. Upanishadas
  4. Dhammapada
  

Question 713 :
Malatimadhava of Bhavabhuti is an important source for the study of the —

  1. 1, 2 and 3 are correct
  2. 2, 3 and 4 are correct
  3. 3 and 4 are correct
  4. 1 and 4 are correct
  

Question 714 :
The first native state to introduce military training on the European model was —

  1. Golcanda
  2. Mysore
  3. Oudh
  4. Kashmir
  

Question 715 :
The Dutch East India Company was established in the year—

  1. 1602
  2. 1600
  3. 1620
  4. 1609
  

Question 716 :
Where did Mahatma Gandhi first try the weapon of Satyagraha?

  1. Bhasa
  2. Vakpati
  3. Subaudhu
  4. Vatsyayan
  

Question 717 :
Indian people had faced high rate of inflation during 1918-1939 due to—

  1. the revolutionary alliance
  2. triple alliance
  3. holy alliance
  4. triple entente
  

Question 718 :
The Greeks gave the world the idea of

  1. Chandra Gupta Maurya
  2. Samudra Gupta
  3. Chandra Gupta
  4. Ashoka the great
  

Question 719 :
Sarnath’s Lion Capital is attributed to

  1. 1: 2
  2. 1: 3
  3. 2 3
  4. 3 2
  

Question 720 :
Which of the following is correct?

  1. God
  2. Goddess
  3. A division of vrihattar Bharat
  4. None of these