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




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 181 :
The Constitution of India indeed much bigger than the US Constitution which hasonly 7 Articles and the _________Constitution with its 89 Articles.

  1. French
  2. Dutch
  3. Pakistan
  4. 395
  

Question 182 :
With which of the following periods do we associate the ‘microlith’ implements?

  1. Pepper
  2. Silk
  3. Cotton
  4. Gold
  

Question 183 :
Which of the following terms denote monastic establishments of different religious affiliations? 1) Vihara 2) Matha 3) Basadi 4) Mandapa . Choose the correct answer from the codes given below —

  1. Samkarshana - Vasudeva
  2. Samkarshana, pradyumna - Vasudeva
  3. Vasudeva only
  4. All the panchviras
  

Question 184 :
Rajatarangini is the Chronicle on the kings of …......

  1. Kashmir
  2. Kerala
  3. Delhi
  4. Karnataka
  

Question 185 :
Saka era was founded by:

  1. Samkhya
  2. Uttara Mimamsa
  3. Nyaya
  4. PurvaMimamsa
  

Question 186 :
The Mesolithic age is marked by the wide use of small tools known as—

  1. Pratiloma
  2. Anuloma
  3. Ghandharva
  4. Niyoga
  

Question 187 :
Saka era was founded by

  1. Ashóka
  2. Harsha
  3. Kanishlca
  4. Vikramaditya
  

Question 188 :
The Tripitakas are written in the language of

  1. Sanskrit
  2. Prakrit
  3. Pali
  4. Hindi
  

Question 189 :
Who coined the term Hydraulic civilisations?

  1. Karl Marx
  2. E. H. Carr
  3. Karl Wittfogel
  4. Arnold Toynbee.
  

Question 190 :
___________appointed a scientific man power committee and five institutes of technology came up at Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur and Delhi besides a number of regional engineering colleges by his efforts.

  1. J.L. Nehru
  2. Prof. P.M.S Blackett
  3. Indira Gandhi
  4. Vajpayee
  

Question 191 :
Which one of the following was the most westerly outpost of the Harappan culture?

  1. Lothal
  2. Sutkagen Dor
  3. Rangpur
  4. Manda
  

Question 192 :
The author who described the Revolt of 1857 as the ‘First War of Independence’ was—

  1. Ashok Mehta
  2. R.C. Mazumdar
  3. S. N. Sen
  4. V. D. Savarkar
  

Question 193 :
The most important effect of the French Revolution was the birth of the

  1. republic in France
  2. socialism
  3. democracy
  4. capitalism
  

Question 194 :
Mallacca cannot live without cambay, nor cambay without Mallacca, If they are to be very rich and very prosperous.' This comment was made in the context of Asian trade by —

  1. Tomes Pores
  2. Linschoten
  3. Varthenra
  4. Barbosa
  

Question 195 :
Assam was created a separate province when—

  1. Curzon Partitioned Bengal in 1905
  2. Mmto announced Bengal the new reform proposals in 1905-1906
  3. Partition of Bengal was annulled in 1911
  4. Montagu-Chamsford reforms were implemented in 1919
  

Question 196 :
Excepting two Jaina Tirthankaras, all the others mentioned in tradition are mythical. The two exceptions include—

  1. Perundevanar
  2. Kamban
  3. Sundaramurthi
  4. Bharavi
  

Question 197 :
The Mughal painting reached its zenith during the reign of

  1. Babur
  2. Akbar
  3. Jehangir
  4. Shahjehan
  

Question 198 :
Buland Darwaza is situated in

  1. Delhi
  2. Fatehpur Sikri
  3. Lucknow
  4. Meerut
  

Question 199 :
Which one of the following statements about Mohenjo-daro is correct ?

  1. The houses were made of cut and polished stone
  2. Axes, chisels, knives and fish-hook were all made of iron
  3. The floor of the Great was made of burnt brick
  4. Gold ornaments were unknown to the inhabitants
  

Question 200 :
Which agricultural product did not attract the British people?

  1. Indigo
  2. Tea
  3. Cotton
  4. Coffee
  

Question 201 :
The Congress Nationalist Party was formed act as a powerful pressure group within the Congress by —

  1. Prayag Assembly — Akbar
  2. Expedition to South — Rajendra Chola East Asia
  3. Southern expedition — Ashoka
  4. Vaikonta Perumal — Nandivarman Temple
  

Question 202 :
Which one of the following places on the Western Coast of India had an English factory?

  1. Cochin
  2. Tellicherry
  3. Cannanore
  4. Calicut
  

Question 203 :
Who called Heradotus the father of history?

  1. Cicero
  2. Thucydides
  3. Aristotle
  4. Plato
  

Question 204 :
Who is the author of Asoka: The Buddhist Emperor of India?

  1. William Jones
  2. Alexander Cunningham
  3. V. A. Smith
  4. Herman Hesse
  

Question 205 :
The Indian Independence Act, 1947 came into force on—

  1. A cash payment made by the State to the village headman
  2. A village assigned to a khot
  3. A small cess collected by the village headman from the peasants
  4. The revenue assessed on the land cultivated by the khots and Muqaddams
  

Question 206 :
According to Brihaspati the grades of artisans were—

  1. 80 million
  2. 100’million
  3. 120 million
  4. 125 million
  

Question 207 :
Who among the following modern writers of Malyalam Literature, has recieved the Jnanpeeth (Gyan peeth) Award?

  1. Pallathu Raman
  2. Kuttippurath Kesavan
  3. G. Sankar Kurupa
  4. Krishna Pillai
  

Question 208 :
The French royal prison—the (Bastille) was attacked in

  1. Palaeolithic age
  2. Mesolithic age
  3. Neolithic age
  4. Chalcolithic age
  

Question 209 :
Kshatriyas were the people entrusted with

  1. Bombay Samachar
  2. Bengal Gazette
  3. Bengal Chronicle
  4. The Hindu
  

Question 210 :
That ginger and Cinnamon were produced in large quantities in the Pandya country is mentioned by—

  1. Ghosundi
  2. Besnagar
  3. Dwaraka
  4. Mathura