Question: The ancient civilization of Sumer flourished in a region, which is a part of the following country in the modern world –
1. Iraq
2. Egypt
3. Syria
4. Sumeria
Answer: 1
Question: Which seventh century Indian mathematician was the first in the world to treat ‘zero’ as a number and show its mathematical operations?
1. Aryabhatta
2. Bhaskaracharya
3. Brahmagupta
4. Panini
Answer: 1
Question: Who among the following was known as the “Saint of the Gutters”?
1. Baba Amte
2. Mother Teresa
3. Jyotirao Phule
4. C. F. Andrews
Answer: 2
Question: Ibn Batuta, the famous Arab scholar, visited India during the reign of –
1. Akbar
2. Qutubuddin Aibak
3. Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq
4. Alauddin Khilji
Answer: 3
Question: Who was the court poet of Harshavardhana?
1. Banbhatta
2. Abul Fazal
3. Firdausi
4. Kalidas
Answer: 1
Question: Which unfortunate event took place in the year 1919?
1. Partition of Bengal
2. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
3. Subsidiary Alliance
4. Gandhi’s Assassination
Answer: 2
Question: Which freedom fighter suffered fatal injuries during a demonstration against Simon Commission?
1. Bhagat Singh
2. Lala Lajpat Rai
3. Baj Gangadhar Tilak
4. Chandrashekhar Azad
Answer: 2
Question: Which Mughal emperor took the title of Alamgir?
1. Akbar
2. Jahangir
3. Shah Jahan
4. Aurangzeb
Answer: 4
Question: Who was the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs?
1. Guru Nanak
2. Guru Tegh Bahadur
3. Guru Gobind Singh
4. Guru Amardas
Answer: 3
Question: Which Sultan of Delhi shifted his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad?
1. Allauddin Khilji
2. Sher Shah
3. Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq
4. Firoz Shah Tughlaq
Answer: 3
Question: In which year was the First Battle of Panipat fought?
1. 1556 A.D.
2. 1526 A.D.
3. 1605 A.D.
4. 1761 A.D.
Answer: 2
Question: “Rajtarangini” written by Kalhan is –
1. A bout Chandragupta’s reign
2. A history of Kashmir
3. A history of Delhi Sultanate
4. About Akbar
Answer: 2
Question: Who was the Viceroy at the time of Quit India Movement?
1. Lord Irwin
2. Lord Mountbatten
3. Lord Wavell
4. Lord Linlithgow
Answer: 4
Question: Who gave the title of “Mahamana” to Madan Mohan Malaviya?
1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
2. Dadabhai Nauroji
3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
4. Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: 4
Question: Silver tanks of the Delhi Sultanata was first issued by –
1. Qutubuddin Aibak
2. Iltutmish
3. Jalaluddin Razia
4. Ghiyasuddin Balban
Answer: 2
Question: Whose court was known as ‘Bhuvana-Vijaya’?
1. Ganapati
2. Ramachandra
3. Krishnadevaraya
4. Achyutaraya
Answer: 3
Question: Which one of the following was not a French settlement in India?
1. Puducherry
2. Mahe
3. Goa
4. Chandannagar
Answer: 3
Question: The world-famous ‘Peacock Throne’ was kept in which of the following Mughal building?
1. Diwan-i-Khas at Fatehpur Sikri
2. New Agra Fort
3. The Rang Mahal of the Red Fort at Delhi
4. The Diwan-i-Am of the Red Fort at Delhi
Answer: 2
Question: Where in 1942 was ‘Swaraj Panchayat’ set up ?
1. Tamluk, West Bengal
2. Contai, West Bengal
3. Cuttak,Odisha
4. Puri, Odisha
Answer: 1
Question: Who was the first president of the ‘Constituent Assembly’ ?
1. Dr. Ambedkar
2. Rajgopalachari
3. Abul Kalam Azad
4. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Answer: 4
Question: Who was not a member of the Subhash Chand Bose’s Azad Hind Fauj ?
1. P.K.Sahgal
2. Shah Nawaz Khan
3. Captain Mohan Singh
4. G.S.Dhillon
Answer: 3
Question: The Non-Cooperation Movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi in –
1. 1916
2. 1920
3. 1923
4. 1926
Answer: 2
Question: Who was one of the advocates of ‘United Sovereign Bengali’?
1. H.S.Surhawardi
2. Shyamprasad Mukherjee
3. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
4. None of the above
Answer: 1
Question: The Prarthana Samaj was established by-
1. M.G.Ranade
2. Atmaram Pandurang
3. Ram Mohum roy
4. Keshab Sen
Answer: 2
Question: Where did Bhil revolt take place?
1. Chhotanagpur
2. Singbhum
3. Satara
4. Khandesh
Answer: 1
Question: Who was the leader of the Tariqa movement in Bengal ?
1. Dudu Mian
2. Titu Mir
3. Haji Shariatullah
4. Sayed Ahmed
Answer: 2
Question: Which place did the Santhal call Daman-i-Koh ?
1. Dhalbhum
2. Palamau
3. Rajmahal hills
4. Hazaribag
Answer: 3
Question: The first jute mill was set up in India in –
1. 1920
2. 1850
3. 1855
4. 1755
Answer: 3
Question: Which session o Muslim League formally proclaimed Muslims as a nation in 1940 ?
1. Karachi
2. Sindh
3. Lahore
4. Patna
Answer: 3
Question: Which Act allowed the Christian Missionaries to enter India?
1. Charter act of 1793
2. Charter act of 1813
3. Charter act of 1833
4. Pitt’s India act of 1784
Answer: 2
Question: The first permanent home of the Aryans in India was –
1. Punjab
2. Rajasthan
3. Sindhu
4. Gujarat
Answer: 1
Question: In his inscriptions, Ashoka calls himself –
1. Priyadarshi
2. Dhammasoka
3. Daivaputra
4. Devanampriya Priyadarshi
Answer: 4
Question: Whom did the Ghadar Party plot to kill?
1. Kingsford
2. Hadinge
3. Tegart
4. Northbrooke
Answer: 3
Question: The idea of ‘Sulahkul’ was propagated by –
1. Mughal Emperor Akbar
2. Mughal Emperor Shahjahan
3. Nawab Wazid Ali Shah
4. Shershah
Answer: 1
Question: Kanishka started an era known as
1. Gupta Era
2. Vikrama Era
3. Saka Era
4. Magadha Era
Answer: 3
Question: Mathematical and Astronomical Sciences were largely advanced during the Gupta Period by
1. Bhasa
2. Aryabhatta
3. Bhaskara
4. Ramanuja
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following created the Khalsa Panth?
1. Guru Teg Bahadur
2. Guru Hargobind
3. Guru Gobind Singh
4. Guru Arjan Dev
Answer: 3
Question: Who among the following had founded the Theosophical Society in the United States of America?
1. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
2. Lala Hardayal
3. Madame Blavatsky
4. Madame Cama
Answer: 3
Question: In which one of the following cities was the East India Association founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1866?
1. Tokyo
2. London
3. Paris
4. New York
Answer: 2
Question: Which one of the following was a journal brought out by Abul Kalam Azad?
1. Al-Hilal
2. Comrade
3. Zamindar
4. The Indian Sociologist
Answer: 1
Question: Tenth Guru of Sikhs was
1. Guru Arjan Dev
2. Guru Nanak
3. Guru Teg Bahadur
4. Guru Govind Singh
Answer: 4
Question: The Muslim League passed a resolution demanding partition of India in its session held at-
1. Lahore
2. Karachi
3. Allahabad
4. Dhaka
Answer: 1
Question: Which one among the following statements is not correct?
1. The artists of the Amravati School of Arts mainly used white marble
2. Gandhara School of Art owed its origin to the Indo-Greek rulers but the real patrons of the school were the Kushans, especially Kanishka
3. Rich carving, elaborate ornamentation and complex symbolism were not the main features of the Gandhara sculpture
4. The Graeco-Roman architectural impact modified the structure of Buddhist Stupas
Answer: 1
Question: Which one among the following was the major demand of the Bardoli Satyagraha(1928) organised under the leadership of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel?
1. Land to the tiller
2. Increase in the rates of labor wage
3. Supply of agricultural inputs to the farmers at subsidized rate
4. Rollback of newly enhanced revenue rate
Answer: 4
Question: Who was the Delhi Sultan when the threat of invasion by Mongols under Changez Khan loomed over India?
1. Balban
2. Iltutmish
3. Alauddin Khalji
4. Jalaluddin Khalji
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following is associated with the introduction of the principle of local self government in India?
1. Lord Bentink
2. Lord Ripon
3. Lord Mayo
4. Lord Lytton
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following leaders dominated the lucknow pact in December, 1916?
1. Jawaharlal Nehru
2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
3. Moti Lal Nehru
4. Madan Mohan Malviya
Answer: 2
Question: Which Rock Edict of Asoka provides a description of the horrors of Kalinga War?
1. 13th Rock Edict
2. Kalinga Edict at Dhauli
3. The Edict at Jaugada
4. 10th rock Edict
Answer: 1
Question: Who was the Founder of the Asiatic Society?
1. William Carey
2. William Jones
3. David Hare
4. Marshman
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following was given the title of ‘Shaikh-ul-Hind’?
1. Baba Fariduddin
2. Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
3. Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti
4. Shaikh Salim Chishti
Answer: 3
Question: Which Sultan of Delhi assumed the title of Alexander the Great?
1. Balban
2. Alauddin Khalji
3. Mahammad Bin Tughlaq
4. Sikandar Lodi
Answer: 2
Question: Which of the following mentions about the meeting of Sandrokottas (Chandragupta Maurya) with Alexander, the Great?
1. Pliny
2. Justin
3. Strabo
4. Megasthenese
Answer: 4
Question: The famous Gupta Era (Samvat) was started in which of the following years?
1. 319 A. D.
2. 606 A. D
3. 78 A. D.
4. 57 B. C.
Answer: 3
Question: Who among the following was the founder of Peshwas?
1. Balajee Bajirao
2. Balajee Viswanath
3. Ram Chandra Panth
4. Nana Farnabish
Answer: 2
Question: The Allahabad Pillar Inscription describes the achievements of
1. Ashoka
2. Samudra Gupta
3. Harsha
4. Kaniksha
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following was the ruler of Delhi at the time of the invasion of Nadir Shah?
1. Bahadur Shah
2. Muhammad Shah
3. Shah Alam II
4. Alamgir II
Answer: 2
Question: The Regulating Act was passed in
1. 1773
2. 1774
3. 1785
4. 1793
Answer: 1
Question: Islam was founded in
1. 7th century AD
2. 5th century BC
3. 5th century AD
4. 3rd century BC
Answer: 1
Question: The first SAARC summit was held in 1985 in
1. Bangalore
2. Dhaka
3. Kathmangu
4. Male
Answer: 2
Question: Who was the chairman of the planning commission these days?
1. Pranab Mukherjee
2. Manmohan Singh
3. P. Chidambaram
4. Pratibha Patil
Answer: 2
Question: How many types of emergencies have been envisaged by the constitution?
1. one
2. two
3. three
4. four
Answer: 3
Question: Who among the following gave a systematic critique of the moderate politics of the Indian National Congress in a series of articles entitled New Lamps for old?
1. R. C. Dutt
2. Aurobindo Ghosh
3. Syed Ahmad Khan
4. Viraraghavachari
Answer: 2
Question: Who was the first Governor General of Bengal?
1. Warren Hastings
2. Robert Clive
3. William Bentinck
4. Lord Kornwallis
Answer: 1
Question: In which of the following years was the All-India Trade Union Congress formed in Bombay?
1. 1918
2. 1919
3. 1921
4. 1920
Answer: 4
Question: Who among the following was not a party to the league that was defeated by the British in the Battle of Buxar?
1. Mir Kasim
2. Mir Jafar
3. Shah Alam
4. Shuja-ud-Daulah
Answer: 1
Question: Under which one of the following systems of assessment, the British Government collected revenue directly from the farmers?
1. Ryotwari
2. Zamindari
3. Annawari
4. Desaiwari
Answer: 1
Question: In the context of freedom struggle, October 16, 1905 is well known for which one of the following reasons?
1. The formal proclamation of Swadeshi Movement was made in Calcutta town hall
2. Partition of Bengal took effect
3. Dadabhai Naoroji declared that the goal of Indian National Congress was Swaraj
4. Lokmanya Tilak started Swadeshi Movement in Poona.
Answer: 2
Question: Which one of the following began with the Dandi March?
1. Home Rule Movement
2. Non- Cooperation Movement
3. Civil Disobedience Movement
4. Quit India Movement
Answer: 3
Question: Gandhiji’s movement of boycotting the foreign goods aimed at
1. full independence
2. creating anti-British sentiment
3. promotion of welfare state
4. promotion of cottage industries
Answer: 1
Question: When Congress leaders condemned the Montagu Chelmsford Report, many moderates left party to form the
1. Swarajya Party
2. Indian Freedom Party
3. Independence Federation of India
4. Indian Liberal Federation
Answer: 4
Question: An important aspect of the Cripps Mission of 1942 was
1. that all Indian States should join the Indian Union as a condition to consider any degree of autonomy for India
2. the creation of an Indian Union with Dominion status very soon after the Second World War
3. the active participation and cooperation of the Indian people, communities and political parties in the British war effort as a condition for granting independence with full sovereign status to India after war.
4. the framing of a constitution for the entire Indian Union, with no separate constitution to be accep
Answer: 2
Question: With reference to colonial rule in India, what was sought by the Ilbert Bill in 1883
1. To bring Indians and Europeans on par as far as the criminal jurisdiction of courts was concerned
2. To impose severe restrictions on the freedom of the native press as it was perceived to be hostile to colonial rulers
3. To encourage the native Indians to appear for civil service examinations by conducting them in India
4. To allow native Indians to possess arms by amending the Arms act
Answer: 1
Question: Which one of the following provisions was NOT made in the Charter Act of 1833?
1. The trading activities of the east India Company were to be abolished
2. The designation of the supreme authority was to be changed as the Governor General of India in Council
3. All law-making powers to be conferred on India in Council
4. An Indian was to be appointed as a law Member in the Governor-General’s Council
Answer: 4
Question: Which of the following pair is wrongly matched ?
1. Sungas – Vidisha
2. Satvahanas – Pratisthana
3. Kanavas – Kausambi
4. Kushanas – Purushpura
Answer: 3
Question: Which of the following emblems is not associated with the given rulling dynasties ?
1. Chola – Tigar
2. Chera – Fox
3. Pandyan – Carp
4. Pallava – Snake
Answer: 4
Question: Who founded the ‘Sevagram Ashram’ near Wardha in Maharashtra ?
1. Vinoba Bhave
2. Mahatma Gandhi
3. Jyotirao Phule
4. Anna Hazare
Answer: 2
Question: Ban Ki-moon, present Secretary-General, is the second Asian to hold the post of Secretary General of United Nations. Who was the first Asian ?
1. Kurt Waldheim
2. U.Thant
3. Trygve Lie
4. Kofi Annan
Answer: 2
Question: Who were the signatories of the Treaty of Salbai?
1. Peshwa and the East India Company
2. Haider Ali, Peshwa and East India Company
3. Haider Ali and Peshwa
4. Mahadaji Sindhia and Warren Hastings
Answer: 4
Question: What situation gave an opportunity to Warren Hastings to intervene in Maratha politics?
1. Weakening Maratha power after the Third Battle of Panipat
2. Struggle among Deccan Kingdoms
3. Haider Ali – Maratha Struggle
4. Vaccum in Poona after Madhawa Rao’s death
Answer: 4
