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Indian History

Description: GK Indian History Test - General Knowledge History Practice and Preparation Test for UPSC, B.Ed and M.Ed and Bank PO Exams
Number of Questions: 25
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In which country did the 'Manchu' dynasty rule?

  1. Tibet

  2. Thailand

  3. China

  4. Sikkim


Correct Option: C

The President of U.S.A. who abolished slavery was

  1. Abraham Lincoln

  2. Garfield

  3. J. F. Kennedy

  4. L. B. Johnson


Correct Option: A

The King who is said to have fiddled when Rome was burning was

  1. Achilles

  2. Nero

  3. Pompei

  4. Julius Caeser


Correct Option: B

Amir Khusrau was a famous court poet of

  1. Muhammad Tughlaq

  2. Alauddin Khalji

  3. Akbar, the Great

  4. Balban


Correct Option: B

Sunni muslims in Pakistan demanded that Ahmediyas be declared non-muslims because

  1. they are traitors to Pakistan

  2. they are not originally Pakistanis

  3. they can be dislodged from the key positions held by them

  4. they do not believe Mohammad to be the only Prophet


Correct Option: D

I came, I saw, I conquered - was said by

  1. Napoleon

  2. Chengis Khan

  3. Julius Caesar

  4. Alexander, the Great


Correct Option: C

Transfer of India's Capital from Kolkata to Delhi was effected during the regime of

  1. Dufferin

  2. Wellington

  3. Rippon

  4. Hardinge


Correct Option: D

The National Day of Yogoslavia is

  1. 29th November

  2. 6th March

  3. 4th January

  4. 10th April


Correct Option: A

Ride straight, shoot straight, speak straight. This type of military education was given in ancient time in

  1. Athens

  2. Sparta

  3. Persia

  4. Crete


Correct Option: C

Roman Senate was unpopular among the masses because

  1. of its hold of Patricians

  2. of corrupt senators

  3. they were not directly elected

  4. it was formed by rich men


Correct Option: A

Neither is poverty a bar but a man may benefit his country whatever be the obscurity of his position - this was said by

  1. Percles

  2. Plato

  3. Alexander

  4. Solon


Correct Option: A

The 'Eye of Greece' in ancient time was

  1. Sparta

  2. Macedonia

  3. Crete

  4. Athens


Correct Option: D

Emergency was declared by the President of India on 25th June, 1975 as he was satisfied that

  1. the general deteriotion in economic condition was rapidly increasing

  2. India was being threatened by external attacks

  3. there was a great danger to the internal security

  4. Constitutional machinery had came to a breakdown


Correct Option: C

The Supreme Court, which was the highest court in British India, was first set up by

  1. The Regulating Act (1773)

  2. Pitt's India Act (1784)

  3. The Charter Act (1813)

  4. The Act for the better Government of India (1858)


Correct Option: A

Ain-i-Akbari was written by

  1. Akbar

  2. Faizi

  3. Abul Fazal

  4. Raja Todar Mal


Correct Option: C

The Kuominatang lost ground because

  1. Chiang Kai-Sheik was kidnapped

  2. Japan occupied China's provinces

  3. America and Japan were at war

  4. widespread corruption had made Chiang Kai-Sheik unpopular


Correct Option: D

Who built the Taj?

  1. Akbar

  2. Jahangir

  3. Shahjahan

  4. Aurangzeb


Correct Option: C

Which one of the following persons was assassinated in London by Madan Lal Dhingra, a young revolutionary from Punjab?

  1. Lord Curzon, former Vicerory of India

  2. Lord Morley, Secretary of State for India

  3. Sir Curzon Wyllie, Aide de-camp to the Secretary of State for India

  4. Sir Michael O' Dayer


Correct Option: C

The earliest college established during the administration of the East India Company was

  1. Agra College, Agra

  2. Hindu College, Kolkata

  3. Delhi College, Delhi

  4. Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh


Correct Option: B

Which of the following countries did not become a member of the League of Nations?

  1. Britain

  2. France

  3. U.S.A.

  4. Germany


Correct Option: C

Who proposed to introduce English language in India as a medium of instruction?

  1. Lord Macaulay

  2. Lord William Bentinck

  3. Raja Ram Mohan Roy

  4. Warren Hastings


Correct Option: A

The growth of Industrial Revolution in England was due to many factors. Of these, the most important was that

  1. she had necessary capital

  2. she possessed colonies for providing raw materials and markets

  3. she had adequate supply of labour

  4. she had plenty of natural resources


Correct Option: D

India had to take part in the Second World War because

  1. it had hoped to get freedom after the victory of the Allied forces

  2. it was governed by the British

  3. its leaders wanted to fight against the Fascist forces

  4. it wanted to develop its industries


Correct Option: B

The Mohammedan era opens from

  1. the birth of Mohammed

  2. the death of Mohammed

  3. Mohammed's migration from Mecca to Madina

  4. the revelation from the Angel Gabriel


Correct Option: C

Return home with your shield or on it. The meaning of the saying of Roman was to

  1. return home from battle with your arms

  2. return home safely

  3. either return with victory or die in battle field

  4. run away from the field with your shield if enemy is stronger than you


Correct Option: C
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