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I/1 DR. ARVIND’S BIOLOGY CLASSES

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HISTORY

1. Which was the first metal used by man? a) Copper b) Silver c) Bronze d) Brass

Ans. (a) 2. The Stone Age people had the first

domestic: a) Asses b) Dogs c) Horses d) Sheep

Ans. (b) 3. Man passed from the food gathering stage

to the food producing stage in the: a) Palaeolithic Age b) Mesolithic Age c) Neolithic Age d) Chalcolithic Age

Ans. (c) 4. The Indus Valley Civilisation flourished

during: a) 5000 – 3500 B.C. b) 3000 – 1500 B.C. c) 2500 – 1750 B.C. d) 1500 – 500 B.C.

Ans. (c) 5. Use of plough has been evidenced at:

a) Kalibangam b) Lothal c) Haryana d) Banwali

Ans. (a) 6. Which of the following Harappan sites had

a dock? a) Harappa b) Mohenjodaro c) Lothal d) Alamgirpur

Ans. (c) 7. Rice cultivation is associated with

Harappan site of: a) Kalibangam b) Harappa c) Ropar d) Lothal

Ans. (d) 8. The Indus Valley people had trade

relations with: a) Egypt b) Greece c) Ceylon d) Mesopotamia

Ans. (d) 9. At which Harappan site have traces of a

horse been found? a) Kalibangam b) Lothal c) Surkotda d) Suktagendor

Ans. (c) 10. The famous figure of a dancing girl found

in the excavations of Harappa was made up of: a) Terracotta b) Steatite c) Bronze d) Red limestone

Ans. (c) 11. The Great Bath of the Indus Valley

Civilization was discovered in: a) Harappa b) Lothal

c) Mohenjodaro d) Ropar Ans. (c) 12. The script of Indus Valley Civilization

was/in: a) Persian b) Dravidian c) Sanskrit d) Undeciphered

Ans. (d) 13. Which one of the following contains the

Gayatri Mantra? a) Rigveda b) Yajurveda c) Upanishad d) Samaveda

Ans. (a) 14. The God not worshipped during the time of

Rigvedic Aryans was: a) Indra b) Agni c) Marut d) Shiva

Ans. (d) 15. Who among the following popularised the

theory of ‘Arctic Region’ as the original home of Aryans? a) Macdonel b) Max Muller c) B.G. Tilak d) Keith

Ans. (a) 16. The Aryans at first settled in:

a) Sindh b) Gujarat c) Kashmir d) Punjab

Ans. (d) 17. Upanishads, also known as the Vedantas,

are _____ in number. a) 96 b) 105 c) 108 d) 112

Ans. (c) 18. Purushsukta is a part of:

a) Rigveda b) Yoga-Sutra c) Ramayana d) Bhagvadgita

Ans. (a) 19. Which of the following is not correctly

matched? a) Ayurveda – magic b) Shilpaveda – sculpture c) Gandharvaveda – music d) Dhanuveda – warfare

Ans. (a) 20. The Painted Grey Ware (PGW) belongs to:

a) The Harappan civilization b) The Vedic age c) The Neolithic age d) None of these

Ans. (b) 21. The meaning of ‘Buddha’ is:

a) Anything beyond God b) Soul after death c) The Enlightened one d) The ultimate path for moksha

Ans. (c)



22. Buddhism split up into the Hinayana and Mahayana sects at the Buddhist Council held during the reign of: a) Harsha b) Kanishka c) Ashoka d) Chandragupta Maurya

Ans. (b) 23. Jainism was divided into two sects known as:

a) Kapalika and Kalamukha b) Mahayana and Hinayana c) Ajivika and Nyaya Vaisesika d) Svetambara and Digambara

Ans. (d) 24. Match the following:

(Events related to (Places) Buddha) A. Birth of Buddha 1. Bodha Gaya B. Enlightenment 2. Lumbini C. First Sermon 3. Kusinagar (or kasia) D. Death of Buddha 4. Sarnath 5. Rajgriha

A B C D A B C D a) 2 1 3 4 b) 1 3 4 5 c) 2 1 4 3 d) 4 2 5 3

Ans. (c) 25. Which one of the following is incorrectly

matched? a) First Buddhist Council - Saptaparni Cave (near Rajagriha) b) Second Buddhist Council – Magadha c) Third Buddhist Council - Patliputra d) Fourth Buddhist Council – Kashmir

Ans. (b) 26. Buddha and Mahavira died during the reign

of: a) Ajatshatru b) Udayan c) Bimbisara d) None of these

Ans. (a) 27. The triratnas were stressed by:

a) Buddha b) Mahavira c) Manu d) Gaudapada

Ans. (b) 28. The last of the 24th Jain Tirthankaras was:

a) Parsvanath b) Mahavira c) Rishabha d) Arishtanemi

Ans. (b) 29. The first discourse of Buddha at Deer Park

in Sarnath is called: a) Mahabhiniskraman b) Mahaparinirvana c) Mahamastabhisheka d) Dharmachakrapravartan

Ans. (d)

30. In which of the following languages were the original Buddhist religious texts written? a) Brahmi b) Sanskrit c) Magadhi d) Pali

Ans. (d) 31. Buddha died in which Mahajanpada?

a) Mael b) Chedi c) Magadh d) Avanti

Ans. (a) 32. The first monarch of Magadh kingdom in

the sixth century B.C. was: a) Bimbisara b) Prasenajit c) Ajatshatru d) Jarasandha

Ans. (a) 33. In ancient India, the earliest capital of

Magadha Kingdom was of: a) Pataliputra b) Rajgir c) Vaisali d) Varanasi

Ans. (b) 34. Which of the following transferred his

capital from Rajgir to Pataliputra? a) Bimbisara b) Ajatsatru c) Udayin d) Shishunaga

Ans. (c) 35. Porus was defeated by Alexander at the

Battle of _______. a) Buxar b) Heart c) Kabul d) Hydaspes

Ans. (d) 36. Who among the following is considered as

the first national ruler of India? a) Chandragupta Maurya b) Ashoka c) Chandragupta I d) Kanishka

Ans. (a) 37. Ashoka, the Great conquered Kalinga in

the year: a) 261 B.C. b) 58 B.C. c) 261 A.D. d) 78 A.D.

Ans. (a) 38. The Greek ambassador in the court of

Chandragupta Maurya was: a) Hiuen Tsang b) Fahien c) Megasthenes d) Seleucus

Ans. (c) 39. The title ‘Devanam Piya’ was given to:

a) Harsha b) Kanishka c) Ashoka d) Chandragupta Vikramaditya

Ans. (c)



40. Sarnath’s Lion Capital is attributed to: a) Kanishka b) Harshavardhana c) Ashoka d) Chandragupta

Ans. (c) 41. Which language was used in the literature

of Sangam period? a) Sanskrit b) Tamil c) Telugu d) Kannada

Ans. (b) 42. After the Mauryas the most important

kingdom in the Deccan and Central India was that of the: a) Vakatakas b) Cholas c) Satavahanas d) Pallavas

Ans. (c) 43. The earliest example of a land grant is

provided by an inscription of: a) The Guptas b) The Mauryas c) The Satavahanas d) the Mahameghavahanas

Ans. (c) 44. Saka era started from:

a) 78 B.C. b) 78 A.D. c) 300 B.C. d) 124 A.D.

Ans. (b) 45. Vikrama era started from:

a) 57 B.C. b) 78 A.D. c) 57 A.D. d) 78 B.C.

Ans. (a) 46. Who were the first to issue gold coins?

a) Indo Greeks b) Shakas c) Parthians d) Kushans

Ans. (a) 47. St. Thomas came to India in 1st century

A.D. to propagate Christianity. He came during the reign of: a) Gondophernes b) Kanishka c) Rudradaman I d) Kadphises

Ans. (a) 48. The Mathura school of art flourished during

the reign of: a) Kanishika b) Kadphises – I c) Harsha d) Vasudeva

Ans. (a) 49. ‘Panchatantra’ was written by:

a) Kalidasa b) Vishnu Sharma c) Tulsidas d) Banabhatta

Ans. (b) 50. The six distinct schools of Indian

philosophy – Vedanta, Mimamsa, Sankhya, Toga, Nyaya, Vaisesika became fully articulated during the: a) Vedic age b) Gupta age c) Kushana age d) Mauryan age

Ans. (b) 51. Dhanvantri, a renowned physician of

ancient India, adorned the court of: a) Samudragupta b) Ashoka c) Chandragupta Vikramaditya d) Kanishka

Ans. (c) 52. Who among the following literary figures of

the Gupta age is given the title of ‘Indian Shakespeare’? a) Harisena b) Kalidasa c) Vishakhadatta d) Bharavi

Ans. (b) 53. The Iron Pillar at Mehrauli was built by:

a) Mauryas b) Nandas c) Khilijis d) Gupta

Ans. (d) 54. Which of the following was not written by

Harsha? a) Kadambari b) Ratnavali c) Nagananda d) Priyadarshika

Ans. (a) 55. Who built the stupa at Sanchi in Madhya

Pradesh? a) Harsha b) Ashoka c) Kanishka d) Chandragupta

Ans. (b) 56. The large Shiva Temple at Thanjavur was

built by: a) Rajendra Chola I b) Rajaraja Chola I c) Chandellas d) Rashtrakutas

Ans. (b) 57. The famous bronze image of Nataraja is a

fine example of: a) Chola art b) Gandhara art c) Gupta art d) Mauryan art

Ans. (a) 58. Who among the following are credited to

have built the famous Ellora caves? a) Rashtrakutas b) Cholas c) Satavahanas d) Cheras

Ans. (a) 59. Who among the following called himself as

the ‘Second Alexander’? a) Alauddin Khilji b) Samudragupta c) Chandragupta II d) Kanishka

Ans. (a) 60. In ancient peninsular India, who of the

following assumed the title ‘Vatapikonda’? a) Mayurasharman b) Narasimhavarman c) Pulakeshin II d) Vikramaditya II

Ans. (b)



61. Match the following: Dynasty State

A. Kadamba 1. Orissa B. Kharavela 2. Karnataka C. Chalukya 3. Bengal D. Pala 4. Gujarat A B C D A B C D a) 1 2 4 3 b) 1 2 3 4 c) 2 1 3 4 d) 2 1 4 3 Ans. (d) 62. Prithviraj Chauhan belonged to the Rajput

dynasty of: a) Chandellas b) Gahadavalas c) Tomaras d) Guhilots

Ans. (b) 63. The first Muslim invasion of India was led by:

a) Mahmud of Ghazni b) Muhammad Ghori c) Muhammad-bin-Qasim d) Timur

Ans. (c) 64. Who among the following Sultans of Delhi

has been described by the historians as the ‘mixture of opposites’? a) Balban b) Alauddin khilji c) Muhammad Tughluq d) Ibrahim Lodi

Ans. (c) 65. Alauddin Khilji introduced market reforms:

a) To administer his subjects well b) To easy the peasants’ living c) To maintain a large army economically d) To remove mediators

Ans. (c) 66. Al Beruni came to India along with:

a) Mahmud of Ghazni b) Muhammad-bin-Qasim c) Muhammad Ghuri d) Timur

Ans. (a) 67. Who was the first and the last woman ruler

of Delhi? a) Chand Bibi b) Noor Jahan c) Rajia Sultan d) Mumtaz Mahal

Ans. (c) 68. Timur invaded India during the reign of:

a) Alauddin Khilji b) Bahlol Lodi c) Firoz Tughlaq d) Nasiruddin Mehmud

Ans. (d) 69. Who among the following first divided his

empire into iqtas during the process of civil administration? a) Aibak b) Iltutmish c) Razia d) Mohammad-bin-Tughlaq

Ans. (b) 70. Who among the following was not a slave

before he became a king? a) Ala-ud-din Khilji b) Balban c) Qutub-ud-din Aibak d) Iltutmish

Ans. (a) 71. The Sultan of Delhi who is reputed to have

built the biggest network of canals in India was: a) Iltutmish b) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq c) Feroze Shah Tughlaq d) Sikandar Lodi

Ans. (c) 72. Who among the following destroyed the

group of Forty Nobles? a) Balram Shah b) Iltutmish c) Razia d) Balban

Ans. (d) 73. The Delhi Sultanate virtually ended due to

the invasion of: a) Chengiz Khan b) Babar c) Nadir Shah d) Timur

Ans. (b) 74. Which Muslim emperor was attracted by

the beauty of Queen Padmini? a) Babar b) Humayun c) Akbar d) Alauddin Khilji

Ans. (d) 75. Who among the following introduced the

famous Persian festival of Nauroj in India? a) Balban b) Firoze Tughlaq c) Iltutmish d) Alauddin Khilji

Ans. (a) 76. The founder of the first Afghan dynasty in

India was: a) Ibrahim Lodi b) Bahlol Lodi c) Sikandar Lodi d) Sher Shah Suri

Ans. (b) 77. Which of the following rulers in India

challenged the authority of the Ulemas or Muslim clergy? a) Alauddin Khilji b) Balban c) Muhammad bin Tughlaq d) Sher Shah

Ans. (a) 78. The structure of Qutab Minar was

completed by: a) Aram Shah b) Qutbuddin Aibak c) Iltutmish d) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

Ans. (c)



79. Who wrote Tughluqnamah? a) Raskhan b) Amir Khusrau c) Isami d) Malik Mohammad Jaisi

Ans. (b) 80. Who was the founder of the second Afghan

Empire in India? a) Bahlol Lodi b) Ibrahim Lodi c) Islam Shah d) Sher Shah Suri

Ans. (d) 81. In Krishnadevaraya’s court, Ashtadiggajas

were the: a) Eight great poets of his court b) Eight great ministers in his court c) Eight elephants placed at eight corners

of his capital d) Eight great scholars of his kingdom

Ans. (a) 82. Who was known as ‘Andhra Bhoja’?

a) Deva Raya II b) Bukka c) Krishnadeva Raya d) Quli Qutb Shah

Ans. (c) 83. Kabir was the disciple of

a) Chaitanya b) Shankaracharya c) Ramananda d) Vallabhacharya

Ans. (c) 84. The Bhakti Movement was first organized by:

a) Ramanuja b) Kabir c) Ramananda d) Nanak

Ans. (a) 85. Tulsidas wrote Ramacharitamanas during

the reign of: a) Jahangir b) Rama Raya c) Akbar d) Krishnadeva Raya

Ans. (c) 86. The two great Mughal rulers who wrote

their own memoirs are: a) Babar and Humayun b) Humayun and Akbar c) Babar and Jahangir d) Jahangir and Shahjahan

Ans. (c) 87. The court language of Mughals was

a) Arabic b) Hindi c) Persian d) Urdu

Ans. (c) 88. The Mughal emperor, who died to a

sudden fall from the staircase was: a) Babar b) Humayun c) Jahangir d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (b) 89. The coin rupia was first issued by:

a) Sher Shah b) Alauddin Khilji c) Akbar d) Muhammad bin-Tughlaq

Ans. (a) 90. Buland Darwaza, built by Akbar, is to

commemorate the victory of: a) Orissa b) Bengal c) Delhi d) Gujarat

Ans. (d) 91. Purana Qila was constructed during the

reign of: a) Humayun b) Akbar c) Jahangir d) Sher Shah

Ans. (d) 92. When did Vasco da Gama come to India?

a) 1492 b) 1498 c) 1398 d) 1542

Ans. (b) 93. Who among the following was regarded to

‘Zindapir’? a) Babar b) Akbar c) Jahangir d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (d) 94. Who among the following Mughal rulers

banned music and dancing? a) Aurangzeb b) Humayun c) Jahangir d) Babar

Ans. (a) 95. ‘Biwi Ka Maqbara’ is the tomb of:

a) Nurjahan b) Aurangzeb’s wife c) Humayun’s sister d) Mumtaz Mahal

Ans. (b) 96. Who among the following ladies wrote a

historical account during the Mughal Period? a) Gulbadan Begam b) Nurjahan Begam c) Jahanara Begam d) Zebun-nissa Begam

Ans. (a) 97. The Sikh Khalsa was founded by:

a) Guru Teg Bahadur b) Guru Nanak c) Guru Gobind Singh d) Guru Hargobind

Ans. (c) 98. The Sikh Guru who was killed by the

orders of Aurangzeb was: a) Guru Ram Das b) Guru Arjun Dev c) Guru Teg Bahadur d) Guru Gobind Singh

Ans. (c)



99. The birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh is: a) Amritsar b) Anandpur Sahib c) Fatehgarh Sahib d) Patna

Ans. (d) 100. Which Indian king requested Napoleon for

help to drive the British from India? a) Rani of Jhansi b) Jai Singh c) Shivaji d) Tipu Sultan

Ans. (d) 101. Nadir Shah invaded India during the reign of:

a) Shah Alam b) Bahadur Shah c) Muhammed Shah d) Farrukhsiyar

Ans. (c) 102. Who united all the Sikhs and founded a

kingdom in the Punjab? a) Guru Nanak b) Guru Gobind Singh c) Maharaja Ranjit Singh d) Guru Tegh Bahadur

Ans. (c) 103. Who among the following was called as

‘Father of Indian Renaissance’? a) B.G. Tilak b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale c) Lala Lajpat Rai d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Ans. (d) 104. Who was the first European to translate

the Bhagwat Gita into English? a) William Jones b) Charles Wilkins c) James Prinsep d) Sir Alexander Cunningham

Ans. (b) 105. Which was the first newspaper to be

published in India? a) Bombay Samachar b) Bengal Gazette c) Bengal Chronicle d) The Hindu

Ans. (b) 106. Who gave the motto ‘Go back to the

Vedas’? a) Ramakrishna Paramhansa b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy c) Swami Dayanand Saraswati d) Swami Vivekananda

Ans. (c) 107. Vande Mataram was first sung at the

session of the Indian National Congress in: a) 1886 b) 1892 c) 1896 d) 1904

Ans. (c) 108. The first session of the Indian National

Congress was held under the Presidentship of:

a) A.O. Hume b) B. Malabari c) Badruddin Tyyabji d) W.C. Banerjee

Ans. (d) 109. The first Muslim President of Indian

National Congress was: a) Ajmal Khan b) Abul Kalam Azad c) M.A. Jinnah d) Badruddin Tyyabji

Ans. (d) 110. Who was the first Englishman to preside

over a congress session? a) A.O. Hume b) W. Wedderburn c) George Yule d) None

Ans. (c) 111. A public Works Department was set up in

India by: a) Lord Ripon b) William Bentinck c) Lord Dalhousie d) Warren Hastings

Ans. (c) 112. Which of the following Land tenure systems

was introduced by Lord Cornwallis? a) Mahalwari b) Ryotwari c) Sthayi d) Inamdari

Ans. (c) 113. Who was the Governor-General when the

Great Mutiny of 1857 broke out? a) Lord Ripon b) Lord Dalhousie c) Lord Canning d) Lord Hardinge

Ans. (c) 114. The system of budget was introduced in

India during the viceroyalty of: a) Dalhousie b) Canning c) Elgin d) Ripon

Ans. (b) 115. Who was the head of the Committee

formed by the government to enquire into Jallianwala Bagh massacre? a) General Dyer b) John Simon c) Hunter d) None of these

Ans. (c) 116. Who among the following was impeached

in England for his actions in India? a) Lord Wavell b) Warren Hastings c) Lord Ripon d) Lord Cornwallis

Ans. (b) 117. Who was known as the ‘Liberator of the

Press’? a) Bentick b) Hastings c) Metcalfe d) Macaulay

Ans. (c) 118. The Doctrine of Lapse was introduced by:

a) Lord Wellesley b) Warren Hastings c) Lord Canning d) Lord Dalhousie

Ans. (d)



119. Who among the following is associated with the Local Self-Government Act? a) Cornwallis b) William Bentinck c) Dalhousie d) Ripon

Ans. (d) 120. Who was the first Indian to become the

member of British Parliament? a) Badruddin Tyyabji b) W.C. Banerjee c) D. Wacha d) Dadabhai Naoroji

Ans. (d) 121. The Revolt of 1857 cannot be called

merely a sepoy mutiny because: a) It was spread all over India b) It was inspired by nationalistic

sentiments and led by former rulers c) It was the result of socio-economic

causes not confined to the sepoys d) It involved the participation of all

classes of society Ans. (c) 122. Lord Curzon is best known for which of

the following? a) University Act of 1904 b) Partition of Bengal in 1905 c) Indian Councils Act of 1892 d) Government of India Act of 1909

Ans. (b) 123. The slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ was first

raised by: a) Lokmanya Tilak b) Veer Savarkar c) Chandrashekhar Azad d) Bhagat Singh

Ans. (d) 124. The Non-Cooperation Movement was

launched by: a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Dadabhai Naoroji c) Chittaranjan Das d) Mahatma Gandhi

Ans. (d) 125. Who founded the Banaras Hindu University?

a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Madan Mohan Malviya c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) None of these

Ans. (b) 126. The first woman President of the Indian

National Congress was: a) Kasturba Gandhi b) Annie Besant c) Sarojini Naidu d) Vijayalakshmi Pandit

Ans. (b) 127. The first Indian woman President of the

Indian National Congress was: a) Sarojini Naidu

b) Kasturba Gandhi c) Annie Besant d) Vijayalakshmi Pandit

Ans. (a) 128. Who started the Bhoodan Movement?

a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Jayaprakash Narayan c) Swami Vivekananda d) Acharya Vinoba Bhave

Ans. (d) 129. The Indians celebrated the Independence

Day for the first time on: a) January 1, 1930 b) January 26, 1930 c) August 15, 1947 d) January 26, 1950

Ans. (b) 130. Who conceived the idea of Pakistan?

a) Asaf Ali b) Chowdhary Rahmat Ali c) Mohd. Ali Jinnah d) H.S. Suharwardhy

Ans. (b) 131. Who initiated the greeting of ‘Jai Hind’?

a) Mahatma Gandhi b) B.G. Tilak c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Subhash Chandra Bose

Ans. (d) 132. Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were

hanged for their role in: a) Kakori case b) Lahore Conspiracy case c) Meerut Conspiracy case d) All the above

Ans. (b) 133. ‘Vande Mataram’ was first published in

a) Kesari b) Harijan c) Gitanjali d) Anandmath

Ans. (d) 134. Who led the ‘Rally for the Valley’ against

the Narmada Dam? a) Arundhati Roy b) Keshu Bhai Patel c) Digvijay Singh d) Shobha De

Ans. (a) 135. University of Nalanda was situated in

a) Orissa b) Bihar c) Madhya Pradesh d) Gujarat

Ans. (b) 136. The oldest existing newspaper in India

a) Jugantar b) Anand Bazar Patrika c) Bombay Samachar d) Malayala Manorama

Ans. (c)



137. The first venture of Gandhiji in all India politics was the a) Non-Cooperation Movement b) Rowlatt Satyagraha c) Champaran Movement d) Dandi March

Ans. (b) 138. The Chinese traveller Fa-hien visited India

during the times of a) Chandra Gupta Maurya b) Chandra Gupta I

c) Samudra Gupta d) Chandra Gupta II

Ans. (d) 139. Which one of the following Indian leaders

was dismissed by the British from the Indian Civil Service? a) Satyendranath Tagore b) Surendranath Banerjee c) R. C. Dutt d) Subhash Chandra Bose

Ans. (b) 140. The first battle of Panipat was fought in

a) 1566 AD b) 1526 AD c) 1546 AD d) 1528 AD

Ans. (b) 141. Vasco da Gama was a

a) Australian navigator b) Portuguese explorer c) British Explorer d) French navigator

Ans. (b) 142. Begum Akhtar was famous for her singing of

a) Film songs b) Ghazals c) Qawwalis d) Folk songs

Ans. (b) 143. Which European leader was called the

‘Man of Blood and Iron’? a) Hitler b) Mussolini c) Bismarck d) Napoleon

Ans. (c) 144. Name the ruler of India who transferred

his capital from Delhi to Daultabad. a) Feroz Tughlaq b) Mohd. Tughlaq c) Alauddin Khiliji d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (b) 145. Who said, ”The government of the people

by the people and for the people shall not vanish from the earth”? a) George Washington b) Winston Churchill c) Subhash Chandra Bose d) Abraham Lincoln

Ans. (d)

146. Which of the following Vedas is a collection of spells and incantations? a) Rig Veda b) Sama Veda c) Yajur Veda d) Atharva Veda

Ans. (d) 147. ’Tripitakas’ are the sacred books of the

a) Hindus b) Muslims c) Jains d) Buddhists

Ans. (d) 148. Who was the founder of ‘Parsi Religion’?

a) Moses b) Zoroaster c) Cyrus d) Darius

Ans. (b) 149. Charminar is at

a) Lucknow b) Agra c) Patna d) Hyderabad

Ans. (d) 150. Which is the highest gateway of India?

a) India Gate b) Buland Darwaza c) China Gate d) Gateway of India

Ans. (b) 151. Indian National Congress was established in

a) 1880 b) 1881 c) 1883 d) 1885 Ans. (d) 152. Who called the English ‘a nation of

Shopkeepers’? a) Hitler b) Napoleon c) Mussolini d) Gandhiji

Ans. (b) 153. Lingaraj Temple is at

a) Ujjain b) Bhubaneshwar c) Madurai d) Varanasi

Ans. (b) 154. Hawa Mahal is in

a) Jaipur b) Jodhpur c) Ajmer d) Udaipur

Ans. (a) 155. Who was the founder of Ramakrishna

Mission? a) Swami Vivekanand b) Raja Rammohan Roy c) Swami Dayanand d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Ans. (a) 156. Mark the incorrect pair.

a) Netaji-Subhash Chandra Bose b) Frontier Gandhi-Maulana Abul Kalam

Azad c) Deshbandhu-C.R. Dass d) Deenbandhu-CF Andrews

Ans. (b) 157. When Quit India Movement was launched

by Gandhiji? a) 1940 b) 1941 c) 1942 d) 1943

Ans. (c)



158. Tulsidas flourished during the reign of a) Babar b) Akbar c) Shahjehan d) Humayun

Ans. (b) 159. When the Battle of Plassey was fought?

a) 1752 b) 1753 c) 1755 d) 1757

Ans. (d) 160. Who was Pablo Picasso?

a) A painter b) A sculptor c) A singer d) A writer

Ans. (a) 161. ‘Rajtarangini’ is written by

a) Sushruta b) Kalhana c) Panini d) Bana Bhatti

Ans. (b) 162. “Let a hundred flowers bloom and let a

thousand schools of thought contend” is the saying of a) Lenin b) Gandhi c) Nehru d) Mayo

Ans. (d) 163. The birthday of which of the following is

observed as the Teacher’s Day: a) Dr. Zakir Hussain b) Aurobindo Ghosh c) Swami Vivekanand d) S. Radhakrishnan

Ans. (d) 164. Who said,”Man is by nature a political

animal”? a) Plato b) Aristotle c) Socrates d) Churchill

Ans. (b) 165. The Mughal dynasty in India was founded in

a) 1526 b) 1536 c) 1546 d) 1556

Ans. (a) 166. Who is not a Bhakti poet?

a) Namdev b) Kabir c) Nirala d) Mirabai

Ans. (c) 167. Which is not a Dravidian language?

a) Tamil b) Malayalam c) Konkani d) Telugu

Ans. (c) 168. Mahatma Gandhi gave the call to reject

foreign goods during the a) Civil Disobedience Movement b) Khilafat Movement c) Non Cooperation Movement d) Swadeshi Movement

Ans. (d)

169. ‘Adi Granth’ was written by a) Guru Arjun Dev b) Guru Teg Bahadur c) Guru Nanak Dev d) Guru Gobind Singh

Ans. (a) 170. The first Sultan of Lodhi dynasty was

a) Afzal Lodhi b) Sikandar Lodhi c) Bahlol Lodhi d) Ibrahim Lodhi

Ans. (c) 171. In which of the following movement Mahatma

Gandhi gave the slogan ‘Do or Die’? a) Non-cooperation movement b) Dandi march c) Quit India movement d) Khilafat movement

Ans. (b) 172. The agitation against the partition of

Bengal was led by a) Surendranath Banerjee b) C.R. Das c) Subhash Chandra Bose d) Aruna Asaf Ali

Ans. (a) 173. Who among the following was appointed by

Ashoka to administer justice in his empire?

a) Shramana b) Uparika c) Rajuka d) Kumaramatya

Ans. (c) 174. Which of the following is the oldest

English Daily in India? a) The Times of India b) Hindustan Times c) The Tribune d) The Indian Express

Ans. (a) 175. Who was associated with ‘Divinity in

Humanity’? a) Mother Teresa b) Swamy Vivekananda c) Swami Ramakrishna Paramhansa d) Swami Sivananda

Ans. (c) 176. Analects in the sacred book of

a) Shintoism b) Taoism c) Confucianism d) Judaism

Ans. (c) 177. The Khajuraho was built by

a) Pallavas b) Chauhans c) Chandellas d) Vijay Nagar

Ans. (c) 178. Charaka Samhita is a work on

a) Architecture b) Medicine c) Polity d) Mathematics

Ans. (b)



179. The Arthashastra was written by a) Aryabhatta b) Kalidas c) Manu d) Kautilya

Ans. (d) 180. The world’s longest single poem is

a) Mahabharata b) Rig-Veda c) Ramayana d) Arthashastra

Ans. (a) 181. The Railway and Telegraphy System was

introduced in India by- a) Lord William Bentinck b) Lord Cornwallis c) Lord Dalhousie d) Lord Wellesley

Ans. (c) 182. The Red Fort was built at Delhi by

a) Sher Shah b) Shahjahan c) Akbar d) Babur

Ans. (b) 183. Name the Governor-general who made

the practice of Sati an offence in 1829? a) Lord Canning b) William Bentinck c) Lord Dalhousie d) Lord Ripon

Ans. (b) 184. Who introduced postage stamp in India?

a) Lord Ripon b) Lord Lytton c) Lord Mountbatten d) Lord Dalhousie

Ans. (d) 185. Neolithic age is not characterized by

a) Use of Bronze b) Use of Copper c) Domestication of animals d) Fishery

Ans. (b) 186. The Ajanta Caves were built during the

period of the a) Guptas b) Mauryas c) Kushanas d) Chalukyas

Ans. (a) 187. Out of the following the oldest dynasty is

the a) Guptas b) Chola c) Pallavas d) Mauryan

Ans. (d) 188. Who was the last English viceroy of India?

a) Lord Minto b) Lord Canning c) Lord Mountbatten d) Lord Ripon

Ans. (c) 189. Arrange the following events in the

National Movement in chronological order I. Satyagrah II. Non co-operation Movement III. Quit India Movement

IV. Dandi March The correct chronological order is a) I, II, IV, III b) II, IV, III, I

c) I, III, IV, II d) IV, III, II, I

Ans. (a) 190. Match the following:

I. Swami Dayananda A. Ram Krishna Mission

II. Raja Ram Mohan Roy B. Arya Samaj

III. Keshab Ch. Sen C. Brahmo Samaj

IV. Swami Vivekananda D. Prathana Samaj

a) I-B, II-D III-C, IV-A b) I-A, II-B, III-D, IV-C c) I-B, II-C, III-D, IV-A d) I-C, II-A, III-D, IV-C

Ans. (c) 191. The earliest literary work in India

composed around 1000 B.C. was the a) Sama Veda b) Atharva Veda c) Yajur Veda d) Rig Veda

Ans. (d) 192. The first battle of Panipat (1526 A.D.) was

fought between a) Ashoka and Rana Pratap Singh b) British and Marathas c) British and Ranjeet Singh d) Babur and Ibrahim Lodi

Ans. (d) 193. Who wrote the ‘Akbar Nama’ and ‘Ain-l-Akbari’?

a) Bhagwan Das b) Todarmal c) Birbal d) Abul Fazal

Ans. (d) 194. Who was the mughal ruler who prohibited

tobacco smoking even though the attempt was unsuccessful? a) Akbar b) Jahangir c) Aurangzeb d) Shahjahan

Ans. (c) 195. Who among the following is not

associated with medicine in India? a) Dhanvantary b) Bhaskaracharya c) Charaka d) Shusruta

Ans. (b) 196. Who was on the throne of Delhi when

Babur invaded India for the first time? a) Sikandar Lodi b) Daulat Khan Lodi c) Ibrahim Lodi d) Mahmmod Lodi

Ans. (c) 197. The ‘Jantar-Mantar’ in Delhi was erected by

a) Raja Mann Singh b) Aurangzeb c) Akbar d) Jai Singh

Ans. (d)



198. ‘Champaran Movement’ was launched by Gandhiji for a) Maintaining the unity of Hindu and

Muslim b) Protest against division of Bengal c) Foreigners goods d) Solving the problems of the indigo

farmers Ans. (d) 199. Which important event immediately

preceded the Jallianwala Bagh massacre? a) Rowlatt Act Enactment b) Coming of Cripps Mission c) Communal Award d) Quit India Movement

Ans. (a) 200. The integration of the Hindus and the

Muslims was represented by a) Khilafat Movement b) Home Rule Movement c) Non-Cooperation Movement d) Dandi march

Ans. (a) 201. ‘East is East, West is West and never

Twin shall meet’. Who said these words? a) Mussollini b) Adolf Hitler c) Churchill d) Rudyard Kipling

Ans. (d) 202. Who among the following leaders was the

first President of Indian National Congress? a) W.C. Bannerjee b) S.N. Bannerjee c) Dadabhai Naoroji d) B.G. Tilak

Ans. (a) 203. Mohenjo-daro is also known as

a) City of the east b) City dawn c) City of Joy d) Mound of the dead

Ans. (d) 204. Mahatma Gandhi started a paper in South

Africa. The name of the paper was a) Hindustani b) Freedom c) Indian Mirror d) Indian Opinion

Ans. (d) 205. In April 2004, Poompuhar, a submerged

ancient city was rediscovered off the coast of a) Tamil Nadu b) Orissa c) Karnataka d) Kerala

Ans. (a) 206. Who said these words ‘Play the game in

the spirit of the game’ a) Chandrasekhar b) Rajiv Gandhi c) Jawahar Lal Nehru d) Indira Gandhi

Ans. (c) 207. The Mughal emperor who wrote his

autobiography, was a) Humayun b) Akbar

c) Babar d) Shahjahan Ans. (c) 208. The main characteristic of the Indus

Valley Civilization was a) Town planning b) Drainage system c) Well laid out roads d) Pucca houses

Ans. (b) 209. The main occupation of the people of the

Indus Valley civilization was a) Agriculture b) Cattle rearing c) Hunting d) Trade

Ans. (a) 210. The Harappan site showing evidence of

two cultural phases, Harappan and pre- Harappan, is

a) Kalibangan b) Mohenjodaro c) Chanhu-daro d) Banwali

Ans. (a) 211. The period when men used both stones

and copper tools is known as the a) Monolithic age b) Chalcolithic age c) Neolithic age d) Metal age

Ans. (d) 212. The greatest invention of man in

Palaeolithic age was a) Fire b) Potter’s wheel c) Metal implements d) Spinning of cloth

Ans. (a) 213. The Indus Valley Civilization belongs to the a) Neolithic age b) Palaeolithic age c) Chalcolithic age d) Mesolithic age Ans. (a) 214. The script of the Harappan people consisted of

a) A family of quasi – pictographic writings. b) A family of geometrical shapes. c) A combination of both pictures and geometrical shapes. d) None of these Ans. (a) 215. The remains of a wooden drain of Indus

Valley Civilization have been found at a) Lothal b) Mohenjodaro c) Harappa d) Kalibangan Ans. (b) 216. Of the following Harappan sites those not

in India are a) Mohenjodaro and Harappa b) Bhanwali and Ropar c) Lothal and Kalibangan d) Lothal and Ropar Ans. (a)



217. The God with three heads and horns, surrounded by animals, represented on a seal from Mohen-jodaro is said to be a) Varuna b) Indra c) Vishnu d) Pashupati

Ans. (d) 218. The tools and weapons of Harappan

Civilization were mostly made of a) Stone b) Copper and Iron c) Copper and bronze d) Stone and copper

Ans. (c) 219. Near the banks of which of the following

rivers, the recent excavations have brought to light that Indus Valley Civilization percolated to far south?

a) Godavari b) Mahanadi c) Cauvery d) Krishna

Ans. (d) 220. Archaeological excavations have revealed

remains of stadium in a) Lothal b) Tanjore c) Broach d) Sopara

Ans. (a) 221. Which is the oldest Veda? a) Sama Veda b) Yajur Veda c) Atharva Veda d) Rig Veda Ans. (d) 222. Which of the following Vedas is a

collection of spells and incantations? a) Rig Veda b) Sama Veda c) Yajur Veda d) Atharva Veda

Ans. (d) 223. Which of the following ideals is not

contained in the Atharva Veda? a) Gnana b) Karma c) Moksha d) Upasana

Ans. (c) 224. Varna system of Aryans was based on a) Occupation b) Caste c) Colour d) Sex Ans. (c) 225. The chief characteristic of the Rig Vedic

religion was a) Worship of images b) Belief in the existence of heaven c) Performance of sacrifices d) Preponderance of female goddesses

Ans. (c) 226. The Vishnu Purana gives an account of a) Mauryan dynasty b) The Andhras c) The Vardhanas d) Life in Indus Valley Ans. (a)

227. Which of the following craftsmanship was not practiced by the Aryans?

a) Pottery b) Jewellery c) Carpentery d) Blacksmith

Ans. (d) 228. Brahmanas are books that deal with

a) Bhakti b) Ritualism c) Yoga d) Meditation

Ans. (b) 229. Ayurveda owes its origin to

a) Rig Veda b) Sama Veda c) Yajur Veda d) Atharva Veda

Ans. (c) 230. The classical Indian music has its origin

in which of the following? (OR) Which of the following Vedas is rendered musically? a) Samaveda b) Atharva Veda c) Yajurveda d) Shiv Purana Ans. (a) 231. The salient feature of Rig Vedic religion

was the worship of a) Nature b) Pashupati c) Mother Goddess d) Trimurti

Ans. (a) 232. The Gayatri Mantra contained in the Rig

Veda is dedicated to which deity? a) Agni b) Marut c) Surya d) Savitri Ans. (d) 233. In India, Jainism spread during the reign of

a) Harshavardhana b) Chandragupta Maurya c) Samudragupta d) Chandragupta Vikramaditya

Ans. (b) 234. Buddha did not recognize 1. Idol worship 2. Existence of soul after death 3. Sacrifice a) 1 and 3 b) 1 only c) 2 and 3 d) 1, 2 and 3 Ans. (a) 235. Lord Buddha was born in

a) Lumbini b) Vaishali c) Bodh Gaya d) Pataliputra

Ans. (a) 236. The representation of Buddha as a human

figure appeared for the first time in the sculptures found at

a) Sanchi b) Mathura c) Bharhut d) Bodh Gaya

Ans. (b)



237. With which religion is Kaivalya associated?

a) Buddhism b) Jainism c) Hinduism d) Sikhism Ans. (b) 238. The famous ruler of ancient India who,

towards the end of his life, is said to have converted to Jainism, was

a) Samudragupta b) Bindusara c) Chandragupta Maurya d) Ashoka Ans. (c) 239. The extreme form of Ahimsa or non-

violence is practiced in a) Buddhism b) Hinduism c) Jainism b) None of these

Ans. (a) 240. The phrase ‘The Light of Asia’ is applied to

a) Alexander b) Chandragupta Maurya c) Mahavira d) Buddha

Ans. (d) 241. Jainism had the patronage of a) Pushyamitra sunga b) Kanishka c) Samudragupta d) Kharavela Ans. (d) 242. Apabhramsa is a work of the

a) Buddhists b) Jains c) Brahmins d) Ajivikas

Ans. (b) 243. …… gave women an important place in

their cult. a) Jains b) Buddhists c) Kalmukhas d) Ajivikas Ans. (c) 244. Which one of the following is the most

fundamental difference between Mahayana Buddhism and Hinayana Buddhism?

a) Emphasis on ahimsa b) Casteless Society c) Worship of gods and goddesses d) Worship of Stupa

Ans. (c) 245. In which language did Buddha preach? a) Pali b) Prakrit c) Brahmi d) Sanskrit Ans. (a) 246. Which of the following places are known

for early Buddhist stupas? 1. Bharhut 2. Sanchi 3. Amaravati

4. Nagarjunakonda 5. Kanchipuram a) 1, 2, 4 and 5 b) 1, 3 and 5 c) 1, 2, 3 and 4 d) 2, 3, 4 and 5

Ans. (c)

247. Which of the following is known as the Jain Temple City?

a) Girnar b) Rajagriha c) Varanasi d) Allahabad Ans. (a) 248. The introduction of Buddhism into China is

traditionally attributed to a) Nagarjuna b) Samprati c) Kashyapa Matanga d) None of these Ans. (c) 249. ‘Nirvana’ is associated with a) Hinduism b) Jainism c) Buddhism d) Sikhism Ans. (c) 250. Buddha attained Nirvana at ……

a) Gaya b) Sanchi c) Sarnath d) Kushinagar

Ans. (a) 251. Mahavira was born at

a) Pataliputra b) Sravasti c) Rajagriha d) Vaisali

Ans. (d) 252. Buddha’s preachings were mainly in regard to a) Idol worship b) Belief in one God c) Purity of thought and conduct d) Practice of rituals Ans. (c) 253. The spread of Jainism in Karnataka is

attributed to a) Ashoka b) Chandragupta Maurya c) Kanishka d) Narasimavarma Pallava

Ans. (b) 254. Who was the first king to have the image

of Lord Buddha inscribed on his coins? a) Ashoka b) Kanishka c) Dharmpala d) Harshavardhana

Ans. (b) 255. Idol worship in India can be traced to the

period of a) Pre-Aryan b) Vedas c) Mauryans d) Kushans

Ans. (a) 256. Which of the following is said to be the

oldest Jaina scripture? a) Twelve Angas b) Twelve Upangas c) Fourteen Purvas d) Fourteen Uparvas

Ans. (a)



257. In his teachings, the Buddha attacked a) Ascetism b) The varna system c) Vedic rituals d) The concept of God

Ans. (b) 258. Relics of Buddha are preserved in a a) Vihara b) Chaitya c) Stupa d) Monastery Ans. (c) 259. Buddhism became the state religion

during the reign of a) Chandragupta Maurya b) Ashoka c) Samudragupta d) Kumaragupta – I Ans. (b) 260. Buddha died during the reign of

a) Ajatashatru b) Udayi c) Bimbisara d) None of these

Ans. (a) 261. The original teachings of Mahavira are

contained in which of the following texts? a) Angas b) Purvas c) Tripitakas d) Jatakas

Ans. (b) 262. Which of the following is the correct

chronological order of Buddhist Councils? a) Rajagriha, Vaishali, Pataliputra, Kashmir b) Vaishali, Kashmir, Rajagriha, Pataliputra c) Kashmir, Vaishali, Pataliputra, Rajagriha d) Pataliputra, Vaishali, Kashmir, Rajagriha

Ans. (a) 263. In which of the following fields of activity did

Buddhism make the maximum contribution? a) Art and literature b) Music c) Architecture d) Rituals

Ans. (a) 264. In which of the following countries was

Buddhism first propagated outside India? a) Sri Lanka b) Combodia c) Thailand d) China

Ans. (a) 265. The cardinal point of Buddhism was

a) Theory of Karma b) Attainment of nirvana c) Doctrine of ahimsa d) Eight fold path

Ans. (c) 266. The Lothal civilisation was known for

a) Art and architecture b) Agriculture c) Trade and commerce d) Drainage system

Ans. (d)

267. Mohenjodaro is also known as a) Mound of the Great b) Mound of the Survivors c) Mound of the Living d) Mound of the Dead

Ans. (d) 268. Indications of pre-Harappan civilisation have

come from the archaeological excavations at a) Ropar b) Kalibangan c) Lothal d) Kunal

Ans. (c) 269. Which of the following is not an Indus

Valley Civilisation site? a) Alamgirpur b) Lothal c) Kaushambi d) Balakot

Ans. (c) 270. Which of the following statements

regarding the characteristic features of the Indus Valley people is true? a) The people were largely rural. b) They knew of iron and defensive armour. c) The Horse played an eminent part in

their life. d) The worship of images was familiar to

the people. Ans. (d) 271. Which of the following rivers is not

mentioned frequently in Rig Vedic hymns? a) Ganges b) Brahmaputra c) Sindhu d) Saraswati

Ans. (b) 272. Which of the following Vedangas contains the

Srautra, the Grihya and the Dharma Sutras? a) Nirukta b) Shiksha c) Chhandas d) Kalpa

Ans. (d) 273. The Puranas are ………. in number.

a) 18 b) 25 c) 52 d) 108 Ans. (a) 274. ‘The world is God and God is my soul’ is

the philosophy contained in the a) Vedas b) Puranas c) Brahamanas d) Upanishads

Ans. (d) 275. The religion of early Vedic Aryans was

primarily one of a) Worship of nature and bhakti b) Bhakit c) Image worship and yajnas d) Yajnas and worship of nature

Ans. (d)



276. Which of the following was common both to the Harappan society and the Rig Vedic society? a) Iron implements b) Female deities c) Urban centres d) Horses

Ans. (d) 277. During the Neolithic age in India, the only

metal known to the people was. a) Iron b) Copper c) Gold d) Silver

Ans. (c) 278. According to the Mimamsa system of

philosophy, liberation is possible by means of a) Karma b) Bhakti c) yoga d) Jnana

Ans. (a) 279. Who among the following was a great

ruler of Kalinga in ancient times? a) Ajatashatru b) Bindusara c) Kharavela d) Mayurasarman

Ans. (b) 280. The great Hindu law-giver was

a) Kapil b) Banabhatta c) Kautilya d) Manu

Ans. (d) 281. Sakas were finally overthrown by

a) Kanishka b) Chandragupta Vikramaditya c) Devapala d) Gautamiputra Satakarni

Ans. (d) 282. Maurya empire declined after Ashoka

mainly because of a) Ashoka’s excessive patronage to

Buddhism. b) The policy of ahimsa leading to

military weakness. c) Weak successors of Ashoka d) Decentralisation of powers

Ans. (c) 283. The most commonly used coin, during the

Mauryan period, was a) Suvarna b) Kakini c) Nishka d) Karashapana

Ans. (d) 284. Chandragupta Maurya’s empire

extended in the north-west upto a) Ravi b) Indus c) Sutlej d) Hindukush

Ans. (d) 285. The name by which Ashoka is generally

referred to in his inscriptions is a) Priyadarsi b) Dharmadeva c) Chakravarti d) Dharmakirti

Ans. (a)

286. After the Mauryas, the most important kingdom in Deccan and Central India was that of a) Pallavas b) Cholas c) Satavahanas d) Vakatakas

Ans. (c) 287. Who amongst the following is credited by

a Chinese pilgrim with having built the ancient city of Rajagriha, the modern Rajgir in Patna district? a) Udayi b) Ajatashatru c) Prasenajit d) Bimbisara

Ans. (d) 288. In early ancient India, the largest urban

centre was a) Pataliputra b) Taxila c) Kausambi d) Kanauj

Ans. (a) 289. Which Saka ruler was responsible for

important irrigation works in Saurashtra? a) Nahapana b) Menander c) Rudradaman d) None of these

Ans. (c) 290. The Arab conquest of Sind took place in

712 A. D. under the leadership of a) Muhammad bin Kasim b) Subuktagin c) Mahmud Ghaznavi d) Qutub – ud – din

Ans. (a) 291. Chandragupta II fought war with the

a) Sakas b) Huns c) Kushans d) Parthians

Ans. (a) 292. Arrange the following in chronological order:

1. Skandagupta 2. Rajendra Choladeva I 3. Chandragupta I 4. Harshavardhana a) 1, 3, 2, 4 b) 2, 3, 1, 4 c) 3, 1, 4, 2 d) 4, 1, 3, 2

Ans. (c) 293. Who among the following is considered

as the first national ruler of India? a) Chandragupta Maurya b) Ashoka c) Chandragupta I d) Kanishka

Ans. (a) 294. In which century did Ashoka reign?

a) Second century B.C. b) Third century B.C. c) Second century A.D. d) Third century A.D.

Ans. (b)



295. Kanishka’s capital was at a) Amravati b) Kanauj c) Mathura d) Peshawar

Ans. (d) 296. Which of the following rulers was adorned

with the title of ‘Maharajadhiraja’ (King of Kings)? a) Chandragupta Maurya b) Kanishka c) Chandragupta I d) Ashoka

Ans. (b) 297. Who among the following has been

called the ‘Napoleon of India? a) Samudragupta b) Chandragupta c) Ashoka d) Harshavardhana

Ans. (a) 298. Gupta dynasty was famous for

a) Art and architecture b) Imperialism c) Revenue and land reforms d) Patronage of literary work

Ans. (a) 299. Who among the following earned the title

of a ‘Liberator’? a) Chandragupta Vikramaditya b) Ashoka c) Chandragupta Maurya d) Alexander

Ans. (c) 300. Which Kushanas King assumed the title

‘the Lord of the whole world’? a) Kadphises I b) Kadphises II c) Kanishka d) Huvishka

Ans. (b) 301. Who among the following assumed the title

of ‘Ksitipasatapatih’ (Lord of hundred Kings)? a) Samudragupta b) Chandragupta c) Skandagupta d) Chanakya

Ans. (c) 302. Bimbisara was the ruler of

a) Magadh b) Avadh c) Kamboja d) Gandhara

Ans. (a) 303. Ashoka the Great, died in

a) 206 B.C. b) 216 B.C. c) 226 B.C. d) 232 B.C

Ans. (d) 304. Kautilya was the Prime Minister of which

of the following Indian rulers? a) Chandragupta Maurya b) Chandragupta I c) Ashoka d) Harshavardhana

Ans. (a) 305. The Greek ambassador in the court of

Chandragupta Maurya was

a) Hiuen Tsang b) Fahien c) Magasthenes d) Seleucus

Ans. (c) 306. Ashoka Pillar at Allahabad provides

information about the reign of a) Chandragupta Maurya b) Chandragupta I c) Samudragupta d) Chandragupta II

Ans. (c) 307. King Piyadassi referred to in some ancient

Indian inscriptions is identified with a) Samudragupta b) Chandragupta Maurya c) Bimbisara d) Ashoka

Ans. (d) 308. The first Muslim ruler to formulate the

theory of Kingship similar to the theory of divine right of Kings was a) Qutbuddin Aibak b) Alauddin Khilji c) Iltutmish d) Balban

Ans. d) 309. Which of the following Sultans of Tughlaq

dynasty issued copper coins instead of silver ones? a) Firoz Shah Tughlaq b) Muhammad bin Tughlaq c) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq d) Mahmud Tughlaq

Ans. (b) 310. Token currency was introduced for the

first time in India by a) Alauddin Khilji b) Firoz Shah Tughlaq c) Ghiasuddin Tughlaq d) Muhammed bin Tughlaq

Ans. (d) 311. Which of the following rulers in India

challenged the authority of the Ulemas or Muslim clergy? a) Alauddin Khilji b) Balban c) Muhammad bin Tughlaq d) Sher Shah

Ans. (a) 312. Mohammad bin Tughlaq changed his

capital from Delhi to Deogiri because he wanted to a) Improve trade in the Deccan b) Spread Islam in the Deccan c) Punish the people of Delhi d) Escape from the Mongol invasion

Ans. (d)



313. Arrange the following dynasties in choronological order and choose the correct sequence: 1. Tughlaq 2. Khilji 3. Pallava 4. Kushana a) 3, 4, 2, 1 b) 3, 4, 1, 2 c) 4, 3, 1, 2 d) 4, 3, 2, 1

Ans. (c) 314. The Durrani dynasty was founded by

a) Murshid Quli Khan b) Husain Ali Khan c) Ahmad Shah Abdali d) Chin Qilich Khan

Ans. (c) 315. Who among the following rulers is most

famous for building a large number of canals for irrigation? a) Qutbuddin Aibak b) Firoz Shah Tughlaq c) Muhammad bin Tughlaq d) None of these

Ans. (b) 316. Under which Sultan, Khalisa land

increased considerably? a) Ghiasuddin Balban b) Alauddin Khilji c) Firoz Shah Tughlaq d) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

Ans. (b) 317. Razia succeeded Sultan

a) Bahram b) Qutbuddin Aibak c) Iltutmish d) Ruknuddin Feroz

Ans. (c) 318. For his unbounded generosity, who

amongst the following Sultans was styled all writers of the times as ‘lakh baksh’ or giver of lakhs? a) Nasir – ud – din Mahmud b) Balban c) Qutb –ud-din- Aibak d) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

Ans. (c) 319. The Sultan who called himself ‘Naib-i-

Khudai or ‘Deputy of the God’ was a) Ibrahim Lodi b) Balban c) Iltutmish d) Alauddin Khilji

Ans. (b) 320. Which of the following Sultans established

diplomatic, relations with China? a) Ibrahim Lodi b) Jallaluddin Khilji c) Balban d) Muhammed bin Tughlaq

Ans. (b)

321. The first Muslim conquest of the Hindu Kingdoms of Deccan was effected by the forces of a) Muhammad Ghori b) Alauddin Khilji c) Qutb –ud- din Aibak d) Mahmuad of Ghazni

Ans. (b) 322. Sri Perumbuder, a temple town in south,

is the birthplace of a) Adi Shankaracharya b) Vidyaranya c) Madhavacharya d) Ramanuja

Ans. (d) 323. Consider the following four saints:

1. Kabir 2. Nanak 3. Chaitanya 4. Tulsidas What is the correct chronological order in which they flourished? a) 1, 2, 3, 4 b) 2, 3, 4, 1 c) 3, 1, 2, 4 d) 3, 2, 4, 1


A. Namdeva 1. West Bengal B. Chaitanya 2. Uttar Pradesh C. Surdas 3. Maharashtra D. Nanak 4. Punjab A B C D A B C D a) 1 4 3 2 b) 2 3 4 1 c) 3 1 2 4 d) 4 2 1 3

Ans. (c) 325. Which of the following Vedas was/were

translated in Hindi by Swami Dayanand? 1. Rig Veda 2. Sama Veda 3. Yajur Veda 4. Atharva Veda a) 3 only b) 1 and 2 c) 1 and 3 d) 2 and 4

Ans. (c) 326. Who amongst the following was a blind

poet who worshipped Krishna and spread Krishna Bhakti cult? a) Kabir b) Surdas c) Bihari d) Raskhan

Ans. (b) 327. Who established 4 math in the four

corners of India? a) Bhaskaracharya b) Ramanujacharya c) Shankaracharya d) Madhvacharya

Ans. (c) 328. Banis were the hymns and poems

composed by a) Kabir b) Raskhan c) Dadu d) Guru Nanak

Ans. (c)



329. Sufi sect developed in the religion a) Hinduism b) Islam c) Sikhism d) Jainism

Ans. (b) 330. In which region of India was the Firdausi

order of Sufism popular? a) Sind b) In & around Delhi c) Deccan d) Bihar

Ans. (d) 331. Kabir was the disciple of

a) Chaitanya b) Shankaracharya c) Ramananda d) Vallabhacharya

Ans. (c) 332. In the systems of Philosophy created by

Indians, we find elements of materialistic philosophy in which of the following systems? a) Karm Mimamsa b) Yoga c) Samkhya d) Vaisesika

Ans. (c) 333. ‘Let no man ask a man’s sect or caste’

Whose dictum was this? a) Kabir b) Ramananda c) Ramanuja d) Chaitanya

Ans. (b) 334. During his pilgrimage, Chaitanya received

enlightenment at a) Kanchipuram b) Rameswaram c) Gaya d) Allahabad

Ans. (c) 335. The birthplace of Swami Vivekananda is

in which of the following cities? a) Cuttack b) Balasore c) Calcutta d) Kushinagar

Ans. (c) 336. Who said, “Ram and Rahim are the two

different name of the Same God”? a) Kabir b) Ramdas c) Chaitanya d) Ramanuja

Ans. (a) 337. Who united the Sikhs and founded a

kingdom in the Punjab? a) Guru Nanak b) Guru Gobind Singh c) Maharaja Ranjit Singh d) Guru Teg Bahadur

Ans. (c) 338. Who among the following was the first

Mughal emperor to allow Britishers to establish trade links with India? a) Akbar b) Jahangir c) Shahjahan d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (b) 339. The Peacock Throne was made for

a) Jahangir b) Akbar

c) Shahjahan d) Aurangzeb Ans. (c) 340. Which of the following ports was the

biggest port during the Mughal period? a) Hooghly b) Chittagong c) Balasore d) Surat

Ans. (d) 341. The East India Company was founded in

India during the reign of a) Jahangir b) Akbar c) Shahjahan d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (b) 342. The capital of the kingdom of Maharaja

Ranjit Singh was a) Patiala b) Amritsar c) Lahore d) Kapurthala Ans. (c)

343. Match the following: Personalities during Field of their Mughal Period Contributions A. Todar Mal 1. Literature B. Tansen 2. Architecture C. Shahjahan 3. Music D. Abdul Hamid 4. Revenue Lahori administration

A B C D A B C D a) 4 3 2 1 b) 3 4 1 2 c) 4 2 1 3 d) 1 2 3 4 Ans. (a) 344. The Sikh Guru who fought Mughals was

a) Guru Nanak b) Guru Arjun Dev c) Guru Gobind Singh d) Guru Teg Bahadur

Ans. (c) 345. When Akbar was young, his guardian was

a) Hemu b) Faizi c) Abul Fazal d) Bairam Khan

Ans. (d) 346. Who initiated Din- I-Ilahi?

a) Shahjahan b) Aurangzeb c) Akbar d) Jahangir

Ans. (c) 347. Revenue system during Akbar’s reign

was in the hands of a) Bairam Khan b) Man Singh c) Birbal d) Todar Mal

Ans. (d) 348. Babar laid the foundation of Mughal

empire in 1526 by defeating a) Daulat Khan Lodi b) Ibrahim Lodi c) Rana Sanga d) Alauddin Khilji

Ans. (b)



349. Who consolidated the Mughal Empire and gave it a unique multi-religious culture? a) Akbar b) Humayun c) Jahangir d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (a) 350. Akbar founded the Din-I-Ilahi primarily to

a) Put an end to differences between the Hindus and the Muslims.

b) Establish a national religion which would be acceptable to the Muslims and the Hindus.

c) Ensure racial and communal harmony. d) Form a religious club.

Ans. (b) 351. Who among the following Mughal rulers

was ignorant of the art of reading & writing? a) Babar b) Humayun c) Akbar d) Jahangir

Ans. (c) 352. The first Mughal emperor to issue a

firman in favour of the British to open a factory at Surat was a) Aurangzeb b) Jahangir c) Shahjahan d) Akbar

Ans. (b) 353. Babar won the Battle of Panipat mainly

because of a) His cavalry b) His military skill c) Tulughma system d) Afghan’s disunity

Ans. (b) 354. The ‘Jaziya’ was abolished by

a) Muhammad bin Tughlaq b) Babar c) Akbar d) Sher Shah

Ans. (c) 355. The bitterest war of succession under the

great Mughals was fought among the sons of a) Babur b) Jahangir c) Shahjahan d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (c) 356. “He left behind him an enemy still unsubdued,

a minor son and a mercenary army”. This description given by Kennedy fits a) Babar b) Humayun c) Sher Shah d) Jahangir

Ans. (b) 357. Sher Shah is credited for introducing for the

first time the following measures except a) Postal system b) Spy system c) Currency system

d) Land revenue system based on scientific principles.

Ans. (c) 358. Sikh Guru Arjun Dev was killed during the

reign of a) Humayun b) Akbar c) Jahangir d) Shah Jahan

Ans. (c) 359. Which Mughal ruler was the most secular

in outlook? a) Babar b) Humayun c) Akbar d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (c) 360. Which Mughal emperor gave land for the

construction of the Golden Temple at Amritsar? a) Akbar b) Jahangir c) Shahjahan d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (a) 361. Before the rise of Ranjit Singh, Punjab

was under the control of a) Maratha commanders b) Raider groups c) Tribal chiefs d) Sikh Misls

Ans. (a) 362. Which of the following pairs is incorrect?

a) Bairam Khan-Akbar b) Jaswant Singh-Aurangzeb c) Amir Khusrau-Jahangir d) Ambar Malik- Humayun

Ans. (d) 363. Which Sikh Guru laid the foundation of

the city of Amritsar? a) Guru Nanak b) Guru Ramdas c) Guru Arjun Dev d) Guru Gobind Singh

Ans. (b) 364. In 1809, Maharaja Ranjit Singh signed a

treaty with a) East India Company b) Shah Alam c) King of Kashmir d) Ruler of Sindh

Ans. (a) 365. Who installed the ‘Chain of Justice’?

a) Babur b) Humayun c) Jahangir d) Akbar

Ans. (c) 366. Where did Babar die?

a) Agra b) Kabul c) Lahore d) Delhi

Ans. (a) 367. Babar entered India for the first time from

the west through a) Kashmir b) Sind c) Punjab d) Rajasthan

Ans. c)



368. The bone of contention between the Shah of Persia and the Mughals was the control of a) Kabul b) Kandhar c) Ghazni d) Kunduz

Ans. (b) 369. Maharaja Ranjit Singh signed a treaty of

‘perpetual friendship’ with the British in the year 1809 at a) Ferozpur b) Faridkot c) Amritsar d) Ludhiana

Ans. (b) 370. Akbar has been called the ‘First national

King, mainly because he a) Was a great administrator. b) Established a new religion ‘Din –I-Ilahi’.

c) Provided an efficient government to the people.

d) Was highly tolerant and secular in his out-look.

Ans. (d) 371. Sher Shah’s real name was

a) Hemu b) Faizi c) Bahadur d) Farid

Ans. (d) 372. ‘By conquering most parts of the Indian

subcontinent and giving it one of the best systems of administration then known to the world, he perpetuated the name of his forebears and of the Mughal dynasty in the land, This statement aptly refers to a) Akbar b) Jahangir c) Shahjahan d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (a) 373. All of the following Rajput rulers

acknowledged the Mughal sway in the second half of 16th century, except the ruler of a) Bikaner b) Mewar c) Amber d) Jaisalmer

Ans. (b) 374. Who, among the following Mughal

emperors, annexed Bijapur and Golconda to the Mughal empire? a) Jahangir b) Akbar c) Shahjahan d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (d) 375. Who amongst the following Mughals is

regarded more as an adventurer than a ruler? a) Jahangir b) Akbar c) Babar d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (c) 376. Guru Gobind Singh sent Banda Bahadur

to Punjab a) To establish sikh empire. b) Because he was a great warrior.

c) To crush the enemies of Khalsa. d) To defeat the Hindus.

Ans. (c) 377. Banda Singh Bahadur was executed by the

orders of which of the following Emperors? a) Aurangzeb b) Bahadur Shah c) Farrukh Siyar d) Jahandar Shah

Ans. (c) 378. Bahadur Shah II, the last Mughal ruler,

was exiled by the British and sent to a) Bangkok b) Rangoon c) Lhasa d) Andaman & Nicobar

Ans. (b) 379. Lane Poole, the historian writes:”…… the

Emperor tumbled through life, and he tumbled out of it.” This statement refers to a) Babur b) Humayun c) Shahjahan d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (b) 380. Delhi became the established capital of

Mughal kings during the reign of a) Sher Shah Suri b) Jahangir

c) Humayun d) Akbar Ans. (d) 381. Which one of the following Saint’s name

is associated with Shivaji? a) Ramanand b) Ram Das c) Chaitanya d) Tukaram

Ans. (d) 382. What was the capital of Shivaji’s kingdom?

a) Pune b) Karwar c) Purandhar d) Raigarh

Ans. (d) 383. Who was the ruler of an Indian state who

allied himself with the French? a) Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah b) Alivardi Khan c) Saadat Khan d) Tipu Sultan

Ans. (d) 384. The beginning of the British political sway

over India can be traced to the battle of a) Buxar b) Plassey c) Wandiwash d) Panipat

Ans. (b) 385. The Island of Bombay was given to the

English prince Charles II as dowry by the a) Danish b) Dutch c) Portuguese d) English

Ans. (c) 386. The Dutch first established their hold in

India in 1605 at a) Goa b) Surat c) Gujarat d) Masulipatnam

Ans. (d)



387. The first Europeans to came to India were a) British b) Dutch c) French d) Portuguese

Ans. (d) 388. Who laid the foundations of Portuguese

power in India? a) Vasco da Gama b) Bartholomew Dias c) Affonso de Albuquerque d) None of these

Ans. (c) 389. The tax collected by Marathas was known as

a) Jazia b) Chauth c) Sardeshmukhi d) Pilgrim tax

Ans. (b) 390. Tipu Sultan was defeated in Third Mysore

war in 1790 by a) John Shore

b) Warren Hastings c) Lord Cornwallis d) Sir John Macpherson

Ans. (c) 391. The Maratha kingdom was founded by

Shivaji during the reign of a) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq b) Akbar c) Shahjahan d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (d) 392. Who among the following is known for his

introduction of a new calendar, a new system of coinage and new scales of weights and measures?

a) Murshid Quli Khan b) Tipu Sultan c) Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah d) Saadat Khan Burhan-ul-Mulk

Ans. (b) 393. Who succeeded Mir Jafar?

a) Haider Ali b) Chanda Sahib c) Mir Kasim d) Tipu Sultan

Ans. (c) 394. Tipu Sultan ruled from

a) Srirangapatnam b) Mysore c) Halebid d) Belur

Ans. (a) 395. Goa was first colonised by

a) Portuguese b) French c) Dutch d) English

Ans. (a) 396. In 1498, Vasco da Gama landed at

a) Bombay b) Cochin c) Calicut d) Goa

Ans. (c)

397. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched? a) Battle of Buxar-Mir Jafar vs Clive b) Battle of Wandiwash – French vs East

India Company c) Battle of Chilianwala – Dalhousie vs

Marathas d) Battle of Kharda- Nizam vs East India

Company Ans. (b) 398. Who built the Stupa at Sanchi in Madhya

Pradesh? a) Harsha b) Ashoka c) Kanishka d) Chandragupta

Ans. (b) 399. Amir Khusrau’s name is associated with

the invention of a) Sitar b) Sarod c) Tabla d) Shehnai

Ans. (a) 400. The most famous court-poet (in Hindi

literature) of Akbar was a) Raskhan b) Surdas c) Tulsidas d) Abdur Rahim-Khan-i-Khanan Ans. (d) 401. Who among the following Mughal rulers

has been called as the ‘Prince of Builders’ a) Babar b) Akbar c) Jahangir d) Shahjahan Ans. (d) 402. The Khajuraho shrines built by Chandella

rulers are dedicated to a) Vishnu and Shiva b) Indra and Varun c) Shiva and Parvati d) Vishnu and Brahma Ans. (c) 403. Which of the following was built by Akbar?

a) Agra Fort b) Fort of Daulatabad c) Red Fort d) Fort of Ahmednagar

Ans. (a) 404. Which of the following is not related to

Gandhara School of Art? a) Elephanta b) Ellora c) Khajuraho d) Ajanta

Ans. (d) 405. The monuments at Khajuraho belong to

the period of a) Vakatakas b) Rashtrakutas c) Chandellas d) Gahadavalas

Ans. (c)



406. Taxila was a famous site of a) Early Vedic art b) Gandhra art c) Mauryan art d) Gupta art

Ans. (b) 407. Which sufi saint’s dargah is at Ajmer?

a) Salim Chishti b) Muinuddin Chishti c) Baba Farid d) Hazrat Nizamuddin

Ans. (b) 408. Buland Darwaza is situated in

a) Delhi b) Fatehpur Sikri c) Lucknow d) Meerut

Ans. (b) 409. Nishat Garden was built by

a) Babar b) Jahangir c) Sher Shah d) Shahjahan

Ans. (b) 410. Who is considered as Trimurti (Trinity) of

Carnatic Music? a) Thyagaraja b) Muthuswami Dikshitar c) Swati Thirunal d) Purandaradasa

Ans. (b) 411. Which of the following is the oldest

monument? a) Ajanta b) Qutab Minar c) Taj Mahal d) Khajuraho

Ans. (a) 412. Which temple got the name of Black

Pagoda? a) Sun Temple b) Lingaraja Temple c) Jagannath Temple d) Bhuvaneshwari Temple

Ans. (a) 413. Who built Char Minar?

a) Ibrahim Qutb Shah b) Quli Qutb Shah c) Ali Adil Shah d) Ibrahim Adil Shah II

Ans. (b) 414. Who built the famous Dilwara temple at

Mount Abu in the 13th century? a) Mahendrapala b) Mahipala c) Rajyapala d) Tejapala

Ans. (d) 415. Buland Darwaza, built by Akbar, is to

commemorate the victory of a) Orissa b) Bengal b) Delhi d) Gujarat

Ans. (d) 416. The mausoleum of Sher Shah is at

a) Delhi b) Sasaram c) Agra d) Lahore

Ans. (b) 417. The Iron Pillar at Mehrauli was built by

a) Mauryas b) Nandas

c) Khiljis d) GuptaS Ans. (d) 418. The caves and rock-cut temples at Ellora are

a) Buddhist b) Buddhist and Jain c) Hindu and Jain d) Hindu, Buddhist and Jain

Ans. (d) 419. Ashoka pillar is located at

a) Sopara b) Girnar c) Kalsi d) Lauriya Nandangarh

Ans. (d) 420. In which of the following caves, 28 new

caves have been discovered? a) Ajanta caves b) Ellora caves c) Elephanta caves d) None of these

Ans. (c) 421. Jama Masjid in Delhi was built by

a) Jahangir b) Akbar c) Humayun d) Shahjahan

Ans. (d) 422. The celebrated Rummindei pillar of Ashoka

marked the site where Gautama Buddha a) Was born in 566 B.C. b) Attained into supreme knowledge and

insight c) Preached his first sermon d) Died at the age of eighty

Ans. (d) 423. Arrange the following monuments in the

chronological order of construction. 1. Qutab Minar 2. Taj Mahal 3. Fatehpur Sikri 4. Agra Fort a) 1, 4, 3, 2 b) 2, 3, 1, 4 c) 3, 4, 2, 1 d) 4, 1, 2, 3

Ans. (a) 424. Which of the following Mughal emperors is

credited with the composition of Hindi songs? a) Babar b) Humayun c) Akbar d) Jahangir

Ans. (d) 425. Which of the undermentioned facts about

Taj is not correct? a) It is a magnificent mausoleum. b) It was built by Shah Jahan. c) It is situated outside the Agra Fort. d) The names of artisans who built it are

engraved on it. Ans. (d) 426. Which of the following Mughal emperor’s

tomb is outside India? a) Jahangir b) Akbar c) Shah Jahan d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (a)



427. Which of the following forts was not built by Akbar? a) Lahore Fort b) Allahabad Fort c) Gwalior Fort d) Agra Fort

Ans. (c) 428. What was the raw material that was

generally used in Akbar’s time? a) Brick b) Marble c) Red Stone d) None of these

Ans. (c) 429. Who built the ‘Tower of Victory’ (Vijay

Stambha) in the Chittor fort? a) Rana Sanga

b) Rana Hamir Deva c) Rana Khumba d) Rana Ratan Singh

Ans. (c) 430. Which of the following is similar to the Taj

Mahal in construction? a) Akbar’s tomb b) Jahangir’s tomb c) Humayun’s tomb d) Bibi-ka-maqbara

Ans. (c) 431. Qutab Minar was built by

a) Qutbuddin Aibak b) Iltutmish c) Razia Sultan d) Shahjahan


A. A great mathematician 1. Brahmagupta and astronomer B. A great scientist 2. Vrihada Vagabhatta C. A great mathematician 3. Aryabhatta D. A great physician 4. Varahamihira A B C D A B C D a) 2 1 3 4 b) 4 3 2 1 c) 3 4 1 2 d) 4 3 1 2

Ans. (a) 433. Jahangiri Mahal is located in

a) Fatehpur Sikri b) Delhi c) Agra Fort d) Sikandra

Ans. (c) 434. Who among the following Gupta rulers was

a poet and a musician and was adorned with the title of Kaviraja or King of poets? a) Chandragupta I b) Samudragupta c) Skandagupta d) None of these

Ans. (b) 435. Ajanta paintings depict scenes from the

a) Ramayana b) Mahabharata c) Jatakas d) Upanishads

Ans. (c) 436. The temple built during the medieval

period by which of the following dynasties are known as ‘Seven Pagodas’? a) Chalukyas b) Choias

c) Pallavas d) Hoysalas Ans. (c) 437. The first Mughal building to have been

built entirely of marble is a) Akbar’s mausoleum b) Humayun’s tomb c) Itmat-ud-Daula’s tomb d) Taj Mahal

Ans. (d) 438. Akbar built the Panch Mahal, noted for its

various types of pillars, at a) Delhi b) Agra c) Lahore d) Fatehpur Sikri

Ans. (d) 439. Who built the mausoleum of Jahangir and

where? a) Nur Jahan at Lahore b) Shahjahan at Agra c) Shahjahan at Delhi d) Nur Jahan at Fatehpur Sikri

Ans. (a) 440. The city of Agra was founded by

a) Rana Sanga b) Ibrahim Lodi c) Firuz Tughlaq d) Sikandar Lodi

Ans. (d) 441. Which Sultan added the Alai Darwaza to

the Qutab Minar? a) Muhammad bin Tughlaq b) Firoz Tughlaq c) Iltutmish d) Alauddin Khilji

Ans. (d) 442. Which one of the following monuments

has a dome which is said to be one of the largest in the world? a) Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur b) Tomb of Sher Shah, Sasaram c) Jama Masjid, Delhi d) Tomb of Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq, Delhi

Ans. (a) 443. Most of the buildings of Fatehpur Sikri are

built with a) Brick b) Limestone c) Marble d) Red Sandstone

Ans. (d) 444. Which school of painting was a product of

the union of Mughal art and the hilly folk art of the Himalayas? a) Pahari b) Kangra c) Basholi d) Rajasthani

Ans. (c)



445. On the wall of which of the following buildings built by Shah Jahan, the Persian couplet “If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this” is inscribed? a) Moti Masjid b) Diwan-i-Khas, Delhi c) Jasmine Palace d) Diwan-i-Am, Delhi

Ans. (b) 446. ‘Arhai-Din-Ka Jhopra’ built by Qutbuddin

Aibak is located in a) Delhi b) Ajmer c) Badayun d) Kalinjas

Ans. (b) 447. The oldest Indian linguistic text is

a) Ashtadhyayi b) Mahabhashya c) Kasikavritti d) Nirukta

Ans. (a) 448. Who wrote Tughluqnamah?

a) Raskhan b) Amir Khusrau c) Isami d) Malik Mohammad Jaisi

Ans. (b) 449. Who among the following was the first

writer in Hindi? a) Dinkar b) Rahim c) Surdas d) Tulsidas

Ans. (c) 450. Who was the author of ‘Humayun Nama’ ?

a) Faizi b) Gulbadan Begam c) Firdausi d) Humayun

Ans. (b) 451. The well known Indo-Persian poet of India was

a) Sheikh Saidi b) Alberuni c) Amir Khusrau d) Firdausi

Ans. (d) 452. Tulsidas was a contemporary of

a) Babar b) Akbar c) Jahangir d) ShahJahan

Ans. (b) 453. The oldest Hindu epic is

a) Mahabharat b) Ramayana c) Mahabhashya d) Ashtadhyayi

Ans. b) 454. Shrimad Bhagwat Gita contains

a) 14 chapters and 600 sanskrit couplets (shlokas)

b) 16 chapters and 650 sanskrit couplets (shlokas)

c) 18 chapters and 700 sanskrit couplets (shlokas)

d) None of these Ans. (c) 455. Ramayana refers to

a) Satyuga b) Tretayuga c) Dwaparyuga d) Kalyuga

Ans. (b) 456. Who among the following wrote a treatise

on medicine in ancient India? a) Charaka b) Nagarjuna c) Aryabhatta d) Varahamihira

Ans. (a) 457. Patanjali, a famous personality of ancient

India, was primarily a) An astronomer b) A poet c) A mathematician d) A grammarian

Ans. (d) 458. In his works, Kalidasa exhibits a particular

leaning towards the worship of a) Vishnu b) Shiva c) Durga d) Ganesha

Ans. (c) 459. Which of the following fruits is not

mentioned in Kautilya’s Arthashastra’? a) Grapes b) Guava c) Mango d) Banana

Ans. (b) 460. Who among the following anticipated

Newton by declaring that all things gravitate to the earth? a) Brahmagupta b) Aryabhatta c) Varahamihira d) Buddhagupta

Ans. (a) 461. The ancient time state craft and polity is

described in a) Mahabharata b) Rajatarangini c) Arthashastra d) Manusmriti

Ans. (c) 462. Aryabhatta lived in

a) 3rd century B. C. b) 3rd century A. D. c) 5th century A. D. d) 7th century A. D.

Ans. (c) 463. Ramcharitamanas was written by

a) Kalidas b) Valmiki c) Surdas d) Tulsidas

Ans. (d) 464. Which of the following rulers ordered the

translation of a large number of Hindu religious works from Sanskrit to Persian? a) Firoz Shah Tughlaq b) Alauddin Khilji c) Ghiasuddin Tughlaq d) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

Ans. (a) 465. Kalidas lived during the reign of

a) Samudragupta b) Chandragupta Maurya c) Ashoka, the Great d) Chandragupta II

Ans. (d)



466. The famous epic Mahabharata was written by a) Valmiki b) Patanjali c) Bhavabhuti d) Ved Vyas

Ans. (d) 467. Aryabhatta was a famous

a) Physician b) Scientist c) Painter d) Mathematician

Ans. (d) 468. Zero was invented by

a) Aryabhatta b) Bhaskara c) Varahamihira d) None of these

Ans. (a) 469. The poet Harisena was the courtier of

a) Skandagupta b) Samudragupta c) Lakshmana Sena d) Chandragupta

Ans. (b) 470. Who among the following saints wrote

‘Bijak’? a) Ramdas b) Tulsidas c) Guru Arjun d) Kabir

Ans. (d) 471. ‘Tahqiq-i-Hind’, a famous literary work,

was written by a) Badauni b) Nizam-ud-din Ahmad c) Alberuni d) Minhaj-us-Siraj

Ans. (c) 472. Of the following, the oldest Sanskrit poet,

whose composition still remains in original classical style, is a) Kalidasa b) Bhavabhuti c) Dandin d) Ashvaghosa

Ans. (d) 473. In ancient India, Nalanda University was a

great centre for the study of a) Hinduism b) Hinayana Buddhism c) Jainism d) Mahayana Buddhism

Ans. (d) 474. Who among the following literary figures

of the Gupta Age is given the title of ‘Indian Shakespeare’? a) Harisena b) Kalidas c) Vishakhadatta d) Bharavi

Ans. (b) 475. Who recast the original single Veda into

four Vedas? a) Patanjali b) Vyas c) Shankaracharya d) None of these

Ans. (b) 476. The Second Battle of Panipat was fought

during the reign of a) Babar b) Humayun c) Akbar d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (c) 477. ‘Black Hole Episode’ was the main cause of

a) Battle of Buxar

b) Battle of Plassey c) Battle of Wandiwash d) Battle of Haldighati

Ans. (b) 478. Who among the following scholars was

the first to visit India? a) Hiuen Tsang b) Ibn-Batutah c) Marco Polo d) Fa-Hien

Ans. (d) 479. The Battle of Talikota was fought in the year

a) 1526 b) 1565 c) 1576 d) 1586 Ans. (b) 480. The first Muslim invasion of India was led by

a) Mahmud Ghazni b) Muhammad Ghori c) Muhammad bin Kasim d) Timur lane

Ans. (c) 481. The Third Battle of Panipat was fought

between a) Marathas and Britishers b) Marathas and Rajputs c) Rajputs and Britishers d) Marathas and Afghans

Ans. (d) 482. Chengiz Khan was a

a) Turk b) Mongol c) Persian d) None of these

Ans. (b) 483. Mahmud of Ghazni attacked India mainly

a) To plunder the wealth of India b) To establish his empire in India c) To spread Islam in India d) To take the famous artisans of India to

his court Ans. (a) 484. Consider the following events:

1. Reign of Kanishka 2. Visit of Hiuen Tsang 3. Alexander’s invasion 4. Ashoka’s Kalinga War The correct chronological order of these events is a) 2, 1, 3, 4 b) 1, 3, 4, 2 c) 3, 4, 1, 2 d) 3, 4, 2, 1

Ans. (c) 485. India’s famous peacock Throne and the

diamond Koh-e-Noor were taken away by a) Ahmad Shah Abdali b) Mohammad Ghori c) Nadir Shah d) Robert Clive

Ans. (c)



486. The Second Battle of Panipat was fought between a) Babar and Rana Sanga b) Ahmad Shah Abdali and Marathas c) Akbar and Hemu d) Clive and Siraj-ud Daula

Ans. (c) 487. The ancient name of the city of Patna is

a) Kausambi b) Pataliputra c) Kanauj d) Kapilavastu

Ans. (b) 488. Who was the ruler of medieval India who

is credited with the construction of Grand Trunk Road? a) Babar b) Sher Shah Suri c) Jahangir d) Krishnadevaraya

Ans. (b) 489. In whose rule was Islam as the state

religion abolished? a) Akbar b) Balban c) Ibrahim Lodhi d) Ghias-ud-din Tughlaq

Ans. (a) 490. Who is regarded as the greatest law giver

of ancient India? a) Kautilya b) Manu c) Panini d) Patanjali

Ans. (b) 491. Which Muslim emperor was attracted by

the beauty of Queen Padmini? a) Babar b) Humayun c) Akbar d) Alauddin Khilji

Ans. (d) 492. Which of the following is the oldest

Dravidian language? a) Kannada b) Tamil c) Telugu d) Malayalam

Ans. (b) 493. Akbar founded his own religion known as

‘Din-I-Ilahai’ which means a) House of Worship b) Universal peace c) Divine faith d) None of these

Ans. (c) 494. Sanchi is famous for

a) Rock- cut temples b) Cave paintings c) The rock edicts of Ashoka d) The largest Buddhist Stupa

Ans. (d) 495. During the reign of which of the following

emperors was the artillery most perfect and numerous? a) Jahangir b) Akbar c) Shahjahan d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (d) 496. Among the following, whose empire was

the largest? a) Babar b) Akbar c) Shahjahan d) Aurangzeb

Ans. (d) 497. Mahatma Gandhi returned to India,

leaving South Africa for ever in a) 1914 b) 1915 c) 1916 d) 1919

Ans. (b) 498. Which of the following events symbolised

the fall of autocracy during the course of French Revolution? a) Mass execution by the guillotine in

1792 b) The meeting of the States General on

17th June, 1789 c) Execution of the King and the Queen d) The fall of Bastille on 14th July, 1789

Ans. (d) 499. ‘The Boston Tea party’ took place in

a) 1774 b) 1773 c) 1770 d) 1776 Ans. (b) 500. Saint Simon, Charles Fourier and Robert

Owen were a) Renaissance artists b) Portuguese navigators c) Early Socialists d) Activists in the American war of

independence Ans. (c) 501. When did the second world war end?

a) 1918 b) 1939 c) 1945 d) 1946 Ans. (c) 502. Arrange the following in chronological

order: I. Dandi March II. Simon Commission III. Poona Pact IV. Gandhi-Irwin Pact a) II, I, III, IV b) II, I, IV, III c) IV, III, I, II d) IV, III, II, I

Ans. (b) 503. Brahmo Samaj mainly insisted upon

a) Abolition of sati b) Abolition of child marriage c) Monotheism d) Reintroduction of converted Hindus

Ans. (c) 504. Al Hilal was a newspaper started for

propagating nationalism by a) Abul Kalam Azad b) Mahatma Gandhi c) Mohammed Ali d) Syed Ahmed Khan

Ans. (a)



505. The most important cause for the outbreak of the Ghadar revolution was the a) Arrest of Lala Har Dayal b) Outbreak of World War I c) Hanging of Kartar Singh Sarabha d) Kamagata Maru incident

Ans. (d) 506. Which of the following Indian States was

annexed by Lord Dalhousie on the pretext of maladministration? a) Udaipur b) Oudh c) Nagpur d) None of these

Ans. (b) 507. Who among the early nationalists worked

in England to mobilize public opinion in favour of the Indian National Movement?

a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale b) D.E. Wacha c) Lala Lajpat Rai d) Dadabhai Naoroji

Ans. (d) 508. The Non-Cooperation Movement was

launched by a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Dadabhai Naoroji c) Chittaranjan Das d) Mahatma Gandhi

Ans. (d) 509. Which one of the following was a

revolutionary who later turned into a yogi and a philosopher?

a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak b) Aurobindo Ghosh c) Lala Lajpat Rai d) Agarkar

Ans. (b) 510. The main purpose of Home Rule

Movement was a) To harass the British b) To bring about social reforms c) To attain self-government and turn out

British d) To attain self-government within the

British Empire Ans. (d) 511. Where was the session of Muslim League

held when the resolution demanding the creation of Pakistan was passed? a) Bombay b) Calcutta c) Lahore d) Madras

Ans. (c) 512. Gandhiji’s first fast in India was in

connection with a) Champaran Satyagraha b) Chauri Chaura incident

c) Communal riots in eastern India d) The strike of mill workers at

Ahmedabad Ans. (d) 513. To encourage British investments in India,

Dal housie a) Encouraged industries b) Patronised agriculture c) Introduced railways and telegraphs d) Introduced postal system

Ans. (c) 514. The strategy of ‘Divide and Rule’ was

adopted by a) Lord Curzon b) Lord Wellesley c) Lord Minto d) Lord Canning

Ans. (c) 515. Who among the following attended all the

three Round Table Conferences? a) Madan Mohan Malviya b) Annie Besant c) Mahatma Gandhi d) B.R. Ambedkar

Ans. (d) 516. The Cripps Mission visited India in

a) 1927 b) 1939 c) 1942 d) 1946 Ans. (c) 517. The Champaran Satyagraha was started

by Mahatma Gandhi in the year a) 1915 b) 1917 c) 1919 d) 1930

Ans. (b) 518. Delhi became the capital of India in

a) 1910 b) 1911 c) 1916 d) 1923 Ans. (b) 519. Match the following:

A. Swarajist Party 1. Acharya Narendra Dev B. Hindustan Socialist 2. Motilal Nehru Republican Association C. Congress Socialist 3. Chandrashekhar Party Azad D. Communist 4. M.N. Roy International

5. P.C. Joshi A B C D A B C D a) 5 3 2 4 b) 1 2 4 5 c) 2 3 1 4 d) 2 4 5 3 Ans. (c) 520. The two nation theory was given by a) W.C. Banerjee b) M. A. Jinnah c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Pherozeshah Mehta Ans. (b)



521. Minto Morley Reforms aimed at a) Grant of Dominion status to Indians b) Separate electorates for the Muslims c) Special powers to the Government to

deal with anti-Government elements d) Full development of education

Ans. (b) 522. Which of the following statements

correctly defines the term ‘drain theory’ as propounded by Dadabhai Naoroji? a) That the resources of the country were

being utilised in the interest of Britain. b) That a part of India’s national wealth or

total annual product was being exported to Britain for which India got no material returns.

c) That the British industrialists were being given an opportunity to invest in India under the protection of the imperial power.

d) That the British goods were being imported to the country making it poorer day by day.

Ans. (a) 523. Gandhiji launched the struggle in

Ahmedabad in 1917-18 which involved the a) Peasants b) Industrial workers c) Masses d) Labourers

Ans. (b) 524. The Muslim League started demanding a

separate nation for the Muslims from the year

a) 1919 b) 1925 c) 1929 d) 1940 Ans. (d) 525. The clarion call ‘Dilli Chalo’ was given by

a) Congress in 1942 b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Subhash Chandra Bose d) Lala Lajpat Rai

Ans. (c) 526. Swaraj as a national demand was first made by

a) Chittaranjan Das b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Dadabhai Naoroji d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Ans. (d) 527. Who among the following is known as the

‘Heroine of 1942 Quit India Movement’? a) Dr. Annie Besant b) Suchitra Kriplani c) Aruna Asaf Ali d) Sarojini Naidu

Ans. (c) 528. The first to start a joint stock company

trade with India were the a) Portuguese b) Dutch c) French d) Danish

Ans. (a) 529. Which of the following is the most

significant contribution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to modern India? a) His Presidentship of Indian National

Congress b) His role in Non-Cooperation Movement c) His participation in Quick India Movement d) His achievement of integration of

princely states. Ans. (d) 530. Who is known as the ‘Grand Old Man of

India’? a) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan b) C. Rajagopalachari c) Lala Lajpat Rai d) Dadabhai Naoroji

Ans. (d) 531. Which of the following was a

recommendation of Hunter’s Commission? a) Gradual withdrawl of state support from

higher education b) Women’s education c) New regulation for the organized

senates system d) Introduction of civic education at

college and university level Ans. (a) 532. Which of the following pairs are correctly

matched? 1. Warren Hastings- Regulating Act 2. Cornwallis – Permanent Land Settlement 3. Wellesley- Subsidiary Alliance 4. Dalhousie- Abolition of Sati a) 2 and 3 b) 1 and 3 c) 1, 2 & 4 d) 1, 2 & 3

Ans. (a) 533. Who amongst the following was involved

in the Alipore Bomb case? a) S. N. Banerjee b) Bipin Chandra Pal c) Jatin Das d) Aurobindo Ghosh

Ans. (c) 534. Which one of the following upheavals

took place in Bengal immediately after the Revolt of 1857? a) Sanyasi Rebellion b) Santal Rebellion c) Indigo Disturbances d) Pabna Disturbances

Ans. (c) 535. The title ‘Punjab Kesari’ was conferred on

a) Ranjit Singh b) Bhagat Singh c) Lala Lajpat Rai d) Sardar Baldev Singh

Ans. (c)



536. Who among the following was called as ‘Father of Indian Renaissance’?

a) B. G. Tilak b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale c) Lala Lajpat Rai d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Ans. (d) 537. The first President of independent India was a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad b) M.K. Gandhi c) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan d) J. L. Nehru Ans. (a) 538. Theosophist, educationist and Indian

national leader’. This description fits a) Madan Mohan Malviya b) Srinivasa Shastri c) Annie Besant d) Shyama Prasad Mookherji

Ans. (c) 539. When Subhash Chandra Bose resigned

as the President of INC, who was appointed in his place? a) Rajendra Prasad b) Abul Kalam Azad c) C. Rajagopalachari d) Pattabhi Sitaramiah

Ans. (a) 540. The year 1943 is important because

a) Dandi March was organized by Mahatma Gandhi.

b) World War II ended. c) Azad Hind Fauj was formed. d) Quit India Resolution was passed.

Ans. (c) 541. The Indians celebrated the Independence

Day for the first time on a) January 1, 1930 b) January 26, 1930 c) August 15, 1947 d) January 26, 1950

Ans. (b) 542. Match the following: A. 1931 1. Chauri Chaura incident B. 1921 2. Dandi March C. 1942 3. Cripps Mission D. 1930 4. Second Round Table Conference 5. Death of Lala Lajpat Rai A B C D A B C D a) 1 3 2 5 b) 4 2 3 5 c) 4 3 5 2 d) 4 1 3 2 Ans. (d) 543. Which of the following was a continuous

movement based on the philosophy of Gandhiji, and not a specific movement? a) Non-Cooperation Movement b) Swadeshi Movement c) Quit India Movement

d) Civil Disobedience Movement Ans. (b) 544. Who was the first Indian to pass the

Indian Civil Service? a) Dadabhai Naoroji b) Surendranath Banerjee c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak d) D.N. Wacha

Ans. (b) 545. Who was the Chairman of Boundary

Commission to define the boundaries of the dominions under the Indian Independence Act of 1947?

a) Lord Wavell b) Stafford Cripps c) Lord Mountbatten d) Cyril Radcliffe Ans. (d) 546. Who was the President of Lahore session

of INC at which the resolution of ‘Complete Independence’ was passed? a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Badruddin Tyabji c) Dadabhai Naoroji d) S. N. Banerjee

Ans. (a) 547. The Forward Bloc was formed by a) P. C. Joshi b) Acharya Narendra Dev c) B. R. Ambedkar d) Subhash Chandra Bose Ans. (d) 548. The President of the Indian National

Congress at the time of Indian Independence was a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad b) J. B. Kripalani c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Rajendra Prasad

Ans. (b) 549. Non Cooperation Movement started in:

a) 1870 b) 1921 c) 1920 d) 1942 Ans. (c) 550. Who said, “I therefore want freedom

immediately, this very night, before dawn if it can be had”? a) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad c) Mahatma Gandhi d) Annie Besant

Ans. (c) 551. Who was called by the British rulers as

‘the leader of Indian unrest’? a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale b) Subhash Chandra Bose c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak d) M.K. Gandhi

Ans. (c)



552. Where did Mahatma Gandhi first try the weapon of Satyagraha? a) South Africa b) Champaran c) Bardoli d) Dandi

Ans. (a) 553. Who was the first Indian to become the

member of British Parliament? a) Badruddin Tyabji b) W. C. Bannerjee c) D.N. Wacha d) Dababhai Naoroji

Ans. (d) 554. Why did Rabindranath Tagore renounce

his knighthood? a) He wanted to join the Congress Party

and become its President b) He was not satisfied with the

constitutional reforms introduced by the Govt. of India Act. 1919.

c) His heart lay torn with anguish over the atrocities of the British government in Punjab especially the massacre of innocent people by Dyer at Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

d) He wished to participate in the Satyagraha movement started by Mahatma Gandhi.

Ans. (c) 555. Gandhiji started Satyagraha movement in

1919 in protest against the a) Simon Commission b) Champaran wrongs c) Enactment of Rowlatt Act d) Colonial exploitation of India

Ans. (c) 556. Ram Prasad Bismil was associated with

a) Kakori Bomb case b) Alipore Bomb case c) Meerut Conspiracy case d) Kanpur Conspiracy case

Ans. (a) 557. Who was the founder of the Muslim

League in India? a) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan b) M.A. Jinnah c) Nawab Salimulla d) None of these

Ans. (c) 558. Match List I with List II and select the

correct answer using the codes given below the Lists

List I List II A. Lala Lajpat Rai 1. Servants of India Society B. Bal Gangadhar 2. The Pioneer Tilak C. Gopal Krishna 3. The Young India Gokhale

D. Mahatma Gandhi 4. The Kesari 5. Navjeevan A B C D A B C D a) 3 4 1 5 b) 2 3 1 5 c) 1 2 4 3 d) 3 4 5 1 Ans. (a) 559. During the British rule, first partition of

Bengal was done in a) 1885 b) 1903 c) 1905 d) 1908

Ans. (c) 560. The founder of Boy Scouts and Civil

Guides Movement in India was a) Charles Andrews b) Baden Powell c) Richard Temple d) Robert Montgomery

Ans. (b) 561. The Rowlatt Act led to

a) Communal riots in Bengal b) Massacre at Amritsar c) Social legislation in Madras d) Economic reforms in U.P.

Ans. (b) 562. In 1917, at Champaran, the government

forced farmers to undertake a) Indigo cultivation b) Hallow cultivation c) Opium cultivation d) Land ceiling

Ans. (a) 563. The first session of Indian National

Congress was held at a) Bombay b) Surat c) Calcutta d) Lahore

Ans. (a) 564. The English Weekly edited by Mahatma

Gandhi was a) Kesari b) Comrade c) Bombay Chronicle d) Young India

Ans. (d) 565. The first railway started in India under the

Governor-Generalship of a) Lord Canning b) Lord Dalhousie c) Lord Hastings d) Lord Cornwallis

Ans. (b) 566. The Act which imparted provincial

autonomy is a) Indian Council Act, 1909 b) Government of India Act, 1919 c) Government of India Act, 1935 d) Indian Independence Act, 1947

Ans. (c)



567. Indian sepoys in the Bengal army revolted because a) The British officers ill-treated them. b) The British tried to make them use the

greased cartridges. c) The British discontinued the payment of

field allowance. d) The British passed the General Service

Enlistment Act. Ans. (b) 568. Quit India Movement started after the

failure of a) Cripps’ proposal b) Simon recommendations c) Cabinet Mission d) None of these

Ans. (a) 569. The practice of Sati was declared illegal by

a) Lord Ripon b) Lord Cornwallis c) Lord William Bentick d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Ans. (c) 570. The Simon Commission was concerned with

a) Constitutional reforms b) Higher education c) Reforms in princely states d) Famines

Ans. (a) 571. The first national leader to attack the Salt

Tax in Indian Legislature was a) G.K. Gokhale b) Mahatma Gandhi c) Dadabhai Naoroji d) Pherozeshah Mehta

Ans. (a) 572. The Congress split into moderates and

extremists in the session at a) Ahmedabad b) Madras c) Lucknow d) Surat

Ans. (d) 573. The Gandhi-Irwin Pact proclaimed the

suspension of a) Non Cooperation Movement b) Dandi March c) Civil Disobedience Movement d) None of these

Ans. (c) 574. The Indian National Congress adopted

the resolution of Poorna Swaraj (complete independence) at its session held at a) Calcutta b) Karachi c) Allahabad d) Lahore

Ans. (d)

575. The Home Rule Movement in India was started by a) S.N. Banerjee and W.C. Banerjee b) Annie Besant and Tilak c) Mahatma Gandhi and Motilal Nehru d) Annie Besant and Gokhale

Ans. (b) 576. Who among the following was the leader

of the moderates? a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale b) B.G. Tilak c) Annie Besant d) C.F. Andrews Ans. (a) 577. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was born in the year

a) 1889 b) 1899 c) 1900 d) 1914 Ans. (a) 578. Lucknow Pact of 1916 is significant in the

history of Indian National Movement because a) It decided India’s non participation in

World war I. b) Both the groups of Congress men

settled their disputes. c) It ended separate electorates for

Hindus and Muslims. d) None of these

Ans. (d) 579. Which of the following statements is not

correct? a) Dr. Annie Besant was a theosophist b) Mahatma Gandhi was born in

Gandhinagar c) The international headquarter of the

Theosophical Society is in Madras. d) Swami Dayanand Saraswati

established the Arya Samaj. Ans. (b) 580. The title of Governor –General was

changed to that of Viceroy in the year a) 1858 A.D. b) 1885 A.D. c) 1905 A.D. d) 1917 A.D.

Ans. (a) 581. What was the name of the periodical

published by Mahatma Gandhi during his stay in South Africa? a) India Gazette b) Navjivan c) Indian Opinion d) Afrikaner

Ans. (c) 582. Which of the following was written by

Raja Rammohan Roy? a) Mother India b) Brahma Samhita c) Kiratarjuniya d) Tuhfatul Muwahiddin

Ans. (d)



583. Whom did Mahatma Gandhi describe ‘as pure as crystal, as brave as a lion and the most perfect man in the political field? a) B.G. Tilak b) Motilal Nehru c) G.K. Gokhale d) C.R. Das

Ans. (c) 584. The Prime Minister of Britain at the time

of India’s independence was a) Lord Mountbatten b) Winston Churchill c) Ramsay Macdonald d) Clement Attlee

Ans. (d) 585. Before Delhi, where was the capital of

India during the British India? a) Lucknow b) Bombay c) Calcutta d) Patna

Ans. (c) 586. In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi started Civil

Disobedience Movement from a) Wardha b) Sevagram c) Sabarmati d) Dandi

Ans. (c) 587. The Viceroy upon whom a bomb was

thrown but he did not change his attitude towards the Indians, was a) Lord Hardinge b) Warren Hastings c) Lord Curzon d) Lord Chelmsford

Ans. (a) 588. The capital of India was shifted to Delhi

during the reign of a) Minto b) Chelmsford c) Curzon d) Hardinge

Ans. (d) 589. ‘Vande Mataram’ was first published in

a) Gitanjali b) Harijan c) Kesari d) Anand Math

Ans. (d) 590. The song ‘Jana-Gana-Mana’ composed

by Rabindranath Tagore, was first published in January 1912 under the title of a) Rashtra Jagrati b) Tatva Bodhini c) Bharat Vidhata d) None of these

Ans. (c) 591. Why were the Indians dissatisfied with the

Simon Commission? a) There was no Indian member in the

Commission. b) Indians never wanted the review of the

working of the Act of 1919. c) It recommended that Dyarchy in the

provinces should be abolished. d) None of these

Ans. (a) 592. Who was responsible for the introduction

of English as the official language in India? a) Lord William Bentick b) Sir Charles Wood c) Marquess of Dalhousie d) Allan Octavian Hume

Ans. (b) 593. Who introduced the system of Civil Services?

a) Warren Hastings b) Lord Dalhousie c) Lord Hardinge d) William Bentick

Ans. (d) 594. Who was named as Mira Behn by

Mahatma Gandhi? a) Annie Besant b) Madeline Slade c) Kamla Devi d) Maria Montessouri Ans. (b) 595. Who proclaimed: ‘We have not the

slightest intention of abandoning our Indian possessions and that it is highly improbable that any such intention will be entertained by our posterity? a) Lord Dufferin b) Lord Canning c) Lord Curzon d) Lord Cornwallis

Ans. (c) 596. The author of ‘Hind Swaraj’ was

a) V.D. Savarkar b) M.K. Gandhi c) B.G. Tilak d) Swami Sharddhanand

Ans. (b) 597. Dadabhai Naoroji declared Swarajya as the

aim of the INC at the Calcutta session in a) 1896 b) 1901 c) 1905 d) 1906

Ans. (d) 598. Match the following:

A. Simon Commission 1. 1885 B. Quit India Movement 2. 1942 C. Formation of INC 3. 1927 D. Minto Morley reforms 4. 1909

A B C D A B C D a) 1 2 3 4 b) 1 3 2 4 c) 3 2 1 4 d) 4 3 2 1

Ans. (c)



599. Match the following: A. Swaraj is my birth 1. Mahatma Gandhi right and I shall have it B. Bengal united is a 2. Jawaharlal Nehru power C. Untouchability is a 3. Bal Gangadhar crime against God Tilak and mankind D. Long years ago we 4. G.K. Gokhale have made a tryst with destiny 5. Risely A B C D A B C D a) 1 4 3 2 b) 3 5 1 2 c) 3 4 1 2 d) 4 2 5 3

Ans. (b) 600. “Be proud that you are an Indian; proudly

claim I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother…’ Who had said these words? a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Vivekananda c) Lala Lajpat Rai d) Mahatma Gandhi

Ans. (b) 601. The Chauri-Chaura incident (during Non

Cooperation Movement) relates to a) Large scale looting of government

property by Congress workers. b) The burning of a police post by a mob. c) Massive police firing on unarmed

Satyagrahis. d) A major offensive by underground

revolutionaries. Ans. (b) 602. Who advocated the policy of abolishing

princely states in free India? a) C. Rajagopalachari b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Vallabhbhai Patel d) Mahatma Gandhi

Ans. (b) 603. All the three Round Table Conferences

were held in a) Calcutta b) Bombay c) Manchester d) London

Ans. (d) 604. Which of the following Movements was

started by the Indian National Congress during the course of the Second World War and formed a part of our freedom struggle? a) Home Rule b) Civil Disobedience c) Swadeshi d) Quit India

Ans. (d) 605. A leading nationalist leader while

undertaking fast in the prison wrote to the British Governor, “The individual must die

so that the nations may live. Today, I must die so that India may win freedom and glory. “Who wrote this statement? a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Jatin Das d) Subhash Chandra Bose

Ans. (c) 606. The Quit India Movement started at

a) Delhi on Aug 15, 1942 b) Bombay on Aug. 8, 1942 c) Lahore on July 7, 1942 d) Wardha on Aug. 7, 1942

Ans. (b) 607. Who was the Governor-General when the

Great Mutiny of 1857 broke out? a) Lord Ripon b) Lord Dalhousie c) Lord Canning d) Lord Hardinge

Ans. (c) 608. The first fort which the British constructed

in India was a) Hoogly Fort b) St. George Fort c) Agra Fort d) St. David Fort

Ans. (b) 609. Those who joined Mahatma Gandhi

during the Champaran struggle included a) Vallabh bhai Patel and Vinoba Bhave b) Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad c) Rajendra Prasad and Anugraha

Narayan Sinha d) Mahadev Desai and Maniben Patel

Ans. (b) 610. The first Indian university opened in 1857

was in a) Madras b) Calcutta c) Banaras d) Bombay

Ans. (b) 611. Who amongst the following Englishmen

was fellow of Gandhiji in South Africa? a) C.F. Andrews b) Polak c) Peterson d) None of these

Ans. (b) 612. Who was the Viceroy of India at the time

of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre? a) Lord Curzon b) Lord Hardinge c) Lord Chelmsford d) Lord Irwin

Ans. (c) 613. Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred on

a) January 30, 1918 b) April 13, 1919 c) August 14, 1920 d) July 3, 1930

Ans. b)



614. The first Indian woman President of the Indian National Congress was a) Sarojini Naidu b) Kasturba Gandhi c) Annie Besant d) Vijayalakshmi Pandit

Ans. (a) 615. Mahatma Gandhi started his Dandi march

from a) Dandi b) Porbandar c) Sabarmati d) Surat

Ans. (c) 616. Who was the head of the Committee

formed by the government to enquire into Jallianwala Bagh massacre? a) General Dyer b) John Simon c) Hunter d) None of these

Ans. (c) 617. Which one of the following was a High Court

judge, a great social reformer, economist, one of the founding fathers of I.N.C., whom A.O. Hume called his political Guru?

a) Surendranath Banerjee b) Dadabhai Naoroji c) Pheroze shah Mehta d) Mahadev Gobind Ranade

Ans. (d) 618. In 1943, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

proclaimed the formation of the Provisional Government of Independent India (Azad Hind) in

a) Rangoon b) Tokyo c) Singapore d) Vienna

Ans. (c) 619. Comrades! Soldiers!

Let us over battle cry be. To Delhi ! To Delhi !” The above slogan was given by a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Subhash Chandra Bose d) Lala Lajpat Rai

Ans. (c) 620. Which of the following movements truly

reflected the spirit of Hindu-Muslim unity? a) Civil Disobedience Movement b) Khilafat Movement c) Swadeshi Movement d) Quit India Movement

Ans. (b) 621. Burma was separated from India in

a) 1935 b) 1937 c) 1936 d) 1941 Ans. (b) 622. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on

a) January 26, 1948 b) January 30, 1948 c) January 30, 1949 d) January 26, 1950

Ans. (b)

623. English as a media of education was introduced in India in a) 1835 b) 1838 c) 1853 d) 1883

Ans. (a) 624. Rani Lakshmi Bai died fighting the British

in the battle of a) Kanpur b) Gwalior c) Jhansi d) Kalpi

Ans. (b) 625. Who said, Good government was never a

good substitute for self government? a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy b) Swami Dayananda c) Ramakrishna Paramhansa d) Swami Vivekanand

Ans. (b) 626. During whose Viceroyalty, Queen Victoria

was crowned with ‘Kaiser-i-Hind’ in Delhi Durbar? a) Hastings b) Lytton c) Elgin d) Lord Minto

Ans. (b) 627. Gandhiji started Satyagraha in 1919 in

protest against a) Act of 1909 b) Jallianwala Bagh massacre c) Salt law d) Rowlatt Act

Ans. (d) 628. Lord Mountbatten replaced ….. as

Viceroy of India in 1947. a) Lord Curzon b) Lord Chelmsford c) Lord Wavell d) Lord Linlithgow

Ans. (c) 629. The author of the book ‘Hindu way of Life’ is

a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan d) Aurobindo Ghosh

Ans. (c) 630. The last Governor General of India was

a) Lord Wavell b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad c) Lord Mountbatten d) C. Rajagopalachari

Ans. (d) 631. Who once remarked, ‘Nehru is a patriot

while Jinnah is a politician’. a) Abdul Ghaffar Khan b) Maulana Azad c) Sir Mohammad Iqbal d) Mahatma Gandhi

Ans. (c)



632. When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, who said, “None will believe that a man like this body and soul ever walked on this earth”? a) Leo Tolstoy b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Albert Einstein d) Bertrand Russel

Ans. (c) 633. Satyagraha Sabha was formed by

Mahatma Gandhi at a) Poona b) Calcutta c) Bombay d) Ahmedabad

Ans. (c) 634. Queen Victoria was appointed Empress

of India in a) 1858 b) 1876 c) 1877 d) 1885

Ans. (c) 635. The first Governor –General of India was

appointed in a) 1774 b) 1833 c) 1858 d) 1911

Ans. (b) 636. When did the Indian National Congress

ask for the ‘Dominion Status’? a) 1906 b) 1929 c) 1942 d) 1947

Ans. (a) 637. The Cripps Mission visited India during

the regime of a) Lord Wavell b) Lord Wellington c) Lord Mountbatten d) Lord Linlithgow

Ans. (d) 638. Who among the following was not the

Viceroy of India during the 20th century? a) Lord Chelmsford b) Lord Irwin c) Lord Dalhousie d) Lord Minto

Ans. (c) 639. Who was the Viceroy of India at the time

of Quit India Movement? a) Lord Mountbatten b) Lord Wavell c) Lord Linlithgow d) Lord Wellington

Ans. (c) 640. Which of the following is correctly matched?

a) Salt Satyagraha : 1929 b) Surat split : 1905 c) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre : 1921 d) Non- Cooperation Movement: 1920

Ans. (d) 641. Which reformer from Maharashtra was

known as Lokhitavadi? a) Pandit Ramabai b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale c) M.G. Ranade d) Gopal Hari Deshmukh

Ans. (d) 642. Who said: ‘Bengal united is a power.

Bengal divided will pull several different ways…..’? a) Dufferin b) Curzon

c) Hardinge d) Risley Ans. (d) 643. Match the following:

A. Brahmo Samaj 1. Swami Vivekanand B. Ramakrishna 2. Dayanand Saraswati Mission C. Arya Samaj 3. Ram Mohan Roy D. Satyashodhak 4. K. Sridharalu Naidu Samaj 5. Jyotirao Phule A B C D A B C D a) 2 3 5 1 b) 3 1 2 4 c) 3 1 2 5 d) 3 2 1 5

Ans. (c) 644. Mahatma Gandhi gave the call to reject

foreign goods during the a) Civil Disobedience Movement b) Khilafat Movement c) Non Cooperation Movement d) Swadeshi Movement

Ans. (d) 645. Who among the following opposed

Mahatma Gandhi’s association with the Khilafat movement? a) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan b) Fazlul Haque c) Mohammed Ali Jinnah d) Abul Kalam Azad

Ans. (c) 646. Jawaharlal Nehru helped to start the

newspaper a) ‘Pioneer’ b) ‘Kesri’ c) ‘Patriot’ d) ‘National Herald’

Ans. (d) 647. Who was the British Prime Minister at the

time of the Second Round Table Conference? a) Ramsay Macdonald

b) Clement Attlee c) Neville Chamberlain d) None of these

Ans. (a) 648. Annie Besant enjoyed the Presidentship

of the INC at its session held in a) 1916 b) 1917 c) 1918 d) 1920

Ans. (b) 649. Who was the leading personality in Delhi

Conspiracy Case in which a bomb thrown at a procession of Lord Hardinge taken out in Chandni Chowk on Dec 23, 1913, killed the A.D.C. of the Viceroy? a) Madan Lal Dhingra b) Rash Behari Bose c) V.D. Savarkar d) Birendra Kumar Ghosh

Ans. (b)



650. ‘To the English, he can be rightly

described as a saviour, because he came to do commercial trade transactions, but conquered the French and Indian princes and established British rule in Indian territory, who is described here? a) Warren Hastings b) Lord Canning c) Robert Clive d) Lord Curzon

Ans. (c) 651. The first Satyagraha of Gandhiji for the

cause of indigo farmers was observed at a) Champaran b) Chauri Chaura c) Bardoli d) Sabarmati

Ans. (a) 652. First governor –General of India, after

independence was a) Rajendra Prasad b) Lord Mountbatten c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) C. Rajagopalachari

Ans. (b) 653. In the history of the freedom movement of

India, the year 1930 is associated with a) Partition of Bengal b) Dandi March c) Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy d) Chauri Chaura incident

Ans. (b) 654. “The Buddha, the Ramayana and the

Mahabharata are three treasures of India. If India forgets them. India will not be India.’ Who said this? a) Rabindranath Tagore b) Swami Vivekananda c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Mahatma Gandhi

Ans. (b) 655. Who was the Congress President when

India became free? a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) J.B. Kripalani c) Mahatma Gandhi d) Sardar Patel

Ans. (b) 656. Who was the political guru of Gandhiji?

a) Dadabhai Naoroji b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale d) Lala Lajpat Rai

Ans. (c) 657. Who led Quit India Movement in the

absence of Mahatma Gandhi? a) Sarojini Naidu b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Aruna Asaf Ali d) Sardar Patel

Ans. (c)

658. A.O. Hume belongs to a) India b) U.S.A. c) Germany d) Britain

Ans. (d) 659. On the death of Gandhiji, who said that”

The light has gone out of our lives…..”? a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan d) Lord Mountbatten

Ans. (b) 660. The Non Cooperation Movement in 1920

was withdrawn a) Because of Gandhiji’s ill-health b) Due to the extremist policy then

adopted by the National Congress c) On a fervent appeal from the government d) Because of violence at Chauri-chaura

Ans. (d) 661. Swarajya was declared as the goal of the

Congress at its session held in 1906 at a) Bombay b) Calcutta c) Lucknow d) Madras

Ans. (b) 662. Indian Civil Services was introduced

during whose rule? a) Lord Curzon b) William Bentick c) Lord Dalhousie d) Lord Cornwallis

Ans. (c) 663. Who coined the slogan “Jai Jawan Jai

Kisan”? a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Lal Bahadur Shastri d) Sardar Patel

Ans. (c) 664. Khilafat Movement resulted in

a) Decrease in the differences between Hindus and Muslims

b) Partition of India c) Hindu-Muslim riots d) Suppression of Hindus

Ans. (a) 665. Which of the following periods is called

the Revolutionary Era? a) 1857-1890 b) 1900- 1913 c) 1917-1932 d) 1934-1942

Ans. (b) 666. ‘India for the Indians’ was the political

message of a) Dayananda Saraswati b) Swami Vivekananda c) A.O. Hume d) D.E. Wacha

Ans. (a)



667. Home Rule Movement was started in Bombay by a) Motilal Nehru b) S.N. Banerjee c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Ans. d) 668. “Dev Samaj” was founded by

a) Vallabhbhai Patel b) Dadabhai Naoroji c) Sivanarayan Agnihotri d) Ramakrishna Paramhansa

Ans. (c) 669. The first women’s university in India was

founded by a) Gandhiji b) J.C. Kumarappa c) Dhondo Keshave Karve d) Rani Ahilya Devi

Ans. (c) 670. The provision for separate electorate for

Hindus and Muslims was made in a) Govt. of India Act, 1935 b) Mountbatten Plan c) Morley –Minto Reforms d) Montegue- Chelmsford Reforms

Ans. (c) 671. In which of the following did Sardar

Vallabhbhai Patel play a leading role? a) Bijolia Movement b) Dandi March c) Textile mill workers strike at Ahmedabad d) Bardoli Satyagraha

Ans. (d) 672. “At the stroke of midnight, when the world

sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom” was said by a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad b) Lord Mountbatten c) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru d) None of these

Ans. (c) 673. The leader to have the unique distinction of

firing the first shot in the rebellion of 1857 was a) Tantya Tope b) Bakht Khan c) Mangal Pande d) None of these

Ans. (c) 674. Following the policy of suppression, Lala

Lajpat Rai was deported to a) Andaman b) Rangoon c) Mandalay d) Australia

Ans. (c) 675. Mahatma Gandhi was born in

a) Wardha b) Sabarmati

c) Ahmedabad d) Porbander Ans. (d) 676. The All India Muslim League was formed

in 1906 at a) Aligarh b) Dacca c) Lucknow d) Lahore

Ans. (b) 677. Who among the following was known as

the ‘Iron Man’ of India? a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Lala Lajpat Rai c) B. G. Tilak d) Sardar Patel

Ans. (d) 678. Who was in command of the nationalist

movement before Gandhiji assumed leadership of Congress? a) Lokmanya Tilak b) C.R. Das c) Lala Lajpat Rai d) Motilal Nehru

Ans. (a) 679. The first movement launched against the

British in India was a) Khilafat Movement b) Swadeshi Movement c) Non Cooperation Movement d) Quit India Movement

Ans. (b) 680. Which of the following visited India in

1946 to solve the major problem between Indian National Congress and the Muslim League? a) Simon Commission b) Cabinet Mission c) Cripps Mission d) None of these

Ans. (b) 681. India was partitioned by the

a) Cabinet Mission b) Mountbatten Plan c) Cripps Mission d) None of these

Ans. (b) 682. Who was the first Indian to raise the

National Flag? a) Sardar Patel b) Mahatma Gandhi c) Annie Besant d) Madam Cama

Ans. (d) 683. Among the following who was the author

of ‘At the Feet of Mahatma Gandhi’? a) Vinoba Bhave b) J.B. Kripalani

c) Rajendra Prasad d) Jayaprakash Narayan Ans. c) 684. Who among the following, took great

interest in the preservation of the ancient monuments in India? a) Lord Curzon b) Lord Linlithgow c) Lord Irwin d) Lord Amherst

Ans. (d)



685. Who among the following started the first newspaper in India? a) Rabindranath Tagore b) Dadabhai Naoroji c) James A. Hickey d) J.C. Maishman

Ans. (c) 686. In 1908, Bal Gangadhar Tilak was

imprisoned for 6 years and sent to a) Delhi b) Andaman and Nicobar c) Singapore d) Mandalay

Ans. (d) 687. Renaissance started first in

a) France b) Russia c) Italy d) England

Ans. (c) 688. The ‘Last Supper’ a famous renaissance

painting was a master piece of a) Michael Angelo b) Titian c) Leonardo da vinci d) Raphael

Ans. (c) 689. With which of the following, is the term

‘Liberty, Equality and Fraternity’ associated? a) Olympic games b) Industrial revolution c) Russian revolution d) French revolution

Ans. (d) 690. The author of the American Declaration of

Independence was a) Thomas Paine b) Jefferson c) Lafayette d) George Washington

Ans. (b) 691. The Industrial Revolution First took place in

a) England b) America c) France d) Germany

Ans. (a) 692. ‘Guernica,’ the world famous painting was

painted by a) Leonardo-da-Vinci b) Van Gogh c) Picasso d) Michelangelo

Ans. (c) 693. The author of the ‘New Deal’ was

a) President John Kennedy b) President Woodrow Wilson c) President Franklin Delano Roosevelt d) President Theodore Roosevelt

Ans. (c) 694. The Renaissance scientist who explained

how planets moved around the sun was a) Rebelais b) Francis Bacon c) Gutenberg d) Kepler

Ans. (d) 695. The discovery of sea-route from Europe

to India was made by a) Marco Polo b) Magellan c) Vasco-da-Gama d) Columbus

Ans. (c) 696. What was the name of the atom bomb

dropped by USA on Hiroshima in Japan during the second world War? a) Little Boy b) Little Fly c) Little Devil d) None of these

Ans. (a) 697. The first successful socialist revolution in

history was a) American Revolution b) French Revolution c) Russian Revolution d) None of these

Ans. (c) 698. Where was Napoleon sent in exile after

the battle of waterloo? a) Capri b) Corsica c) St. Helen d) Elba

Ans. (c) 699. Which of the following events occurred first?

a) American War of Independence b) Russian Revolution c) French Revolution d) Chinese Revolution

Ans. (a) 700. The slogan ‘No taxation without

representation’ was first raised during the American Revolution in a) Massachussets Assembly b) Philadelphia Congress c) Boston Tea Party d) None of these

Ans. (a) 701. The European Renaissance of the

fifteenth century is noted for great advances in a) Medicine b) Mathematics c) Engineering d) Art and architecture

Ans. (d) 702. German attack on Poland was the

immediate cause of a) First world War b) West Asian Crisis c) Second World War d) Cold War Ans. (c) 703. Which was the first city destroyed by the

atom bomb in Second World War? a) Baghdad b) Hiroshima c) Tokyo d) Nagasaki

Ans. (b)



704. July 14 is celebrated every year as a national holiday in France. On this day in 1789, a) The fall of the Bastille took place. b) The members of the Third Estate

declared themselves the National Assembly

c) Workers, peasants and other non propertied classes were given political rights.

d) Napoleon became the emperor. Ans. (a) 705. Who defined Democracy as the

‘Government of the people, by the people and for the people’? a) Abraham Lincoln b) Winston Churchill c) George Washington d) John Stuart Mill

Ans. (a) 706. Who is regarded as the founder of

scientific socialism? a) Lenin b) Karl Marx c) Engels d) Rousseau

Ans. (b) 707. The war of Independence of America was

fought against the a) Royal People of America b) Britain c) Denmark d) France

Ans. (b) 708. In the year 1815, the Battle of Waterloo

was fought between a) Britain and France b) Japan and China c) Austria and Russia d) Britain and Germany

Ans. (a) 709. The Pacific Ocean was named so by

a) Columbus b) Bartholo new Diaz c) Magellan d) Vasco da Gama

Ans. (c) 710. The year 1992 is celebrated as the 500th

anniversary of Columbus’ first Voyage to the New World. In 1942 Columbus reached a) South America & Cuba b) Bahamas & Canada c) Central America & West Indies d) Bahamas, Cuba & West Indies

Ans. (d) 711. The famous painting ‘Sun flower’ was done

by a) Michaelangelo b) Van Gogh c) Pablo Picasso d) Leonardo da Vinci

Ans. (b)

712. Who among the following was a poet of the Italian Renaissance? a) Dante b) Virgil c) Homer d) Rossetti

Ans. (a) 713. Who was the author of the ‘Republic’, a

famous classic? a) Herodotus b) Plato c) Alexander d) Aristotle

Ans. (b) 714. The Communist Manifesto was first

published in a) German b) French c) English d) Russian

Ans. (a) 715. The Industrial Revolution in the last

quarter of the eighteenth century in England first affected the a) Coal mining industry b) Shipping industry c) Cotton textiles industry d) Iron & steel industry

Ans. (c) 716. Russian revolutionary, who founded the

Communist Party was a) Stalin b) Karl Marx c) Lenin d) Trotsky

Ans. (c) 717. The most important achievement of

Abraham Lincoln was a) The strengthening of democracy b) The abolition of slavery c) The establishment of the supremacy of

the north over the south d) None of these

Ans. (b) 718. Who among the following was directly

associated with the French Revolution? a) Danton b) Voltaire c) Louis XIV d) Napolean Bonaparte

Ans. (d) 719. 1917 is known for

a) Battle of Trafalgar b) Battle of Jutland c) End of the World War I d) The Russian Revolution

Ans. (b) 720. Who among the following commanded

the American forces during American war of independence? a) Hamitton b) Thomas Jefferson c) George Washington d) Theodre Roosevelt

Ans. (c)



721. The ideas of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity were emphasised by a) Rousseau b) Hobbs c) Montesque d) Locke

Ans. (a) 722. Which of the following pairs are correctly

matched? Renaissance artists Paintings 1. Leonardo da Vinci - Monalisa 2. Michaelangel - The last Judgement 3. Raphael - Madonna a) 1 and 2 b) 2 and 3 c) 1 and 3 d) 1, 2 and 3

Ans. (d) 723. Which year is associated with the

outbreak of world war II? a) 1935 b) 1937 c) 1938 d) 1939

Ans. (d)

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