General Knowledge Question Answer: History GK Questions and Answers

General Knowledge History Questions, History Quiz for Competitive Exams, Important History MCQs for GK

Q. Who among the following was bestowed with the title of Sahebe-Alam Bahadur by Bahadur Shah during the uprising of 1857?
1) Azimullah
2) Birjis Qadr
3) Bakht Khan
4) Hasan Khan

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Q. Who among the following translated the Mahabharata into Persian?
1) Abdul Qadir Badauni
2) Abul Fazl
3) Nizamuddin Ahmad
4) Shaikh Mubarak

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Q. Which one of the following kings was defeated by Muhammad Ghori in the battle of Chandawar?
1) Prithviraj Chauhan
2) Jai Chand
3) Kumarpala
4) Bhima II

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Q. Among the following whose tomb is situated outside India?
1) Humayun
2) Aurangzeb
3) Jahandar Shah
4) Jahangir

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Q. The Rig Veda is the -
1) collection of hymns
2) collection of stories
3) collection of words
4) text of was

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Q. Which of the following periodicals is not correctly matched with its editor ?
1) Bande Mataram: Aurobindo Ghosh
2) New India: Bipin Chandra pal
3) Yugantar: Bhupendranath Dutta
4) Sandhya: Barindra Ghosh

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Q. Chalukya temples (Jain temples) at Diwara are situated in -
1) Madhya Pradesh
2) Uttar Pradesh
3) Rajasthan
4) Haryana

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Q. Where is Humayun's Tomb?
1) Agra
2) Near Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, New Delhi
3) Lahore
4) Kabul

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Q. Which one of the following characteristics does NOT describe the Khilafat movement?
1) Mahatma Gandhi sought to link it to the Non-Cooperation movement
2) It was not supported by the Congress
3) It demanded that the Turkish sultan must retain control over Muslim sacred spaces in the erstwhile Ottoman empire
4) It was led by Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali

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Q. Which colonial administrator made the following declaration about the partition of Bengal in 1904?
Bengal united is a power. Bengal divided will pull in different ways. That is perfectly true and one of the merits of the scheme.

1) Lord Curzon
2) H. H. Risley
3) Lord Minto
4) Sir Lancelot Hare

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