General Knowledge Question Answer: History GK Questions and Answers

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

Q. Which one of the following is correctly matched?
1) Deva Samaj - Banaras
2) Bharat Dharma Mahaman dal - Delhi
3) Sanatan Dharma Rakshini Sabha - Calcutta
4) Radhaswami Satsang - Lahore

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Q. Who among the following had translated Chintamani Bhatt's Sanskrit text 'Suka Saptati'in Persian and gave it the title 'Tutinama'?
1) Amir Khusro
2) Abdur Razzak
3) Shihabuddin-al-Umari
4) Khwaza Ziya-uddin Nakh- shabi

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Q. Quit India Movement was started in the year -
1) 1939
2) 1941
3) 1942
4) 1945

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Q. The court historian of Akbar's reign was -
1) Todarmal
2) Abul Fazal
3) Mansingh
4) Birbal

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Q. Hiuen Tsang, the well-known Chinese traveler, visited India during the reign of -
1) Chandragupta Maurya
2) Harsha
3) Ashoka
4) Samudra Gupta

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Q. The Home Rule Movement in our country was started by -
1) Lala Lajpat Rai
2) Mahatma Gandhi
3) Annie Besant
4) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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Q. Who was the leader of the 1857 revolt at Kanpur?
1) Ranjit Singh
2) Rani Jhansi
3) Tantya Tope
4) Nana Saheb

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Q. Renaissance first started in -
1) Germany
2) Russia
3) Portugal
4) India

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Q. Rigveda is believed by historians to have been written when -
1) It was Stone Age
2) It was Copper Age
3) It was Copper Age
4) The Iron Age had already commenced

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Q. Which of the following presidents of America abolished slavery?
1) Abraham Lincoln
2) Thomas Jefferson
3) George Washington
4) Stanley Jackson

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