General Knowledge Question Answer: History GK Questions and Answers

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

Q. The word Mansab stood for -
1) a piece of land
2) a rank
3) an office
4) a grade of pay

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Q. The major objective of Hunter Commission (1882) was to -
1) assess the status of primary education and suggest reform
2) suggest police reform
3) enquire about revolutionary movement in India
4) translate Indian literature into English

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Q. All India Muslim League was founded in the year -
1) 1905
2) 1904
3) 1907
4) 1906

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Q. Which of the following Acts was described by Jawahar Lal Nehru, as Charter of Slavery?
1) Regulating Act, 1773
2) Pitt's India Act, 1784
3) Govt, of India Act, 1919
4) Govt, of India Act, 1935

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Q. Which Mughal prince translated the Upanishads into Persian in 1657?
1) Sultan Luftallah
2) Murad Mirza
3) Dara Shikoh
4) Shah Suja

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Q. Who among the following freedom fighters wrote the poem Vande Mataram in 1875?
1) Bipin Chandra Pal
2) Bhagat Singh
3) Rabindranah Tagore
4) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

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Q. Mughal Emperor Shah Alam appointed the British East India Company as the Diwan of the province of Bengal in the year -
1) 1917
2) 1765
3) 1835
4) 1623

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Q. Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of the formation of the Indian National Congress?
1) Lord Canning
2) Lord Dufferin
3) Lord Lytton
4) Lord Minto

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Q. After the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, who of the following said: "This satanic government cannot be mended, it must be ended"?
1) Annie Besant
2) Lala Lajpat Roy
3) Gandhiji
4) Dadabhai Nouroji

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Q. The Public Works Department was set up by Lord Dalhousie in which year?
1) 1852
2) 1854
3) 1856
4) 1858

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