History GK Questions and Answers Quiz
Q. When did Bihar become a separate province in India?
1) 1897
2) 1905
3) 1907
4) 1912
Q. Who began the Faraizi Movement ?
1) Haji Shariatullah
2) Syed Ahmed
3) Salimullah
4) M. A. Jinnah
Q. Which Sultan was reputed to be 'Akbar of Kashmir' ?
1) Sultan Shamsuddin Shah
2) Sultan Qutbuddin
3) Sultan Sikandar
4) Sultan Zainul Abidin
Q. Who stated that five thousand to twenty thousand men worked for forty years to build the palace of forty pillars at Allahabad in Akbar's time ?
1) Manucci
2) Tavernier
3) William Finch
4) Abdul Hamid Lahori
Q. Who among the following rulers divided his troops into units of two hundred, two hundred fifty and five hundred ?
1) Bahlul Lodi
2) Sikandar Shah
3) Sher Shah
4) Islam Shah
Q. Shaikh Bahauddin Zakaria belonged to which sect ?
1) Suhrawardi Silsilah
2) Rishi Silsilah
3) Chisti Silsilah
4) Firdausi Silsilah
Q. Which Sultan demanded half the crops on land after measurement as revenue ?
1) Iltutmish
2) Balban
3) Ala-ud-din Khilji
4) Muhammad bin Tughluq
Q. Consider the following passage and identify the person -
Born in April 1932, she was a renowned Hindustani classical vocalist. She was recognized as an innovative exponent of the Jaipur Gharana. She was awarded Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan. She was also a Fellow of Sangeet Natak Academy. She died in April 2017.
1) Mrinalini Sarabhai
2) Mogubai Kurdikar
3) Kishroi Amonkar
4) MS Subbulakshmi
Q. Which one of the following statements about Allahabad Prashasti is correct ?
1) It clearly presents the Gupta empire as the epicenter of a complex web of varied political relationships
2) Line 15 of it refers to the capturing a king of the Kota family
3) Line 23 refers to Samudragupta violently exterminating a number of kings of Aryavarta
4) Line 20 refers to rulers offering tribute, obeying the orders of the Gupta King
Q. Which one of the following statements about the Gupta period is NOT correct ?
1) Forced labour (Vishti) became more common than before in this period
2) A passage in the Vishnu Purana refers to the Guptas enjoying all the territories along the Ganga up to Prayaga
3) The Mehrauli iscription suggest that Chandragupta fought against a confederacy of enemies in Bengal and also led a campaign into the Punjab
4) Saurashtra was not a part of the Gupta Empire
