History GK Questions and Answers Quiz
Q. In 1920, which of the following changed its name to 'Swarajya Sabha' ?
1) All India Home Rule League
2) Hindu Mahasabha
3) South Indian Liberal Federation
4) The Servants of India Society
Q. Which among the following events happened earliest ?
1) Swami Dayanand established Arya Samaj
2) Dinabandhau Mitra wrote Neeldarpan
3) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote Anandmath
4) Satyendranath Tagore became the first Indian to succeed in the Indian Civil services Examination
Q. Economically, one of the results of the British rule in India in the 19th century was the -
1) increase in the export of Indian handicrafts
2) growth in the number of Indian owned factories
3) commercialization of Indian agriculture
4) rapid increase in the urban population
Q. He wrote biographies of Mazzini, Garibaldi, shivaji and Shrikrishna; stayed in America for some time; and was also elected to the Central Assembly. He was -
1) Aurobindo Ghosh
2) Bipin Chandra Pal
3) Lala Lajpat Rai
4) Motilal Nehru
Q. With reference to cultural history of India, consider the following statements :
1. Most of the Tyagaraja Kritis are devotional songs in praise of Lord Krishna.
2. Tyagaraja created several new ragas.
3. Annamacharya and Tyagaraja are contemporaries.
4. Annamacharya kirtanas are devotional songs in praise of Lord Venkateshwara.
Which of the statements given above is/ are correct ?
1) 1 and 3 only
2) 2 and 4 only
3) 1, 2 and 3
4) 2, 3 and 4
Q. With reference to the religious practices in India, the 'Sthana-kvasi' sect belongs to -
1) Buddhism
2) Jainism
3) Vashnavism
4) Shaivism
Q. Who among the following were the founders of the 'Hind Mazdoor Sabha' established in 1948 ?
1) B. Krishna Pillai, E.M.S. Namboodiripad and K.C. George
2) Jayaprakash Narayan, Deen Dayal Upadhyay and M.N. Roy
3) C.P. Ramaswamy Iyer, K. Kamaraj and Veeresalingam Pantulu
4) Ashok Mehta, T.S. Ramanujam and G.G. Mehta
Q. With reference to Indian history, who among the following is a future Buddha, yet to come to save the world ?
1) Avalokiteshvara
2) Lokesvara
3) Maitreya
4) Padmapani
Q. Who gave the slogan 'Back to the Vedas (Vedo ki aur lauto)' ?
1) Guru Nanak Dev Ji
2) Dayanand Saraswati
3) Swami Vivekananda
4) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Q. Todarmal was the famous revenue minister of which Mughal Emperor ?
1) Shah Jahan
2) Bahadur Shah jafar
3) Akbar
4) Aurangzeb
