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 Sanskrit poet called as the Indian Shakespeare?
1) Kalidas
2) Tulsidas
3) Sudraka
4) Kautilya

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Q. Who among the following was instrumental in bringing about the passage of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1891?
1) Behramaji Malabari
2) Dadabhai Naoroji
3) Mahadev Govind Ranade
4) Pherozeshah Mehta

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Q. The Chief Justice of Supreme Court at Calcutta, appointed as per the provisions of Regulating Act, 1773, was -
1) Sir Elijah Impey
2) Lemaster
3) Hyde
4) Barker

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Q. Office of which of the following was created by Rajaram and was supernumerary to the council of eight?
1) Mantri
2) panditrao
3) Pratinidhi
4) Nyayadhish

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Q. Who among the following was the first Mughal ruler to adopt the custom of Tuladan?
1) Humayun
2) Akbar
3) Jahangir
4) Shahjahan

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Q. Who among the following Mughal rulers was a contemporary of Queen Elizabeth I of England?
1) Humayun
2) Akbar
3) Jahangir
4) Shahjahan

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Q. By which of the following Acts the Governor General of Bengal was made the Governor-General of India?
1) Regulating Act, 1773
2) Pitt's India Act, 1784
3) Charter Act, 1833
4) Indian Councils' Act, 1861

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Q. Silver tanks of the Delhi Sultanata was first issued by -
1) Qutubuddin Aibak
2) Iltutmish
3) Jalaluddin Razia
4) Ghiyasuddin Balban

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Q. Whose court was known as 'Bhuvana-Vijaya'?
1) Ganapati
2) Ramachandra
3) Krishnadevaraya
4) Achyutaraya

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Q. The famous Kailash temple at Ellora was built by which of the following kings?
1) Vikramaditya I, the Chalukya
2) Narsinghvarman I, the Pallava
3) Raj Raj I, the Chola
4) Krishna I, the Rastrakuta

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