History GK Questions and Answers Quiz
Q. The Society of Jesus, whose followers were called Jesuits, was set up by -
1) Martin Luther
2) Ulrich Zwingli
3) Erasmus
4) Ignatius Loyola
Q. Who among the following was not associated with the activities of the Theosophical Society?
1) Madame H. P. Blavatsky
2) Mr. A. O. Hume
3) Col. H. S. Olcott
4) Mrs. Annie Besant
Q. Which one of the following was a temple built by the Chola Kings?
1) Brihadiswara Temble, Tanjavur
2) Meenakshi Temple, Madurai
3) Srirangam Temple, Thiruchirapalli
4) Durga Temple, Aihole
Q. The University of Nalanda was set up by which Gupta ruler?
1) Kumaragupta II
2) Kumaragupta I
3) Chandragupta II
4) Samudragupta II
Q. The Fourth Buddhist Council was held in Kashmir under the leadership of -
1) Bindusara
2) Ashoka
3) Kunal
4) Kanishka
Q. Arrange the following events that took place in the first decade of the 20th century in chronological order:
1. Indian National Congress, Bombay Session.
2. Establishment of All India Muslim League
3. Partition of Bengal.
4. Indian National Congress, Surat Session.
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
1) 1 2 3 4
2) 1 3 2 4
3) 4 3 2 1
4) 2 4 1 3
Q. The greatest stylistic forms of temple architecture during the early medieval period were the Nagara, the Dravida and the Vesara. Which of the following was the geographical spread of the Dravida style?
1) Between Vindhyan and Krishna river
2) Between Krishna and Kaveri rivers
3) Between Vindhyan and Kaveri river
4) Between Godavari and Krishna rivers
Q. Consider the following statement:
"No Indian could have started the Indian National Congress...if the founder of the Congress had not been a great Englishman and a distinguished ex-official, such was the distrust of political agitation in those days that the authority would have at once found some way or the other to suppress the movement."
Who among the following gave the statement on the establishment of Indian National Congress?
1) W. Wedderburn
2) G.K. Gokhale
3) R. Palme Dutt
4) Allan Octavian Hume
Q. Which one among the following statements about Civil Disobedience Movement is correct?
1) It started with Gandhiji's march to Champaran
2) Under Gandhi-Irwin Agreement, the Congress agreed to give up Civil Disobedience Movement
3) The British Government was quite soft towards the movement from the beginning
4) There were to violent incidents during the movement
Q. Which one among the following statements is true about Lord Curzone?
1) He had full sympathy for the Congress
2) He introduced the Subsidiary Alliance
3) He succeeded Lord Canning as the Viceroy of India
4) He separated the divisions of Dacca, Chittagong and Rajasthani from the province of Bengal and annexed them to Assam
