General Knowledge Question Answer: History GK Questions and Answers

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

Q. Who amongst the following made it possible for the Indians to enter the Indian Civil Services through an open competitive examination?
1) Ripon
2) Mayo
3) Dalhousie
4) William Bentinck

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Q. Which one of the following was a journal brought out by Abul Kalam Azad?
1) Al-Hilal
2) Comrade
3) Zamindar
4) The Indian Sociologist

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Q. Tenth Guru of Sikhs was
1) Guru Arjan Dev
2) Guru Nanak
3) Guru Teg Bahadur
4) Guru Govind Singh

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Q. Gandhiji organised 'Dandi March' in 1930 to protest against
1) Imposition of tax on Salt
2) Atrocities on Minority
3) Atrocities on the Harijans
4) Communal Award

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Q. Who was the guru of Kabir?
1) Ramanuja
2) Ramananda
3) Namadeva
4) None of these

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Q. Who had proposed partyless democracy in India?
1) S.A.Dange
2) Jayaprakash Narayan
3) Mahatma Gandhi
4) Vinoba Bhave

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Q. The Civil Disobedience Movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi in
1) 1930
2) 1928
3) 1922
4) 1931

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Q. Fa-hien visited India during the reign of
1) Kumaragupta
2) Ramagupta
3) Samudragupta
4) Chandragupta II

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Q. At which place in Bengal was the East India Company given permission to trade and build a factory by the Mughals in 1651?
1) Singur
2) Cassim Bazar
3) Burdwan
4) Calcutta

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Q. Which Sikh Guru called himself the 'Sachcha Badshah'?
1) Guru Hargovind
2) Guru Gobind Singh
3) Guru Teg Bahadur
4) Guru Arjan Dev

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