History GK Questions and Answers Quiz

Q. Fa-hien visited India during the reign of

1) Kumaragupta
2) Ramagupta
3) Samudragupta
4) Chandragupta II

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

Q. Which Sikh Guru called himself the 'Sachcha Badshah'?

1) Guru Hargovind
2) Guru Gobind Singh
3) Guru Teg Bahadur
4) Guru Arjan Dev

Q. Who gave the slogan "Inquilab Zindabad"?

1) Iqbal
2) Subhash Chandra Bose
3) Bhagat Singh
4) Chandrashekhar Azad

Q. The synagogue is generally

1) Jewish House of Prayer
2) The Parsi temple
3) A place
4) An epic

Q. Which newspaper was started by Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak to serve the cause of India's freedom struggle?

1) Kesari
2) Gadar
3) Free Hindustan
4) Swadesh Mitra

Q. The writer of the book 'India's Second Freedom' is -

1) Soli Sorabji
2) Loknayak Jaiprakash Narain
3) Lalkrishna Advani
4) Atal Behari Bajpai

Q. Four Mathas established by Adi Shankaracharya are-

1) Joshimath, Dwarka, Puri, Sringeri
2) Sringeri, Dwarka, Joshimath, Prayag
3) Dwarka, Joshimath, Prayag, Kanchi
4) Puri, Sringeri, Dwarka, Varanasi

Q. What lis 'KAABA'?

1) Hindu Shrine
2) Jew's Shrine
3) Muslim Shrine
4) None of the above

Q. Who is credited with introducing the beans and potatos in Bhagirathi valley?

1) Wilson
2) Ram Brahmachari
3) Henry
4) Maharaja Sudarshan Shah