History GK Questions and Answers Quiz

Q. Which extremist leader of the freedom movement was given 6 years jail punishment in 1908?

1) Bipin Chandra Pal
2) Balgangadhar Tilak
3) Lala Lajpat Rai
4) Arbind Ghosh

Q. The most famous centre of learning during Maurya period was -

1) Taxila
2) Ujjain
3) Nalanda
4) Vallabhi

Q. The famous Buddhist scholar Aswaghosh was a contemporary of -

1) Ashoka
2) Nagarjuna
3) Kanishka
4) Harsha

Q. Which Viceroy was assassinated during his tenure?

1) Lord Mayo
2) Lord Curzon
3) Lord Rippon
4) Lord Wellesley

Q. Famous Cave temples of Elephanta are ascribed to -

1) Chalukyas
2) Cholas
3) Pallavas
4) Rashtrakoots

Q. When was Bengal re-united due to the protests by Indians?

1) 1905
2) 1911
3) 1947
4) 1971

Q. Who is the writer of 'Humayun-Nama'?

1) Zebunnisa
2) Jahanara
3) Gulbadan Begum
4) Roshanara

Q. Leelawati, a treatise on Mathematics, was written by-

1) Ramanuj
2) Kautilya
3) Amartya Sen
4) Bhaskaracharya

Q. Who was the founder of 'Servants of India Society'?

1) Madan Mohan Malviya
2) Sarojini Naidu
3) Justice Ranade
4) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Q. The Muslim League passed a resolution demanding partition of India in its session held at-

1) Lahore
2) Karachi
3) Allahabad
4) Dhaka