General Knowledge Question Answer: History GK Questions and Answers

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

Q. By which one of the following Acts did the Governor General of Bengal become the Governor General of India?
1) The Charter Act of 1793
2) The Regulating Act
3) The Pitt's India Act
4) The Charter Act of 1833

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Q. During whose reign did Sir Thomas Roe have regular attendance at the Moghul Court to secure commercial privileges?
1) Akbar
2) Jehangir
3) Shahjahan
4) Aurangzeb

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Q. Who destroyed Empire of Chalukyas of Badami?
1) Pallavas
2) Cholas
3) Rastrakutas
4) Pandyas

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Q. Who among the following was an ally of Mir Qasim in the battle of Buxar?
1) Shah Alam II
2) Haider Ali
3) Mirzafar
4) Mirmadan

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Q. ‘Fire Temple’ is the worship place of which of the following?
1) Christians
2) Jews
3) Muslims
4) Parses

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Q. The first metal to be used by man was
1) Aluminium
2) copper
3) Iron
4) Silver

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Q. Who, among the following great Mughals, was also a first rate poet?
1) Akbar
2) Babur
3) Jahangir
4) Shah Jahan

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Q. The words 'Satyameva Jayate' inscribed in Devanagari script below the abacus of the state Emblem of India have been taken from
1) Mundaka Upanishad
2) Katha Upanished
3) Samaveda
4) Yajurveda

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Q. Aryabhatta , believed to have been born in the 5th century AD, was the most renowned scholar of
1) Astronomy
2) 5
3) Medicine
4) Physiology

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Q. The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in the year
1) 1930
2) 1931
3) 1925
4) 1940

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