R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | History GK HISTORY MCQ QUESTION SET 5

Who among the following was the saint of the Varkari Sect?

1. Ramdasa
2. Chakradhara
3. Nimbarka
4. Namadeva

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Gita Gobinda the famous poem was written by

1. Jayasimha
2. Jayant
3. Jayachandra
4. Jayadeva

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who was the Governor General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny?

1. Lord Hardings
2. Lord Lytton
3. Lord Dalhousie
4. Lord Canning

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Sepoy Mutiny took place in the year

1. 1757
2. 1761
3. 1836
4. 1857

✅ Correct Answer: 4

One of the Indias first freedom fighters against British is

1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Rani Laxmi Bai
3. Kittur Rani Chennamma
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The revolt of 1857 at Lucknow was led by

1. Nana Sahib
2. Rani Laxmi Bai
3. Tantia Tope
4. Begum Hazarat Mahal

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who of the following was the bitterest enemy of the British during the Revolt of 1857?

1. Nawab Liaquat Ali
2. Maulana Fazi-i-Haq Khairabadi
3. Maulavi Imadulah
4. Maulavi Ahmdullah Shah

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who among the following was NOT associated with the Revolt of 1857?

1. Khan Bahadur
2. Maharaja Ranjit Singh
3. Begum Hazrat Mahal
4. Nana Sahib

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Mangal Pandey fired the first shot of the Revolt of 1857 at

1. Barrackpore
2. Meerut
3. Kanpur
4. Jhansi

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who is the author of the book The last Mughal : The fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857 ?

1. John Kirkland
2. Simon Digby
3. Thomas Wilson
4. William Dalrymple

✅ Correct Answer: 4

When did Queen Victoria declared the taking over of Indian Administration under British Crown?

1. 17 November, 1859
2. 6 January, 1958
3. 31 December, 1857
4. 1 November, 1858

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which one of the following commissions is associated with the Army Re-organisation after the suppression of the Revolt of 1857?

1. Public Service Commission
2. Peal Commission
3. Hunter Commission
4. Simon Commission

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which one of the following Sultans of Delhi was refused an audience by Nizamuddin Auliya?

1. Mohammad-bin-Tughlaq
2. Ghiyassuddin Tughlaq
3. Alauddin Khalji
4. Jalaluddin Firoz Khalji

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who was the founder of the Sufi order in India?

1. Shaikh Nasiruddin Mahmud
2. Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya
3. Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
4. Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya was the disciple of

1. Sheikh Ahmed Sirhindi
2. Baba Farid
3. Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti
4. Sheikh Alauddin Sabir

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which one of the following term was used by the Sufis for the successor nominated by the teacher of a particular order or silsila?

1. Khanqah
2. Khalifah
3. Pir
4. Murid

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who of the following has opened that the original homeland of the Aryan was Arctic region?

1. A.C. Das
2. Dayanand Saraswati
3. Max Muller
4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Buddhist, Hindu and Jain Rock cut caves coexist at

1. Karle
2. Ellora
3. Ajanta
4. Elephanta

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The custom Santhara is related to which of the following sects?

1. Vaishnava
2. Jain
3. Buddha
4. Shaiva

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The largest number of Rigvedic hymns are devoted to

1. Vishnu
2. Rudra
3. Indra
4. Agni

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The rivers Ganga and Yamuna are mentioned for the first time in

1. Atharvaveda
2. Chhandogya Upanishad
3. Satapath Brahmana
4. Rigveda

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who was the founded of Vedic culture?

1. Harappan
2. Jain
3. Arya
4. Dravid

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The word Visamatta was used in the latter Vedic Age for

1. The tax collector
2. The trader
3. The priest
4. The king

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who was the author of Buddha Charita?

1. Vasumitra
2. Nagasen
3. Nagarjuna
4. Asvaghosha

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The fourth Buddhist council was convened during the region of king?

1. Ajatasatru
2. Kalashok
3. Ashoka
4. Kaniska

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who was the teacher of Gautam Buddha?

1. Asanga
2. Sudharman
3. Alara Kalam
4. Gautam

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who was the founder of Sunyavada?

1. Nagarjuna
2. Vasumitra
3. Basubandhu
4. Asang

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who was the first Governor General of Bengal?

1. Cornwallis
2. William Bentick
3. Warren Hastings
4. Robert Clive

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who were the first Europeans to reach India for trade?

1. Portuguese
2. British
3. Dutch
4. French

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The first definite step of provide parliamentary control over East India Company was taken by

1. The Regulating Act of 1773
2. The Pitts India Act of 1784
3. The Charter Act of 1813
4. The Charter Act of 1793

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The English East India Company founded a permanent factory at Surat in the year

1. 1611
2. 1613
3. 1621
4. 1626

✅ Correct Answer: 2

During the time of which Mughal Emperor did the English East India Company establish its first factory in India?

1. Aurangzeb
2. Akbar
3. Shahjahan
4. Jahangir

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In India, among the following locations, the Dutch established their earliest factory at

1. Masulipattanam
2. Kasim Bazar
3. Pulicat
4. Cochin

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which one of the following was the first fort constructed by the British in India?

1. Fort St. Angelo
2. Fort St. William
3. Fort St. David
4. Fort St. George

✅ Correct Answer: 4

One of the following rulers, who had granted Diwani to the East India Company was

1. Farrukhsiyar
2. Shujauddaula
3. Shah Alam I
4. Shah Alam II

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which English Governor of East India Company in India was expelled by Aurangzeb?

1. Aungier
2. Sir John Child
3. Sir John Gayer
4. Sir Nicholas Waite

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Where are the traces of Portuguese culture found in India?

1. Calicut
2. Cochin
3. Cannanore
4. Goa

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who among the following Sultans of Delhi founded the city of Agra?

1. Alauddin Khilji
2. Balban
3. Sikandar Lodi
4. Muhammad Bin Tughlaq

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following places was named as Khizrabad during the Sultanate period?

1. Agra
2. Chittor
3. Devagiri
4. Jaunpur

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which one of the following gives equal importance to Jnana, Karma and Bhakti as a means of liberation?

1. Advait Vedant
2. Visistadvaitvad Vedant
3. Mimansa
4. Bhagvad Gita

✅ Correct Answer: 4