Top 200 History GK Questions
Name of the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize is:
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) D.B. Mahawar
(C) V.R. Gill
(D) R.N. Shukla
Correct Answer : A
The Maratha and The Kesri were the two main newspapers which were started by the following people?
(A) Lala Lajpat Rai
(B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(D) Madan Mohan Malviya
Correct Answer : C
From where is the first evidence of rice cultivation obtained?
(A) Ganges Valley
(B) Jamuna Valley
(C) Raman Valley
(D) Valley of Himalayas
Correct Answer : C
From which site of Indus Valley Civilization, Agnaveedikas have been obtained?
(A) Mohenjodaro
(B) Lothal
(C) Kalibangan
(D) Lothal
Correct Answer : C
Who is called Niganthana Niputa in Pali texts?
(A) Ashok
(B) Gautam Buddha
(C) Chandragupta Maurya
(D) Mahavir Swami
Correct Answer : D
Which Gupta king was called Lichchavi Dauhitra?
(A) Shreegupta
(B) Chandragupta I
(C) Chandragupta II
(D) Samudragupta
Correct Answer : D
Who declared ‘the only hope for the India is from the masses. The upper classes are physically and morally dead’?
(A) Gandhi ji
(B) Nehru ji
(C) Swami Vivekananda
(D) None of the above
Correct Answer : C
The Ilbert Bill was a controversial move proposed by _______ in 1883 AD.
(A) Lord Hastings
(B) Lord Ripon
(C) Lord Dalhousie
(D) Lord Curzon
Correct Answer : B
________ composed the epic Ramcharitmanas.
(A) Valmiki
(B) Ved Vyas
(C) Vishnu Sharma
(D) Tulsidas
Correct Answer : D
What is the Vedic name of Ravi river?
(A) Kalindi
(B) Parushini
(C) Ostudri
(D) Askini
Correct Answer : B