WBCS MAIN-2014 HISTORY MCQ
WBCS MAIN-2014 HISTORY MCQ
1 . The Gold coins of the Gupta dynasty were known as------------
(a) Sataman
(b) Dinara ✔️
(c) Muhara
(d) Varaha
2. Vidyasagar has been described as "Traditional Moderniser" by historian---------------------------------
(a) Ramesh Chandra Majumder
(b) Binoy Ghosh
(c) Amalesh Tripathy✔️
(d) Jadunath Sarkar
3. The first free university in India, completely independent of the Government and receiving no grant from it was - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
(a) Vishva Bharati, Shantiniketan✔️
(b) Aligarh Muslim University
(c) Women's University, Pune
(d) Benaras Hindu University
4.The Justice Party movement in Madras merged with the
(a) Self respect League
(b) Dravida Kazhagam
(c) Both a and b ✔️
(d) Depressed Classes League
5. When was the All-India Kisan Sabha formed?
(a) 1991
(b) 1920
(c) 1928
(d) 1936✔️
6. Mahatma Gandhi gave the title of Sardar to Vallabhbhai Patel for his great organizational skill in
(a) The Kheda Satyagraha
(a) The Kheda Satyagraha
(b) The Bardoli Satyagraha✔️
(c) The Salt Satyagraha
(d) The Individual Satyagraha
7.Whom did B. G. Tilak call 'the Diamond of India'?
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) Dadabhai Naoraji
(c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale✔️
(d) Lala Lajpat Rai
8. Arrange the following events in chronological order and make the correct choice from the options given below:
1. Death of Bal Gangadhar Tilak
2. Nagpur session of the Congress
3. The Moplah Uprising
3. The Moplah Uprising
4. The inauguration of Visva Bharati at Shantiniketan
(a) 4, 3, 2, 1
(b) 3, 4, 2, 1
(c) 2, 1, 3, 4
(d) None of them✔️
9.The first venture of Gandhi in all-India politics was the-----------------
(a) Dandi March
(b) Champaran Movement
(c) Rowlat Satyagraha1919✔️
(d) Non-Cooperation Movement
10.The earliest Muslim President of the Indian National Congress was
(a) Ajmal Khan
(a) Ajmal Khan
(b) M. A. Jinnah
(c) Abul Kalam Azad
(d) Rahimulla Sayani✔️
11.Who was the last Governor-General in India?
(a) Lord William Bentinck
(b) Lord Canning
(c) Lord Mountbatten
(d) Chakraborty Raja Gopalachari(1948) ✔️
12.Which of the following sections remained at a distance during Swadeshi Movement of 1905?
(a) Women
(b) Peasantry ✔️
(c) Students
(d) Intelligentsia
13.Who said on Gandhiji's death "The light has gone out of our lives"?
(a) J. L. Nehru ✔️
(b) Rajendra Prasad
(c) S. Radha Krishnan
(d) Bidhan Chandra Roy
14.Which is the correct pair?
(a) Malavya and Jayakar
(b) Vithalbhai and Malavya
(c) Motilal Nehru and Malavya
(d) C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru✔️
15.Who did the Tribune of Lahore refer to in its observation "If ever a man died a hero and martyr to a noble cause, that man was"?
(a) Bhagat Singh
(b) Jatindra Nath Das✔️
(c) Chandra Sekhar Azad
(d) Surya Sen
16.Who did the Tribune of Lahore refer to in its observation "If ever a man died a hero and martyr to a noble cause, that man was"?
(a) Bhagat Singh
(b) Jatindra Nath Das ✔️
(c) Chandra Sekhar Azad
(d) Surya Sen
17.Both the transfer of power and partition of India were hurried through in how many days-----------
(a) 94
(b) 86
(c) 72 ✔️
(d) 68
18.Which of the following was not included in the Nehru Committee Report of 1929?
(a) India should be given Dominion Status
(b) Declaration of Fundamental Rights was made
(c) Separate Electorate for Muslims was rejected ✔️
(d) It proposed a Federal structure for India
19.A leading British parliamentarian and politician who admitted that the Revolt of 1857 was 'a national revolt' and not a military mutiny was
(a) David George
(a) David George
(b) William Hilderband
(c) Disraeli ✔️
(d) George Bingsley
20.The Chief advisor and confidant of Syed Ahmad Khan was
(a) W. W. Hunter
(b) Theodore Beck ✔️
(c) Theodore Morison
(d) Nassan Lees
21.'Gadar' party was founded in 1913 at - - - -
(a) Bombay
(b) Punjab
(c) Calcutta
(d) Sun Francisco✔️
22.Who founded 'Swadeshi Bhandar' in 1897?
(a) Sarala Devi
(b) Rabindranath Tagore ✔️
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Bipin Chandra Pal
23.Who announced Queen Victoria as the Crown of India?
(a) Lord Wellesley
(b) Lord Cornwallis
(c) Lord Lytton ✔️(1876 Royal Titel Acts)
(d) Lord Hastings
24.Who gave the slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad' ?-------
(a) Bhagat Singh
(b) Hasrat Mohani ✔️
(c) S. C. Bose
(d) M. K. Gandhi
25.The Indian National Army (I.N.A.) came into existence in 1943 in - - - - - - - - - -
(a) Singapore ✔️
(b) Japan
(c) Then Barma
(d) Then Malaya
26.Who among the following organized the defence in the trial of I.N.A. Officers - - - - -
(a) Bhulabhai Desai ✔️
(b) Madan Mohan Malaviya
(c) Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew
(d) Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar
27.Who was the first Indian woman to become the President of Indian National Congress?
(a) Aruna Asaf Ali
(b) Sucheta Kripalani
(c) Sarojini Naidu (1925 kanpur) ✔️
(d) Vijayalakshmi pandit
28.Who of the following founded the Independent Labour Party in 1936?
(a) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar ✔️
(b) M. C. Rajah
(c) Jagjiban Ram
(d) Jayaprakash Narayan
29. What was the primary aim of the Akali movement which rose in the Punjab in 1920s?
(a) To voice the political grievances of the Sikhs
(b) To bring about modernization int he Sikh social customs
(c) To streamline the management of the gurudwaras or Sikh Shrines✔️
(d) To purge Sikhism of its superstitious accretions and irrational incrustations
30.The first tribal leader who was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and his ideology was:
(a) Jadonang ✔️
(b) Rani Gaidinliu
(c) Alluri Sitaram Raju
(d) Thakkar Bapa
31.Who led the peasant movement in Oudh during the Non-cooperation movement? - - - - - - -
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Baba Ram Chandra ✔️
(c) Madari Pasi
(d) Sardar Ballav Bhai Patel
32.The Editor of the paper, the Hindu was - - - - -
(a) S. Subramania
(b) Kasturi Ranga Iyengar ✔️
(c) S. Satyamurti
(d) T. K. Madhavan
33.Which of the following towns was chosen as the headquarter of the Wahabi Movement in 1826?
(a) Kandahar
(b) Quetta
(c) Peshawar ✔️
(d) Charsadda
34.Which General of Aurangzeb conquered Ahom kingdom in the East India?
(a) Jai Singh
(b) Joswant Singh
(c) Shayesta Khan
(d) Mir Zumla✔️
35.Which of the following work was not done by Amir Khosrue?
(a) Dewal Rani Khisly
(b) Nuh Sipih
(c) Qirun us Saadain
(d) Tuzuk-i-timuri✔️
36.Janamsakhi is the biography of
(a) Guru Nanak ✔️
(b) Guru Arjundeva
(c) Guru Hargobind Singh
(d) Guru Tegbahadur
37.Which Sultan of Bengal built Madrasas in Mecca and Madina
(a) Shamsuddin Ilius Shah
(b) Shekander Shah
(c) Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah ✔️
(d) Rukumuddin Barbak Shah
38.Who translated Atharvaveda into Persian during the Mughal period?
(a) Abdul Hamid Lahori
(a) Abdul Hamid Lahori
(b) Haji Ibrahim Sarhindi ✔️
(c) Khafi Khan
(d) Malik Muhammad Jayasi
39.Who wrote Milindapanha?
(a) Asvaghosha
(b) Nagarjuna
(c) Basumitra
(d) Nagasena✔️
40.Who was Menandar?
(a) A Parthian King
(b) A Bactrian Greek King ✔️
(c) A Saka King
(d) None of the above
41.Rummindei pillar of Asoka is put up to mark Buddha's
(a) Birth ✔️
(b) Enlightenment
(c) First Sermon
(d) Death
42.We know about the Bactrian Greeks only from
(a) Inscriptions
(b) Coins ✔️
(c) Manuscripts
(d) Relics
43.Which of the following sources states that Srinagar was built by Asoka?
(a) Divyavadana
(b) Rajtarangini ✔️
(c) Taranath's History of Tibet
(d) Mahavamsa
44.Name the class which is conspicuous by its absence from the list of seven classes given by Megasthenes
(a) Artisans
(b) Traders ✔️
(c) Cultivatiors
(d) Philosophers
45.Who introduced Gold Coins in India?
(a) The Mauryas
(b) The Kushanas
(c) The Greeks ✔️
(d) The Cholas
46.Official stamping of weights and masures and their periodical inspection are prescribed by
(a) Manu ✔️
(b) Narada
(c) Brihaspati
(d) Parasara
47.Vallabhacharya was the most distinguished preacher of the
(a)Shaiva Cult
(a)Shaiva Cult
(b) Shakti Cult
(c) Balaram Cult
(d) Krishna Cult✔️
48.The name of our motherland 'Bharata' was first mentoned in
(a) Vishnu Purana ✔️
(b) Vayu Purana
(c) Markendaya Purana
(d) Matsya Purana
49.The Kharosthi script derived from - - - - - - - -
(a) Pictographs
(b) Aramaic ✔️
(c) Sanskrit
(d) Brahmi
50. At which of the following places has the largest belt of painted rock shelter of pre-historic period been found?
(a) Bhaja
(b) Bhimbetka ✔️
(c) Bagor
(d) Ajanta
