Saturday, September 18, 2010

History Quiz


Question 1:British introduced many social reform measures like abolition of sati in ..... , Widow Remarriage Act 1856 and etc. created infrastructure like introducing railways in India.
1829
1854
1821



Question 2:The assumption of the government of India by the sovereign of Great Britain was announced by Lord Canning at a darbar of ............ in a proclamation issued on 1st November, 1858, in the name of Queen.

Delhi
Allahabad
Calcutta




Question 3:The ................., who live in the area between Bhagalpur and Rajmahal, known as Daman-i-koh, called a meeting of 6000 representatives from 400 villages at Bhaganidihi on 30 June 1855.
Oral
Munda
Santhals




Question 4:Brahmo Samaj was started by Raja Rammohan Roy and his friends by opening a place for public worship on the ........... in Calcutta, and was duly and publicly inaugurated in January 1830 by the consecration of the first house of prayer, now known as the Adi Brahmo Samaj.
Chitpore Road
Asansol
Karmapa




Question 5:The Suddhi Sabha is a proselytizing branch of the ................
Brahmo Samaj
Arya Samaj
Prarthana Sabha




Question 6:...........wrote "Satyarth Parkash" ( Light of Truth)
Ram Krishna Paramhansa
Raja Ram Mohun Roy
Dayanand Saraswati




Question 7:The Ahmadiyya movement is considered one of the most influential and important Muslim socio-religious movements in India. The movement was started by ............ in Punjab.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Aneesah Nadir
Shahina Siddiqui




Question 8:Aligarh Movement was the movement led by ..............., to educate the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent after the defeat of the rebels in the Indian rebellion of 1857.
Ali Jinnah
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Shahina Siddiqui




Question 9:The Theosophical Society of Colonel Cleott popularized by ........... in 1886 in Madras
Justice Ranade
Madam Cama
Annie Besant




Question 10:Sri Narayan Dharma Paripalan Yogam started by Sri Narayana Guru in 1903 in ...............
Travancore
Bombay
Coimbatore