Intelligence Bureau question for practice Indian History objective questions with answers, Intelligence Bureau current affairs questions and answers August 2012
1The father of the history:
Herodotus
2In which year Alexander invaded India
In 326 B.C
3The period of unrecorded history is known as:
Pre Historic Age
4Which Indian king put up tough residence and fights against Alexander?
Porus of Panjab
5The thing Neanderthal man accidentally discovered:
Fire
6The superior type of human being compared top the Neanderthal:
The Co-Magnon
7The greatest king of Mesopotamia who gave his subject a code of laws:
Hammurabi
The ancient people who invented the writing of Cuneiform:
The Sumerians
What was the king of ancient Egypt?
The Pharaoh
The preserved dead body of the ancient Egyptians is called:
Mummies
The greatest pyramid:
Khufu
The great temple of ancient Egyptians which was dedicated to the Sun God:
The temple of Abu Simbel
The ancient Egyptians script which means”Scared Writing “:
Hieroglyphic
Which was the major Chinese states exit in third centuries BC?
Chin, Chu, Ehi
The Chinese ruler who built the Great Wall of China:
Shih-Hwang-Ti
The dynasty which ruled china for nearly 400 years?
Han
A religious leader and philosopher who lived in china about 500 BC
Confucius
The ancient people who invented Seismograph
The Chinese
The most powerful leader in Persia in the 6th century B.C:
Cyrus
The founder of the religion, Zoroastrianism:
Zoroaster
The god of Parsees was called:
Ahura Mazda
The most famous Greek poet:
Homer
The important Epics of the Greeks:
Iliad and odyssey
What were the most important city states in ancient Greece?
Athens and Sparta
What is meant by oligarchy?
The rule by a few rich men
The most famous ruler of the ancient Athens:
Pericles
The great Greek women who sang on the beauty of love and nature:
Sappho
The great lyric poet who wrote poem to honors the victorious Greek athletes?
Pindar
The founder of tragedy drams:
Aeschylus
The greatest of Greek tragedians:
Sophocles’
The most famous philosophers of ancient Greece:
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
The most famous student of Socrates:
Plato
Name of the civilization that become most advanced in the middle age:
Arab
When did the barbarian conquer Rome?
A.D 455
Where did the feudalism first originate?
Europe
The language of learning the middle ages:
Latin
The Frist University is started at:
Paris
•Which subject is called the queen of science in the middle ages?
Theology
• What was the source of power in feudal society?
Land
• In the mid-level times there were three different kinds of guilds-craftsmen and religious were two what was third?
Merchants
• The Dark Age is supposed to have ended in:
AD 1453
• What marked end of ancient age and beginning of modern age?
The destruction of Roman Empire
• The city remained a Christian center of civilization:
Constantinople
• Constantinople was captured by the:
Turks
• In feudalism, the persons who held the land was called:
Vassal
• Who formed the base of feudal society?
The serfs
• The growth of christen organization was one of the most significant development of the:
The Middle age
• Who conducted a crusade against luxury and idleness of monks?
St.Bernard
• Who gave a set of rules for government of monastic order?
St Basil
• What are the best specimens of architecture in the middle ages?
The Churches
• The year which Prophet Muhammad died:
AD 632
• Who expanded Muslim dominion to Syria, Egypt Mesopotamia and Persia?
Umar
• Who was the first caliph?
Abu-Bakr
• Kufa is in modern:
Iraq
The great temple of ancient Egyptians which was dedicated to the Sun God:
The temple of Abu Simbel
The ancient Egyptians script which means”Scared Writing “:
Hieroglyphic
Which was the major Chinese states exit in third centuries BC?
Chin, Chu, Ehi
The Chinese ruler who built the Great Wall of China:
Shih-Hwang-Ti
The dynasty which ruled china for nearly 400 years?
Han
A religious leader and philosopher who lived in china about 500 BC
Confucius
The ancient people who invented Seismograph
The Chinese
The most powerful leader in Persia in the 6th century B.C:
Cyrus
The founder of the religion, Zoroastrianism:
Zoroaster
The god of Parsees was called:
Ahura Mazda
The most famous Greek poet:
Homer
The important Epics of the Greeks:
Iliad and odyssey
What were the most important city states in ancient Greece?
Athens and Sparta
What is meant by oligarchy?
The rule by a few rich men
The most famous ruler of the ancient Athens:
Pericles
The great Greek women who sang on the beauty of love and nature:
Sappho
The great lyric poet who wrote poem to honors the victorious Greek athletes?
Pindar
The founder of tragedy drams:
Aeschylus
The greatest of Greek tragedians:
Sophocles’
The most famous philosophers of ancient Greece:
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
The most famous student of Socrates:
Plato
1. The statue of Gomateshwara at Sravanabelagola was built by—
Chandragupta Maurya
Kharvela
Amoghavarsha
Chamundaraya
Ans : (D)
2. ‘Live well, as long as you live. Live well even by borrowings, for once cremated, there is no return’. The rejection of after life is an aphorism of the—
Kapalika sect
Sunyavada of Nagarjun
Ajivikas
Charvakas
Ans : (D)
3. Which one of the following usages was a post-Vedic development ?
Dharma-Artha-Kama-Moksha
Brahmana-Kshatriya-Vaishya-Shudra
Brahmacharya-Grihasthashrama-Vanaprastha-Sanyasa
Indra-Surya-Rudra-Marut
Ans : (C)
4. The capital of the kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was—
Amritsar
Patiala
Lahore
Kapurthala
Ans : (C)
5. In the Gandhara sculptures the preaching mudra associated with the Buddha’s First Sermon at Sarnath is—
Abhaya
Dhyana
Dharmachakra
Bhumisparsa
Ans : (C)
6. The name of the poet Kalidas is mentioned in the—
Allahabad pillar inscription
Aihole inscription
Alapadu grant
Hanumakonda inscription
Ans : (B)
7. Zero was invented by—
Aryabhatta
Varahamihira
Bhaskara I
An unknown Indian
Ans : (D)
8. Which one of the following important trade centres of ancient India was on the trade route connecting Kalyana with Vengi ?
Tagara
Sripura
Tripuri
Tamralipti
Ans : (A)
9. The first Indian ruler who joined the subsidiary Alliance was—
The Nawab of Oudh
The Nizam of Hyderabad
Peshwa Baji Rao II
The king of Travancore
Ans : (B)
10. Vidhushaka, a common character in Sanskrit drama is invariably a—
Brahmana
Kshatriya
Vaishya
Shudra
Ans : (A)
11. Toramana belonged to the ethnic horde of the—
Scythians
Hunas
Yue-chis
Sakas
Ans : (B)
12. Who among the following is said to have witnessed the reigns of eight Delhi Sultans ?
Ziauddin Barani
Shams-i-siraj Afif
Minhaj-us-siraj
Amir Khusrau
Ans : (D)
13. The first Indian ruler to organize Haj pilgrimage at the expense of the state was—
Alauddin Khilji
Feroz Tughlaq
Akbar
Aurangzeb
Ans : (C)
14. Who among the following ladies wrote a historical account during the Mughal period ?
Gulbadan Begum
Noorjahan Begum
Jahanara Begum
Zebun-nissah Begum
Ans : (A)
15. The first to start a joint stock company to trade with India were the—
Portuguese
Dutch
French
Danish
Ans : (B)
16. The caves and rock-cut temples at Ellora are—
Buddhist
Buddhist and Jain
Hindu and Jain
Hindu, Buddhist and Jain
Ans : (D)
17. The significance of the Bengal Regulation of 1793 lies in the fact that—
It provided for the establishment of the Supreme court
It restricted the application of English law to Englishmen only
It accommodated the personal laws of Hindus and Muslims
It provided for the appointment of the Indian Law Commission
Ans : (C)
18. The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system followed in—
Afghanistan
Turkey
Mongolia
Persia
Ans : (C)
19. Which one of the following monuments has a dome which is said to be one of the largest in the world ?
Tomb of Sher Shah, Sasaram
Jama Masjid, Delhi
Tomb of Ghiyas-ud-din Tuglaq, Delhi
Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur
Ans : (D)
20. Ashtapradhan was a Council of Ministers—
In the Gupta administration
In the Chola administration
In the Vijaynagar administration
In the Maratha administration
Ans : (D)
21. The concept of Anuvrata was advocated by—
Mahayana Buddhism
Hinayana Buddhism
Jainism
The Lokayata School
Ans : (C)
22. Which one of the following territories was not affected by the revolt of 1857 ?
Jhansi
Jagdishpur
Lucknow
Chittor
Ans : (D)
23. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched ?
Battle of Buxar— Mir Jafar Vs Clive
Battle of Wandiwash—French Vs East India Company
Battle of Chelianwala—Dalhousie Vs Marathas
Battle of Kharda—Nizam Vs East India Company
Ans : (B)
24. The word ‘Hindu’ as reference to the people of Hind (India) was first used by—
The Greeks
The Romans
The Chinese
The Arabs
Ans : (A)
25. Hughly was used as a base for piracy in the Bay of Bengal by—
The Portuguese
The French
The Danish
The British
Ans : (A)
1. The entry port for trade between the Indus trading centres and Mesopotamia was
Elam
Oman
Behrain
Afganistan
Ans:3
2. Alam Khan, one of those who invited Babar to invade India was
An Uncle of Ibrahim Lodi and a pretender to the throne of Delhi
A cousine of Ibrahim Lodi who was ill-treated and expelled from the country
The father of Dilawar Khan to whom cruel treatment was meted out by Ibrahim Lodi
A high official in Punjab province who was very much discontented with Ibrahim Lodi’s treatment to h
Ans:1
3. Which language gained most by the patronage given to scholars by Krishna Deva Rai?
Tamil
Sanskrit
Telugu
Kannada
Ans:3
4. Which one of the following newspaper was launched by Motilal Nehru?
Leader
The Independent
Hindustan Times
National Herald
Ans:2
5. Who built the temple of Angkor Vat ?
Surya Varman II
Jaya Varman vII
Yaso Varman
Hari Varman
Ans:1
6. Panini, the first Grammarian of Sanskrit language in India, lived during the:
2nd Century B. C.
6th -5th Century B. C.
2nd Century A. D.
5th-6th Century A. D.
Ans:2
7. Which of the following was a saint of the Bhakti Movement in Bengal?
Tulshidas
Vivekananda
Chaitanya
Kabir
Ans:3
8. King Akbar of the Mughal Dynasty was in power in the
18th century
12th century
16th century
14th century
Ans:3
9. What situation gave an opportunity to Warren Hastings to intervene in Maratha politics?
Weakening Maratha power after the Third Battle of Panipat
Struggle among Deccan Kingdoms
Haider Ali – Maratha Struggle
Vaccum in Poona after Madhawa Rao’s death
Ans:4
10. The contemporary historians, Ziauddin Barni and Sham-i-Siraz Afif gave the same title to which of the following their books?
Tabkat-i-Nasiri
Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi
Fatwa-i-Jahandari
Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi
Ans:2
11. Raja Rammohan Roy and David Hara were associated with the foundation of the
Ripon College
Hindu College
M.A.O College
Sanskrit College
Ans:1
12. Which of the following was a saint of the Bhakti Movement in Bengal?
Tulshidas
Vivekananda
Chaitanya
Kabir
Ans:3
13. Who were the signatories of the Treaty of Salbai?
Peshwa and the East India Company
Haider Ali, Peshwa and East India Company
Haider Ali and Peshwa
Mahadaji Sindhia and Warren Hastings
Ans:4
14. Which ancient scared text influenced the Indian mind most?
Bhagavat Gita
Purans
Epics
Upanishads
Ans:4
15. The Ministers during the Sultanate period were appointed and dismissed by
Ulema
The Caliph
The sultan
Wazir
Ans:3
16. The seat of Central Government of British India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi in the year
1910
1909
1911
1912
Ans:3
17. Which of the following is associated with Lord Wellesley, the Governor General of India from 1798 to 1805?
Doctrine of Lapse
Subsidiary Alliance
First Mysore War
Conquest of Rajputana
Ans:2
18. Which Nawab established independent rule in Oudh?
Murshid Kuli Khan
Shujauddaulah
Sadaat Khan
Safdarjang
Ans:3
19. Who were called the Kings of Wisdom?
The kings of China
The kings of India
Both
Neither
Ans:2
20. The Colonial system of the Company was formalized by –
Battle of Plassey
Battle of Buxar
Battle of Panipat
Battle of Wandiwash
Ans:2
21. ‘Tipu Sultan’ had his capital at
Srirangapatnam
Mysore
Bangalore
Bhagyanagar
Ans:1
22. Where did Aurangzeb die?
Agra
Asirgarh
Daultabad
Ahmadnagar
Ans:4
23. Ashoka called the Third Buddhist Council at
Pataliputra
Magadha
Kalinga
Sarnath
Ans:2
24. Who were the first teacher of the Buddha, after his great renunciation?
Alar and Udarka
Ananda and Ashvaghosh
Sariputra and Maudagalyayana
Alara and Kalam
Ans:1
25. What was the commercial aim of the Potuguese is India?
Deprive Arabs and Persians from India’s maritime trade
Capture pepper and other superior spices trade
Capture textiles and spice trades
Capture territories on the western coast
Ans:2
26. The main historical source regarding the information about village government under the Cholas is the
Halmidi inscription
Jatwai inscription
Uttaramerur inscription
Chandravallo inscription
Ans:3
27. To which dynasty did Ashoka belong?
Vardhana
Maurya
Kushan
Gupta
Ans:2
28. How did Hiuen Tsang undertake journey from and to India?
He came by land route and also returned by land route
He came by land route but returned by sea route
He came by sea route and returned by land route
He came by sea route and also returned by sea route
Ans:1
29. Who among the following was appointed by Ashoka to administer justice in his empire?
Shramana
Uparika
Rajuka
Kumaramatya
Ans:3
30. Mention the most important social issue taken up by Ghandhiji for reforms –
Religion
Cast
Women’s status
Orthodoxy in Hinduism
Ans:2
31. Which of the following Shaka king reconstructed the Sudarshana lake?
Rudradaman
Manes
Chastana
Bhumaka
Ans:1
32. Which ruler, for the first time issued gold coins on a large scale in ancient India?
Ashoka
Kanishka
Samudragupta
Harsha
Ans:2
33. Who compared the Dandi March to Napoleon’s March to Paris on his return from Elba ?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Lala Lajpat Rai
Subhash Chandra Bose
B.G. Tilak
Ans:3
34. What was the type of marriage in the Vedic period in which, in place of the dowry, there was a token bride price of a cow and a bull –
Asura
Arsa
Gantharva
Rakshsa
Ans:1
35. The disput of internal trade between which Nawab of Bengal and the East India Company brought about a war like situation?
Alivardi Khan
Mir Qasim
Mir Jafar
Sirajuddaula
Ans:2
36. What was the commercial aim of the Potuguese is India?
Deprive Arabs and Persians from India’s maritime trade
Capture pepper and other superior spices trade
Capture textiles and spice trades
Capture territories on the western coast
Ans:2
37. The father of Asoka was:
Bimbisara
Bindusara
Mahendra
Namda
Ans:2
38. Who among the following British Governors-General shifted India’s capital from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911?
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Warren Hastings
Lord Canning
Lord Hardinge
Ans:3
39. Who among the following, proved the spherical shape of the earth during his first voyage around the world?
Captain Cook
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama
Columbus
Ans:
40. Who among the following was directly associated with the French Revolution?
Napolean Bonaparte
Voltaire
Louis XIV
Danton
Ans:1
Current affairs 2012 August
1 August, 2012
• Union government notified a law permitting investments by Pakistan citizens and companies in India in sectors/activities other than defence, space and atomic energy
• US administration announced to impose sanctions on any institution that his administration suspected of engaging in trade with Iran including Chinese banks
• Somalia’s Constituent Assembly endorsed a draft constitution billed as a key step to ending decades of civil war
2 August, 2012
• Deputy Attorney General of Pakistan, Khurshid Khan was sacked after earning the ire of lawyers for performing voluntary service at Hindu and Sikh shrines in India
• Russian President Vladimir Putin met British Prime Minister David Cameron on the sidelines of the London Olympics. The two leaders agreed that they have differing point of views over Syria
• Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi swore in Cabinet that retained military chief Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi as Defence Minister
3 August, 2012
• Pakistan’s Supreme Court scrapped the government’s new contempt law, which seek immunity for the legislators from contempt law
• Russia regretted resignation of United Nations-Arab League envoy for Syria Kofi Annan’s and pledged continued support to his plan for ending violence in that country.
• The UN General Assembly adopted a Saudi-drafted resolution on Syria that expressed grave concern at the rising violence in the country
4 August, 2012
• The Afghan Parliament voted to dismiss two top Security Ministers
• A grandson of ex-US President Harry Truman, who ordered the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II, visited Hiroshima to attend a memorial service for the victims
• Sudan and South Sudan inked a deal over oil
5 August, 2012
• At least six persons were killed and several injured by one or more gunmen, at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in US
• Saudi King Abdullah invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for an extraordinary summit of Muslim leaders to be held in August 2012 in Makkah
• Hundreds of archaeological treasures looted from Afghanistan were returned to the country’s National Museum
• At least 45 people were killed in a suicide bombing in south Yemen
6 August 2012
• Seven persons including the attacker killed and twenty injured in a shoot out at a Gurudwara in Wisconsin in the United States.
• Haryana Minister of State for Home Gopal Kanda resigns after being booked for abetment to suicide
7 August 2012
• Voting today to elect the next Vice President of India
• Finance Ministry to review tax provisions with retrospective effect to boost investment
8 August 2012
• Monsoon Session of Parliament begins today; About 36 pending bills likely to be passed.
9 August 2012
• Lok Sabha takes up for discussion BJP Adjournment Motion on Assam violence
10 August 2012
• Raghuram Rajan, former chief economist of International Monetary Fund (IMF) was appointed as the Chief Economic Advisor in the Finance Ministry. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet cleared the appointment of Rajan as the new CEA on 10 August 2012
11 August 2012
• Hamid Ansari sworn in as the Vice President of India
12 August 2012
• Mumbai situation returns to normal after yesterday’s violence in a protest rally against Assam violence; 20 people taken into custody; crime branch starts probe to ascertain any conspiracy angle.
13 August 2012
• 30th Olympic Games conclude in London; India finishes with a record haul of six medals.
• Abu Jundal, Key Handler of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack makes confessional statement before a magistrate
14 August 2012
• Pune Police arrest 11 persons for attacks on the North-East students
15 August 2012
• In his Independence Day address, Dr. Manmohan Singh, stresses on efforts to bring transparency and accountability to end corruption
• Announces new schemes for skill development for jobs, urban housing and improved health services
16 August 2012
• About 10 terrorists storm Pakistan Air Force base at Kamra in Punjab province in an early morning attack; gun battle with security forces continues
• Prime Minister asks Karnataka Chief Minster to ensure safety of students from the North-East
17 August 2012
• Karnataka government initiates measures to build confidence among people from North East, living in the state
18 August 2012
• Government bans bulk SMS and MMS for 15 days throughout the country to check spread of rumours; Six arrested in Karnataka for sending threatening text messages to people from the North-East
19 August 2012
• Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, the silver medallist of Athens Olympics 2004, was named the head of the 15-member committee, set up to select the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardee and Arjun Award winners. Aslam Sher Khan, the former hockey team skipper, was named the head of the 15-member committee that will select the Dronacharya Awardees Question. Recent G20 summit was held in which country recently?
Answer. Mexico
Question. Rio+20 the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development was held in which country recently?
Answer. Brazil
Question. Who in the list won the 2012 Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience award?
Answer. Aung San Suu Kyi
Question. Which country won the Euro Cup 2012?
Answer. Spain
Question. Recently Parliament of which country was dissolved for failing to deliver new constitution?
Answer. Nepal
Question. Which Oil giant has recently bought 80% stake in RIL’s 2 Oil Blocks in Iraq’a Kurdistan region?
Answer. Chevron
Question. Which metal is the best conductor of electric current?
Answer. Silver
Question. Who was the first person to address the United Nations in Hindi?
Answer. Atal Behari Vajpayee
Question. Which imaginary line, located at zero degrees latitude, divides the earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres?
Answer. Equator
Question. Which city did Sikandar Lodi found in 1504 on the banks of Yamuna River?
Answer. Agra
Question. Who coined the name `Pakistan’?
Answer. Choudhary Rahmat Ali
Question. Vishvambhar Mishra was the original name of which spiritual guru?
Answer. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu