History – WBPSC Miscellaneous Preliminary Question Paper
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Miscellaneous Preliminary Question Paper
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2019
3. Which city of Indus Valley Civilization has the largest inscription?
(A) Mohenjodaro
(B) Harappa
(C) Kalibangan
(D) Dholavira
19. Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar used a reference from which Vedic source to justify his widow remarriage movement?
(A) Oiteriya Brahman
(B) Toitiriya Samhita
(C) Satapatha Brahman
(D) Parasar Samhita
25. Who designed the final form of Indian National Flag?
(A) Sarojini Naidu
(B) Acharya Kripalani
(C) Pingali Venkayya
(D) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
31. Which Mughal Emperor’s tomb is situated in contemporary Pakistan?
(A) Humayun
(B) Akbar
(C) Jahangir
(D) Aurangzeb
54. What was the name of the capital of Vijaynagar kingdom?
(A) Mysore
(B) Aihole
(C) Hampi
(D) Kanchipuram
61. In the Rig Veda there is mention of a battle known as
(A) Kurukshetra
(B) Ten Kings
(C) Hundred kings
(D) Dev-Asura
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2018
42. Alexander the Great conquers Asia and moves to India
(A) 563 – 483 B.C.
(B) 336 – 323 B.C.
(C) 2500 – 1500 B.C.
(D) 600 B.C.
43. The Battle of Plassey was held between
(A) East India Company and Mirjafar
(B) Clive and Siraj
(C) Nawab of Bengal and French
(D) Mughals and English
45. Who calls for “Do or Die”?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Rajendra Prasad
(D) Lala Lajpat Rai
46. The first electric train runs between
(A) Bombay VT and Kurla
(B) Howrah and Bandel
(C) Delhi and Agra
(D) Bombay and Madras
47. Subhas Chandra Bose was elected as President of Congress in the year
(A) 1938
(B) 1933
(C) 1928
(D) 1923
58. Who had written “Shakunthalam”?
(A) Krittibas
(B) Balmiki
(C) Kautilya
(D) None of the above
60. On which date the Indian Museum (Kolkata) was established?
(A) December 16, 1951
(B) August 15, 1949
(C) February 2, 1814
(D) February 24, 1857
64. The author of the book ‘Anandamath’ is
(A) Bangladeshi
(B) Indian
(C) Pakistani
(D) None of the above
65. Mahatma Gandhi has written which one of the following books?
(A) Conquest of Self
(B) Crescent Moon
(C) Crime and Punishment
(D) Descent of Man
66. Who has authored the book ‘Essays on Gita’?
(A) Bankim Chandra
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) R. N. Tagore
(D) Aurobindo Ghosh
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2012 (S-1)
15. Which emperor has been called ‘Napoleon of India’ ?
(A) Asoka
(B) Kanishka
(C) Samudragupta
(D) Chandragupta II Vikramaditya
40. Who wrote the ‘Ain-i-Akbari’?
(A) Abul Fazal
(B) Badaoni
(C) Faizi
(D) Gulbadan Begum
43. Who was the inspiration behind ‘Young Bengal’ Movement ?
(A) Madhusudan Dutt
(B) Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
(C) Krishnamohan Banerjee
(D) Ramgopal Ghosh
47. Who is called “Sher-i-Punjab” ?
(A) Ranjit Singh
(B) Amar Singh
(C) Lala Lajpat Rai
(D) Bhagat Singh
61. In which year the ‘Great Escape’ of Subhas Chandra took place?
(A) 1939 A.D.
(B) 1940 A.D.
(C) 1941 A.D.
(D) 1942 A.D.
63. Which territories of India were first liberated from British rule and renamed as ‘Sahid’ and ‘Swaraj’?
(A) Kohima
(B) Delhi
(C) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
(D) Nagaland
81. India’s earliest contact with Islam came through
(A) Arab invasion of Sindh
(B) Turkish invasion
(C) Sufi saints and Arab travellers
(D) Arab merchants of Malabar Coast
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2012 (S-2)
12. Which one is written by Kalidasa?
(A) Kadambari
(B) Harshacharita
(C) Gitogobindo
(D) Raghu-Vangsha
32. Which Mughal ruler was known as ‘Zinda Pir’ (Living Saint)?
(A) Akbar
(B) Shah Jahan
(C) Jahangir
(D) Aurangzeb
54. The Governor-General who decided in favour of Western Education in India
(A) Lord Cornwallis
(B) Lord William Bentinck
(C) Lord Ripon
(D) Lord Curzon
67. Who was the General of Sher Shah?
(A) Brahmjit Gaur
(B) Diler Khan
(C) Shaista Khan
(D) Jai Singh
71. Who bestowed command of the Indian National Army (I. N. A.) on Subhas Chandra Bose
who renamed it Azad Hind Fauz?
(A) Captain Mohan Singh
(B) Rashbehari Bose
(C) Shah Nawaz Khan
(D) Lakshmi Bai
91. Name one famous poet of the Delhi Sultanate who adorned with the title of ‘The Parrot of
Hindustan’.
(A) Ziauddin Barani
(B) Utbi
(C) Alberuni
(D) Amir Khusrau
94. The metal first discovered by man is
(A) Iron
(B) Copper
(C) Aluminium
(D) Gold
100. In which year Kashmir was acceded to India?
(A) 1947 A.D.
(B) 1948 A.D.
(C) 1949 A.D.
(D) 1950 A.D.
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2011
10. Who introduced the ‘Subsidiary Alliance‘?
(A) Dalhousie
(B) Wellesley
(C) Ripon
(D) Minto
18. In which year did the Muslim League first give the call for a separate state of Pakistan?
(A) 1939
(B) 1940
(C) 1941
(D) 1942
64. Who wrote ‘Indica‘?
(A) Fa-Hien
(B) Heuen Song
(C) I-Singh
(D) Megasthenes
69. Who of the following became a member of the ‘Din-i-Ilahi’?
(A) Man Singh
(B) Todar Mal
(C) Tansen
(D) Birbal
80. Buddha was born in
(A) 523 BC
(B) 563 BC
(C) 623 BC
(D) 602 BC
82. Who was the last king of the Maurya dynasty?
(A) Ashoka
(B) Brihadratha
(C) Chandragupta II
(D) Pushyamitra Sunga
89. The first medieval ruler to propound the divine theory of kingship was
(A) Iltutmish
(B) Balban
(C) Firoz Tughlaq
(D) Alauddin Khilji
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2010
7. The man popularly known as Gurudev is
(A) Guru Gobind Singh
(B) Rajguru
(C) Rabindranath Tagore
(D) None of the above
46. Who formed the Indian National Army in Singapore in 1941?
(A) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
(B) Captain Mohan Singh
(C) Rash Behari Bose
(D) Lala Hardayal
57. Who wrote ‘Arthasastra’?
(A) Bindusara
(B) Pushyamitra
(C) Kautilya
(D) Chandragupta Maurya
75. Who founded the first independent Sultanate of Bengal?
(A) Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah
(B) Murshid Quli Khan
(C) Hussain Shah
(D) Alivardi Khan
81. Who said, ‘Swaraj is my birthright‘?
(A) Bipin Chandra Pal
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Lala Lajpat Rai
(D) G. K. Gokhale
86. Who was the woman to preside over Indian National Congress in 1925?
(A) Sarojini Naidu
(B) Padmaja Naidu
(C) A. Besant
(D) Pritilata Waddedar
89. Who was among the Mughal Emperors, the ‘Zinda Pir’ to the Sunni Muslims?
(A) Aurangzeb
(B) Akbar
(C) Babur
(D) Humayun
93. Who was the General of Sher Shah?
(A) Dilir Khan
(B) Brahmjit Gaur
(C) Shayesta Khan
(D) Jai Singh
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2009
- Who was the founder of ‘Slave Dynasty’ in India ?
(A) Mahmud
(B) Muhammad Ghori
(C) Qutub-ud-din Aibak
(D) Iltutmish
(A) C. Rajagopalachari
(B) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(C) Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
(D) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- Who introduced Din-i-Ilahi ?
(A) Aurangzeb
(B) Akbar
(C) Sher Shah
(D) Dara Sikoh
- Who granted Diwani to the English East India Company ?
(A) Farrukh Siyar
(B) Bahadur Shah II
(C) Aurangzeb
(D) Shah Alam II
- Who is known as Indian Napoleon ?
(A) Chandra Gupta II
(B) Chandra Gupta
(C) Samudra Gupta
(D) Skanda Gupta
- In which year was the Gandhi Irwin Pact signed?
(A) 1911
(B) 1921
(C) 1941
(D) 1931
- Who was the last Jain Tirthankar ?
(A) Mahavira
(B) Rishavanath
(C) Parshvanath
(D) Sariputta
- Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress ?
(A) Surendranath Banerjee
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) W.C. Banerjee
(D) M.K. Gandhi
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2008
- The famous Ilbert Bill Controversy arose during the tenure of :
(A) Lord Mayo
(B) Lord Lytton
(C) Lord Dufferin
(D) Lord Ripon
- ‘Subsidiary Alliance‘ system was introduced by :
(A) Lord Dalhousie
(B) Lord Curzon
(C) Lord Hastings
(D) Lord Wellesley
- Who launched the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920 ?
(A) Frontier Gandhi
(B) Surendranath Banerjee
(C) Womesh Chandra Banerjee
(D) None of the above
- When was ‘ Purna Swaraj ‘ day first celebrated ?
(A) 15th August, 1947
(B) 15th August, 1930
(C) 26th January, 1950
(D) 26th January, 1930
- The ‘Tattvabodhini Sabha’ was founded by :
(A) H.V. Derozio
(B) Rammohan Roy
(C) Debendranath Thakur
(D) Swami Vivekananda
- Who edited ‘Harijan’ Patrika ?
(A) Aurobindo Ghosh
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(D) Bipin Pal
- The only Sultan of Delhi who exempted his subjects from nearly 24 taxes was :
(A) Mubarak Shah Khalji
(B) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
(C) Firoz Tughlaq
(D) Sikandar Lodi
- “Gita Govinda” by Kavi Jaydev was written in :
(A) Bengali
(B) Sanskrit
(C) Maithili
(D) Apabhramsa
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2007
- Who wrote ‘Kadambari‘ ?
(A) Kalidas
(B) Sajanikanta Das
(C) Buddhadev Guha
(D) Banabhatta
- Who is regarded as the innovator of the ‘Kheyal‘ form of classical Indian music ?
(A) Tansen
(B) Amir Khusrau
(C) Kabir
(D) Onkarnath Thakur
- Gora was written by
(A) Pramatha Choudhuri
(B) Surendra Nath Tagore
(C) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(D) Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay
- Name the oldest book of the Aryans :
(A) Rigveda
(B) Samaveda
(C) Yajur Veda
(D) Atharva Veda
- Who is the author of Ramcharita ?
(A) Dharmapala
(B) Sandhyakar Nandi
(C) Gopala
(D) Rampala
- In which year was the Battle of Talikota fought ?
(A) 1565 A.D
(B) 1192 A.D
(C) 1191 A.D
(D) 1526 A.D
- Who wrote Akbarnama ?
(A) Abul Fazl
(B) Todar Mal
(C) Ibn Batuta
(D) Abdul Kader Badauni
- Who founded the Calcutta Madrasa ?
(A) Lord Cornwallis
(B) Warren Hastings
(C) Raja Radhakanta Deb
(D) Raja Rammohan Roy
- Where did the first meeting of the Indian National Congress take place ?
(A) Calcutta
(B) Delhi
(C) Poona
(D) Bombay
- Who was known as the ‘Frontier Gandhi‘ ?
(A) Mahmud Al Hasan
(B) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(C) Hazrat Mohani
(D) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
