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Q1. Which two principalities merged to form the Kingdom of Romania in 1859?
Correct answer : 3
Q2. Which Chinese traveller visited India during the rule of Harshavardhana?
Correct answer : 2
Q3. On which date Gandhiji launched the Quit India Movement?
Correct answer : 4
Q4. With whom did the British East India Co., conclude the Treaty of Alinagar?
Correct answer : 2
Q5. Which Sultan of Delhi shifted his capital from Delhi to Devagiri?
Correct answer : 4
Q6. Where was the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan imprisoned by his son Aurangazeb?
Correct answer : 3
Q7. In which war was the US Capital Washington DC captured by a foreign power?
Correct answer : 2
Q8. Where is Akbar's Tomb?
Correct answer : 4
Q9. Who founded the Ottoman Empire?
Correct answer : 2
Q10. "Boxer Rebellion" took place in......
Correct answer : 3
Q11. Who was the penultimate emperor of India?
Correct answer : 2
Q12. Battle of Gattysburg was the turning point in American Civil War. In which American state this battle took place?
Correct answer : 3
Q13. Who was the founder of the Bahmani Sultanate?
Correct answer : 2
Q14. Which Sikh Guru was martyred on the orders of the Mughal Emperor Aurangazeb?
Correct answer : 3
Q15. What was the name of the ship in which Vasco da Gama began his first voyage to India?
Correct answer : 3
Q16. Which freedom fighter was popularly known as "Mahamana"?
Correct answer : 2
Q17. In which year did the I Anglo Afghan War begin?
Correct answer : 4
Q18. The Achaemenid Empire is related to which part of the present world ?
Correct answer : 4
Q19. Which war saw the airplane first used for combat?
Correct answer : 1
Q20. What was the birthname of Genghis Khan?
Correct answer : 2
Q21. Who signed the ratified surrender terms - the second military surrender- for the German military in Berlin at the conclusion of WW II?
Correct answer : 1
Q22. Which nation suffered the most casualities during WW II?
Correct answer : 3
Q23. The second battle of Panipat was fought between?
Correct answer : 2
Q24. Tenali Rama was a court poet of which 16th century empire?
Correct answer : 1
Q25. After which battle was Napoleon Bonaparte exiled to St. Helena?
Correct answer : 2
Q26. Who was the first Governor General of India?
Correct answer : 3
Q27. Tipu Sultan negotiated terms of surrender with which British Commander in 1792?
Correct answer : 2
Q28. When did the War of American Independence begin?
Correct answer : 4
Q29. What is the name of the revolution that ousted President Askar Akayev of Kyrgyzstan in 2005?
Correct answer : 2
Q30. On which year was the Dutch East India Co., dissolved?
Correct answer : 3
Q31. Who founded the Kushana Empire?
Correct answer : 3
Q32. In 1798, Tipu Sultan signed a secret agreement with which French leader?
Correct answer : 1
Q33. The "Ashanti Wars" were fought between the African Ashanti Empire and the ....
Correct answer : 2
Q34. Who was responsible for the introduction of the Vernacular Press Act of 1878?
Correct answer : 1
Q35. How is the brave freedom fighter and historical figure born Mani Karnika Tambe better known?
Correct answer : 3
Q36. Who was the French Governor who happened to be the rival of Robert Clive during the Anglo French Wars?
Correct answer : 3
Q37. Which of the following rulers died while playing 'chougan' - Polo?
Correct answer : 2
Q38. "Fall of Bastille" is associated with....
Correct answer : 3
Q39. In which year did Sarojini Naidu become President of the Indian National Congress?
Correct answer : 1
Q40. Name the place in Uttar Pradesh where Gautama Buddha is believed to have attained "Parinirvana" after his death?
Correct answer : 2
Q41. Who was the first king of modern day of Saudi Arabia?
Correct answer : 1
Q42. Who announced that Delhi would be the capital of India from 1911?
Correct answer : 1
Q43. What was the real name of Mughal Emperor Jehangir's favourite wife Nur Jahan?
Correct answer : 4
Q44. On which date Pearl Harbour was attacked during WWII?
Correct answer : 2
Q45. To whom did the Mughal Emperor Humayun lost his throne before regaining it 15 years later?
Correct answer : 3
Q46. Which famous battle is also known as the Battle of the three Emperors?
Correct answer : 1
Q47. With whose permission did the British East India Company set up a factory in Surat?
Correct answer : 2
Q48. Who was the first Maharaja of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir?
Correct answer : 4
Q49. In which year Burma was separated from British India and a Burma Office established in London?