HISTORY -1-50 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

 

1.Prehistory means

Answer: period having no written evidences

2.Old stone age people

Answer: wore leaves barks of trees and skin of animals

3.The First animal tamed by primitive man was Dog.

Answer: Cow

4.Fire had been discovered in which age??

Answer: Paleolithic

5.Which of the following places presents oldest evidence of Neolithic Era?

Answer: Mehrgarh

6.Which of the following places is not a Middle Stone Age??

Answer: Ganeshwar

7.Which of the following Neolithic sites gives evidence Human burial with dogs? 

Answer: Burzahom

8.The first metal used by man was?

Answer: Copper

9.Which of the following places is not a MiddleStone Age??

Answer: Ganeshwar

10.Which one of the following was not between the Indus Valley people and the

Aryans?

Answer: worship of Mother Goddess

11.Which of the following elements was nut in Lothal as archaeological remains?

Answer: Fine variety of barley

12.Which of these help you to know Valley Civilization?

Answer: Archaeologicalevidences

13.Which of the following is known as Mini Harappa?

Answer: Lothal

14.A Clay   model of plough has been found from?

Answer: Banawali

15.The local name of Mohenjodaro is"

Answer: Mound of Dead

16.Which of the following elements were not t in the form of archaeological remains From Kalibangan?

Answer: Couple burial

17.Indus Valley Civilization was a civilization?

Answer: Bronze

18.The people of the Indus valley civilisation worshipped?

Answer: Pashupati

19.Which of the following Harappan sites was not located in Gujarat?

Answer: Daimabad

20.The earliest evidence of agriculture in Indian sub-continent comes from?

Answer: Mehrgarh

21.Which of the following Harappan sites used mud-bricks in ample for the construction of houses?',

Answer: Kalibangan

22.Match the following:

A.Mohenjo Daro                1.Two row of six granaries

B.Harappa                           2. Port

C.Kalibangan                      3. Plough marks

D.Lothal                              4. The Great Bath?

Answer:A-4, B-1, C-3, D-2

23.The Granary at Harappa was made of?

Answer: bricks only

24.Which of the following was the most significant feature of the Indus Valley Civilization??

Answer: Town Planning

25.The earliest evidence regarding a ploughed field has been found from??

Answer: Kalibangan

26.The earliest evidence of silver in India is found in the?

Answer: Harappan culture

27.The entry port for trade between the Indus trading centres and Mesopotamia was??

Answer: Behrain

28.Which was the only Indus city without a citadel??

Answer: Chanhudraro

29.The script of the Indus Valley Civilization was?

Answer: Undecipherable

30.Which of the following was common to both Harappan society and the Rigvedic society?

Answer: Female deities

31.River Chenab was known is ancient times as?

Answer: Asikni

32.Who possibly ruled the Indus people??

Answer: Merchants

33.The Indus Valley Civilisation type was found in?

Answer: Sumer,China,Egypt

34.The Harappan town considered to be a town of the artists and craftsmen was?

Answer: Chanhudaro

35.Which of the following metals was not known to the Indus Valley people??

Answer: iron

36.Which is the biggest building at Mohenjodaro??

Answer: Great Granary

37.Which of the following is not counted under sub-vedas??

Answer: Yajurveda

38.Which of the following Vedas is referred to as the starting source of the word Rudra??

Answer: Rigveda

39.The Upanishads are the?

Answer: Great Epics

40.Which of the following marriages was NOT considered legal in the ancient India??

Answer: Gandharva Vivah

41.Which of the following Vedic texts mentioned the eastern and western seas for the first time??

Answer: Satapatha Brahmana

42.Upanishad Books are:?

Answer: On philosophy

43.The veda which deals with the rituals is known as?

Answer: Rigveda

44.Where did Rigvedic Aryans live in India?

Answer: Sapta Sindhu area

45.Who is the most prominent god of 'Rig Veda'??

Answer: Indra

46.A 'Sabha' in the Vedic period was a/an"

Answer: Institution of professional men in villages

47.Who founded "MATHAS' in the four corners of India??

Answer: Shankaracharya

48.Codes of conduct of the Vedic Society are laic down in?

Answer: Puranas

49.Which of the following was not one of the distinguished tribes of the later Vedic period?

 Answer: Bharatas

50.In Rig Vedic period, the most functionary after the king was? 

Answer: purohita