What is History?
The study of past is called ‘History’. The word ‘history’ is derived from Greek word ‘Historia’ that means research or investigation, and the information we get after the investigation is known as History.
Q.1 What is the primary purpose of studying history?
- A) To Predict Future Events
- B) To Understand Past Events & Their Impact
- C) To Memorize Dates & Events
- D) To Entertain with Stories
Answer: B) To Understand Past Events & Their Impact
Q.2 Which of the following is considered a primary source in history?
- A) A diary written during the time of the event
- B) A textbook summarizing events
- C) A biography written long after the event
- D) An encyclopaedia entry
Answer: A) A diary written during the time of the event
Q.3 Who is known as the “Father of History”?
- A) Thucydides
- B) Herodotus
- C) Plato
- D) Aristotle
Answer: B) Herodotus
Q.4 Which term describes the study of historical writing and methods?
- A) Historiography
- B) Archaeology
- C) Anthropology
- D) Paleontology
Answer: A) Historiography
Q.5 The father of history, Herodotus belongs to which country?
- A) Germany
- B) Greek
- C) China
- D) Russia
Answer: B) Greek
Q.6 Who wrote the book, ‘Histories’?
- A) Megasthenese
- B) Pliny
- C) Herodotus
- D) Socrates
Answer: C) Herodotus
Q.7 Who said, ‘History repeats itself’?
- A) Herodotus
- B) Hegel
- C) Karl Marx
- D) Homer
Answer: B) Hegel
Q.8 Who said, ‘All History is the history of class struggle’?
- A) Polybios
- B) Karl Marx
- C) Hegel
- D) J.B. Bury
Answer: B) Karl Marx
Q.9 Who said, ‘History is past politics’?
- A) John Seely
- B) Stubbs
- C) Plutarch
- D) Socrates
Answer: A) John Seely
Q.10 Who said, ‘History is an unending dialogue between past and present’?
- A) V.A Smith
- B) Karl Marx
- C) Charles Fearth
- D) Edward Hallett Carr
Answer: D) Edward Hallett Carr
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Q.11 Which number is located exactly in the middle of the number line segment?
- A) -1
- B) 0
- C) 1
- D) 2
Answer: B) 0
Q.12 What is the full-form of BC?
- A) Before Christ
- B) Board of Council
- C) British Columbia
- D) Bar Council
Answer: A) Before Christ
Q.13 What is the full-form of AD?
- A) After Day
- B) Assistance Director
- C) Anno Domini
- D) Amount Due
Answer: C) Anno Domini
Q.14 National calendar of India is based on which Samvat era?
- A) Raj Saka
- B) Kali era
- C) Vikram Samvat
- D) Saka Samvat
Answer: D) Saka Samvat
Q.15 Who founded the Nevari era?
- A) Lakshman Sena
- B) Jaydeo Mall
- C) Vikramaditya
- D) Chandragupta Maurya I
Answer: B) Jaydeo Mall
Q.16 Vikram Samvat era started in which year?
- A) 78 AD
- B) 248 AD
- C) 73 AD
- D) 57 BC
Answer: D) 57 BC
Q.17 What is the distance between -3 and 4 on the number line?
- A) 1
- B) 4
- C) 5
- D) 7
Answer: D) 7
Q.18 The period of ancient Greek and Roman cultural influence is known as?
- A) Renaissance
- B) Classical Era
- C) Medieval Era
- D) Industrial Era
Answer: B) Classical Era
Q.19 The word BC i.e Before Christ depicts to whom?
- A) Gautam Buddha
- B) Alexander, the great
- C) Jesus Christ
- D) Vardhaman Mahavir
Answer: C) Jesus Christ
Q.20 The period of 1000 years is known as?
- A) Decade
- B) Millenium
- C) Quarter
- D) Century
Answer: B) Millenium
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Q.21 The period of 10,000 year is known as?
- A) Millenium
- B) Decamillennium
- C) Light Year
- D) Centamillennial
Answer: B) Decamillennium
Q.22 Which type of calendar is using by modern world?
- A) Christian Calendar
- B) Vikram Calendar
- C) Gregorian calendar
- D) Hijri Calendar
Answer: C) Gregorian calendar
Q.23 Gregorian Calendar is a modified version of which calendar?
- A) Christan Calendar
- B) Julian Calendar
- C) Saka Calendar
- D) Hijri Calendar
Answer: A) Christan Calendar
Q.24 Who developed the Julian Calendar?
- A) Claudius
- B) Tiberius
- C) Augustus
- D) Julius Caesar
Answer: D) Julius Caesar
Q.25 Who developed the Christian Calendar?
- A) Marcus Aurelius
- B) Antoninus Pius
- C) Dionysius Exiguus
- D) Lucius Verus
Answer: C) Dionysius Exiguus
Q.26 The developed the Gregorian Calendar?
- A) Pope Gregory XIII
- B) Theodore I
- C) Eleutherius
- D) Eusebius
Answer: A) Pope Gregory XIII
Q.27 The Historic period which have no written evidence is known as?
- A) Historic Period
- B) Prehistoric Period
- C) Proto Historic Period
- D) None of the Above
Answer: B) Prehistoric Period
Q.28 The Historic Period which has written evidence is known as?
- A) Historic Period
- B) Written Period
- C) Vedic Period
- D) None of the Above
Answer: A) Historic Period
Q.29 Who was the first Historian to give Tripartite division of History?
- A) Thomas Philipp
- B) Christoph Cellarius
- C) Leopold Von Ranke
- D) Bishop William Stubbs
Answer: B) Christoph Cellarius
Q.30 Which historian said, ‘History is not a science, but rather an art?
- A) Thomas Philipp
- B) R.G. Collingwood
- C) Michael Oakshott
- D) Bishop William Stubbs
Answer: B) R.G. Collingwood
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