Monday, 2 March 2015

History Quiz for SSC Exam

1. The arrival of Vasco da Gama in Calicut, India on…………
a) 1398
b) 1495
c) 1496
d) 1498

2. Diu was the colony of the …………..
a) Portuguese
b) English
c) Dutch
d) French

3. In 1612 ……………established a trading post in Gujarat.
a) British
b) French
c) Spain
d) Dutch

4. In 1614 Sir Thomas Roe was instructed by …………… to visit the court of Jahangir, the
Mughal emperor of India.
a) James I
b) Babar
c) Shajahan
d) Humayun

5. In 1661 the company obtained ………….. from Charles II.
a) Bombay
b) Madras
c) Kannur
d) Calcutta

6. In 1650 Gabriel Boughton, an employee of the Company obtained a license for trade in
………….
a) Bengal
b) Orissa
c) Mysore
d) Surat

7. Year of the Battle of Plassey is ………….
a) 1557
b) 1657
c) 1757
d) 1857

8. Year of the Battle of Wandiwash is
a) 1560
b) 1660
c) 1760
d) 1860

9. Year of the Battle of Buxar is
a) 1764
b) 1767
c) 1784
d) 1864

10) Warren Hastings was appointed as the Governor of …………… in 1772.
a) Bengal
b) Madras
c) Bombay
d) Delhi

11. Regulating Act was in the year of……………
a) 1573
b) 1673
c) 1773
d) 1873

12. Hyder Ali was the ruler of …………..
a) Hyderabad
b) Mysore
c) Cochi
d) Bengal

13. Mahe was a colony of …………..
a) English
b) French
c) Dutch
d) Germany

14. In November 1781, Sir Eyre Coote defeated …………….. at Porto Nova.
a) Hyder Ali
b) Marthanda Verma
c) British
d) Tipu Sultan

15. The Treaty of Mangalore was in the year ……………….
a)1484
b) 1584
c) 1684
d) 1784

16. Seringapatnam was the capital of ……………..
a) Pazhassi Raja
b) Tipu Sultan
c) Kurumbranad Raja
d) Srimoolam Tirunal

17. The fourth …………………..War was of short duration and decisive and ended with Tipu’s
death on May 4, 1799.
a) Anglo-Mysore
b) French- Mysore War
c) Maratha -Mysore war
d) Nyzam-Mysore War

18. The Treaty of Surat was in the year ……………
a) 1475
b) 1575
c) 1675
d) 1775

19. Treaty of Rajpurghat" was signed on December 25, 1805 between Holkar and ……………
a) French
b) British
c) Portuguese
d) Dutch

20. The Company was granted an English Royal Charter, under the name Governor and Company
of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies, by …………………. on
31 December 1600.
a) Elizabeth I
b) Elizabeth II
c) Henry VII
d) Henry VIII

Answer
1.d
2.a
3.a
4.a
5.a
6.a
7.c
8.c
9.a
10.a
11.c
12.b
13.b
14.a
15.d
16.b
17.a
18.d
19.b
20.a

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