Where Buddha delivered his first sermon ?
Answer: D
It was at Sarnath.
In the deer park at Isipatana near Varanasi he preached to the five ascetics who had left him - the Dhammachakkappavattana Sutta, setting out the four noble truths and the eightfold path. The event is the turning of the wheel of the law.
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Which Veda contains cure of diseases ?
Answer: B
It is the Atharvaveda.
Alone among the four it deals with everyday life - charms against fever and snakebite, herbal remedies, spells for long life and for success - and it is the source usually cited for the beginnings of Indian medicine.
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First Governor-General of Bengal was
Answer: C
It was Warren Hastings.
The Regulating Act of 1773 turned the Governor of Bengal into the Governor-General of Bengal, with a council of four and a supervisory authority over Bombay and Madras. Hastings held the office from 1774 to 1785.
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Vedic Culture was from
Answer: A
It ran from 1500 BCE to 600 BCE.
The early Vedic or Rigvedic period is placed roughly between 1500 and 1000 BCE in the Punjab, and the later Vedic between 1000 and 600 BCE, when settlement moved east into the Ganga-Yamuna doab and the other three Vedas were composed.
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The Turko-Afghan rule in India lasted for about ?
Answer: B
About three centuries.
From Qutbuddin Aibak's accession in 1206 to Ibrahim Lodi's defeat in 1526 - 320 years and five dynasties, the Slave kings, Khaljis, Tughlaqs, Sayyids and Lodis.
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Goa was captured by Portuguese ?
Answer: D
It was taken in 1510.
Afonso de Albuquerque took Goa from the Sultan of Bijapur in November 1510 with the help of the Hindu corsair Timoja, and made it the seat of Portuguese power in the East. It remained Portuguese until 1961.
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Velu Thampi led a revolt against the British in state of
Answer: A
It was in Travancore.
Velu Thampi Dalawa, minister of Travancore, rose against the subsidiary alliance in 1808-09 and issued the Kundara Proclamation calling on the people to drive out the English. He took his own life rather than be captured.
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Which was the largest site of Indus Civilization ?
Answer: A
It was Mohenjo-daro.
At about 200 hectares it is the largest of the Indus cities, laid out on a grid with a citadel carrying the Great Bath, the granary and the pillared hall, and a lower town with drains along every street. It lies in Sindh, in Pakistan.
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To which professions earlier leaders who struggled for freedom of India mainly belonged?
Answer: D
All of the above.
The early Congress leadership was drawn from the English-educated professions - lawyers such as Pherozeshah Mehta and W. C. Bonnerjee, teachers such as Gokhale, journalists such as Surendranath Banerjea. The law predominated, but not exclusively.
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Pulakesin II belongs to
Answer: C
He belongs to the Chalukyas.
Pulakesin II was the greatest of the Chalukyas of Badami, whose Aihole inscription by Ravikirti records his victory over Harsha.
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