WBCS Main 2017 GS II Indisn History and Geography Solution Set D
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WBCS Main 2017 GS II Indisn History And Geography Solution Set D Sl no Question Answer 1 Who is the author of the Book "Asoka C) Romila Thapar 2 Who composed the Aihole A) Ravikirti 3 King "Chandra" of Mehrauli D) Chandragupta II 4 The ruins of Harappa D) Charles Mason 5 Both Lord Buddha and B) Ajatasatru 6 Who was the propounder C) Makkali Gosala 7 Which of the following is not B) Gopuram 8 Which of the following periods C) Neolithic 9 Among the Bronze Age C) Harappan 10 The urban centres of the Harappan D) 1800-1750 11 The most prominent deity A) Agni 12 Which of the following areas D) All of the above 13 The most celebrated river B) Saraswati 14 Which geographical region A) North India 15 Which one of the following events of Buddha's D) Renunciation 16 Which of the following pairs D) Bilhana… 17 In the long history of domestication of animals B) Pig 18 Microliths are typical of B) Mesolithic Age 19 The earliest evidence of settled agriculture A) Mehargarh 20 In which State of India Ataranjikheda B) MP 21 The first Indian rulers to issue gold coins C) Indo Greek.. 22 Which of the following 7th century Chinese B) Kiuen Tsang 23 Which of the following is considered to be the earliest C) Samaveda 24 The earliest known stone tools C) Diswana 25 The oldest deciphered script A) Bramhi 26 In the Buddhist context A) Sutta 27 There are Four Vedas D) Six 28 Rummindei pillar of Ashoka A) Birth 29 D.D. Kosambi (1907-66) B) Marxist… 30 Name the author of `Panchatantra' B) Bhasa 31 Who was popularly known as Nana B) Balaji Baji rao 32 Which Mughal building is said C) Tajmahal 33 How many Mughal provinces A) 15 & 21 34 Which Mughal ruler conferred B) Akbar II 35 By which Act did education officially C) Govt. of India Act 1919 36 An elite body formed by the sla B) Iltutmis 37 Which Mughal emperor for the first D) Akbar 38 The royal ritual of `Jharokha ) Akbar 39 The `Tagil' of the Mughals D) Iqta 40 The type of painting C) Portrait Painting 41 Who was known as `Lakh A) Qutubuddin … 42 Muhammad bin Tughlaq lived D) Ganges 43 During the reign of which Delhi sultan D) Firuz... 44 Policemen of Vijaynagar D) Prostitutes 45 The Battle of Panipat (1761) A) The Marathas 46 Which style of architecture A) Vesara 47 Who among the following gave official C) Lord dalhousie 48 The 'Drain Theory' was first propounded C) Dadabhai 49 Jayadev's "Gita Govinda" deals C) Krishna 50 From which of the following countries A) France 51 Which dynasty described itself A) Senas 52 The dynasty which Harshavardhan D) Pushyabhutis 53 The Iqtadaras during the Sultanate B) Muqtis 54 By whom was the kulinism D) Ballalasena 55 The first Muslim President of the Indian D) Badruddin Toyabji 56 Which phase is considered B) 1885-1905 57 The 96 years old man A) Rama Raya 58 The term `Malaimandalam' B) Malabar Coast 59 Which of the following was not a storm A) Madras 60 Which Bahamani ruler shifted B) Ahmad Shah Wali 61 Who among the following was greatly A) namadeva 62 Which Mughal is credited with prohibiting C) Akbar 63 During the reign of which Mughal was tobacco B) Jahangir 64 According to a legend, whom C) Kabir 65 By whom and when the Gupta C) Chandragupta I 66 Who among the following was the first to describe Sudras C) Hiuen Tsang 67 Which of the following Gupta rulers D) Kumargupta I 68 Which Governor General created the Covenanted C) Lord Cornwalis 69 The Delhi Sultan who styled himself B) Alauddin Khilji 70 Which Chalukya ruler is credited A) Vikramaditya I 71 In 1934, Mahatma Gandhi withdrew B) harijan Yatra 72 The British Prime Minister Attlee A) Feb 20,1947 73 On August 11, 1947 C) Md Ali Jinnah 74 Out of eleven, in how many provinces Congress B) 06 75 The society of `Khudai Khidmatgars' C) Red Shirts 76 Who wrote to the Governor from prison D) Ram Prasad Bismil 77 Lord Mountbatten's Declaration A) June 3rd Plan 78 In 1903, which leader ridiculed A) G K Gokhale 79 By whom was the Lahore C) J L Nehru 80 Which Mughal ruler became B) Bahadur Shah jafar 81 The founder president of the Gadar C) Sonam Sing Bakhna 82 Under whose overall leadership D) None of the above 83 Which of the following statements about RIN D) The mutiny started in Calcutta 84 Of the four events mentioned below C) Cabinet Mission Plan 85 The worst communal carnage A) Calcutta 86 "The Indian Struggle" D) S C Bose 87 Which of the following parties D) All of the above 88 The Congress-Khilafat Swarajya A) 1922 89 Leaders of which organizations D) All of the above 90 The inaugural session of the All-India A) lala Lajpat Rai 91 Mohammad Ali Jinnah D) Aug 11 92 Which movement was suspended C) Non Coop Movement 93 The open mutiny in the Royal Feb, 1946 94 Which resolution of the Muslim C) Lahore Res (1940) 95 To which of these struggles D) Both A & B 96 Which of the following funds A) Tilak Swaraj Fund 97 The historic Dandi March C) March 12, 1930 98 After the creation of two new provinces B) 11 99 The 'Safety Valve' theory D) Indian national Congress 100 The Jamia Millia Islamia 101 The state of Maharashtra D) Black Soil 102 Tropical wet evergreen A) The Andaman Nicober Islands 103 Which one of the following is not a wood C) Teak 104 The headquarters of the Forest A) Dehradun 105 MacMohan Line A) India & China 106 Locationally India roughly C) Northern Hemi 107 The shape of India C) Quadrangular 108 The Eight Degree Channel A) Lakshadwip & Maldieves 109 The Tropic of Cancer C) Bihar 110 `Kiratas' was an old B) Southern India 111 The largest river system B) Godavari 112 Which one of the following in the correct sequence A) Jhelum, Chenub,Ravi, Satluj 113 Which one of the following rivers has the highest A) Ganga 114 The Tropic of Cancer does not D) Orisa 115 Which one of the following Biosphere B) Namdhapa Assam 116 In terms of relief D) Plains 117 The foot hill areas D) Doon 118 Which one of the following is a volcanic C) Narcondam 119 The Mt. Everest C) The Greater Himalayan Region 120 Gully erosion on soil surface A) Chambal 121 Khadar' is a younger alluvium A) Bihar 122 Which one of the following is correctly matched A) Manikarana 123 Tat Lands' are found C) Chotanagpur 124 `Jelep La' is a mountain D) Sikkim 125 Which one of the following rivers D) Koshi 126 Most of the highest peak A) Trans Himalayas 127 The Luni river C) Aravalli Hills 128 Which one of the following is a right bank C) Kali 129 The Eastern Ghats A) Nilgiris 130 Which one of the following river is not connected A) Sone 131 The normal date of onset C) 10-15 June 132 Which one of the following states has the maximum forest C) Sikkim 133 The maximum variability of annual rainfall A) Meghalaya Plateau 134 Which one of the following is correctly C) Bikaner 100 135 The earliest rock formation A) Deccan Plateau 136 The 'Deccan Trap' D) Tamil Nadu 137 Charnockite found in India A) Igneous Rock 138 Which pair of the following are twin-cities B) Hyderabad 139 Which one of the following was not situated B) Asmaka 140 According to ISI D) Zone IV 141 Which one of the following states D) Madhya Pradesh 142 Aeroplane manufacturing D) Bengaluru 143 Loktak is the only major power B) Manipur 144 The city called the 'Manchester C) Coimbatur 145 Nepa newsprint factory A) Maharastra 146 The longest road bridge D) Nbramhaputra 147 Bhilai Steel Plant C) USSR 148 Sagarmatha' in the Himalayas D) Mt. Everest 149 A cold desert of India D) Laddakh 150 Low rainfall is experienced A) Tamil Nadu 151 Mangrove vegetation in India D) Sundarban 152 The most important human factor B) Deforestation 153 Tank irrigation is more prevalent A) Peninsular India 154 Tobacco cultivated in India B) Beedi 155 Which state in India leads D) WB 156 The most important rice producing distric C) Western Disturbances. 157 The Northern plains of India B) Vellore 158 The three indegenous silkworms C) Tassar, Eri, Muga 159 An important pearl fishing centre B) Tutikorin 160 The most important oil A) Gujrat 161 The first hydro-power plant C) Sivasamudram 162 Which one of the following crops A) Tea 163 Huge concentration of heavy engineering C) Asansol-Jamshedpur 164 The famous Gersoppa Falls B) Sharavati 165 Syntaxial bend' is associated B) A deep gorges of Indus… 166 The traditionally most important cotton C) Deccan Trap 167 Which region is called 'The granary B) Tiruchirapally 168 Tertiary coalbeds A) Assam & Rajasthan 169 Lonar is a D) Crater lake 170 The highest rate of yield of sugarcane D) Tamil Nadu 171 Which one of the following statement D) Covered by large no of water… 172 Which one of the following towns A) Kalyani 173 The most vulnerable tribal community D) Toto 174 The district having the highest percentage C) Purulia 175 Which one of the following is not an island D) Sabuj Dwip 176 The number of class I towns B) 58 177 Coal mines in West Bengal A) Bituminus Type 178 The first census in India A) 1881 179 Kadars are the dwellers A) Palni 180 Which one of the following Indian languages D) Lushai 181 West Bengal has the highest number of livestock C) Goat 182 Share (in %) of the net sown area A) Purbamedinipur 183 The maximum migration A) Interdistrict 184 Bibhutibhusan Wildlife Sanctuary A) Bardhaman 185 Clouded Leopard in West Bengal A) Neora Vally 186 Consider the following statements A) Both A & B… 187 Bulk of the Indian population A) Proto Australoids 188 Which district of West Bengal A) Purulia 189 What percentage of area B) 20% 190 Which district of the following D) Nadia 191 Swatch-of-No-Ground C) Western Coast… 192 Which one of the following is not a tidal river C) Ajay 193 The district having the lowest population C) Purulia 194 Which one of the following is a free C) Kandla 195 The number of villages in India D) 6 Lakh 196 The child sex ratio C) 914 197 What will be the expected average age A) 24 yrs 198 Geologically arsenic in groundwater A) Chtanagpur plastau 199 As per the census of India (2011) B) Maharastra 200 Barid' tract is found D) D Dinajpur The answers given here is our own and not by PSC WB.