General Studies MCQ -1

Dear Aspirants,

General Studies MCQs are the basic part of Himachal competitive exams. It is helpful to HPSSSB, and State Banks Exams. It is a series of General knowledge  MCQ (including Indian History MCQs, Static gk) also help in the National level examination, Sainik School, NDA, and army exams, etc.

1. A person who makes maps is known as 
(A) Cartographer
(B) Cartography
(C) Map-making
(D) Designing

2. Science of making maps is known as
(A) Map-making
(B) Designing
(C) Cartographer
(D) Cartography

3. Map made by a French cartographer in 1720 was generally used by 
(A) Sailors
(B) Merchants
(C) Voyagers
(D) All-of these

4. Who used the word Hindustan to describe the geography, the fauna, and the culture of citizens of the sub-continent in the 16th century? 
(A) Akbar
(B) Jahangir
(C) Babar
(D) Sher Shah Suri

5. Which of these sources are used by Historians? 
(A) Inscriptions
(B) Coins
(C) Manuscripts
(D) All-of these

6. A place where documents and manuscripts are stored? 
(A) Library
(B) Archive
(C) Gallery
(D) Archaeological department.

7. In the absence of ………people used to copy manuscripts by hands. 
(A) Paper
(B) Pens
(C) Printing press
(D) Writers

8. Which of these were a fourteenth-century chronicler who wrote the first chronicle in 1356 and second two years later? 
(A) Ziauddin Barani
(B) Amir Khusarau
(C) Minhaj-i-Siraj
(D) Al Idrisi

9. The medieval period of history starts in ….. century. 
(A) 4th
(B) 6th
(C) 7th
(D) 8th

10. The medieval period of history ends in ….. century.
(A) 15th
(B) 16th
(C) 17th
(D) 18th