Question: Which among the following dynasties had the strongest navy?
1. Chola
2. Pallava
3. Chalukya
4. Gupta
Answer: 1
Question: Which among the following was the oldest seat of learning in ancient times?
1. Nalanda
2. Vikramshila
3. Taxila
4. Ujjain
Answer: 3
Question: Who was Amrapali whose name is mentioned in early Buddhist scriptures?
1. Queen of the king Ajatashatru of Magadh
2. Spiritual congregation of Pataliputra
3. A famous courtesan from Vaishali
4. None of these
Answer: 3
Question: Who among the following was a Satavahana king?
1. Rudradaman
2. Mahendra Varman
3. Nahapanna
4. Vashishthiputra Pulumavi
Answer: 4
Question: With which among the following dynasties, the famous king Bhoja was associated?
1. Paramara
2. Gurjar Pratihara
3. Karkota
4. Utpal
Answer: 1
Question: Who built the ‘Moti’ mosque located inside the premises of Delhi’s Red Fort?
1. Shershah Suri
2. Shahjahan
3. Aurangzeb
4. Bahadurshah Zafar
Answer: 3
Question: Who among the following started the ‘Slave Dynasty’ in India?
1. Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
2. Balban
3. Qutubuddin Aibak
4. Iltutmish
Answer: 3
Question: In which of the following cities, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose laid the foundation of ‘Indian National Army’?
1. Singapore
2. Rangoon
3. Tokyo
4. Taiwan
Answer: 1
Question: When did Muslim League first make its demand for a separate Muslim nation of Pakistan?
1. 1906
2. 1935
3. 1930
4. 1940
Answer: 4
Question: The site of Harappa is located on the bank of river-
1. Ravi
2. Beas
3. Indus
4. Saraswati
Answer: 1
Question: Who among the following Governor Generals formed the Triple Alliance against Tipu Sultan?
1. Lord Wellesley
2. Lord William Bentick
3. Lord Cornwallis
4. Warren Hastings
Answer: 3
Question: The Operation Polo was associated with the annexation of which one among the following Princely States into Indian Union?
1. Hyderabad
2. Junagarh
3. Kashmir
4. Travancore
Answer: 1
Question: The name of Ram Prasad Bismil is associated with –
1. Alipore Conspiracy Case
2. Kanpur Conspiracy Case
3. Meerut Conspiracy Case
4. Kakori Conspiracy Case
Answer: 4
Question: Which one among the following was not a demand of the Prarthana Samaj?
1. Women education
2. Abolition of untouchability
3. Raising the age of marriage for boys and girls
4. Widow remarriage
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following Chinese travellers visited the kingdoms of Harshavardhana and Kumar Bhaskar Varma?
1. I-tsing
2. Fa-Hien
3. Hiuen Tsang
4. Sun Shuyun
Answer: 3
Question: Which one among the following Indus cities was known for water management?
1. Lothal
2. Harappa
3. Dholavira
4. Mohenjo-daro
Answer: 3
Question: Which one among the following States was first annexed by Lord Dalhousie under the Doctrine for Lapse?
1. Satara
2. Sambalpur
3. Jhansi
4. Nagpur
Answer: 1
Question: Ashokan inscriptions of Mansehra and Shahbazgadhi are written in –
1. Prakrit language, Kharoshthi script
2. Prakrit language, Brahmi script
3. Prakrit-Aramaic language, Brahmi script
4. Aramaic language, Kharoshthi script
Answer: 1
Question: Who among the following scholars were contemporary of Kanishka? 1. Ashvaghosa 2. Nagarjuna 3. Vasumitra 4. Chanakya Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
1. 1 and 2 only
2. 3 and 4
3. 2 and 4
4. 1,2 and 3
Answer: 4
Question: Who of the following was impeached by the British Parliament?
1. Lord Cornwallis
2. T.B. Macaulay
3. Warren Hastings
4. Lord Clive
Answer: 3
Question: ‘Prince of Pilgrims’ was the name attributed to-
1. Hiuen Tsang
2. I-tsing
3. Megasthenes
4. Fa-Hien
Answer: 1
Question: Who was not associated with the Aligarh Movement?
1. Nazir Ahmad
2. Altaf Hussain Hali
3. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
4. Chiragh Ali
Answer: 3
Question: Who among the Maratha Peshwas preached the ideal of ‘Hindu-Pad-Padshai’?
1. Baji Rao I
2. Balaji Viswanath
3. Narayan Rao
4. Madhab Rao
Answer: 1
Question: The ‘du-aspa’ and ‘seh-aspa’ rank was first introduced during the reign of –
1. Akbar
2. Babur
3. Jahangir
4. Shahjahan
Answer: 3
Question: A monument resembling the Taj Mahal was got created by Aurangzeb in –
1. Ahmedabad
2. Daultabad
3. Hoshangabad
4. Aurangabad
Answer: 4
Question: Who had proposed party less democracy in India?
1. S.A. Dange
2. Jaya Prakash Narayan
3. Vinoba Bhave
4. Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: 2
Question: Regicide means –
1. Murder of a father
2. Murder of a brother
3. Murder of a King
4. Murder of a sister
Answer: 3
Question: Seleucus Nicator was defeated by
1. Asoka
2. Bindusara
3. Chandragupta Maurya
4. Brihadratha
Answer: 3
Question: The striking feature of the Indus Valley Civilisation was
1. Mesolithic Civilisation
2. Urban Civilisation
3. Paleolithic Civilisation
4. Agrarian Civilisation
Answer: 2
Question: The famous Bhakti Saint who belonged to the royal family of Mewar was
1. Meerabai
2. Ramabai
3. Chaitanya
4. Andal
Answer: 1
Question: After Alexander’s death the Eastern part of his empire came under
1. Kanishka
2. Menander
3. Rudradaman
4. Seleucus Nicator
Answer: 4
Question: Who among the following was the Finance Minister of India in the Interim Government during 1946-47?
1. R.K. Shanmukham Chetty
2. John Mathai
3. Liaquat Ali Khan
4. Chintamanrao Deshmukh
Answer: 3
Question: The Indian king who opposed Alexander was
1. Porus
2. Ambhi
3. Chandragupta
4. Dhanananda
Answer: 1
Question: Who was the last king of the Maurya dynasty?
1. Asoka
2. Brihadratha
3. Chandragupta II
4. Pushyamitra Sunga
Answer: 2
Question: The first medieval ruler to propound the divine theory of kingship was –
1. Balban
2. Iltutmish
3. Ala-ud-din Khalji
4. Firuz Tughluq
Answer: 1
Question: Who of the following became a member of the ‘Din-i-Ilahi’?
1. Todar Mal
2. Man Sing
3. Tansen
4. Birbal
Answer: 4
Question: Who introduced the ‘Subsidiary Alliance’?
1. Ripon
2. Minto
3. Wellesley
4. Dalhousie
Answer: 3
Question: In which year Muslim League first gave the call for a separate State of Pakistan?
1. 1939
2. 1940
3. 1941
4. 1942
Answer: 2
Question: During whose reign did Chengiz Khan attack India’s borders in pursuit of Jalaluddin?
1. Iltutmish
2. Qutb-ud-din Aibak
3. Nasiruddin Khusrau
4. Balban
Answer: 1
Question: The four “Mathas” (Shrines) at Sringeri, Badrinath, Dwarka and Puri were founded by
1. Ashoka
2. Ramanuja
3. Madhava Vidyaranya
4. Adi Shankaracharya
Answer: 4
Question: Pulakesin II, the Chalukya ruler, deteated Harshavardhana on the banks of the river
1. Mahanadi
2. Tapti
3. Narmada
4. Godavari
Answer: 3
Question: The first Europeans to visit India were the
1. Portuguese
2. Spanish
3. English
4. Dansih
Answer: 1
Question: Chandragupta Maurya was converted to Jainism due to the influence of
1. Kautilya
2. Upagupta
3. Bhadrabahu
4. Gajabahu
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following came to the Mughal Court as the official agent of James I of England?
1. Captain John
2. William Hawkins
3. Thomas Best
4. Sir Thomas Roe
Answer: 4
Question: The influence of which school of paintings is evident in the paintings of the Mughal Court?
1. Mongolian
2. Persian
3. Greek
4. Chinese
Answer: 2