Q1) Which Buddhist scripture describes about 16 Mahajanapadas?

1) Digha Nikaya
2) Sutta Pitaka
3) Anguttara Nikaya
4) Vinaya Pitaka

Q2) The Chinese Pilgrim who visited India in the early 6th century was .

1) Hiuen Tsang
2) Fa-hien
3) Sung Yun
4) I-tsing

Q3) Which one of the following was the capital of the sultanate during the
reign of Iltutmish?

1) Agra
2) Lahore
3) Badaun
4) Delhi

Q4) The ideas of non-cooperation movement during freedom struggle did not
envisage on .

1) The bycott of civil services

2) The bycott of foreign goods
3) Common riots (violence)
4) The surrender of British titles

Q5) Who among the following participated in the Salt Satyagraha of Gandhiji?

1) Sarojini Naidu
2) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
3) Kamladevi Chattopadhyaya
4) All options are correct.

Q6) When did the Chinese traveler 'Sung Yun' come to India?

1) 510 AD
2) 518 AD
3) 525 AD
4) 528 AD

Q7) Which among the following state 'Odantpuri' education center was
situated?
1) Bengal
2) Gujarat
3) Bihar
4) Tamil Nadu

Q8) Who was the founder of Bahmani Kingdom?

1) Hasan Gangu
2) Firoz Shah
3) Mahmud Gawan
4) Asaf Khan

Q9) During whose rule in India did the Khilafat movement begin?

1) Lord Mountbatten
2) Lord Dalhousie
3) Lord Chelmsford
4) Lord Curzon

Q10) Who was the founder of the Arya Mahila Samaj in the early 1880s?

1) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

2) Swami Vivekananada
3) Ramabai Ranade
4) Pandita Ramabai

Q11) The term 'Stupa' is associated with which of the following event of
Gautam Buddha’s life?

1) Death
2) First Sermon
3) Birth
4) Renunciation

Q12) Who was the last ruler of the Gupta Dynasty?

1) Puru Gupta
2) Vishnu Gupta
3) Skanda Gupta
4) Kumar Gupta

Q13) Where was Guru Govind Singh educated and learnt Persian?

1) Lahore
2) Amritsar
3) Patna
4) Anandpur Sahib

Q14) Which of the following was the precursor of Indian National Congress?

1) Servents of Indian Society

2) Indian Association
3) Indian National Union
4) Indian League

Q15) During which governor general's time was the annexation of Sindh in
British State done?
1) Lord Dalhousie
2) Lord Chelmsford
3) Lord Ellenborough
4) Lord Hastings

Q16) Which of the following was not adopted from the Maurya Dynasty in the
emblem of Government of India?

1) Satyameva Jayate
2) Bull
3) Horse
4) Four Lions

Q17) Which of the following is the best example of Vijaynagar Art?

1) Ajanta
2) Hampi
3) Puri
4) Sanchi

Q18) Taxila was capital of which among the 16 Mahajanpadas?

1) Kosala
2) Kuru
3) Vajji
4) Gandhara

Q19) Who was founder of Mughal Empire in India?

1) Babur
2) Humayun
3) Akbar
4) Jahangir

Q20) Where did Vasco da Gama arrive in India in 1498?

1) Madras
2) Calcutta
3) Calicut
4) Bombay

Q21) According to the treaty of Srirangapattanam, which of the following was

ceded to the British?
1) Mysore
2) Hampi
3) Kannur
4) Malabar

Q22) Which of the following states has bicameral legislature?

1) Uttarakhand
2) Himachal Pradesh
3) Maharashtra
4) West Bengal

Q23) The Harappan site "Manda" was situated on the banks of which river?

1) Chenab
2) Sutlej
3) Ravi
4) Indus

Q24) Which of the Rig Veda’s Mandala is completely dedicated to Soma?

1) Seventh Mandala
2) Eighth Mandala
3) Ninth Mandala
4) Tenth Mandala

Q25) Mongols under Genghis Khan invaded India under whose reign?

1) Balban
2) Firuz Tughlaq
3) Iltutmish
4) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq

Q26) "Back to the Vedas", whose statement is this?

1) Swami Vivekananda
2) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
3) Swami Shraddhanand
 4) S. Radhakrishnan

Q27) Who was given the title of 'Punjab Kesari'?

1) Ranjit Singh
2) Bhagat Singh
3) Sardar Baldev Singh
4) Lala Lajpat Rai

Q28) Who was the founder of Nanda Dynasty?

1) Dhana Nanda
2) Mahendra
3) Mahapadma Nand
4) Gaja Nanda

Q29) The Greek ambassador Megasthenese was in the court of which of the
following rulers?
1) Ashoka
2) Chandragupta
3) Bindusara
4) Chanakya

Q30) The Persian translation of “Mahabharata” done in Mughal period is

known by which name?
1) Rekhta
2) Risala-e-Haq Nama
3) Razmnama
4) Safinat-ul-Auliya

Q31) In which year did Khudiram Bose tried to assassinate Kingsford in

Muzaffarpur?
1) 1904 AD
2) 1906 AD
3) 1908 AD
4) 1910 AD
Q32) Who was the first Indian to be elected as a member of the British House
of Commons?
1) S N Bose
2) Motilal Nehru
3) Dadabhai Naoroji
4) Mangal Pandey
Q33) Buddhism was divided into Mahayana and Hinayana during the reign of
which of the following rulers?

1) Kanishka
2) Chandragupta II
3) Ashoka
4) None of these

Q34) Which of the following Harappan sites is thought to have direct sea trade
links with Mesopotamia?

1) Dholavira
2) Lothal
3) Kot Diji
4) Ropar

Q35) Which of the following Sultans of the Sultanate of Delhi transferred his
capital from Delhi to Agra?
1) Sikandar Lodi
2) Qutbuddin Aibak
3) Alauddin Khilji
4) Muhammad Bin Tughlaq

Q36) Who was elected the Congress president after the end of the Tripuri
crisis?
1) Pattabhi Sitaramayya
2) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
3) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
4) Abul Kalam Azad

Q37) Which of the following chaired first Round Table Conference?

1) Clement Attlee
2) Winston Churchill
3) Stanley Baldwin
4) Ramsay Macdonald

Q38) The Chalukya ruler Pulakesin's victory over Harshavardhana was in year
.
1) 612 A.D.
2) 618 A.D.
3) 622 A.D.
4) 634 A.D.

Q39) Which of the following Sufi order was the most orthodox?
1) Chishti
2) Qadiri
3) Sarwari Qadri
4) Naqshbandi

Q40) For which of the following rulers 'Ekabrahmana' has been used?
1) Kharavela
2) Susharman
3) Pushyamitra Sung
4) Gautamiputra Shatkarni

Q41) Who was the first person to be selected for "Individual Satyagraha"
during the Indian Independence Movement?

1) Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das

2) Sardar Vallabhai Patel
3) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
4) Acharya Vinoba Bhave

Q42) Mountbatten Plan (June 1947) provided for a referendum in which of the
following province?
1) Sindh
2) Punjab
3) Baluchistan
4) North-West Frontier Province

Q43) Who was the first Tirthankara of Jainism?

1) Mahavir Swamy
2) Ajitnath
3) Rishabhdev
4) Parshwanath

Q44) Who was the first Gupta ruler to attain the title of Maharajadhiraja?
1) Chandragupta I
2) Sumdragupta
3) Kumaragupta
4) Skandagupta

Q45) Which one of the following kings was defeated by Muhammad Ghori in
the Battle of Chandawar?

1) Prithviraj Chauhan
2) Jai Chand
3) Bhima II
4) Kumarpala
 Q46) Who among the following was bestowed with the title of 'Saheb-e-Alam
Bahadur' by Bahadur Shah during the uprising of 1857?
1) Nana Sahib
2) Birjis Qadr
3) Bakht Khan
4) Tantia Tope

Q47) Who among the following was the President of the Central Legislative
Assembly in August 1925?
1) C.R. Das
2) Motilal Nehru
3) M.R. Jayakar
4) Vitthal Bhai Patel

Q48) Who of the following founded the "Forward Block" party?

1) K.M. Munshi
2) Motilal Nehru
3) Subhash Chandra Bose
4) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Q49) Who is the exponent of a Vaisheshika Darshan (philosophy)?

1) Kapil
2) Akshapad Gautam
3) Kanad
4) Patanjali

Q50) Who was called "Agrammes" or "Xandrames" by the Greek writers?

1) Ajatashatru
2) Kalashoka
3) Mahapadma Nanda
4) Dhananand

Q51) Who was the first king of the Chola dynasty to conquer Sri Lanka?

1) kulottunga I
2) Rajendra I
3) Rajendra II
4) Vikram Chola

Q52) In which year did Timur Lang invade India?

1) 1210 AD
2) 1398 AD
3) 1492 AD
4) 1526 AD
Q53) Where was the Vaikom Satyagraha (1924-25) started?

1) Kerala
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Karnataka
4) Andra Pradesh

Q54) In which among the following Harappan site terracotta of 'plough' was
found?

1) Dholavira
2) Banawali
3) Harappa
4) Lothal

Q55) Kalinga's King Kharvela was associated with which of the following
dynasty?

1) Mahameghavahana dynasty
2) Haryanka dynasty
3) Rath-Bhojak dynasty
4) Satvahana dynasty

Q56) In which among the following King's reign Persian traveller Abdur Razzaq
came to India?

1) Dev Rai I
2) Krishna Dev Rai I
3) Dev Rai II
4) Krishna Rai II

Q57) Who introduced in diarchy system in Bengal?

1) Robert Clive
2) Warren Hastings
3) Lord Wellesley
4) John Adams

Q58) "All India Kisan Sabha" was founded in

1) 1936 AD
2) 1939 AD
3) 1942 AD
4) 1945 AD
Q59) Chandella Kings are related to which of the following temples?
1) Khajuraho
2) Tirupati
3) Rameshwaram
4) Badrinath

Q60) In which language did most Buddhist texts were written?

1) Sanskrit
2) Magadhi
3) Prakrit
4) Pali

Q61) Who established the “Atmiya Sabha” a precursor organization in the

socio-religious reforms in Bengal?

1) Tulsidas
2) Malik Muhammad Jayasi
3) Surdas
4) Kabirdas

Q62) Who was the first Indian to get selected in ICS?

1) Dadabhai Naorojee
2) Subhash Chand Bose
3) Ravindra Nath Tagore
4) Satyendra Nath Tagore

Q63) Who established the “Atmiya Sabha” a precursor in the socio-religious

reforms in Bengal?

1) Vivekanand
2) Dayanand Saraswati
3) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
4) Arbindo
Q1) During the early years of his reign, Akbar’s rule was actually run by his regent named:

1. Mirza Hakim
2. Ulugh Beg
3. Bairam Khan
4. Abdul Rahim

Q2) To study the demands of the reorganisation of states on linguistic basis, a committee was
formed by the Indian National Congress in 1948. The committee was headed by:

1. P. Sitaramayya
2. J.L. Nehru
3. Sardar Patel
4. S.K. Dhar

Q3) Which of the following rulers erected his decrees at public places?

1. Chandragupta-II
2. Samudragupta
3. Ashoka
4. Chandragupta Maurya

Q4) Governor-general Canning decided that would be the last Mughal king and after his
death none of his descendants would be recognised as kings.

1. Jahandar Shah
2. Bahadur Shah Zafar
3. Aurangzeb
4. Shahjahan

Q5) Among the following personalities, who was NOT associated with Prarthana Samaj?

1. Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar

2. Atmaram Pandurang
3. R.G. Bhandarkar
4. M.G. Ranade

Q6) fought against King Han Ho-ti, who was the king of Han dynasty of China, and
defeated him in the second attempt.

1. Kanishka
2. Bindusara
3. Chandragupta Maurya
4. Ashoka

Q7) Which of the medieval Indian rulers is known for his policies of market control?

1. Balban
2. Alauddin Khilji
3. Firoz Shah Tughlaq
4. Bahlol Lodhi

Q8) The Paika Rebellion was led by:

1. Bakshi Jagabandhu
2. Titu Mir
3. Kanhu
4. Sidhu
Q9 Before taking over the Mughal throne, Shah Jahan was called____.

1. Saleem
2. Dara Shukoh
3. Khurram
4. Kamran

Q10) The renowned Peacock Throne was made for the Mughal empero _ .

1. Babar
2. Shahjahan
3. Jahangir
4. Akbar

Q11) Who among the following was the court poet of Prithviraj Chauhan?

1. Bhagwan Das
2. Asanga
3. Chand Bardai
4. Bilhana

Q12) Who among the following was the ruler of Jammu and Kashmir when India gained
independence?
1. Raghu Singh
2. Pawan Singh
3. Hari Singh
4. Mahadeo Singh

Q13) Which among the following dynasties did NOT rule the Magadhan Empire?
1. Haryanaka
2. Gupta
3. Shisunaga
4. Nanda

Q14) The Mughal emperor Babur wrote his autobiography in which of the following
languages?

1. Turkish
2. Persian
3. Aramaic
4. Arabic

Q15) In which of the following years did the Indian National Congress split at Surat and cause
the session to break up?

1. 1915
2. 1929
3. 1907
4. 1903
Q16) Which of the following books was NOT written by Bhavabhuti?

1. Mudrarakshasa
2. Malatimadhava
3. Mahaviracharita
4. Uttararamacharita

Q17) ‘Amuktamalyada’ one of the works of Krishnadevaraya was written in:

1. Sanskrit
2. Kannada
3. Tamil
4. Telugu

Q18) On 9th December 1946 who chaired the first session of the Constituent Assembly?

1. Govind Ballabh Pant

2. Sarat Chandra Bose

3. Sachchidananda Sinha
4. M Asaf Ali

Q19) During the reign of Kanishka, which of the following places was chosen as the venue of the
fourth Buddhist Council?

1. Taxila
2. Kashmir
3. Vaisali
4. Pataliputra

Q20) The Safavid dynasty ruled from modern day _.

1. Morocco
2. Iran
3. Italy
4. Saudi Arabia

Q21) In the context of Medieval Indian History, which of the following geographical belts was
denoted as ‘Turan’?

1. West Europe
2. South Asia
3. East Asia
4. Central Asia

Q22) To whom did Rabindranath Tagore dedicate his collection of essays in science, 'Visva
Parichay'?

1. Prof P C Roy
2. Prof Satyendra N Bose
3. Prof Sisir Kumar Mitra
4. Prof M N Saha

Q23) The name of the eldest son of Shah Jahan was _.

1. Dara Shukoh
2. Murad Bakhsh
3. Aurangzeb
4. Shah Shuja

Q24) The famous traveller Duarte Barbosa was from:

1. France
2. Spain
3. Portugal
4. Egypt

Q25) The Haripura session of Indian National Congress was Presided over by _.
1. AC Majumdar
2. Motilal Nehru
3. Subhash Chandra Bose
4. Abul Kalam Azad

Q26) Which of the following sites was the first to be discovered?

1. Mohenjodaro
2. Lothal
3. Harappa
4. Amri Nal

Q27) With reference to the sessions of the Indian National Congress which of the following pairs
is correct?
1. 1939 - Haripura
2. 1929 - Bombay
3. 1907 - Surat
4. 1917 – Madras

Q28) Who among the following coined the famous slogan ‘Jai Jawan–Jai Kisan’?

1. Lal Bahadur Shastri

2. Indira Gandhi
3. Morarji Desai
4. Charan Singh

Q29) Which of the following is NOT a Vedanga?

1. Siksha
2. Kalpa
3. Mundaka

4. Chanda

Q30) The summer capital of British India was .

1. Munnar
2. Shimla
3. Nainital
4. Coorg
Q31) Which of the following pairs is INCORRECTLY matched?

1. 1757 - Battle of Plassey

2. 1556 - Battle of Haldighati
3. 1764 - Battle of Buxar
4. 1539 - Battle of Chausa

Q32) Which of the following was written by Ziauddin Barani?

1. Ain-i-Akbari
2. Siyar-ul-Mutakherin
3. Tarikh-i-Firuzshahi
4. Mantakhab-ul-Tawarikh

Q33) The Battle of Karnal in 1739 was fought between Nadir Shah and whom among the
following?

1. Muhammad Shah
2. Aurangzeb
3. Akbar Shah
4. Bahadur Shah Zafar

Q34) Who led the Salt Satyagraha protest in Tamil Nadu?

1. Subramania Bharathi
2. C Rajagopalachari
3. Bharatidasan
4. Sreenivasa Sastry

Q35) The AD (Anno Domini) era is also called CE. What is the full form of CE?

1. Christ Era
2. Christian Era
3. Common Era
4. Current Era

Q36) Which dynasty built the Khajuraho temple complex?

1. Chandelas
2. Chalukyas
3. Mauryans
4. Pallavas

Q37) Who among the following declined the Bharat Ratna Award?

1. Nelson Mandela
2. Mother Teresa
3. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
4. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Q38) Who announced the partition of the state of Bengal in 1905?

1. Lord Curzon
2. Lord Mountbatten
3. Lord Lyton
4. Lord Ripon
Q1) Prithviraj III, who defeated Sultan Muhamma Ghori in 1191 was a ______ruler.

1) Gahadavala
2) Chedi
3) Ganga
4) Chahamana

Q2) In 1945,______Government came to power in Britain and committed itself to granting

independence to India.

1) Green Party
2) Liberal Democrats
3) Labour Party
4) Conservative Party

Q3) The Rigveda includes more than a thousand of 43 hymns, called:

1) Shruti
2) Sukta
3) Smriti
4) Mandala

Q4) Which of the following Harappan sites is located in India?

1) Mohenjo Daro
2) Daimabad
3) Ganweriwala
4) Shortugai

Q5) In 1942, which of the following British delegations came to India to hold talks with
Indian leaders on their demands?

1) Sargent Commission
2) Cabinet Mission
3) Cripps Mission
4) Simon Commission
Q6) The famous 'dancing-girl' statue of the Harappan Civilization was made using __
material.

1) gold
2) bronze
3) stone
4) terracotta

Q7) Who among the following is the composer of the Sanskrit text titled 'Rasamanjari'?

1) Bharavi
2) Charudatta
3) Kamandaka
4) Bhanudatta

Q8) In the context of India's freedom struggle, Bombay Plan (1944) was a draft plan on:

1) partition of the country

2) economic policies
3) formation of constituent assembly
4) foreign policy

Q9) Foreign traveller lbn Battuta, who came to India during the medieval period, had come
from:
1) France
2) Mongolia
3) Morocco
4) Uzbekistan

Q10) Abdur Razzak visited Vijayanagara Empire during the _________century.

1) 11th
2) 15th
3) 13th
4) 17th
Q11) Which of the following events did not happen during the tenure of Lord Dalhousie?
1) Introduction of Subsidiary Alliance System
2) Introduction of Doctrine of Lapse
3) Introduction of First Telegraph Line
4) Passing of Widow Remarriage Act

Q12) Dandi, the destination of the Dandi Salt March under the leadership of Mahatma
Gandhi, is situated in which of the following states?

1) Punjab
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Bihar
4) Gujarat

Q13) Which old Persian word was used in the sixth-fifth centuries BCE to refer to the region
east of Sindhu?

1) Aryavarta
2) Tianzhu
3) Hodu
4) Hindu

Q14) During which of the following sessions of Indian National Congress did Subhash
Chandra Bose resign from the Presidentship of INC?

1) Calcutta
2) Jaipur
3) Tripuri
4) Haripura

Q15) Gandhiji started his famous Dandi March from:

1) Sevagram Ashram
2) Agra Fort
3) Sabarmati Ashram
4) Porbandar House
Q16) The East India Company acquired a charter from the ruler of England, Queen Elizabeth
I, granting it the sole right to trade with the East in the year:

1) 1401
2) 1800
3) 1500
4) 1600

Q17) Which of the following Sultanats was ruled by the Nizam Shahi Dynasty?

1) Golconda
2) Bijapur
3) Ahmednagar
4) Berar

Q18) Ostriches were found in India during the Palaeolithic period. Large quantities of ostrich
egg shells were found at _.

1) Patna
2) Inamgaon
3) Patne
4) Chirand

Q19) Who was the President of India when Emergency was imposed in India for the third
time in 1975?

1) Giani Zail Singh

2) Basappa Dasappa Jatti
3) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
4) Zakir Husain Khan

Q20) Who among the following is related to the Chittagong Armoury Raid?

1) Ashfaqulla Khan
2) VD Savarkar
3) Aurobindo Ghosh
4) Kalpana Datta
Q21) The incident on 5 February, 1922, at Chauri Chaura was the main cause for the
withdrawal of:

1) Non-Cooperation Movement
2) Rowlatt Satyagraha
3) Civil Disobedience Movement
4) Quit India Movement

Q22) Choose the INCORRECT match with respect to newspaper and its corresponding
editor:

1) Comrade - Bal Gangadhar Tilak

2) Vande Mataram - Aurobindo Ghosh
3) Sandhya - Brahmabandhab Upadhyay
4) New India - Bipin Chandra Pal

Q23) Muhammad Bin Tughlaq changed his capital from Delhi to:

1) Lahore
2) Munger
3) Agra
4) Daulatabad

Q24) Choose the correct option with respect to the Round Table conference held in the
1930s.
1) MK Gandhi took part in the third Round Table conference
2) Lord Reading was the Viceroy when the first Round Table Conference was held
3) The Congress participated in all three conferences
4) Dr. BR Ambedkar participated in all three conferences

Q25) When was the second battle of Panipat fought?

1) 1556
2) 1549
3) 1578
4) 1590

Q26) When did Mahatma Gandhi pass away?

1) 13th January 1945
2) 30th January 1948
3) 4th May 1949
4) 30th June 1946

Q27) Who was the first External Affairs minister of India after independence?
1) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
2) Dr. B R Ambedkar
3) Sardar Baldev Singh
4) John Matthai

Q28) Lord Mahavira was born in present-day state of:

1) Punjab
2) Gujarat
3) Maharashtra
4) Bihar

Q 2 9 ) Mahatma Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement for freedom from the British in
the year:

1) 1918

2) 1924

3) 1943

4) 1942

Q30) The Subsidiary Alliance System, through which the British were responsible for
protecting their Indian allies from external and internal threats to their power, was devised
by:
1) Lord Wellesley
2) Lord Curzon
3) Lord Dalhousie
4) Lord Bentinck
Q31) Which of the following was a travel book written by Ibn Battuta in Arabic in the 14th
century?
1) Riḥlah
2) Kay Mulkkalauraaj
3) Safarnama
4) Tuḥfat an-Nuẓẓār

Q32) In 1526, Babur defeated Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at

_.
1) Panipat
2) SoniPat
3) Karnal
4) Delhi

Q33) The First Carnatic War was fought between the ______ and the _.

1) Dutch; English
2) Portuguese; English
3) English; French
4) French; Portuguese
Q.1 Who composed Tabaqat-i-Nasiri in the Delhi Sultanate period?

1. Hasan Nizami

2. Amir Khusrau

3. Minhaj-us-Siraj

4. Ziauddin Barani

Q2. Bhimbetka, a noted site of the Palaeolithic period, is located in which state of India?

1. Bihar

2. UMar Pradesh

3. Rajasthan

4. Madhya Pradesh

Q.3 The Act that is also known as ‘Morley-Minto Reforms’ is:

1. Government of India Act, 1935

2. Indian Councils Act, 1909

3. RowlaM Act, 1919

4. Government of India Act, 1912

Q4. Zafar khan was a famous General of which of the following rulers of the Delhi Sultanate?

1. Alauddin Khilji

2. Iltutmish

3. Muhammad bin Tughluq

4. Balban

Q5. Who among the following was the President of the Indian NaZonal Congress during the 1915
session?

1. Satyendra Prasanna Sinha

2. Ambica Charan Mazumdar

3. Bhupendra Nath Bose

4. Madan Mohan Malaviya

Q6. Which officer under Alauddin Khilji was required to maintain a register of merchants to ensure
an adequate supply of goods?

1. Nazir

2. Rais Parwana

3. Muhtasib

4. Shahna-i-Mandi

Q7. Pushyamitra, who was the commander of Brihadratha, the last Mauryan emperor, killed the king
and established a new dynasty. Which of the following was his dynasty?

1. Shunga

2. Kanva

3. Satavahana

4. Chedi

Q8. India was named ‘Bharat’ a`er the name of the Bharat tribe. In which of the following Vedas is
this tribe first menZoned?

1. Rigveda

2. Samaveda

3. Atharvaveda

4. Yajurveda

Q9. Who had assumed the Ztle of Balban?

1. Kabir Khan

2. Farid Khan

3. Ulugh Khan

4. Ayaz Khan

Q10. 25 In which year, the Koya rebellion took place in the eastern Godavari tract?

1. 1882-1883

2. 1874-1875

3. 1879-1880

4. 1887-1888
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2020

1.In which of the following years was the Mughal empire established by Babur?
Ans1. 1526
2. 1578
3. 1699
4. 1634

2. Who among the following assassinated Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie in London?
Ans1. Sukhdev Thapar
2. Surya Sen
3. Madan Lal Dhingra
4. Khudiram Bose

3.Where is the corporate office of RBL Bank located?

Ans1. Srinagar
2. Mumbai
3. Patna
4. Bengaluru

4. The Mysore Palace was the residence of the ______.

Ans1. Chandelas
2. Palas
3. Bundelas
4. Wodeyars

5. Pattachitra art form is dedicated to which Lord in Hindu mythology?

Ans1. Lord Shiva
2. Lord Ganesha
3. Lord Brahma
4. Lord Jagannath

6. Veer Surendra Sai was a freedom fighter from:

Ans1. Nagaland
2. Sikkim
3. Odisha
4. Telangana

7. In which of the following years was the All-India Harijan Sevak Sanghnfounded?
Ans 1. 1928
2. 1942
3. 1919
4. 1932

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8. Which of the following Buddhist sites is located in Uttar Pradesh?

Ans 1. Sarnath
2. Karle
3. Sanchi
4. Amaravati

9. Where is t he f amous pilgrim spot of Sikhs, Sri Harmandir Sahib located?

Ans 1. Amritsar
2. Manali
3. Jalandhar
4. Patna

10. Chandernagore (Chandannagar) was a ______ colony captured by the British

Navy on 23 March 1757.
Ans 1. Danish
2. Dutch
3. French
4. Portuguese

11. Who among t he following economists coined the terminology 'Hindu Rate of
Growth'?
Ans 1. Bimal Jalan
2. Amiya Kumar Bagchi
3. Vijay Kelkar
4. Raj Krishna

12. According to the Puranas, Lord Vishnu took the shape of ______ in order to
rescue the earth,which had sunk into water.
Ans 1. a lion
2. an elephant
3. a boar
4. a tiger

13. Who among the following was the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1947?
Ans 1. Osman Ali
2. Akbar Ali Khan
3. Mir Mahbub Ali Khan
4. Nasir Jung

14. Which of the following is a work on statecraft written by Krishnadevaraya?

Ans 1. Tolkappiyam
2. Amuktamalyada
3. Kadambari
4. Karpuramanjari

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15. Which of the following is the meaning of ‘Pishtaq’ in the context of medieval
Indo-Islamic architecture?
Ans 1. Tall gateway
2. Water tank
3. Dome
4. True arch

16. Who among the following wrote the basic text of Vaisheshika philosophy?
Ans 1. Jaimini
2. Kanada
3. Patanjali
4. Shankaracharya

17. Whose administration became a model that was followed by Akbar when he
consolidated the Mughal Empire?
Ans 1. Ghiyas ud din Balban
2. Bahlul Lodi
3. Iltutmish
4. Sher Shah Suri

18. The Vedic view of an individual and his relation to society is determined by four
objectives of life. Which of the following is NOT one of these objectives?
Ans 1. Dharma
2. Moksha
3. Siddhi
4. Artha

19. In which year did Atal Bihari Vajpayee undertake a bus journey to Lahore to sign
a Peace Declaration?
Ans 1. 1999
2. 1997
3. 1991
4. 1994

20. Pushyabhuti, who ruled from Thaneswar, was the founder of ______ dynasty.
Ans 1. Chera
2. Pandya
3. Vardhana
4. Chalukya

21. Chandragupta led a revolt against the ______ and overthrew them.
Ans 1. Nandas
2. Kushanas
3. Shishunagas
4. Haryankas
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22. The main collections of Vedic hymns are called ______.

Ans 1. Sutra
2. Pad
3. Samhita
4. Mukh

23. Alivardi Khan was a Nawab of ______.

Ans 1. Bengal
2. Awadh
3. Malabar
4. Deccan

24. In which of the following years did Japan invade India resulting in the Battle
ofImphal?
Ans 1. 1862
2. 1944
3. 1901
4. 1899

25. Padavali Kirtan refers to songs composed in the medieval period of West Bengal
(15th to 17th century) in praise of ______.
Ans 1. Shiva
2. Shakti
3. Vishnu
4. Brahma

26. At which of the following places did Lord Buddha give his first sermon on the
Four Noble Truths?
Ans 1. Lumbini
2. Sarnath
3. Bodh Gaya
4. Rajgir

27. C Rajagopalachari led the Salt Satyagraha in which of the following states?
Ans 1. Rajasthan
2. Maharashtra
3. Gujarat
4. Tamil Nadu

28. A type of court called 'Kantakasodhana' was prevalent in the ______ Empire.
Ans 1. Rashtrakuta
2. Kushana
3. Mauryan
4. Chola

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29. Who was the first and last woman ruler of Delhi Sultanate?
Ans 1. Sultana Chand Bibi
2. Nur Jahan
3. Rani Durgavati
4. Razia Sultana

30. One of the major events of Ashoka’s reign was the convening of the ______
Buddhist Sangha (council) in 250 BCE in the capital Pataliputra.
Ans 1. Third
2. Fourth
3. Second
4. First

31. According to Ashokan edicts, how many years after becoming the king did
Ashoka wage war on Kalinga?
Ans 1. Seven
2. Five
3. Eight
4. Six

32. Muhammad Ghori attacked Tabarhinda (Bhatinda) in 1191, a strategic point for
______.
Ans 1. Prithviraj Chauhan
2. Maharana Pratap Singh
3. Hem Chandra Vikramaditya
4. Rana Kumbha

33. ______ organised his trusted nobles into a group of forty known as
Turkan-i-Chahalgani.
Ans 1. Qutub-Ud-Din Aibak
2. Balban
3. Iltutmish
4. Ala-ud-Din Khilji

34. The place of Gautama Buddha’s birth was a grove known as ______.
Ans 1. Kavus
2. Lumbini
3. Mangar Bani
4. Mawphlang

35. Who among the following was one of the leaders who was instrumental in
convincing Mahatma Gandhi about the need to start a non-cooperation movement in
support of The Khilafat?
Ans 1. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
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2. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

3. Abdul Ghaffar Khan
4. Shaukat Ali

36. Who among the following laid the foundations of the Indian National Movement
by founding the Indian Association at Calcutta in 1876?
Ans 1. Womesh Chandra Banerjee
2. Dadabhai Naoroji
3. Surendranath Banerjee
4. Aurobindo Ghose

37. Who among the following rulers is called the ‘Napolean of India’?
Ans 1. Bindusara
2. Chandragupta
3. Ashoka
4. Samudragupta

38. 5 In which of the following years did the revolt in the countryside of the Bombay
Deccan occur?
Ans 1. 1875
2. 1890
3. 1790
4. 1905

39. Mughal Emperor Shah Alam appointed the British East India Company as the
Diwan of the province of Bengal in the year ______.
Ans 1. 1917
2. 1765
3. 1835
4. 1623

40. Who among the following freedom fighters wrote the poem 'Vande Mataram' in
1875?
Ans 1. Bipin Chandra Pal
2. Bhagat Singh
3. Rabindranath Tagore
4. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

41. Who among the following was the first General Secretary of All India Kisan
Congress?
Ans 1. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
2. NG Ranga
3. Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
4. Acharya Narendra Dev

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42. Which Mughal prince translated the Upanishads into Persian in 1657? Ans 1.
Sultan Luftallah
2. Murad Mirza
3. Dara Shikoh
4. Shah Suja
43. Who among the following along with Motilal Nehru was instrumental in the
creation of the Swaraj Party
Ans1. Chittaranjan Das
2. Surendranath Banerjee
3. Bipin Chandra Pal
4. Subhash Chandra Bose

44. Mahavira, who was known in Pali literature as Nataputta, founded areligion
called
Ans1. Jainism
2. Zoroastrianism
3. Baha’i
4. Sikhism

45. According to ’The Ramayana’, Ratnakar was the other name of

Ans1. Valmiki
2. Durbasa
3. Gautam
4. Vishvamitra

46. The story of Mynamati and Gopichandra is a part of which of the following
literary works?
Ans1. Chandimangal Kavya
2. Manasamangal Kavya
3. Sanskrit epics
4. Nath literature

46. Alamgir was the title of which Mughal emperor?

Ans 1. Akbar
2. Shah Jahan
3. Babur
4. Aurangzeb

47. The ______ sultanate was ruled by the Sharqi dynasty.

Ans 1. Bharatpur
2. Agra
3. Jaunpur
4. Delhi

48. The rules made for the ______ were written down in a book called ‘Vinaya
Pitaka’.
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Ans 1. Vaishnavites
2. Buddhist sangha
3. Lingayats
4. Shakta cult

49. What was the name of the women's regiment in the Indian National Army
founded by Subhash Chandra Bose?
Ans 1. Rani Ahalyabai Regiment
2. Rani of Didda Regiment
3. Rani of Jhansi Regiment
4. Rani Padmawati Regiment

50. Who among the following established the Rashtrakuta Kingdom? Ans Ans 1.
Dantidurga
2. Krishna
3. Ashoka
4. Amoghavarsha

51. Who among the following published a set of Ashokan inscriptions in the year
1877?
Ans 1. DC Sircar
2. Alexander Cunningham
3. MS Vats
4. Colin Mackenzie

52. In which of the following years was the Asiatic Society at Calcutta (Kolkata)
founded by Sir William Jones?
Ans 1. 1820
2. 1800
3. 1784
4. 1767

53. Who among the following Sikh Gurus founded the Tarn Taran Sahib? Ans 1.
Guru Ram Das
2. Guru Arjan Dev
3. Guru Nanak Dev
4. Guru Gobind Sikh

54. At which of the following places did Lord Buddha attain enlightenment?
Ans 1. Rajgir
2. Sarnath
3. Bodh Gaya
4. Vaishali

55. Prithviraj Chauhan and Muhammad Ghori fought the battle of ______. Ans 1.
Chausa
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2. Chanderi
3. Tarain
4. Tallikota

56. Who among the following chroniclers wrote about Raziyya and recognised that
she was more able and qualified than all her brothers?
Ans 1. Ibn Battuta
2. Amir Khusrau
3. Minhaj-i-Siraj
4. Zia-ud-din Barani

57. The female devotee, Andal belonged to which part of India?

Ans 1. Western
2. North-eastern
3. Northern
4. Southern

58. Who among the following was the first scholar to decipher the Ashokan edicts?
Ans 1. Alexander Cunningham
2. James Prinsep
3. V Gordon Childe
4. James Taylor

59. Who among the following issued Mahzarnama in 1579?

Ans 1. Shah Jahan
2. Akbar
3. Humayun
4. Jahangir

60. The Battle of Khanua was fought between Babur and ______.
Ans 1. Rana Sanga
2. Todar Mal
3. Sher Shah Suri
4. Hemu

61. The Indian Mutiny began from Meerut on 10 May 1857 and ended in:
Ans 1. Gwalior on 20 June 1858
2. Jhansi on 15 August 1860
3. Delhi on 18 September 1859
4. Kolkata on 13 May 1858

62. Gautamiputra Satakarni was a ______ ruler.

Ans 1. Mauryan
2. Eastern Ganga
3. Satavahana
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4. Parthian

63. Who among the following earned the sobriquet ‘Bharat Kokila’ from Mahatma
Gandhi?
Ans 1. Annie Besant
2. Sucheta Kriplani
3. Sarojini Naidu
4. Toru Dutt

64. Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq was the governor of ______ during the reign of
Ala-ud-din Khilji.
Ans 1. Rajasthan
2. Bengal
3. Kashmir
4. Punjab

65. The ‘Hemis Festival’ is celebrated in Ladakh on the 10th day of the Tibetan
Lunar month. To which of the following lords is the festival dedicated?
Ans 1. Lord Ganesha
2. Lord Padmasambhava
3. Lord Shiva
4. Lord Vishnu

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2019

1. Prolific Indian painter Maqbool Fida Husain predominantly used which of these
animals to depict a lively and free spirit in his paintings?
Ans 1. Elephants
2. Horses
3. Cows
4. Tigers

2. Sir Thomas Roe came as an official ambassador from King James I of England to
which Mughal emperor's court?
Ans 1. Akbar
2. Aurangzeb
3. Shah Jahan
4. Jahangir

3. The ruins of the ancient city of Hampi - capital of Vijayanagara - is located in

whichpresent day Indian state?
Ans 1. Haryana
2. Bihar
3. Karnataka
4. Telangana

4. In which year Sanchi was discovered after being abandoned for nearly 600
Years?
Ans 1. 1820
2. 1818
3. 1814
4. 1816

5. Kolathunadu, Valluvanad and Thekkumkoor were ancient small-time kingdoms

inwhich state of India?
Ans 1. Karnataka
2. Gujarat
3. Bihar
4. Kerala

6. Veteran freedom fighter, social reformer and feminist Savithribai Phule hailed from
which of the following states of India?
Ans 1. Odisha
2. Gujarat
3. Rajasthan
4. Maharashtra

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7. Archaeologist R Nagaswamy was honoured at the Silver Jubilee International

Conference of Art by which country?
Ans 1. Bhutan
2. Nepal
3. Bangladesh
4. China

8. In which of the following countries was the 95th edition of the prestigious Hastings
International Chess Congress held?
Ans 1. France
2. Australia
3. England
4. Belgium

9. Which of the following was previously known as 'the Lady Willingdon Park'?
Ans 1. Buddha Jayanti Park
2. Mughal Gardens
3. Deer Park
4. Lodhi Gardens

10. Who among the following was the last ruler of the Nanda dynasty?
Ans 1. Dhanananda
2. Panduka
3. Govishanaka
4. Kaivarta

11. In which year was the foundation stone for the Gateway of India laid in Bombay
(now Mumbai)?
Ans 1. 1913
2. 1915
3. 1905
4. 1920

12. The last recognised king of the Gupta line was _______.
Ans 1. Samudragupta
2. Bimbisara
3. Ashoka
4. Vishnugupta

13. The first ruler of Magadha from the Haryanka dynasty was _______.
Ans 1. Ashoka
2. Prasenajit
3. Bimbisara
4. Ajatshatru

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14. The Gupta rulers imposed a fine called _______ which was a plough tax paid by
every cultivator owning a plough.
Ans 1. Hiranya
2. Sulka
3. Halivakara
4. Kara

15. Hiuen Tsang, hailed as the prince of pilgrims, visited India during the reign of
king_____.
Ans 1. Ashoka
2. Vishnugupta
3. Samudragupta
4. Harsha

16. King Harshavardhana ascended the throne of Thaneshwar and Kannauj on the
death of his brother, ________.
Ans 1. Indravardhana
2. Suryavardhana
3. Rajyavardhana
4. Chandravardhana

17. _________ was the capital of Magadha before the 4th century BCE.
Ans 1. Rajagaha
2. Pataliputra
3. Varanasi
4. Mathura

18. The Harshacharita is a biography of Harshavardhana, the ruler of Kannauj,

composed in Sanskrit by his court poet, _______.
Ans 1. Dandin
2. Kamban
3. Banabhatta
4. Jinsena

19.The Vedic Civilisation in India flourished along the river__________.

Ans 1. Narmada
2. Saraswati
3. Tapi
4. Godavari

20. In the 4th century BCE, the capital of Magadha was shifted to ________.
Ans 1. Mathura
2. Varanasi
3. Panipat
4. Pataliputra

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21. In which city was the Jhanda Satyagraha or Flag Satyagraha of 1923 held?
Ans 1. Bombay
2. Nagpur
3. Calcutta
4. Ahmedabad

22. Which pillar inscriptions has recorded the achievements of Samudra Gupta, who
was known as the 'Napoleon of India' for his conquests?
Ans 1. Iron Pillar
2. Sun Pillar
3. Vijaya Stambha
4. Allahabad Pillar

23. In which period was the legendary Victoria Terminus station (currently
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus), Mumbai built?
Ans 1. 1878 to 1888
2. 1843 to 1853
3. 1933 to 1943
4. 1911 to 1921

24. Which of the following is an INCORRECT sequence of Mughal rulers?

Ans 1. Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb
2. Akbar, Shah Jahan, Jahangir
3. Babur, Humayun, Akbar
4. Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan

25. Who among the following is known as the 'father of Muslim renaissance' in
Bengal?
Ans 1. Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan
2. Ameer Ali
3. Nawab Abdul Latif Khan
4. Nawab Salimullah Khan

26. Who was the then Governor-General of British India, when ‘Sati Pratha’ became
illegal and punishable?
Ans 1. Lord Cornwallis
2. Lord Wellesley
3. Lord William Bentinck
4. Warren Hastings

27. In which year was the Currency Building in the BBD Bagh or Dalhousie area of
Kolkata constructed?
Ans 1. 1910
2. 1850
3. 1900
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4. 1833

28. Which dynasty built the pancha rathas of Mahabalipuram?

Ans 1. Chola
2. Chera
3. Satavahana
4. Pallava

29. In which year was the Nahargarh Fort in Jaipur built by Maharaja Sawai Jai
Singh II ?
Ans 1. 1734
2. 1805
3. 1780
4. 1800

30. In which of the following locations was the Quit India Movement launched by
Mahatma Gandhi in 1942?
Ans 1. Shivaji Park
2. August Kranti Maidan
3. Jallianwala Bagh
4. Pragati Maidan

31. ______ renounced his knighthood in protest for Jalianwalla Bagh mass killing.
Ans 1. Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy
2. Rabindranath Tagore
3. Shivajirao Holkar
4. Surendranath Banerjee

32. ‘Dharmaraja (Yudhishthir) Ratha’, ‘Bhima Ratha’, ‘Arjuna Ratha’ and ‘Nakula
Sahadeva Ratha’ are four of the Panch Rathas at Mahabalipuram. What is the name
of the fifth Ratha?
Ans 1. Bhishma Ratha
2. Krishna Ratha
3. Karna Ratha
4. Draupadi Ratha

33. The Gadar (or Ghadar) Party was formed in the year ______.
Ans 1. 1921
2. 1918
3. 1915
4. 1913

34.Alai-Darwaza, the southern gateway of the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque in Delhi,

was constructed by ______.
Ans 1. Mu'izz ad-Din Muhammad Ghori
2. Ahmad Shāh Durrani
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3. Ala-ud-din Khilji
4. Muhammad bin Tughluq

35.The Indus Waters Treaty was signed between India and Pakistan on ______.
Ans 1. 19 September 1960
2. 12 November 1959
3. 16 December 1963
4. 18 October 1969

36. In which of the following cities is the tomb of Rani of Jhansi situated?
Ans 1. Gwalior
2. Jabalpur
3. Indore
4. Ujjain

37. In memory of whom is the Madhavpur Mela of Gujarat celebrated?

Ans 1. Lord Shiva and Parvati
2. Lord Krishna and Rukmini
3. Lord Krishna and Radha
4. Lord Krishna and Draupadi

38. Which of the following Viceroys of India addressed the Bengal famine of 1943 by
ordering the army to distribute relief supplies to the starving rural Bengalis?
Ans 1. Lord Mountbatten
2. Lord Wavell
3. Lord Willington
4. Lord Linlithgow

39. Who among the following conceived the Kakori train robbery in 1925?
Ans 1. Baikuntha Shukla
2. Manmath Nath Gupta and Matangini Hazra
3. Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqullah Khan
4. Ubaidullah Sindhi

40. Who is the first General of the Indian Army, whose retirement day is celebrated
as the 'Armed Forces Veterans Day' every year?
Ans 1. General K.S. Thimayya
2. General S.M. Srinagesh
3. General Maharaj Rajendra Sinhji
4. General K. M. Cariappa

41. Mehrunnisa who was known as Nur Jahan was the wife of ______.
Ans 1. Jahangir
2. Shah Jahan
3. Akbar
4. Aurangzeb
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42. Which leader gave us the C R Formula?

Ans 1. Tilak
2. C. R. Das
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. C. Rajagopalachar

43. In which year did D.C. Sircar publish Indian Epigraphy and Indian Epigraphical
Glossary?
Ans 1. 1966-67
2. 1967-68
3. 1965-66
4. 1964-65

44. Madhavpur Mela takes place in ______.

Ans 1. Uttar Pradesh
2. Maharashtra
3. Madhya Pradesh
4. Gujarat

45.When did the Vikrama Era begin?

Ans 1. 57 BC
2. 55 BC
3. 50 BC
4. 47 BC

46. Which of the following monuments is NOT a part of the Qutub Complex?
Ans 1. Buland Darwaza
2. Qutub Minar
3. Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque
4. Alai Darwaza

47. Which of the following pairs is associated with the taxation system of the
Marathas?
Ans 1. Chauth and Sardeshmukhi
2. Zat and Sawar
3. Polaj and Parauti
4. Iqta and Jagir

48. The Battle of Chausa was fought between Humayun and ______.
Ans 1. Sher Shah Suri
2. Nadir Shah
3. Hemu
4. Krishnadeva Raya

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49. Who was the Governor General of Bengal during the 3rd Anglo-Mysore war?
Ans 1. Warren Hastings
2. John Macpherson
3. 2nd Earl Cornwallis
4. John Shore

50. Who among the following first translated the Bhagvad Gita in to English?
Ans 1. Sir Alexander Cunningham
2. William Jones
3. James Prinsep
4. Charles Wilkins

51. With reference to the Vedangas, which of the following terms denotes 'Ritual'?
Ans 1. Chanda
2. Kalpa
3. Vyakarana
4. Shiksha

52.Where is the Dharmraja Ratha monument located?

Ans 1. Suchindram
2. Kanchipuram
3. Mahabalipuram
4. Khajuraho

53. In which year did the battle of Khanua (Khanwa) take place between Babur and
the Rajput forces led by Rana Sanga?
Ans 1. 1527
2. 1526
3. 1522
4. 1529

54. Who among the following was NOT associated with the revolt of 1857?
Ans 1. Mangal Pandey
2. Kunwar Singh
3. Bhagat Singh
4. Begum Hazrat Mahal

55. Who among the following scholars is associated with the Tibet-home theory of
the Aryans?
Ans 1. Dayanand Saraswati
2. Max Muller
3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
4. MacDonell
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56. According to the Jain Philosophy, the term 'Jina' means ________.
Ans 1. lord
2. the conqueror
3. worthy
4. free from fetters

57. Fatehabad district derives its name from the eponymous headquarters town
founded by______ in the 14th century, who named it after his son Fateh Khan.
Ans 1. Firoz Shah Tughlaq
2. Allauddin Khilji
3. Humayun
4. Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq

58. In which year did the Portuguese capture Goa?

Ans 1. 1510 AD
2. 1475 AD
3. 1540 AD
4. 1610 AD

59. Who signed the treaty of Alinagar with the British?

Ans 1. Mir Jafar
2. Siraj-ud-Daula
3. Mir Qasim
4. Alivardi Khan

60. Which tales are related with the painting and sculptures of the Ajanta caves?
Ans 1. Panchatantra Tales
2. Pentamerone Tales
3. Jataka Tales
4. Hitopadesha Tales

61. Which of the following events did NOT occur in 1919?

Ans 1. Partition of Bengal took place
2. Montague Chelmsford Reform was announced
3. Rowlatt Act was passed
4. Jallianwala Bagh tragedy took place

62. Who among the following initiated 'Din-i-Ilahi'?

Ans 1. Akbar
2. Babur
3. Jahangir
4. Humayun

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2018

1. Which of the following is the only correct pair as described by Chola inscriptions?
Ans 1. Pallichchhandam – land donated to Jaina institutions
2. Shalabhoga – land gifted to Brahmanas
3. Vellanvagai – land of Brahmana peasant proprietors
4. Brahmadeya – land gifted to temples

2.Which of the following was NOT a type of sacrifice performed by kings in ancient
India to establish their position?
Ans 1. Vajapeya
2. Rajasuya
3. Ashvamedha
4. Muvendavelan

3.Which of the following monuments bears a similarity to the French war memorial,
the Arc-de-Triomphe?
Ans 1. India Gate
2. Gateway of India
3. Victoria Memorial
4. Charminar

4. _____ was executed at Lahore in November 1915 for his role in the Ghadar
Conspiracy in February 1915.
Ans 1. Kartar Singh Sarabha
2. Tantia Mama
3. Maganbhai Patel
4. Vijay Singh Pathik

5. Name the pass in Uttarakhand which is used by pilgrims to Kailash-Mansarovar

Yatra.
Ans 1. Pensi La
2. Lipu Lekh
3. Banihal Pass
4. Khardung La

6. How many great powers (Mahajanpadas) existed in the 7th and early 6th
centuries BC, during the life time of Lord Gautam Buddha?
Ans 1. 16
2. 13
3. 11
4. 17

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7. Who was the founder of the Chalukya dynasty ?

Ans 1. Narasimhavarman
2. Mangalesa
3. Kirtivarman
4. Pulakesin I

8. Which of the following is NOT one of the monarchical states that existed in the 7th
and early 6th centuries BC in India?
Ans1. Magadha
2. Vaishali
3. Avanti
4. Kosala

9. Name the state Chandragupta-I got in dowry from the Lichhavis.

Ans 1. Ujjain
2. Pataliputra
3. Prayaga
4. Saketa

10. The period between ____________ in India's history is known as the Delhi
Sultanate period.
Ans 1. 1206 A.D. and 1526 A.D.
2. 1456 A.D. and 1675 A.D.
3. 745 A.D. and 1245 A.D.
4. 1105 A.D. and 1445 A.D.

11.Mihira Bhoja was the ruler of ______.

Ans 1. Rashtrakuta
2. Chola
3. Pratihara
4. Chalukya

12. Vikramashila University was founded by _________, a Pala king.

Ans 1. Rajendra Chola
2. Pulakeshin I
3. Mihira Bhoja
4. Dharmapala

13. _________ was the first Muslim ruler whose empire covered almost the whole of
India up to its extreme south.
Ans 1. Alauddin Khilji
2. Jalal-ud-din Khilji
3. Ghiyas ud din Balban
4. Feroz Shah Tughlaq

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14. The Badami Chalukyas first had their capital at ____ before they moved it to
Badami.
Ans 1. Pattadakal
2. Aihole
3. Hubli
4.Bijapur

15. Which was the first Muslim dynasty that ruled India?
Ans 1. Slave dynasty
2. Tughlaq dynasty
3. Lodhi dynasty
4. Khilji dynasty

16. Who among the following was a slave of Muhammad Ghori? He became the
ruler after the death of his master and founded the Slave Dynasty.
Ans 1. Ghiyas ud din Balban
2. Iltutmish
3. Nasir-ud-din Mahmud
4. Qutub-ud-din Aibak

17. Kala Bhavana, founded in 1919, is a noted institution of education and research
in visual arts. It is located in _______.
Ans 1. Bihar
2. Uttar Pradesh
3. West Bengal
4. Sikkim

18. The invasion of Delhi by Timur in ____ A.D marked the end of the Tughlaq
empire.
Ans 1. 1645
2. 1398
3. 1452
4.1215

19. Who among the following was one of the Governors during the reign of Alauddin
Khilji?
Ans 1. Jalal-ud-din Khilji
2. Shams-ud-din Iltutmish
3. Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
4. Nasiruddin Mahmud

20. Who founded the Sayyid dynasty?

Ans 1. Nizam Shah
2. Muhammad-bin-Farid
3. Khizr Khan
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4. Bahlul Khan

21. _____ was the first and only Muslim woman to ever sit on the throne of Delhi.
Ans 1. Fatima Al Fihri
2. Gevher Sultan
3. Shajarat Al Durr
4. Razia Begum

22. Who amongst the following succeeded the Mughal throne in the year 1556?
Ans 1. Sher Shah Suri
2. Akbar
3. Jehangir
4. Shah Jahan

23. In which of the following forts of Rajasthan 'chattris’ (cenotaphs) are built in
honour of Jaimal and Kalla, heroes, who laid down their lives in the 1568 siege by
Emperor Akbar?
Ans 1. Kumbhalgarh Fort
2. Amer Fort
3. Chittorgarh Fort
4. Ranathambhor Fort

24.The leader of the Bhakti movement focusing on Lord Rama was ____________.
Ans 1. Namdeva
2. Ramananda
3. Jaydeva
4. Vivekanada

25. The terms 'Jat and Sawar' are related to which of the following administrative
systems?
Ans 1. Zamindari System
2. Iqtadari System
3. Mansabdari System
4. Jotedari System

26. ________was the first Mughal emperor in India.

Ans 1. Shah Jahan
2. Humayun
3. Babur
4. Akbar

27. The leading light of the Rama cult was saint-poet ______who also wrote the
poem 'Ramacharitamanasa'.
Ans 1. Chaitanya
2. Vallabhacharya
3. Tulsidas
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4. Nimbarka

28. Akbar was succeeded by his son, Salim, who took the title of_______, meaning
'Conqueror of the World'.
Ans 1. Shah Jahan
2. Jahangir
3. Badshah
4. Jahapana

29.Who was the prime minister of India during ''the Emergency'' between the year
1975 to 1977?
Ans 1. Indira Gandhi
2. Rajiv Gandhi
3. Moraj Desai
4. Charan Singh

30.The Victoria Memorial, conceived by Lord Curzon, represents the architectural

climax of_________ city.
Ans 1. Jaipur
2. Kolkata
3. Mumbai
4. Delhi

31.Which Indian monument was built by Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh in the year
1799?
Ans 1. Hawa Mahal
2. Leh Palace
3. Mattancherry Palace
4. Mysore Palace

32.The Red Fort and the Jama Masjid in Delhi stand out as towering achievements
of architecture during the reign of________.
Ans 1. Shah Jahan
2. Akbar
3. Jehangir
4.Aurangzeb

33.Humayun's heir,_____, was born in exile and was only 13 years old when his
father died.
Ans 1. Akbar
2. Shah Jahan
3. Jahangir
4. Babur

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34. Who had built Taj Mahal, for his wife Mumtaz Mahal along the banks of the
Yamuna River in Agra?
Ans 1. Aurangzeb
2. Akbar
3. Jahangir
4. Shah Jahan

35. Who was the fifth of the ten Sikh gurus?

Ans 1. Guru Angad
2. Guru Ramdas
3. Guru Arjan Dev
4. Guru Hargobind

36. The Qutub Minar was named after the Sufi saint __________.
Ans 1. Syed Waheed Ashraf
2. Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari
3. Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
4. Qutub-ud-Din Aibak

37.The Suri king ______ was defeated by Humayun to regain his kingdom.
Ans 1. Mahmood Suri
2. Sher Shah Suri
3. Sikandar Suri
4. Bahalol Suri

38. _____ is famous for outstanding specimen of Buddhist art and architecture,
belonging to the period between the 3rd century B.C. and the 12th century A.D.
Ans 1. Satna
2. Vidisha
3. Sanchi
4. Dewas

39. _____ built the world famous Harmandar Sahib, popularly known as the Golden
Temple in Amritsar.
Ans 1. Guru Angad Dev
2. Guru Arjan Dev
3. Guru Siri Har Rai
4. Guru Ram Das

40. During whose reign did the Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang visit India?
Ans 1. Chandragupta Vikramaditya
2. Samudragupta
3. Chandragupta I
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4. Harshavardhana

41. Mahatma Gandhi formed the Natal Indian Congress in the year ______.
Ans 1. 1874
2. 1894
3. 1854
4. 1863

42. The First Anglo-Burmese War ended with the signing of the ______.
Ans 1. Treaty of Yandabo
2. Treaty of Titalia
3. Treaty of Purandar
4. Treaty of Salbai

43. The Bangladesh Liberation War ended on _____.

Ans 1. 14th November 1972
2. 16th December 1971
3. 17th October 1971
4. 2nd October 1974

44. The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) was formed in the year
_____ with an aim to overthrow the British.
Ans 1. 1930
2. 1922
3. 1928
4. 1921

45. The Khilafat Movement of 1920 was organised as a protest against the injustice
done to______.
Ans 1. Turkey
2. Egypt
3. Afghanistan
4. Iraq

46. The Sepoy Mutiny in India started from ______.

Ans 1. Rajkot
2. Meerut
3. Bareilly
4. Champaran

47. Jorwe culture' was a Chalcolithic archaeological site located in the present day
Indian state of ______.
Ans 1. Assam
2. Maharashtra
3. Gujarat
4. Bihar
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48. In which year was the East India Company incorporated for the exploitation of
trade with East and Southeast Asia and India?
Ans 1. 1612
2. 1605
3. 1600
4. 1596

49. In which year did Vasco De Gama land in Calicut (Kozikode)?

Ans 1. 1442
2. 1458
3. 1472
4. 1498

50. The 'Tanakh' is the sacred text of which religion/sect?

Ans 1. Judaism
2. Taoism
3. Zen Buddhism
4. Confucianism

51. Which of the following was a port city of the Indus Valley Civilization?
Ans 1. Kalibangan
2. Lothal
3. Rakhigarhi
4. Dholavira

52. The Indus Water Treaty was signed between India and ______.
Ans 1. Pakistan
2. China
3. Afghanistan
4. Bangladesh

53. The former princely state of Tripura in the north-eastern part of India was ruled
by_________Dynasty.
Ans 1. Haihaya
2. Manikya
3. Nagvanshi
4. Ahom

54. In which year was the 'Battle of Goa' fought?

Ans 1. 1510
2. 1524
3. 1502
4. 1514

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55. Who was the last ruler of the Vaghela Dynasty of Gujarat after whose defeat the
kingdom was passed to Alauddin Khilji?
Ans 1. Arjuna Deva
2. Saranga Deva
3. Karandev
4. Rama

56. _____ is well-known for the golden beautification of the Harmandir Sahib
Gurdwara in Amritsar, famously known as the Golden Temple.
Ans 1. Maha Singh
2. Ranjit Singh
3. Duleep Singh
4. Charat Singh

57. In the year _________, the Maratha Empire ceased to exist with the surrender of
the Marathas to the British, ending the Third Anglo-Maratha War.
Ans 1. 1792
2. 1811
3. 1818
4. 1806

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Q.1 Which of the following statements about Swami Dayanand Saraswati is INCORRECT?

Ans

1. His birthplace was Gujarat.

2. He authored the book 'Satyarth Prakash'.

3. He was the founder of Brahmo Samaj.

4. He was the founder of Arya Samaj.

Q.2 Who among the following was one of the founders of the Hindustan Republic Association?

Ans

1. Ram Prasad Bismil

2. Lala Lajpat Rai

3. Jatindranath Mukherjee

4. Surya Sen

Q.3 In which of the following years was the Second Round Table Conference in London held?

Ans

1. 1925

2. 1939

3. 1931

4. 1941

Q.4 Who among the following replaced Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister of India in 1979?

Ans

1. Chandrasekhar

2. Jagjivan Ram

3. Charan Singh

4. Devi Lal

Q.5 Who among the following had written Kitab-ul-Hind that gave an incisive description of early
11th Century India?

Ans
1. Al-Khwarizmi

2. Al-Biruni

3. Al-Kindi

4. Al-Bukhar

Q6. Who among the following assassinated Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie in London?

Ans

1. Sukhdev Thapar

2. Surya Sen

3. Madan Lal Dhingra

4. Khudiram Bose

Q7. In which of the following years was the Mughal empire established by Babur?

Ans

1. 1526

2. 1578

3. 1699

4. 1634

Q8. The Mysore Palace was the residence of the ______.

Ans

1. Chandelas

2. Palas

3. Bundelas

4. Wodeyars

Q9. Pattachitra art form is dedicated to which Lord in Hindu mythology?

Ans

1. Lord Shiva

2. Lord Ganesha
3. Lord Brahma

4. Lord Jagannath

Q10. In which of the following temples will you find Gopurams?

Ans

1. Bhabatarini Temple, Dakshineswar

2. Dilwara Temple, Mount Abu

3. Shiva Temple, Chidambaram

4. Golden Temple, Amritsar

Q11. Veer Surendra Sai was a freedom fighter from:

Ans

1. Nagaland

2. Sikkim

3. Odisha

4. Telangana

Q12. In which of the following years was the All-India Harijan Sevak Sangh founded?

Ans

1. 1928

2. 1942

3. 1919

4. 1932

Q13. Which of the following Buddhist sit es is located in Uttar Pradesh?

Ans

1. Sarnath

2. Karle

3. Sanchi

4. Amaravati
Q14. Where is the famous pilgrim spot of Sikhs, Sri Harmandir Sahib located?

Ans

1. Amritsar

2. Manali

3. Jalandhar

4. Patna

Q15. 'Aaluyattu' is a folk-dance form from the stat e of ______.

Ans

1. Kerala

2. Haryana

3. Goa

4. Nagaland

Q16. Chandernagore (Chandannagar) was a ______ colony captured by the British Navy on 23
March 1757.

Ans

1. Danish

2. Dutch

3. French

4. Portuguese

Q17. The Sun Temple of Odisha was built in the 12t h Century AD by which of the following
emperors?

Ans

1. Kharavela

2. Narasimha Deva I

3. Vijaya Sena

4. Dharmapala

Q18. According to the Puranas, Lord Vishnu took the shape of ______ in order to rescue the earth,
which had sunk into water.
Ans

1. a lion

2. an elephant

3. a boar

4. a tiger

Q19. Who among the following was the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1947?

Ans

1. Osman Ali

2. Akbar Ali Khan

3. Mir Mahbub Ali Khan

4. Nasir Jung

Q20. Which of the following is a work on statecraft written by Krishnadevaraya?

Ans

1. Tolkappiyam

2. Amuktamalyada

3. Kadambari

4. Karpuramanjari

Q21. Which of the following is the meaning of ‘Pishtaq’ in the context of medieval Indo-Islamic
architecture?

Ans

1. Tall gateway

2. Water tank

3. Dome

4. True arch

Q22. Who among the following was the first Indian to unfurl the tricolour on foreign land?

Ans

1. Annie Besant
2. Lakshmi Sehgal

3. Begum Hazrat Mahal

4. Bhikaiji Cama

Q23. ‘Bolak-aat’ is a ______ from the state of Karnataka.

Ans

1. painting form

2. dance form

3. sculpting form

4. music form

Q24. ______ organised his trusted nobles into a group of forty known as Turkan-i-Chahalgani.

Ans

1. Qutub-Ud-Din Aibak

2. Balban

3. Iltutmish

4. Ala-ud-Din Khilji

Q25. The place of Gautama Buddha’s birth was a grove known as ______.

Ans

1. Kavus

2. Lumbini

3. Mangar Bani

4. Mawphlang

Q26. In which state is Ponu Yoksi, a sword-like instrument, used during ceremonial dances
performed by priests?

Ans

1. Uttar Pradesh

2. Himachal Pradesh

3. Arunachal Pradesh
4. Madhya Pradesh

Q27. Who among the following had written the book ‘Char Chaman’, during the reign of Shah Jahan,
describing the Mughal nobility?

Ans

1. Chandrabhan Brahman

2. Abu’l Dazl

3. Muhammad Waris

4. Gulbadan Begum

Q28. In which of the following years was the origin and enactment of the Indian Age of Consent Act
passed?

Ans

1. 1889

2. 1901

3. 1891

4. 1834

Q29. ‘Jadopatiya’ is a form of ______ popular in the state of Jharkhand.

Ans

1. painting

2. music

3. sculpture

4. dance

Q30. Who among the following was one of the leaders who was instrumental in convincing
Mahatma Gandhi about the need to start a non-cooperation movement in support of The Khilafat?

Ans

1. Mohammad Ali Jinnah

2. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

3. Abdul Ghaffar Khan

4. Shaukat Ali
Q31. Who among the following laid the foundations of the Indian National Movement by founding
the Indian Association at Calcutta in 1876?

Ans

1. Womesh Chandra Banerjee

2. Dadabhai Naoroji

3. Surendranath Banerjee

4. Aurobindo Ghose

Q32. Who among the following rulers is called the ‘Napolean of India’?

Ans

1. Bindusara

2. Chandragupta I

3. Ashoka

4. Samudragupta

Q33. In which of the following years did the revolt in the countryside of the Bombay Deccan occur?

Ans

1. 1875

2. 1890

3. 1790

4. 1905

Q34. In which of the following years was the Indian Association established?

Ans

1. 1903

2. 1881

3. 1876

4. 1856

Q35. Who among the following wrote the basic text of Vaisheshika philosophy?
Ans

1. Jaimini

2. Kanada

3. Patanjali

4. Shankaracharya

Q36. Whose administration became a model that was followed by Akbar when he consolidated the
Mughal Empire?

Ans

1. Ghiyas ud din Balban

2. Bahlul Lodi

3. Iltutmish

4. Sher Shah Suri

Q37. How is Dhanpat Rai Srivastava better known as?

Ans

1. Premchand

2. Dinkar

3. Nirala

4. Agyeya

Q38. The Vedic view of an individual and his relation to society is determined by four objectives of
life. Which of the following is NOT one of these objectives?

Ans

1. Dharma

2. Moksha

3. Siddhi

4. Artha

Q39. In which year did Atal Bihari Vajpayee undertake a bus journey to Lahore to sign a Peace
Declaration?
Ans

1. 1999

2. 1997

3. 1991

4. 1994

Q40. Pushyabhuti, who ruled from Thaneswar, was the founder of ______ dynasty.

Ans

1. Chera

2. Pandya

3. Vardhana

4. Chalukya

Q41. Mughal Emperor Shah Alam appointed the British East India Company as the Diwan of the
province of Bengal in the year ______.

Ans

1. 1917

2. 1765

3. 1835

4. 1623

Q42. ‘Margomkali’, a ritual folk art form, is from the state of ______.

Ans

1. Assam

2. Punjab

3. Nagaland

4. Kerala

Q43. Who among the following freedom fighters wrote the poem 'Vande Mataram' in 1875?

Ans

1. Bipin Chandra Pal

2. Bhagat Singh

3. Rabindranath Tagore

4. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Q44. Who among the following was the first General Secretary of All India Kisan Congress?

Ans

1. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

2. NG Ranga

3. Swami Sahajanand Saraswati

4. Acharya Narendra Dev

Q45. Which Mughal prince translated the Upanishads into Persian in 1657?

Ans

1. Sultan Luftallah

2. Murad Mirza

3. Dara Shikoh

4. Shah Suja

Q46. The ‘Lezim’ dance form is peculiar to which of the following states?

Ans

1. Karnataka

2. Gujarat

3. Maharashtra

4. Bihar

Q47. Chandragupta led a revolt against the ______ and overthrew them.

Ans

1. Nandas

2. Kushanas

3. Shishunagas

4. Haryankas
Q48. The main collections of Vedic hymns are called ______.

Ans

1. Sutra

2. Pad

3. Samhita

4. Mukh

Q49. Alivardi Khan was a Nawab of ______.

Ans

1. Bengal

2. Awadh

3. Malabar

4. Deccan

Q50. Siddhendra Yogi, a doyen of the ______ dance form, was lauded as Adi Guru.

Ans

1. Kuchipudi

2. Kathakali

3. Bharatanatyam

4. Kathak

Q51. In which of the following years did Japan invade India resulting in the Battle of Imphal?

Ans

1. 1862

2. 1944

3. 1901

4. 1899

Q52. Alamgir was the title of which Mughal emperor?

Ans
1. Akbar

2. Shah Jahan

3. Babur

4. Aurangzeb

Q53. The ______ sultanate was ruled by the Sharqi dynasty.

Ans

1. Bharatpur

2. Agra

3. Jaunpur

4. Delhi

Q54. The Kamaicha is a bowed lute played by the Manganiars of:

Ans

1. west Rajasthan

2. west Goa

3. west Bihar

4. west Kerala

Q55. The archaeological site of Atranjikhera is located in ______.

Ans

1. Uttarakhand

2. Uttar Pradesh

3. Maharashtra

4. Himachal Pradesh

Q56. The rules made for the ______ were written down in a book called ‘Vinaya Pitaka’.

Ans

1. Vaishnavites

2. Buddhist sangha

3. Lingayats
4. Shakta cult

Q57. ______ festival in the Bastar region is celebrated along with the worship of the local goddess,
Kesharpal Kesharpalin Devi.

Ans

1. Phool Dei

2. Harela

3. Madai

4. Khatarua

Q58. In which of the following years was the Indian Independence Act passed by the British
Parliament?

Ans

1. 1945

2. 1947

3. 1942

4. 1946

Q59. What was the name of the women's regiment in the Indian National Army founded by Subhash
Chandra Bose?

Ans

1. Rani Ahalyabai Regiment

2. Rani of Didda Regiment

3. Rani of Jhansi Regiment

4. Rani Padmawati Regiment

Q60. Makaravilakku is an annual festival held on Makar Sakranti in which of the following states?

Ans

1. Tamil Nadu

2. Odisha

3. Karnataka

4. Kerala
Q61. Who among the following was the first Finance Minister of the Independent India?

Ans

1. RK Shanmukham Chetty

2. CD Deshmukh

3. Liaquat Ali Khan

4. KC Neogy

Q62. Who among the following established the Rashtrakuta Kingdom?

Ans

1. Dantidurga

2. Krishna I

3. Ashoka

4. Amoghavarsha

Q63. Padavali Kirtan refers to songs composed in the medieval period of West Bengal (15th to 17th
century) in praise of ______.

Ans

1. Shiva

2. Shakti

3. Vishnu

4. Brahma

Q64. At which of the following places did Lord Buddha give his first sermon on the Four Noble
Truths?

Ans

1. Lumbini

2. Sarnath

3. Bodh Gaya

4. Rajgir

Q65. C Rajagopalachari led the Salt Satyagraha in which of the following states?
Ans

1. Rajasthan

2. Maharashtra

3. Gujarat

4. Tamil Nadu

Q66. A type of court called 'Kantakasodhana' was prevalent in the ______ Empire.

Ans

1. Rashtrakuta

2. Kushana

3. Mauryan

4. Chola

Q67. Who was the first and last woman ruler of Delhi Sultanate?

Ans

1. Sultana Chand Bibi

2. Nur Jahan

3. Rani Durgavati

4. Razia Sultana

Q68. Who among the following published a set of Ashokan inscriptions in the year 1877?

Ans

1. DC Sircar

2. Alexander Cunningham

3. MS Vats

4. Colin Mackenzie

Q69. In which of the following years was the Asiatic Society at Calcutta (Kolkata) founded by Sir
William Jones?

Ans

1. 1820
2. 1800

3. 1784

4. 1767

Q70. Who among the following was one of the leaders of the Santhal rebellion?

Ans

1. Sidhu Manjhi

2. BR Ambedkar

3. Surya Sen

4. Swami Vivekanand

Q71. Which of the following books was written by Panini?

Ans

1. Raghuvamsam

2. Kathasaritsagara

3. Ashtadhyayi

4. Manusmriti

Q72. Who among the following Sikh Gurus founded the Tarn Taran Sahib?

Ans

1. Guru Ram Das

2. Guru Arjan Dev

3. Guru Nanak Dev

4. Guru Gobind Sikh

Q73. In which of the following years was the Bombay Reorganization Act passed?

Ans

1. 1980

2. 1956

3. 1975

4. 1960
Q74. Who was the first Director-General of Archaeological Survey of India?

Ans

1. Mortimer Wheeler

2. Alexander Cunningham

3. Lord Curzon

4. John Marshall

Q75. At which of the following places did Lord Buddha attain enlightenment?

Ans

1. Rajgir

2. Sarnath

3. Bodh Gaya

4. Vaishali

Q76. Virupaksha Temple is situated in which of the following districts of Karnataka?

Ans

1. Bidar

2. Chikkaballapur

3. Ballari

4. Bagalkot

Q77. One of the major events of Ashoka’s reign was the convening of the ______ Buddhist Sangha
(council) in 250 BCE in the capital Pataliputra.

Ans

1. Third

2. Fourth

3. Second

4. First

Q78. According to Ashokan edicts, how many years after becoming the king did Ashoka wage war on
Kalinga?
Ans

1. Seven

2. Five

3. Eight

4. Six

Q79. Muhammad Ghori attacked Tabarhinda (Bhatinda) in 1191, a strategic point for ______.

Ans

1. Prithviraj Chauhan

2. Maharana Pratap Singh

3. Hem Chandra Vikramaditya

4. Rana Kumbha

Q80. 'Panche' is a traditional sarong worn by the men in the state of ______.

Ans

1. Assam

2. Sikkim

3. Karnataka

4. Kerala

Q81. Prithviraj Chauhan and Muhammad Ghori fought the battle of ______.

Ans

1. Chausa

2. Chanderi

3. Tarain

4. Tallikota

Q82. Who among the following is the author of the book 'Tabaqat-i-Nasiri'?

Ans

1. Ziauddin Barani

2. Al-Biruni
3. Amir Khusrau

4. Minhaj-us-Siraj

Q83. Who among the following was the first scholar to decipher the Ashokan edicts?

Ans

1. Alexander Cunningham

2. James Prinsep

3. V Gordon Childe

4. James Taylor

Q84. Who among the following chroniclers wrote about Raziyya and recognised that she was more
able and qualified than all her brothers?

Ans

1. Ibn Battuta

2. Amir Khusrau

3. Minhaj-i-Siraj

4. Zia-ud-din Barani

Q85. The female devotee, Andal belonged to which part of India?

Ans

1. Western

2. North-eastern

3. Northern

4. Southern

Q86. Who among the following issued Mahzarnama in 1579?

Ans

1. Shah Jahan

2. Akbar

3. Humayun

4. Jahangir
Q87. The Battle of Khanua was fought between Babur and ______.

Ans

1. Rana Sanga

2. Todar Mal

3. Sher Shah Suri

4. Hemu

Q88. ______ is one of the most popular folk dances of Odisha.

Ans

1. Hojagiri

2. Giddha

3. Rauf

4. Dalkhai

Q89. Which of the following is located in Gujarat?

Ans

1. Alai Darwaza

2. Rani-ki-Vav

3. Humayun Tomb

4. Bibi Ka Maqbara

Q90. The Indian Mutiny began from Meerut on 10 May 1857 and ended in:

Ans

1. Gwalior on 20 June 1858

2. Jhansi on 15 August 1860

3. Delhi on 18 September 1859

4. Kolkata on 13 May 1858

Q91. Who is the author of the book 'Ethical Religion'?

Ans
1. Bipan Chandra

2. Swami Vivekananda

3. Vinoba Bhave

4. Mahatma Gandhi

Q92. The rupee symbol, which was introduced in India in 2010, is an amalgamation of the
Devanagari ‘Ra’ and the ______ ‘R’ without the stem.

Ans

1. Brahmi

2. Roman

3. Ol Chiki

4. Cyrillic

Q93. Gautamiputra Satakarni was a ______ ruler.

Ans

1. Mauryan

2. Eastern Ganga

3. Satavahana

4. Parthian

Q94. Which of the following is NOT a traditional water storage structure?

Ans

1. Johad

2. Haryali

3. Kund

4. Tanka

Q95. Who among the following earned the sobriquet ‘Bharat Kokila’ from Mahatma Gandhi?

Ans

1. Annie Besant

2. Sucheta Kriplani
3. Sarojini Naidu

4. Toru Dutt

Q96. Prophet Muhammad founded the faith of Islam in the ______ century.

Ans

1. sixth

2. eighth

3. seventh

4. ninth

Q97. In which present day state will you find the Megudi temple?

Ans

1. Tamil Nadu

2. Odisha

3. Karnataka

4. Kerala

Q98. ‘Ghoomar’ is a folk-dance form from the state of ______.

Ans

1. Bihar

2. Jharkhand

3. Rajasthan

4. Tripura

Q99. Which Sultan established a separate department (Diwan-i-Amir Kohi) to take care of
agriculture?

Ans

1. Jalal-ud-din Khalji

2. Khizr Khan

3. Muhammad Bin Tughlaq

4. Tughril Beg
Q100. Who among the following is one of the founder members of Bhartiya Jana Sangh?

Ans

1. KM Munshi

2. Baldev Singh

3. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

4. Minoo Masani

Q101. Who among the following had invaded India in 712 AD?

Ans

1. Muhammad Ghori

2. Mahmud of Ghazni

3. Muhammad Bin-Quasim

4. Qutub-ud-Din Aibak

Q102. 'Thullal' is a solo satiric dance form belonging to the state of ______.

Ans

1. Haryana

2. Kerala

3. Arunachal Pradesh

4. Goa

Q103. 'Chinkara' is a ______ musical instrument popular in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

Ans

1. plate

2. wind

3. stringed

4. membrane

Q104. Who founded the Vikramshila University and revived the Nalanda University?
Ans

1. Dharampala

2. Shri Gupta

3. Gopala

4. Vasudeva

Q105. Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq was the governor of ______ during the reign of Ala-ud-din Khilji.

Ans

1. Rajasthan

2. Bengal

3. Kashmir

4. Punjab

Q106. Who among the following has been appointed as the chairman of the Somnath Temple trust
in Gujarat in January 2021?

Ans

1. Amit Shah

2. Amitabh Bachchan

3. Rajeev Arora

4. Narendra Modi

Q107. In which of the following years did the Kakori Conspiracy case take place?

Ans

1. 1932

2. 1925

3. 1919

4. 1909

Q108. On which of the following dates has the Government of India decided to commemorate the
birth anniversary of Subash Chandra Bose as ‘Parakram Diwas’?

Ans

1. 7 June
2. 12 March

3. 5 May

4. 23 January

Q109. Who wrote Samudragupta's prashasti (a eulogy written in the form of poetry or prose, usually
by court poets) at Allahabad?

Ans

1. Vagabhatta

2. Harishena

3. Amarsimha

4. Kalidasa

Q110. Who among the following authored ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’?

Ans

1. Rabindranath Tagore

2. Dadabhai Naoroji

3. Mahatma Gandhi

4. Jawaharlal Nehru

Q111. Who authored ‘Akbarnama’?

Ans

1. Abul Fazl

2. Abdus Samad

3. Faizi

4. Abdul Latif

Q112. Who among the following along with Motilal Nehru was instrumental n the creation of Swaraj
Party?

Ans

1. Chittaranjan Das
2. Surender Nath Banerjee
3. Bipin Chandra Pal
4. Subhash Chandra Bose
Q113. Mahavira, who was known in Pali literature as Nigantha Nattaputta founded a religion called

Ans

1. Jainism
2. Zoroastrianism
3. Bahai
4. Sikhism

Q114. According to the Ramayana, Ratnakar was another name of______________.

Ans

1. Valmiki
2. Durbasa
3. Gautam
4. Vishwamitra

Q115. The story of Maynamati and Gopichandra is a part of which of the following literary works?

Ans

1. Chandimangal Kvaya
2. Mansamangal Kavya
3. Sanskrit Epics
4. Nath Literature

Q116. Swami Vivekananda presented Vedantic at the World Conference of Religions in Chicago
(USA) in the year ______

The supremacy of philosophy was mentioned.

Ans

1. 1884

2. 1878

3. 1898

4. 1893

117. Yashovigraha, Mahichandra and Chandradeva were the first three rulers of the ______ dynasty.

Ans

1. Gahadwal

2. Chauhan
3. Maratha

4. Wadiyar
Q1) Which of the following led English company in Battle of Plassey (1757)?

1. Lord Dalhousie

2. Captain Hodson

3. Warren Hastings

4. Robert Clive

Q2) Harihara and Bukka established an independent state in Karnataka and established the capital
city Vijayanagar on the banks of river _____________ in 1336.

1. Betwa

2. Tungabhadra

3. Mahanadi

4. Tapi

Q3) Which of the following combinations of ‘Ruler – Predecessor’ is correct with respect to the Delhi
Sultanate?

1. Alaudddin Khalji – Jalaluddin Khalji

2. Jalaluddin Khalji – Alauddin Khalji

3. Muhammad Tughluq – Firuz Shah Tughluq

4. Ghiyasuddin Tughluq – Muhammad Tughluq

Q4) Ishwarchandra vidyasagar set up school for girls at ______.

1. Bombay

2. Surat

3. Lahore

4. Calcutta

Q5) The proposed Rowlett Act of 1919 allowed detention of political prisoners without trial
for________.

1. two years

2. six months

3. two months

4. one year
Q6) In which of the following years was the Treaty of Salbai signed?

1. 1817

2. 1769

3. 1800

4. 1782

Q7) Which of the following is NOT correct regarding king Harshavardhana?

1. Harshavardhana ruled nearly about 1400 years ago

2. Xuan Zang spent a lot of time at Harsha’s court

3. Harshavardhana’s court poet was Harishena

4. Harshacharita is a biography written on Harshavardhana

Q8) When did the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan die?

1. 1219

2. 1210

3. 1235

4. 1227

Q9) Merchants and migrants first brought the teachings of the holy Quran to India in the ______
century.

1. fourth

2. seventh

3. ninth

4. Sixth

Q10) During which of the following period Ostriches were found in India?

1. Mesolithic

2. Chalcolithic

3. Neolithic

4. Palaeolithic
Q11) Which company has set up a factory on the banks of river Hugli in 1651?

1. Danish

2. Portuguese

3. English

4. French

Q12) Dadabhai Naoroji was a ______.

1. Businessman

2. Doctor

3. Soldier

4. British Office

Q13) Vetti tax that is mentioned in the inscriptions of the Chola dynasty was taken in _____ form.

1. Crops

2. Land revenue

3. Cash

4. Forced labour

Q14) The Chinese Buddhist pilgrim, Xuan Zang, came to the Indian subcontinent about _____ years
ago.

1. 1100

2. 1700

3. 2000

4. 1400

Q15) Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni was a contemporary of which Chola king?

1. Rajaraja I

2. Rajendra II

3. Rajadhiraja

4. Rajendra I
Q16) Which of the following sequence is correct with respect to the Delhi Dynasties?

1. Khalji dynasty, Lodi dynasty, Sayyid dynasty

2. Tughluq dynasty, Khalji dynasty, Sayyid dynasty

3. Early Turkish Rulers, Rajput dynasties, Khalji dynasty

4. Rajput dynasties, Khalji dynasty, Tughluq dynasty

Q17) The first session of Indian National congress was held at ______.

1. Bombay
2. Madras
3. Calcutta
4. Surat

Q18) In the early eleventh century, the Chola king Rajendra I built a Shiva temple and filled it with a
Sun-pedestal seized from the ______.

1. Palas

2. Vakatakas

3. Chalukyas

4. Kalingas

Q19) Which of the following offices was NOT held by the poet Harishena?

1. Sandhi-vigrahika

2. Maha-danda-nayaka

3. Nagara-shreshthi

4. Kumar-amatya

Q20) How many types of taxes were in the reign of the ruler Alauddin Khalji?

1. 3

2. 5

3. 6

4. 2

Q21) Whose birthday is celebrated as International Day of Non-Violence?

1. Rajendra Prasad

2. Subhash Chandra Bose

3. Jawaharlal Nehru

4. Mahatma Gandhi

Q22) Some important administrative posts were hereditary during the Rashtrakuta and Chola
dynasties. The post ‘nagara-shreshthi’ meant?

1. Leader of the merchant caravans

2. Merchant of the city

3. Important minister

4. Chief judicial officer

Q23) Mughal ruler, Aurangzeb died in which year?

1. 1703

2. 1705

3. 1707

4. 1701

Q24) Who was considered as last powerful Mughal ruler of India?

1. Akbar

2. Aurangzeb

3. Akbar II

4. Shahjahan

Q25) Dadabhai Naoroji offered a scathing criticism of the economic impact of British rule through his
book entitled ‘__________’.

1. India Today

2. The Idea of India

3. Poverty and Un-British Rule in India

4. The History of British India

Q26) Mirza Kamran was the brother of which Mughal emperor?

1. Humayun

2. Akbar

3. Jahangir

4. Shah Jahan

Q27) The arms Act which disallowed Indians from having arms was passed in ______.

1. 1878

2. 1925

3. 1920

4. 1855

Q28) Who said the following words? “Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil me hai, dekhna hai zor
kitna baazu-e-qaatil me hai” ?

1. Ramprasad Bismil

2. Bhagat Singh

3. Ras Bihari Bose

4. Subhash Chandra Bose

Q29) Ajmer became the suba headquarters under the ______.

1. Pallavas

2. Cholas

3. Mughals

4. Delhi Sultanate

Q30) Ravikirti was the court poet of which of the following dynasty ruler?

1. Cholas

2. Cheras

3. Pallavas

4. Chalukyas

Q31) In which of the following Harappan sites jadeite stone was found?
1. Mahagadha

2. Mehrgarh

3. Hallur

4. Daojali Heading

Q32) The Durga temple at Aihole, built about ______ years ago.

1. 1700

2. 2000

3. 1100

4. 1400

Q33) The British Parliament transferred the powers of the East India company to the British crown in
______.

1. 1856

2. 1858

3. 1854

4. 1860

Q34) Who among the following rulers appointed Ladha and Pira, two gardeners to high
administrative post?

1. Khizr Khan

2. Muhammad Tughluq

3. Bahlul Lodi

4. Iltutmish

Q35) In which of the following years was the Indian National Congress split into two groups named
as Moderates and Extremists?

1. 1895

2. 1899

3. 1907

4. 1904
Q36) According to the Brihat Samhita, what do you call the process of making scents, mouth
perfumes and bath powders?

1. Jatuka

2. Gandhayukli

3. Kamplcica

4. Pattanga

Q37) In 1526, the battle of Panipat was fought between ______.

1. Babur and Rana Sanga

2. Akbar and Hemu

3. Humayun and Sher Khan

4. Babur and Ibrahim Lodi

Q38) In 1600, the East India company acquired a charter from which ruler?

1. King George-I

2. Queen Elizabeth-I

3. Queen victoria

4. King James-I

Q39) Who among the following ruler ruled before Prithviraj Chauhan over Delhi?

1. Ghiyasuddin Balban

2. Ananga Pala

3. Jalaluddin Khalji

4. Qutbuddin Aybak

Q40) Which college was established in Banaras in 1791?

1. Dayanand College

2. Shivaji College

3. Hindu College

4. Sanskrit College
Q41) Who among the following is supposed to compile both the Puranas and the Mahabharata?

1. Sage Vasishtha

2. Sage Bharadwaja

3. Sage Vyasa

4. Sage Valmiki

Q42) Sultan Mahmud came to India from which of the following city of Afghanistan?

1. Ghazni

2. Jalalabad

3. Kabul

4. Kandahar

Q43) The second volume of the Akbar Nama recorded the _____.

1. Akbar’s ancestors

2. Akbar’s administration

3. Events of Akbar’s reign

4. Akbar’s battles

Q44) Who became the Nawab of Bengal in 1756 after the death of Alivardi Khan?

1. Siraj Ud Daulah

2. Nigam Shaan

3. Shaan Nawab

4. Murshid Quli Khan

Q45) An early temple at Bhitargaon, Uttar Pradesh was built about 1500 years ago was made of
_______.

1. wood

2. mud brick

3. clay and thatch

4. baked brick
Q46) Who among the following was the best-known Chahamana ruler?

1. Prithviraja III

2. Vigraharaja II

3. Prithviraja I

4. Vasudeva

Q47) Which of the following revolts was led by Kanhu and Sidhu?

1. Bheel Revolt

2. Khasi Revolt

3. Munda Revolt

4. Santhal Revolt

Q48) According to the archaeologists, in Harappan cities the part to the west was smaller and higher,
was known as______.

1. citadel

2. Olympus

3. lower town

4. colosseum

Q49) Vernacular press Act was enacted in which year?

1. 1875

2. 1876

3. 1878

4. 1877

Q50) Who among the following belonged to the ancient chiefly family of the Cholas from Uraiyur,
captured the Kaveri delta from the Muttaraiyar in the middle of the ninth century?

1. Gandaraditya

2. Vijayalaya

3. Parantaka I

4. Aditya I
Q51) Sarojini Naidu was elected first Indian woman President of the Indian National Congress at
__________.

1. Kanpur

2. Ahmedabad

3. Delhi

4. Nagpur

Q52) Which of the following Indian freedom fighter said "Be the change you wish to see in the
world"?

1. Bipin Chandra Pal

2. Mohammad Ali Jinnah

3. Surendranath Banerjee

4. Mahatma Gandhi

Q53) Established in 1867 at Bombay, the _________sought to remove caste restrictions, abolish
child marriage, and encourage the education of women, etc.

1. Veda Samaj

2. Arya Samaj

3. Prarthana Samaj

4. Satyashodhak Samaj

Q54) Which of the following was known as an organisation of merchants in the inscriptions of the
Pallavas?

1. Nagaram

2. Sangathana

3. Ur

4. Sabha

Q55) In 1840, the Paramhans Mandali was established to work for the abolition of ‘Caste’ at ______.

1. Lahore

2. Calcutta

3. Surat

4. Bombay
Q56) Chola inscriptions mention several categories of land, which of the following land was known
as gifted to temples?

1. Devadana

2. Shalabhoga

3. Pallichchhandam

4. Brahmadeya

Q57) Battle of Plassey was fought between English company and Nawab of Bengal in which year?

1. 1750

2. 1757

3. 1850

4. 1857

Q58) Krishna III of Manyakheta belonged to which dynasty?

1. Chera

2. Pala

3. Rashtrakuta

4. Gurjara-Pratihara

Q59) Nagabhata was the king of which of the following dynasty?

1. Kakatiya

2. Vardhana

3. Pratihara

4. Reddy

Q60) Ahmadnagar was finally annexed by the Mughals in _____.

1. 1627

2. 1632

3. 1630
4. 1635

Q61) The Paris Indian Society was an Indian nationalist organisation founded in ______.

1. 1907

2. 1905

3. 1909

4. 1900

Q62) Which of the following metals was used to make weapons and tools in Harappan cities?

1. Silver

2. Gold

3. Copper

4. Iron

Q63) ‘Do or die’ slogan is given by which of the following freedom fighter?

1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

2. Sardar vallabh bhai patel

3. Mahatma Gandhi

4. Motilal Nehru

Q64) Rajaraja I and Rajendra I belonged to the ____________ dynasty.

1. Chola

2. Pallava

3. Pandya

4. Chalukya

Q65) Which of the following dynasty was not the part of "tripartite struggle", which fought for
centuries to control over one particularly prized area Kanauj?

1. Kadamba

2. Rashtrakuta

3. Pala

4. Gurjara-Pratihara
Q66) Manimekalai describes the story of which of the following?

1. Kovalan and Madhavi’s Daughter

2. Kovalan’s wife Madhavi

3. Kovalan’s first wife Kannagi

4. Kovalan and Madhavi’s Son

Q67) “A History of British India” is a work Published by ______.

1. Lord Canning

2. Lord Dalhousie

3. James Mill

4. Warren Hastings

Q68) How many delegates participated in the second session of Indian National Congress?

1. 434

2. 628

3. 212

4. 190

Q69) Thanjavur was the capital of which dynasty?

1. Pala

2. Chola

3. Vakataka

4. Parmara

Q70) Which of the following book was written by Aryabhata?

1. Dhatupatha

2. Aryabhatiyam

3. Natya Shastra

4. Romaka Siddhanta
Q71) Which of the following was “NOT” a main centre of Revolt of 1857?

1. Kanpur

2. Bareilly

3. Rohtak

4. Lucknow

Q72) Which of the following Chola ruler built a temple for goddess Nishumbhasudini?

1. Aditya I

2. Rajendra II

3. Vijayalaya

4. Rajaraja I

Q73) Warren Hastings became the first Governor General of India in which year?

1. 1767

2. 1757

3. 1773

4. 1783

Q74) Who wrote the book titled ‘Gift to Monotheism’?

1. Swami Vivekanand

2. Dayanand Saraswati

3. Kehsavchand Sen

4. Rajaram Mohan Rai

Q75) In ancient times, the area to the south of the Ganga was known as______.

1. Magadha

2. Kosala

3. Anga

4. Matsya

Q76) Which of the following region was the capital of the Chalukyas?
1. Kanchipuram

2. Raichur

3. Aihole

4. Kolar

Q77) Wood's Despatch is related with ______.

1. Education

2. Famine

3. Trade

4. Military

Q78) When did the Indian Independence Act receive the British royal assent?

1. July 1947

2. June 1947

3. May 1947

4. August 1947

Q79) Dhondo Keshav Karve was an eminent Indian who championed the cause of _____________.

1. allowing child marriages

2. prohibiting widow remarriages

3. strengthening the caste norms

4. spread of women education

Q80) Fa Xian began his journey back home from which of the following Indian state?

1. Bihar

2. Maharashtra

3. Bengal

4. Odisha

Q81) Who among the following was the founder of Visva-Bharati University?

1. Madan Mohan Malaviya

2. Lala Hardayal

3. Swami Vivekananda

4. Rabindranath Tagore

Q82) In the ____________, Sarojini Naidu persuaded Mahatma Gandhi to allow women to join the
movement.

1. Quit India Movement

2. Champaran Satyagraha

3. Salt Satyagraha

4. Non-Cooperation Movement

Q83) Subsidiary alliance treaty was imposed on Awadh in ______.

1. 1802

2. 1803

3. 1801

4. 1804

Q84) Minhaj-i-Siraj was a chronicler during the rule of ______.

1. Sultan Iltutmish

2. Qutbuddin Aybak

3. Ghiyasuddin Balban

4. Alauddin Khalji

Q85) All India Muslim League” was formed at Dacca in ______.

1. 1900

2. 1904

3. 1902

4. 1906

Q86) Chittaranjan Das was the political guru of which of the following personalities?

1. Subhash Chandra Bose

2. Mahatama Gandhi

3. Jawaharlal Nehru

4. Bhagat Singh

Q87) Which of the following pairs of ‘Dynasty – Ruled region’ is correctly matched?

I. Shakas – North west and north India

II. Vakatakas – Central and western India

Ans

1. Neither I nor II

2. Only I

3. Only II

4. Both I and II

Q88) By which name is the historical road built by Sher Shah Suri known?

1. Grand trunk road

2. Express way

3. Highway

4. Cart road

Q89) Which of the following towns was grown as a temple town during the Chola dynasty?

1. Bhillasvamin

2. Ajmer

3. Ahmedabad

4. Ahmednagar

Q90) The early Turkish rulers ruled between _____ years over Delhi.

1. 1165 and 1198

2. 1226 and 1290

3. 1206 and 1290

4. 1192 and 1225

Q91) The iron pillar situated at Mehrauli, Delhi is belonged to which of the following Gupta ruler?

1. Skandagupta

2. Samudragupta

3. Kumaragupta

4. Chandragupta II

Q92) Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, discovered the sea route to India in ______.

1. 1488

2. 1498

3. 1508

4. 1518

Q93) The Harappan brought Gold from present-day _______ in India.

1. Telangana

2. Tamil Nadu

3. Karnataka

4. Kerala

Q94) The Hindu College was established in Banaras in ______.

1. 1771

2. 1801

3. 1781

4. 1791

Q95) Quwwat al-Islam mosque and minaret, built during the last decade of the ______ century.

1. eleventh

2. thirteenth

3. fourteenth

4. twelth
Q96) Which of the following revolutionaries stated during his trial that “he did not wish to glorify the
cult of the bomb and pistol but wanted a revolution in society”?

1. Bhagat Singh

2. Surya Sen

3. Sachindra Nath Sanyal

4. Barindra Kumar Ghosh

Q97) Abhinav Bharat Society was a secret society of revolutionaries. It was established in
__________.

1. Bombay Presidency

2. United Provinces

3. Punjab Province

4. Calcutta Presidency

Q98) Which of the following has discovered the sea route to India 1498?

1. Clive Lord

2. Henry the sailor

3. Captain Hudson

4. Vasco Da Gama

Q99) Which of the following type of house remains were found in Mehrgarh site of Harappan
civilization?

1. Triangular or circular

2. Rectangular or circular

3. Square or rectangular

4. Circular or square

Q100) The first session of All India Depressed Classes congress was held at __________ in 1930.

1. Nagpur

2. Surat

3. Delhi

4. Kanpur
Q101) Which of the following territories to the south and north were made part of the Chola
kingdom by the successors of the ruler Vijayalaya?

1. Pallava and Chera

2. Pandyan and Pallava

3. Rashtrakuta and Chera

4. Vakataka and Satvahana

Q102) Which act allows the government to confiscate the assets of newspaper in case of publishing
anything “objectionable”?

1. Ilbert Act, 1883

2. Vernacular Press Act, 1878

3. Media Act, 1883

4. Newspaper Act, 1855

Q103) Ashoka appointed ______ to solve the social problems in his region.

1. samaharta

2. nyayadheesh

3. amatya

4. dhamma mahamatta

Q104) In 1887, the Royal Society, London gave the Davy Medal for the ‘discovery of the periodic law
of chemical elements’ to ____________.

1. AEB de Chancourtois

2. Dmitri Mendeleev

3. Lothar Meyer

4. John Alexander Newland

Q105) Who among the following performed a ritual called ‘hiranya-garbha’?

1. Dantidurga

2. Govinda I

3. Dhruva Dharavarsha

4. Krishna I
Q106) Against whom was the Battle of Plassey (1751) fought by the English Company led by Robert
Clive?

1. Nizam of Awadh

2. Siraj Ud Daulah

3. Murshid Quli Khan

4. Shaan Nawab

Q107) Techniques of making silk were first invented in China around _____ years ago.

1. 7000

2. 3000

3. 9000

4. 5000

Q108) Prithviraja III defeated an Afghan ruler named ______ in 1191.

1. Sultan Mahmud

2. Muhammad Ibn Abbas

3. Muhammad Ibn Suri

4. Sultan Muhammad Ghori

Q109) Partition of Bengal held in ______.

1. 1901

2. 1903

3. 1905

4. 1907

Q110) In which year was India House established by Shyamji Verma?

1. 1905

2. 1899

3. 1902

4. 1909
Q111) Which of the following sites of Harappan civilization is located near Bolan Pass?

1. Mehrgarh

2. Chirand

3. Gufkral

4. Koldihwa

Q112) The word India came from the Indus, called ______ in Sanskrit.

1. Bhanuh

2. Adya

3. Sarvatr

4. Sindhu

Q113) Which dynasty bronze statues were made using the “lost wax” technique?

1. Chola

2. Pandya

3. Chalukya

4. Pala

Q114) Battle of Buxar was fought in ______.

1. 1767

2. 1757

3. 1764

4. 1774

Q115) Which of the following statement is correct with respect to the Prashastis and land grants?

I. Prashastis were composed by learned Brahmanas.

II. Kings often rewarded Brahmanas by grants of land which were recorded on copper plates.

Ans

1. Only I

2. Both I and II

3. Only II
4. Neither I nor II

Q116) Which of the following pairs of ‘Ruler – Ruling period’ is correctly matched?

I. Sher Shah Suri – 1540-1545

II. Akbar – 1556-1605

Ans

1. Neither I nor II

2. Only II

3. Only I

4. Both I and II

Q117) In which of the following years, did Subhas Chandra Bose refer to Mahatma Gandhi as the
“Father of the Nation”?

1. 1942

2. 1944

3. 1939

4. 1941

Q118) In 1498, Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer had discovered a route to ______.

1. India

2. Australia

3. China

4. Japan

Q119) Which of the following statement is correct with respect to the Shaka dynasty?

I. Some kingdoms of Shakas lasted for about 500 years.

II. The Shakas were followed by the Kushanas about 2200 years ago.

Ans

1. Neither I nor II

2. Only I

3. Both I and II
4. Only II

Q120) In 1873, the Satyashodhak Samaj was established in ____________.

1. Bihar Province

2. Madras Presidency

3. Bombay Presidency

4. Punjab Province

Q121) Ziyauddin Barani wrote his chronicle first in 1356 and another version _____ years later.

1. three

2. eight

3. two

4. five

Q122) The Paramhans Mandali was established to work for the abolition of caste in ______.

1. 1830

2. 1840

3. 1820

4. 1850

Q123) Who among the following was the founder of the Kanva dynasty?

1. Narayana

2. Susharman

3. Vasudeva

4. Devabhuti

Q124) Babur ruled over Delhi till _____ year.

1. 1530

2. 1539

3. 1526

4. 1545
Q125) The bill which provide for the trial of British or European person by Indians was ______.

1. Hastings Bill

2. Dalhousie Bill

3. Ilbert Bill

4. George Bill

Q126) The duration of the Mesolithic period is from about ______ years ago to ______ years ago.

1. 14000, 10000

2. 17000, 12000

3. 12000, 10000

4. 10000, 7000

Q127) Which of the following statement is correct with respect to the Sangam literature?

I. These texts were supposed to be composed and compiled in assemblies of poets.

II. The Sangam literature compiled in assemblies of poets were held in the city of Madurai.

1. Neither I nor II

2. Both I and II

3. Only I

4. Only II

Q128) After the ______, Mahatma Gandhi called off the Non-Cooperation Movement.

1. Jallianwala Bagh massacre

2. Chauri Chaura incidence

3. Bengal partition

4. Round Table conferences

Q129) The first English Factory in Bengal set up on the banks of river “Hugli” in ______.

1. 1671

2. 1641

3. 1661

4. 1651
Q130) Who among the following gave up his traditional professions and took to arms, successfully
established kingdom in Karnataka?

1. Vasudeva Kanva

2. Gurjara-Pratihara Harichandra

3. Pushyamitra Shunga

4. Kadamba Mayurasharman

Q131) Who among the following revolutionaries was associated with Swadesh Bandhav Samiti?

1. Chandrasekhar Azad

2. Bhagat Singh

3. Rajguru

4. Ashwini Kumar Dutta

Q132) Based on Macaulay’s Minute, the English Education Act was introduced in ______.

1. 1875

2. 1835

3. 1855

4. 1815

Q133) Xuan Zang and other pilgrims spent time studying in Nalanda, the most famous Buddhist
monastery, located in which of the following Indian state?

1. Odisha

2. Bengal

3. Bihar

4. Sikkim

Q134) Identify the freedom fighter who, as a child, hated going to school and found it suffocating
and oppressive.

1. Mahatma Gandhi

2. Jawaharlal Nehru

3. Jyotiba Phule

4. Rabindranath Tagore
Q135) Who among the following ruled in India between 1266 and 1287?

1. Qutub-ud-din-Aybak

2. Aram Shah

3. Shams-ud-din-Iltutmish

4. Ghiyasuddin Balban

Q136) The national Archives of India came up in the ______.

1. 1930s

2. 1910s

3. 1920s

4. 1900s

Q137) Who among the following defeated Mughal emperor Humayun at Chausa?

1. Mirza Hakim

2. Safavid Shah

3. Sher Khan

4. Mirza Kamran

Q138) Puhar or Kaveripattinam, was the port of which of the following dynasty?

1. Cheras

2. Cholas

3. Pandyas

4. Vakatakas

Q139) Samudragupta’s mother belonged to which of the following gana?

1. Koliya

2. Lichchhavi

3. Sakya

4. Vajji

Q140) How many delegates attended the first session of Congress in 1885?
1. 62

2. 78

3. 68

4. 72

Q141) Which of the following revolutionary groups’ members assassinated Assistant Superintendent
of Police John Saunders in 1927?

1. Hindustan Sewa Dal

2. Hindustan Republican Association

3. Abhinav Bharat Secret Society

4. Anushilan Samiti

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 SSC CHSL History PYQ
Swami Vivekananda established Ramakrishna Mission in the year .
1. 1876
2. 1897
3. 1899
4. 1882
Ans:2
Champaran Satyagraha was launched in which of the following years?
1. 1935
2. 1917
3. 1928
4. 1945
Ans:2
When did Shuja-ud-daulah and Shah Alam sign treaties at Allahabad with
Robert Clive?
1. 1766
2. 1767
3. 1764
4. 1765
Ans:4
In which of the following years did India come under the direct rule of the
British crown?
1. 1868
2. 1888
3. 1878
4. 1858
Ans:4
Identify the correctly matched pair of the founder and the social/socio-
religious organisation founded.
1. Dayanand Saraswati – Brahmo Samaj
2. Raja Ram Mohan Ray – Arya Samaj
3. Rama Krishna Paramahansa – Ramakrishna Mission
4. Swami Vivekananda – Ramakrishna Mission
Ans:4
In which year did Lord Curzon order the partition of Bengal?
1. 1905
2. 1930
3. 1945
4. 1915
Ans:1
Which of the following is an example of a Chola empire temple?
1. Badami cave temple
2. Chennakesava temple
3. Airavateswara temple
4. Virupaksha temple
Ans:3
Where is the tomb of Sher Shah Suri located?
1. Rohtasgarh
2. Sasaram
3. Chausa
4. Delhi
Ans:2
Who was the founder of Pala Dynasty?
1. Dharampala
2. Mahipala
3. Ramapala
4. Gopala
Ans:4
When was the Muslim League founded?
1. 1906
2. 1905
3. 1901
4. 1903
Ans:1
When did Ibrahim Lodhi become the Sultan of Delhi?
1. 1526
2. 1527
3. 1516
4. 1517
Ans:4
When was the Indian Reform Association formed?
1. 1885
2. 1870
3. 1860
4. 1865
Ans:2
When was the Treaty of Amritsar signed?
1. 1819
2. 1809
3. 1824
4. 1825
Ans:2
The Raleigh Commission (1902) was appointed to recommend reforms in:
1. the education system
2. draught management
3. the judicial system
4. the police system
Ans:1
Which of the following is one of the sacred books of Buddhism?
1. The Avesta
2. Kalpa Sutra
3. Torah
4. Tripitaka
Ans:4
Who was the first Indian to join the Viceroy’s Executive Council?
1. Tej Bahadur Sapru
2. Satyendra Prasad Sinha
3. PS Siwaswami Iyer
4. Syed Ali Iman
Ans:2
What is the Rigvedic name of the river Ravi?
1. Vitasa
2. Asikini
3. Shutudri
4. Parushni
Ans:4
The last Mauryan ruler to be killed by Pushyamitra Shunga was:
1. Brihadratha
2. Dasharatha
3. Bindusara
4. Devavarman
Ans:1
In which of the following years did Sarojini Naidu preside over the Indian
National Congress session?
1. 1945
2. 1935
3. 1915
4. 1925
Ans:4
Who was the last Viceroy of India who oversaw the creation of the
independent states of India and Pakistan?
1. Lord Canning
2. Lord Mountbatten
3. Lord Hastings
4. Lord Irwin
Ans:2
______ was an important member of the Hindustan Republican Association,
who along with his associates executed the train dacoity at Kakori.
1. Khudiram Bose
2. Sohan Singh Bhakna
3. Ashfaqulla Khan
4. Jatin Banerjee
Ans:3
How many times did Mahmud of Ghazni invade India?
1. 5
2. 17
3. 15
4. 7
Ans:2
The famous Chinese traveller Hieun Tsang visited India during which Emperor's
reign?
1. Samudragupta
2. Ashoka
3. Chandragupta I
4. Harshavardhana
Ans:4
To whom did Mahatma Gandhi give the title ‘Deen Bandhu’?
1. Abdul Ghaffar Khan
2. Rabindra Nath Tagore
3. CF Andrews
4. Rajendra Prasad
Ans:3
Which of the following environmental movements/conflicts of India was
directly related to the prevention of felling of trees?
1. Narmada Bachao Andolan
2. Save Silent Valley Movement
3. Tehri Dam Conflict
4. Chipko Movement
Ans:4
The fifth incarnation of Vishnu is known as:
1. Varaha
2. Krishna
3. Vamana
4. Narasimha
Ans:3
'Piklihal' and 'Utnur' are important ______ sites.
1. Monolithic
2. Paleolithic
3. Megalithic
4. Neolithic
Ans:4
Who wrote ‘Humayun Nama’?
1. Akbar
2. Babur
3. Humayun
4. Gulbadan Begum
Ans:4
The capital of which empire was NOT in south India?
1. Pala
2. Chola
3. Chera
4. Pallava
Ans:1
Who is the author of 'Malavikagnimitram'?
1. Kalidasa
2. Kautilya
3. Vyasa
4. Vagbhata
Ans:1
In which year was a separate Andhra state formed after the linguistic
reorganisation of the then Madras province?
1. 1950
2. 1952
3. 1956
4. 1947
Ans:2
Birthplace of Guru Nanak known as Nankana Sahib today, was earlier called.
1. Roda
2. Umarkot
3. Rai Bhoi di Talvandi
4. Luni
Ans:3
When was the Indian national song ‘Vande Mataram’ sung for the first time on
a political occasion?
1. 1896 INC session
2. 1900 INC session
3. 1903 INC session
4. 1911 INC session
Ans:1
Who was the Mughal Emperor at the time of Battle of Plassey?
1. Alamgir II
2. Siraj- Ud- Daulah
3. Mir Quasim
4. Shah Alam II
Ans:1
The Buddhist sites Vaishali and Nalanda are situated in which of the following
states?
1. Chhattisgarh
2. Bihar
3. Telangana
4. Odisha
Ans:2
In which year was the new Indian Rupee symbol officially adopted by the
Government of India?
1. 2012
2. 2009
3. 2010
4. 2011
Ans:3
In which year was the Rigveda manuscript included in the UNESCO's Memory
of the World Register?
1. 2005
2. 2006
3. 2004
4. 2007
Ans:4
Who defeated Ibrahim Lodi in the first Battle of Panipat?
1. Sher Shah
2. Mohammad Ghori
3. Babur
4. Akbar
Ans:3
Which governor general introduced the policy of Subsidiary Alliance, under
which the Indian ruler agreed to keep British forces in his territory?
1. Lord Wellesley
2. Lord Cornwallis
3. Lord William Bentick
4. Lord Mayo
Ans:1
Who among the following was one of the founders of the Congress Socialist
Party?
1. C Natarajan Annadurai
2. SK Patil
3. Atulya Ghosh
4. Ram Manohar Lohia
Ans:4
Who among the following did Babur defeat in the year 1528 at Chanderi?
1. Muhammad Lodhi
2. Ibrahim Lodi
3. Bappa Rawal
4. Medini Rai
Ans:4
Who was the founder of the Ramakrishna Mission?
1. Debendranath Tagore
2. Atmaram Pandurang
3. Swami Vivekananda
4. Swami Dayanand
Ans:3
Who among the following was a leader from Allahabad (now Prayagraj) in the
revolt against the British in 1857?
1. Tatya Tope
2. Maulvi Liaquat Ali
3. Khan Bahadur Khan
4. Rani Laxmi Bai
Ans:2
In which year did the first Elected Parliament with two houses come into being
in India?
1. 1952
2. 1953
3. 1954
4. 1955
Ans:1
How many Vedangas are there in total?
1. Ten
2. Six
3. Five
4. Two
Ans:2
Who was appointed as the Curator of Ancient Monuments in 1880?
1. HH Cole
2. John Marshall
3. Alexander Cunningham
4. James Fergusson
Ans:1
In which year did Babur defeat the Sultan of Delhi, Ibrahim Lodi, at Panipat and
capture Delhi and Agra?
1. 1526
2. 1543
3. 1530
4. 1494
Ans:1
On whose birth anniversary did Kanshi Ram found the Bahujan Samaj Party?
1. BR Ambedkar
2. Waman Chindhuji Meshram
3. Jyotirao Phule
4. Periyar Ramasamy
Ans:1
Which of the following sites of Indus valley civilization is not on the bank of
river Indus?
1. Chanhudaro
2. Mohenjodaro
3. Ropar
4. Kot-Diji
Ans:3
Who proposed Wardha Scheme or Basic Education?
1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
2. Mahatma Gandhi
3. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
4. Jawaharlal Nehru
Ans:2
The famous cultural site Rani-ki-Vav (the Queen's Stepwell) is situated on the
banks of which river?
1. Saraswati River
2. Yamuna River
3. Hooghly River
4. Mahanadi
Ans:1
Which of the following movements was started in the year 1930 by Mahatma
Gandhi?
1. Non-Cooperation Movement
2. Civil Disobedience Movement
3. Khilafat Movement
4. Quit India Movement
Ans:2
Which of the following books was translated as ‘The Razmnama’ (Book of
Wars) during the reign of Akbar?
1. Ramayana
2. Babur Nama
3. Mahabharata
4. Akbar Nama
Ans:3
The Indian Government annexed ______ in 1948 under the code name
'Operation Polo'.
1. Hyderabad
2. Gwalior
3. Mysore
4. Baroda
Ans:1
Inscriptions composed in praise of kings of ancient India are known as ______.
1. Tripitakas
2. Sutras
3. Jatakas
4. Prashastis
Ans:4
_____ was a mentor to both, Mahatma Gandhi and Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
1. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
2. Rabindranath Tagore
3. Lala Lajpat Rai
4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Ans:1
The first Backward Classes Commission of India was headed by ______.
1. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
2. Kaka Kalelkar
3. Lokmanya Tilak
4. Nanaji Deshmukh
Ans:2
Who gave the slogans ‘Dilli Chalo’ and ‘Give me blood and I will give you
Freedom’?
1. Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
2. Jawaharlal Nehru
3. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
4. Subhash Chandra Bose
Ans:4
Who was the first president of Independent India?
1. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
2. Rajendra Prasad
3. Ram Nath Kovind
4. Pranab Mukherjee
Ans:2
Which of the following places in India would you visit to see Mughal emperor
Humayun's library?
1. Aurangabad
2. Agra
3. Aligarh
4. New Delhi
Ans:4
During the rule of Tipu Sultan, which was the capital city of his state Mysore?
1. Bidar
2. Srirangapatnam
3. Madurai
4. Bangalore
Ans:2
In which year was the Harappan civilization first discovered?
1. 1932
2. 1905
3. 1921
4. 1926
Ans:3
In which year did Motilal Nehru (Chairman) and eight other Congress leaders
draft a constitution for India?
1. 1928
2. 1925
3. 1930
4. 1950
Ans:1
In which year was the Second Anglo-Mysore war fought between the Kingdom
of Mysore and the British East India Company?
1. 1785-1789
2. 1769-1775
3. 1766-1769
4. 1780-1784
Ans:4
The script ‘Gurumukhi’ for Punjabi language was invented by the Sikh guru
______.
1. Guru Angad
2. Guru Har Kishan
3. Guru Ramdas
4. Guru Har Rai
Ans:1
Which is the correct sequence of rulers of the Mughal Empire?
1. Babur, Humayun, Aurangzeb, Jahangir, Shahjahan, Bahadur Shah, Akbar
2. Babur, Aurangzeb, Humayun, Jahangir, Shahjahan, Bahadur Shah, Akbar
3. Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb, Bahadur Shah
4. Babur, Jahangir, Humayun, Akbar, Bahadur Shah, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb
Ans:3
During India's struggle for independence, who among the following became
the President of the All India States People’s Conference in 1939?
1. Jawaharlal Nehru
2. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
3. C Rajagopalachari
4. Vinoba Bhave
Ans:1
‘Avesta’, also called ‘Zend-Avesta’, is the sacred book of:
1. Zoroastrianism
2. Buddhism
3. Jainism
4. Judaism
Ans:1
Which of the following freedom fighters was NOT involved in the Kakori Train
Robbery?
1. Bhagat Singh
2. Ashfaqullah Khan
3. Ram Prasad Bismil
4. Chandrashekhar Azad
Ans:1
Who among the following was elected as the President of the Indian National
Congress in the years 1938 and 1939?
1. Annie Besant
2. C Rajagopalachari
3. Rajendra Prasad
4. Subhash Chandra Bose
Ans:4
Who among the following wrote ‘Akbar Nama’?
1. Amir Khushro
2. Akbar
3. Abul Fazl
4. Birbal
Ans:3
Who among the following was popularly known as ‘Frontier Gandhi’?
1. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
2. Abdul Ghaffar Khan
3. Ashfaqulla Khan
4. Hasrat Mohani
Ans:2
The patriotic song ‘Sare Jahan Se Accha’ was composed by:
1. Allama Muhammad Iqbal
2. Bismil Azimabadi
3. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
4. Rabindranath Tagore
Ans:1
In which of the following years did Mahatma Gandhi launch Champaran
Satyagraha?
1. 1927
2. 1922
3. 1917
4. 1914
Ans:3
Which Mauryan ruler became a follower of Buddhism?
1. Samudragupta
2. Brihadratha
3. Ashoka
4. Chandragupta
Ans:3
On which date did Indian National Congress pass the Resolution of 'Poorna
Swaraj' (total independence) at the Lahore Session?
1. 21 December 1929
2. 19 December 1929
3. 26 December 1929
4. 15 December 1929
Ans:2
In which language were the Mughal court chronicles written?
1. Sanskrit
2. Hindi
3. Urdu
4. Persian
Ans:4
Which Chola ruler was popularly called ‘Victor of the Ganges’?
1. Vijayalaya Chola
2. Gandaraditya Chola
3. Parantaka Chola I
4. Rajendra Chola I
Ans:4
Which governor general of India abolished Sati system in 1829 by declaring it
an offence?
1. Lord Dalhousie
2. Lord Cornwallis
3. Lord Wellesley
4. Lord William Bentinck
Ans:4
Which Indian social activist and politician led the Self-Respect Movement or
Dravidian Movement against Brahminism?
1. C Rajagopalachari
2. P Theagaraya Chetty
3. C Annadurai
4. Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy
Ans:4
Who threw a bomb in the central legislative assembly along with Bhagat Singh
to protest against the Public Safety Bill in 1929?
1. Subhash Chandra Bose
2. Chandra Shekhar Azad
3. Rajguru
4. Batukeshwar Dutt
Ans:4
The December 1929 session of Congress, in which the resolution for 'Poorna
Swaraj' was passed, was presided over by:
1. Vallabhbhai Patel
2. Jawaharlal Nehru
3. Subhash Chandra Bose
4. CR Das
Ans:2
In which battle did Ahmad Shah Abdali defeat the Marathas?
1. Third battle of Panipat
2. Battle of Khanwa
3. Battle of Buxar
4. First battle of Tarain
Ans:1
Who introduced the 'Doctrine of Lapse'?
1. Lord Lytton
2. Lord Dalhousie
3. Lord Wellesley
4. Lord Canning
Ans:2
Who was best known for hoisting the Indian National Congress flag at the
Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay during the Quit India Movement?
1. Aruna Asaf Ali
2. Kanaklata Barua
3. Bhikaiji Rustom Cama
4. Lakshmi Sahgal
Ans:1
The famous Gupta period Dashavatara Temple, recognised as one of the
earliest Panchayatan temples in north India, is located at:
1. Nachna-Kuthara
2. Bhitargaon
3. Tigawa
4. Deogarh
Ans:4
Who was the founder of the City of Hyderabad?
1. Nasir Jung
2. Sekhabat Jung
3. Nizam-ul-Mulk
4. Salabat Jung
Ans:3
Mughal emperor Shah Jahan got the monument Taj Mahal constructed in
memory of his wife ______.
1. Jahanara
2. Mumtaz Mahal
3. Roshnara
4. Noorjahan
Ans:2
When was the ‘Quit India Movement’ started?
1. August 1942
2. April 1919
3. October 1905
4. February 1928
Ans:1
Which Rajput ruler of Mewar in 1576 fought the Battle of Haldighati and then
fled the field on his horse, Chetak?
1. Maharana Pratap
2. Rana Amar Singh
3. Maharaja Udai Singh
4. Raja Man Singh
Ans:1
Who among the following was the first Sayyid ruler of Delhi?
A. Mubarak Shah
B. Alam Shah
C. Muhammad Shah
D. Khizr Shah
Ans: D
During the passage of the Royal Titles Act 1876, the office of the British Prime
Minister was occupied by:
A. William Eward Gladstone
B. Arthur Balfour
C. John Russell
D. Benjamin Disraeli
Ans: D
In 1872, Lord Mayo, the Viceroy of India was assassinated in
A. Port Blair B. Diu
C. Delhi D. Kolkata
Ans: A
In which year was Satya Sodhak Samaj founded by Jyotirao Phule?
A. 1865 B. 1873
C. 1861 D. 1870
Ans: B
The quote “The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of British rule
in India.” Belongs to which of the following freedom fighters?
A. Lala Lajpat Rai
B. Chandrashekhar Azad
C. Bhagat Singh
D. Ram Prasad Bismil
Ans: A
The quote "Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of
revolution is sharpened on the whetting-stone of ideas" belongs to which of
the following freedom fighters?
A. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B. Subhash Chandra Bose
C. Bhagat Singh
D. Lala Lajpat Rai
Ans. C
During the Gupta Period, gold coins were called by which of the following
names?
A. Rupaka B. Tanka
C. Drama D. Dinaras
Ans. D
Which emperor's army did Maharana Pratap fight in the Battle of Haldighati?
A. Mahmud Shah B. Humayun
C. Ibrahim Lodi D. Akbar
Ans. D
In the famous Rohilla War in the year 1774, the Rohillas were defeated by the
Nawab of Awadh named:
A. AsifJah Mirza B. Asaf-ud-Daula
C. Yamin-ud-Daula D. Shuja-ud-Daula
Ans. D
Who among the following was killed by Chhatrapati Shivaji in the Battle of
Pratapgarh?
A. Afzal Khan B. Asghar Khan
C. Shaista Khan D. Shuja Khan
Ans. A
Which of the following books was NOT written by the great Indian poet and
dramatist Mahakavi Kalidas?
A. Shakuntala
B. Ritusamhara
C. Malatimadhava
D. Malavikagnimitram
Ans. C
The Barabar Caves, the oldest surviving rock-cut in India, mostly belong to
which of the following periods?
A. Chola Dynasty B. Gupta Empire
C. Maurya Empire D. Chera Dynasty
Ans. C
During the reign of which of the following kings did Chinese traveller Xuanzang
visit India?
A. Harshavardhana
B. Prabhakara Vardhana
C. Chandragupta Maurya
D. Ashoka
Ans. A
Who among the following authored the book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in
India’?
A. Rajagopalachari
B. Dadabhai Naoroji
C. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Ans. B
Who was affectionately called “The Grand Old Man of India”?
A. Dadabhai Naoroji
B. Lal Bahadur Shastri
C. Rajendra Prasad
D. Bipin Chandra Pal
Ans:A
In which year was the Non-Cooperation Movement launched?
A. 1877 B. 1920
C. 1856 D. 1919
Ans. B
________ was awarded the ‘Kaisar-i-Hind’ in 1915 by Lord Hardinge of
Penshurst for his contribution to ambulance services in South Africa
A. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B. Mahatma Gandhi
C. Subhash Chandra Bose
D. Muhammad Iqbal
Ans. B
Who is the author of the famous book ‘Meghdoot’?
A. Kalidasa B. Sudraka
C. Bhasa D. Vatsyayana
Ans. A
Konark Temple in Odisha was built by which of the following kings?
A. Bhanu Deva
B. Anantavarman Chodagangadeva
C. Narasimha Deva I
D. Ananga Bhima Deva
Ans. C
Alexander invaded India in _________.
A. 467 BC B. 323 BC
C. 454 BC D. 326 BC
Ans. D
The Vikramashila University was founded by _____
A. Ashoka B. Dharmapala
C. Chandragupta-I D. Bimbisara
Ans. B
The present day city of Bhopal was built by which of the following Pratihara
rulers?
A. Mahendra Bhoja B. Rajyapala
C. Vijayasena D. Mihir Bhoja
Ans. D
The Chola Empire was invaded by _______in the early 14th century A.D.
A. Malik Kafur B. Taimur
C. Muhammad Ghori D. Genghis Khan
Ans. A
Who wrote the book 'An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India'?
A. Sudha Murthy B. Shashi Tharoor
C. Ramchandra Guha D. A P J Abdul Kalam
Ans. B
_________ attacked the southern coast of Kathiawar along the Arabian Sea,
where he sacked the city of Somnath and its renowned Hindu temple in 1026.
A. Firoz Shah Tugalaq
B. Mahmud of Ghazni
C. Ahmed Shah Tugalaq
D. Muhammad Ghori
Ans. B
After the battle of ______ in 1757, the British achieved political power in India.
A. Aliwal B. Buxar
C. Plassey D. Saragarhi
Ans. C
Which Sikh Guru compiled the `Adi Granth' the holy scripture of Sikhism?
A. Guru Hargobind B. Guru Amar Das
C. Guru Arjan Dev D. Guru Ram Das
Ans. C