This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Exam Based > Miscellenous Questions – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscellenous Questions Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following works, included in Vaipulyasutras (nine canonical books of M ahayanists), is a typical Mahayana work containing all the characteristic features of that school? A) Lankavatara. B) Suvarnaprabhasa. C) Saddharmapundarika. D) Lalitavistara. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saddharmapundarika. 2. The city of Constantinople is now called ..... A) Istanbul. B) Athens. C) Byzantium. D) Sarajevo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Byzantium. 3. Who is regarded as the 'Father of Modern India'? A) M. G. Ranade. B) Keshav Chandra Sen. C) Mahatma Gandhi. D) Ram Mohan Roy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ram Mohan Roy. 4. Which sufl saint's dargah is at Ajmer? A) Salim Chishti. B) Baba Farid. C) Muinudclin Chishti. D) Hazrat Nizamuddin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Muinudclin Chishti. 5. Who said the following "the only lesson required in India at present is to learn how to die and the only way to teach is by dying ourselves. Therefore, I die and glory in my martyrdom" ? A) Khudiram Bose. B) Chandra Shekhar Azad. C) Madan Lal Dhingra. D) Aurbindo Ghosh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Madan Lal Dhingra. 6. The chief ideas of worship during the Rajput age were A) Brahma and Ganesha. B) Ram and Krishna. C) Brahma and Sun. D) Vishnu and Shiva. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vishnu and Shiva. 7. What was the most important cause of the invasion of Mahmud of Ghazni? A) To establish a Muslim State in India. B) To gain possession of the wealth of India. C) To spread Islam into India. D) To destroy idolatry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To gain possession of the wealth of India. 8. The sung rulers were followers of A) Buddhism. B) Jainism. C) Saivism. D) Bhagvatism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bhagvatism. 9. The core of the middle class, which emerged in Bengal, was of A) Zamindars. B) Bankers. C) Merchants. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zamindars. 10. 'Chahalghani' under IItutmish represented..... A) Slaves inherited by him from his predecessors. B) The elite cadre of slave officers under him. C) His Turkish slave's. D) General cadre of slaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His Turkish slave's. 11. The term Aryan, Indo-Aryan or Indo-European denotes a .....concept? A) Racial. B) Religious. C) Cultural. D) Linguistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Linguistic. 12. Who trained to Sambhaji? A) Tarabai. B) Kashibai. C) Saibai. D) Jijabai. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jijabai. 13. When did Akbar abolish Jaziya? A) 1563. B) 1564. C) 1565. D) 1566. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1564. 14. Who of the following was the last of the Mauryas, assassinated by his commander-in-chief, Pushyamitra, the founder of the Shunga dynasty? A) Samprati. B) Devavarman. C) Brihadratha. D) Shatadhanvan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brihadratha. 15. Which one of the following was not included in the 'Asta Pradhan' of Shivaji? A) Vakiyanavis. B) Vakeel. C) Majmudar. D) Sumant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vakeel. 16. Who among the following was impeached in the UK for his actions in India? A) Lord Wavell. B) Lord Ripon. C) Lord Hastings. D) Lord Cornwallis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lord Hastings. 17. Who introduced the Subsidiary Alliance System in India? A) Lord Dalhousie. B) Lord Ripon. C) Lord Wellesley. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lord Wellesley. 18. Which statement is not the advocacy of Nirguna Saints? A) It advocated the worshipped the anthropomorphic manifestations of the divine being, particularly Rama and Krishna. B) It is the concept of a formless God, which has no attributes or quality. C) It conceived as Ishvara, the personal and purely spiritual aspect of the Godhead, beyond all names and forms (nama-rupa), and is to be apprehended only by inner (mystical) experience. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It advocated the worshipped the anthropomorphic manifestations of the divine being, particularly Rama and Krishna. 19. The Kharosthi script was derived from A) Pictograph. B) Aramaic. C) Cuniform script. D) Brahmi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aramaic. 20. The author of Kadambari who was also contemporary of Flarsha was A) Divakar. B) Jayasena. C) Banabhatta. D) Mayur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Banabhatta. 21. Who was Bhadrabahu? A) He was the first tirthankar of the Jainas. B) He was a Vedic Rishi. C) He was the sixth guru of the Jainas. D) He was a Buddhist monk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He was a Buddhist monk. 22. The city of Dhillika (Delhi) was founded by the: A) Pariharas. B) Pawars. C) Chauhans. D) Tomars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tomars. 23. Which one of the following indicates the correct chronological order in which the four give important forts were captured by Emperor Akbar? A) Asirgarh-Ranthambhor-Kalinjar-Merta. B) Asirgarh-Kalinjar-Ranthambhor-Merta. C) Merta-Ranthambhor-Kalinjar-Asirgarh. D) Merta-Kalinjar-Ranthambhor-Asirgarh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Merta-Ranthambhor-Kalinjar-Asirgarh. 24. Who introduced English in India? A) Lord William Bentick. B) Lord Rippon. C) Lord Dalhousie. D) Lord Canning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord William Bentick. 25. Which of the following was the main article of import? A) Gold and silver. B) Wine and slave girls. C) Horses. D) Pottery and glassware. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gold and silver. 26. Which of the following was a measure adopted by the later Mauryas to meet the needs of a depleted treasury? A) Increase in taxes. B) Increase of exports. C) Debasement of currency. D) Imposition of new taxes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Increase of exports. 27. What is the literal meaning of Bhakti? A) Salvation. B) Prayer. C) Offer words of praise. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Salvation. 28. The chief item that China received in its trade with Russia was: A) Furs. B) Timber. C) Guns. D) Silver. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Furs. 29. Who was the court poet of Samudragupta? A) Aryabhatta. B) Nagarjuna. C) Harisena. D) Virasena. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harisena. 30. Which of the following statements is/are correct about the people of stone age? A) They had to depend entirely on tools and weapons made of stone. B) They settled down only on the slopes of the hills, in rock shelters and the hilly river valley. C) They could not produce more than what they needed for this bare subsistence. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 31. Who was the mastermind of bomb attack on Lord Hardinge at Chandani Chowk, Delhi in 1912? A) Sachindranath Sanyal. B) Bhai Paramanand. C) Sohan Lal Pathak. D) Rasbehari Bose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rasbehari Bose. 32. Which of the following are two works of Kalidasa? A) Raghuvamsha and Kiratarjuniya. B) Kumara Sambhav and Raghuvamsha. C) Malti Madhava and Kumara Sambhava. D) Malti Madhav and Kumara Sambhava. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kumara Sambhav and Raghuvamsha. 33. Information in respect of which of the following cannot be obtained from the edicts and inscriptions of Ashoka? A) The sectarian and communal conflict of the period. B) Administrative reforms introduced by Ashoka. C) The social, religious and economic life of the people of his time. D) Working of the inner mind of Ashoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The sectarian and communal conflict of the period. 34. The land was owned by temples Known as . A) Brahmaswam,. B) Dewaswam,. C) Kanam. D) Cherikkal,. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dewaswam,. 35. Which among the following ancient authors has complained of the drain of gold to India (due to trade hegemony of ancient India)? A) Strabo. B) Nero. C) Pliny. D) Ptolemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pliny. 36. Which of the following ancient Indian states was an autonomous republic? A) Sakya. B) Anga. C) Kosala. D) Magadh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sakya. 37. What was the Normal rate of interest on loans during the Guptas period A) 25%. B) 15%. C) 10%. D) 20%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 15%. 38. Who among the following was not a member of the Constituent Assembly? A) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. B) Acharya JB Kriplani. C) Lok Nayak Jayprakash. D) K M Munshi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lok Nayak Jayprakash. 39. Champaran and Kheda Satyagrahas were led by A) Sardar Patel. B) Jawaharlal Nehru. C) M. K. Gandhi. D) G. K. Pant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) M. K. Gandhi. 40. According to the estimate of W.H. Moreland the Population of India m A. D. 1600 was A) 120 million. B) 125 million. C) 100 million. D) 80 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 125 million. 41. Which of the following was a precursor of the 1857 revolt? A) Sanyasi revolt. B) Indigo revolt. C) Pabna rising. D) Ulgulan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sanyasi revolt. 42. One of the notable early writers of Hindi was A) Amir Khusrau. B) Chandabardai. C) Namadeva. D) Nanak. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chandabardai. 43. Which of the Republican states in the Post-Mauryan period patronised Shaivism? A) Audumburas. B) Kunindas. C) Yaudehyas. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 44. Who propounded the Saptanga Theory? A) Kautilya. B) Tulsidas. C) Manu. D) Charaka. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kautilya. 45. Which was not one of the storm-centres of the Revolt of 1857? A) Madras. B) Jhansi. C) Arrah (Bihar). D) Bareilly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Madras. 46. Who was the founder of the Indian Associ-ation A) Dadabhai Naoroji. B) AO Hume. C) Surendranath Banerjee. D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surendranath Banerjee. 47. Which was the only session of Indian Na-tional Congress, presided by Mahatma Gan-dhi? A) Allahabad. B) Guwahati. C) Belgaum. D) Kakinada. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Belgaum. 48. Who among the following had moved the objectives resolution which formed the basis of the Preamble of the Constitution of India in the Constituent Assembly on December 13, 1946? A) Dr. B R Ambedkar. B) Dr. Rajendra Prasad. C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. D) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. 49. Which of the following was not one of the reasons why India had a favourable balance of trade with the West? A) Better business sense of Indian traders. B) Great demand for Indian luxury goods. C) Import of gold by India in return for her exports. D) Imports of coins by India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Better business sense of Indian traders. 50. Which of the following contains the pronouncement: "All men are my children" ? A) Rock Edict V. B) Pillar Edict VI. C) Separate Rock Edict I. D) Separate Rock Edict II. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Separate Rock Edict I. 51. The chief vehicle for Dutch trade in Asia was the: A) Dutch Spice Company. B) Dutch East India Company. C) Batavia Company. D) Southeast Asian Trading Company. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dutch East India Company. 52. Which of the following rulers was adorned with the title of Maharajadhiraja (king of kings)? A) Chandragupta I. B) Ashoka. C) Chandragupta Maurya. D) Kanishka. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kanishka. 53. Ibn Tufail lived in: A) Egypt. B) Spain. C) Syria. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spain. 54. In which year Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany? A) 1944. B) 1932. C) 1933. D) 1945. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1933. 55. Temples at all the following places are well known for their erotic sculpture except A) Madurai. B) Konark. C) Halebid and Belur. D) Khajurah. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Halebid and Belur. 56. Napoleon introduced a new set of laws called A) European laws. B) French laws. C) Napoleonic code. D) Prussian laws. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Napoleonic code. 57. Who was the founder of Ramkrishna Mission? A) Swami Vivekanand. B) Ram Krishna Paramhansa. C) Keshav Chandra Sen. D) Swami Dayanand Saraswati. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Swami Vivekanand. 58. Which one among the following has different. kind of connotation from the other three? A) Bhakti. B) Ur. C) Nagaram. D) Sabha. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bhakti. 59. Who led the revolt of 1857 in Lucknow? A) Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah. B) Tatya Tope. C) Birjis Qadir. D) Begum Hazrat Mahal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Begum Hazrat Mahal. 60. The correct chronological order in which the given monuments were built is A) Gol Gumbaz, Buland Darwaza, Red Fort, Qutab Minar. B) Gol Gumbaz, Red Fort, Buland Darwaza, Qutab Minar. C) Qutab Minar, Buland Darwaza, Gol Gumbaz, Red Fort. D) Qutab Minar, Gol Gumbaz, Buland Darwaza, Red Fort. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Qutab Minar, Buland Darwaza, Gol Gumbaz, Red Fort. Next →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesMiscellenous Questions Quiz 2Miscellenous Questions Quiz 3Miscellenous Questions Quiz 4Miscellenous Questions Quiz 5Miscellenous Questions Quiz 6Miscellenous Questions Quiz 7Miscellenous Questions Quiz 8Miscellenous Questions Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books