This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Exam Based > Miscellenous Questions – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscellenous Questions Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. According to Shankaracharya the Primary means of Salvation was A) Knowledge. B) Worship. C) Visiting Tirthas. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knowledge. 2. Who among the following is said to be the founder of the pasupata cult? A) Basava. B) Lakulisa. C) Kusika. D) Gorakhnatha. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lakulisa. 3. Charles wood's dispatch deals with which of the following issues? A) Abolition of sati. B) Female infanticide. C) Child marriages. D) Female education. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Female education. 4. Which of the following Brahmana texts belongs to Atharvaveda? A) Aitareya. B) Gopatha. C) Shatpatha. D) Panchavinsh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gopatha. 5. Where were the hymns of Rigveda composed? A) Rajasthan. B) Gujarat. C) Punjab. D) Uttar Pradesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Punjab. 6. When did Aurangzeb took the title of 'Alamgir'? A) 1660. B) 1658. C) 1659. D) 1661. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1659. 7. Pushyamitra Shunga: A) Defended the Magadhan empire against the Bactrian Greeks. B) Is said to have performed Asvamedha sacrifice. C) Was persecutor of Buddhism according to the Divyavadana. D) Did all the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was persecutor of Buddhism according to the Divyavadana. 8. Which one of the following correctly describe the function of the Amatya in the Ashtapradhan System'? A) The Prime Minister. B) The Finance Minister. C) The minister who preserved a daily record of the king's acts and the proceedings of his court. D) None of athe above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Finance Minister. 9. In the early decades of Maratha rule the most popular unit of Land revenue measurement was A) Gaj. B) Janjir. C) Kathi. D) Jarib. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kathi. 10. The son of Dhanga who gave resistence to Muhammad Ghazni A) Ganda. B) Rajyapala. C) Jayapala. D) Anandapala. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ganda. 11. What among the following factors was not applicable to the conditions of abject poverty in India during the British rule? A) High taxation. B) Insufficient growth of modern industries. C) Decay of Agricultural production and indigenous industries. D) Investment of foreign capital in India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Investment of foreign capital in India. 12. Which of the following incident ended the historic fast of Gandhi? A) Gandhi-Irwin Pact. B) Issue of White Paper. C) Poona Pact. D) Arrival of Simon Commission. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poona Pact. 13. Aryan civilization was centered in: A) Southern India. B) The Deccan. C) Northern India. D) Sri Lanka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Northern India. 14. Who among the following had set up an association called Mitra Mela? A) V.D. Savarkar. B) P. Mitra. C) Barindra Kumar Ghosh. D) Chapekar Brothers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) P. Mitra. 15. The original name of the Kushanas was in A) Persia. B) Arabia. C) Macedonia. D) Chinese Turkistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chinese Turkistan. 16. The English exported from Bengal A) Sugar. B) Saltpetre. C) Silks. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Silks. 17. The term Nirgrantha is associated with A) Pashupatas. B) Charvakas. C) Jainas. D) Ajivikas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jainas. 18. In 1904 the then Maharajah of Travancore exempted Narayana Guru from personal appearances in court, an honour recognizing the Guru as a distinguished living personality. A) Thalassery. B) Kannur,. C) Travancore,. D) Cochi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Travancore,. 19. King Piyadassi referred to in some ancient Indian inscriptions is identified with A) Samudragupta. B) Bimbisara. C) Chandragupta Maurya. D) Ashoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ashoka. 20. Which one of the following adumbrated principles and constitutional provisions which were later incorporated in the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms? A) Lucknow Pact. B) Wavel Plan. C) Poona Pact. D) Nehru Report. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lucknow Pact. 21. Ibrahim Khan Gardi was an important military officer of A) Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao. B) Ahamadshah Durrani. C) Haider Ali. D) Raja Suraj Mal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao. 22. The greatest work of the Tamil literature of the Sanfam age A) Thirukural. B) Tholkappiyam. C) Pathittupath. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tholkappiyam. 23. Name the great Indian revolutionary who was a professor of Sanskrit and Philosophy and died as a Sanyasi in Philadelphia? A) Lala Hardayal. B) Madan Lal Dhingra. C) Shyamji Krishna Varma. D) Bhai Parmanand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lala Hardayal. 24. Which of the following did not contribute in a major way to the growth of a nationalist consciousness in India? A) Revivalist Movements of the 19th century. B) Consistent economic exploitation of India by the British. C) Impact of western education. D) World public opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) World public opinion. 25. With which of the following is the term Liberty, Equality and Fraternity associated? A) Olympic Games. B) Russian Revolution. C) Industrial Revolution. D) French Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) French Revolution. 26. Which of the following Socioreligious Movements raised the slogan : 'India for Indians'? A) Brahmo Samaj. B) Satya Shodhak Samaj. C) Arya Samaj. D) Prarthana Samaj. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arya Samaj. 27. Which of the following Bhakti Saint popularised Vaishnava cult in Gujarat? A) Tulsidas. B) Narasi. C) Chaitanya. D) Sankar Dev. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narasi. 28. The feature of Dravidian architecture added in the Vijayanagar period was, A) Ammana Shrine. B) Kalyana mandapa. C) Extensive decoration of gopurams. D) Paintings on the walls of temples. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kalyana mandapa. 29. Who captured Pune in 1818? A) English. B) Dutch. C) Spanish. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) English. 30. Which of the following was NOT a factor leading to the partition of India in 1947? A) British delays in granting freedom to India. B) Strong Indian National Congress support for partition. C) The ambitions of Muslim politicians. D) The ambitions of Muslim merchants in Karachi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strong Indian National Congress support for partition. 31. The Central Hindu Schoo1 Banaras which served as a nucleus of the Banaras Hindu University was establisl1ed by A) Bhagawan Das. B) Madan Mohan Malaviya. C) Mrs. Annie Besant. D) Swami Shradhananda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mrs. Annie Besant. 32. Who among the following was a lady Alvar Saint? A) Perumal. B) Madhura Kavi. C) Tirupan. D) Andal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Andal. 33. Greek invesion of North India is described in. A) Harshacharit. B) Gargisamhita. C) Milindapanho. D) Gaudvaho. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gargisamhita. 34. The objects like pottery, tools, and ornaments that humans made in the past are called A) Monuments. B) Inscriptions. C) Artefacts. D) Coins. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Artefacts. 35. Which of the following is not true about Rajputs? A) They comprised the ruling and warrior chiefs. B) Their rise was an important social phenomenon of the early medieval period. C) They were a landed aristocracy. D) The medals were denied entry to their ranks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The medals were denied entry to their ranks. 36. Probably the earliest crop to be farmed in north China was: A) Wheat. B) Barley. C) Millet. D) Rice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Millet. 37. What was the function of Samaharta in Mauryan Administration? A) Leadership of Army. B) To Work as a Judge. C) To Collect Revenue. D) Delivering Justice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To Collect Revenue. 38. Which one of the following events immediately followed the Revolt of the Sepoys in 1857? A) Agitation against reduction of age-limits for entry into Civil Service. B) Santhal Insurrection. C) Peasant agitation against the indigo planters in Bengal. D) Kuki Rebellion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peasant agitation against the indigo planters in Bengal. 39. Rand was killed by the militant nationalist A) Barindra Ghosh. B) Prafulla Chaki. C) Damodar Chapekar. D) Jatindranath Banerjee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Damodar Chapekar. 40. Egypt is called the gift of the Nile because A) No transport was possible. B) It would not be fertile. C) It would not develop. D) Without Nile it would be a desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Without Nile it would be a desert. 41. Which Chalukyan ruler is said to have received an embassy from the Persian king Khusrau II? A) Vikramaditya I. B) Pulkesin II. C) Vijayaditya. D) Vinayaditya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pulkesin II. 42. The Rajput king who was defeated and killed in second Tarain war? A) Jaya Chandra. B) Nagabhatta. C) Prithviraj Chauhan. D) Rana Pratap. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jaya Chandra. 43. Which king is called 'Kaviraj' in one of his inscriptions? A) Pala king Dharmapala. B) Pratihara king Mihirbhoja. C) Chalukya king Kumarapala. D) Paramara king Bhoja. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paramara king Bhoja. 44. A council of Eight Ministers known as the Ashta Paradhan assisted? A) Ahmad Shah Abdali. B) Sher Shah. C) Shivaji. D) Balaji BajiRao. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shivaji. 45. Akbar defeated Hemu in which of the following battle? A) Battle of Talikota. B) Second Battle of Panipat. C) Third Battle of Panipat. D) Battle of Haldighati. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Second Battle of Panipat. 46. The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association was founded in A) 1922. B) 1924. C) 1928. D) 1926. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1928. 47. Who among the following took a greater interest in laying out gardens than others? A) Humayun. B) Akbar. C) Babur. D) Jahangir. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Babur. 48. The 'Wedding Hymn' describing the oldest marriage ritual is found in the A) Grihyasutras. B) Rigveda. C) Samveda. D) Yajurveda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Samveda. 49. To which among the following the residuary powers were conferred by the federation 1935? A) Federal legislature. B) Governor-General. C) Provincial Governors. D) Provincial legislatures. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Governor-General. 50. Who was the most important ruler of Paramara dynasty? A) Bhoja. B) Dhanga. C) Krishna. D) Dhruva. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bhoja. 51. Who was the ruler of the kingdom between the rivers Jhelum and Chenab? A) Chandragupta Maurya. B) Alexander the Great. C) Darius III. D) King Porus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) King Porus. 52. Which is known as "Tamil Bible" A) Thirukuaral. B) Silapatigaram. C) Tholkapiyam. D) Pathittupath. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thirukuaral. 53. The only ruler of India who ruled over territories in Central Asia beyond the Pamirs was A) Harsha. B) Samudragupta. C) Kanishka. D) Ashoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kanishka. 54. The manor economy was based on A) Herding and weaving. B) Farming and self-sufficiency. C) Metalworking. D) Trade among many villages. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trade among many villages. 55. Which one of the following sets of powers constituted the anti-British front in 1780? A) Mysore, the Marathas, the Rohilas and Berar. B) The Marathas, Mysore, Berar and Nizam. C) Nizam, Berar the Rohilas and the Marathas. D) Nizam, Mysore, Berar and Marwar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nizam, Mysore, Berar and Marwar. 56. Where did fight the two campaigns of Sambhaji and Dilerkhan in Maharashtra? A) Purandar. B) Pune. C) Bhupalgad. D) Shirval. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bhupalgad. 57. After the death of Raja Rammohan Roy, the Brahmo Samaj split into two sections; the Brahmo Samaj of India and the Adi Brahmo Samaj. Who were the leaders of the two sections, respectively? A) Keshab Chandra Sen and Radhakanta Deb. B) Keshab Chandra Sen and Debendranath Tagore. C) Debendranath Tagore and Radhakanta Deb. D) Radhakanta Deb and Debendranath Tagore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Keshab Chandra Sen and Debendranath Tagore. 58. Name the Arab astronomer who studied Sanskrit and astronomy for a decade at Varanasi? A) Amir Khusrau. B) Al'bidari. C) Al'Masher. D) Alberuni. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alberuni. 59. The Cabinet Delegation consisted of A) Lord Pethic Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr. Alexander. B) Lord Wavell, Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr. Alexander. C) Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Wavell and Lord Pethic Lawrence. D) Lord Wavell, Lord Pethic Lawrence and Mr. Alexander. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord Pethic Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr. Alexander. 60. The earliest example of a landgrant is provided by an inscription A) The mahameghavahanas. B) The satavahanas. C) The guptas. D) The mauryas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The satavahanas. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesMiscellenous Questions Quiz 1Miscellenous Questions Quiz 2Miscellenous Questions Quiz 3Miscellenous Questions Quiz 4Miscellenous Questions Quiz 5Miscellenous Questions Quiz 6Miscellenous Questions Quiz 7Miscellenous Questions Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books