This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Exam Based > Miscellenous Questions – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscellenous Questions Quiz 13 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The dynasties which ruled Magadha were A) Haryanka. B) Saisunagas. C) Nandas. D) All of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of above. 2. Which of the following American Journalists had criticized the state of women in British India and advanced the logic that so long as cruelties on women continue, the Indian males have no right to take and manage the governance of India in their hands? A) Louis Fischer. B) Webb Miller. C) Catherine Mayo. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Catherine Mayo. 3. The Paris Commune took place in the year A) 28 March 1871. B) 28 March 1874. C) 28 March 1872. D) 28 March 1873. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 28 March 1871. 4. Who among the following levied Turushka-danda? A) Chandellas. B) Shahis. C) Chahamanas. D) Gahadavalas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gahadavalas. 5. Which of the statements about the trade regulation in the Mauryan period is not correct? A) The state kept strict vigil on the sale of merchandise. B) The state exercised control over the trade process and profits. C) A levy of 1/10th was fixed on merchandise. D) The state employed a few of the artisans directly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A levy of 1/10th was fixed on merchandise. 6. An influence that spread from the Byzantine Empire to Early Russia was the A) Orthodox Christian religion. B) Beginning of democracy. C) Use of the Latin alphabet. D) Factory system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Use of the Latin alphabet. 7. The Third Crusade ended with the A) Continued control of Jerusalem by Saladin. B) The defeat of the French at Agincourt. C) Decisive victory of Richard I in Palestine. D) Defeat of Seljuk Turks by French-led crusaders. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Continued control of Jerusalem by Saladin. 8. Which one of the following chronological orders of the given events is correct? A) The Cripps Mission - The Civil Disobedience Movement - The Cabinet Mission's Plan. B) The Cripps Mission - The Cabinet Mission's Plan -The Civil Disobedience Movement. C) The Civil Disobedience Movement - The Cabinet Mission's Plan - The Cripps Mission. D) The Civil Disobedience Movement - The Cripps Mission - The Cabinet Mission's Plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Civil Disobedience Movement - The Cripps Mission - The Cabinet Mission's Plan. 9. The French East India Company was founded in A) 1666. B) 1664. C) 1663. D) 1665. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1664. 10. From which country of the Asian Continent was Bogazkui inscription discovered? A) Iran. B) India. C) Syria. D) Turkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turkey. 11. Which of the following Bhakti Saints Krishna is a yogi and lover? A) Tukaram. B) Mirabai. C) Kabir. D) Ramananda. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mirabai. 12. What was Bargir in Maratha army? A) Front liner. B) Cavalry. C) Water carrier. D) Infantry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cavalry. 13. Which one of the following is an octagonal tomb? A) Tomb of Firoz Shah Tughlaq. B) Tomb of Sikandar Lodi. C) Tomb of Balban. D) Tomb of Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tomb of Sikandar Lodi. 14. After 1880, Railways were built during British rule in India through A) Indian merchants or money-lenders. B) Private enterprise. C) State Agency. D) A and B both. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A and B both. 15. The subject matter of Tol Kappiyam is A) Drama. B) Grammar. C) Epic story. D) Battle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grammar. 16. Under the Mughals ..... was administered as a department of the household. A) Infantry. B) Navy. C) Artillery. D) Cavalry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Artillery. 17. Which of the following events was the last in chronological order? A) Home Rule Movement. B) Khilafat Movement. C) Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre. D) Mopala Revolt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mopala Revolt. 18. Sayana is associated with A) Bahmani Kingdom. B) Hoyasala Kingdom. C) The Chola Kingdom. D) Vijayanagar Kingdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vijayanagar Kingdom. 19. What portion of actual produce was fixed as the demand of the state under the 'Zabit' system? A) One-third. B) One-fifth. C) One-half. D) One-fourth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One-third. 20. What was the name of mother of Sambhaji? A) Kashibai. B) Yesubai. C) Saibai. D) Putalabai. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saibai. 21. Which of the Pallava rulers founded the city of Mahabalipuram? A) Mahendavarman I. B) Nandivarman II. C) Narasimhavarman I. D) Nripatunga. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narasimhavarman I. 22. Who founded the Lingayat Movement? A) Basava. B) Kulshekhar. C) Lakulisha. D) Matsyendranath. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Basava. 23. Maratha power reached its peak under: A) Tara Bai. B) Shah Abbas. C) Govind Singh. D) Shivaji. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shivaji. 24. Who among the following Maratha chiefs was the last to enter into a subsidiary alliance with the English? A) Bhonsle. B) The Peshwas. C) Holkar. D) Scindia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Holkar. 25. The foundation for the Vijayanagar city and kingdom was laid by A) Krishnadevaraya. B) Rama Raya. C) Sadasiva Raya. D) Harihara andBukka. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harihara andBukka. 26. The earliest example of a 'Panchayatana' composition in temple is A) Shatrughneshwara temple at Bhubaneshwar. B) Lakshmana temple at Sirpur. C) Temple at Pathari. D) Dashavatara temple-Deogarh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dashavatara temple-Deogarh. 27. Malatimadhava of Bhavabhuti is an important source for the study of the A) Bhagavata. B) Kapalikas. C) Buddhist Tantriks. D) Digambara Jainas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kapalikas. 28. Marriage between man & woman of same caste in Ancient India was known as A) Ghandharva. B) Pratiloma. C) Niyoga. D) Anuloma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anuloma. 29. Sixteen Mahajanapadas are referred to in. A) Deegh Nikay. B) Khuddak Nikay. C) Anguttat Nikay. D) Sanyukta Nikay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anguttat Nikay. 30. In which year did Alexander invade India? A) 623 BC. B) 362 BC. C) 326 BC. D) 236 BC. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 326 BC. 31. In which year Kalibagab was excavated A) 1930. B) 1923. C) 1953. D) 1924. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1953. 32. Several socio-political organisations were formed in the 19th and 20th centuries in India, Anjuman-e-Khawatin-e- Islam founded in the year 1914 was A) All India Muslim Ladies Conference. B) A radical wing of the All India Muslim League. C) All India Muslim Student's Conference. D) All India Islamic Conference. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All India Muslim Ladies Conference. 33. The main contribution of Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar to education and in particular to women education are: A) Break priestly monopoly of scriptural knowledge(Sanskrit) and opening to non-Brahmins. B) Charles wood dispatch on education, influenced it towards female education. C) Lady Hardinge medical college at Delhi. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 34. Name the English man who tried to obtain from Akbar a Firman for trade in Gujarat? A) Ralph Fitch. B) John Mildenhall. C) Sir Thomas Roe. D) Thomas Stephens. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Mildenhall. 35. The Alahabad pillar inscription was com-posed by A) Vikramaditya. B) Harisena. C) Samudragupta. D) Vishnugupta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Harisena. 36. The greatest Muslim Art in which they have achieved incomparable success is A) Paintings. B) Architecture. C) Calligraphy. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calligraphy. 37. Which of the following were epics in early Tamil Literature? A) Padirruppattu and Maduraikkanchi. B) Silappadikaram and Manimekhalai. C) Ahananuru and Purananuru. D) Tolkappiyam and Tirukkural. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Silappadikaram and Manimekhalai. 38. Which of the following was the wonderful discovery made by Hippalus in A.D. 45, leading to increasing of trade with Rome? A) Propelling of ship with mechanical aid. B) Fitting of sails to the ships. C) The existence of the monsoon winds, blowing across the Indian Ocean. D) A shorter route for Rome to the eastern coast of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The existence of the monsoon winds, blowing across the Indian Ocean. 39. Khuddak Nikay belongs to. A) Jatak. B) Abhidharmrna Pitak. C) Vinay Pitak. D) Sulta Pitak. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abhidharmrna Pitak. 40. Which one of the following commissions/ committees was appointed by the British Government to investigate into the massacre in Jallianwala Bagh? A) Simon Commission. B) Butler Committee. C) Welby Commission. D) Hunter Committee. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hunter Committee. 41. Consider the following paragraph He was seriously injured in police lathi charge in Lahore during demonstrations against Simon Commission, for which he subsequently died in November, 1928. Later on, the British officer who was responsible for the lathi charge on him, was shot dead by Bhagat Singh and Rajguru. The revolutionary referred to in the above paragraph is A) Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant. B) Lala Lajpat Rai. C) Mangal Singh. D) Motilal Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Motilal Nehru. 42. Rudradaman was one of the greatest A) Kushan rulers. B) Pallava rulers. C) Maurya rulers. D) Saka rulers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saka rulers. 43. Bismarck was called the man who gave Germany the policy of A) Blood & iron. B) Holy wars. C) Holy alliance. D) Triple alliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blood & iron. 44. The fortification of Calcutta by the British in 1756 was regarded by the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-Daulah, as A) Growth of large-scale British trade. B) Insecurity of the British in India. C) An attack upon his sovereignty. D) British control over Bengal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An attack upon his sovereignty. 45. Muhammad Ghazni invaded India 17 times between A) 950-1000 A.D. B) 1025-1046 A.D. C) 1000-1026 A.D. D) 900-950 A.D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1000-1026 A.D. 46. Who founded the Varkari sect in Maharashtra? A) Tukaram. B) Visoba Khechar. C) Eknath. D) Namdev. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Visoba Khechar. 47. Who of the following adopted 'Garuda' as dynastic emblem after the imperial Guptas? A) Shilaharas. B) Rashtrakutas. C) Chedis. D) Western Chalukyas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rashtrakutas. 48. The chief weapon of the nomads of Central Asia was the: A) Axe. B) Composite bow. C) Sword. D) Lance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Composite bow. 49. Sakas were finally overthrown by A) Kanishka. B) Gautamiputra Satakarni. C) Chandragupta Vikramaditya. D) Devapala. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gautamiputra Satakarni. 50. The Maratha who helped the Sayyad brothers in overthrowing Farukh Siyar in 1719 was A) Balaji Vishwanath. B) Sahuji. C) Baji Rao I. D) Shivaji U. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Balaji Vishwanath. 51. The Morley-Minto Reforms which were passed in 1909. A) Enlarged the central and the provincial legislative councils. B) Established a constitution-making body. C) Decreased the number of the provincial and central legislative members. D) Made the Executive Council of the Governor- General purely English in composition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enlarged the central and the provincial legislative councils. 52. The Rigvedic king did not maintain an administrative machinery because A) The king did not wish to have so. B) The social structure was not in accordance. C) The kingship was not hereditary. D) The Rigvedic economy was not suitable to it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Rigvedic economy was not suitable to it. 53. The well known king of slave dynasty was A) MahmudLodi. B) Alaudhin. C) Balban. D) Muhamad-bin-Tughlaq. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Balban. 54. Who was the representative from Afzalkhan towards Shivaji? A) Daulatkhan. B) Sayyad Brenda. C) Anand Pant. D) Krishna Bhaskar Pant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Krishna Bhaskar Pant. 55. Which of the following was not one of the checks on the powers of the Mauryan kings? A) Mantri-Parishad. B) Brahmins. C) Customs of the land. D) Guilds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brahmins. 56. Who among the following had the title 'Amoghavarsha'? A) Munja Paramara. B) Rajendra Chola. C) Govinda Chandra Gahadavala. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 57. Asvamedha Yajna from among Chalukya rulers was performed by A) Pulkesin II. B) Kirtivarman I. C) Pulkesin I. D) Vikramaditya I. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pulkesin I. 58. Indian Economic drain was described in the British Period by A) Dadabhai Nauroji. B) Surendra Nath Beneraji. C) Balagangadhar Tilak. D) Annie Besant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dadabhai Nauroji. 59. Which of the following event compel M.K Gandhi to withdraw the Nation's cooperation from the British Government? A) Jallianwala massacre. B) Bhagat Singh Hanging. C) Lathi charge. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jallianwala massacre. 60. Who was the Killedar of Fort Jinji? A) Daulatakhan. B) Muhammad Shah. C) Nusratshah. D) Nasir Shah. 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