This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Exam Based > Miscellenous Questions – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscellenous Questions Quiz 20 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following correctly describes the land of the Seven Rivers (Sapta Sindhu) where the initial Aryan settlements were located? A) The Indus Valley region. B) The Punjab and Delhi region. C) The region from Eastern Afghanistan to the upper valley of the Ganges. D) The land of the Indus and its principal tributaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The land of the Indus and its principal tributaries. 2. TheAryans came from Central Asia to India around A) 3500 B.C. B) 2500 B.C. C) 8000. D) 6500B.C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2500 B.C. 3. According to Brihaspati the grades of artisans were A) Six. B) Two. C) Four. D) Eight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Six. 4. During Akbar's reign the biggest gold coin was called? A) Shamsab. B) Jalali. C) Dam. D) Ilahi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ilahi. 5. Who was the master of imperial mint at Delhi during the reign of Akbar? A) Mir Sayyid Ali. B) Mansur. C) Jehangir. D) Khwaza Abdus Samad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Khwaza Abdus Samad. 6. A very important source far the political structure and social condition of Gujarat from the 9th to 13th centuries is the text known as A) Panchtantra. B) Rajatarangini. C) Sukraniti. D) Lekhapaddhati. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lekhapaddhati. 7. Japan's earliest neolithic culture was the: A) Jomon. B) Han. C) Yin. D) Hoabinhian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jomon. 8. Which of the following is not the provision of the government of India Act, 1858? A) Provision for the creation of an Indian Civil Service under the control of the Secretary of State. B) The Queen's Principal Secretary of State received the powers and duties of the Company's Court of Directors. C) India was to be governed in the Queen's name. D) The British Parliament was empowered to appoint a Governor-General and the Governors of the Presidencies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The British Parliament was empowered to appoint a Governor-General and the Governors of the Presidencies. 9. The magnificient temple at Halebid was establishedby A) Pandyas. B) Cholas. C) Hosysalas. D) Naickers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hosysalas. 10. Uposatha was practiced A) By widows of the Brahmanical religion through periodic fasting. B) By the Kapalikas as symbolic renunciation of pleasure in external objects. C) By Buddhist monks in an assembly. D) By the Tantrilcs as part of their worship of shakti. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By Buddhist monks in an assembly. 11. To which of the following governor general goes the credit of taking steps to stop the human sacrifices practiced by the Khonds in Orissa under the erroneous belief that there by the fertility of the land was increased? A) Lord Ellenborough. B) Lord Dalhousie. C) Lord Canning. D) First Lord Hardinge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) First Lord Hardinge. 12. The earliest rock cut caves in western India are those at- A) Nasik, Ellora and Ajanta. B) Junnar, Kalyan and Pitalkhora. C) Ajanta, Bhaja and Kondane. D) Bhaja, Pitalkhora and Kondane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nasik, Ellora and Ajanta. 13. Which European power was the last who reached India? A) Germans. B) The French. C) The Dutch. D) Portuguese. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The French. 14. In which place February 21, 1915 was fixed as the date for an armed revolt by the Ghadarites? A) Bombay. B) Bengal. C) Punjab. D) Madras. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Punjab. 15. Who among the following Hindu Painters was sent by Jehangir to make a portrait of Shah Abbas I of Persia? A) Dasrath. B) Basawan. C) Bishan Das. D) Manohar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bishan Das. 16. Which of the following was a result of the plague in Europe A) The rebirth of Christianity. B) Economic decline. C) The Hundred Years' War. D) Political reform. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The rebirth of Christianity. 17. Who setup Home rule league in Poona? A) BG Tilak. B) Vinoba Bhave. C) MG Ranade. D) GK Gokhale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BG Tilak. 18. Which of the following counterpart of British in the Treaty of Salbai? A) The Marathas. B) Tipu Sultan. C) The Nizam of Hyderabad. D) The French. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tipu Sultan. 19. The Rajatarangini of Kalhana was composed in A) The twelfth century. B) The tenth century. C) The eleventh century. D) The thirteenth century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The twelfth century. 20. The largest number of seals of the Harrappan culture are made of A) Terracotta. B) Faience. C) Agate. D) Steatite. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Steatite. 21. Why did Britain so easily gain wide control over India in the nineteenth century? A) Internal divisions existed within the Indian states. B) English rule was milder than native rule. C) The British brought order to the lands they governed. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 22. The Allahabad Pillar inscription is associated with which one of the following? A) Samudragupta. B) Mahapadma Nanda. C) Chandragupta Maurya. D) Ashoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samudragupta. 23. Krishnadevaraya was the ruler of A) Chota. B) Babmani. C) Pallava. D) Vijayanagar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vijayanagar. 24. Who of the following Rajput rulers gave donation for the reconstruction of a mosque? A) Bhoja Parmar. B) Jai Singh Siddharaj. C) Prithviraj III. D) Mihir Bhoja. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jai Singh Siddharaj. 25. Select the correct statement (s) with reference to the Bhakti Movement: A) Collection of Alvar Saints hymns is known as Divya Prabandha. B) Compilation of Alvar Saints poetry/literature Tirumurai is called "Tamil Veda" . C) Both A & B. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collection of Alvar Saints hymns is known as Divya Prabandha. 26. The number of Vedas is A) Eight. B) Four. C) Two. D) Ten. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Four. 27. The most important effect of the French Revolution was the birth of the A) Socialism. B) Capitalism. C) Democracy. D) Republic in France. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Republic in France. 28. Which Bhakti Saint is known as the bridge between north and south? A) Chaitanya. B) Kabir. C) Nanak. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chaitanya. 29. Muhammad Bin Qasim conquered A) Spain. B) Iran. C) Sindh. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iran. 30. Which one was not a pioneer industry in India during British rule? A) Cotton. B) Iron. C) Jute. D) Coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iron. 31. Who were the immediate successors of the Mauryas in Magadha? A) Sungas. B) Satvahanas. C) Kushanas. D) Pandyas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sungas. 32. Who was Nur Jahan's son-in-law? A) Khurram. B) Nazim. C) Abdul. D) Shahryar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shahryar. 33. With which of the following periods do we associate the 'microlith' implements? A) Mesolithic. B) Paleolithic. C) Chalcolithic. D) Neolithic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chalcolithic. 34. The number of the Zamindar' retainers in Akbar's reign according to Abul Fazi was A) About 48 lakhs. B) About 55 lakhs. C) About 52 lakhs. D) About 44 lakhs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) About 52 lakhs. 35. During the period of Harshavardhana the fields were watered by the pots of the Ghatiyantra." This is known from the writings of A) Dandin. B) Subandhu. C) Bana. D) Hiuen-Tsang. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hiuen-Tsang. 36. Which Mauryan ruler was called 'Amitraghat' by Greek writers? A) Dasharatha. B) Chandragupta Maurya. C) Bindusara. D) Ashoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bindusara. 37. Who among the following Englishmen was well versed in the Turkish language, received a Mansab of 400 and the title of 'English Khan' or Firangi Khan? A) Fitch. B) Mildenhall. C) Hawkins. D) Sir Thomas Roe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hawkins. 38. Guptas period was a high water mark for A) Sclupture. B) Administration. C) Religion. D) Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sclupture. 39. Which place is known as the gate of ancient India A) Kozhikode. B) Quilon. C) Muziris. D) Mahodayapuram. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Muziris. 40. Which among the following dynasties is known to have given the largest grant of villages to the temples and Brahamans? A) Pala. B) Gupta. C) Pratihara. D) Saatvahana. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gupta. 41. In the end, Pala supremacy in Bengal was destroyed by A) 1017 A.D. B) 1025 A.D. C) 1020 A.D. D) 1027 A.D. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1027 A.D. 42. Which of the following is an intensely emotional form of Hinduism that flourished from the sixteenth century, mainly in Bengal and eastern Orissa? A) Gaudiya Sampradaya. B) Krishna cult of Vallabhacharya. C) Shiva cult of Vallabhacharya. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gaudiya Sampradaya. 43. Who among the following Bhakti Saints blended that the philosophical monist of the past with stress on Bhakti, the poetry and dignity of Valmiki's Ramayana with the devotional fervour and humanism of Bhagavata? A) Sur Das. B) Tulsidas. C) Kalidasa. D) Kabirdas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tulsidas. 44. In 1751 Alivardi virtually ceded Orissa to A) Raghuji Bhonsle. B) Nanaji Holkar. C) BajiRao. D) Mahajadi Sindhia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Raghuji Bhonsle. 45. Sankara was a ..... saint. A) Jaina. B) Buddhist. C) Sufi. D) Bhakti. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bhakti. 46. Which one among the following is a Tamil grammatical treatise? A) Silappadikaram. B) Pattupattu. C) Tolkappiam. D) Ettutogai. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tolkappiam. 47. Who was the founder of Sunga dynasty? A) Ajatashatru. B) Pushyamitra. C) Agnimitra. D) Bimbisara. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pushyamitra. 48. Which court was considered as the highest criminal court of appeal during East India Company? A) Sadar Diwani. B) Sadar Nizamat. C) Circuit Court. D) Provincial Court. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sadar Nizamat. 49. 'Acharang Sutra' describes . A) Sermons of Lord Mahavir. B) Sermons of Gautam Buddha. C) Code of conduct for Jain monks. D) Code of conduct for Buddhiest monks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Code of conduct for Jain monks. 50. "Community Development Project" was initiated in the year A) 1954AD. B) 1952A.D. C) 1956A.D. D) 1951 A.D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1954AD. 51. When was Charlemagne crowned as Roman Emperor? A) 800. B) 899. C) 860. D) 871. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 899. 52. Which of the following temples was a well known centre of higher education? A) Dasavatar Temple at Deogarh. B) Sasbahu Temple at Gwalior. C) Shore Temple at Mamallapuram. D) Trayipurusha Temple at Salotgi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trayipurusha Temple at Salotgi. 53. Treaty of Lahore taken place on ..... A) 1816 AD. B) 1725 AD. C) 1846 AD. D) 1836 AD. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1846 AD. 54. Mira-Bai, the most popular female saint of medieval India, believed in the worship of A) Krishna. B) Ram. C) Vishnu. D) Shiva. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Krishna. 55. Which of the following statements about the manaram, the Sabha of this period, is not correct? A) It was the common meeting place in the village. B) It was the highest court of justice. C) It also served the purpose of a political gathering. D) It was a general assembly dealing with all affairs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It also served the purpose of a political gathering. 56. Modernisation of Muslims in India was initiated by A) Badruddin Taiyabji. B) Syaid Amir Ali. C) Sir Syaid Ahmad Khan. D) Abdul Latif. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sir Syaid Ahmad Khan. 57. 'Kalilah wa Dimna' is an Arabic version of the A) Mahabharata. B) Panchtantra. C) Sursuta Samhita. D) Brahma Siddhanta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Panchtantra. 58. What was the name of the Gurjara-Pratihara king who was defeated by the Pala king Devapala? A) Nagabhatta II. B) Mahendrapala. C) Mahipala. D) Mihirbhoja. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mihirbhoja. 59. The Pallava king who was defeated by Samudra Gupta? A) Vishnugopa. B) Simhavishnu. C) Simhavarma. D) Karikala. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vishnugopa. 60. The Straits of Tsushima separate: A) India from Sri Lanka. B) China from Japan. C) Japan from Russia. D) Japan from Korea. 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