This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Exam Based > Miscellenous Questions – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscellenous Questions Quiz 26 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When did Europe capture Jerusalem? A) 1081. B) 1096. C) 1095. D) 1099. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1095. 2. The Garland of Madurai is an account of: A) Life in ancient south India. B) The defeat of the Mauryans. C) An Indian love poem. D) The creation of the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Life in ancient south India. 3. What change in education developed in the middle Ages? A) Large universities with permanent buildings came into being. B) Students with very little training could qualify to be a teacher. C) Women began to attend universities. D) The first universities evolved. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Students with very little training could qualify to be a teacher. 4. With reference to medieval Indian rulers, which one of the following statement is correct? A) Balban introduced the branding of horses in his military. B) Muhammad Bin Tughlaq was succeeded by his uncle to the military. C) Alauddin Khilji first set up a separate ariz's department. D) Firoz Tughlaq set up a separate department of slaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Firoz Tughlaq set up a separate department of slaves. 5. Which one of the following was not among the 12 Ordinances of Jahangir? A) Prohibition of Wine. B) Abolition Shahof Tamgha and Mir Bahri. C) Amnesty to Prisoners. D) Confiscation of Madad-i-Mash lands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amnesty to Prisoners. 6. The name by which Ashoka is generally referred to in his inscriptions is- A) Chakravarti. B) Dharmakirti. C) Priyadarsi. D) Dharmadeva. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Priyadarsi. 7. Which of the following was the most important factor responsible for the extensive growth of foreign trade? A) Surplus production of several commodities which were in great demand in foreign markets. B) There was a direct trade route between Tamil land and Arabia, Egypt and Rome. C) Because the Yavanas (i.e. the Romans, The Greeks and The Egyptians) had colonized certain parts of South India. D) Tamils had a great reputation as seafarers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Surplus production of several commodities which were in great demand in foreign markets. 8. The founder of modern Pakistan was: A) Yahya Khan. B) Ali Jinnah. C) Ayub Khan. D) Ali Bhutto. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ali Jinnah. 9. Who was the Sikh Guru who helped Dara? A) Guru Hargobind. B) Guru Hari Rai. C) Guru Tegh Bahadur. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Guru Hari Rai. 10. Kharavela ruled over A) Malwa. B) Gandhara. C) Magadha. D) Kalinga. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gandhara. 11. Who was the father of wife of Sambhaji Rajasbai? A) Bhanaji Shirke. B) Pilaji Shirke. C) Udaji Shirke. D) Ganoji Shirke. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pilaji Shirke. 12. The Sikh gurus who compiled the Guru Granth Sahib was A) Har Rai. B) Arjun. C) Bahadur. D) Nanak. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arjun. 13. The Hindus believe that good and evil: A) Are separate forces forever in conflict. B) Are contained in all things, even the gods. C) Contend for control of men's lives. D) Are limited only to things of this world. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are contained in all things, even the gods. 14. "Malacca cannot live without Cambay, or Cambay without Malacca, if they are to be very rich and very prosperous." This comment was made in the context of Asian trade by A) Linschoten. B) Tome Pires. C) Varthemea. D) Barbosa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tome Pires. 15. Which of the following tombs is placed in the centre of a large garden and resembles as a prototype of the Taj Mahal? A) Akbar's tomb at Sikandara. B) Humayun's tomb at Delhi. C) Itmaduddaula's tomb at Agra. D) Shershah's tomb at Sasaram. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humayun's tomb at Delhi. 16. To which Sakha does the published Rigveda Samhita belong? A) Sakala. B) Sankhayana. C) Sawnaka. D) Asvalayan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sakala. 17. Who among the following was fond of slaves? A) Mohammed-bin-Tughlaq. B) Firoz Shah Tughlaq. C) Alauddin Khalji. D) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Firoz Shah Tughlaq. 18. Which one of the following sculptures does not belong to the Mauryan period? A) Rampurva bull. B) Dhauli elephant. C) Sarnath lion capital. D) Standing Buddha from Mathura. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Standing Buddha from Mathura. 19. 'Niralamba Saraswati (Saraswati is now without support)' thus lamented a poet at the demise of A) Mihira Bhoja. B) Chandela Kirtivarma. C) Bhoja Paramara. D) Chahmana Visaladeva. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bhoja Paramara. 20. A notable disciple of Sree Narayana Guru introduced Guru's visions and ideals to the western world. A) Nataraja Guru,. B) K.Madhavan. C) Chattambi Swamikal,. D) Kumaranasan,. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nataraja Guru,. 21. Which one of the following statements about the teaching of Kabir is not correct? A) He believed in universal love. B) He was not against pilgrimage and idol worship. C) He emphasized on one God and the spread of devotionalism. D) He did not consider it necessary to abandon the normal life of a householder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He was not against pilgrimage and idol worship. 22. The earliest literate in India was in Sanskrit. It was learnt by A) Writing. B) Orally. C) Memorizing. D) Singing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Orally. 23. When Alexander attacked India in the Northwest India there existed? A) Only republican states. B) Only monarchical states. C) Both monarchical & republican states. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both monarchical & republican states. 24. Which of the following was a republic in sixth century B.C.? A) Vrijian state. B) None of these. C) Magadha. D) Avanti. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vrijian state. 25. During which period, the great epics of Ramayan and Mahabharat were given the final form? A) Gupta period. B) Post Maurya period. C) Maurya period. D) Nanda period. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gupta period. 26. The Rigvedic hymns can be treated as being historically fairly authentic because A) They are the earliest of the Vedic literature. B) Their composition was contemporary with the period described. C) The events described in them are corroborated by Avesthan Gathas. D) They give a chronological account of the historical events. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are the earliest of the Vedic literature. 27. Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the given rulers of ancient India? A) Ashoka-Kanishka-Milinda. B) Milinda-Kanishka-Ashoka. C) Milinda-Ashoka-Kanishka. D) Ashoka-Milinda-Kanishka. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ashoka-Milinda-Kanishka. 28. One of the following Mauryan provinces, which had a foreign (Yavana-Greek) Governor, was: A) Eastern province- Tosali. B) Southern province- Suvarngiri. C) Saurashtra- Junagarh. D) Western province- Ujjain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saurashtra- Junagarh. 29. Dalhousie has been regarded as the maker of modern India because he brought about reforms and made a beginning in many fields. Which one among the following was not one of his schemes of reforms? A) Establishment of a public works department. B) Construction of railways and the introduction of telegraph and postal services. C) Factories Act to improve the condition of Indian labor. D) Educational reforms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Factories Act to improve the condition of Indian labor. 30. In the adminstration of the ummayads the court language was: A) German. B) Persian. C) Arabics. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) German. 31. 'Hijrat' the Muslim era began in A) 600 A.D. B) 612 A.D. C) 630 A.D. D) 622 A.D. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 622 A.D. 32. The founder of Daoism was: A) Xunzi. B) Laozi. C) Mencius. D) Zhuangzi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Laozi. 33. The East India Company began to use the term 'investments in India' for A) The loot from Buxar for purchasing Indian goods. B) Their bullion imports to purchase Indian goods. C) The profits made from duty free inland trade and the surplus from Diwani revenue. D) The borrowed money from Indian money lenders for purchases in India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The profits made from duty free inland trade and the surplus from Diwani revenue. 34. Identify the social reformers of Maharashtra who adopted the pen name of "Lokahitawadi" ? A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak. B) Gopal Hari Deshmukh. C) Atmaram Panduranga. D) Krishna Shastri Chaplunkar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gopal Hari Deshmukh. 35. Which of the following administrative measures was not undertaken by Ashoka? A) He tried to save people from miscarriage of justice. B) He issued a code of conduct to his officials. C) Release of the convicts on the mercy petition moved by his ministers. D) The monarch started the practice of royal tours and instituted quinquennial circuits of officers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Release of the convicts on the mercy petition moved by his ministers. 36. Why did Mumbai (Bombay) and Chennai (Madras) not join the revolt of 1857 along with northern provinces? A) They had more tolerant and enlightened administrators. B) They had remained comparatively free from annexations and confiscations. C) They were at a great distance from Kolkata (Calcutta), the seat of British administration. D) They failed to find necessary leadership due to ryotwari settlement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were at a great distance from Kolkata (Calcutta), the seat of British administration. 37. According to the periplus, sea, voyages to India were undertaken in the month of Epiphi or A) October. B) December. C) July. D) June. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) June. 38. Shashgani was a small silver coin equal to A) 8 Jitals. B) 10 Jitals. C) 4 Jitals. D) 6 Jitals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 6 Jitals. 39. The French royal prison the (Bastille) was attacked in A) 12 July 1789. B) 16 July 1790. C) 13 July 1789. D) 14 July 1789. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14 July 1789. 40. Ashoka himself considered his policy of dhamma as: A) The essence of original Buddhism as preached by the Buddha. B) A way of life which was both practical and convenient as well as highly moral. C) The ideal of virtuous life based on moral teachings of various thinkers. D) The essence of all religions or the common religion of mankind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A way of life which was both practical and convenient as well as highly moral. 41. Vellore Mutiny took place in the year of? A) 1764. B) 1806. C) 1857. D) 1935. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1806. 42. The word Vishti means A) Irrigation tax. B) Forced labour. C) Property of women. D) Rights of slaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Forced labour. 43. Which is considered as oldest civilization of the world? A) Harappan Civilization. B) Egyptain Civilization. C) Chinese Civilization. D) Mesopotamian Civilization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mesopotamian Civilization. 44. Whichone of the following newspaper was launched by Motilal Nehru? A) Hindustan Times. B) Leader. C) National Herald. D) The Independent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Independent. 45. The crops cultivated by the Harrapans included A) Wheat, Cotton, Sugarcane. B) Barley, Groundnut, Rice. C) Wheat, Barley, Mustard. D) Wheat, Rice, Sugarcane. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wheat, Barley, Mustard. 46. Negrito race is the earliest people of India; this race now survives in the people of A) Andaman Islands. B) Chhota Nagpur Plateau. C) Nagaland region. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Andaman Islands. 47. The use of half-dome portal is the charac-teristic of which one of the following dynas-ties? A) Slave Dynasty. B) Mughal Dynasty. C) Lodi Dynasty. D) Tughlaq Dynasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mughal Dynasty. 48. Who was Dhanavantri? A) A Chemist. B) A Physician. C) A Philosopher. D) A Surgeon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Physician. 49. The following are the legislative contributions of Raja Rammohan Roy A) Reduction of export duties on Indian goods. B) Abolition of Sati. C) Indianisation of superior services. D) Abolition of East India company's trading rights. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abolition of Sati. 50. The Vallabhi era is identical with A) The Vikrama era. B) The Gupta era. C) The Harsha era. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Gupta era. 51. Who of the following founded a new city on the south bank of a tributary to river Krishna and undertook to rule his new kingdom as the agent of a deity to whom all the land south of the river Krishna was supposed to belong? [CSAT 2015-I] A) Amoghavarsha I. B) Ballala II. C) Harihara I. D) Prataparudra II. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harihara I. 52. The Marath Script was known as A) Peshurascript. B) Modiscript. C) Shivaji scipt. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modiscript. 53. By 1206, Islamic power in north India was secure and moved its base of power to: A) Surat. B) Agra. C) Bengal. D) Delhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Delhi. 54. I.N.A. (Indian National Army) trial took place in the A) Federal Court. B) Calcutta High Court. C) Supreme Court. D) Red Fort. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red Fort. 55. Austria, Russia and Prussia formed an alliance called A) The revolutionary alliance. B) Triple alliance. C) Holy alliance. D) Triple entente. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Holy alliance. 56. Writing about the volume of Indo-Roman trade, who bitterly remarked "not a year passed without the (Roman) Empire paying out 100 million sesterces (nearly one and a half-crore rupees) to India, to the Chera land and Arabia" ? A) Author of Periplus. B) Ptolemy. C) Pliny. D) Caldwell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pliny. 57. The pyramid of Gizeh was built by A) Thebes. B) Cheops. C) Tutankhamen. D) Rameses II. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cheops. 58. Kharaj was meant by? A) Land Tax. B) Law. C) House Tax. D) Loan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Land Tax. 59. The dynasty founded by Khizr Khan is known as Sayyid dynasty because A) Khizr Khan belonged to the Sayyid tribe of eastern Turkistan. B) He and his successors adopted the title Sayyid. C) Khizr Khan was the descendant of the prophet Muhammad. D) He was a scholar of Islamic theology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Khizr Khan was the descendant of the prophet Muhammad. 60. Which among the following Vedas is partly in prose? A) Yajurveda. B) Rigveda. C) Samaveda. D) Atharvaveda. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yajurveda. ← 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