This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Exam Based > Miscellenous Questions – Quiz 34 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscellenous Questions Quiz 34 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When did M.K Gandhi participate in the Second Round Table Conference? A) Signing the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of March 1931. B) Fruitful talks with Sapru. C) Receiving assurances that independence was fast coming. D) Getting assurance from the Muslim League that it would not oppose his claim to represent the whole of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Signing the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of March 1931. 2. Who among the following was the mother of Prabhavati Gupta? A) Kumardevi. B) Kuberanaga. C) Dhruvadevi. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kuberanaga. 3. After 1835, Parliament decided to: A) Stop educating Indians. B) Suppress the Hindu Renaissance. C) Openly encourage India's interest in its own culture. D) Encourage Indian interest in Western learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Encourage Indian interest in Western learning. 4. Who is considered to be the founder of Bhakti movement? A) Ramanujacharya. B) Madhwacharya. C) Nimbakacharya. D) Shankaracharya. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ramanujacharya. 5. The emperor who had the Taj Mahal built was: A) Shah Jahan. B) Jahangir. C) Nur Jahan. D) Akbar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shah Jahan. 6. Chandra Shekhar Azad was ..... of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. A) Secretary. B) Field Marshal. C) Commander-in-Chief. D) President. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commander-in-Chief. 7. Ziggurat was a temple in the city of A) Lagash. B) Akkad. C) Ur. D) Eridu. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ur. 8. Which one of the following was a new cash crop introduced in India during the 17th century? A) Groundnut. B) Red chilly. C) Tobacco. D) Indigo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red chilly. 9. The Babmani Kingdom was founded by A) Hasan. B) Malilc Kafur. C) Zain-ul-Abidin. D) Timur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hasan. 10. Satavahanas belonged to A) Andhra region. B) Maharashtra. C) Kalinga. D) Konkan region. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Andhra region. 11. The creator of the Dutch trading empire in Southeast Asia was: A) Pieter Gynt. B) Jan Pieterzoon Coen. C) Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. D) Felix Cabal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jan Pieterzoon Coen. 12. The French Revolution took place in the year A) 1729. B) 1647. C) 1789. D) 1775. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1789. 13. The Gurka troops of the British army come from A) Bangladesh. B) Nepal. C) India. D) Sri Lanka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nepal. 14. Which ruler of India issued Mahzarnama to take all the religious matters into his own hands? A) Iltutmish. B) Shahjahan. C) Akbar. D) Nadir Shah. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Akbar. 15. The great Royal Road mentioned by Megasthenes ran from A) Pataliputra to Prayag. B) Prayag to Ujjaini. C) Pataliputra to Taxila. D) Indus to Pataliputra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indus to Pataliputra. 16. Which of the following women has NOT been a ruler of a South Asian country? A) Indira Gandhi. B) Suu Kyi. C) Sirimavo Bandaranaike. D) Benazir Bhutto. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suu Kyi. 17. When did Aurangzeb arrive in Deccan finally to quell the revolt of Marathas? A) 1682. B) 1700. C) 1681. D) 1689. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1689. 18. Which Lodhi ruler was originally named as Nizam Khan? A) Sikandar Lodhi. B) Bahlul Lodi. C) Ibrahim Lodhi. D) Dilawar Khan Lodhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sikandar Lodhi. 19. In which state, the Kondo Dora revolt broke out? A) Andhra Pradesh. B) Gujrat. C) Bihar. D) Rajasthan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Andhra Pradesh. 20. Which one among the following statements regarding the social and religious reform ideas of Raja Rammohan Roy is not correct? A) His efforts led to the formation of Brahmo Samaj in 1828. B) He considered different religions as embodiments of universal theism. C) He paid attention exclusively to the problems/issues of the emerging middle class of India. D) His Vedantic monism was strengthened after 1815 since an exposure to Christian unitarianism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He paid attention exclusively to the problems/issues of the emerging middle class of India. 21. Which one of the following is included in the rights of serfs? A) The right to work on certain land and pass the lands to their heirs. B) The right to move from one manor to another. C) The right to marry whomever they wanted to marry. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 22. The Tughluqs were: A) A Hindu resistance movement. B) The successors to the Ala-ud-din order. C) An Islamic religious order. D) Turkish revolutionaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The successors to the Ala-ud-din order. 23. Anational religion called Din-i-Illahi was promulgated by A) Babur. B) Akbar. C) Aurangazeb. D) Humayun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Akbar. 24. The most striking example of the architectural closeness between Achaemenid Iran and Mauryan India was: A) Terracotta objects found at various Mauryan sites. B) The lion-capital at Sarnath. C) The stone elephant at Dhauli. D) The royal palace at Pataliputra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The royal palace at Pataliputra. 25. Which among the following cities is considered as one of the oldest surviving cities in the world? A) Ayodhya. B) Hardwar. C) Mathura. D) Varanasi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mathura. 26. By which Governor General and when was the Carnatic state annexed? A) Lord Minto-1808. B) Lord Wellesley-1801. C) Sir John Shore-1797. D) Lord Cornwallis-1792. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lord Wellesley-1801. 27. Which one of the following dynasties was ruling at the time of Alexanders invasion? A) Nanda Dynasty. B) Kanva Dynasty. C) Sunga Dynasty. D) Maurya Dynasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nanda Dynasty. 28. Despite the fact that Christians viewed Muslims with hostility, A) They learned from Muslim advances in science and mathematics. B) They refused to select a Muslim ruler. C) They treated them with charity and kindness. D) They lost the battle of Tours in France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They learned from Muslim advances in science and mathematics. 29. In which year was the decree called 'Mahzar' issued during Akbar's reign? A) 1560 A.D. B) 1572 A.D. C) 1576 A.D. D) 1579 A.D. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1579 A.D. 30. Italy was unified with the occupation of the city of Rome in A) 1872. B) 1868. C) 1870. D) 1869. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1870. 31. Sri Ramanuja Acharya was an Indian philosopher and is recognized as the most important saint of-------- A) Nirguna. B) Sri Vaishnavism. C) Sri Vaishnavism. D) Sikkhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sri Vaishnavism. 32. Ramayana was translated into Persian at Akbar's court by whom? A) Faizi. B) Haji Ibrahim Sirhindi. C) Badayuni. D) Abul Fazl. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Badayuni. 33. In March 1784 the treaty of Mangalore was concluded mainly at the insistence of A) Colonel Fullarton. B) Warren Hastings. C) Tipu Sultan. D) Lord McCartney. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lord McCartney. 34. The Ghadar party, formed in the USA, was determined to start a revolt in India. Which among the following provinces did the party choose to begin its armed revolt? A) Punjab. B) Bengal. C) United Provinces. D) Bihar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Punjab. 35. Which one of the following was not included in the Navratnas of Akbar? A) Mansingh. B) Birbal. C) Todarmal. D) Badaoni. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Badaoni. 36. Before which of his important battles in India did Babur declare the abolition of Tamgha tax? A) Panipat. B) Khanwa. C) Chanderi. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Khanwa. 37. Consider the following statement and identify the author of the statement using the codes given below I shall work for an India in which the poorest shall feel that it is their country, in whose making they have an effective voice, an India in which there shall be no high class and low class of people, an India in which all communities shall live in perfect harmony. A) Pandit Nehru. B) Baba Saheb Ambedkar. C) Gurudev Tagore. D) Mahatma Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gurudev Tagore. 38. The mausoleum of Jahangir had been built by ..... at ..... A) Shah Jahan: Fatehpur Sikri. B) NooIjahan: Agra. C) Noorjahan: Lahore. D) Shah Jahan: Delhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Noorjahan: Lahore. 39. Fakir Azizuddin and Dewan Dina Nath were minister under A) Muhammad Khan Bangash. B) Ranjit Singh. C) Muhammad Shah. D) Suraj Mal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ranjit Singh. 40. Lichchavi princess Kumara Devi was married to A) Chandragupta I. B) Chandragupta II. C) Pravarasena. D) Harshavardhana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chandragupta I. 41. "White Mutiny" by the European soldiers, was staged during the period of: A) Dalhousie. B) Ripon. C) Canning. D) Mayo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Canning. 42. The number of members in the Simon Commission/was ..... A) 10. B) 7. C) 12. D) 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7. 43. Atharvana veda has as its Brahman Book. A) Satpath. B) Aiterya. C) Panchvimsh. D) Gopath. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gopath. 44. The historical site wherein and early inscription referring to the five heroes of the Vrishnis is found is A) Mathura. B) Ghoshundi. C) Besnagar. D) Dwarka. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mathura. 45. Ka'bah is situated in the valley of: A) Makkah. B) Faran. C) Medina. D) Taif. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Medina. 46. What the term 'Bhakti' refers to? A) Bhakti is derived from the root bhaj, which means "divide. B) Bhakti is derived from the root bhaj, which means collaboration. C) Both A & B. D) Only B. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bhakti is derived from the root bhaj, which means "divide. 47. One problem that Indira Gandhi was unable to overcome was: A) Tamil insurgency. B) Agricultural production. C) Maintaining good relations with the West. D) Sikh unrest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sikh unrest. 48. What was the 'privy purse' in the context of the history of modern India? A) A purse given privately by one organisation to another. B) A purse given by the Government of India to dignitaries for services rendered. C) A grant given by the Government of India to the erstwhile Prince of India. D) A gift given by an erstwhile Prince of India to the Government of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A grant given by the Government of India to the erstwhile Prince of India. 49. Consider the following passage- In the course of a career on the road spanning almost thirty years, he crossed the breadth of the Eastern hemisphere, visited territories equivalent to about 44 modern countries and put behind him a total distance of approximately 73000 miles. The world's greatest traveller of pre-modern times to whom the above passage refers is A) Marco Polo. B) Fa Hien. C) Megasthenes. D) Ibn Battuta. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Marco Polo. 50. During whose regime, did Deimachos, the Greek ambassador, visited India? A) Ashok. B) Bindusar. C) Chandragupta Maurya. D) Brthadrath. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bindusar. 51. The oldest ancestor of modern man to be found in Asia has been located in both: A) India and Burma. B) Vietnam and Java. C) Java and China. D) India and China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Java and China. 52. Do or Die slogan is associated with A) Nethaji. B) Bala Gangadhara Tilak. C) Jawaharlal Nehru. D) Mahatma Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mahatma Gandhi. 53. The founder of French East India Company for trade in India was A) Colbert. B) Francois Martin. C) De La Haye. D) Francois Caron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colbert. 54. In Early Medieval India "Dosi Hatt" was A) Meena Bazar. B) Kapaas (Cotton) Market. C) Animal Market. D) Slave Bazar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kapaas (Cotton) Market. 55. 'Tol Kappiyam' is a book on A) Grammar. B) Logic. C) Religion. D) Politics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grammar. 56. Who said Hanooz Dilli Door Ast? A) Nizamuddin Aulia. B) Firdausi. C) Todarmal. D) Farid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nizamuddin Aulia. 57. In ancient times 'Sectora' was situated in A) The Mouth of Mediterranean Sea. B) The Mouth of Indus valley. C) The Mouth of Narmada River. D) The Mouth of Red sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Mouth of Red sea. 58. What was the real objective of the partition of Bengal? A) Build up separate administrative units for better efficiency of administration. B) Create division among the ranks of Indian nationalists. C) Appease the large majority of Muslims. D) Stop the tide of nationalism in Bengal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stop the tide of nationalism in Bengal. 59. Which of the following dynasties under the Saivaite Nayanmars and Vashnavaite Alwars preached the Bhakti cult? A) Pallavas, Pandyas and Cholas. B) Pallavas, Kaktyas and Cholas. C) Pallavas, Pandyas and Cheras. D) Rashtrakutas, Pandyas and Cholas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pallavas, Pandyas and Cholas. 60. Which of the following was not one of the reasons why the conquest of Kalinga was of strategic and economic importance to the Mauryan empire? A) It stood in the way of the southern routes from the Ganges valley. B) It was also a powerful maritime state and, therefore a convenient source of income. C) Its rich and fertile land could contribute to the economic prosperity of the empire. D) It provided continuity to the Mauryan territories of Andhra and Bengal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Its rich and fertile land could contribute to the economic prosperity of the empire. ← 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