This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Exam Based > Miscellenous Questions – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscellenous Questions Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was the father of Tarabai? A) Hambhirrao Mohite. B) Santaji. C) Dhanaji. D) Prataprao Gujar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hambhirrao Mohite. 2. Who was the President of the 'Flag Committee'? A) K. M. Munshi. B) J. B. Kriplani. C) B. R. Ambedkar. D) D. P. Khetan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) J. B. Kriplani. 3. Hemu was captured and brought before Akbar by..... A) Shah Qulihan Mehran. B) Farid. C) Bairam Khan. D) Salim. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shah Qulihan Mehran. 4. ..... was the Tutor of Haroon-ur-Rashid: A) Khalid Rarmaki. B) Yahya Barmaki. C) Ghazali. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ghazali. 5. Who may be the founder of Pratihara dynasty? A) Dharmapala. B) Pratihara. C) Gopala. D) Bhoja. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pratihara. 6. The earliest 'man like creature' which racially differed from 'Homo sapiens' is generally known as A) Eoanthropus. B) Pithecanthropus. C) Sinanthropus. D) Hominid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hominid. 7. Purvasailas were a branch of A) The Sthaviravada sect of Buddhism. B) Purva-Mimamsakas. C) The Shwetamber sect of Jainism. D) The Mahasangbika sect of Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Mahasangbika sect of Buddhism. 8. The commercial rivalry between the Dutch and the English in India came to an end A) Following issuance of orders granting monopoly in favour of the British East India Company by the Pope. B) As a result of an agreement between the trading stations at Government of Britain and Holland in 1609. C) With the defeat of the Dutch at the battle of Bedara in 1759. D) As a result of the 'Massacre at Amboyna'. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With the defeat of the Dutch at the battle of Bedara in 1759. 9. It is said that Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar's contribution to the making of modern India is many-sided. Which of the following aspects contribute to it? A) Farmers and depressed class upliftment. B) New methodology of teaching Sanskrit. C) Uplifting downtrodden women, abolishing child marriage, widow remarriage. D) Both B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both B and C. 10. In 1498, vasco da gama landed at A) Calicut. B) Nalanda. C) Delhi. D) Calcutta. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calicut. 11. Who among the following was the Governor-General of India immediately preceding Chakravarthi Raja gopalachari? A) The Marquess of Linlithgow. B) Lord Chelmsford. C) Lord Mountbatten. D) Lord Wavell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lord Mountbatten. 12. Who was the Subhedar of Surat Port? A) Bairam Khan. B) Inayat Khan. C) Mubarak Khan. D) Daulatkhan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inayat Khan. 13. Chinese script was A) Hieroglyphic. B) Phonetic. C) Ideographic. D) Pictographic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ideographic. 14. Evidence of ploughing the land is found from. A) Harappa. B) Kalibangan. C) Ropar. D) Rangpur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kalibangan. 15. With which period do we associate the 'Megaliths'? A) Mesolithic. B) Pleistocene. C) Chalcolithic. D) Neolithic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neolithic. 16. Expansion of agricultural land took place on the largest scale in which period? A) Post-Mauryan age. B) Gupta age. C) Mauryan age. D) Pre-Mauryan age. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gupta age. 17. Who was the most trusted Advisor of Emperor Bahaudur Shah during the Revolt of 1857? A) Prince Zawan Bakht. B) Prince Bakht Khan. C) Queen Zeenat Mahal. D) Haqim Ahsanulla. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haqim Ahsanulla. 18. The maximum number of additional members of the council of Bengal was raised from 20 to ..... A) 25. B) 70. C) 50. D) 60. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 50. 19. Who among the following was appointed by Ashoka to administer justice in his empire? A) Kumaramatya. B) Shramana. C) Uparika. D) Rajuka. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rajuka. 20. Which one of the following was an important seaport in the Kakatiya kingdom? A) Dharanikota. B) Mottuppalli. C) Machilipattanam. D) Nelluru. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nelluru. 21. Prior to the Renaissance, the major impediments to European trade with Asia were: A) The Arabs and Turks. B) Long and hazardous distances. C) Mountain ranges and deserts. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 22. The leaders of 1857 Mutineers who was caught & hanged was A) Tantya Tope. B) Nana Saheb. C) Kunwar Singh. D) Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tantya Tope. 23. Which of the following personality is related with the "Deepavali Declaration"? A) Subhas Chandra Bose in 1941. B) Lord Linlithgow in 1940. C) Lord Irwin in 1929. D) Gandhiji in 1930. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lord Irwin in 1929. 24. In which of the following regions Mahalwari System of Revenue Settlement was introduced? A) Bengal. B) Madras. C) Bombay. D) North-Western Provinces. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) North-Western Provinces. 25. Kalidas worte (dramas) A) Vikramorvasiyam. B) Abhijnana Sakuntalam. C) Malavikagnimitram. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 26. Amir Khusrau's Khazain-ul-futuh gives an account of the military campaign of A) Malik Kafur in South India. B) Sultan Balban in the Mewat region. C) Feroze Tughlaq in Orissa. D) Muhammad Tughlaq in Gujarat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malik Kafur in South India. 27. In medieval India, Mansabdari system was introduced for: A) Effecting clean administration. B) Ensuring religious harmony. C) Making recruitment to the army. D) Facilitating revenue collection. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Effecting clean administration. 28. The Mongol invasion of Southeast Asia lasted from A) 1350 to 1450. B) 1150 to 1250. C) The start of the Tran Dynasty to the building of Anghor Thom. D) 1257 to 1301. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1257 to 1301. 29. Iranian learnt the game of chess from A) China. B) Egypt. C) India. D) Iraq. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) India. 30. The Greeks gave the world the idea of A) Communism. B) Democracy. C) Socialism. D) Oligarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Democracy. 31. The Chinese calendar was A) Solar-lunar. B) Solar. C) Gregorian. D) Lunar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solar. 32. Which of the following characterised by the Rajputs? A) They formed the intellectual elite of the Hindus. B) Their institutions resembled the feudal system of medieval Europe and had all its defects. C) They were divided into several classes, each under a hereditary chief, but had no hostility among themselves. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Their institutions resembled the feudal system of medieval Europe and had all its defects. 33. ..... was primarily responsible for making India a secular State. A) Gandhi. B) Patel. C) Jawaharlal Nehru. D) Gokhale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jawaharlal Nehru. 34. Who separated centre state finance? A) Lord Cornwallis. B) Lord Mayo. C) Lord Hardinge. D) Lord Irwin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord Cornwallis. 35. Kunwar Singh was a ruined & discontented Zamindar of A) Patna. B) Jagdishpur. C) Mirzapur. D) Muzaffarpur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jagdishpur. 36. Why did some religious people want to reform the Church during medieval times? A) It had grown too powerful. B) It had grown corrupt. C) It had grown weak. D) It had grown too big. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It had grown too big. 37. Who among the following was the real founder of the Aligarh Muslim University? A) Muhammed Ali Jinnah. B) Abul Kalam Azad. C) Nawab Salimullah. D) Syed Ahmad Khan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syed Ahmad Khan. 38. Whose painting style was an immediate inspiration at the time of Babur's conquest of Delhi? A) Mansur. B) Bihzad. C) Miskin. D) Sayyid Ali. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bihzad. 39. The chief center of Portuguese trade with India was: A) Goa. B) Agra. C) Calicut. D) Surat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Goa. 40. Who abolished the dual system of Government Bengal? A) Clive. B) Spencer. C) Warren Hastings. D) Comwallis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Warren Hastings. 41. Which among the fol1owing constituted the novelty of the Art of Painting of Ravi Verma? A) Portraits. B) Frescoes. C) Use of all colours in painting Indian Mythological. D) Water Colour Drawings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Use of all colours in painting Indian Mythological. 42. Shivaji did the second loot of Surat at A) 3-5 Oct. 1670. B) 1-5 December1670. C) 1-2 January 1670. D) 15 May 1670. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3-5 Oct. 1670. 43. Which of the following known as 'Jnani Manav' A) Homeosapians. B) Africany. C) Primates. D) Homeorachy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homeosapians. 44. Which one of the following Vijayanagar rulers was the author of Amuktamalyada? A) Deva Raya II. B) Bukka I. C) Harihara II. D) Krishna Deva Raya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Krishna Deva Raya. 45. Ramanuja Acharya gave stress on A) Bhakti. B) Dharma. C) Moksha. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bhakti. 46. Which of the following pair is matching one? A) Taranath - Mahavamsh. B) Bihan - Rajatarangini. C) Alberuni - Kitab-ul-hind. D) Fa-hein - Rehla. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alberuni - Kitab-ul-hind. 47. Which was the revenue system introduced in Punjab by British? A) Ryotwari. B) Mahaiwari. C) Mirasdari. D) Jagirdari. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahaiwari. 48. Whose said the given statement - "I came alone and I am going alone. I have not done well to the country and the people and of the future, there is no hope": A) Dara Shikoh. B) Jahangir. C) Mir Jumla. D) Aurangzeb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aurangzeb. 49. Which one of the following pairs of kings of ancient and medieval periods of Indian history and the works authored by them is correctly matched? A) Somesvara : Amuktamalyada. B) Krishnadevaraya : Samaranganasutradhra. C) Bhojadeva : Manasollasa. D) Mehendravarman : Mattavilasaprahasana. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mehendravarman : Mattavilasaprahasana. 50. Which of the following statements is not applicable to the Mahalwari settlement? A) It was a permanent measure introduced as an improvement on the other two measures. B) It was applied to each village and the estate separately. C) The government instead of coming in contract with the cultivator made settlement with the village community as a whole. D) It was introduced in the Gangetic valley, the Punjab and the parts of Central India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was a permanent measure introduced as an improvement on the other two measures. 51. Sheikh Moin-ud-din, Bakhtiyar Kaki and Farid-ud-din Ganj-i-Shakar were A) Prominent chisti saints. B) Prominent painters from the Sultanate period. C) Prominent military leaders of the Sultanate period. D) Prominent poets from the courts of the Sultanate period. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prominent chisti saints. 52. The Aryans came to India from A) South East Asia. B) Eastern Europe. C) Central Asia. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Central Asia. 53. The Pala ruler who was defeated by the Prathihara ruler Nagabhatta? A) Govindapala. B) Mahipala. C) Dharmapala. D) Gopala. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dharmapala. 54. The Dandi March is associated with A) Partition of Bengal. B) Non-cooperation Movement. C) Khilafat Movement. D) Civil Disobedience Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Civil Disobedience Movement. 55. In the revenue settlement of Todarmal, the land never left fallow was known as? A) Banjar. B) Polaj. C) Parauti. D) Chachar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polaj. 56. During Aurangzeb's reign, whose duty was it to see that people lived their lives by the 'Sharia'? A) Walashuhis. B) Ahadis. C) Muhtasibs. D) Mansabhdars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Muhtasibs. 57. Which of the following was NOT an innovation of the Neolithic Revolution? A) Improved toolmaking. B) Farming. C) Pottery. D) Printing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Printing. 58. The exclusive right of trading between ..... was granted to the East India Company. A) The Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan. B) Red Sea and Caspian Sea. C) North America and South America. D) France and Poland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan. 59. Pushti marg is a Vaishnav sect of the Hinduism was founded by? A) Shankaracharya. B) Ramanujacharya. C) Vallabhacharya. D) Nimbarkacharya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vallabhacharya. 60. Who founded SERVENT OF INDIA SOCIETY? A) SN Banerjee. B) BG Tilak. C) GK Gokhale. D) MK Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) GK Gokhale. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesMiscellenous Questions Quiz 1Miscellenous Questions Quiz 2Miscellenous Questions Quiz 3Miscellenous Questions Quiz 4Miscellenous Questions Quiz 6Miscellenous Questions Quiz 7Miscellenous Questions Quiz 8Miscellenous Questions Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books