Chola Quiz 1 (51 MCQs)

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1. Evidence regarding Chola paintings has been found at
2. Which one of the following was a temple built by the Chola Kings?
3. Which of the following was the lowest unit of Chola administration?
4. The Chola administrative system the Sabha was
5. The Chola ruler who wrested tondaimandalam from the Rashtrakutas was
6. The most important feature of the Chola administration was?
7. Which was the main seaport of Cholas
8. Who said that "the Chola artists conceived like grants and finished like jewellers.? "
9. Which noted scholar wrote Vikramankadevacharita?
10. Chola rulers were followers of?
11. Karikala, the Chola king, made a grand anicut on the Kaveri, the water of which nowadays drawn off through a new channel called Vennar. Which of the following regions of Tamil Nadu does it irrigate?
12. Which one of the following Chola rulers had persecuted Ramanuja and ousted him from his Kingdom?
13. The Chola empire reached its zenith under
14. The Cholas, the Pandyas, the Kealaputras and the Satyaputras are mentioned as his neighboring powers by Ashoka in
15. Chola Empire was divided into:
16. An enormous Nandi, the second largest in India is a feature of which Chola temple?
17. Aryabhatta believed to have been born in the 5th century AD, was a most renowned scholar of
18. Which of the following represents the town inhabited by merchants and traders in Chola period?
19. During whose regime did Albaruni, a scholar of Central Asia visited India?
20. Which chola ruler completed the conquest of Sri Lanka?
21. Which one of the following statements is not correct about the members of the various bodies responsible for Chola local selfgovernment?
22. Which among the following was not the cause of continuous war between Cholas and Chalukyas of Kalyan?
23. During the reign of which ruler was Sri Lanka lost to the Cholas
24. Who built the Brihadeshwara temple at Gangai kondacholapuram
25. The chola who launched and expedition into Bengal upto the Ganga river was,
26. In the Chola kingdom, a very large village administered as a single unit was called:
27. The Chola rulers were generally
28. Who is the Sanskrit Scholar in the court of Chandragupta
29. Which of the following is true about Chola Society?
30. The 'Razmanama' which was compiled by several Persian scholars was a translation of
31. An Important character of the Chola empire was
32. It is said that in Chola territory, watered by Kaveri, the space in which an elephant could lie down produced enough to feed seven persons. What does this statement imply?
33. The chief feature of the temples constructed by the Cholas was their
34. The number of provinces or mandalams in the Chola Empire was
35. There was an administrative unit under the Cholas named Kurram. What did it signify?
36. Which, among the following Scholarly works, was not written by Bhavbhuti?
37. Who was the 'Mandala mudali' in the Chola administrative set up?
38. Which one of the following temples does not belong to the Cholas?
39. The Sabha during the Chola period comprised of
40. Chola power was based on all of the following EXCEPT:
41. An example of Chola architecture cab be seen at
42. Brihadeeshwara Temple which was built by Raja Raja Chola I is dedicated to?
43. In 1901 the State Census Manual of recorded Sree Narayana as a revered "Guru" and an erudite Sanskrit scholar.
44. Under Cholas village administration the land revenue was collected by
45. Which one of the following was the primary assembly in the Chola village administration?
46. Which of the following Bhakti Cult preached under the Pallavas, Pandyas and Cholas?
47. Scholar officials in Iron age of China were known as
48. Cholas were known from the time of
49. What was the name of the Chola king who made conquests in Sumatra and Malay peninsula?
50. Which one of the following assemblies protected the interests of traders under the Chola administration?
51. On the ruins of which one of the following dynasties was the Chola empire established?