This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Overview > Indian History – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Indian History Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who of the following was a Chola Emperor A) Prithviraj Chauhan. B) Jahangir. C) Shah Alam. D) Raja Raja. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Raja Raja. 2. "Double burials" is found from which site of Indus Valley civilization? A) Surkotda. B) Banwali. C) Dholaveer. D) Lothal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lothal. 3. Megasthenes served as an ambassador in the court of whom among the following? A) Chandragupta Maurya. B) Ashoka. C) Samudragupta. D) Harshavardhana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chandragupta Maurya. 4. Kalibanga is situated in which of these states? A) Gujarat. B) Haryana. C) Punjab. D) Rajasthan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haryana. 5. Where was alexander the great born in? A) Macedonia. B) India. C) Rome. D) Persia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macedonia. 6. Which of the following were the causes for the Tripartite struggle? 1. Kannauj was the former capital of Harshvardhana's empire and control of it represented the political domination over northern India. 2. Kannauj was connected to the silk road and an ideal location for trade and commerce. 3. Control of Kannauj also meant control of the Central Gangetic valley, which was rich in resources. Choose the correct option from the codes listed below A) 1 and 2. B) Only 2. C) 1 and 3. D) 1, 2 and 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1, 2 and 3. 7. During the Civil Disobedience Movement where did Sarojini Naidu led the satyagraha to raid the salt depot? A) Dandi. B) Wadala. C) Sanikatta. D) Dharasana. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dharasana. 8. Who is known as the father of Indian Green Revolution? A) A.R. Rahman. B) M.S. Swaminathan. C) Raja Ramanna. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) M.S. Swaminathan. 9. What was the shrap given to Karn from Parshuram A) That he would be killed by Arjun. B) That he would die in a war. C) That when he would need his art of waefare the most he would not be able to remember it. D) That when he goes any where near the kingdom of ayodhya he would get a deadly deasease. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That when he would need his art of waefare the most he would not be able to remember it. 10. Which of the following in the world Heritage list? A) Khajuraho. B) Nalanda ruins. C) Hampi ruins. D) Tajmehal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hampi ruins. 11. Who was Siraj-ud-Daulah? A) Nawab Of Bengal. B) Nawab of Awadh. C) Sultan of Bengal. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nawab Of Bengal. 12. On which day of the war did Karn die A) 9th. B) 23rd. C) 16th. D) 15th. E) 17th. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 17th. 13. The Indian Muslim League was founded at A) Lucknow. B) Aligar. C) Delhi. D) Dacca. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dacca. 14. Rote accounting method A) Bilhan. B) Kalhan. C) Anonymous. D) Merutunga. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anonymous. 15. Medieval period of India witnessed large scale changes in ..... A) Culture. B) Economy. C) Religion. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 16. Who wrote India's national song Vande Mataram? A) Rabindranath Tagore. B) Sri Aurobindo Ghosh. C) Sarojini Naidu. D) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. 17. Who wrote the first chronological history in India? A) Harsha. B) Bilhana. C) Kalhan. D) Rajshekhar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kalhan. 18. Contemporary of Gautam Buddha A) Bimbisara. B) Bindusara. C) Chandragupta Maurya. D) Ajatashatru. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bimbisara. 19. Which of following contributed great role to preserve Sanchi stupa A) Archeologist H C Cole. B) Shahjaha Begum. C) Both H C Cole and Shahjahan Begum. D) One of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both H C Cole and Shahjahan Begum. 20. The viyayanagura rular, kirshmade data's work Amuktamalyada, was in A) Telegu. B) Sanskrite. C) Tamil D. Mannada. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Telegu. 21. Which ruler named himself 'Sarvarajochchetta' meaning 'Uprooter of All Kings'? A) Raja Raja Chola. B) Samudragupta. C) Chandragupta Maurya. D) Chandragupta I. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Samudragupta. 22. Who founded pala dynasty? A) Mahendravarman. B) Asoka. C) Sukapha. D) Gopala. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gopala. 23. Who among the following was the first Indian to qualify for the Civil Services? A) Rabindranath Tagore. B) Satyendranath Tagore. C) Surendranath Bannerji. D) Jatin Mukherjee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Satyendranath Tagore. 24. Who was the author of mahabharat A) Balmiki Balmiki. B) Ved Vyas. C) Rudradaman Rudradaman. D) Chankya Chanakya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ved Vyas. 25. Who is a freedom fighter? A) Who always fights with his neighbours and friends. B) Who wants himself become the king or the queen. C) Who wants his people to have own nation and independency. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Who wants his people to have own nation and independency. 26. Who was the first to come to India for trade? A) Chinese. B) Arabs. C) French. D) British. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arabs. 27. When did India become free? A) 14th August 1948. B) 14th August 1947. C) 12 August 1930. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14th August 1947. 28. What happens if the shuttlecock lands on the line? A) Replay. B) Let. C) Counts as being out. D) Counts as being in. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Counts as being in. 29. Who wrote the indian anthem national anthem A) Rajendra prasad. B) Sheik mohameed. C) Jawalalal neru. D) Ram singh thakuri. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ram singh thakuri. 30. Who burnt the Nalanda university A) Mohammad Bin Tughalq. B) Aram Shah. C) Qutb ud din Aibak. D) Bakhtiyar Khilji. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bakhtiyar Khilji. 31. Who discovered sea route to India A) Vasco da Gama. B) Galieo Gallili. C) Cristopher Coloumbus. D) Ferdinand Mangllen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vasco da Gama. 32. What was the name of Goutam Buddha's mother? A) Chelna. B) Mahamaya. C) Goutami. D) Yashodhara. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahamaya. 33. What was the name of the vehicle that could fly A) Pushpak viman. B) Panchajanya. C) Indrasan. D) Ravanasan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pushpak viman. 34. Nirmal Hirday was in A) Maharashtra. B) Kolkata. C) Mahdya Pradesh. D) Kerala. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kolkata. 35. What is the capital of the Mauryan empire A) Kalinga. B) Pataliputra. C) Maghada. D) Vajji. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pataliputra. 36. Which among the following lead to Jalianwala bagh massacre A) The Rowlatt act. B) Vrnacular press act. C) The Public Safety Act. D) The arms act. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Rowlatt act. 37. Gautma Buddha's mother 'Mahamaya' belongs to which tribe? A) Kushan. B) Gupta. C) Pala. D) Koliya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Koliya. 38. When (year) was tiger declared as national animal? A) 1980. B) 1993. C) 1972. D) 1973. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1973. 39. To which professions earlier leaders who struggled for freedom of india mainly belonged? A) Lawyers. B) Teachers. C) Journalists. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 40. Who was last Rajput king. A) None of the above. B) Ashoka. C) Prithviraj Chauhan. D) Karandev Vaghela. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Karandev Vaghela. 41. Baraha Avtar Aa Vishnu Rescuing ..... A) God Ingra. B) Goddess Laxmi. C) Earth Goddess. D) God Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earth Goddess. 42. Where is Muslim mosque situated where a hair of pagamber Mohammad Saheb has been preserved? A) Ajmer. B) Ahmedabad. C) Mecca. D) Srinagar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Srinagar. 43. Who of these were famous in the name of ' Sher of Punjab '? A) Rajguru. B) Udham Singh. C) Bhagat Singh. D) Lala Lajpat Rai. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lala Lajpat Rai. 44. The system of com petitive examination for civil servise was accepted is principal in the year A) 1853. B) 1882. C) 1858. D) 1833. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1853. 45. How do you win a set? A) 1st to 21 points and be at least 2 points ahead. B) 1st to 11 points and be at least 2 points ahead. C) 1st to 20 points and be at least 2 points ahead. D) 1st to 30 points and be at least 2 points ahead. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st to 21 points and be at least 2 points ahead. 46. Which Mourya Ruler is also known as "Amitraghat" ? A) Chandragupta. B) Ashok. C) Dashrath. D) Bindusar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bindusar. 47. Who built Brahadeeshwara Temple? A) Kulotunga I. B) Parantaga I. C) Raja RajaI. D) Rajendra I. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Raja RajaI. 48. First Satyagraha of Gandhiji A) Champaran. B) Poona. C) Ahmedabad. D) Kheda. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Champaran. 49. After the bloodshed caused in the Battle of ....., Ashoka vowed to never fight wars. A) Chausa. B) Plassey. C) Kalinga. D) Panipat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kalinga. 50. The two main sources of history are ..... A) Physical and abstract. B) Literary and archaeological. C) Coins and manuscript. D) Pillars and inscription. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literary and archaeological. 51. Who wrote Hind Swaraj? A) Bal Gangadhar. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) Bhagat Singh. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahatma Gandhi. 52. Where is Kalibangan located A) Punjab. B) Rajasthan. C) Gujarat. D) Maharashtra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rajasthan. 53. Who delivered the first Indian Independence day speech? A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Motilal Nehru. C) DR. Ambedkar. D) Jawaharlal Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jawaharlal Nehru. 54. What's the national tree? A) Apple Tree. B) Banyan Tree. C) Ashoka Tree. D) Neem Tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Banyan Tree. 55. Where were Guru Nanak born? A) Punjab. B) Bihar. C) Talwandi. D) Varanasi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Talwandi. 56. The books of famous author R.K. Narayan is based in which place.(The setting of most of his books) A) Coimbatore. B) Rann. C) Malgudi. D) Madras. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Malgudi. 57. To which king belongs the lion capital at sarnath? A) Chandragupta. B) Ashoka. C) Kanishka. D) Harsha. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ashoka. 58. Ayodhya is situated on the banks of which river A) Sarayu. B) Yamuna. C) Ganga. D) Godavari. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sarayu. 59. What was the name for Gandhi's teachings of non-violence based on compassion for life? A) Satyagraha. B) Ahimsa. C) Shanti. D) Ananda. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satyagraha. 60. 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