This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Polity > Capital – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Capital Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Sarnath's Lion Capital is attributed to A) Kanishka. B) Chandragupta. C) Ashoka. D) Harshavardhana. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ashoka. 2. Gangaikondacholapuram became the capital of the Chola empire from the time of A) Kulottunga I. B) Rajendra I. C) Vikrama Chola. D) Parantaka I. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rajendra I. 3. The Second Capital of Gupta ruler Chandragupta II was? A) Ujjain. B) Saurashtra. C) Malwa. D) Mehrauli. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ujjain. 4. Kanishka's capital was at A) Kanauj. B) Peshawar. C) Amravati. D) Mathura. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amravati. 5. What was the capital of Chandelas? A) Ajmer. B) Bhinmal. C) Kannauj. D) Khajuraho. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Khajuraho. 6. Kanchi was the capital of A) Pallavas. B) Rashtrakutas. C) Chalukyas. D) Cholas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pallavas. 7. Which was first capital of Magdha? A) Pataliputra. B) Champa. C) Vaishali. D) Girivarja ( Rajgriha). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Girivarja ( Rajgriha). 8. During muslim rule was the capital of Spain A) Cordava. B) Toledo. C) Garnada. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Garnada. 9. What city served as the capital of the Byzantine Empire? A) Adrianople. B) Constantinople. C) Nicodemia. D) Ankara. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ankara. 10. The capital of Magadha was shifted from Rajgriha to A) Kannauj. B) Varanasi. C) Patliputra. D) Ujjaini. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Patliputra. 11. Which among the following was the capital of Shivaji? A) Panhala. B) Poona. C) Raigarh. D) Singhagarh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Raigarh. 12. Consider the following passage : "His records proclaim him as a feudatory of the emperor Somesvara III. He was his capitals at Talakad in the South and Bankpura in the North. It was in A. D. 1137 that he performed the great ceremony of Tulapurusha." The above passage refers to A) Vishnuvardhana. B) Yayati Mahashivgupta-I. C) Mayursarman. D) Ananta Varman Chodaganga. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vishnuvardhana. 13. By which ruler Pataliputra was chosen for the first time as a capital? A) Udayin. B) Kalasok. C) Ajatasatru. D) Kanishka. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Udayin. 14. The planning of the capital in the Arthashastra indicates that the industrial and commercial classes were A) Not given any consideration. B) Provided specific quarters in the township. C) Allotted space outside the township. D) Allotted space inside and outside the township. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Provided specific quarters in the township. 15. The capital of Kakatiya dynasty was A) Dwarasamudra. B) Madurai. C) Warangal. D) Hampi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Warangal. 16. Which Nawab of Bengal shifted his capital from Murshidabad to Monghyr? A) Shuja-ud-din. B) Siraj-ud-daulah. C) Mir Jafar. D) Mir Qasim. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mir Qasim. 17. An Indian ruler of the 18th century who planted "the Tree of liberty" at his capital, enrolled himself as a member of the Jacobin club of France and loved himself to be called 'Citizen', was A) Haider Ali. B) Mir Jafar. C) Banda Bahadur. D) Tipu Sultan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tipu Sultan. 18. Four major provinces of the Mauryan empire were the Northern, Eastern, Western and Southern provinces, each under the vice-royalty of a prince or a member of the royal family. Which of the following provincial capitals of the Mauryan empire was the capital of the Northern province? A) Ujjain. B) Suvarnagiri. C) Taxila. D) Tosali. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taxila. 19. Who among the following Indian freedom fighters made an attempt to estimate the per capital income of India? A) Surendranath Banerjee. B) Feroze Shah Mehta. C) Dadabhai Naorji. D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dadabhai Naorji. 20. What was the capital of Paramaras? A) Kannauj. B) Manda. C) Dhara. D) Khajuraho. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dhara. 21. The ancient kingdom of Avanti had its capital at A) Ayodhya. B) Pataliputra. C) Ujjain. D) Vaishali. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ujjain. 22. In sixth century BC, Suktimati was the capital of A) Chedi. B) Panchala. C) Avanti. D) Kuru. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chedi. 23. The capital of Gupta Empire was A) Peshawar. B) Dhanyakatakam. C) Pataliputra. D) Kannauj. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pataliputra. 24. Which one of the following was the capital of Kosala? A) Sravasti. B) Indraprastha. C) Kaushambi. D) Shuktimati. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sravasti. 25. The first capital of Abbasid Caliphate was A) Al-Hashmiyah. B) Samrah. C) Baghdad. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Baghdad. 26. What was the name of the capital of Anga (a mahajanpada)? A) Viratnagar. B) Varanasi. C) Kaushambi. D) Champa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Champa. 27. The capital of the kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was- A) Patiala. B) Lahore. C) Kapurthala. D) Amritsar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lahore. 28. With the emergence of Abbasids the Capital was transfer from Syria to A) Iran. B) Bagdad. C) Egypt. D) Iraq. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Egypt. 29. Champa was the capital of which one of the following Mahajanapadas in Ancient India? A) Magadha. B) Vajji. C) Anga. D) Kasi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anga. 30. The Chalukya capital was shifted from Manyakheta to Kalyani by A) Somesvara I Ahavamalla. B) Vikramaditya VI. C) Perma Jagadekamalla II. D) Tailappa III. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Somesvara I Ahavamalla. 31. Why did Mohammad-bin Tughlaq shift his capital from Delhi to Deogiri? A) Because the new capital occupied a central and strategic location. B) Because he wanted to extend his empire to the south. C) As a punishment for the people of Delhi. D) Because he was fed up with Delhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because the new capital occupied a central and strategic location. 32. After 1099, the capital of Vietnam (Hoa-la) was moved to the site of present-day: A) Beijing. B) Dehli. C) Hanoi. D) Tran. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hanoi. 33. The capital of Umayyad dynasty was: A) Damascus. B) Khusran. C) Cairo. D) Baghdad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Khusran. 34. Gangaikonda Cholapuram was built during medieval India and was erected as the capital of the Cholas by? A) Vikram Chola. B) Gajendra Chola. C) Rajendra Chola III. D) Rajendra Chola I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rajendra Chola I. 35. "So complete was the ruin that not a cat or dog was left among the buildings of the city, in its palace or its suburbs." The above statement about the transfer of capital by Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq was made by A) Amir Khusrau. B) Ziauddin Barni. C) Ibn Batuta. D) Isami. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ziauddin Barni. 36. In ancient India, the earliest capital of Magadha kingdom was at? A) Rajgir. B) Pataliputra. C) Vaishali. D) Varanasi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rajgir. 37. Foreign capitalists were attracted by Indian industry for a variety of reasons. Which one of the following reasons was not one of them? A) For many Indian products there was a ready demand the world over. B) Raw materials were readily and cheaply available. C) Labour was extremely cheap. D) Indian capitalist class wars well developed but unable to compete. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indian capitalist class wars well developed but unable to compete. 38. Who was the viceroy of India when British Indias capital was shifted from Culcutta to Delhi? A) Lord Dalhousie. B) Lord Hardinge. C) Lord Curzon. D) Lord William Bentinck. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lord Hardinge. 39. What was the capital of Gurjara Pratiharas? A) Rangapur. B) Bhinmal. C) Khajuraho. D) Manda. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bhinmal. 40. Who was the only converted Indian muslim to become the head of the Delhi Sultanate? A) Kaikubad. B) Masud Shah. C) Qaimurs. D) Nasiruddin Khusrau Shah. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nasiruddin Khusrau Shah. 41. In the Delhi Sultanate an administrative unit called Pargana was headed by A) Amin. B) Shiqdar. C) Barid. D) Ariz. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amin. 42. General policy of the Delhi Sultanate toward the native religions of India became: A) Increasingly repressive. B) Disinterested. C) Increasingly tolerant. D) Indecisive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increasingly tolerant. 43. Sultan Ala-ud-din Khalji: A) Conquered all of southern India. B) Defeated the Mongols. C) Took Islam into Southeast Asia. D) Forbade Islamic law in north India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Defeated the Mongols. 44. Which sultan had a dispute with Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya? A) Jalaluddin Khilji. B) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq. C) Mohammad-bin-Tughlaq. D) Feroz Shah Tughlaq. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq. 45. Which of the dynasties ruled for the shortest period of time during of course of the Delhi Sultanate? A) Khilji dynasty. B) Slave dynasty. C) Sayyid dynasty. D) Lodhi dynasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Khilji dynasty. 46. Who among the following officers held highest stature in the central government of the Sultanate? A) Head of the Majlis-i-Khalawat. B) Naib-i-Mulk. C) Qazi-ul-Mulk. D) Wazir. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Naib-i-Mulk. 47. The Bahmani Sultanate came into being during the reign of which Sultan? A) Feroz Shah Tughlaq. B) Mohammad-bin-Tughlaq. C) Ibrahim Lodhi. D) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mohammad-bin-Tughlaq. 48. Tipu Sultan was defeated and killed in the Fourth Anglo- Mysore War (1799). Who of the following did not give a share in Tipu's territories? A) The English. B) The Hindu dynasty of Mysore. C) The Marathas. D) The Nizam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Marathas. 49. What was the main objective of Sultan Mahmud's Indian conquests? A) Propagation of Religion. B) Extension of Empire. C) Acquisition of Wealth. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Acquisition of Wealth. 50. Who of the following Sultans of Delhi had abolished the tax on grain (also called Zakat on grain)? A) Firoz Shah Tughlaq. B) Alauddin Khilji. C) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq. D) Sikandar Lodi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sikandar Lodi. 51. Which one of the following Sufi Saints saw the rule of seven Sultans but visited the court of none? A) Shaikh Nizamuddin Chishti. B) Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki. C) Baba Farid-ud-din Chishti. D) Nasiruddin 'Chiragh' Delhvi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shaikh Nizamuddin Chishti. 52. Qismat-i- khote in the Delhi Sultanate was A) A cash payment made by the State to the village headman. B) A village assigned to a khot. C) A small cess collected by the village headman from the peasants. D) The revenue assessed on the land cultivated by the khots and Muqaddams. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A small cess collected by the village headman from the peasants. 53. Tax on plunder during war in the Sultanate period was known as A) Jizya. B) Zakat. C) Khums. D) Kharaj. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Khums. 54. The title Sultan-us-Sharq was assumed by the ruler of A) Orissa. B) Bengal. C) Jaunpur. D) Assam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jaunpur. 55. What was Iqta in sultanate period? A) Territories of land. B) A tax. C) A form of military. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Territories of land. 56. Sultan Balban was devoted to A) Shaikh aulia. B) Kaki. C) Khwaja Muin-uddin chisti. D) Baba Farid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Baba Farid. 57. Tipu Sultan was ahead of his contemporaries in many respect because A) He understood the threat posed by English to the Indian powers. B) He understood the importance of strong economic base for the military power. C) He understood the importance of modern trade and industry. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 58. "Every pearl in the Royal Crown is but the crystallized drop of blood fallen from the tearful eyes of the poor peasant." The above remark about the poverty of the Indian peasant during the Delhi sultanate was made by A) Ibn Battuta. B) Ziauddin Barani. C) Minhajuddin Siraj. D) Amir Khusrau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amir Khusrau. 59. The Sultan Ganj Buddha Statue in Bronze belongs to A) Kanishka. B) Mauryas. C) Harsha. D) Guptas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Guptas. 60. Which one of the followin sufi saint refused to meet sultan alauddin Khalji? A) Nizamudding Auliya. B) Baba barid Ganj-e-shakar. C) Qutubuddin Bakhiar Kaki. D) Moinuddin chisti. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nizamudding Auliya. 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