This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian History > Exam Based > Miscellenous Questions – Quiz 59 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscellenous Questions Quiz 59 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Salaka-Purusha is a concept associated with the A) Jainas. B) Buddha's. C) Pasupatas. D) Bhagavatas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jainas. 2. Bimbisara was the founder of which one of the following dynasties? A) Maurya. B) Haryanka. C) Nanda. D) Shunga. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haryanka. 3. What was the worst part of the permanent settlement of Bengal? A) Creation of absentee landlords. B) Subjection of the cultivator to untold misery. C) Disintegration of the village communities. D) Sub-infatuation of estates and holdings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subjection of the cultivator to untold misery. 4. Which of the following correctly describes the land of the Seven Rivers (Sapta Sindhu) where the initial Aryan settlements were located? A) The Indus Valley region. B) The Punjab and Delhi region. C) The region from Eastern Afghanistan to the upper valley of the Ganges. D) The land of the Indus and its principal tributaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The land of the Indus and its principal tributaries. 5. TheAryans came from Central Asia to India around A) 2500 B.C. B) 6500B.C. C) 3500 B.C. D) 8000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2500 B.C. 6. According to Brihaspati the grades of artisans were A) Four. B) Two. C) Eight. D) Six. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Six. 7. During Akbar's reign the biggest gold coin was called? A) Jalali. B) Dam. C) Ilahi. D) Shamsab. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ilahi. 8. Who was the master of imperial mint at Delhi during the reign of Akbar? A) Khwaza Abdus Samad. B) Mir Sayyid Ali. C) Jehangir. D) Mansur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Khwaza Abdus Samad. 9. A very important source far the political structure and social condition of Gujarat from the 9th to 13th centuries is the text known as A) Sukraniti. B) Panchtantra. C) Rajatarangini. D) Lekhapaddhati. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lekhapaddhati. 10. Japan's earliest neolithic culture was the: A) Yin. B) Jomon. C) Han. D) Hoabinhian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jomon. 11. Which of the following is not the provision of the government of India Act, 1858? A) Provision for the creation of an Indian Civil Service under the control of the Secretary of State. B) The Queen's Principal Secretary of State received the powers and duties of the Company's Court of Directors. C) India was to be governed in the Queen's name. D) The British Parliament was empowered to appoint a Governor-General and the Governors of the Presidencies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The British Parliament was empowered to appoint a Governor-General and the Governors of the Presidencies. 12. The magnificient temple at Halebid was establishedby A) Pandyas. B) Cholas. C) Hosysalas. D) Naickers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hosysalas. 13. Uposatha was practiced A) By the Kapalikas as symbolic renunciation of pleasure in external objects. B) By widows of the Brahmanical religion through periodic fasting. C) By Buddhist monks in an assembly. D) By the Tantrilcs as part of their worship of shakti. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By Buddhist monks in an assembly. 14. To which of the following governor general goes the credit of taking steps to stop the human sacrifices practiced by the Khonds in Orissa under the erroneous belief that there by the fertility of the land was increased? A) Lord Canning. B) Lord Ellenborough. C) Lord Dalhousie. D) First Lord Hardinge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) First Lord Hardinge. 15. The earliest rock cut caves in western India are those at- A) Nasik, Ellora and Ajanta. B) Junnar, Kalyan and Pitalkhora. C) Ajanta, Bhaja and Kondane. D) Bhaja, Pitalkhora and Kondane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nasik, Ellora and Ajanta. 16. Which European power was the last who reached India? A) Germans. B) Portuguese. C) The French. D) The Dutch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The French. 17. In which place February 21, 1915 was fixed as the date for an armed revolt by the Ghadarites? A) Bengal. B) Punjab. C) Madras. D) Bombay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Punjab. 18. Who among the following Hindu Painters was sent by Jehangir to make a portrait of Shah Abbas I of Persia? A) Dasrath. B) Bishan Das. C) Basawan. D) Manohar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bishan Das. 19. Which of the following was a result of the plague in Europe A) The Hundred Years' War. B) Economic decline. C) Political reform. D) The rebirth of Christianity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The rebirth of Christianity. 20. Svetambaras and Digambaras were two sects of A) Jainism. B) Buddhism. C) Vaishnavism. D) Saivism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jainism. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesMiscellenous Questions Quiz 1Miscellenous Questions Quiz 2Miscellenous Questions Quiz 3Miscellenous Questions Quiz 4Miscellenous Questions Quiz 5Miscellenous Questions Quiz 6Miscellenous Questions Quiz 7Miscellenous Questions Quiz 8Miscellenous Questions Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books