Indian History Quiz 22 (20 MCQs)

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1. All India Trade Union Congress was formed in the year

Correct Answer: B) 1920.

2. Which city was established on the banks of Ganga?

Correct Answer: A) Magadha.

3. What was the reason for the tripartite struggle

Correct Answer: C) Kannauj.

4. History is derived from the word

Correct Answer: C) Historia.

5. In which year, Interim Government of India (Arzi Hukumat-i-Hind) was formed by Subhash Chandra Bose?

Correct Answer: C) 1943.

6. The Dilwara Temple at Mount Abu in Rajasthan were built by the flowerers of

Correct Answer: B) Jainism.

7. Who is known as the father of Indian Missile Program?

Correct Answer: C) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

8. Who is known as the father of white revolution?

Correct Answer: B) Verghese Kurien.

9. Where was rice first cultivated?

Correct Answer: A) Vindhiya hills.

10. Which one of the following scripts of ancient India was written from right to left?

Correct Answer: C) Kharosthi.

11. In which part historians have divided Indian history?

Correct Answer: C) Ancient, Medieval, Modern.

12. Battle of Plassey was played in ..... year.

Correct Answer: C) 1757.

13. During which Mughal ruler's rule, did the Britishers enter India for trading?

Correct Answer: B) Jahangir.

14. Who was India's 1st Prime Minister?

Correct Answer: C) Jawharlal Nehru.

15. Tripitakas are scared books of

Correct Answer: A) Buddhists.

16. The name India came to English usage from the ..... century onwards.

Correct Answer: A) 17th.

17. The troops raised by the emperor but not paid directly the state and place under the charge of mansabadars were know as

Correct Answer: D) Dakhili.

18. Who wrote Astanghriday?

Correct Answer: C) Vagbhatta.

19. Which of the following rulers of ancient India declared Buddhism as state's religion?

Correct Answer: B) Ashoka.

20. The land to the east of Indus came to be called Hindustan by the

Correct Answer: C) Arabs.