This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian History > Miscellenous Questions – Quiz 39 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscellenous Questions Quiz 39 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Sixteen Mahajanapadas are referred to in. A) Anguttat Nikay. B) Sanyukta Nikay. C) Deegh Nikay. D) Khuddak Nikay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anguttat Nikay. 2. In which year did Alexander invade India? A) 236 BC. B) 362 BC. C) 326 BC. D) 623 BC. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 326 BC. 3. In which year Kalibagab was excavated A) 1924. B) 1923. C) 1953. D) 1930. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1953. 4. Several socio-political organisations were formed in the 19th and 20th centuries in India, Anjuman-e-Khawatin-e- Islam founded in the year 1914 was A) All India Muslim Ladies Conference. B) A radical wing of the All India Muslim League. C) All India Muslim Student's Conference. D) All India Islamic Conference. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All India Muslim Ladies Conference. 5. The main contribution of Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar to education and in particular to women education are: A) Break priestly monopoly of scriptural knowledge(Sanskrit) and opening to non-Brahmins. B) Charles wood dispatch on education, influenced it towards female education. C) Lady Hardinge medical college at Delhi. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 6. Name the English man who tried to obtain from Akbar a Firman for trade in Gujarat? A) Ralph Fitch. B) John Mildenhall. C) Sir Thomas Roe. D) Thomas Stephens. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Mildenhall. 7. The Alahabad pillar inscription was com-posed by A) Samudragupta. B) Vishnugupta. C) Harisena. D) Vikramaditya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harisena. 8. The greatest Muslim Art in which they have achieved incomparable success is A) Paintings. B) Architecture. C) Calligraphy. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calligraphy. 9. Which of the following were epics in early Tamil Literature? A) Padirruppattu and Maduraikkanchi. B) Silappadikaram and Manimekhalai. C) Ahananuru and Purananuru. D) Tolkappiyam and Tirukkural. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Silappadikaram and Manimekhalai. 10. Which of the following was the wonderful discovery made by Hippalus in A.D. 45, leading to increasing of trade with Rome? A) The existence of the monsoon winds, blowing across the Indian Ocean. B) Fitting of sails to the ships. C) A shorter route for Rome to the eastern coast of India. D) Propelling of ship with mechanical aid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The existence of the monsoon winds, blowing across the Indian Ocean. 11. Khuddak Nikay belongs to. A) Jatak. B) Vinay Pitak. C) Abhidharmrna Pitak. D) Sulta Pitak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abhidharmrna Pitak. 12. Which one of the following commissions/ committees was appointed by the British Government to investigate into the massacre in Jallianwala Bagh? A) Butler Committee. B) Hunter Committee. C) Welby Commission. D) Simon Commission. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hunter Committee. 13. Consider the following paragraph He was seriously injured in police lathi charge in Lahore during demonstrations against Simon Commission, for which he subsequently died in November, 1928. Later on, the British officer who was responsible for the lathi charge on him, was shot dead by Bhagat Singh and Rajguru. The revolutionary referred to in the above paragraph is A) Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant. B) Lala Lajpat Rai. C) Mangal Singh. D) Motilal Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Motilal Nehru. 14. Rudradaman was one of the greatest A) Kushan rulers. B) Pallava rulers. C) Maurya rulers. D) Saka rulers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saka rulers. 15. Bismarck was called the man who gave Germany the policy of A) Blood & iron. B) Holy wars. C) Holy alliance. D) Triple alliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blood & iron. 16. The fortification of Calcutta by the British in 1756 was regarded by the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-Daulah, as A) An attack upon his sovereignty. B) Insecurity of the British in India. C) British control over Bengal. D) Growth of large-scale British trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An attack upon his sovereignty. 17. Muhammad Ghazni invaded India 17 times between A) 1025-1046 A.D. B) 950-1000 A.D. C) 1000-1026 A.D. D) 900-950 A.D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1000-1026 A.D. 18. Who founded the Varkari sect in Maharashtra? A) Visoba Khechar. B) Eknath. C) Tukaram. D) Namdev. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Visoba Khechar. 19. Who of the following adopted 'Garuda' as dynastic emblem after the imperial Guptas? A) Shilaharas. B) Western Chalukyas. C) Chedis. D) Rashtrakutas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rashtrakutas. 20. The chief weapon of the nomads of Central Asia was the: A) Sword. B) Composite bow. C) Lance. D) Axe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Composite bow. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 9Miscellenous Questions Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books