This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian History > Miscellenous Questions – Quiz 43 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscellenous Questions Quiz 43 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following Act, ensured the establishment of the supreme court in India? A) Pitt's India Act, AD 1784. B) Charter Act, 1793 AD. C) Charter Act, 1813 AD. D) The Regulating Act, AD 1773. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Regulating Act, AD 1773. 2. As per government of India Act-1858, how many members were appointed to assist the Secretary of State for India? A) 14. B) 10. C) 15. D) 13. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 15. 3. The most important feature of the Dravida style of temple architecture is A) Shikhara. B) Mandapa. C) Gopuram. D) Vimana. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vimana. 4. Sea route to India was discoveredby A) Columbus. B) Amundsen. C) Vasco-da-gama. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vasco-da-gama. 5. Who estimated the Indian National Income and criticized the constant drain of wealth from India to England? A) Tilak. B) Dada bhai Naoroji. C) Gokhale. D) Ghandi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dada bhai Naoroji. 6. Male Spartans lived in military barracks from the age of A) 8 to 70. B) 9 to 50. C) 10 to 80. D) 7 to 60. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9 to 50. 7. On what evidence is South Russia/Central Asia regarded as the original home of the Aryans? A) Philological. B) Anthropological. C) Racial. D) Archaeological. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Philological. 8. How did medieval cathedrals help to educate an illiterate public? A) They held religious education classes. B) They required Church members to learn and to read the Bible. C) They supported tax-based public education. D) They featured sculptures and stained glass that portrayed biblical stories. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They held religious education classes. 9. Rock Edict XIII (also known as Separate Rock Edict, because it is not found elsewhere) is regarded as one of the most important documents of Ashokan history, because: A) It expresses his regret and remorse at the suffering caused by the Kalinga War. B) It expresses a new idea of conquest that of dhammavijaya instead of victory by war and violence. C) It is the longest of the fourteen major Rock Edicts and is recorded in a tone of recapitulation. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 10. Who led the Bardoli Satyagraha in 1928? A) Morarji Desai. B) M. K. Gandhi. C) Mahadev Desai. D) Vallabhbhai Patel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vallabhbhai Patel. 11. What is the name of the collection of hymns of Alvar Saints? A) Divya Prabandha. B) Kabir Wani. C) Tamil Veda. D) Granthawali. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Divya Prabandha. 12. Rabindra Nath Tagore renounced his knighthood for which reason? A) Jallianwalla Bagh Tragedy. B) Cruel suppression of Civil Disobedience Movement. C) Bhagat Singh was hanged. D) Chauri-Chaura incident. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jallianwalla Bagh Tragedy. 13. Who of the following officers were charged with superintendence of women? A) Antahpur-adhyakshas. B) Dhamma-mahamattas. C) Anta-mahamattas. D) Ithijhakha-mahamattas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ithijhakha-mahamattas. 14. Who, among the early nationalists, carried on active propaganda in England to persuade the British to yield to their demands? A) Dinshaw E. Wacha. B) M.G. Ranade. C) Gopal Krishan Gokhale. D) Dadabhai Naoroji. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dadabhai Naoroji. 15. The earliest evidence of agriculture in Indian Subcontinent has been obtained from A) Burzahom. B) Mehrgarh. C) Chirand. D) Brahmagiri. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mehrgarh. 16. Who abolished Iqta system? A) Qutubuddin Aibak. B) Alauddin Khilji. C) Iltutmish. D) Balban. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alauddin Khilji. 17. Where was Ambar Palace situvated A) Sikim. B) Hariyana. C) Thripura. D) Rajastan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rajastan. 18. After 1640, Christianity in Japan: A) Flourished. B) Was confined to the trading ports. C) Became the state religion. D) Was suppressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was suppressed. 19. Maurya empire declined after Ashoka mainly because of A) The policy of ahimsa leading to military weakness. B) Ashoka's excessive patronage to Buddhism. C) Weak successors of Asoka. D) Decentralisation of powers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weak successors of Asoka. 20. Which of the following is not considered an Indo-Aryan language? A) Persian. B) Avesta. C) Arabic. D) English. 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