Capital Quiz 5 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which one of the following sultans is credited with the appointment of 'Amir - Sadah' in the provinces?

Correct Answer: B) Muhammad Tughlaq.

2. Who among the following built the largest number of irrigation canals in the Sultanate period?

Correct Answer: C) Firuz Shah Tughlaq.

3. Who among the following Sultans of Delhi introduced the token currency?

Correct Answer: D) Muhammad bin Tughlaq.

4. Who among the following Sultans received the title of 'Syed-us-Salatin' from the Caliph?

Correct Answer: B) Balban.

5. Which Sultan of Delhi categorized the Ulema into 'Ulmai- Akhiral' and 'Ulma-i-Duniya' and praised the former?

Correct Answer: A) Balban.

6. Who among the Sultans is credited with having introduced a purely Arabic currency of gold and silver?

Correct Answer: A) Iltutmish.

7. Which sultan of Delhi refused to read 'Khutba' in the name of Khalifa for the first time?

Correct Answer: A) Alauddin Khalji.

8. Which one of the following iqtas was held by Sultan Iltutmish as its Muqta immediately before his accession?

Correct Answer: B) Badaun.

9. The term 'Khalisa' in the Sultanate and Mughal periods was used for

Correct Answer: D) Land revenue which was assigned to the nobles for maintaining troops.

10. Tipu Sultan of Mysore was killed in a bloody engagement in

Correct Answer: A) The fourth Mysore War.

11. Which Sultan declared himself as Sikandar-i-Sani, the second Alexander?

Correct Answer: B) Alauddin Khalji.

12. Tipu Sultan was a man of complex character. He was an innovator, which of the following was not one of his innovations?

Correct Answer: C) A new method of survey and settlement.

13. Which Sultan was the first to proclaim that the state in India of the Delhi Sultanate cannot be a truly Islamic state?

Correct Answer: B) Jalaluddin Khilji.

14. According to historian Ziauddin Barani, the ideal Sultan of Delhi was

Correct Answer: A) Firoz Shah Tughlaq.

15. With which Sultan of Delhi do you associate the compilation of Kingship theory and principles of administration called 'Vassayya" ?

Correct Answer: A) Balban.

16. Which dynasty rules for the longest period of time in the Delhi sultanate?

Correct Answer: C) Tughlaq dynasty.

17. Who among the following Sultans of Delhi was the first to have paid to his soldiers in cash?

Correct Answer: A) Alauddin Khilji.

18. Which Sultan introduced the practices of Sijda, Paibos and Nawroz in the Delhi Sultanate?

Correct Answer: C) Balban.

19. Which one of the following Sultans, was not an off spring of Iltutmish, but was the last successor of his dynasty?

Correct Answer: C) Nasiruddin Mahmud.

20. Who among the following Governor Generals formed the Triple Alliance against Tipu Sultan?

Correct Answer: B) Lord Cornwallis.