1. Aihole was the capital of the _______?
a. Chalukyas
b. Pallavas
c. Pandayas
d. Cholas
Answer - (a) Chalukyas
2. Who among the following devised the policy "Doctrine of Lapse" ?
a. Lord Dalhousie
b. Lord Mountbatten
c. Lord Cornwalls
d. Lord Canning
Answer - (a) Lord Dalhousie
3. At which Buddhist site of India did Gautama Buddha first preach the Dharma ?
a. Kushinagar
b. Barabar Caves
c. Bodh Gaya
d. Sarnath
Answer - (d) Sarnath
4. The Treaty of Lahore was signed between the British empire and____?
a. Maharaja Kharak Singh
b. Maharani Chand Kaur
c. Maharaja Ranjit Singh
d. Maharaja Duleep Singh
Answer - (d)
5. Ghiyasuddin Balban , ruler of the slave dynasty, took up the title of ____?
a. Nur-al-Din
b. NurMahal
c. Zil-i-ilahi
d. Jahan Panah
Answer -(c) Zil-i-ilahi
6. Who among the following was NOT a ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty ?
a. Muhammad-Bin-Tughlaq
b. Rukunuddin Tughlaq
c. Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
d. Firuz Shah Tughlaq
Answer -(b) Rukunuddin Tughlaq
7. What was the Pedestrian path for devotees to wave in homage to Stupa called in Buddhist architecture ?
a. Medhi
b. Torana
c. Anda
d. Chattra
Answer - (a) Medhi
8. Who among the following Mauryan rules fought the Kalinga War in 261 BC ?
a. Ashoka
b. Bindusara
c. Brihadratha
d. Chandragupta Maurya
Answer - (a) Ashoka
9. Who Wrote the famous novel " Gora " ?
a. Jawaharlal Nehru
b. Rabindranath Tagore
c. Bhagat Singh
d. Mahatma Gandhi
Answer -(b) Rabindranath Tagore
10. Who Said the slogan "Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it" ?
a. Ambika Charan Majumdar
b. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
c. Mahatma Gandhi
d. Bhagat Singh
Answer -(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
11. Who was Akbar`s revenue minister ?
a. Tansen
b. Todar Mal
c. Man Singh
d. Birbal
Answer - (b) Todar Mal
12. In Which of the following sites of Indus Valley Civilisation was 'The Great Bath' Found ?
a. Kalibangan
b. Dholavira
c. Lothal
d. Mohenjo-Daro
Answer - (d) Mohenjo Daro
13. In which year was the child Marriage Restraint Act Passed in India ?
a. 1929
b. 1931
c. 1935
d. 1933
Answer - (a) 1929
14. _____ founded Satyashodhak Samaj ?
a. Keshab Chandra Sen
b. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
c. Debendranath Tagore
d. Jyotiba Phule
Answer - (d) Jyotiba Phule
15. Which Mauryan ruler was called 'Amitrochates' by the Greeks ?
a. Samudra Gupta
b. Chandragupta I
c. Bindusara
d. Kanishka
Answer - (c) Bindusara