Thursday, March 17, 2011

Quiz 23 | History Questions 201-300

201. Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system followed in?

A. Afghanistan
B. Turkey
C. Mongolia
D. Persia

Answer : C

202. The concept of Anuvrata was advocated by?

A. Mahayana Buddhism
B. Hinayana Buddhism
C. Jainism
D. The Lokayata School

Answer : C

203. Ashtapradhan was a Council of Ministers?

A. In the Gupta administration
B. In the Maratha administration

Answer : B

204. Which one has a dome which is said to be one of the largest in the world?

A. Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur
B. Jama Masjid, Delhi

Answer : A

205. Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system followed in?

A. Afghanistan
B. Turkey
C. Mongolia
D. Persia

Answer : C

206. Toramana belonged to the ethnic horde of the?

A. Scythians
B. Hunas
C. Yue-chis
D. Sakas

Answer : B

207. Vidhushaka, a common character in Sanskrit drama is invariably a?

A. Brahmana
B. Kshatriya
C. Vaishya
D. Shudra

Answer : A

208. The first Indian ruler who joined the subsidiary Alliance was?

A. The Nawab of Oudh
B. The Nizam of Hyderabad

Answer : B

209. Which important trade centre of ancient India was on trade route connecting Kalyana with Vengi?

A. Tagara
B. Sripura
C. Tripuri

Answer : A

210. The name of the poet Kalidas is mentioned in the?

A. Allahabad pillar inscription
B. Aihole inscription
C. Alapadu grant

Answer : B

211. In the Gandhara sculptures the preaching mudra associated with the Buddha's 1st Sermon at Sarnath is?

A. Abhaya
B. Dharmachakra

Answer : B

212. The capital of the kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was?

A. Amritsar
B. Patiala
C. Lahore
D. Kapurthala

Answer : C

213. Statue of Gomateshwara at Sravanabelagola was built by?

A. Chandragupta Maurya
B. Kharvela
C. Amoghavarsha
D. Chamundaraya

Answer : D

214. Who introduced paper currency in India?

A. Hindu Kings
B. Muslim rulers
C. The British rulers
D. The Greek conquerors

Answer : C

215. Who introduced leather coins?

A. Ibrahim Lodhi
B. Mohammad Tuglak
C. Jahangir
D. Akbar

Answer : B

216. Which period came first?

A. British period
B. Muslim period
C. Greek period
D. Hindu period

Answer : D

217. Who is USA's Father of the Nation?

A. Abraham Lincoln
B. Washington
C. Jefferson
D. Roosevelt

Answer : B

218. Who first built the Grand Trunk Road?

A. Humayun
B. Sher Shah Suri
C. Shahjahan
D. Jahangir

Answer : B

219. Why did Aryans come to India?

A. To find grass for their cattle
B. To hunt tigers
C. To drive out Tamils
D. To conquer land

Answer : A

220. Which Revolution fathered Russian Revolution?

A. French revolution
B. American Revolution
C. Industrial Revolution
D. All

Answer : D

221. Who helped America the most in getting freedom from the British?

A. Italy
B. Canada
C. France
D. India

Answer : C

222. What was Burma before its independence?

A. A part of India
B. A part of China
C. A part of Thailand
D. A part of Malaysia

Answer : A

223. Where do we find the remains of Buddhist religion?

A. Thailand
B. Sri Lanka
C. Afghanistan
D. All of the above

Answer : D

224. What should a genuine history deal with?

A. Lives of kings
B. Lives of masses of people
C. Lives of feudal lords
D. All

Answer : B

225. The Golden Temple at Amritsar was built by

A. Guru Nanak
B. Guru Arjan Dev
C. Guru Tej Bahadur
D. Gobind Sing

Answer : B

226. Kautilya, the author of Arthasathra was a contempoary of?

A. Ashoka
B. Samura Gupta
C. Harshavardhana
D. Chandra Gupta Maurya

Answer : D

227. Which among the following is the oldest dynasty?

A. Maurya
B. Gupta
C. Kushan
D. Kanva

Answer : A

228. Where did the traveler Ibn Batuta come from?

A. Persia
B. Morocco
C. Turkey
D. Central Asia

Answer : B

229. The ancient name of North Bihar was?

A. Vriji
B. Vasta
C. Surasena
D. Avanti

Answer : A

230.'Charak' was the famous court physician of?

A. Harsha
B. Chandragupta Maurya
C. Ashoka
D. Kanishka

Answer : D

231.In 1751 the Nawab of Bengal ceded Orissa to—

A. The Marathas
B. The Nawab of Avadh
C. The Afghans

Answer : A

232. The relics of Indus Valley Civilization indicate that the main occupation of the people was?

A. Agriculture
B. Cattle rearing

Answer : A

233. Which type of ancient script did the Harappan use?

A. Pictographic
B. Linear
C. Hieroglyphic
D. Symbolic

Answer : A

234. Which of the following materials was mainly used in manufacture of Harappan seals?

A. Terra cotta
B. Bronze
C. Copper
D. Iron

Answer : A

235. Which Sultan of Delhi had accepted the suzerainty of the Timurid ruler Mirza Shah Rukh?

A. Firuz Tughlaq
B. Khizr Khan Sayyid

Answer : B

236. Who among the following ruler was a famous musician?

A. Swathi Thirunal
B. Moolam Thirunal
C. Marthanda Varma

Answer : A

237. The development of architecture was at its peak during the reign of?

A. Nandas
B. Cholas
C. Guptas

Answer : C

238. Which port was called Babul Makkha (Gate of Makkah) during the Mughal period?

A. Calicut
B. Calcutta
C. Surat

Answer : C

239. Who among the following was a great musician in the court of Akbar?

A. Abdul Fazal
B. Amir Khusro
C. Ramdas
D. Ten

Answer : D

240. The literature of the Sangam age was written mostly in the form of?

A. Prose
B. Poetry
C. Drama
D. All of these

Answer : B

241. Which rulers built Ellora temple?

A. Chalukya
B. Rashtrakuta
C. Pallava
D. Sunga

Answer : B

242. The Hoysala's capital was?

A. Warangal
B. Devagiri
C. Dwarasamudra
D. Krishnagiri

Answer : C

243. Who introduced the famous Persian festival of Nauroz?

A. Alauddin Khilji
B. Iltumish
C. Firoz Tughlaq
D. Balban

Answer : D

244. Chinese pilgrim who visited India during Harsha Vardhana's period was?

A. Hiuen Tsang
B. Fa-hien
C. Itsing
D. Nishka

Answer : A

245. Which of the following is a port town of Indus Valley Civilization?

A. Harappa
B. Ropar
C. Banawali
D. Lothal

Answer : D

246. Which of the following was the physician who adored Kanishka's court?

A. Vasumita
B. Charaka
C. Parsva
D. Asvaghosha

Answer : B

247. Who among the following Mugal Emperors had the longest reign?

A. Muhammad Shah
B. Bahadur Shah
C. Farrukhsiyar

Answer : A

248. Two principal monuments of Ala-ud-din Khiliji's reign, the Jama'at Khana Masjid & Alai Darwaja were constructed at?

A. Delhi
B. Mysore

Answer : A

249. Who amidst the following lived the earliest?

A. Panini
B. Asvaghosha
C. Kalidasa

Answer : A

250. The Meenahshi temple at Madurai is the monument of?

A. Pallavas
B. Pandyas
C. Cholas
D. Cheras

Answer : B

251. Chalukya King who had title of Sri Prithvi-Vallabha and Parameswara was?

A. Pulakesin I
B. Maharaja Kirthivarman
C. Pulakesin II

Answer : c

252. Who introduced first the famous token currency system in India?

A. Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughlak
B. Muhamad-bin-Tughlak

Answer : B

253. Who was the first ruler of the Pala Dynasty of Bengal?

A. Gopala
B. Devapala
C. Vigropala
D. Dharmapala

Answer : A

254. Which of the following animals was generally not known to the Indus Valley People?

A. Horse
B. Rhinoceros
C. Bull
D. Cow

Answer : A

255. Which of the following Mughal emperor's tomb is outside India?

A. Akbar
B. Shajahan
C. Aurangazeb
D. Jehangir

Answer : D

256. Which among the following dynasties had the strongest navy?

A. Chalukya
B. Chola
C. Gupta
D. Pallava

Answer : B

257. The large residential university established in ancient time was at?

A. Cochin
B. Vaishali
C. Nalanda
D. Harappa

Answer : C

258. At the earlier stage backward classes movement means?

A. Santal movement
B. Non-Brahmin movement
C. Harijan movement

Answer : B

259. Which language was used in the literature of sangam period

A. Kannada
B. Telugu
C. Tamil
D. Sanskrit

Answer : C

260. Which of the following Shaka king reconstructed the Sudarshana lake

A. Rudradaman I
B. Manes
C. Chastana
D. Bhumaka21

Answer : A

261. Who was the first ruler in India to issue coins which can be definitely attributed to the kings?

A. Indo-Greeks
B. Kushans

Answer : A

262. The Hathigumpha inscription (near Bhubaneshwar, Orissa) relates to which king?

A. Susharma
B. Hala
C. Kharavela
D. Pulamayi

Answer : C

263. Who among the following was a famous astronomer?

A. Bhanabhatta
B. Vishakadatta
C. Nagarjuna
D. Aryabhatta

Answer : D

264. The capital of Mysore during Tipu Sultan's rule was?

A. Bangalore
B. Devagiri
C. Coimbatoor
D. Srirangapattanam

Answer : D

265. Sir Thomas Rose visited the court of?

A. Akbar
B. Jehangir
C. Shajahan

Answer : B

266. In Sanskrit plays written during the Gupta period, women & Sudras speak:

A. Prakrit
B. Sauraseni
C. Pali
D. Sanskrit

Answer : A

267. Temple architecture was most developed under

A. Rastrakutas
B. Pallavas
C. Pandyas
D. Cheras

Answer : B

268. Which ruler went to Sri Lanka to spread Buddhism?

A. Ashoka
B. Samudragupta
C. Sanghamitra
D. Chitragupta

Answer : C

269. The first major inscription in classical Sanskrit is that of?

A. Rudradaman
B. Chandragupta Vikramaditya
C. Kanishka

Answer : A

270. Who built a tomb for Sher Shah at Sasaram?

A. Ibrahim Shah
B. Islam Shah
C. Sher Shah
D. Sikandar Shah

Answer : D

271. The main centre or meeting point of Indo-Roman trade in ancient times was?

A. Rome
B. Calicut
C. Alexandria
D. Karaikkal

Answer : B

272. Who pursued the policy "Blood and Iron" ?

A. Balban
B. Firuz Tughlaq
C. Malik Kafur
D. Alauddin Khilji

Answer : A

273. "Nav Ratnas" (nine gems) were the famous personalities associated with the court of:

A. Chandra Gupta II
B. Harshavardhana

Answer : A

274. Which Indian ruler established embassies in foreign countries on modern lines

A. Shah Alam II
B. Mir Quasim
C. Haider Ali

Answer : A

275. Which of the following rulers had the title Kaviraja?

A. Kumaragupta
B. Chanragupta
C. Skandagupta
D. Samudragupta

Answer : D

276. Which Muslim ruler was keen to have friendly relations with the Rajputs?

A. Akbar
B. Humayun
C. Babar
D. Aurangzeb

Answer : A

277. Which Sikh Guru was executed by Aurangzeb?

A. Guru Arjun Dev
B. Guru Ram Das
C. Guru Teg Bahadur
D. Guru Gobind Singh

Answer : C

278. Which amidst the following was not a fort of the Maratha ruler Shivaji?

A. Sindhudurg
B. Raigad
C. Amber
D. Padmadurg

Answer : C

279. Which of the following Rajput dynasties did not surrender to Akbar

A. Parmar
B. Pratihara
C. Rathor
D. Sisodiya

Answer : B

280. Who announced the Communal Award?

A. British PM Ramsay Macdonald
B. Lord Lytton

Answer : A

281. Who was the founder of the Indian Association?

A. Lala Lajpat Rai
B. Surendranath Banerjee

Answer : B

282. According to the Puranas, original place of the rulers of lunar dynasty was?

A. Kashi
B. Ayodhya
C. Pratishthanpur

Answer : C

283. The best preserved pillar erected by Ashoka is that of -

A. Lauria-Nandangarh
B. Sanchi
C. Sarnath
D. Kausambi

Answer : C

284. Who was called 'Zinda Pir' or 'Living Saint' in Mughal India?

A. Babur
B. Akbar
C. Shahjahan
D. Aurangzeb

Answer : D

285. Who was Titu Mir?

A. Leader of Faraji Movement
B. Leader of Wahabi Movement
C. Leader of Indigo Revolt
D. Leader of Sepoy Mutiny

Answer : A

286. Who wrote Humayunnama?

A. Badaoni
B. Gulbadan Begum

Answer : B

287. Name the Bengali poet who was conferred with the title "Gunaraj Khan" in the Sultanate period :

A. Maladhar Basu
B. Chandidas

Answer : A

288. Who built the famous Adina Mosque in Bengal?

A. Iliyas Shah
B. Sikandar Shah
C. Azam Shah
D. Hamza Shah

Answer : B

289. Name one revolutionary who attacked the 'Writer's Building's'?

A. Anathbandhu Panja
B. Mrigen Datta
C. Binoy Basu

Answer : C

290. Which one of the following books is the official History of Revolt of 1857?

A. Eighteen Fifty Seven
B. Theories of Indian Mutiny

Answer : A

291. Who wrote the Book entitled 'Ghulamgiri'?

A. B. R. Ambedkar
B. Narayan Guru
C. Jyotiba Phule
D. M. P. Pillai

Answer : C


292. 'Civil disobedience Movement' began with -

A. Kakori incident
B. Dandi March
C. Arrival of Simon Commission
D. Chauri-Chaura

Answer : B

293. Who called Mahatma Gandhi a 'naked fakir'?

A. Lord Litton
B. Churchill
C. George Pancham
D. Lincoln

Answer : C

294. In which year Non-cooperation Movement was started?

A. 1922
B. 1923
C. 1920
D. 1921

Answer : C

295. Who wrote the book Hind Swaraj in the year 1909?

A. Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
B. Mahatma Gandhi
C. Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer : B

296. In which year and where Khilafat Committee was constituted?

A. 1921, Madras
B. 1919, Hyderabad
C. 1919, Bombay
D. 1921, Culcutta

Answer : C

297. People gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh on the April, 1919 to protest against-

A. The Rowlatt Act
B. Simon Comission

Answer : A

298. What was the name of Ujjain in ancient times?

A. Takshila
B. Awantika
C. Indraprashtha
D. None of the above

Answer : B

299. Musical instrument 'Tabla' was introduced by-

A. Adil Shah
B. Amir Khusrau
C. Tansen
D. Baiju Bawara

Answer : B

300. "Let no man ask a man's sect or caste." This statement has been given by-

A. Kabir
B. Ramananda
C. Ramanuja
D. Chaitanya

Answer : A

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