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1. In the Vedic society, which was the term used to denote a group of families?
Answer-Grama
2. What was the script used in the earliest Tamil inscriptions?
Answer-Brahmi
3. Which ports handled the north Indian trade during the Gupta period?
Answer-Broach
4. Which Tomar ruler is credited to have established Delhi?
Answer-Anangpal
5. Who was the Sultan of Delhi who is reputed to have built the biggest network of canals in India?
Answer-Feroze Shan Tughlaq
6. Which school of paintings developed independently during the Mughal Period?
Answer-The Bijapur School
7. Which ‘Englishmen was fellow of Gandhiji in South Africa?
Answer-Polak
8. Who com merited that Cripps Mission was a postdated cheque on a crashing bank?
Answer-Mahatma Gandhi
9. At which one place did Mahatma Gandhi first start his Satyagraha in India?
Answer-Champaran
10. Bhakt Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal emperor?
Answer-Jahangir
11. Who was called Zinda Pir (living saint) in Mughal India?
Answer-Aurangzeb
12. In which nomad man started settling?
Answer-Neolithic Age
13. Rigveda is divided into 10 books. Which books are the oldest?
Answer-Second and seventh
14. Who was the last of the 24th Jain Tirthankaras?
Answer-Mahavira
15. Which site, where Ashokan pillars exist, has the bull capital? Answer-Rampurva
16. During which reign was Kalidasa lived?
Answer-Chandragupta II
17. Which Rashtrakuta ruler established a victory pillar in Rameshwaram?
Answer-Krishna III
18. Who was the last ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate?
Answer-Nasir-ud-din-Mahmud
19. The ruler which was not invited to join the confederacy to fight against Vijaynagar in the battle of Talikota?
Answer-Berar
20. Who was the Afghan ruler of India whose administrative system was emulated by the British?
Answer-Sher Shah Suri
21. Whose tomb is ‘Biwi Ka Maqbara’?
Answer-Aurangzeb’s wife
22. Who organised a Maratha confederacy against the English leading to the Third Anglo Maratha War?
Answer-The Peshwa
23. By whom was Shuddhi movement (conversion of non-Hindus to Hinduism) started?
Answer-Swami Dayanand Saraswati
24. “The best and bravest of the military leader of the rebels” about whom was this said by Sir Hugh Rose?
Answer-Rani of Jhansi
25. During India’s Freedom Struggle, which led to the first ‘All India Hartal’?
Answer-Protest against Rowlatt Act
26. In ancient India, at where was the earliest capital of Magadha kingdom?
Answer-Rajgir
27. Which Rajputa king defeated Muhammad Ghori for the first time?
Answer-Prithviraj III
28. Which region of India was ruled by Sultan Zainul Abidin?
Answer-Kashmir
29. Sirajuddaulah was defeated by Lord Clive in which battle?
Answer-Plassey
30. Near the banks of which river excavations have brought to light that Indus Valley Civilization percolated to far south?
Answer-Krishna
31. The term nishka, which meant an ornament in the Vedic period, was used in latertirnes, what did it denote?
Answer-A coin
32. Which are Tile earliest Buddhist literature that deal with the stories of the various birth of Buddha?
Answer-Jatakas
33. Which was the most important factor in transforming ancient Indian society into feudal society?
Answer-Practice of land grants
34. By whom was the ‘Shahnama’ written?
Answer-Firdausi
35. The Portuguese traveller, Nuniz visited Vijayanagar during the reign of which rular?
Answer-Achyuta Raya
36. Which Mughal Emperor gave land for the construction of the Golden Temple at Amritsar?
Answer-Akbar
37. Under the leadership of which Guru did the Sikh become a political and military force?
Answer-Guru Gobind Singh
38. Which decisive battle was fought during the Third Carnatic War between the English and the French?
Answer-Wandiwash
39. The ruler of which State was removed from power by the British on the protext of misgovernance?
Answer-Awadh
40. What was the original name of Tansen, the most famous musician at the court of Akbar?
Answer-Ramtanu Pande
41. Which Indian ruler established embassies in foreign countries. on modern lines?
Answer-Tipu Sultan
42. When was the Indus Valley Civilization flourished?
Answer-During 2500-1750 B.C
43. What are the main channels of our knowledge about the Indus Valley Civilization?
Answer-Archaeological excavations
44. What was the rate of land revenue as ‘given in the dharma shastras?
Answer-6-Jan
45. In which country was Buddhism first propogated outside India? Answer-Srilanka
46. Who was well-known patron of the Mahayana of Buddhism? Kanishka
47. Which Gupta king is famous for his courageous stand against the Hunas?
Answer-Skanda Gupta
48. To which work is Devichandraguptam related?
Answer-Chandra Gupta II
49. Who is most famous for” the establishment of an elaborate system of municipal administration?
Answer-Chandragupta Maurya
50. By whom was the city of Agra founded in 1504?
Answer-Sikandar Lodi
51. Why did Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq transfer his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad?
Answer-To control South India better
52. During which reign was the East India Company founded in London? Answer-Akbar
53. Who was known as ‘Lady with Lamp’?
Answer-Florence Nightingale
54. Which Rajput dynasties did not surrender to Akbar?
Answer-Sisodiya
55. Where was Shivaji crowned as an independent king?
Answer-Raigarh
56. Which saint name is associated with Shivaji?
Answer-Ram Das
57. By whom was Island of Bombay was given to the English Prince Charles II as dowry?
Answer-Portuguese
58. Which first Europeans came to India?
Answer-Portuguese
59. During which movement was ‘Mahatma’ added before Gandhiji’s name?
Answer-Champaran satyagraha
60. Who was impeached in England for his actions in India?
Answer-Warren Hastings
61. Who was the first General-Secretary of the Indian National Congress?
Answer-Dadabhai Naoroji
62. When was the monopoly of East India Company in trade brought under the control of the British Crown?
Answer-1773 A.D.
63. By whom was the Home Rule Movement in India was started?
Answer-Annie Besant and Tilak
64. After whose name was a women’s division of the Indian National Army named?
Answer-Rani Jhansi
65. Who started the newspaper Shome Prakash?
Answer-Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
66. In whose court was a Chinese embassy sent by Tang emperor?
Answer-Harshavardhana
67. Which inscription mentions Pulkesin II’s military success against
Harshavardhana?
Answer-Aihole Inscription
68. Chandragupta Maurya figures prominently in whose book?
Answer-Vishakhdatta
69. Who stated that there was no slavery in India?
Answer-Megasthenes
70. Which ruler had granted Diwani to the East India company?
Answer-Shah Alam II
71. What is the name of the group of languages spoken by the largest number of people in India?
Answer-Indo-Aryan
72. On which thing did the Buddhism and Jainism both give stress? Answer-Non-violence
73. Which silver coins Issued by the Guptas?
Answer-Rupayaka
74. By whom was the rare work on architecture, Samarangana Sutradhara written?
Answer-Bhoja Paramara
75. Who was the first Sultan of Delhi to introduce the practice of ‘Sijda’?
Answer-Balban
76. Which Sultan of Delhi imposed Jazfya on the Brahmins also?
Answer-Firoz Tughlaq
77. Who got the ‘Bharat Ratna’ award, before becoming the President of India?
Answer-Dr. Zakir Hussain
78. The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar from which system was it borrowed from?
Answer-Mongolia
79. The Maratha power reached the zenith of its glory during which reign?
Answer-Shivaji
80. Which Land tenure systems was introduced by Lord Cornwallis? Answer-Zamindari
81. By whom was Swaraj as a national demand first made?
Answer-Dadabhai Naoroji
82. Who is the author of the book ‘Glimpses of World History’? Answer-Jawaharlal Nehru
83. Who attended the Second Round Table Conference as the representative of the Congress?
Answer-Gandhiji
84. Which reservoir is constructed on Chambal?
Answer-Gandhi Sagar
85. Which state was in the development of hydroelectricity the pioneering state?
Answer-Karnataka
86. Which is the most malleable metal?
Answer-Gold
87. During the Mughal period which trader first came to India? Answer-English
88. A Fortgotten Empire’, written by the renowned historian Robert Sewell, is about which Empire?
Answer-Vijaynagar Empire
89. Which God lost his importance as the first deity during the Later Vedic period?
Answer-Varuna
90. Who was the famous Indo-Greek king who embraced Buddhism?
Answer-Menander
91. During which reign did both Vardhaman Mahavira and Gautama Buddha preach their doctrines?
Answer-Bimbisara
92. What is the name by which Ashoka is generally referred to in his inscriptions?
Answer-Priyadarsi
93. Which Gupta ruler was equally great in the art of peace, wars and personal accomplishment?
Answer-Chandragupta-II
94. Who contributed the Chalukya in Western India?
Answer-Guptas
95. The Kalachuri era counted from A.D. 248 what was mostly in currnet?
Answer-Andhra
96. By whom was the first estimate of national income in India made? Answer-Dadabhai Naoroji
97. Which region of northern India was not included in the empire of Ala-ud-din Khalji?
Answer-Kashmir
98. Who destroyed the group of Forty Nobles?
Answer-Balban
99. Who built Char Minar?
Answer-Quli Qutb Shah
100. On the ruins of which Hindu kingdom was the kingdom of Golconda founded?
Answer-Kakatiya
