History Important Questions

๐ŸŒธHistory Important Questions๐ŸŒธ


1. The most important source of our information on ancient India's cultural history are: 
A. archaeological excavations
B. antiquities and monuments
C. literature and epics✅
D. inscriptions and coins

2. The granary discovered at Harappa was located:
A. within the citadel at Mohenjodaro
B. in the "Lower town'
C. near the river Ravi✅
D. beside the western gate of the city

3. In his inscriptions Ashoka calls himself:
A. Devanampriya Priyadarshni king✅
B. Asoka Priyadarshi
C. Dhammasoka (Dharmasoka)
D. Daivaputra

4. Which one of the following Harappan sites is NOT located in Gujarat?
A. Surkotada
B. Rangpur
C. Sutkagendor✅
D. Desalpur

5. Which one of the following Indus cities has houses with doors on the main streets?
A. Lothal✅
B. Surkotada
C. Chanhudaro
D. Banawali

6. Which of the all Harappan sites, which has the most impressive drainage system?
A. Harappa✅
B. Banawali
C. Dhaulavira
D. Mohenjodaro

7. Which of the following was not one of the ruling dynasties of South India in the Sangam Age?
A. Chola
B. Chera
C. Pandya
D. Pallava✅

8. Which was probably the most popular assembly in which even women enjoyed an equal status with men in the Early Vedic period?
A. Sabha
B. Samiti
C. Gana
D. Vidatha✅

10. Pushti marg is a Vaishnav sect of the Hinduism was founded by?
A. Shankaracharya
B. Ramanujacharya
C. Vallabhacharya✅
D. Nimbarkacharya

11. What is pietra dura?
A. A form of music
B. Pictorial mosaic work using semi-precious stones✅
C. Armour
D. None of the above

12. Who wrote famous book Kitab-ul-hind?
A. Abul Fazl
B. Amir Khusrau
C. Al Biruni✅
D. Firdausi

13. Who said Hanooz Dilli Door Ast?
A. Nizamuddin Aulia✅
B. Farid
C. Todarmal
D. Firdausi

14. Which mughal emperor was a good veena player?
A. Aurangazeb✅
B. Akbar
C. Jahangir
D. Shahjahan

15. Who was the author of famous Persian series of 52 stories Tutinama?
A. Nakhshabi✅
B. Amir Khusrau
C. Abul Fazl
D. Hasan Nizami

16. Who propagated the Vaishnava Theology of Dvaitadvaita?
A. Adi Shankaracharya
B. Ramanujacharya
C. Nimbarkacharya✅
D. Vallabhacharya

17. Who has written famous book Padmavat?
A. Nakhshabi
B. Malik Muhammad Jayasi✅
C. Al Biruni
D. Hasan Nizami

18. Atala Masjid which was built by Sultan Ibrahim is located at?
A. Jaunpur✅
B. Kanpur
C. Agra
D. Mysore

19. The caves and rock-cut temples at Ellora are?
A. Buddhist and Jain
B. Hindu and Muslim
C. Buddhist only
D.Hindu, Buddhist and Jain✅

20.Arabs were defeated fin 738 A.D. by….
(A) Pratiharas 
(B) Rashtrakutas 
(C) Palas 
(D) Chalukyas✅

21. Harshvardhan was defeated by….
(A) Prabhakaravardhana 
(B) Pulakesin II✅
(C) Narasimha Varma Pallavas 
(D) Sasanka  

22.Beetapala and Dhiman, the two great artists that India had produced, belonged to the……
(A) Pala Age✅
(B) Gupta Age
(C) Mauryas Age
(D) Rathan Age

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