📜 Ancient History
Q1. The Great Bath was found at which Indus Valley site?
A) Harappa
B) Mohenjo-daro
C) Lothal
D) Kalibangan
Answer: B) Mohenjo-daro
Q2. The Vedas were written in which language?
A) Pali
B) Sanskrit
C) Prakrit
D) Tamil
Answer: B) Sanskrit
Q3. Who composed the Gayatri Mantra?
A) Vishwamitra
B) Vashistha
C) Valmiki
D) Agastya
Answer: A) Vishwamitra
Q4. Which metal was unknown to the Indus Valley Civilization?
A) Gold
B) Silver
C) Iron
D) Copper
Answer: C) Iron
Q5. Lord Mahavira was the ___ Tirthankara of Jainism.
A) 21st
B) 22nd
C) 23rd
D) 24th
Answer: D) 24th
Q6. Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment at:
A) Sarnath
B) Lumbini
C) Bodh Gaya
D) Kushinagar
Answer: C) Bodh Gaya
Q7. The Mauryan capital was located at:
A) Taxila
B) Pataliputra
C) Ujjain
D) Vaishali
Answer: B) Pataliputra
Q8. Who wrote Arthashastra?
A) Kalidasa
B) Chanakya
C) Megasthenes
D) Banabhatta
Answer: B) Chanakya
Q9. The Sangam literature is associated with which region?
A) North India
B) Central India
C) South India
D) East India
Answer: C) South India
Q10. Which ruler is known as ‘Devanampriya’?
A) Chandragupta Maurya
B) Ashoka
C) Bindusara
D) Harsha
Answer: B) Ashoka
Q11. The Ajanta caves are related to:
A) Jainism
B) Buddhism
C) Hinduism
D) Sikhism
Answer: B) Buddhism
Q12. The Gupta period is known as the:
A) Iron Age
B) Golden Age
C) Stone Age
D) Dark Age
Answer: B) Golden Age
🏰 Medieval History
Q13. Who was the founder of the Delhi Sultanate?
A) Qutbuddin Aibak
B) Iltutmish
C) Balban
D) Razia Sultana
Answer: A) Qutbuddin Aibak
Q14. The Qutub Minar was completed by:
A) Aibak
B) Iltutmish
C) Alauddin Khilji
D) Firoz Shah
Answer: B) Iltutmish
Q15. Who introduced the market control system?
A) Balban
B) Alauddin Khilji
C) Muhammad bin Tughlaq
D) Sher Shah Suri
Answer: B) Alauddin Khilji
Q16. Ibn Battuta visited India during whose reign?
A) Khilji
B) Tughlaq
C) Lodhi
D) Sayyid
Answer: B) Tughlaq
Q17. Who built the Grand Trunk Road?
A) Akbar
B) Sher Shah Suri
C) Babur
D) Humayun
Answer: B) Sher Shah Suri
Q18. The Mughal Empire was founded by:
A) Akbar
B) Babur
C) Humayun
D) Shah Jahan
Answer: B) Babur
Q19. Akbar’s religious policy was called:
A) Din-i-Ilahi
B) Sulh-i-Kul
C) Zakat
D) Mansabdari
Answer: B) Sulh-i-Kul
Q20. Who wrote Akbarnama?
A) Birbal
B) Abul Fazl
C) Tansen
D) Todarmal
Answer: B) Abul Fazl
Q21. The Peacock Throne was built by:
A) Akbar
B) Jahangir
C) Shah Jahan
D) Aurangzeb
Answer: C) Shah Jahan
Q22. Guru Nanak founded:
A) Buddhism
B) Jainism
C) Sikhism
D) Sufism
Answer: C) Sikhism
Q23. Vijayanagara Empire was founded by:
A) Krishnadevaraya
B) Harihara and Bukka
C) Shivaji
D) Pulakesin
Answer: B) Harihara and Bukka
Q24. Battle of Talikota took place in:
A) 1526
B) 1565
C) 1605
D) 1707
Answer: B) 1565
Q25. Who was the last ruler of the Lodhi dynasty?
A) Ibrahim Lodhi
B) Sikandar Lodhi
C) Bahlul Lodhi
D) Daulat Khan
Answer: A) Ibrahim Lodhi
Q26. The Mansabdari system was introduced by:
A) Babur
B) Akbar
C) Jahangir
D) Shah Jahan
Answer: B) Akbar
🇮🇳 Modern History
Q27. The Battle of Plassey was fought in:
A) 1757
B) 1764
C) 1857
D) 1748
Answer: A) 1757
Q28. Who founded the Brahmo Samaj?
A) Swami Vivekananda
B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
C) Dayanand Saraswati
D) Annie Besant
Answer: B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Q29. The Revolt of 1857 started from:
A) Meerut
B) Delhi
C) Kanpur
D) Lucknow
Answer: A) Meerut
Q30. Who gave the slogan “Do or Die”?
A) Nehru
B) Subhas Chandra Bose
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) Bhagat Singh
Answer: C) Mahatma Gandhi
Q31. The Indian National Congress was founded in:
A) 1857
B) 1885
C) 1905
D) 1919
Answer: B) 1885
Q32. Who was the first Viceroy of India?
A) Lord Curzon
B) Lord Canning
C) Lord Mountbatten
D) Lord Dalhousie
Answer: B) Lord Canning
Q33. Partition of Bengal happened in:
A) 1905
B) 1911
C) 1919
D) 1935
Answer: A) 1905
Q34. The Swadeshi Movement began after:
A) Jallianwala Bagh
B) Non-Cooperation Movement
C) Partition of Bengal
D) Quit India Movement
Answer: C) Partition of Bengal
Q35. Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred in:
A) 1917
B) 1919
C) 1921
D) 1930
Answer: B) 1919
Q36. Who formed the Azad Hind Fauj?
A) Gandhi
B) Nehru
C) Subhas Chandra Bose
D) Patel
Answer: C) Subhas Chandra Bose
Q37. The Simon Commission came to India in:
A) 1919
B) 1927
C) 1930
D) 1942
Answer: B) 1927
Q38. The Cabinet Mission came in:
A) 1942
B) 1945
C) 1946
D) 1947
Answer: C) 1946
Q39. Who was the last Governor-General of independent India?
A) Rajendra Prasad
B) C. Rajagopalachari
C) Nehru
D) Mountbatten
Answer: B) C. Rajagopalachari
Q40. India got independence on:
A) 26 Jan 1950
B) 15 Aug 1947
C) 26 Nov 1949
D) 2 Oct 1947
Answer: B) 15 Aug 1947