Question: The Jataka tales are associated with which of the following sects?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: In which state is the archaeological site of Surkotada situated?
Answer: Gujarat
Question: Who among the following introduced the practice of Sijda (prostration) and Paibos (kissing the feet of monarch) in the court?
Answer: Ghiyasuddin Balban
Question: Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim popularly known as
Answer: Jahangir
Question: The battle of Khanwa was fought in the year:
Answer: 1527
Question: The ‘Digha Nikaya’ is a collection of ______ discourses.
Answer: Buddhist
Question: ‘Samaveda’ is considered to be one of the primary sources of Indian ______.
Answer: music and art
Question: The ‘Kathasaritsagara’ is written by:
Answer: Somadeva
Question: Name the Indian ruler of Haryanka dynasty who was the son of Ajatashatru and who laid the foundation of the city of Pataliputra.
Answer: Udayin
Question: Who among the following built the city of Tughlaqabad?
Answer: Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
Question: Who wrote ‘Humayun Nama’?
Answer: Gulbadan Begum
Question: The British annexed Punjab after defeating the Sikhs in the Anglo-Sikh War in the year ______.
Answer: 1849
Question: Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Ashtadhyayi’?
Answer: Panini
Question: The bronze sculpture of Nataraja was cast during the period of which dynasty?
Answer: Cholas
Question: ______ became king of Thanesar after the death of his father and elder brother.
Answer: Harshavardhana
Question: Who was the author of Kadambari?
Answer: Banabhatta
Question: Mughal Emperor ______ permitted the English East India Company to establish their factory in 1613 at Surat.
Answer: Jahangir
Question: During the age of Buddha, the capital of Vajji ‘Mahajanapada’ was at ________.
Answer: Vaishali
Question: ‘Siri’, the second city of Delhi, was built by ______.
Answer: Alauddin Khilji
Question: The medieval traveller Marco Polo was from:
Answer: Venice
Question: Who is the author of ‘Malavikagnimitram’?
Answer: Kalidasa
Question: In which year did Babur defeat the Sultan of Delhi, Ibrahim Lodi, at Panipat and capture Delhi and Agra?
Answer: 1526
Question: The Battle of Kanauj was fought between Sher Shah Suri and Humayun in:
Answer: 1540
Question: Mehrgarh, a Neolithic settlement, is situated in the ______ province of Pakistan.
Answer: Balochistan
Question: Fatehpur Sikri was founded as the capital of the Mughal Empire by ______.
Answer: Akbar
Question: Which of the following instruments is Gupta ruler Samudragupta shown playing on his coins?
Answer: Veena
Question: The ancient name of Coastal Orissa was:
Answer: Kalinga
Question: Foreign traveller Ibn Battuta, who came to India during the medieval period, had come from?
Answer: Morocco
Question: Birthplace of Guru Nanak known as Nankana Sahib today, was earlier called.
Answer: Rai Bhoi di Talvandi
Question: Emperor Ashoka was the son of which of the following Mauryan rulers?
Answer: Bindusara
Question: Who among the following had been given the title of ‘Sultan Buland Iqbal’ by Shah Jahan?
Answer: Dara Shikoh
Question: Which Rajput ruler of Mewar in 1576 fought the Battle of Haldighati ?
Answer: Maharana Pratap
Question: When was the Indian Reform Association formed?
Answer: 1870
Question: Who among the following had the title of ‘Abla Baba’ (friend of the poor) of the Deccan?
Answer: Ibrahim Adil Shah II
Question: Aurangzeb ruled the Mughal empire from ______.
Answer: 1658 to 1707 AD
Question: The Rig Veda is divided into ______ books or mandalas.
Answer: 10
Question: Who among the following was the author of the ancient text called ‘Siddhant Shiromani’?
Answer: Bhaskaracharya
Question: The last Mauryan ruler to be killed by Pushyamitra Shunga was:
Answer: Brihadratha
Question: Who was the first ruler of the Gupta Dynasty who claimed the title of Maharajadhiraja?
Answer: Chandragupta I
Question: Chandragupta I was succeeded by his son _______.
Answer: Samudragupta
Question: What is the first age in the prehistoric period called?
Answer: Palaeolithic age
Question: Inscriptions composed in praise of kings of ancient India are known as ______.
Answer: Prashastis
Question: In which part of Ashoka’s empire were his inscriptions written in Kharosthi script?
Answer: North Western
Question: Evidence of the earliest ploughed field from the Harappan Civilisation was found at _______.
Answer: Kalibangan
Question: The ______ was translated to Persian as the ‘Razmnama’.
Answer: Mahabharata