Multiple Choice Questions

General Knowledge

Q: Qutub Minar was built by:

A) Qutubuddin Aibak

B) Iltumish

C) Razia Sultana

D) Shah Jehan

Q: Jehanigiri Mahal is located in:

A) Agra Fort

B) Fatehpur Sikri

C) Delhi

D) Sikandra

Q: The buildings constructed by which Mughal ruler represent the climax in the evolution of Mughal architecture?

A) Akbar

B) Jehangir

C) Aurangzeb

D) Shah Jahan

Q: The city of Agra was founded by:

A) Rana Sanga

B) Sikandar Lodhi

C) Ibraham Lodhi

D) Firuz Tughluq

Q: Tansen, the greatest musician of Akbar's court belonged to:

A) Delhi

B) Gawaliar Fort

C) Lahore

D) Lucknow

Q: The account of Babur's life (Tuzuk-i-Baburi) was written in:

A) Urdu

B) Persian

C) Turki

D) Arabic

Q: When did Vasco da Gama come to India?

A) 1490

B) 1492

C) 1493

D) 1498

Q: The Maratha chief Sambhagi was executed during the region of:

A) Jehangir

B) Aurangzeb

C) Shah Jahan

D) Mahabat Khan

Q: The beginning of the British political sway over India can be traced to the battle of:

A) Buxar

B) Plassey

C) Wandiwash

D) Panipat

Q: Who was the ruler of an Indian state who allied himself with France?

A) Nizam-ul-Mulk Asif Jah

B) Tipu Sultan

C) Saadat Khan

D) Akbar

Q: The final defeat of the Maratha confederacy came during the time of:

A) Wellesley

B) Hastings

C) Minto

D) Cornwallis

Q: When East India Company came into existence England was ruled by the:

A) Stuarts

B) Tudors

C) Hanoverians

D) Normans

Q: The sea route to India was discovered in:

A) 1492

B) 1495

C) 1498

D) 1500

Q: The first Europeans came to India for trade were:

A) Britishers

B) Dutch

C) Portuguese

D) French

Q: The tax collected by the Maratha was known as:

A) Jazia

B) Chauth

C) Pilgrim tax

D) Sardeshmukhi

Q: Which of the following statements about Hyder Ali is incorrect?

A) He was a great scholar

B) He was defeated at Posto Nova in 1781 by Hastings

C) He was a man of great determination

D) He made a coalition with Nizam and Marathas against English in second Anglo-Mysore War

Q: Surangpattam is associated with:

A) Aurangzeb

B) Tipu Sultan

C) Hyder Ali

D) Ahmad Shah Abdali

Q: Tipu Sultan was defeated in the Third Mysore War in 1790 by:

A) John Shore

B) Lord Cornwallis

C) Warren Hastings

D) None of these

Q: Who among the following in known for his introduction of new calendar, a new system of coinage and new scales of weights and measures?

A) Murshid Quli Khan

B) Tipu Sultan

C) Nizam-ul-Mulk Asif Jah

D) Saadat Khan

Q: Who succeeded Mir Jafar?

A) Haider Ali

B) Mir Kasim

C) Chanda Sahib

D) Tipu Sultan

Q: In 1757, Siraj-ud-Daula was defeated by:

A) Canning

B) Robert Clive

C) Hastings

D) Cornwallis

Q: Who succeeded Siraj-ud-Daula as Nawab of Bengal after the Battle of Plassey?

A) Aliwardi Khan

B) Mir Jafar

C) Mir Qasim

D) None of these

Q: In 1498, Vasco da Gama landed at:

A) Mumbai

B) Calicut

C) Goa

D) Cochin

Q: Which Indian ruler requested Napoleon for help to drive the British from India?

A) Rani of Jhansi

B) Tipu Sultan

C) Jai Singh

D) Shiva Jee

Q: Who united the Sikhs and founded kingdom in Punjab?

A) Guru Nanak

B) Maharaja Ranjit Singh

C) Guru Gobind Singh

D) None of these

Q: The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system in:

A) Turkey

B) Persia

C) Mongolia

D) Afghanistan

Q: Who among the following was the first Mughal emperor to allow Britishers to establish trade links with India?

A) Akbar

B) Jehangir

C) Aurangzeb

D) Shah Jahan

Q: The capital of Mughal empire was shifted from Agra to Delhi by:

A) Jehangir

B) Aurangzeb

C) Shah Jahan

D) Humayun

Q: The Peacock Throne was made for:

A) Jehangir

B) Shah Jahan

C) Akbar

D) Aurangzeb

Q: Inn 1662 AD, Mir Jumla, the Mughal governor of Bengal led successful expedition to:

A) Assam

B) Tibet

C) Orissa

D) Auadh

Q: Which of the following ports was the biggest port during the Mughal period?

A) Surrat

B) Hoogly

C) Chittagong

D) Balasore

Q: The East India Company was founded in India during the reign of:

A) Akbar

B) Shah Jahan

C) Jehangir

D) Humayun

Q: The capital of the kingdom of Mahraja Ranjit Singh was:

A) Patiala

B) Lahore

C) Amritsar

D) Kapurthala

Q: The Sikh Guru who was fought Mughals was:

A) Guru Nanak

B) Guru Gobind Singh

C) Guru Arjun Dev

D) Guru Teg Bahadur

Q: The Mughal empire in India was founded by:

A) Akbar the Great

B) Zahid-ud-Din Babur

C) Shah Jahan

D) Aurangzeb

Q: When Akbar was young, his guardian was:

A) Hemu

B) Faizi

C) Bairam Khan

D) Abdul Fazal

Q: The tow great Mughal rulers who wrote their own memoirs are:

A) Babur and Humayun

B) Humayun and Akbar

C) Babur and Jehangir

D) Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb

Q: The court language of Mughals was:

A) Arabic

B) Persian

C) Hindi

D) Urdu

Q: Who founded Din-i-Ilahi?

A) Shah Jahan

B) Akbar

C) Aurangzeb

D) Jehangir

Q: Revenue system during Akbar's reign was in the hands of:

A) Bairam Khan

B) Todar Mal

C) Birbal

D) Man Singh

Q: Akbar assumed actual control over the administration of his empire in:

A) 1556

B) 1562

C) 1558

D) 1590

Q: Babur laid the foundation of Mughal empire in 1526 by defeating:

A) Daulat Khan Lodhi

B) Ibraham Lodhi

C) Rana Sangha

D) Alauddin Khilji

Q: During the reign of which of the following emperors was the artillery most perfect and numerous?

A) Akbar

B) Aurangzeb

C) Shah Jahan

D) Jehangir

Q: Who consolidated the Mughal empire and gave it a unique multi-religious culture?

A) Akbar

B) Humayun

C) Jehangir

D) Aurangzeb

Q: Akbar's land revenue system was known as:

A) Bandabast system

B) Zabti system

C) Todarmal's revenue

D) All of them

Q: Who among the following Mughal rulers was ignorant of the art of reading and writing?

A) Babur

B) Akbar

C) Jehangir

D) Aurangzeb

Q: The Mughal ruler Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled by British and sent to:

A) Manadalay

B) Rangoon

C) Hyderabad

D) None of these

Q: Din-i-Ilahi was accepted by:

A) Birbal

B) Tanseen

C) Todarmal

D) Raja Man Singh

Q: Babur won the First Battle of Panipat mainly because of:

A) His military skills

B) His cavalry

C) Afghan's disunity

D) None of these

Q: The 'Jiziya' was abolished by:

A) Muhammad bin Tughluq

B) Akbar

C) Babur

D) Sher Shah

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