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👉 Largest empire in India? ह िंदी + Eng
👉 Founder of Gupta Dynasty? Top MCQ
👉 Author of Tamil Ramayan?
👉 Important Port during Gupta period?
👉 Largest Civilization in the World?
Q.1.
What type of cities were Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
ड़प्पा और मो नजोदड़ो हिस प्रिार िे श र थे ?
a) Religious cities • They had roads that were laid
out along a grid pattern
b) Unplanned cities intersecting each other at right
angles
c) Planned cities
d) Merchant cities
Option : C
Q.1.
The reign of Chandragupta-I started in the year-
चिंद्रगुप्त-प्रथम िा शासन ___ वर्ष में शुरू हुआ था-
a) 367 A.D. • King Chandragupta I of the Gupta
Empire ruled over northern India
b) 305 A.D. between the years 319 and 334
CE. He may have been the
c) 307 A.D dynasty’s first emperor, as
suggested by his title
d) 319 A.D.
Maharajadhiraja (“great king of
Option : D kings”)
Q.1.
Which was the largest empire in India?
भारत में सबसे बड़ा साम्राज्य िौन सा था?
a) Mughal empire • It was spread up to 50,00,000
Kilometres up to 250 BC
b) Maurya empire
c) Maratha empire
d) Kushan empire
Option : B
Q.1.
Who is the founder of the Gupta dynasty?
गुप्त विंश िा सिंस्थापि िौन ै ?
a) Samudragupta • From 240 AD to 280 AD, Sri Gupta
b) Chandragupta-I
founded the Gupta dynasty. He
was the Maharaja of the Gupta
c) Vishnugupta
dynasty.
• The successors of the Gupta
d) Sri Gupta
dynasty were, Chandragupta,
Samudragupta, and Vishnugupta.
Option : D
Q.1.
Which is the largest civilization in the world?
a) China Civilization • The world’s largest
b) Indus valley civilization civilization is the Indus
valley civilization which
c) Mesopotamian civilization was spread over 1260,000
sq. Km
d) Egypt civilization
Option : B
Q.1.
In how many parts the history of India is divided?
a) 3
• The History of India is
b) 4 divided into 3 parts.
Ancient India History,
c) 8
Mediaeval Indian history,
d) 2 and modern Indian history
Option : A
Q.1.
Which is the most famous seal found from the Harrapan
civilization?
ड़प्पा सभ्यता से प्राप्त सबसे प्रहसद्ध मु र िौन सी ै?
a) Animal seal • The Pashupati seal was found
b) Pashupati seal in Mohenjo-Daro. The seal is a
figure seated cross-legged in
c) Long seal M-1271 the center with animals
around.
d) All of the above
Option : B
Q.1.
Who among the following had written the book
‘Aryabhatiyam?
हनम्नहिखित में से हिसने ‘आर्षभहिर्न’ पुस्ति हििी थी?
a) Dandin
b) Aryabhatt
c) Indrabhuti
d) Varahamihira
Option : B
Q.1.
Who is the author of “Shukranitisara”?
a) Mahendra Varman I
b) Sukhracharya
c) Kamban
d) Someshwar
Option : B
Q.1.
Which of the following texts was not composed by
Banabhatta?
a) Kadambari
• author of Lilavati is
b) Harshacharita Bhaskaracharya.
c) Parvati Parinayam
d) Lilavati
Option : D
Q.1.
Which of the following texts was not composed by
Bhaskaracharya?
a) Kadambari • Kadambari was composed by
Banabhatta
b) Algebra
c) Laghu Bhaskariya
d) Lilavati
Option : A
Q.1.
Who among the following is the author of “Tamil
Ramayana”?
a) Kalhan
b) Kamban
c) Bhaskaracharya
d) Jimutavahana
Option : B
Q.1.
Which of the following metals was not known during
the Indus Valley Civilization?
हसिंधु घािी सभ्यता िे दौरान हनम्नहिखित में से िौन सी धातु ज्ञात
न ी िं थी?
a) Iron • Iron was not discovered by the
b) Gold
Harappan people. Since it was a
bronze age civilisation, it had made
c) Copper
many metallurgical advances in
copper and bronze, but not in Iron.
d) Silver
Option : A
Q.1.
Who was the ruler of the kingdom between the rivers
Jhelum and Chenab?
झेिम और हचनाब नहदर्ोिं िे बीच िे राज्य िा शासि िौन था?
a) Alexander the Great
b) Darius III
c) King Porus
d) Chandragupta Maurya
Option : C
Q.1.
Which among the following is a place in Larkana district
of Sind province in Pakistan?
हनम्नहिखित में से िौन सा स्थान पाहिस्तान िे हसिंध प्रािंत िे
िरिाना हजिे में खस्थत ै?
a) Alamgirpur • Mohenjodaro is an archaeological
b) Harappa
site in the province of Sindh,
Pakistan. Built around 2500 BCE, it
c) Rangapur
was one of the largest settlements
of the ancient Indus Valley
d) Mohenjo-Daro
civilization
Option : D
Q.1.
Who was the author of Telugu Work Amuktamalyada?
तेिुगु िृहत अमुक्तमाल्यदा िे िेिि िौन थे ?
a) Harihara • Amuktamalyada is an epic poem in
b) Devaraya
Telugu composed by
Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagar
c) Krishnadevaraya
Dynasty. Krishnadevaraya the great
emperor of Vijaynagar Kingdom
d) Bukka
wrote ‘Amuktamalyada’. (One who
means or gives away garlands).
Option : C
Q.1.
The greatest Chola king in the dynasty of the Cholas of
Thanjavur was
तिंजावुर िे चोिोिं िे राजविंश में सबसे म ान चोि राजा थे
a) Parantaka • The Chola dynasty was founded by
Vijayala. The capital of Cholas was
b) Rajaraja-I Tanjor now Thanjavur. Rajaraja- I was
the greatest ruler of Chola dynasty
c) Rajendra-I • He built the temple of Brihadeshwara
in Thanjavur in Tamilnadu which is
d) Kulottunga considered one of the finest specimens
of the Dravidian style of architecture.
Option : B
Q.1.
Idol of dancing girl (Bronze) is found in which of the
following civilzation?
हनम्नहिखित में से हिस सभ्यता में नाचती हुई िड़िी (िािंस्य) िी
मूहतष हमिी ै?
a) Mesopotamian Civilization
b) Indus Valley Civilization
c) Persian Civilization
d) Egyptian Civilization
Option : B
Q. The words Satyameva Jayate in the State Emblem
adopted by the Government of India have been taken
from which Upanishad?
भारत सरिार द्वारा अपनाए गए राजिीर् प्रतीि में सत्यमेव जर्ते
शब्द हिस उपहनर्द से हिर्ा गर्ा ै?
a) Aitareya Upanishad • “Truth alone triumphs” is a mantra
from the ancient Indian scripture
b) Mundaka Upanishad Mundaka Upanishad.
• Following the independence of
c) Adhyatma Upanishad India, it was adopted as the
national motto of India in 26
d) Prasna Upanishad January 1950.
• It is inscribed in script at the base
Option : B of the national emblem.
Q.1.
Who established the four monasteries Sringeri,
Badrinath, Dwarka & Puri?
श्ृिंगेरी, बद्रीनाथ, द्वारिा और पुरी चार मठोिं िी स्थापना हिसने िी
थी?
• five major mathas in the four
a) Ramanuj corners of the peninsula – north
(Jyothirmath), south
b) Ashoka (Sringeri,Kanchi ), east (Puri), west
(Dwaraka) – to propagate the
c) Shankaracharya philosophy of advaita vedanta and
to promulgate the concept of
Sanatana dharma, thus
d) Madhav Vidhyaranya establishing dharma or
righteousness, as the way of life of
Option : C people.
Q.1.
Which one of the following was an important Port of
the eastern coast during Gupta period?
हनम्नहिखित में से िौन-सा गुप्त िाि िे दौरान पूवी ति िा एि
म त्वपूर्ष बिंदरगा था?
• Tamralipti was an ancient port
a) Kalyan city and also one of Buddhist
Kingdoms visited by Xuanzang
b) Tamralipti in 639 AD.
• It has been identified with the
c) Sopara modern Tamluk in the
Midnapur district, West
d) Baroch Bengal, India.
Option : B
Q.1.
Which of the following Indian literature is the earliest
known works?
हनम्नहिखित में से िौन सा भारतीर् साह त्य सबसे पुराना ज्ञात
िार्ष ै?
a) Puranas
• Rig Veda, which is a
b) Rig Vedas collection of 1028 hymns
written in Vedic Sanskrit.
c) Sama Vedas
d) Rajtrangini
Option : B
Q.1.
In India, Ancient Iron Age is attached with
a) Gray pottery • The Painted Grey Ware
culture (PGW) is an Iron
b) Black and Red Pottery Age Indian culture of the
western Gangetic plain
c) Ocher Coloured Pottery and the Ghaggar-Hakra
valley on the Indian
d) Northern Black Polish Pottery subcontinent, lasting from
roughly 1200 BCE to 600
Option : A BCE.
Q.1.
Ashoka sent missionaries to
a) China and Kashmir
b) Tibet and Ceylon
c) Tibet and China
d) Kashmir and Ceylon
Option : B
Q.1.
Which among the following is the oldest dynasty?
हनम्नहिखित में से सबसे पुराना राजविंश िौन-सा ै?
a) Maurya • The Maurya Empire was a
geographically-extensive Iron
b) Gupta Age historical power based in
Magadha and founded by
c) Kushan Chandragupta Maurya which
dominated ancient India
d) Kanva between 321 and 187 BCE
Option : A
Q.1.
Which among the following book based on the exploits
of Yasovarman of Kanauj?
हनम्नहिखित में से िौन सी पुस्ति िन्नौज िे र्शोवमषन िे
िारनामोिं पर आधाररत ै?
a) Rajatarangini • Yashovarman was king of Kannauj
b) Gaudavaho
in the early part of the eighth
century. Vakpati wrote Gaudavaho,
c) Malavikagnimitram
based on the exploits of
Yasovarman of Kanauj.
d) All of the above
Option : B
Q.1.
Who was the founder of the Kanva dynasty?
a) Suserman • Vasudeva Kanva was the founder
b) Vishnusarma
of the Kanva dynasty. Vasudeva
Kanva was a Brahmin king. He was
c) Vassudeva
originally an Amatya (minister) of
last Shunga ruler Devabhuti.
d) Vasumitra
Option : C
Q.1.
Who was the founder of Vikramshila Vihar?
a) Dharmapala • Vikramashila was founded by Pāla
king Dharmapala in the late 8th or
b) Gopala early 9th century.
• It prospered for about four
c) Nagpala centuries before it was destroyed
by Bakhtiyar Khilji along with the
d) Mahipala other major centres of Buddhism in
Option : A India around 1193
Q.1.
Bagh painting of Gupta Empire was found in which of
the following Indian states?
गुप्त साम्राज्य िी बाग पेंहििं ग हनम्नहिखित में से हिस भारतीर् राज्य
में पाई गई थी?
a) Bihar • The Bagh Caves are a group of
nine rock-cut monuments,
b) Madhya Pradesh situated among the southern
slopes of the Vindhyas in Bagh
c) Chattisgarh town of Dhar district in
Madhya Pradesh
d) Maharashtra
Option : B
Q.1.
Which emperor wrote the play ‘Nagananda’ in Sanskrit
language?
हिस सम्राि ने सिंस्कृत भार्ा में ‘नागानिंद’ नािि हििा था?
a) Prabhakara vardhana • Nagananda is a Sanskrit
b) Harshavardhana
play written by
Harshavadhana who
c) Chandragupta II
belonged to the
Pushyabhuti dynasty and
d) Bindusara
ruled from 606 C.E. to 648
C.E.
Option : B
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