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Rules of Buddhist monistic life are laid down primarily in ?(A) Tripitaka
(B) Vinayapitaka
(C) Abhidhammapitaka
(D) Suttapitaka
Ans : (B)
The propounder of the Madhyamika Philosophy was ?
(A) Bhadrabahu
(B) Parshwanath
(C) Sheelbhadra
(D) Nagarjuna
Ans : (D)
Jain text which contains the biographies of the Tirthankaras is known as ?
(A) Bhagwatisutra
(B) Uvasagadasao
(C) Kalpasutra
Ans : (C)
The earliest available work of Sangam Tamils is ?
(A) Pattinappalai
(B) Tirumurugarruppadai
(C) Maduraikanchi
(D) Tolkappiyam
Ans : (D)
Vedanga consists of?
(A)Kalp, Shiksha, Nirukta, Vyakaran, Chhanda,
Jyotish
(B)Kalp, Shiksha, Brahman, Vyakaran, Chhanda,
Jyotish
Ans:(A)
Kuchipudi is a dance drama of which of the following States ?
(A) Andhra Pradesh
(B) Kerala
(C) Karnataka
(D) Tamil Nadu
Ans : (A)
Which of the following is a folk dance of Rajasthan ?
(A) Garba
(B) Dandiya
(C) Ghoomar
(D) Kathak
Ans : (C)
Who produced and directed the silent film 'Raja Harishchandra' in 1913 ?
(A) D. G. Phalke(Dadasaheb Phalke)
(B) Ashok Kumar
Ans : (A)
Who gives recognition t o political parties in India ?
(A) Parliament
(B) President
(C) Supreme Court
(D) Election Commission
Ans : (D)
Which river is known as 'Sorrow of Bengal' ?
(A) Damodar
(B) Gandak
(C) Kosi
(D) Sone
Ans : (A)
Because it floods many parts of Bengal
Where does Chambal river originate from ?
(A) Bhind
(B) Ratlam
(C) Manpura
(D) Ujjain
Ans : (C)
Near Indore
Which is the India's largest lake ?
(A) Nainital
(B) Sambhar
(C) Sishram
(D) Chilka
Ans : (D)
Tehri Dam Project is located in which State ?
(A) Madhya Pradesh
(B) Rajasthan
(C) Haryana
(D) Uttarakhand
Ans : (D)
In India, there are 3 crop seasons. 2 of them are Kharif & Rabi, name the 3rd one ?
(A) Barsati
(B) Grama
(C) Zaid
(D) Khari
Ans : (C)
The central point in Ashoka's Dharma was ?
(A) Loyalty to kings
(B) Peace and non-violence
(C) Religious toleration
Ans : (C)
The concept of 'Din-e-Elahi' was founded by which king ?
(A) Dara Shikoh
(B) Akbar
(C) Shershah Suri
(D) Shahjahan
Ans : (B)
Who wrote 'India Wins Freedom' ?
(A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Sir Mohammad Iqbal
(D) Abdul Gaffar Khan
Ans : (A)
The author of 'Gitagovinda' was ?
(A) Halayudha
(B) Jayadeva
(C) Kalhana
(D) Jona-Raja
Ans : (B)
"The Dronacharya Award" is associated with ?
(A) Eminent Surgeons
(B) Famous Artists
(C) Sport Coaches
(D) Expert Engineers
Ans : (C)
In which place in India can we find cave temples of three faiths?
(A) Madurai
(B) Delhi
(C) Ellora
(D) Agra
Ans : (C)
The Brihadeeswara temple at Tanjore was built by an emperor of which dynasty?
(A) Chola
(B) Mughal
(C) Chera
(D) Pandya
Ans : (A)
Apart from Karnataka, which state has reported production of Gold in India?
(A) Orissa
(B) Jharkhand
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Andhra
Ans : (B)
Who won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913?
(A) Debendranath Tagore
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Mohammad Iqbal
(D) Mirza Galib
Ans : (B)
Who defeated the Marathas in the third battle of Panipat?
(A) The British
(B) The Afghans
(C) The Mughals
(D) The Rajputs
Ans : (B)
Where was India's first civilization settled?
(A) Deccan
(B) Indus Valley
(C) Ganges Plain
(D) Kashmir
Ans : (B)
With whose permission did the English set up their first factory in Surat ?
(a) Akbar
(b) Jahangir
(c) Shahjahan
(d) Aurangzeb
Ans : (B)
Which British Prime Minister sent Cripps Mission to India ?
(a) James Ramsay MacDonald
(b) Stanley Baldwin
(c) Winston Churchill
Ans : (C)
Who is the founder of the Capital city of Agra?
(a) Akbar
(b) Babar
(c) Sikinder Lodi
(d) Mubarak Shah Sayyad
Ans : (C)
Which British Prime Minister sent Cripps Mission to India ?
(a) James Ramsay MacDonald
(b) Stanley Baldwin
(c) Winston Churchill
Ans : (C)
Who is the founder of the Capital city of Agra?
(a) Akbar
(b) Babar
(c) Sikinder Lodi
(d) Mubarak Shah Sayyad
Ans : (C)
Who is the founder of Mahabalipuram ?
(a) Rajaraja Chola
(b) Mahendravarman
(c) Narsimhavarman
(d) Narsimha Chola
Ans : (C)
Which movement began with the Dandi March ?
(a) Home Rule
(b) Non-Cooperation
(c) Civil Disobedience
(d) Quit India
Ans : (C)
What was the most significant feature of Indus Valley Civilization ?
(A) Economic System
(B) Religious Life
(C) Town Planning
Ans : (C)
Where did Aryans live in India ?
(A) Northern India
(B) Eastern India
(C) All over India
(D) Sapta Sindhu area
Ans : (D)
When was Burma separated from India ?
(a) 1947
(b) 1942
(c) 1937
(c) 1932
Ans : (C)
What were the districts called in the Vijayanagar Empire ?
(a) Nadu
(b) Khurram
(c) Kottam
(d) Janpad
Ans : (C)
Straight from the Heart is the autobiography of ?
(A) Imran Khan
(B) Kapil Dev
(C) Sachin Tendulkar
(D) Steave Waugh
Ans : (B)
Various settlement of Indus Valley Civilization has been discovered along & inside which river beds ?
Ans : (Ghaggar Hakra river system)
A commonly believed natural reason for the Indus Valley Civilization's decline is connected with ?
Ans : (Climate change)
Harappan seals have been found in?
Ans : (Mesopotamian)
The Great Bath ruins of the Indus Valley Civilization are at?
Ans : (Mohenjo-daro)
Source of the Indus river is at Singikabab, near Mansarover Lake(Tibet).
Its five main tributaries are: Jhelum, Sutlej, Beas,
Ravi & Chenab
The Indus religion did not include the worship of ?
(a) Forces of Nature
(b) Mother Goddess
(c) Trees and their spirits
Ans : (A)
The Gandhara school of Art was influenced most by the ?
(a) Greeks
(b) Shakas
(c) persians
(d) Kushans
Ans : (A)
The foreign traveler who visited India during the rule of the Guptas was ?
(a) Hiuen Tsang
(b) Beriner
(c) Fa-Hein
(d) Manucci
Ans : (C)
The era which is counted from 78 A.D. is the ?
(a) Vikram era
(b) Kollam era
(c) Saka era
(d) Salivahana era
Ans : (C)
Earliest movement which took up the cause of lower cast against Brahmana domination was ?
(a)Mahajan Sangam
(b)Satya Shodak Society
Ans:(B)
The earliest known Indian script is ?
(a) Mori
(b) Devanagari
(c) Brahmi
(d) Kharosti
Ans : (C)
Depiction of stones of previous lives of Gautama Buddha was 1st done in art of?
(a) Ellora Caves
(b) Bharhut Stupa
(c) Ajanta Caves
Ans:(B)
Battle that was fought between Ahmad Shah Abdali & the Marathas in 1761 was ?
(a) 2nd battle of Panipat
(b) 3rd battle of Panipat
Ans : (B)
Battle of Dharmat was fought between ?
(a) Muhammad Gori and Jai Chand
(b) Babar and the Afghans
(c) Aurangzeb and Dara Shikoh
Ans : (C)
The battle at Waihind in 1008-09 A.D was fought between ?
(a) Mahmud of Ghazni and Jayapala
(b) Mahmud of Ghazni and Anandapala
Ans : (B)
Temple architecture was most developed under ?
(a) Rastrakutas
(b) Pallavas
(c) Pandyas
(d) Cheras
Ans : (B)
Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah was the contemporary of ?
(a) Akbar
(b) Aurangzeb
(c) Shahjahan
(d) Muhammad Shah
Ans : (D)
Sir Thomas Rose visited the court of ?
(a) Akbar
(b) Jehangir
(c) Shajahan
(d) Aurangazeeb
Ans : (B)
Sikkim became a full fledged state of the Indian Union, in the year ?
(a) 1972
(b) 1973
(c) 1974
(d) 1975
Ans : (D)
Panini, the 1st Grammarian of Sanskrit language in India, lived during ?
(a) 2nd Century B. C.
(b) 6th -5th Century B. C.
Ans : (B)
Mahamastakabhisheka, a grt religious event,
is associated with & done 4 whom?
(a) Bahubali
(b) Buddha
(c) Mahavir
(d) Nataraja
Ans : (A)
In which Governor-General's reign railway in India were established?
(a)Lord William Bentick
(b)Lord Cornwallis
(c)Lord Dalhousie
Ans:(C)
16 October 1905 is well known for which reason ?
(a) The formal proclamation of Swadeshi
(b) Partition of Bengal took effect
Ans : (B)
In his autobiography, Babur has given less details about ?
(A) Description of Nature
(B) Wars
(C) Political condition of India
Ans : (B)
In collaboration with David Hare & Alexander Duff, who established Hindu College at Calcutta ?
Ans : (Raja Rammohan Roy
In 305 BC,which Maurya ruler defeated Alexander's general Seleucus & received territories of Kabul & Balochistan?
Ans:(Chandragupta Maurya)
British signed Treaty of Bassien (1802) with a 'Cypher'. Who was 'Cypher'?
(a) Baji Rao II
(b) Raghunath Rao
(c) Nana Phadanvis
Ans : (A)
Gandhiji started Satyagraha in 1919 to protest against the ?
(a) Rowlatt Act
(b) Salt Law
(c) Jallianwala Bagh Messacre
Ans : (A)
From which one of the following did Kosovodeclare its independence ?
(a) Bulgaria
(b) Croatia
(c) Macedonia
(d) Serbia
Ans : (D)
During whose Governor Generalship the Maratha confederacy ended?
(a) Wellesley
(b) Cornwallis
(c) Lord Hastings
(d) Dalhousie
Ans : (C)
A Asaf Ali was a major woman organizer of underground activity in which movement?
(a)Civil Disobedience
(b)Swadeshi
(c)Quit India
Ans:(C)enc
Which event took place earlist?
(a) Simon Commission
(b) Gaya Session of INC
(c) Tripuri Session of INC
(d) Gandhi-Irwin Pact
Ans : (A)-Irw
Chandragupta Maurya built 1st grt empire in India with help of?
(a)Chanakya
(b)Seleucus
Ans:(A)
Azad Hind Fauj was founded in 1943 in ?
(a) Mandalay
(b) Singapore
(c) Midnapore
(d) Kuala Lumpur
Ans : (B)
Aryabhatta and Varahamihira belong to which age?
(a) Guptas
(b) Cholas
(c) Mauryas
(d) Mughals
Ans : (A)
Anekantavada is a core theory and philosophy of which one of the following ?
(a) Buddhism
(b) Jainism
(c) Sikhism
(d) Vaishnavism
Ans : (B)
Which Indian President was also Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement for some period?
(a)S Radhakrishnan
(b)Giani Zail Singh
Ans:(B)
By which Act were the Commercial Rights of East India Company abolished ?
(a) Regulating Act of 1773
(b) Charter Act of 1833
Ans : (B)
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