Indian History best important quiz with answers and pdf

Q.1 Which of the following is the oldest seat of learning?

1. Nalanda
2. Vikramshila
3. Taxila
4. Ujjain

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Q.2 The Shrimad Bhagvata Gita contains ……. chapters and ….. Sanskrit slokas or couplets.

1. 14,500
2. 16,600
3. 18,700
4. 20,800

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Q.3 The Ramayana narrates events believed to have taken place in the ….. Yuga or age.

1. Sat
2. Dwapar
3. Kal
4. Treta

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Q.4 Who among the following anticipated Newton by affirming that all things tended to gravitate to the earth?

1. Aryabhatta
2. Brahmagupta
3. Varahamihira
4. Buddhagupta

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Q.5 In ancient India, Nalanda University represented a great centre for the study of

1. Mahayana Buddhism
2. Hinduism
3. Hinayana Buddhism
4. Jainism

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Q.6 Who is the author of Kadambari, from among the following?

1. Kalidas
2. Panini
3. Kautilya
4. Bana

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Q.7 Which sage or scholar had recast the original single Veda into four distinct Vedas?

1. Patanjali
2. Kapila
3. Vyasa
4. Shankaracharya

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Q.8 To whom did the term ‘Macedonia’s madaman’ refer?

1. Alexander
2. Xersus
3. Darius
4. Phillip II

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Q.9 The bronze coins of Natraja or Dancing Shiva during the Chola period invariably depicted the deity with ….. arms.

1. Eight
2. Six
3. Four
4. Two

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Q.10 The two colossal images of the Buddha at Bamiyan are an instance of the …… art?

1. Early Mathura
2. Maurya
3. Gupta
4. Gandhara

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