Indian History Top 100 GK MCQ With Free Exam SET:-3

Q41. Tulsidas, the author of  Ramcharitmanas, was a contemporary of which of the following rulers ?

(A) Akbar
(B) Humayun
(C) Shahjahan
(D) Sher Shah Suri

Answer: Akbar

Q42. The text of the document called Mahzar, by which Akbar assumed the role of supreme arbiter in the matters of religion is found in

(A) Nizamuddin’s Tabaqat-I-Akbari
(B) Arif Quandahari’s Tarikh-I-Alfi
(C) Abul Fazl’s Akbarnama
(D) Badauni’s Muntakahab-ut-Tawarikh

Answer: Abul Fazl’s Akbarnama

Q43. To evolve a peaceful settlement of the conflict between India and China, which of the following non-aligned Afro-Asian nations participated in a conference held in December 1962 ?

(A) Burma, Sri Lanka, Combodia and Indonesia
(B) Burma (now Myanmar), Combodia, Indonesia and UAR
(C) Burma, Indonesia, Ghana and Sri Lanka
(D) All of the above

Answer: All of the above

Q44. The term samanta, meaning a feudatory from the sixth century AD, originally meant a

(A) slave
(B) cultivator
(C) neighbour
(D) foreigner

Answer: neighbour

Q45. The Kalinga was fought in

(A) 321 BC
(B) 301 BC
(C) 261 BC
(D) 241 BC

Answer: 261 BC

Q46. Under the Government of India, Provincial Legislatures consisted of two chambers, except in the case of

(A) Assam
(B) Bihar
(C) Madras
(D) Punjab

Answer: Punjab

Q47. The Venetian traveler who travelled with his wife and reached Vijayanagar around 1420 was

(A) Athanasius Nikitin
(B) Niccolo de Conti
(C) Ibn Batuta
(D) Ferishta

Answer: Niccolo de Conti

Q48. The year 788 AD was a good one for Hinduism. Why ?

(A) Shankracharya was born that year
(B) Samudragupta converted to Hinduism
(C) Harsha Vardhana, the last Buddhist king, died
(D) All Muslim invaders were defeated

Answer: Shankracharya was born that year

Q49. The Uprising of 1857 was described as the first Indian war of Independence by

(A) R.C. Mazumdar
(B) S.N. Sen
(C) B.G. Tilak
(D) V.D. Savakar

Answer: V.D. Savakar

Q50. The twenty-third Jaina teacher, Parsva, the immediate predecessor of Mahavira enjoined on his disciples four great vows. To these Mahavira adds which of the followings as the fifth vow ?

(A) Abstention from stealing
(B) Non-injury
(C) Brahmacharya or continence
(D) Non-attachment

Answer: Brahmacharya or continence