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

Q61. Who was the author of the book ‘Manimekalai’?

(A) Ilango Adigal
(B) Seethalai Saathanaar
(C) Perudevanar
(D) Tiruttakrdeva

Answer: Seethalai Saathanaar

Q62. Who was the founder of Yoga philosophy?

(A) Akshapada Gautam
(B) Jaimini
(C) Kapila
(D) Patanjali

Answer: Patanjali

Q63. Who defeated the Saka king Rudrasimha III and annexed his kingdom?

(A) Ramagupta
(B) Chandragupta II
(C) Kumargupta I
(D) Samudragupta

Answer: Chandragupta II

Q64. Who has written “Kalpsutra”?

(A) Haribhadra
(B) Bhadrabahu
(C) Sudharma Swami
(D) Nemichandra

Answer: Bhadrabahu

Q65. For the first time in Indian History, the description of the State Administration was found for which among the following periods?

(A) Gupta Period
(B) Maurya Period
(C) Shunga Period
(D) Satavahana period

Answer: Maurya Period

Q66. “All Indians are Free and not even one of them is a slave”. Who among the following has observed the above about the Mauryan Empire?

(A) Ashoka
(B) Strabo
(C) Hiuen Tsang
(D) Megasthenes

Answer: Megasthenes

Q67. Pushyamitra Shunga, who was originally a Senapati of the Mauryan Empire and assassinated the last Mauryan Emperor Brihadrath in 185 BC was a __?

(A) Brahamin
(B) Vaishya
(C) Kshatriya
(D) Shudra

Answer: Brahamin

Q68. At which among the following places, Chandragupta Maurya spent his last days?

(A) Shravana Belgola
(B) Nalanda
(C) Ujjain
(D) Kashi

Answer: Shravana Belgola

Q69. Which among the following is not a Jain Text ?

(A) Acganarang Sutta
(B) Bhagwati Sutta
(C) Utar Puran
(D) Manjushri Moolkalpa

Answer: Manjushri Moolkalpa

Q70. Which among the following is/ are considered to be the first tangible evidence of expansion of Buddhism?

(A) Statues of Buddha
(B) Edicts of Ashoka
(C) Mahavibhasa
(D) Jataka Tales

Answer: Edicts of Ashoka