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Q1. Which of the following gives detailed information on Harsha? kalhan kalidasa bana harisena
Correct answer : 3
Q2. The effects of the Kalinga War on King Ashoka are found in?
Correct answer : 3
Q3. During whose reign Megasthenes visited India?
Correct answer : 1
Q4. Which is the oldest dynasty among the following?
Correct answer : 3
Q5. Who among the following assumed the title of 'Vikramaaditya'?
Correct answer : 3
Q6. Fa-hien the Chinese traveller visited India during reign of...?
Correct answer : 3
Q7. Who among the following was a ruler of the Kushana Dynasty?
Correct answer : 4
Q8. Who among the following were the contemporaries of Kanishka?
Correct answer : 1
Q9. Megasthenes came to India as the ambassador of .........?
Correct answer : 3
Q10. Among the following Indian rulers, who conquered Java and Sumatra?
Correct answer : 3
Q11. During the reign of which kingdom the village community got a lot of power?
Correct answer : 3
Q12. The Indus valley civilization was non-aryan because
Correct answer : 2
Q13. Which one throws light on Harappan culture?
Correct answer : 1
Q14. Which is the most venerated animal of the Indus people?
Correct answer : 1
Q15. Mohenjodaro is locally known as the Mound of the ....?
Correct answer : 3
Q16. Among the following whose name is most associated with Indus valley civilization?
Correct answer : 3
Q17. What is the salient feature of the Rig Vedic religion?
Correct answer : 3
Q18. What represents the most significant feature of the Indus Valley civilization?
Correct answer : 3
Q19. Indus valley civilization was mainly spread in the region of...?
Correct answer : 4
Q20. Which one of the following was the staple food of Indus people?
Correct answer : 3
Q21. Among the following which of them possibly ruled the Indus people?
Correct answer : 2
Q22. Among the following animals which one was unknown for the Indus Valley people?
Correct answer : 2
Q23. What was the script used by the Indus Valley people?
Correct answer : 2
Q24. Relate rice cultivation with the Harappan site given....?
Correct answer : 3
Q25. Which metal was not known to the Indus valley people?
Correct answer : 2
Q26. Among the following which Harappan site is not in India?
Correct answer : 2
Q27. Lothal and Kalibangan are places associated with the civilization of ..............
Correct answer : 4
Q28. What was the port town of the Indus Valley civilization?
Correct answer : 2
Q29. The Indus Valley civilization people specialized in....
Correct answer : 3
Q30. The Indus Vallely civilization people mainly worshipped
Correct answer : 2
Q31. Which of the following was used by the Mesolithic age people?
Correct answer : 4
Q32. The Indus Valley civilization type was found in .........
Correct answer : 2
Q33. What helped the transition from Paleolithic to the Neolithic age
Correct answer : 1
Q34. Paleolithic people were mainly engaged with
Correct answer : 1
Q35. What were the earliest cereals grown by man...
Correct answer : 4
Q36. Primitive man first learnt to make..........
Correct answer : 3
Q37. Jains produced their first icon in the form of the 'sarvatobhadrika'image (four standing Jinas back to back) and the 'ayagapatas' or votive tablets at.....
Correct answer : 1
Q38. Indian temple architecture has been classified into three orders as: Nagara, Dravida and Vesara, by the ancient texts. Identify the wrongly matched temple based on these three orders?
Correct answer : 3
Q39. The importance of Nagarjunakonda stupa is because of the beautiful panels which illustrate episodes from the life of the Buddha. Which of the following is not the most characteristic of the scenes depicted?
Correct answer : 3
Q40. Who was the guide during the excavation work of Kalibangan, Rajasthan in the 1960s?
Correct answer : 2
Q41. South of the Deccan Plateau in the Sangam Age, three kingdoms arose. Which is not the one to arise?
Correct answer : 3
Q42. Our information regarding Alexander's invasion is derived from the account left by three of the following. Pick the odd man out?
Correct answer : 1
Q43. Which of the following Kings were the first to issue coins bearing their names?
Correct answer : 2
Q44. Arrange the different Sanskrit drama writers in an ascending chronological order: A.Bhasa; B.Asvagosha; C.Bhavabhuti and D.Kalidasa
Correct answer : 4
Q45. "Goghna" in the Vedic period refers to....?
Correct answer : 4
Q46. Which of the following developments cannot be ascribed to the later vedic period?
Correct answer : 3
Q47. Export trade in the pre-Gupta age was mainly with......?
Correct answer : 3
Q48. At which of the following places, has a major Rock Edicts of Ashoka been found?
Correct answer : 2
Q49. Alexander the Great invaded India in the year.....?
Correct answer : 1
Q50. Elephanta rock cut temples are ascribed to.....?