More Questions on Indian Culture
- Q. “Milind Panho” explaining the Buddhist doctrines in the form of a dialogue between Milind and his teacher Nagsena (the great Buddhist philosopher ) is in :
A)Pali Language
B)Sanskrit
C)Hindi
D)Santhali
Answer: Pali Language
- Q. Madhubani’, a style of folk paintings, is popular in which of the following states in India?
A)Rajasthan
B)Uttar Pradesh
C)Madhya Pradesh
D)Bihar
Answer: Bihar
- Q. The three great Chinese pilgrims who visited India in search of knowledge, manuscripts and relics between the fifth and seventh centuries A. D. are:
A)Fa-Hien, Huin-Tsang, and Meghasthanise
B)Meghasthanise, Huin-Tsang, and I-Tsing
C)Fa-Hien, Huin-Tsang, and I-Tsing
D)Fa-Hien, Meghasthanise, and I-Tsing
Answer: Fa-Hien, Huin-Tsang, and I-Tsing
- Q. The Chief of Sukrchakiya Misl (a Sikh confederacy) was :
A)Maharaja Jagjeet Singh
B)Maharaja Ranjit Singh
C)Maharaja Surjeet Singh
D)None of Above
Answer: Maharaja Ranjit Singh
- Q. The Indian ruler who spoke directly to the people through his inscriptions was :
A)Chandragupt Maurya
B)Asoka the Great
C)Samundra Gupta
D)Akbar
Answer: Asoka the Great
- Q. The major towns namely Fatehabad, Hissar, Firozpur, Jaunpur and Firozabad were founded by :
A)Raziyat ud din Sultana
B)Firoz Shah Tughlaq
C)Qutbuddin Aibak
D)Aram Shah
Answer: Firoz Shah Tughlaq
- Q. The apex body in Indian Money market is:
A)Reserve Bank of India
B)Imperial Bank
C)Union Bank Of India
D)United bank Of India
Answer: Reserve Bank of India
- Q. In 1724 the state of Hyderabad was founded by :
A)Azim Jah Bahadur
B)Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf-Jah
C)Osman Ali Khan
D)Qamaruddin Khan
Answer: Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf-Jah
- Q. During the Sultanate period the highest category of peasants were:
A)Khud-kasht
B)The Khots and Muqaddams.
C)Pahi-kasht
D)Muzarian
Answer: The Khots and Muqaddams.
- Q. The last Trithankara in Jain tradition is:
A)Aristhanemia
B)Rishabhanath
C)Vardhamana Mahavira
D)Ajitnath
Answer: Vardhamana Mahavira
- Q. The Dharm Chakra Pravatan mentioned in the Buddihst test is:
A)Birth of Buddha
B)Nirvana
C)The first sermon delivered by Buddha at Sarnath
D)None of these
Answer: The first sermon delivered by Buddha at Sarnath
- Q. The emergence of two independent state in the south namely the Vijaynagar (A. D. 1336) and Bahamani (A. D. 1347) took place during the reign of:
A)Qutbuddin Aibak
B)Firoz Shah Tughluq
C)Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
D)Alauddin Khilji
Answer: Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
- Q. Thillana is a format of
A)Odissi
B)Kuchipudi
C)Baharatanatyam
D)Kathak
Answer: Baharatanatyam
- Q. The last ruler of Tughlaq dynasty was:
A)Nasir Uddin Mahmood
B)Alam Shah
C)Firoz Shah Tuglaq
D)Mahmood Shah
Answer: Nasir Uddin Mahmood
- Q. The Brahmanas, the Arayakas and the Upanishads are attached to one or the other of :
A)The Ramayana
B)The four Vedas.
C)The Mahabharata
D)The Purans
Answer: The four Vedas.
- Q. Akbarnama and Ain-e-Akbari have been written by :
A)Akber
B)Abul Fazal
C)Rahim
D)Niggar Khan
Answer: Abul Fazal
- Q. Who was the first editor of the Yugantars?
A)Raja Subodh Mallik
B)Upendra Nath Bandopadhyay
C)Barendra Ghosh
D)Ambika Chakrobarty
Answer: Barendra Ghosh
- Q. Who founded Ramkrishna Mission in 1896?
A)Swami Vivekananda
B)Ram Kisna Paramhans
C)Ravibindra Nath Tagore
D)Devendra Nath Tagore
Answer: Swami Vivekananda
- Q. The oldest among the spoken literary languages of South India is:
A)Malayalam
B)Kannada
C)Telugu
D)Tamil Language
Answer: Tamil Language
- Q. The Vijayanagar Empire in the south came into existence in :
A)A. D. 1336
B)A. D. 1236
C)A. D. 1136
D)A. D. 1390
Answer: A. D. 1336
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