More Questions on Ancient History
- Q. Who constructed the Khajuraho temples?
A)Sindhiya
B)Halkar
C)Bundela Rajput
D)Chandel Rajput
Answer: Chandel Rajput
- Q. Most of the Chola temples were dedicated to
A)Shiva
B)Ganesh
C)Durga
D)Vishnu
Answer: Shiva
- Q. Tuluva Narasa who ruled the Vijaynagara Empire for the period 1491-1503 belonged to which dynasty?
A)Saluva Dynasty
B)Sangama Dynasty
C)Tuluva Dynasty
D)Aravidu Dynasty
Answer: Tuluva Dynasty
- Q. The earliest specimen of Kavya style is found in?
A)Ellora
B)Ajanta
C)Kathiawar
D)Mohenjodaro
Answer: Kathiawar
- Q. Dasavatara temple of Nagra style is located at which of the following places?
A)Gorakhpur
B)Badrinath
C)Jhansi (Lalitpur)
D)Samstipur
Answer: Jhansi (Lalitpur)
- Q. Which of the following temples was not constructed by Chandela dynasty?
A)Chaturbhuja
B)Kandariya Mahadev
C)Lakshman
D)Somnath
Answer: Somnath
- Q. Who established the four monasteries Sringeri, Badrinath, Dwarka & Puri?
A)Ashoka
B)Ramanuj
C)Shankaracharya
D)Madhav Vidhyaranya
Answer: Shankaracharya
- Q. Among the four works mentioned below which one is encyclopaedic in nature?
A)Siddhanta Shiromani
B)Amarakosha
C)Brihat Samhita
D)Astanga Hridaya
Answer: Brihat Samhita
- Q. Find out the odd one
A)AI-Biruni: Given valuable account about Harshavardhana
B)Hiuen-Tsang: Acquired knowledge of Indian society through literature
C)Megasthenes: Describes about the Indo-Persian relations
D)Ptolemy: Written a geographical treatise on India
Answer: Ptolemy: Written a geographical treatise on India
- Q. Who was the ruler of the kingdom between the rivers Jhelum and Chenab?
A)Darius III
B)Alexander the Great
C)King Porus
D)Chandragupta Maurya
Answer: King Porus
- Q. The Vijaynagar ruler Krishna Dev Raya’s work ‘Amuktamalayada’ was written in which language?
A)Malayalam
B)Tamil
C)Kanada
D)Telugu
Answer: Telugu
- Q. Which is representative of Dravida style of temple architecture?
A)Shikhara
B)Viman
C)Mandapa
D)Gopuram
Answer: Viman
- Q. The Rathas of Mahabalipuram, the rock- cut architecture, were built by a king of the dynasty of
A)Hoysala
B)Chola
C)Pallava
D)Rashtrakuta
Answer: Pallava
- Q. Which one of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched?
A)Kakatiyas : Warangal
B)Hoyasalas : Dwarasamudra
C)Pallavas : Devagiri
D)Chalukyas : Kalyani
Answer: Pallavas : Devagiri
- Q. Which queen of the Kakatiya dynasty ruled over Warangal, part of modern Andhra Pradesh?
A)Ahilyadevi
B)Rudramadevi
C)Bhagwati
D)Bhanumati
Answer: Rudramadevi
- Q. Which one of the following was the capital of Kosala?
A)Shuktimati
B)Sravasti
C)Kaushambi
D)Indraprastha
Answer: Sravasti
- Q. Who deciphered Ashokan inscription?
A)Lady Hardinge
B)Robert Clive
C)James Prinsep
D)Dalhousie
Answer: James Prinsep
- Q. Consider the following statement (s) is/are correct related to the historical literary sources of Ancient India? I. The ‘Puranas’ serves as a source of historical facts of ancient India. There are eighteen Puranas. They provide historical information of various dynasties. II. According to Dr. R.C. Majumdar, the war occurred in 1000 B.C. Apart from the Kurukshetra war, the Mahabharata contains various accounts of social life and religious thinking of the people of ancient India
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I and II
D)Neither I nor II
Answer: Both I and II
- Q. Which Rashtrakuta ruler built the famous Kailash temple of Shiva at Ellora?
A)Amoghvarsha-I
B)Dantidurga
C)Krishna-I
D)Vatsraja
Answer: Krishna-I
- Q. The queen with the title Didda ruled over which part of India between 980 – 1003?
A)Kashmir
B)Avadh
C)Sindh
D)Bengal
Answer: Kashmir
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