1. What was the main occupation of the Indus Civilization?

a) Trade b) Agriculture c)
Craftsmanship d) Hunting
2. Who initially discovered the Mohenjo-Daro site in the Indus civilization? a) John
Marshall b) Mortimer Wheeler c) Rakhal Das Banerjee d) Dayaram Sahni
3. What was practiced in the Indus Civilization? a) Buddhism b) Cult of Shiva c) Islam d)
Christianity
4. What is the Great Bath part of in Mohenjo-Daro? a) Residential complex b) Market area
c) Large citadel complex d) Temple area
5. Which metal was unknown to the Indus Valley People? a) Copper b) Bronze c) Gold d)
Iron
6. The period between the Neolithic and Bronze Age is known as: a) Stone Age b) Copper
Age c) Iron Age d) Medieval Age
7. The script of the Indus Civilization was: a) Sanskrit b) Pali c) Dravidian d) Prakrit
8. Mohenjo-Daro is also known as: a) Hill of Gold b) Mount of Dead c) City of Water d)
Land of the Rising Sun
9. When was the sea route to India discovered? a) 1398 b) 1498 c) 1598 d) 1698
10. The tax collected by the Marathas was known as: a) Jizya b) Chauth c) Zakat d) Ushr
11. Tipu Sultan was defeated in which war? a) First Anglo-Mysore War b) Second Anglo-
Mysore War c) Third Anglo-Mysore War d) Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
12. Who succeeded Siraj-ud-Daulah as Nawab of Bengal after the Battle of Plassey? a) Mir
Qasim b) Mir Jafar c) Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula d) Haider Ali
13. Muhammad Bin Qasim conquered Sindh in: a) 692 AD b) 712 AD c) 732 AD d) 752 AD
14. What was Muhammad Bin Qasim's real name? a) Muhammad Ali b) Qasim Ali c)
Ammad u Din d) Ubaid u Din
15. Mahmud Ghaznavi attacked India how many times? a) 7 b) 9 c) 11 d) 17
16. The first battle of Tarain was fought between Muhammad Ghori and: a) Rana Sanga b)
Prithvi Raj Chauhan c) Rani Durgavati d) Maharana Pratap
17. Who established the Slave Dynasty in India? a) Qutub-ud-din Aibak b) Iltutmish c)
Balban d) Razia Sultana
18. Which ruler constructed the Qutub Minar? a) Qutub-ud-din Aibak b) Iltutmish c) Balban
d) Alauddin Khilji
19. Razia Sultana was the daughter of: a) Qutub-ud-din Aibak b) Iltutmish c) Balban d)
Muhammad Ghori
20. The Khilji Dynasty was founded by: a) Jalal-ud-din Khilji b) Alauddin Khilji c)
Muhammad bin Tughlaq d) Firoz Shah Tughlaq
21. Who introduced the copper currency system in India? a) Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq b)
Muhammad bin Tughlaq c) Firoz Shah Tughlaq d) Alauddin Khilji
22. Which Mughal ruler wrote the autobiography "Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri"? a) Akbar b) Humayun
c) Jahangir d) Shah Jahan
23. The Taj Mahal was built in the memory of: a) Noor Jahan b) Mumtaz Mahal c) Jodha Bai
d) Rani Durgavati
24. Aurangzeb banned: a) Trade b) Music and dancing c) Religious festivals d) Court
proceedings
25. Who was known as "Zinda Pir"? a) Akbar b) Jahangir c) Shah Jahan d) Aurangzeb
26. Which ruler built the Red Fort in Delhi? a) Akbar b) Jahangir c) Shah Jahan d)
Aurangzeb
27. Which Mughal ruler fought in the second battle of Panipat? a) Babur b) Humayun c)
Akbar d) Aurangzeb
28. Fatehpur Sikri was built by: a) Babur b) Humayun c) Akbar d) Jahangir
29. Who wrote the "Akbar Nama"? a) Abul Fazl b) Faizi c) Birbal d) Tansen
30. The Battle of Plassey took place in: a) 1757 b) 1764 c) 1789 d) 1805
31. Who was the first Governor General of India? a) Lord Warren Hastings b) Lord
Cornwallis c) William Bentinck d) Lord Dalhousie
32. Who was the Governor General of Bengal at the time of the establishment of the Asiatic
Society in Calcutta? a) Lord Cornwallis b) Lord Wellesley c) Lord William Bentinck d)
Lord Warren Hastings
33. Which policy is associated with Warren Hastings? a) Doctrine of Lapse b) Subsidiary
Alliance c) Ring Fence d) Divide and Rule
34. Who abolished the dual government system in Bengal? a) Lord Clive b) Lord Cornwallis
c) Warren Hastings d) Lord Wellesley
35. Who established the Judicial organization in India? a) Lord William Bentinck b) Lord
Cornwallis c) Lord Dalhousie d) Lord Canning
36. The tomb of Lord Cornwallis is located in: a) Calcutta b) Delhi c) Ghazi Pur d) Bombay
37. The Subsidiary Alliance was implemented during the reign of which Governor General?
a) Lord Cornwallis b) Lord Wellesley c) Lord Dalhousie d) Lord Canning
38. The third Anglo Maratha war is related to which Governor General? a) Lord Cornwallis
b) Lord Hastings c) Lord William Bentinck d) Lord Dalhousie
39. Which Governor General abolished the Sati system? a) Lord Cornwallis b) Lord Hastings
c) Lord William Bentinck d) Lord Dalhousie
40. Who formulated and implemented the Doctrine of Lapse? a) Lord Cornwallis b) Lord
Hastings c) Lord Dalhousie d) Lord Canning
41. The first railway line in India was opened between which two locations? a) Calcutta and
Delhi b) Bombay and Thane c) Madras and Bangalore d) Delhi and Agra
42. Who was the first Viceroy of India? a) Lord Cornwallis b) Lord Dalhousie c) Lord
Canning d) Lord Wellesley
43. The Queen Victoria's manifesto was read out in Allahabad on 1st November 1858 by: a)
Lord Cornwallis b) Lord Dalhousie c) Lord Canning d) Lord Wellesley
44. The Delhi Darbar was held on 1st Jan, 1877 to decorate the Queen with the title of
Kaiser-i-Hind during the reign of: a) Lord Curzon b) Lord Rippon c) Lord Lytton d) Lord
Minto
45. The first Factory Act was passed in 1881 during the tenure of: a) Lord Rippon b) Lord
Curzon c) Lord Lytton d) Lord Lawrence
46. Who is considered the father of Local Self-Government in India? a) Lord Cornwallis b)
Lord Wellesley c) Lord Rippon d) Lord Curzon
47. The Partition of Bengal took place in: a) 1901 b) 1903 c) 1905 d) 1907
48. The All India Muslim League was formed in 1906 during the tenure of: a) Lord Curzon
b) Lord Minto c) Lord Rippon d) Lord Lytton
49. The Rowlatt Act was passed in: a) 1917 b) 1918 c) 1919 d) 1920
50. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in: a) 1917 b) 1918 c) 1919 d) 1920
51. The Simon Commission came to India in: a) 1925 b) 1927 c) 1928 d) 1930
52. The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in: a) 1928 b) 1929 c) 1930 d) 1931
53. The Government of India Act 1935 was passed during the tenure of: a) Lord Linlithgow
b) Lord Wavell c) Lord Willingdon d) Lord Irwin
54. The Cripps Mission came to India in: a) 1939 b) 1940 c) 1941 d) 1942
55. The Indian Independence Act was passed in: a) 1945 b) 1946 c) 1947 d) 1948
56. Which Governor General is associated with the policy of "Masterly Inactivity"? a) Lord
Dalhousie b) Lord Canning c) John Lawrence d) Lord Wellesley
57. The University of Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras were established in: a) 1857 b) 1861 c)
1869 d) 1882
58. The Montague-Chelmsford reforms were passed in: a) 1917 b) 1918 c) 1919 d) 1920
59. The Swaraj Party was established in: a) 1920 b) 1921 c) 1923 d) 1925
60. The first census in India was conducted by: a) Lord Rippon b) Lord Curzon c) Lord
Mayo d) Lord Lytton
61. Shaikh Ahmad Sarhindi was also known as: a) Mujaddid Alf Thani b) Mujaddid Alf
Awwal c) Mujaddid Alf Thalath d) Mujaddid Alf Khamis
62. Shaikh Ahmad Sarhindi was a saint of which Sufi order? a) Chishti b) Suhrawardi c)
Qadiri d) Naqshbandi
63. Who was the master of Shaikh Ahmad Sarhindi? a) Shah Waliullah b) Baqi Billah c) Sir
Syed Ahmad Khan d) Sayyid Ahmad Shaheed
64. Shah Waliullah translated the Holy Quran into which language? a) Urdu b) Arabic c)
Persian d) Turkish
65. Which battle was fought during the time of Shah Waliullah? a) Battle of Plassey b) Battle
of Buxar c) Third Battle of Panipat d) Battle of Karnal
66. Who wrote the book "Hujjat Allah Al Baligha"? a) Shaikh Ahmad Sarhindi b) Shah
Waliullah c) Sayyid Ahmad Shaheed d) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
67. Sayyid Ahmad Shaheed founded which movement? a) Jihad Movement b) Khilafat
Movement c) Tahriq-e-Muhammadiyah d) Anjuman-i-Taraqi-i-Musalmanan-i-Hind
68. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan established the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in which
year? a) 1857 b) 1875 c) 1885 d) 1898
69. Which book was written by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in 1846? a) Aine-i-Akbari b) Tarikh-i-
Sarkashi Bijnour c) Asar-ul-Sanadeed d) Tabin-ul-Kalam
70. Who was the first Principal of Dar-ul-Ulum Deoband? a) Molana Qasim Nanotivi b)
Shah Waliullah c) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan d) Sayyid Ahmad Shaheed
71. The War of Independence started on: a) 31 May, 1856 b) 31 May, 1857 c) 31 May, 1858
d) 31 May, 1859
72. Who was the last Mughal king who died in a British prison in Rangoon? a) Bahadur Shah
I b) Akbar Shah II c) Bahadur Shah Zafar d) Shah Alam II
73. Who announced the annulment of the Partition of Bengal in 1911? a) Lord Curzon b)
Lord Minto c) Lord Harding d) Lord Irwin
74. The Shimla Deputation in 1906 was led by: a) Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk b) Molana
Muhammad Ali Johar c) Syed Ali Bilgrami d) Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk
75. Who drafted the constitution of the All India Muslim League? a) Molana Muhammad Ali
Johar b) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan c) Shah Waliullah d) Sayyid Ahmad Shaheed
76. The Khilafat Movement was organized by: a) Molana Muhammad Ali and Molana
Shaukat Ali b) Sayyid Ahmad Shaheed c) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan d) Shah Waliullah
77. The Lahore Resolution was presented by: a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah b) Nawab Mohsin-
ul-Mulk c) AK Fazlul Haq d) Molana Zafar Ali Khan
 78. The Constitution of Pakistan 1956 provided for the creation of which province? a) Punjab
b) Sindh c) East Bengal d) Baluchistan
79. The first round table conference was held in: a) 1930 b) 1931 c) 1932 d) 1933
80. The objective resolution was adopted on: a) 7 March 1949 b) 12 March 1949 c) 7 March
1950 d) 12 March 1950

ANSWERS:

1. b) Agriculture
2. c) Rakhal Das Banerjee
3. b) Cult of Shiva
4. c) Large citadel complex
5. d) Iron
6. b) Copper Age
7. c) Dravidian
8. b) Mount of Dead
9. b) 1498
10. b) Chauth
11. d) Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
12. b) Mir Jafar
13. b) 712 AD
14. d) Ubaid u Din
15. d) 17
16. b) Prithvi Raj Chauhan
17. a) Qutub-ud-din Aibak
18. a) Qutub-ud-din Aibak
19. b) Iltutmish
20. a) Jalal-ud-din Khilji
21. b) Muhammad bin Tughlaq
22. c) Jahangir
23. b) Mumtaz Mahal
24. b) Music and dancing
25. d) Aurangzeb
26. c) Shah Jahan
27. c) Akbar
28. c) Akbar
29. a) Abul Fazl
30. a) 1757
31. a) Lord Warren Hastings
32. d) Lord Warren Hastings
33. c) Ring Fence
34. c) Warren Hastings
35. b) Lord Cornwallis
36. c) Ghazi Pur
37. b) Lord Wellesley
38. b) Lord Hastings
39. c) Lord William Bentinck
40. c) Lord Dalhousie
41. b) Bombay and Thane
42. c) Lord Canning
43. c) Lord Canning
44. c) Lord Lytton
45. a) Lord Rippon
46. c) Lord Rippon
47. c) 1905
48. b) Lord Minto
49. c) 1919
50. c) 1919
51. c) 1928
52. d) 1931
53. a) Lord Linlithgow
54. d) 1942
55. c) 1947
56. c) John Lawrence
57. a) 1857
58. c) 1919
59. c) 1923
60. a) Lord Rippon
61. a) Mujaddid Alf Thani
62. d) Naqshbandi
63. b) Baqi Billah
64. c) Persian
65. c) Third Battle of Panipat
66. b) Shah Waliullah
67. a) Jihad Movement
68. b) 1875
69. c) Asar-ul-Sanadeed
70. a) Molana Qasim Nanotivi
71. b) 31 May, 1857
72. c) Bahadur Shah Zafar
73. c) Lord Harding
74. d) Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk
75. a) Molana Muhammad Ali Johar
76. a) Molana Muhammad Ali and Molana Shaukat Ali
77. c) AK Fazlul Haq
78. c) East Bengal
79. a) 1930
80. b) 12 March 1949