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(1) Seleukus was defeated in India by?
(a) Chandra Gupta Maurya
(b) Vikramaditya
(c) Chaanakya
(d) None of the above

(2) What was the name of Harsha’s Capital?
(a) Kannaauj--
(b) Kaanpur
(c) Lucknow
(d) Gayaa

(3) What was the name of the Chinese pilgrim who visited during the reign of Harsh Vardhan?
(a) Fahein
(b) Hiuen Tsang
(c) Hikaru
(d) None of the Above

(4) Who built Qutub Meenaar?
(a) Harsh Vardhan
(b) Akbar
(c) Iltumish
(d) Qutubuddeen Aibaq

(5) In which king's period Taansen existed?
(a) Chandragupt Maurya
(b) Ashok
(c) Akbar
(d) Aurangzeb

(6) Who built Taaj Mahal?
(a) Akbar
(b) Raziyaa Sultaan
(c) Shaah Jahaan
(d) Chandragupt Vikramaaditya

(7) Who was the first King who became Bauddh?
(a) Ashok
(b) Chandragupt Maurya
(c) Bimbisaar
(d) Ajaatshatru

(8) The Lodi dynasty was founded by
(a) Ibrahim Lodi
(b) Sikandar Lodi
(c) Bahlol Lodi
(d) Khizra Khaan

(9) Who was Ashok, the Great
(a) The Grandson of Chandragupt
(b) After the battle of Kaling, he renounced violence and embraced Buddhism
(c) A great Emperor of India
(d) All of the above

(10) Who was the first Muslim ruler of India
(a) Baabar
(b) Iltumish
(c) Qutubuddeen Aibaq
(d) Humaayoon

(11) Who founded the city of Aagaraa?
(a) Sikandar Lodee
(b) Balaban
(c) Raziyaa Sultaan
(d) Khizra Khaan

(12) Whose reign has been called the “Golden Age of the Mugal’?
(a) Shaah Jahaan
(b) Bahaadur Shaah Zafar
(c) Akbar
(d) Aurangzeb

(13) In which language Baabar wrote his memories called Tuzuk-i-Baabaree?
(a) Urdu
(b) Turkish
(c) Faarasee
(d) Arabic
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There is only one ocean which is named on a country, which is that?
Indian Ocean or Hind Mahaa Saagar

Who was the last royal patron of the Mughal School of painting?
Aurangzeb

What was the original name of Taansen?
Raamtanu Paande

Why the Portuguese had to hand over Bombay to the British?
The marriage of Charles II with the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza

Who was the Court Poet of Samudragupt?
Harishen

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