🏛️ HISTORY — SUPER HARD LEVEL 100 MCQs
1. Which Harappan site provides the earliest evidence of a ploughed agricultural field?
A) Lothal
B) Kalibangan
C) Dholavira
D) Rakhigarhi
Answer: B) Kalibangan
2. The evidence of a sophisticated water-reservoir system is particularly associated with:
A) Harappa
B) Mohenjo-daro
C) Dholavira
D) Banawali
Answer: C) Dholavira
3. Which Harappan site is most closely associated with a dockyard?
A) Lothal
B) Kalibangan
C) Rakhigarhi
D) Surkotada
Answer: A) Lothal
4. The famous bronze “Dancing Girl” from Mohenjo-daro was made mainly by using:
A) Hammering technique
B) Lost-wax technique
C) Casting in stone moulds
D) Pottery-wheel technique
Answer: B) Lost-wax technique
5. Which Harappan site is located in present-day Haryana?
A) Lothal
B) Rakhigarhi
C) Dholavira
D) Surkotada
Answer: B) Rakhigarhi
6. The script of the Harappan civilisation is generally regarded as:
A) Fully deciphered
B) Alphabetic
C) Undeciphered
D) Purely Sanskritic
Answer: C) Undeciphered
7. Which metal was NOT known to the Harappans?
A) Copper
B) Bronze
C) Gold
D) Iron
Answer: D) Iron
8. The earliest Vedic text is:
A) Sama Veda
B) Rig Veda
C) Yajur Veda
D) Atharva Veda
Answer: B) Rig Veda
9. In the Rig Vedic period, the term “Gavishti” primarily referred to:
A) Religious sacrifice
B) Cattle raid or conflict
C) Agricultural festival
D) Marriage ceremony
Answer: B) Cattle raid or conflict
10. Which institution in the Rig Vedic period was generally considered an important popular assembly?
A) Sabha
B) Parishad
C) Samiti
D) Gana
Answer: C) Samiti
11. The “Purusha Sukta” occurs in:
A) Rig Veda, Book X
B) Sama Veda
C) Atharva Veda
D) Yajur Veda
Answer: A) Rig Veda, Book X
12. Which Mahajanapada was ruled by the Haryanka dynasty under Bimbisara?
A) Kosala
B) Magadha
C) Avanti
D) Vatsa
Answer: B) Magadha
13. The ancient capital of Avanti was:
A) Rajagriha
B) Kaushambi
C) Ujjayini
D) Shravasti
Answer: C) Ujjayini
14. Which ruler is traditionally associated with the second Buddhist council?
A) Ajatashatru
B) Kalashoka
C) Ashoka
D) Kanishka
Answer: B) Kalashoka
15. The First Buddhist Council was held at:
A) Vaishali
B) Pataliputra
C) Rajagriha
D) Sarnath
Answer: C) Rajagriha
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16. The Buddhist doctrine of “Pratityasamutpada” means:
A) Four Noble Truths
B) Dependent origination
C) Middle Path
D) Nirvana
Answer: B) Dependent origination
17. Mahavira was the:
A) 21st Tirthankara
B) 22nd Tirthankara
C) 23rd Tirthankara
D) 24th Tirthankara
Answer: D) 24th Tirthankara
18. Which Jain Tirthankara is traditionally associated with the symbol of a bull?
A) Mahavira
B) Parshvanatha
C) Rishabhanatha
D) Neminatha
Answer: C) Rishabhanatha
19. The “Arthashastra” is traditionally attributed to:
A) Patanjali
B) Kautilya
C) Panini
D) Vishakhadatta
Answer: B) Kautilya
20. The Greek ambassador Megasthenes visited the court of:
A) Ashoka
B) Bindusara
C) Chandragupta Maurya
D) Samudragupta
Answer: C) Chandragupta Maurya
21. Which Mauryan ruler is explicitly associated with the transformation following the Kalinga War?
A) Chandragupta Maurya
B) Bindusara
C) Ashoka
D) Dasharatha
Answer: C) Ashoka
22. Ashoka's Major Rock Edict XIII is particularly significant because it describes:
A) His coronation
B) The Kalinga War and its consequences
C) His pilgrimage to Lumbini
D) The Third Buddhist Council
Answer: B) The Kalinga War and its consequences
23. The Dhauli rock edicts are located in present-day:
A) Odisha
B) Bihar
C) Jharkhand
D) West Bengal
Answer: A) Odisha
24. The Ashokan edicts at Dhauli and Jaugada are particularly notable for containing:
A) Persian inscriptions
B) Separate Kalinga Edicts
C) Gupta inscriptions
D) Buddhist manuscripts
Answer: B) Separate Kalinga Edicts
25. The language predominantly used in Ashokan inscriptions was:
A) Classical Sanskrit
B) Prakrit
C) Tamil
D) Pali exclusively
Answer: B) Prakrit
26. The Brahmi script was deciphered in the 19th century primarily through the work of:
A) Alexander Cunningham
B) James Prinsep
C) John Marshall
D) William Jones
Answer: B) James Prinsep
27. The Allahabad Pillar inscription is an important source for the reign of:
A) Chandragupta I
B) Samudragupta
C) Chandragupta II
D) Skandagupta
Answer: B) Samudragupta
28. The Allahabad Pillar inscription was composed by:
A) Banabhatta
B) Harisena
C) Kalidasa
D) Vishakhadatta
Answer: B) Harisena
29. Samudragupta is often called the “Napoleon of India” by:
A) R.C. Majumdar
B) V.A. Smith
C) Romila Thapar
D) D.D. Kosambi
Answer: B) V.A. Smith
30. The Gupta ruler who adopted the title “Vikramaditya” was:
A) Chandragupta I
B) Samudragupta
C) Chandragupta II
D) Kumaragupta I
Answer: C) Chandragupta II
31. Fa-Hien visited India during the reign of:
A) Samudragupta
B) Chandragupta II
C) Kumaragupta I
D) Skandagupta
Answer: B) Chandragupta II
32. The Iron Pillar at Mehrauli is generally associated with:
A) Ashoka
B) Chandragupta II
C) Harshavardhana
D) Rajaraja Chola I
Answer: B) Chandragupta II
33. The decimal place-value system developed significantly in ancient India, while the concept of zero is particularly associated with the mathematical tradition represented by:
A) Aryabhata
B) Brahmagupta
C) Varahamihira
D) Charaka
Answer: B) Brahmagupta
34. Aryabhata wrote:
A) Brihat Samhita
B) Aryabhatiya
C) Sushruta Samhita
D) Charaka Samhita
Answer: B) Aryabhatiya
35. The ancient university of Nalanda flourished particularly under the patronage of:
A) Kumaragupta I
B) Pulakeshin II
C) Rajendra Chola
D) Harsha alone
Answer: A) Kumaragupta I
36. Harshavardhana's biography “Harshacharita” was written by:
A) Kalidasa
B) Banabhatta
C) Dandin
D) Bharavi
Answer: B) Banabhatta
37. The Chinese traveller Xuanzang visited India during the reign of:
A) Harshavardhana
B) Chandragupta II
C) Ashoka
D) Rajaraja Chola
Answer: A) Harshavardhana
38. The Chalukyan ruler Pulakeshin II successfully resisted the northward expansion of:
A) Samudragupta
B) Harshavardhana
C) Rajendra Chola
D) Mihira Bhoja
Answer: B) Harshavardhana
39. The Aihole inscription praising Pulakeshin II was composed by:
A) Ravikirti
B) Banabhatta
C) Harisena
D) Bilhana
Answer: A) Ravikirti
40. The Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur was constructed by:
A) Rajendra Chola I
B) Rajaraja Chola I
C) Kulottunga I
D) Parantaka I
Answer: B) Rajaraja Chola I
41. Rajendra Chola I established his new capital at:
A) Madurai
B) Kanchipuram
C) Gangaikonda Cholapuram
D) Thanjavur
Answer: C) Gangaikonda Cholapuram
42. The Chola administration is particularly famous for evidence of local self-government from:
A) Junagadh inscription
B) Uttaramerur inscriptions
C) Hathigumpha inscription
D) Aihole inscription
Answer: B) Uttaramerur inscriptions
43. The famous Sun Temple at Konark was constructed during the reign of:
A) Anantavarman Chodaganga
B) Narasimhadeva I
C) Kapilendra Deva
D) Purushottama Deva
Answer: B) Narasimhadeva I
44. The Jagannath Temple at Puri was begun under the Eastern Ganga ruler:
A) Anantavarman Chodaganga Deva
B) Narasimhadeva I
C) Kapilendra Deva
D) Mukundadeva
Answer: A) Anantavarman Chodaganga Deva
45. The Hathigumpha inscription is associated with:
A) Ashoka
B) Kharavela
C) Samudragupta
D) Pulakeshin II
Answer: B) Kharavela
46. The Hathigumpha inscription is written in:
A) Sanskrit
B) Prakrit
C) Pali
D) Tamil
Answer: B) Prakrit
47. The Udayagiri-Khandagiri caves are particularly associated with:
A) Buddhism
B) Jainism
C) Shaivism
D) Vaishnavism
Answer: B) Jainism
48. The Delhi Sultanate dynasty founded by Qutb-ud-din Aibak was:
A) Khalji
B) Tughlaq
C) Mamluk/Slave
D) Sayyid
Answer: C) Mamluk/Slave
49. Qutb-ud-din Aibak was succeeded by:
A) Iltutmish
B) Balban
C) Razia
D) Aram Shah
Answer: D) Aram Shah
50. The ruler who introduced the silver Tanka and copper Jital as important monetary units was:
A) Qutb-ud-din Aibak
B) Iltutmish
C) Balban
D) Alauddin Khalji
Answer: B) Iltutmish
51. The “Chahalgani” or group of forty nobles was associated with:
A) Iltutmish
B) Alauddin Khalji
C) Muhammad bin Tughlaq
D) Firoz Shah Tughlaq
Answer: A) Iltutmish
52. Razia Sultan was the daughter of:
A) Qutb-ud-din Aibak
B) Iltutmish
C) Balban
D) Nasiruddin Mahmud
Answer: B) Iltutmish
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