India Multiple Choice Question Answers

Question: In which year was India's capital shifted from Calcutta to Delhi?
1) 1935
2) 1900
3) 1911
4) 1929

Question: Where was India's first civilization settled?
1) Deccan
2) Indus Valley
3) Ganges Plain
4) Kashmir

Question: Who defeated the Marathas in the third battle of Panipat?
1) The British
2) The Afghans
3) The Mughals
4) The Rajputs

Question: Who completed the construction of Qutb Minar at Delhi?
1) Babur
2) Qutb-ud-din Aibak
3) Iltutmish
4) Humayun

Question: Who was the first Mughal emperor of India?
1) Ibrahim Lodhi
2) Sher Shah
3) Akbar
4) Babar

Question: Who built the Taj Mahal in India?
1) Akbar
2) Jahangir
3) Shah Jahan
4) Aurangzeb

Question: When did India achieve Independence?
1) September15,1940
2) January 26, 1950
3) August 15,1947
4) August 20,1949

Question: Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913?
1) Debendranath Tagore
2) Rabindranath Tagore
3) Mohammad Iqbal
4) Mirza Galib

Question: Who was the first royal convert to Buddhism?
1) Chandragupta Maurya
2) Ashoka
3) Ajatashatru
4) Akbar

Question: During the reign of which emperor is the poet Kalidasa accepted to have lived?
1) Bimbisara
2) Akbar
3) Chandragupta Vikramaditya
4) Ashoka

Question: During the 1857 mutiny who was the queen of Jhansi's trusted general?
1) Hyder Ali
2) Tantia Tope
3) Bhagat Singh
4) Chandrasekhar Azad

Question: Who, in collaboration with the Japanese, started the 'Indian National Army', in the hope of expelling the British from India?
1) Gandhi
2) Tantia Tope
3) Bhagat Singh
4) Subhash Chandra Bose

Question: The daughter of what general of Alexander's army married Chandragupta Maurya?
1) Seleukos Nikator
2) Diomedes
3) Ptolemaius
4) Clitus

Question: What king was the first to use rockets in warfare?
1) Hyder Ali
2) Shah Jahan
3) Jehangir
4) Tipu Sultan

Question: The Brihadeeswara temple at Tanjore was built by an emperor of what dynasty?
1) Chola
2) Mughal
3) Chera
4) Pandya

Question: What ruler is referred to as the 'Mad Monarch'?
1) Mohammad bin Tughlaq
2) Ashoka
3) Akbar
4) Hyder Ali

Question: What theory of ancient Indian history has recently been disproved?
1) Gypsy migration theory
2) Aryan invasion theory
3) Theory of origin of Vedas
4) None of the above

Question: What age in Indian History is referred to as the 'Golden Age'?
1) Ancient
2) Maurya
3) Gupta
4) Mughal

Question: Everyone knows 'The Taj Mahal'. It was built by the Emperor Shah Jahan, but for whom?
1) Jahani Mahal
2) Farida Mahal
3) Mumtaz Mahal
4) Toba Begum

Question: In which Indian state is the Sun Temple of Konark located?
1) Tamil Nadu
2) Orissa
3) West Bengal
4) Assam