1500+ Indian History GK Previous Years Solved Questions SSC, CGL, UPSC, Railways, IAS, Civil Services and All Competitive Exams – Part 2

Q.1:- Whose army did Alexander, the Greeks ruler confront on the banks of the river Jhelum ?

1. Chandragupta Maurya
2. Ambi
3. Dhanananda
4. Porus

Q.2:- What is the popular name of Monolithic rock shrines at Mahabalipuram ?

1. Rathas
2. Prasad
3. Mathika
4. Gandhakuti

Q.3:-Who built the famous Vaikunta Perumal temple at Kanchipuram ?

1. Narasimna Varman II
2. Parmeshvara Varman II
3. Nandi Varman II
4. Aparajita Varman

Q.4:- Where was saint Kabir born ?

1. Delhi
2. Varanasi
3. Mathura
4. Hyderabad

Q.5:- Aryabhatta and Kalidasa were the court of which Gupta Emperor ?

1. Kumar Gupta I
2. Chandra Gupta II
3. Samudra Gupta
4. Skanda Gupta

Q.6:- Who got the monumental ‘Rayagopurams’ in front of the temples at Hampi, Tiruv-annamalai, Chidambaram, Srirangam, Tirupati, etc., constructed ?

1. Vidyaranya
2. Krishnadevaraya
3. Harihara
4. Rajaraja

Q.7:- The Qutub Minar was completed by the famous ruler

1. Qutub-ud-din Aibak
2. Iltutmish
3. Firoz Shah Tughlaq
4. Alauddin Khilji

 

Q.8:- Which Sultan of Delhi established an employment bureau, a charity bureau and a charitable hospital ?

1. Firoz Tughlaq
2. Mohammad Tughlaq
3. Alauddin Khilji
4. Balban

Q.9:- Who among the following was the last Mughal emperor ?

1. Alamgir II
2. Shah Alam II
3. Bahadur Shah II
4. Akbar II

Q.10:- The famous Bhakti Saint who belonged to the royal family of the war was

1. Chaitanya
2. Andal
3. Meerabai
4. Ramabai

Q.11:- Where is the Bada Imambara located ?

1. Agra
2. Lucknow
3. Patna
4. Allahbad

Q.12:- Name the river on the banks of which the city of Vijayanagar is located.

1. Kaveri
2. Krishna
3. Wainganga
4. Tungabhadra

Q.13:- Humayun had to run away from India after he was defeated in the battle of

1. Panipat
2. Gogra
3. Khanwa
4. Kannauj

Q.14:- Who amongst the following was the Last Guru of the Sikhs ?

1. The Arjun Dev
2. Guru Teg Bahadur
3. Guru Gobind Singh
4. Guru Angad Dev

Q.15:- Tulsidas wrote Ram-charitamanas in the reign of

1. Babur
2. Akbar
3. Aurangzeb
4. Jahangir

Q.16:- The 1st Battle of Panipat was fought in the year :

1. 1761
2. 1516
3. 1526
4. 1556

Q.17:- The Grand Trunk Road built by Sher Shah Suri connects :

1. Agra-Punjab
2. Punjab-East Bengal
3. Lahore-East Bengal
4. Multan-Agra

Q.18:- When was the first passenger train run in India ?

1. January 1848
2. April 1853
3. May 1857
4. April 1852

Q.19:- When was the first telegraph started in India ?

1. 1851
2. 1875
3. 1884
4. 1900

Q.20:- The last Governor-General of the East India Company and the first Viceroy under the crown was

1. Lord Elgin
2. Lord Canning
3. Lord Warren Hastings
4. Lord Dalhousie