Question: In which year was India's capital shifted from Calcutta to Delhi?
1) 1935
2) 1900
3) 1911
4) 1929
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Question: Where was India's first civilization settled?
1) Deccan
2) Indus Valley
3) Ganges Plain
4) Kashmir
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Question: Who defeated the Marathas in the third battle of Panipat?
1) The British
2) The Afghans
3) The Mughals
4) The Rajputs
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Question: Who completed the construction of Qutb Minar at Delhi?
1) Babur
2) Qutb-ud-din Aibak
3) Iltutmish
4) Humayun
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Question: Who was the first Mughal emperor of India?
1) Ibrahim Lodhi
2) Sher Shah
3) Akbar
4) Babar
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Question: Who built the Taj Mahal in India?
1) Akbar
2) Jahangir
3) Shah Jahan
4) Aurangzeb
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Question: When did India achieve Independence?
1) September15,1940
2) January 26, 1950
3) August 15,1947
4) August 20,1949
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Question: Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913?
1) Debendranath Tagore
2) Rabindranath Tagore
3) Mohammad Iqbal
4) Mirza Galib
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Question: Who was the first royal convert to Buddhism?
1) Chandragupta Maurya
2) Ashoka
3) Ajatashatru
4) Akbar
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Question: During the reign of which emperor is the poet Kalidasa accepted to have lived?
1) Bimbisara
2) Akbar
3) Chandragupta Vikramaditya
4) Ashoka
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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
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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
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Question: The daughter of what general of Alexander's army married Chandragupta Maurya?
1) Seleukos Nikator
2) Diomedes
3) Ptolemaius
4) Clitus
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Question: What king was the first to use rockets in warfare?
1) Hyder Ali
2) Shah Jahan
3) Jehangir
4) Tipu Sultan
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Question: The Brihadeeswara temple at Tanjore was built by an emperor of what dynasty?
1) Chola
2) Mughal
3) Chera
4) Pandya
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Question: What ruler is referred to as the 'Mad Monarch'?
1) Mohammad bin Tughlaq
2) Ashoka
3) Akbar
4) Hyder Ali
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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
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Question: What age in Indian History is referred to as the 'Golden Age'?
1) Ancient
2) Maurya
3) Gupta
4) Mughal
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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
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Question: In which Indian state is the Sun Temple of Konark located?
1) Tamil Nadu
2) Orissa
3) West Bengal
4) Assam
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