ORISSA CHALLENGE QUIZ

 

INDIA SECTION

 

1)    When did India achieve Independence?

(A) Jan. 26, 1950 (B) Aug. 15, 1948 (C) Aug. 15, 1947 (D) Jan. 26, 1947

 

2)    Who built the Taj Mahal in India?

(A) Shah Jahan (B) Jahangir (C) Akbar (D) Sher Shah Suri

 

3)    Who was the first Mughal emperor of India?

(A) Jalaludin Akbar (B) Ibrahim Lodi (C) Babur (4) Qutb-Ud-din Ibaak

 

4)    Which king had nine "gems" (that is, very talented persons) in his court, Kalidasa was one of them?

(A)  Chandragupta Vikramaditya (B) Chandragupta Mourya (C) Akbar (D) Krishnadeva Raya

 

5)    Who completed the construction of the Qutb Minar, a famous tomb in New Delhi?

 (A) Qutb-Uddin Ibaak (B) Ill-tutmis (C) Sher Shah Suri (D) Mohemmed Toulak

 

6)    Who was defeated in the second battle of Panipat?

(A) Pritviraj Chouhan (B) The Mughal (c) Raja Man Singh (D) Rana Pratap Singh.

 

7)    In which river plains, India's first civilization was settled?

(A) Ganges (B) Brahmaputra (C) Indus (D) Yamuna

 

8)    In which year, India's capital was shifted by the British from Calcutta to Delhi?

(A) 1857  (B) 1905 (C) 1947 (D) 1911

 

9)    Who founded the Mauryan Empire in India? 

(A) Chandragupta (B) Bindusar (C) Samudragupta (D) Ajatashatru

 

10)                 When did India become a sovereign Democratic Republic?

 (A) 1950 (B) 1948 (C) 1947 (D) 1952

 

11)                 Who were the first European colonists in India?

(A) Dutchs (B) English (C) French (D) Portugese

 

12)                 Who is known as the "Napoleon of India"?

(A) Samudra Gupta (B) Asoka (C) Aurangjeb (D) Chandragupta Vikramaditya

 

13)                 Back to the olden days, the army of Alexander the Great went back because of which king?

 (A) Kaniska (B) Prithwiraj (C) Porus (D) Samudra Gupta

 

14)                 Name one of the famous and controversial persons during the freedom struggle who opposed Gandhiji's ideologies of non-violence and non-cooperation.

(A) Mohammed Ali Jinnah (B) Lala Lajpat Rai (C) Subhash Bose (D) Sardar Patel

 

15)                 Which world famous temple in South-East Asia is a fine example of Orissan-influenced Indian architecture

(A) Borobodur (B) Ankor Vat (C) Somnath Temple (D) Parshwanath Temple

 

16)                 In Indian mythology, who is the God of fire?

(A) Pawan (B) Indra (C) Agni (D) Kuber

 

17)                 The pole star of the Great bear constellation is known in India as

(A) Dhruva (B) Prahallad (C) Vashistha (D) Agastya

 

18)                 During which Yuga (mythological Era) did Vishnu appear on the earth in his Rama incarnation?

(A) Dwapara (B) Satya yuga (C) Tretaya (D) Kaliyuga

 

19)                 Who is the god of engineering and architecture?

(A)   Varun(B) (B) Indra (C) Varuna (D) Brihaspati (E) Viswakarma

 

20)                 What a period in Indian History is referred to as the 'Golden Age'?

(A) Gupta (B) Maurya (C) Moghal (D) Chola

 

21)                 Who in mediaval India was known as the ‘Mad Monarch”

(A) Qutb-Uddin Ibaak (B) Ill-tutmiss (C) Sher Shah Suri (D) Mohemmed BinTouglak

 

22)                 The daughter of what general of Alexander's army married Chandragupta Maurya?

(A) (B) Seleukos Nikatar (C) Darius  (D) Megasthinis

 

23)                 Which famous Indian queen is associated with ‘Sipoy mutiny”, the first arm revolution against the British in 1857.

(A) Rani Laksmi Bai (B) Rani Ahalya Bai (C) Jija Bai (D) Rani Padmavati

 

24)                 What empire did the emperor Krishnadeva Raya rule over?

(A) Kalinga (B) Vijaynagar (C) Pallaba (D) Hoysala

 

25)                 Which Indian writer  won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913?

(A) Kuldeep Nayar (B) Subramanyam Bharathi (C) Rabindranath Tagore (D) Prem Chand

 

26)                 Who founded Sikhism?

(A) Guru Govind Singh (B) Guro Tukaram (C) Guru Namdeo (D) Guru Nanak

 

27)                 The Sundarbans, a part of the world's largest delta is situated partly in which state of India.

(A) Bihar (B) Assam (C) Gujrat (D) West-Bengal

 

28)                 Which state's name is originated from the five rivers that once flowed through the state.

(A) Hariana (B) Uttaranchal (C) Punjab (D) Jammu-Kashmir

 

29)                 Which state is NOT one of  "The Seven Sisters of India"

(A) Tripura (B) Meghalaya (C) Manipur (D) Jharkhand (E) Nagaland

 

30)  What is the name of the southernmost tip of the Indian Union?
(A) Kanyakumar (B) Car Nicobar (C) Rameswaram (D) Vivekananda rock

 

 

ANSWER KEYS

1. C ;   2. A ;  3. C;   4. A;  5. B;   6. D;  7.  C;   8. D;   9. A;   10. A; 11. D;   12.A;  13. C;   14. C  15. B  16. C;  17.A; 18. C;  19. E;  20. A;  21. D;   22.   B;  23. A   24. B;

25. C;   26.D;   27.D; 28.C;  29. D;  30.B.