1. Which Muslim invader looted Somnath temple?

(A) Muhammad bin Qasim

(B) Mahmud Ghaznavi

(C) Muhammad Ghori

(D) Timur Lung

ANS. (B) Mahmud Ghaznavi

2. From which time did the practice of giving land grants to Brahmins first begin?

(A) Maurya

(B) Satavahana

(C) Secret

(D) Pratihara

ANS. (B) Satavahana

3. Who built 'Martand Surya Mandir' in Kashmir?

(A) Dida

(B) Sangramraj

(C) Lalitaditya Muktapeed

(D) Jai Singh

ANS. (C) Lalitaditya Muktapeed

4. In which session Congress declared the goal of 'Purna Swaraj'?

(A) 1929 AD, Lahore

(B) 1931 AD, Karachi

(C) 1936 AD, Lucknow

(D) 1937 AD, Faizpur

ANS. (A) 1929 AD, Lahore

5. The first Governor-General of independent India was-

(A) Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

(B) Lord Wavell

(C) Sachchidanand Sinha

(D) Lord Mountbatten

ANS. (D) Lord Mountbatten

6. Where did Subhash Chandra Bose establish the Azad Hind Sarkar?

(A) Tokyo

(B) Singapore

(C) Hong Kong

(D) Burma

ANS. (B) Singapore

7. Which Gupta ruler has been called 'Napoleon of India'?

(A) Chandragupta II

(B) Skandagupta

(C) Kumaragupta

(D) Samudragupta

ANS. (D) Samudragupta

8. During whose reign did the Chinese traveler Xuanzang come to India?

(A) Harshvardhan

(B) Chandragupta II

(C) Dharmapala

(D) Devpal

ANS. (A) Harshvardhan

9. Who built the chariot temple of Mahabalipuram?

(A) Narasimhavarman I

(B) Narasimhavarman II

(C) Mahendra Varman

(D) Leo Vishnu

ANS. (A) Narasimhavarman I

10. When did India become independent?

(A) August 15, 1947 AD

(B) August 15, 1950 A.D.

(C) January 26, 1947 AD

(D) 26 January 1950 A.D.

ANS. (A) August 15, 1947 AD