History Quiz - 1

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 Q. 1. Which Mughal Emperor had conferred the title of 'Raja' on Ram Mohan Roy?

(a) Shah Alam II 

(b) Akbar II

(c) Shah Jahan III 

(d) Bahadur Shah Zafar

Q. 2. Which organization was founded by Ram Mohan Roy and Debendranath Tagore in 1828?

(a) Brahmo Sabha

(b) Tattwabodhini Sabha

(c) Prarthna Samaj

(d) None of these

Q. 3. Who had called Raja Ram Mohan Roy the Father of Modern India?

(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(b) Mahatma Ghandhi

(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(d) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Q. 4.  Who was the ruler of Delhi Sultanate when Guru Nanak was born?

(a) Khizr Khan

(b) Mubarak Shah

(c) Bahlol Lodhi 

(d) Sikandar Lodhi 

Q. 5. What was the capital of Mahajanapada of Anga?

(a) Ujjayini

(b) Champa

(c) Suktimati 

(d) Ayodhya

Q. 6. Who is the author of Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri?

(a) Muhammad Saleh 

(b) Nizam-ud-din Ahmad

(c) Mirza Muhammad Kazim

(d) Jahangir

Q. 7. Which Delhi Sultanate ruler introduced the system of auditing the accounts?

(a) Muhammad bin Tughlaq 

(b) Sikandar Lodhi

(c) Alau-ud-din Khiliji

(d) Balban

Q. 8. Which Delhi Sultanate ruler was a Sunni Muslim and ordered the idol at the Jwalamukhi temple at Nagarkot to be?  

(a) Sikandar Lodhi

(b) Firuz Shah Tughlaq

(c) Alau-ud-din Khiliji

(d) Qutab- d-din Aibak

Q. 9. Who was the founder of Lodhi Dynasty?

(a) Sikandar Lodhi 

(b) Bahlol Lodhi

(c) Ibrahim Lodhi

(d) Daulat Khan Lodhi

Q. 10. Which Delhi sultanate ruler transferred his capital from Delhi to Agra?

(a) Sikandar Lodhi

(b) Bahlol Lodhi

(c) Ibrahim Lodi

(d) Mubarak Khilji


Answers

Q-1-(b)

In 1830 Raja Ram Mohan Roy went to England as an envoy of the penultimate Mughal Emperor, Akbar II, to the court of King William IV. It was Akbar II, also known as Akbar Shah II, who gave him the title of Raja. 

Q-2-(a)

The Brahmo Samaj was founded on 20 August, 1828 in Kolkata by Rammohan Roy and Debendranath Tagore

Q-3-(a)

Gopal Krishna Gokhale called Roy the ‘Father of Modern India’. 

Q-4-(c)

Nanak was born on 15 April 1469 at Talwandi, near Lahore, then ruled by Lodi dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate. At that time Lodi dynasty was ruled by its founder Buhlul Lodi who was its ruler from 1451 to 1489. 

Q-5-(b)

Situated in Bhagalpur district of Bihar, Champa was the capital of Anga, one of the 16 Mahajanapadas in the sixth century BC. It was of great commercial importance.

Q-6-(d)

Written in Persian, Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri (or Jahangirnama) is the autobiographical account of fourth Mughal Emperor Jahangir who ruled from 1605 to 1627. 

Q-7- (b)

Sikandar Lodhi introduced the system of auditing of accounts and tightened the espionage system.

Q- 8- (a)

Firuz Shah Tughlaq  

Q-9- (b)  

Bahlul (also written as Buhlol, Bahlol and Buhlul) Khan Lodi was the founder of the Lodi dynasty, the last of the five dynasties, the combination of which is known as Delhi sultanate.


Q- 10- (a) 

Sikandar Lodi, the second ruler of the Lodi dynasty, transferred his capital from Delhi to Agra.


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