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SSC CGL History – Mock Test 1 – Tier I Style – Mock Test 1 · Tier I Style – 25 questions, subject: History & Culture of India. Every question has the correct answer with a one-line explanation; tap "Show Answer". Free practice for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC, Bank and RRB exams – Shanmugam IAS Academy, Coimbatore.

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1.  
Which Harappan site in Rajasthan was excavated by B. B. Lal and B. K. Thapar?

Correct Answer: D [Kalibangan]

Explanation:

Kalibangan – B. B. Lal and B.

2.  
Harappa was first excavated in 1921 by:

Correct Answer: B [Daya Ram Sahni]

Explanation:

Harappa 1921 – Daya Ram Sahni; Mohenjo-daro 1922 – R.

3.  
The Gayatri Mantra, addressed to the sun god Savitr, belongs to which Mandala of the Rigveda?

Correct Answer: C [Mandala 3]

Explanation:

Mandala 3 (Vishvamitra); Mandala 9 is the Soma mandala; Mandala 10 has the Purusha Sukta.

4.  
The Aitareya Brahmana is attached to the:

Correct Answer: A [Rigveda]

Explanation:

Aitareya and Kaushitaki – Rigveda; Shatapatha – Shukla Yajurveda; Gopatha – Atharvaveda.

5.  
Which tirthankara is shown with the snake as his symbol?

Correct Answer: B [Parshvanatha]

Explanation:

Rishabhadeva – bull; Parshvanatha – snake; Mahavira – lion.

6.  
Which Magadha ruler destroyed the power of Avanti and for a time moved the capital to Vaishali?

Correct Answer: D [Shishunaga]

Explanation:

Shishunaga ended Avanti's power.

7.  
Indica, the account of Mauryan India, was written by the Greek envoy:

Correct Answer: A [Megasthenes]

Explanation:

Megasthenes, envoy of Seleucus at Chandragupta's court; Deimachus came to Bindusara.

8.  
Deimachus, envoy of the Seleucid king Antiochus I, came to the court of:

Correct Answer: C [Bindusara]

Explanation:

Deimachus – Bindusara; Megasthenes – Chandragupta Maurya.

9.  
The Hathigumpha inscription at Udayagiri near Bhubaneswar gives a year-by-year record of:

Correct Answer: D [Kharavela]

Explanation:

Hathigumpha – Kharavela of Kalinga, in Prakrit, Brahmi script.

10.  
Besides Rudradaman's Sanskrit inscription, the Girnar rock at Junagadh also carries the rock edicts of:

Correct Answer: C [Ashoka]

Explanation:

Girnar – Ashoka's rock edicts (Prakrit) and Rudradaman's inscription (Sanskrit).

11.  
The Chinese pilgrim who travelled in India in the reign of Chandragupta II was:

Correct Answer: B [Fa-Hien]

Explanation:

Fa-Hien (Faxian), early 5th century; Hiuen Tsang came under Harsha.

12.  
Which Gupta king, known as Vikramaditya, ended the rule of the Shakas in Gujarat and Malwa?

Correct Answer: A [Chandragupta II]

Explanation:

Chandragupta II – Vikramaditya, silver coins for the western provinces.

13.  
Avvaiyar, a woman poet of the Sangam age, addressed poems to the chief:

Correct Answer: D [Athiyaman]

Explanation:

Avvaiyar – Athiyaman.

14.  
In which year was the Alai Darwaza, gateway of the Quwwat al-Islam complex, built?

Correct Answer: A [1311]

Explanation:

Alai Darwaza 1311 (Alauddin Khalji).

15.  
Ibn Battuta, who served Muhammad bin Tughlaq as a qazi, was a traveller from:

Correct Answer: B [Morocco]

Explanation:

Ibn Battuta – Moroccan, reached Delhi 1333, wrote the Rihla.

16.  
The Sangama dynasty founded the Vijayanagara empire in the year:

Correct Answer: C [1336]

Explanation:

1336 – Harihara and Bukka; 1347 Bahmani; 1509 Krishnadeva Raya; 1565 Talikota.

17.  
Which envoy of Shah Rukh of Herat visited Vijayanagara in 1443?

Correct Answer: D [Abdur Razzaq]

Explanation:

Abdur Razzaq 1443 (Deva Raya II); Conti c.

18.  
Akbar's dahsala system of land revenue was introduced in:

Correct Answer: B [1580]

Explanation:

Dahsala 1580 (Todar Mal).

19.  
Jahangir married Mehr-un-Nisa, later called Nur Jahan, in the year:

Correct Answer: C [1611]

Explanation:

1611.

20.  
Sharafuddin Yahya Maneri of the Firdausi silsila worked in:

Correct Answer: A [Bihar]

Explanation:

Firdausi silsila – Bihar, a branch of the Suhrawardi line.

21.  
The Jat kingdom of Bharatpur was built up in the 18th century by:

Correct Answer: C [Suraj Mal]

Explanation:

Suraj Mal of Bharatpur.

22.  
The English set up their permanent factory at Surat in:

Correct Answer: A [1613]

Explanation:

Hawkins came in 1608; factory 1613; Roe at Jahangir's court 1615.

23.  
In 1857 the revolt at Jagdishpur near Arrah in Bihar was led by:

Correct Answer: B [Kunwar Singh]

Explanation:

Kunwar Singh – Jagdishpur; Khan Bahadur Khan – Bareilly; Ahmadullah – Faizabad.

24.  
Dadabhai Naoroji was elected to the British House of Commons in 1892 from:

Correct Answer: D [Finsbury Central]

Explanation:

Finsbury Central, 1892 – the first Indian in the Commons.

25.  
The title 'Sardar' was given to Vallabhbhai Patel after the satyagraha of 1928 at:

Correct Answer: B [Bardoli]

Explanation:

Bardoli Satyagraha, 1928.

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