MUGHAL EMPORER

1. Tipu Sultan was also known as (a) Lion of India (b) Mysore Tiger (c) Tiger of India (d) Sher-e-Hind 2. Akbar- Nama was written by (a) Abu Fazal (b) Akbar (c) Abdul Fazal (d) Abdur Fazal 3. Ala-ud-din-Khilji's famous poet was (a) Tagore (b) Abdul Kalam (c) Khusro (d) Asaf Ali 4. Akbar-namaha is a famous book of (a) Abul Fazal (b) Aurobindo Ghosh (c) Mulak Raj Anand (d) Abdul Kalam 5.Alexander attacked India in : (a) 400 B.C. (b) 370 B.C. (c) 326 B.C. (d) 275 B.C. 6.The Arab invasion of Sind took place in : (a) 66 A.D (b) 326 B.C (c) 712 A.D (d) 1191 A.D 7.In whose memory was the Taj Mahal built : (a) Mumtaz Mahal's (b) Nurjahan's (c) Razia Sultana's (d) Chand Bibi's 8.Who was Razia Begum (1236 - 1240) : (a) Daughter of Shah Jahan (b) Daughter of Akbar (c) Daughter of Altumish (d) Daughter of Jahangir 9. Qutub Minar was started by Qutub - ud - Din Aibek and finished by: (a) Jahangir (b) Babar (c) Bahadur Shah (d) Illtutmish 10. The greatest of the Mughal emperors was : (a) Aurangzeb (b) Bahadur Shah Zaffar (c) Akbar (d) Humayun 11. Where was the Akbar born in 1542 : (a) Amarkot (b) Sialkot (c) Delhi (d) Fatehpur Sikri

12. Which was the capital of Akbar : (a) Agra (b) Delhi (c) Umarkot (d) Fatehpur Sikri 13. Who started Din - i - Elahi : (a) Akbar (b) Jahangir (c) Shivaji (d) Rana Sanga 14. Who wrote 'Ain - i - Akbari' : (a) Tansen (b) Todar Mal (d) Abul Fazal (d) Birbal 15. Who abolished Pilgrim Tax (Jazia) : (a) Shah Jahan (b) Humayun (c) Babar (d) Akbar 16. Who was the Court poet of Akbar : (a) Abul Fazal (b) Birbal (c) Tansen (d) Todar Mal 17. Who was the Revenue Minister under Akbar : (a) Tansen (b) Todar Mal (c) Birbal (d) Abul Fazal 18. Who founded Fatehpur Sikri in 1576 after his victory of Dakhan (a) Babar (b) Aurangzeb (c) Akbar (d) Humayun 19. Tulsi Das was the poet of the days of : (a) Jahangir (b) Babar (c) Shah Jahan (d) Akbar 20. Who was the Tutor - Guardian of Akbar : (a) Sikander Lodhi (b) Bairam Khan (c) Rana Pratap (d) Rana Sanga 21. Who was the wife of Akbar : (a) Jahan Aara (b) Jodha Bai (c) Roshan Aara (d) Jija Bai 22. Which Rajput King refused to submit to Akbar : (a) Rana Sanga (b) Prithvi Raj Chauhan (c) Rana Pratap (d) None of the abo 23. Whom did Akbar defeat in the Battle of Haldighati : (a) Bairam Khan (b) Rana Sanga (c) Rana Pratap (d) Sikander Lodhi 24. The Battle of Haldighati was fought between Akbar and Rana Pratap in: (a) 1570 A.D. (b) 1596 A.D. (c) 1586 A.D. (d) 1576 A.D.

25. The only Mughal emperor whose tomb is out of India : (a) Jahangir (b) Akbar (c) Aurangzeb (d) Bahadur Shah Zaffar 26. In whose capacity did Shah Jahan spend 8 years : (a) Hamayun's (b) Bahadur Shah Zaffar's (c) Aurangzeb's (d) Jahangir's 27. Which Mughal emperor had the largest kingdom : (a) Jahangir (b) Aurangzeb (c) Akbar (d) Shah Jahan 28. The Rashtrapati Bhawan gardens are called 'Mughal Gardens' because they are : (a) built by the Mughals (b) laid out in the Mughal style (c) built by Shah Jahan (d) none of the above 29. The only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi was: (a) Hamida Banu Begum (b) Nur Jahan (c) Razia Begum (d) Mumtaz Mahal 30. Babur was invited to invade India by : (a) Daulat Khan Lodi (b) Ibrahim Lodi (c) Mohammad Lodi (d) Sikander Lodi 31. Which of the following Mughal King was illiterate ? (a) Akbar (b) Jahangir (c) Aurangzeb (d) Bhadur Shah Zaffar. 32. The reign of which Mughal Emperor is generally regarded as the Golden Age of the Mughal Empire? (a) Akbar (b) Jahangir (c) Shahjahan (d) Aurangzeb 33. The Peacock Throne was made during the reign of (a) Jehangir (b) Shahjahan (c) Akbar (d) Aurangzeb 34. The Third Battle of Panipat was fought between : (a) The British and French (b) The Marathas and The British (c) The Mughals and Shershah Suri (d) Ahmed Shah Abdali and The Marahattas 35. Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi in the battle of : (a) Chausa (b) Panipat (c) Khanua (d) None 36. Which of the following is the oldest dynasty : (a) Maurya (b) Chola (c) Chalukyas (d) Nanda

37. The Delhi Durbar was held in India in : (a) 1909 (b) 1910 (c) 1911 (d) 1912 38. 'Jazyia' was reimposed during the reign of : (a) Akbar (b) Shahjahan (c) Aurangzeb (d) Jahangir 39. The name of the dearest wife of Shahjahan was : (a) Rausenara (b) Jahanara (c) Arjumand Banu Begum (d) Lutufunnesa 40. The Battle of Haldighati was fought between Akbar and Rana Pratap in : (a) 1570 A.D. (b) 1596 A.D. (c) 1586 A.D. (d) 1576 A.D. 41. Which Mughal emperor had the largest kingdom : (a) Jahangir (b) Aurangzeb (c) Akbar (d) Shah Jahan 42. Babar Descended the throne in : (a) 1464 A.D. (b) 1564 A.D. (c) 1494 A.D. (d) 1594 A.D. 43. "If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this", the couplet was got inscribed by Shah Jahan on the wall of: (a) Diwan -i -Khas in Delhi (b) Diwan -i -Am in Delhi (c) Moti Masjid (d) Jasmine Palace 44. With whom Alberuni came to India : (a) Timur (b) Babar (c) Alexander (d) Mahmud of Ghazni 45. Who consolidated the Mughal empire and gave it a multi - religious culture : (a) Humayun (b) Jahangir (c) Akbar (d) Aurangzeb 46. Akbar built the Panch Mahal noted for various types of pillars at : (a) Delhi (b) Agra (c) Fatehpur Sikri (d) Lahore 47. Who among the following was a great musician in the court of Akbar : (a) Amir Khusro (b) Tansen (c) Ramdas (d) Abul Fazal 48. The war of succession in the Mughal period was fought among whose sons : (a) Jahangir (b) Humayun (c) Shah Jahan(d) Akbar 49. Babar was born in 1483 at : (a) Farghana (b) Tashkent (c) Samarqund (d) Badakhshan

50. 'Humayun Nama' was written by : (a) Babar (b) Humayun (c) Khanzada Begum (d) Gulbadan Begum 51. Who of the following rulers was illiterate : (a) Ala- ud- din Khalji (b) Mohammad Bin Tughlaq (c) Aurangzeb (d) Akbar 52. Where did Aurangzeb get Shivaji arrested : (a) Red Fort (b) Fatehpur Sikri (c) Delhi (d) Agra Fort 53. Tulsidas was a contemporary of : (a) Shah Jahan (b) Ibrahim Lodi (c) Aurangzeb (d) Akbar 54.

1. The pioneer of Bhakti Movement in India was : (a) Kabir (b) Ramanand (c) Ramanuja (d) Shankarcharya 2. The Shimla agreement and Tashkend pact were signed in : (a) 1966,1972 (b) 1972,1966 (c) 1965, 1971 (d) 1971, 1965 3. The founder of the Slave Dynasty in India was : (a) Qutub -ud-din Aibak (b) Illtutmish (c) Aram Shah (d) Kaiquabad 4. The real name of Muhammad Tughlag was : (a) Prince Salim (b) Prince Jauna (c) Prince Akhtar (d) Dara 5. Qutab-ud-Din was succeeded by : (a) Aram Shah (b) Altmash (c) Razia (d) None 6. Alexander the Great belonged to : (a) Macedonia in Greece (b) Kabul in Afghanistan (c) Bagdad in Iraq (d) None of the above 7. Muhammad Tughlag shifted his capital from Delhi to : (a) Calcutta (b) Lahore (c) Devagiri (d) Kanauj 8. What was the original name of Noor Jahan : (a) Mihir-us-Nisa (b) Roshan Aara (c) Jahan Aara (d) Zubeda

9. Who was the real founder of the British empire in India : (a) Warren Hastings (b) Cornwallis (c) Wellesley (d) Lord Clive 10. The most learned scholarly Sultan of Delhi was : (a) Illtutmish (b) Alauddin Khilji (c) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq (d) None of the above 11. Under whose regime did the 'partiton of Bengal' take place in 1906 (a) Lord Rippon (b) Lord Hastings (c) Lord Canning (d) Lord Curzon 12. Who was the founder of the Tughlaq dynasty : (a) Ghiyas-ud-din (b) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq (c) Firoz Tughlaq (d) Bughra Khan 13.

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