History Quiz – 51

1. The Tata Iron and Steel Works was completed with the aid of

2. The first known ruler to introduce canal irrigation in India was

3. This social reformer most ardently worked for the removal of untouchability and uplift the depressed classes before Gandhiji came on the scene

4. The earliest surviving extant, i.e. still standing, temples date from the ______ period?

5. Who of the following Portuguese Viceroys in India captured Goa (1510) from the Adil Shahi Sultan of Bijapur and made it the headquarters of the Portuguese government in India?

6. The ritualistic precepts pertaining to the hymns of the Vedas are known as the

7. Babar came to India originally from

8. The estate of Shivaji’s father was

9. An elaborate system of municipal administration had been established by

10. Where had Qutub-ud-din Aibak got constructed the Adhai-din-ka Jhonpra (Hut of Two-and-a-half- Days)?

11. The name Buddha means

12. As per Cabinet Mission Plan, the strength of the Constituent Assembly would be

13. Who had preached “Rama and Rahim are two different names of the same God”?

14. Earlier mathematicians (i.e. those who came before medieval Indian mathematicians) had taught that X/0=X; who among the following proved that it was infinity?

15. Who among the following is known for his work on medicine during the Gupta period?