Q1.Who has been described by Elliot as the Akbar of Sultanate?
(a) Iltutmish
(b) Balban
(c) Alauddin Khilji
(d) Firoz Tughlaq
Q2.The foreign traveller who visited and described Vijayanagar soon after its fall in the battle of Talikota, was
(a) Abdur Razzak
(b) Ceasar Frederick
(c) Nicolo Conti
(d) Nuniz
Q3.The first dynasty of the Vijayanagar Kingdom was
(a) Hoyasala
(b) Sangama
(c) Saluva
(d) Tuluva
Q4.Gita Govinda was written by
(a) Jayant
(b) Jayadeva
(c) Jayasimha
(d) Jayachandra
Q5.Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Sikri was built by Akbar to commemorate his victory over which province?
(a) Sindh
(b) Punjab
(c) Gujarat
(d) Mewar
Q6. Who wrote the play “Uttararamacharita”?
(a) Harsha
(b) Tulsidas
(c) Bhavabhuti
(d) Sudraka
Q7. Who is the author of the book “My Life”?
(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Bill Clinton
(c) Hillary Roddham Clinton
(d) Margaret Thatcher
Q8. Who is the author of book “Is New York Burning”?
(a) John Gresham
(b) Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
(c) Christopher Paolini Knaul
(d) Michael Moor
Q9. Who is author of the book ‘Apprenticeship of a Mahatma’ on which the film called ‘The Making of the Mahatma’ is based?
(a) Arundhati Roy
(b) Shyam Benegal
(c) Shobha de
(d) Fatima Meer
Q10. Which from the following was authored by Mulk Raj Anand?
(a) The Village
(b) A Stranger Called I
(c) Dark Room
(d) My God Died Young
Solution:
S1. Ans.(d)
S2. Ans.(b)
S3. Ans.(b)
S4. Ans.(b)
S5. Ans.(c)
S6. Ans.(c)
S7. Ans.(b)
S8. Ans.(b)
S9. Ans.(d)
S10. Ans.(a)
