Here are, 50 Gk MCQs About Medieval Indian History:
Q.1 From which country did the traveler Ibn Batuta came from?
A) Morocco
B) Persia
C) Turkey
D) Central Asia
Answer: A) Morocco
Q.2 Which dynasty built the Khajuraho temples located in Madhya Pradesh?
A) Gupta dynasty
B) Chola dynasty
C) Rashtrakuta dynasty
D) Chandela dynasty
Answer: D) Chandela dynasty
Q.3 Who was the main architect of Taj Mahal?
A) Mohammad Hussain
B) Ustad Ahmed Lahori
C) Shah Abbas
D) Daswant Singh
Answer: B) Ustad Ahmed Lahori
Q.4 When Babur invaded India who was the ruler of Vijayanagar empire in south India?
A) Saluva Narasimha
B) Devaraya II
C) Krishnadeva Raya
D) Sadashiva Raya
Answer: C) Krishnadeva Raya
Q.5 The Mughal empire started decline after the death of which ruler?
A) Aurangzeb
B) Muhammad Shah
C) Shah Alam I
D) Bahadur Shah Zafar
Answer: A) Aurangzeb
Q.6 Which Sikh guru founded the Khalsa?
A) Guru Gobind Singh
B) Guru Ramdas
C) Guru Nanak
D) Arjun Dev
Answer: A) Guru Gobind Singh
Q.7 Which region of India was ruled by Sultan Zainul Abidin?
A) Bijapur
B) Hyderabad
C) Lucknow
D) Kashmir
Answer: D) Kashmir
Q.8 What was the original name of Tansen, the famous musician in the court of Akbar?
A) Lal Kulwant
B) Banda Bahadur
C) Ramatanu Pande
D) Markandey Pande
Answer: C) Ramatanu Pande
Q.9 Which Muslim invader destroyed the Nalanda University?
A) Allauddin Khilji
B) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq
C) Bakhtiyar Khilji
D) Muhammad-bin-Quasim
Answer: C) Bakhtiyar Khilji
Q.10 Which painter of the Akbar’s court got the title ‘Sirin Kalam’?
A) Abdus Samad
B) Ustad Mansur
C) Mohammad Hussain
D) Abdul Hassan
Answer: A) Abdus Samad
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Q.11 Which one of the following chola king conquered Ceylon?
A) Aditya I
B) Vijayalaya Chola
C) Rajendra Chola
D) Raja Raja Chola
Answer: C) Rajendra Chola
Q.12 Which city was the capital of Shivaji Maharaj?
A) Poona
B) Raigarh
C) Panhala
D) Sinhagarh
Answer: b) Raigarh
Q.13 Which Delhi sultan was known as the ‘Mixture of opposites?
A) Balban
B) Alauddin Khilji
C) Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
D) Ibrahim Lodi
Answer: C) Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
Q.14 Which king of Pratiharas dynasty adopted the title ‘Adivarah’?
A) Mihir Bhoja
B) Nagabhatt I
C) Yashpala
D) Mahendra Pala I
Answer: A) Mihir Bhoja
Q.15 Who was the last ruler of Lodi dynasty?
A) Bahlul Lodi
B) Ibrahim Lodi
C) Daulat Khan Lodi
D) Sikandar Lodi
Answer: b) Ibrahim Lodi
Q.16 Who was the founder of the Rashtrakuta dynasty?
A) Govinda III
B) Amoghvarsha
C) Dantidurg
D) Krishna I
Answer: C) Dantidurg
Q.17 Who built Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque?
A) Qutub-ud-din Aibak
B) Alauddin Khilji
C) İltutmish
D) Mohammad Adil shah
Answer: A) Qutub-ud-din Aibak
Q.18 Razia Sultan, the first woman to sit on the throne of Delhi, was the daughter of which sultan?
A) Mohammed Ghori
B) Mohammed of Ghazni
C) Iltutmish
D) Alauddin Khilji
Answer: C) Iltutmish
Q.19 Which ruler invaded Delhi and took away the Kohinoor Diamond?
A) Nadir Shah
B) Firuz Shah
C) Mohammed Shah
D) Timur Lame
Answer: A) Nadir Shah
Q.20 After which battle Mohammad Gori became the sultan of Delhi?
A) First Battle of Tarain
B) Second Battle of Tarain
C) Battle of Khanwa
D) First Battle of Panipat
Answer: B) Second Battle of Tarain
Q.21 Which dynasty of Delhi sultanate ruled for the longest period?
A) Khilji dynasty
B) Tughluq dynasty
C) Slave dynasty
D) Lodi dynasty
Answer: B) Tughluq dynasty
Q.22 Krishnadeva Raya built the Krishnaswami temple in Hampi, which is situated in the present state of India?
A) Karnataka
B) Calcutta
C) Jammu and Kashmir
D) Kerala
Answer: A) Karnataka
Q.23 Who among the following was the last Delhi Sultan?
A) Sikandar Lodi
B) Daulat Khan Lodi
C) Rana Sanga
D) Ibrahim Lodi
Answer: D) Ibrahim Lodi
Q.24 Who among the following was defeated by Prithvi Raj Chauhan in the first battle of Tarain?
A) Balban
B) Muhammad Ghori
C) Mahmud of Ghazni
D) Iltutmish
Answer: B) Muhammad Ghori
Q.25 Which Delhi sultan established hospital known as ‘Dar-ul-Shifa’?
A) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
B) Firoz Shah Tughlaq
C) Alauddin Khilji
D) Mubarak Khan
Answer: B) Firoz Shah Tughlaq
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Q.26 Which ruler is known as the second Alexander?
A) Jalal-ud-din Khilji
B) Mubarak Khilji
C) Khusru Khan
D) Alauddin Khilji
Answer: D) Alauddin Khilji
Q.27 Who is known as the Parrot of India?
A) Al Masudi
B) Alberuni
C) Ibn Batuta
D) Amir Khusrao
Answer: D) Amir Khusrao
Q.28 Who was the founder of four maths in the four corners of India?
A) Ramanujacharya
B) Madhvacharya
C) Shankaracharya
D) Bhaskarachayrya
Answer: C) Shankaracharya
Q.29 In which century the reign of Delhi Sultanate came to an end?
A) 14th Century
B) 15th Century
C) 16th Century
D) 17th Century
Answer: C) 16th Century
Q.30 Which ruler of Delhi sultan pursued the policy of ‘blood and iron’?
A) Alauddin Khilji
B) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
C) Balban
D) Iltutmish
Answer: C) Balban
Q.31 Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya was the disciple of which Sufi Saint?
A) Baba Farid
B) Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti
C) Sheikh Ahmed Sirhindi
D) Sheikh Alauddin Sabir
Answer: A) Baba Farid
Q.32 Who was the first hindi scholar during Mughal period?
A) Chandbardai
B) Abdur Rahim
C) Malik Muhammad Jayasi
D) Abdus Samad
Answer: C) Malik Muhammad Jayasi
Q.33 Who was the elder brother of Shah Shuja and Murad Baksh?
A) Aurangzeb
B) Azam Shah
C) Muhammad Kam Baksh
D) Dara Shikoh
Answer: D) Dara Shikoh
Q.34 Who was the author of Laila-Majnu?
A) Alberuni
B) Hasan Nizami
C) Firoz Shah
D) Amir Khusrau
Answer: D) Amir Khusrau
Q.35 Mohammed Bin Tughlaq transferred his capital from Delhi to?
A) Warangal
B) Devagiri
C) Madurai
D) Vijayanagar
Answer: B) Devanagari
Q.36 Which Mughal emperor second capital was Din Panah at Delhi?
A) Humayun
B) Akbar
C) Shahjahan
D) Aurangzeb
Answer: A) Humayun
Q.37 Which Delhi Sultan adopted the title ‘Lakh Baksh’?
A) Qutubuddin Aibak
B) Shamsuddin Iltutmish
C) Jalaluddin Khilji
D) Bahlol Lodi
Answer: A) Qutubuddin Aibak
Q.38 Which Turkish ruler invaded India 17 times between 1000 and 1026 AD?
A) Mahamud of Ghazni
B) Mauhamed Tughlaq
C) Changez Khan
D) Mahmood Ghalib
Answer: A) Mahamud of Ghazni
Q.39 Who was the finance minister of Akbar court?
A) Abul Fazal
B) Mulla Do Pyaja
C) Todarmal
D) Birbal
Answer: C) Todarmal
Q.40 Tulsidas wrote Ram- Charitmanas during the reign of which ruler?
A) Babur
B) Akbar
C) Aurangzeb
D) Jahangir
Answer: B) Akbar
Q.41 What was the official language of the Sultanate?
A) Persian
B) Urdu
C) Arabic
D) Hindi
Answer: A) Persian
Q.42 Which Sufi Saints also known as Data Ganj Baksh?
A) Shaikh Bahauddin Zakariya
B) Khwaja Ali Hujjwiri
C) Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti
D) Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
Answer: B) Khwaja Ali Hujjwiri
Q.43 Which one of the following monuments in Delhi is not included as a World Heritage Site?
A) Red Fort
B) Humayun’s Tomb
C) Qutab Minar
D) Jantar Mantar
Answer: D) Jantar Mantar
Q.44 Who translated the Bhagavat Gita into Persian?
A) Shah Jahan
B) Akbar
C) Murad Baksh
D) Dara Shikoh
Answer: D) Dara Shikoh
Q.45 Who was the founder of Sangama dynasty?
A) Saluva Narsimha
B) Harihar I & Bukka Raya I
C) Veer Narsimha
D) Tirumala
Answer: B) Harihar I & Bukka Raya I
Q.46 The battle of Khanwa was fought between?
A) Babur and Rana Sanga
B) Humayun and Sher Shah Suri
C) Akbar and Mirza Hakim
D) Shivaji and Aurangzeb
Answer: A) Babur and Rana Sanga
Q.47 Which is the holy book of the Sikh religion?
A) Bhagavad Gita
B) Zend Avesta
C) Manusmriti
D) Guru Granth Sahib
Answer: D) Guru Granth Sahib
Q.48 Which of the following forts was not built by Akbar?
A) Gwalior Fort
B) Agra Fort
C) Lahore Fort
D) Allahabad Fort
Answer: A) Gwalior Fort
Q.49 Who among the following rulers abolished Jaziya?
A) Aurangzeb
B) Balban
C) Akbar
D) Jahangir
Answer: C) Akbar
Q.50 Which among the following monuments is the oldest?
A) Qutab Minar
B) Khajuraho Temple
C) Ajanta Caves
D) Taj Mahal
Answer: C) Ajanta Caves
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