Indian History Quiz
Eight medium-difficulty multiple-choice questions based strictly on the provided source material covering key people, sites, and events in Indian history.
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Question 1: Which Indus Valley site is widely identified as the world's earliest known dockyard?
Kalibangan
Lothal
Dholavira
Harappa
Question 2: Who authored the first known surviving text to treat zero as a number in 628 CE?
Aryabhata
Bhaskara II
Varahamihira
Brahmagupta
Question 3: Why has the 1,600-year-old Iron Pillar of Delhi resisted significant rusting?
It is repainted with an anti-rust coating every year
It was cast from an early form of stainless steel
Its high phosphorus content forms a protective passive film
It is hollow bronze made to look like iron
Question 4: Who deciphered the Brahmi script in 1837, revealing the inscriptions of Ashoka?
Sir John Marshall
Alexander Cunningham
James Prinsep
Sir William Jones
Question 5: Around 1025 CE, which ruler launched an overseas naval expedition against the Srivijaya empire?
Rajendra Chola I
Samudragupta
Rajaraja Chola I
Krishnadevaraya
Question 6: Who was the only woman to rule on the throne of the Delhi Sultanate?
Nur Jahan
Chand Bibi
Rani Durgavati
Razia Sultan
Question 7: Which ruler standardised the silver Rupiya, giving rise to the modern word 'rupee'?
Sher Shah Suri
Chandragupta Maurya
Alauddin Khalji
Akbar
Question 8: What activity led the British officer John Smith to rediscover the Ajanta Caves in 1819?
Surveying a railway line
Chasing a rebel army
Digging an archaeological trench
Hunting a tiger