Indian History Quiz
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Question 1: Which Indus Valley site is widely identified as having the world’s earliest known dockyard?
Harappa
Lothal
Kalibangan
Dholavira
Question 2: Who wrote the first surviving text that treated zero as a number with calculation rules in 628 CE?
Aryabhata
Brahmagupta
Bhaskara II
Varahamihira
Question 3: Why has the 1,600-year-old Iron Pillar of Delhi resisted rusting?
It was cast from an early form of stainless steel
Its high phosphorus content forms a protective passive film
It is repainted with an anti-rust coating every year
It is hollow bronze made to look like iron
Question 4: Who deciphered the Brahmi script in 1837, reviving knowledge of Ashoka’s edicts?
Alexander Cunningham
Sir John Marshall
James Prinsep
Sir William Jones
Question 5: Which Chola ruler launched an overseas naval raid on Srivijaya around 1025 CE?
Krishnadevaraya
Rajendra Chola I
Rajaraja Chola I
Samudragupta
Question 6: Who was the only woman to rule on the Delhi Sultanate throne?
Nur Jahan
Razia Sultan
Chand Bibi
Rani Durgavati
Question 7: Which ruler standardized the silver Rupiya, giving rise to the modern word 'rupee'?
Sher Shah Suri
Alauddin Khalji
Akbar
Chandragupta Maurya
Question 8: How were the Ajanta Caves rediscovered by a British officer in 1819?
Chasing a rebel army
Hunting a tiger
Surveying a railway line
Digging an archaeological trench