Question 1: What is the subject of the Shulba Sutras?

Answer: Geometry.

Question 2: From where is “Asato ma sadgamaya” taken?

Answer: Rigveda.

Question 3: Where did the Aryans first settle after coming from outside?

Answer: Punjab.

Question 4: Which Mandala of the Rigveda is entirely dedicated to Soma?

Answer: Ninth Mandala.

Question 5: In which book is the famous Gayatri Mantra found?

Answer: Rigveda.

Question 6: In ancient India, what was referred to as “Nink”?

Answer: Gold ornaments.

Question 7: Who propounded the philosophy of Yoga?

Answer: Patanjali.

Question 8: What are the Upanishads based on?

Answer: Philosophy.

Question 9: What is the other name for the Mahabharata?

Answer: Jaya Samhita.

Question 10: What is the world’s largest epic?

Answer: Mahabharata.

Question 11: Which book is referred to as the “Ramayana of the Buddhists”?

Answer: Buddhacharita.

Question 12: Who wrote the Buddhacharita?

Answer: Ashvaghosha.

Question 13: Who is the author of the Mahavibhasha Shastra?

Answer: Vasumitra.

Question 14: Which Buddhist text is considered as sacred as the Gita?

Answer: Abhidhamma Pitaka.

Question 15: Who was the proponent of Yogachara or Vijnanavada?

Answer: Maitreyanath.

Question 16: Who referred to Krishna as Herakles?

Answer: Megasthenes.

Question 17: Who was the founder of Islam?

Answer: Prophet Muhammad.

Question 18: When and where was Prophet Muhammad born?

Answer: 570 AD, Mecca.

Question 19: Which festival is celebrated on Prophet Muhammad’s birthday?

Answer: Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi.

Question 20: What is the main scripture of the Zoroastrian religion?

Answer: Zend Avesta.

Question 21: In which year did Mir Jafar abdicate the throne of Bengal?

Answer: 1760 AD.

Question 22: When did Tipu Sultan die?

Answer: 1799 AD.

Question 23: What are the other names for the Slave Dynasty?

Answer: Ilbari, Mamluk, and Slave Dynasty.

Question 24: Who is considered the first Turkish ruler of Delhi?

Answer: Qutb-ud-din Aibak.

Question 25: After whose death did Qutb-ud-din Aibak declare himself the independent ruler of Lahore?

Answer: Muhammad Ghori.

Question 26: With whose help did Qutb-ud-din conquer Bengal?

Answer: Kai Maj-i Rumi.

Question 27: Who was appointed as the governor of Bengal by Qutb-ud-din Aibak?

Answer: Ali Mardan Khan.

Question 28: What was Qutb-ud-din Aibak called due to his generosity?

Answer: Lakhbaksh.

Question 29: Who built the Qutub Minar?

Answer: Qutb-ud-din Aibak.

Question 30: What is the height of the Qutub Minar?

Answer: 234 feet.

Question 31: Who built the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque in Delhi and the Adhai Din Ka Jhopra in Ajmer?

Answer: Qutb-ud-din Aibak.

Question 32: Where is the tomb of Aibak located?

Answer: Lahore.

Question 33: Who was made the ruler of Delhi after the death of Qutb-ud-din Aibak?

Answer: Aram Shah.

Question 34: Who made Iltutmish the ruler?

Answer: The nobles of Delhi.

Question 35: What was Iltutmish before sitting on the throne of Delhi?

Answer: Governor of Badaun; he was an Ilbari Turk.

Question 36: What is Turkana-e-Chahalgan?

Answer: A group of forty Turkish nobles. It was formed by Iltutmish.

Question 37: Who attacked North-West India during Iltutmish’s reign?

Answer: Mongol ruler Genghis Khan.

Question 38: Whom did Iltutmish appoint as the governor of Bengal?

Answer: Husamuddin.

Question 39: Who attacked Ujjain and looted the Mahakal temple?

Answer: Iltutmish (in 1234-35 AD).

Question 40: What system did Iltutmish implement?

Answer: Iqta.