History of India quiz-2022
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Quiz On Indian History plays a key role for various competitive exams like IAS, State Public Service Commission, SSC and other similar competitive exams.
1- Which literature was composed by 473 poets, some 102 anonymous?
2- Champa was the capital of one of the following Mahajanapadas in Ancient India?
A. Anga
B. Magadha
C. Vajji
D. Kasi
3- Who was a revered Indian sage of Hinduism?
4- Who are the celebrated authors of hymns 1.165 to 1.191 in the Sanskrit text Rigveda and other Vedic literature?
5- What is ‘The Varaha Purana’?
6- What is ‘The Linga Purana’?
7- What does ‘The Varaha Purana’ includes?
8-The Bhagavata Purana is also known as?
9- Who is Narada or Narad Muni?
10- Who is Damayanti?
History of India quiz
11- Who is Shri-Harsha?
12- Who is Kalidasa?
13- Who are ‘The Pandavas’?
14- Who is Dhritarashtra?
15- Who is Duhshala?, also spelt as Dushala or Dussala.
16- Who is Abhimanyu?
17- Who is Subhadra?
18- Who is Draupadi?
19- Who is Duryodhana?
History of India quiz
20- Who is Gandhari?
21-Who is Shakuni?
22-When was Shakuni killed, and by whom?
23- Who is Shakuntala?
24- Who retained the title of Rajarshi or ‘royal sage’?
25- The Kanva Dynasty or Kanvayana ruled from?
ANSWERS
History of India quiz
1- The Sangam
2- Anga
3- Sage Agastya
4-Agastya and his wife Lopamudra
5- It is a Sanskrit word from the Puranas genre of literature in Hinduism.
6- One of the eighteen Mahapuranas is Longa Purana. It is a Hinduism Shaivism text. The term Linga relates to Shiva’s iconography.
History of India quiz
7- It involves mythology, particularly the Varaha avatar of Vishnu who saves the earth amid a tremendous flood.
8- It is also referred to as the Srimad Bhagavatam, the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana, or simply Bhagavata. Bhagavata Purana is one of the eighteen main Puranas of Hinduism (Mahapuranas)
9- Narada is a god-sage and one of Brahma’s mind-created progeny. He is well-known in Hindu traditions as a wandering musician and storyteller.
10- Damayanti was a princess of the Vidarbha Kingdom who married King Nala of the Nishadha Kingdom. She was the daughter of Bhima (not the Pandava).
11- Srihara is an Indian philosopher and poet who lived in the 12th century. Śrīharṣa was the son of Śrīhira and Mamalladevī.
History of India quiz
12- Kalidasa is a Sanskrit author who wrote in Classical Sanskrit. He is widely regarded as the finest writer and dramatist of ancient India.
13- They are Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva, the five brothers. The Pandavas are Pandu’s five recognised sons.
14- Dhritarashtra is the Kuru Kingdom’s temporary ruler, and Hastinapur is its capital. Ambika, Vichitravirya’s first wife, gave birth to Dhritarashtra, who was born blind.
15-Dushala is Hastinapur’s Princess. She is King Dhritarashtra’s and Queen Gandhari’s only child. In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, she was the sister of the Kauravas.
16-Abhimanyu is a heroic warrior from the Mahabharata, an ancient Hindu epic. Arjuna, the third Pandava prince, and Subhadra, the Yadava princess, gave birth to Abhimanyu.
History of India quiz
17-Subhadra is Vasudeva’s favoured child and the younger sister of the gods Krishna and Balarama.
18- Draupadi was the common wife of the Pandava brothers—Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva.
19- In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, the primary adversary is Duryodhana. Duryodhana was the eldest of the Kauravas, and he was also known as Suyodhana.
20-Gandhari was a Gandharan princess. She was the wife of Hastinapura’s blind king, Dhritrashtra.
21- Shakuni was Gandhari’s brother and the Kauravas’ maternal uncle.
22- During the Kurukshetra War, the youngest Pandava, Sahadeva, assassinated Shakuni.
23- Shakuntala is Dushyanta’s wife and Emperor Bharata’s mother.
24-Brahmarishi Vishvamitra.
25- 75 BCE to 30 BCE.
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