MEDIEVAL HISTORY 1-50 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

 1. Which of the following tax was initiated by the Alauddin Khilji?

Answer:  Ghari

2. Which of the following art did rise highest in the Sultanate period?

Answer: Architecture

3. Which of the following is NOT considered as Amir Khusro's creation?

Answer: Tutinama

4. Which one of the following places was known as "Shiraz of East during the regime of sharqi Rulers?

Answer: Jaunpur

5. Ruler of Kashmir who was also known as "Akbar of Kashmir' was 

Answer: Zain-ul-Abidin

6. Amir Khusrau played a pioneering role in the development of -

Answer: Khari Boli

7. Father of new Persian poetry style "Sabak-e Hindi" or Hindustani style was:

Answer: Amir Khusrau

8. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below:

List-1

A. Tarikh-e-hind

B. Tarikh-e-Delhi

C. Rihla

D. Tabqat-e-Nasiri

List-II

1.Ibn Battuta

2.Minhaz

3.Al-Biruni

4. Khusrau

Answer: 3,4,1,2

9. The sultans of which dynasty ruled the country for the longest period?

Answer:Tughluq dynasty

10. Assertion Answer: : Muhammad-Bin-Tughluq issued a new gold coin which was called Dinar by Ibn Battuta

Reason (R):

 Muhammad-Bin-Tughluq wanted to issue token currency is gold coins to promote trade with West Asian and North African countries.

Answer: 'A' is true but 'R' is false,

11. Ibn Battuta, the Moorish traveler, visited India during the reign of:

Answer: Muhammad-Bin-Tughluq

12. The sultan of Delhi who is reputed to have built biggest network of canals in India was:

Answer: Firuz Shah Tughluq

13. What was 'Dar-ul-Shafa' Established by Firuz Tughluq?

Answer: A free hospital

14. Arrange the following in their chronological

order:

1. Rukn-ud-din

2.Mubarak Khan

3. Firuz Shah Tughluq 

4.Alam Shah

Select the correct answer from the code given

below:

Answer:  1,2,3,4

15. In which battle did Maharana Sanga defeat Ibrahim Lodi?

Answer: Battle of Khatoli

16. The Nobility of the Delhi Sultanate was largely composed of

Answer: Turks

17. The Mongols appeared for the first time on the banks of the Indus during the rule of

Answer:  Iltutmish

18. The term Iqta means

Answer:  Revenue assignment of a particular area in lieu of cash salary

19. The rulers of the Lodhi dynasty were

Answer: Pure Afghan

20. The largest standing army of the Delhi Sultanate directly paid by the State was created by

Answer: Alauddin Khalji

21. The main aim of the attacks of Muhammad-bin Tughluq in south India was 

Answer: extension of the empire

22. To which race did Mahmud Ghazni belong?

Answer: Afghan

23. The most learned medieval Muslim ruler who was well versed in various branches of learning including astronomy, mathematics and medicine was

Answer: Muhammad-bin-Tughluq

24. The two principles monuments of Alaud-din Khilji's reign - the Jama-at-Kana Masjid and Alai Darwaza - were constructed at

Answer: Delhi

25. Who of the following introduced silver coin called tanka? 

Answer: lltutmish

26. The first Sultan to adopt the principle of measurement of cultivable land for determining the land revenue was

27. The state-promoted canal irrigation system was initiated by

Answer: Ghiyasuddin Tughluq

28. When did Vasco-da- Gama came to India?

Answer: 1498

29. Malik Kafur was whose General?

Answer: Ala-ud-din Khilji

30. During whose period Al-Beruni came to India?

Answer: Mahmud Ghaznavi

31. To conquer and annex Peshawar and Punjab, Mahmud of Ghazni defeated?

Answer: Hindushahis

32. The First battle at Waihind in 1001-02 A.D was fought between?

Answer: Mahmud of Ghazni and Jayapala

33. What was the only permanent effect of the invasions of Mahmud Ghaznavi?

Answer: Annexation of Punjab

34.................first became the capital of a kingdom under the Tomara Rajputs.

35. The second Battle of Tarain was fought between

Answer: Mohammed Ghori and Prithviraj Chauhan

36. Which dynasty came to power in India after the Tughlaq dynasty?

Answer: The Sayyids

37. Which of the following Sultans playing Polo or Chaugan? 

Answer: Qutb-ud-din Aibak

38. Mohammed Bin Tuglag transferred his capital from

Answer: Delhi to Devagiri 

39. Mir Hassan Dehlavi was in the court of which of the following?

Answer: Alauddin Khilji

40. For the first time in Gujarat, who implemented Jizya tax?

Answer: Ahmed Shah I

41. During whose reign did Timur invaded India?

Answer: Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah

42. Alauddin Khilji's first military operation was against which of the following?

Answer: Ranthambore

43. Amir Khusro was a -

Answer: Poet

44. The official language of the Delhi Sultanate was?

Answer: Persian

45. Who was the first female emperor of India?

Answer: Razia Sultana

46. The queen with the title Didda ruled over which part of India between 980 - 1003?

Answer: Kashmir

47. The Mongols under ___invaded

Transoxiana in north-east Iran in 1219.

Answer: Genghis Khan

48. Sultan Mahmud was a ruler of

Answer: Ghazni

49. In 1236 Sultan Iltutmish's daughter, became Sultan.

Answer:  Raziyya

50. Prithviraja III (1168-1192) was a best known ruler.

Answer: Chahamana