India Quiz 63

India Quiz 63

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1. Which is the first capital of Chalukyas that is known as the "one of the cradles of Indian temple architecture"?

Aihole
Kalayani
Badami
Mount Abu

2. The inscription found at Meguti Temple, Aihole is popularly known as Aihole inscriptions was written by which one of the followings poets?

Banabhatta
Amara Sinha
Rajasekhara
Ravikirti

3. The Paris Indian Society was an Indian nationalist organisation founded in 1905 at Paris. Who among the following was the founder?

Lala Hardayal
Madam Bhikaji Cama
Subhash Chandra Bose
Vijayalakshmi Pandit

4. Who among the following gave the call "Go Back to the Vedas"?

Swami Vivekananda
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

5. Gaudiya Vaishnavism is a Vaishnava religious movement founded by

Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Chaithanya Mahabprabhu
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Abhedananda

6. Regarded as the "Father of Qawwali", this poet is referred to as "the parrot of India". Who is he>

Amir Khusrow
Kabir
Faizi
Sarmad Kashani

7. Name the Sikh guru who was publicly beheaded in 1675 on the orders of Mughal emperor Aurangazeb in Delhi for refusing to convert to Islam

Guru Har Gobind
Guru Tegh Bahadur
Guru Arjan Dev
Guru Ram Das

8. "Bachittar Natak" is the memoir and autobiography of which one of the following Sikh gurus?

Guru Tegh Bahadur
Guru Angad Dev
Guru Gobind Singh
Guru Har Krishan

9. Who was nicknamed the "Frontier Gandhi" in British India?

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Lala Lajpat Rai
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Muhammed Ali Jinnah

10. Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood in response to which historical incident?

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Chauri-Chaura Incident
Wagon Tragedy
World War I

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