Where was saint Kabir born?
(1) Delhi                      (2) Varanasi
(3) Mathura                 (4) Hyderabad

Which of the following languages was in vogue during the Mughal period in the courts of India?

(1) French                                    (2) Persian
(3) Portuguese                             (4) Arabic

The writer of Ram Charit Manas, Tulsidas, was related to which ruler?
(1) Chandragupta Maurya
(2) Nawab Vajid Ali Sah
(3) Harsha

(4) Akbar

Which Sufi’s dargah is at Ajmer?
(1) Baba Farid
(2) Qutb-din Bakhtiyar Kaki
(3) Moinuddin Chisti
(4) Khwaja Bahuddin

Who was the architect who designed the ‘Taj Mahal’?

(1) Mohammad Hussain
(2) Ustad-Isa
(3) Shah Abbas
(4) Ismail

The Assam State derives its name from that a tribe that conquered the region. Where did the tribesmen come from?
(1) Tibet

(2) Mongolia
(3) Burma (now Myanmar)
(4) Siam (now Thailand)

Shah Jahan built the Moti Masjid at
(1) Delhi                                       (2) Jaipur
(3) Agra                                        (4) Amarkot

Select the incorrectly matched pair of philosophers and their philosophies :
(1) Sankaracharya Advaita
(2) Ballabhacharya-Pure-Advaita
(3) Chaitanya-Vishistha-Advaita
(4) Charvak—Lokayat

Who got constructed ‘Grand Trunk Road’?
(1) Akbar
(2) Ashoka
(3) Shershah Suri
(4) Samudra Gupta

What do you mean by Mughal Zagir?
(1) providing rent-free land
(2) zamindar’s property

(3) giving the officer a right to revenue

(4) giving cash salary to Mansabdar

Which among the following fort was known as the ‘Key of Deccan’?
(1) Kalinjar                                 (2) Ajaygarh
(3) Asirgarh                                (4) Gulbarga