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Published 08 Mar, 2014 07:09am

Quiz History

1 Who was the first Mughal emperor?

2 Which Mughal emperor built the Taj Mahal?

3 Who was the founder of the Slave Dynasty?

4 The annexation of which area in India by the British led to the Sepoy Rebellion?

5 Which ruler in the history of the Subcontinent is credited with the first to use rockets in warfare?

6 Chandragupta was the ruler of which ancient Indian empire?

7 Who was the last emperor of the Mughal dynasty?

8 Which Mughal emperor’s real name was Zahiruddin Muhammad?

9 Who was defeated by Babur in 1526 at Panipat?

10 What name or title did the Mughal prince Khurram take after becoming emperor?


Answers

  1. Babur

  2. Shah Jahan, for his wife Mumtaz Mahal

  3. Qutubuddin Aibak, a slave who rose to the position of viceroy of Mohamad Ghori, and after Ghori’s death he ruled over Delhi from 1206 to 1210

  4. Oudh

  5. Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore, but as the rockets were not so perfect, they killed as many of his own soldiers as of the British

  6. Maurya

  7. Bahadur Shah Zafar, reigned 1837-1857. Convicted of treason against the British, he was sent into exile in Burma (now Myanmar), where he died in 1862.

  8. Babur (1526-1530 AD), the founder of the Mughal Empire

  9. Ibrahim Lodi

  10. Shah Jahan

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