Q 01/05

Which Mughal emperor ended his days a prisoner of his own son in Agra Fort?

A) Jahangir

B) Shah Jahan

C) Farrukhsiyar

D) Aurangzeb

Answer · why

B) Shah Jahan

Shah Jahan was locked in Agra Fort from July 1658 until his death in January 1666, within sight of the Taj Mahal he had built for his wife.

Q 02/05

Which diamond did an 11-year-old Maharaja surrender to Queen Victoria when Britain annexed Punjab?

A) Hope Diamond

B) Cullinan I

C) Koh-i-Noor

D) Regent Diamond

Answer · why

C) Koh-i-Noor

The Koh-i-Noor now sits in the Queen Mother's crown, which was placed on her coffin at her 2002 funeral, and both India and Pakistan have demanded its...

Q 03/05

Which village did Gandhi's 24-day, 240-mile march reach in 1930 to break the British salt law?

A) Porbandar

B) Sabarmati

C) Bardoli

D) Dandi

Answer · why

D) Dandi

Dandi's handful of salt on 6 April 1930 set off civil disobedience across India, and over 60,000 people were jailed as a result.

Q 04/05

Which Hindu nationalist shot Gandhi three times at a Delhi prayer meeting on 30 January 1948?

A) Vinayak Savarkar

B) Nathuram Godse

C) Madan Lal Dhingra

D) Narayan Apte

Answer · why

B) Nathuram Godse

Nathuram Godse was seized on the spot by an American vice-consul, Herbert Reiner, and hanged at Ambala jail in November 1949.

Q 05/05

Which Indus Valley city in Sindh held some 40,000 people and a brick Great Bath?

A) Harappa

B) Sutkagan Dor

C) Mohenjo-daro

D) Dholavira

Answer · why

C) Mohenjo-daro

Mohenjo-daro was unknown until the 1920s, when an archaeologist noticed what he took for a Buddhist stupa on top of the site; it lies in Sindh, Pakist...