Important Quiz Question and Answers on Heritage India. Students of CBSE Board can check here list of CBSE Quiz 2023 on Heritage India Topic.
1.) Where is Taj Mahal located?
a) Bhopal
b) Mumbai
c) Agra
d) Delhi
Answer:- c) Agra
2.) By whom was the white marble Taj mahal built?
a) Mughal Emperor Salim
b) Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
c) Mughal Emperor Akbar
d) None of above
Answer:- b) Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
3.) In which year Taj Mahal was declared India’s heritage?
a) 1990
b) 1980
c) 1983
d) 1985
Answer:- c) 1983
4.) Who designed and executed the mausoleum, Taj Mahal?
a) Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
b) Ustad Ahmad Lahori
c) Ustad Ahmad khan
d) MumtazBegam
Answer:- b) Ustad Ahmad Lahori
5.) Agra is known for ?
a) Red fort
b) Taj mahal
c) QtubMinar
d) Gate Way
Answer:- b) Taj Mahal
6.) Why did Mughal Emperor build Taj Mahal?
a) To show his art
b) To show his love for his wife
c) Wanted to built a big mahal
d) None of above
Answer:- b) to show his love for his wife
7.) How many heritage sites are there in Indian as per UNESCO?
a) 41
b) 43
c) 45
d) 42
Answer:- d) 42
8.) Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, formerly known as_______ Station
a) CST
b) Victoria Terminus
c) Victoria Queen Terminal
d) None of above
Answer:- b) Victoria Terminus
9.) Where is Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus located ?
a) Delhi
b) Kolkata
c) Mumbai
d) Chennai
Answer:- c) Mumbai
10.) How many years did Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus took to built over ?
a) 5 years
b) 2 years
c) 10 years
d) 20 years
Answer:- c) 10 years
11.) Who designed the building of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus?
a) F. W. Stevens
b) W.F. Stevens
c) Sambhajibhosale
d) None of them
Answer:- a) F. W. Stevens
12.) Who built Red fort ?
a) Mughal Emperor Salim
b) Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
c) Mughal Emperor Akbar
d) None of above
Answer:- b) Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
13.) In which state does Ajanta and Ellora caves are located?
a) Bengal
b) Chennai
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Maharashtra
Answer:- d) Maharashtra
14.) Which temple is knows as black Pagoda ?
a) Konark Sun Temple
b) Santiniketan
c) JantarMantar
d) None of above
Answer:- a) Konark Sun Temple
15.) QtubMinar is built in ____ century
a) 14th
b) 13th
c) 15th
d) 16th
Answer:- b) 13th
16.) Where is JantarMantar located?
a) Bhopal
b) Mumbai
c) Agra
d) Jaipur
Answer:- d) Jaipur
17.) JantarMantar is built by ?
a) Emperor Salim
b) Rajput king Sawai Jai Singh
c) Rajput king Pritviraj Singh
d) Morya Emperor
Answer:- b) Rajput king Sawai Jai Singh
18.) In which year did the Monument JantarMantarcompleted ?
a) 1983
b) 1873
c) 1734
d) 1743
Answer:- c) 1734
19.) Who many JantarMantarare built?
a) Four
b) Two
c) Five
d) Seven
Answer:- c) Five
20.) The first JantarMantar was built in ____?
a) Ujjain
b) Jaipur
c) Delhi
d) Mathura
Answer:- c) Delhi
21.) What were the last words of Mahatma Gandhi?
- a) Hey Ram
- b) Ram
- c) It irks me if I am late for prayers even by a minute
- d) Oh God
Answer:- c) It irks me if I am late for prayers even by a minute
22.) In which year did Gandhi led Dandi March ?
- a) 1932
- b) 1931
- c) 1930
- d) 1934
Answer:- c) 1930
23.) In which year did DrBabasahebAmbedkarfirst become member of Bombay Legislative Council ?
- a) 1923
- b) 1932
- c) 1937
- d) 1927
Answer:- d) 1927
24.) Who is known as ‘Iron man of India’ ?
- a) Sardar Patel
- b) Mahatma Gandhi
- c) Bhagat Singh
- d) SubashChandra Bose
Answer:- a) Sardar Patel
25.) From 1921-41 fir active politics, how many times was bose jailed by the British ?
- a) 10 times
- b) 11 times
- c) 12 times
- d) 14 times
Answer:- b) 11 times
26.) Mahatma Gandhi was nominated _____ times for noble peace prize
- a) Six
- b) Five
- c) Four
- d) Two
Answer:- b) Five
27.) Who is known as Punjab Kesari?
- a) Maharaja Ranjith Singh
- b) Bhagat Singh
- c) Pritvi Singh Azad
- d) lalalajpat Rai
Answer:- d) LalaLajpat Rai
28.) Who said the below lines ?
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved
- a) Mahatma Gandhi
- b) ) BabasahebAmbedkar
- c) PanditNehru
- d) Rajiv Gandhi
Answer:- b) Dr.) BabasahebAmbedkar
29.) Who coined the term ‘Quit India’ ?
- a) Yusuf Meheraly
- b) Safa Ali
- c) Arunaasaf Ali
- d) None of the above
Answer:- a) Yusuf Meheraly
30.) Who fought for the abolition of sati?
- a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- b) Bal GangadharTilak
- c) Chandra Shekhar Azad
- d) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer:- a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
31.) Who is founder of Indian National Association?
- a) Jawaharlal Nehru
- b) Subash Chandra Bose
- c) Surendranath Banerjee
- d) Gandhiji
Answer:- c) Surendranath Banerjee
32.) In which year did Bose hosted INA flag in Manipur
- a) 1944
- b) 1947
- c) 1945
- d) 1943
Answer:- 1944
33.) ‘Independent’ Newspaper was started by whom?
- a) Mahatma Gandhi
- b) Motilal Nehru
- c) Pandit Nehru
- d) Bal GangadharTilak
Answer:- b) Motilal Nehru
34.) ‘Swaraj is my Birthright’ , who is known for this quote ?
- a) SubhashChandra Bose
- b) Mahatma Gandhi
- c) Bal GangadharTilak
- d) Bhagat Singh
Answer:- a) Bal GangadharTilak
35.) At which place Sepoy Mutiny started?
- a) Jhansi
- b) Agra
- c) Meerut
- d) Banaras
Answer:- c) Meerut
36.) Who was the first president of Indian National Congress ?
- a) Sarojini Naidu
- b) W C Banerjee
- c) DadabhaiNaoroji
- d) None of above
Answer:- b) W C Banerjee
37.) In which year Jallianwalabaghmassacre took place ?
- a) 1919
- b) 1930
- c) 1903
- d) 1991
Answer:- a) 1919
38.) ‘Do or die’ , who raised the slogan ?
- a) PanditJawaharlal Nehru
- b) Mahatma Gandhi
- c) Subashhandra Bose
- d) Bhagat Singh
Answer:- b) Mahatma Gandhi
39.) Who is the writer of book ‘The Indian Struggle’
- a) Mahatma Gandhi
- b) ) BabasahebAmbedkar
- c) Subash Chandra Bose
- d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer:- c) Subash Chandra Bose
40.) Which of the following book is wrote by Jawaharlal Nehru?
- a) Discovery of India
- b) The Indian Struggle
- c) Independent India
- d) All of above
Answer:- a) Discovery of India
41.) Raja Ravi Verma is known as ?
- a) Father of Indian music
- b) Father of Indian Dance
- c) Father of Indian Art
- d) All of the above
Answer:- c) Father of Indian Art
42.) Original name of Gautam Buddha is ?
- a) Siddharth
- b) Shivaji
- c) Kapil
- d) None of above
Answer:- a) Siddharth
43.) Cheriyal is famous painting of which state ?
- a) Kerala
- b) Telangana
- c) Tamil Nadu
- d) Orissa
Answer:- b) Telangana
44.) Which of the following painting is related to Telangana?
- a) Madhubani painting
- b) Kalighat painting
- c) Warli painting
- d) Nirmal painting
Answer:- d) Nirmal painting
45.) The painting of Bharat Mata was originally done by ?
- a) Nandalalbose
- b) Abanindranath Tagore
- c) Ravi Verma
- d) Jamin Roy
Answer:- b) Abanindranath Tagore
46.) Kargam is a folk dance of which state ?
- a) Kerala
- b) Karnataka
- c) Tamil Nadu
- d) Orissa
Answer:- c) Tamil Nadu
47.) Maharashtra is famous for which painting?
- a) Scroll painting
- b) Warli painting
- c) Nirmal painting
- d) All of above
Answer:- b) Warli painting
48.) In which caves pre-historic rock painting is found , in Madhya Pradesh ?
- a) Ellora caves
- b) Ajanta Caves
- c) ElephantaCaves
- d) Bhimbetka caves
Answer:- d) Bhimbetka caves
49.) Kalighat painting belongs to _______ region of India
- a) Orissa
- b) West Bengal
- c) Bihar
- d) Sikkim
Answer:- b) West Bengal
50.) Ganesh chaturti is celebrated in which state?
- a) Maharashtra
- b) Madhya Pradesh
- c) Gujrat
- d) All of above
Answer:- a) Maharashtra
51.) At Puri, the RathYatra is celebrated in honour of
- a) Lord Shiva
- b) Lord Krishna
- c) Lord vishnu
- d) Lord Jagannath
Answer:- d) Lord Jagannath
52.) Pongal is most popular festival of which state?
- a) Maharashtra
- b) Rajasthan
- c) Punjab
- d) Tamil Nadu
Answer:- d) Tamil Nadu
53.) Pateti is festival of ??
- a) Jain
- b) Parsi
- c) Sikh
- d) Christian
Answer:- b) Parsi
54.) Which is most ancient musical instrument in india?
- a) Veena
- b) Tabla
- c) Sitar
- d) Flute
Answer:- a) Veena
55.) Where is Ramappa Temple situated?
- a) Andhra Pradesh
- b) Gujarat
- c) Rajasthan
- d) Telangana
Answer:- d) Telangana
56.) Ellora caves are mixture of which religious art ?
- a) Hinduism and Buddhism
- b) Hinduism and Jainisim
- c) Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainisim
- d) None of above
Answer:- c) Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainisim
57.) Ajanta Caves represents which religious art ?
- a) Buddhism
- b) Hinduism
- c) Jainisim
- d) All of above
Answer:- a) Buddhism
58.) Which is the one mixed hertiagesite in India ?
- a) KazirangaNational Park
- b) Manas wildlife
- c) KhangchendzongaNational Park
- d) KeolandeoNational Park
Answer:- c) KhangchendzongaNational Park
59.) In which state of India does the only one mixed hertiage site is ?
- a) Manipur
- b) Uttar Pradesh
- c) Sikkim
- d) Meghalya
Answer:- c) Sikkim
60.) Which state if India has largest number of UNESCO sites?
- a) Gujarat
- b) Maharashtra
- c) Rajasthan
- d) Karnataka
Answer:- b) Maharashtra
61.) India is ranked at which place in world heritage UNESCO?
- a) 5
- b) 6
- c) 7
- d) 3
Answer:- b) 6
62.) Which is the first grown cereals by India?
- a) Rice
- b) Sugarcane
- c) Wheat
- d) Wheat and barely
Answer:- d) Wheat and barely
63.) Name India is derived from which river name?
- a) Ganaga
- b) Yumuna
- c) Krishna
- d) Indus/sindhu
Answer:- d) Indus/sindhu
64.) Harrappa was located on the river ?
- a) Ganga
- b) Indus
- c) Kaveri
- d) Ravi
Answer:- b) Indus
65.) Which is known aa 18 days battle ?
- a) Battle of Panipat
- b) Battle of kurukshetra
- c) Battle of khanva
- d) None of above
Answer:- b) Battle of kurukshetra
66.) VardhamanaMahavir is founder of ?
- a) Hinduism
- b) Janisim
- c) Buddhism
- d) Paris
Answer: b) Janisim
67.) The world heritage fund was created in ?
- a) 1970
- b) 1972
- c) 1972
- d) 1974
Answer:- b) 1972
68.) Who is founder of Buddhism?
- a) Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
- b) Gautam Buddha
- c) VikramAditya
- d) Koutilya
Answer:- b) Gautam Buddha
69.) Baisakhi harvest festival is of which state ?
- a) Kerela
- b) Sikkim
- c) Punjab
- d) Bihar
Answer:- c) Punjab
70.) Tunganathtemple of which state has been declared tye national monument?
- a) Jammu and Kashmir
- b) Uttarakhand
- c) Uttart Pradesh
- d) Madhya Pradesh
Answer:- b) Uttarakhand
71.) The Sun Temple at Konârak temple was built in which century?
- a) 17th Century
- b) 18th Century
- c) 13th Century
- d) 15th Century
Answer:- c) 13th Century
72.) What us konark Sun Temple carved from ?
- a) Red stone
- b) Khondalite rocks
- c) Basalt rocks
- d) Marble
Answer:- b) Khondalite rocks
73.) How many elaborately carved stone wheels does konark Sun Temple has ?
- a) 12
- b) 19
- c) 21
- d) 24
Answer:- d) 24
74.) Konark Sun Temple located in which state?
- a) Kerala
- b) West Bengal
- c) Orissa
- d) Karnataka
Answer:- c) Orissa
75.) What is the world’s largest mangrove forests ?
- a) Western Ghats
- b) Sundarbans
- c) Forest
- d) All of the above
Answer: b) Sundarbans
76.) Sundarban National Park is located in ?
- a) Orissa
- b) West Bengal
- c) Assam
- d) Tamil Nadu
Answer:- b) West Bengal
77.) SundarbanNational Park is home for ?
- a) Bengal tigers
- b) Birds
- c) Leopard
- d) Bengal cheetah
Answer:- a) Bengal tigers
78.) When did UNESCO declared Sundarban as Heritage site?
- a) 1987
- b) 1978
- c) 1985
- d) 1989
Answer:- a) 1987
79.) Western Ghats are also known as ___?
- a) Himalaya
- b) Western mountains.)
- c) Sahyadri mountains
- d) None of above
Answer:- c) Sahyadri mountains
80.) Which is the highest peak in western Ghats ?
- a) Ooty
- b) Anamudi peak
- c) Dodabetta Hill
- d) Snowdon Hill
Answer:- b) Anamudi peak
81.) The monument hampi is located in which district ?
- a) Banglore
- b) Vijayanagar
- c) Bidar
- d) Hassan
Answer:- b) Vijayanagar
82.) In 14th century hampi was capital of which empire
- a) Vijayanagar
- b) Hoysalas
- c) Marathas
- d) Chalukyas
Answer:- a) Vijayanagar
83.) Hampi is situated on the banks of the ______River in the eastern part of central Karnataka
- a) Krishna
- b) Tungabhadra
- c) Kaveri
- d) Bhadra
Answer:- b) Tungabhadra
84.) How tall is QutubMinar ?
- a) ) 5 m
- b) ) 2 m
- c) ) 8 m
- d) 75 m
Answer:- a) 72.) 5 m
85.) How many steps does QutubMinar consist?
- a) 399
- b) 379
- c) 479
- d) 397
Answer:- b) 379
86.) Which of the following is not Indian Heritage?
- a) Ellora caves
- b) Ajanta Caves
- c) Pandavleni caves
- d) Red fort
Answer:- c) Pandavleni caves
87.) Ellorais also called as ?
- a) Gufha
- b) Caves
- c) Verul
- d) Leni
Answer:- c) Verul
88.) In whose Dynast was Ellora built?
- a) Rashtrakuta Dynast
- b) Mughal Dynast
- c) Maratha Dynast
- d) Morya Dynast
Answer:- a) Rashtrakuta Dynast
89.) Which city is known as pink city?
- a) Nashik
- b) Jaipur
- c) Surat
- d) Indore
Answer:- b) Jaipur
90.) Manaswildlife sanctuary is located in which state ?
- a) Sikkim
- b) Bengal
- c) Assam
- d) Mizoram
Answer:- c) Assam
91.) Which Indian city is also called as blue city ?
- a) Nashik
- b) Jodh
- c) Surat
- d) Jaipur
Answer:- b) Jodhpur
92.) Which site in bhiar is mentioned in UNESCO’s list of world heritage?
- a) Mahabodhitemple
93.) Inside which heritage site in india can one find the beautiful Motti masjid ?
- a) Red fort
- b) Golconda
- c) Rasthrapatibhavana
- d) Taj Mahal
Answer:- a) Red fort
94.) The Monument on the current Rs.) 100 Note located in Gujarat was added to World heritage list of UNESCO in which year ?
- a) 2012
- b) 2014
- c) 2016
- d) None of above
Answer:- b) 2014
95.) Ahmedabad announced as India’s first World Heritage City in which year ?
- a) 2016
- b) 2015
- c) 2017
- d) 2018
Answer:- c) 2017
96.) Indian Railways have ______ UNESCO World heritage site
- a) 7
- b) 6
- c) 5
- d) 4
Answer:- 4
97.) Kuchipudiclassical dance is named after the villageKuchelapuramof which state?
- a) Kerala
- b) Orissa
- c) Andhra Pradesh
- d) Tamil Nadu
Answer :- c) Andhra Pradesh
98.) How many languages as Indian Constitution recognize in India?
- a) 24
- b) 22
- c) 21
- d) 27
Answer:- 22
99.) How many forms of Indian classical dance in India?
- a) Two
- b) Five
- c) Sox
- d) Eight
Answer:- d) Eight
100.) Where is khajuraho temple located?
- a) Maharashtra
- b) Andhra Pradesh
- c) Goa
- d) Madhya Pradesh
Answer:- d) Madhya Pradesh
101.) Which of the following monument is located in Rajasthan?
- a) Konark Sun Temple
- b) Khajuraho temple
- c) Taj Mahal
- d) Dilwara temple
Answer:- d)Dilwara temple
102.) The cave paintings at Bhimbetka in _______ show the scenes from the life of early humans
- a) Madhya Pradesh
- b) Maharashtra
- c) Andhra Pradesh
- d) Rajasthan
Answer:- a) Madhya Pradesh
103.) Which Caves in Maharashtra show various scenes from the life of Gautam Buddha
- a) Elephant Caves
- b) Ajanta Caves
- c) Ellora caves
- d) Pandavleni cave
Answer:- b) Ajanta Caves
104.) What is India’s first international biosphere reserve called?
- a) Nilgiri biosphere reserve
- b) Gulf of mannar
- c) Manas National Park
- d) None of above
Answer:- a) Nilgiri biosphere reserve
105.) Which park was created to protect its keystone species?
- a) Mukurthi National Park
- b) Panchmarhi
- c) Nanda devi
- d) Manas National Park
Answer:- a) Mukurthi National Park
106.) Mukurthi National Park is located in which state?
- a) Madhya Pradesh
- b) Orissa
- c) Kerala
- d) Tamil Nadu
Answer:- d) Tamil Nadu
107.) Under whose instruction ChandniChowk was constructed?
- a) Jahanara
- b) Shah jahan
- c) Mumtaz
- d) None of above
Answer:- a) Jahanara
108.) The construction of which forts whose name comes from the Sanskrit word sun as it was built by the Rathod from Suryawanshi dynasty
- a) Mehrangrah fort
- b) Red fort
- c) Mandore fort
- d) Jai Pol
Answer:- a) Mehrangrah fort
109.) Which is the Lucknow’s most ancient and well known art form introduced by Noor Jahan
- a) Kalamkari
- b) Chikankari
- c) Parichinkari
- d) Sheeshakari
Answer:- b) Chikankari
110.) Which temple inspired the building design of Indian Parliament located in Madhya Pradesh?
- a) Shiv temple
- b) Vittala temple
- c) Kashi temple
- d) Chausathyogini temple
Answer: d) Chausath yogini temple
111.) Which great Indian ruler first enacted the law for protection of wildlife?
- a) Bindusar
- b) Ashoka
- c) ChandraguptMorya
- d) None of the above
Answer:- b) Ashoka
112.) India’s first sea bridge is named after the former prime Minister called?
- a) Rajiv Gandhi
- b) Jawherlal Nehru
- c) Vilas deshmukh
- d) GopinathMunde
Answer:- a) Rajiv Gandhi
113.) The Padma Awards are given on the national holiday ____
- a) 02nd October
- b) 15th August
- c) 26th January
- d) Both b and c
Answer:- c) 26th January
114.) Where is Taj Mahal located?
- a) Bhopal
- b) Mumbai
- c) Agra
- d) Delhi
Answer:- c) Agra
115.) By whom was the white marble Taj mahal built?
- a) Mughal Emperor Salim
- b) Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
- c) Mughal Emperor Akbar
- d) None of above
Answer:- b) Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
116.) In which year Taj Mahal was declared India’s heritage?
- a) 1990
- b) 1980
- c) 1983
- d) 1985
Answer:- c) 1983
117.) Who designed and executed the mausoleum, Taj Mahal?
- a) Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
- b) Ustad Ahmad Lahori
- c) Ustad Ahmad khan
- d) MumtazBegam
Answer:- b) Ustad Ahmad Lahori
118.) Agra is known for ?
- a) Red fort
- b) Taj mahal
- c) QtubMinar
- d) Gate Way
Answer:- b) Taj Mahal
119.) Why did Mughal Emperor build Taj Mahal?
- a) To show his art
- b) To show his love for his wife
- c) Wanted to built a big mahal
- d) None of above
Answer:- b) to show his love for his wife
120.) How many heritage sites are there in Indian as per UNESCO?
- a) 41
- b) 43
- c) 45
- d) 42
Answer:- d) 42
121.) Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, formerly known as_______ Station
- a) CST
- b) Victoria Terminus
- c) Victoria Queen Terminal
- d) None of above
Answer:- b) Victoria Terminus
122.) Where is Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus located ?
- a) Delhi
- b) Kolkata
- c) Mumbai
- d) Chennai
Answer:- c) Mumbai
123.) How many years did Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus took to built over ?
- a) 5 years
- b) 2 years
- c) 10 years
- d) 20 years
Answer:- c) 10 years
124.) Who designed the building of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus?
- a) ) W.) Stevens
- b) ) F.) Stevens
- c) Sambhajibhosale
- d) None of them
Answer:- a) F.) W.) Stevens
125.) Who built Red fort ?
- a) Mughal Emperor Salim
- b) Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
- c) Mughal Emperor Akbar
- d) None of above
Answer:- b) Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
126.) In which state does Ajanta and Ellora caves are located?
- a) Bengal
- b) Chennai
- c) Uttar Pradesh
- d) Maharashtra
Answer:- d) Maharashtra
127.) Which temple is knows as black Pagoda ?
- a) Konark Sun Temple
- b) Santiniketan
- c) JantarMantar
- d) None of above
Answer:- a) Konark Sun Temple
128.) QtubMinar is built in ____ century
- a) 14th
- b) 13th
- c) 15th
- d) 16th
Answer:- b) 13th
129.) Where is JantarMantar located?
- a) Bhopal
- b) Mumbai
- c) Agra
- d) Jaipur
Answer:- d) Jaipur
130.) JantarMantar is built by ?
- a) Emperor Salim
- b) Rajput king Sawai Jai Singh
- c) Rajput king Pritviraj Singh
- d) Morya Emperor
Answer:- b) Rajput king Sawai Jai Singh
131.) In which year did the Monument JantarMantarcompleted ?
- a) 1983
- b) 1873
- c) 1734
- d) 1743
Answer:- c) 1734
132.) Who many JantarMantarare built?
- a) Four
- b) Two
- c) Five
- d) Seven
Answer:- c) Five
133.) The first JantarMantar was built in ____?
- a) Ujjain
- b) Jaipur
- c) Delhi
- d) Mathura
Answer:- c) Delhi
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