Post-Mauryan Period MCQs with Answers Set 1

Post-Mauryan Period MCQs with Answers
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Question 1. Who among the following rulers is stated as protector of ‘Varna System’?

(A) Vasudeo

(B) Gautamiputra Satkarni

(C) Kharvela

(D) Pushyamitra Sunga

View Answer
(B) Gautamiputra Satkarni

Question 2. Which one of the following is not associated with the Court of Kanishka?

(A) Patanjali

(B) Nagarjuna

(C) Charaka

(D) Ashvaghosha

View Answer
(A) Patanjali

Question 3. How much is the year difference between the Saka Samvat and Vikram Samvat? 

(A) 320 years

(B) 135 years

(C) 78 years

(D) 57 years

View Answer
(B) 135 years

Question 4. Who among the following introduced gold coins for regular use in India?

(A) Hermwes

(B) Kanishka

(C) Kujul Kadphises

(D) Vima Kadphises

View Answer
(D) Vima Kadphises

Question 5. Who renovated Sudarshan lake without using forced labour? 

(A) Rudradaman-I

(B) Ashoka

(C) Bindusar

(D) Chandragupta Maurya

View Answer
(A) Rudradaman-I

Question 6. Which dynasty ruled over India after Shunga dynasty? 

(A) Gupta

(B) Kanva

(C) Kushana

(D) Satvahana

View Answer
(B) Kanva

Question 7. Ashvaghosha was contemporary of ___________.

(A) Harshvardhan

(B) Kanishka

(C) Chandragupta-II

(D) Ashoka

View Answer
(B) Kanishka

Question 8. When was Saka Samvat initiated? 

(A) 606 A.D

(B) 320 A.D

(C) 78 A.D.

(D) 58 A.D.

View Answer
(C) 78 A.D.

Question 9. Which of the following Kings is credited to have issued gold coins for the first time?

(A) Huvishka

(B) Kanishka

(C) Vima Kadphises

(D) Kujula Kadphises

View Answer
(C) Vima Kadphises

Question 10. Who among the following was not a contemporary of the other three?

(A) Prasenjit

(B) Milinda

(C) Gautama Buddha

(D) Bimbisara

View Answer
(B) Milinda

Question 11. Who among the following Ayurvedacharyas was educated at Taxila University?

(A) Sushruta

(B) Charaka

(C) Jivaka

(D) Both (B) and (C)

View Answer
(D) Both (B) and (C)

Question 12. Which one of the following will be the year of Saka Samvat in December 2009?

(A) 2087

(B) 2066

(C) 1952

(D) 1931

View Answer
(D) 1931

Question 13. In which year, the coronation of Kushan King Kanishka was held? 

(A) 78 A.D

(B) 58 B.C.

(C) 101 A.D

(D) 178 B.C.

View Answer
(A) 78 A.D

Question 14. Buddha is depicted on the coins of?

(A) Budhagupta

(B) Nahpaad

(C) Kanishka

(D) Vima Kadphises

View Answer
(C) Kanishka

Question 15. Which one of the following Indo-Greek rulers issued lead coins? 

(A) Menander

(B) Demetrius

(C) Strato-I

(D) Strato-II

View Answer
(D) Strato-II

Question 16. Which of the following cities is not mentioned in the Rabatak inscription of Kanishka? 

(A) Champa

(B) Pataliputra

(C) Kaushambi

(D) Shravasti

View Answer
(D) Shravasti

Question 17. When was Vikram Samvat started?

(A) 56 B.C.

(B) 72 B.C.

(C) 57 B.C.

(D) 78 A.D.

View Answer
(C) 57 B.C.

Question 18. What is the date of Sarnath Buddhist image inscription of Kanishka?

(A) 121 A.D.

(B) 98 A.D.

(C) 81 A.D.

(D) 78 A.D

View Answer
(C) 81 A.D.

Question 19. Who amongst the following issued gold coins regularly in ancient India? 

(A) Parthian

(B) Kushan

(C) Saka

(D) Satavahana

View Answer
(B) Kushan

Question 20. Which inscription tells about the various achievements of Rudradaman-I?

(A) Sanchi

(B) Nasik

(C) Bhitari

(D) Junagarh

View Answer
(D) Junagarh

Question 21. Who of the following did not adorn the court of Kanishka-I? 

(A) Vishakhadatta

(B) Vasumitra

(C) Parshva

(D) Ashvaghosha

View Answer
(A) Vishakhadatta

Question 22. Chaitra 1 of the national calendar based on the Saka Era corresponds to which one of the following dates of the Gregorian calendar in a normal year of 365 days?

(A) 21st April (or 20th April)

(B) 31st March (or 30th March)

(C) 15th March (or 16th May)

(D) 22nd March (or 21st March)

View Answer
(D) 22nd March (or 21st March)

Question 23. Which God is found depicted on Yaudheya coins?

(A) Kartikeya

(B) Indra

(C) Shiva

(D) Vasudeva

View Answer
(A) Kartikeya

Question 24. The largest number of copper coins in Northern and North-Western India were issued by _________.

(A) Pratiharas

(B) Sakas

(C) Kushans

(D) Indo-Greeks

View Answer
(C) Kushans

Question 25. The earliest specimen of ‘Kavya’ style is found in the inscription of _________.

(A) Rajendra I

(B) Ashoka

(C) Rudradaman of Kathiawar

(D) None of the above

View Answer
(C) Rudradaman of Kathiawar
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