The first Buddhist Council was held in the reign of ?
Answer: A
It was held under Ajatashatru.
The first council met at the Sattapanni cave near Rajagriha within a year of the Buddha's death, presided over by Mahakassapa. Ananda recited the Sutta and Upali the Vinaya.
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The first ruler of Pala dynasty was ?
Answer: C
It was Gopala.
He was chosen king about 750 by the notables of Bengal to end the matsyanyaya, the state in which the strong devoured the weak - an election unusual enough that the record of it survives. His son Dharmapala made the Palas an imperial power.
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The French Revolution took place in the year
Answer: D
It was 1789.
The Estates-General met in May, the Bastille fell on 14 July and the Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted in August. Liberty, equality and fraternity entered Indian political vocabulary through it.
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Who started Arya Samaj ?
Answer: D
It was Swami Dayananda Saraswati.
He founded the Arya Samaj at Bombay in 1875 on the authority of the Vedas alone, rejecting idol worship, pilgrimage and hereditary caste, and introduced shuddhi for reconversion. His Satyarth Prakash sets out the doctrine.
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Bimbisara was the ruler of ?
Answer: A
He ruled Magadha.
Bimbisara of the Haryanka line ruled from about 544 to 492 BCE, annexed Anga, and built the strength of Magadha by marriage alliances with Kosala, Vaishali and Madra. He was a contemporary and patron of both the Buddha and Mahavira.
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During the period of the Shungas there was a revival of
Answer: B
There was a revival of Brahmanism.
Pushyamitra Shunga is said to have performed two ashvamedha sacrifices, and the period saw Sanskrit revive as a literary language and the composition of the Manusmriti. The Buddhist tradition accuses him of persecution, though the Bharhut and Sanchi railings were built in his time.
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Tipu sultan was the ruler of ?
Answer: D
He ruled Mysore.
Tipu succeeded Haidar Ali in 1782 and ruled from Seringapatam until he died defending it against the Company in 1799.
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The title ‘Punjab Kesari’ was conferred on ?
Answer: A
It was Lala Lajpat Rai.
He was the Punjab member of the Lal-Bal-Pal trio, founded the Punjab National Bank and the Servants of the People Society, and died in November 1928 of injuries from a lathi charge while leading a protest against the Simon Commission at Lahore.
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Zero was invented by ?
Answer: C
It is credited to Aryabhata.
He used a place-value system with a decimal base in the Aryabhatiya of 499, in which a symbol for the empty place is implicit. Brahmagupta first stated the arithmetic of zero as a number in 628, and the earliest inscribed zero is at Gwalior in 876.
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Ramcharitamanas was written by ?
Answer: A
It was Tulsidas.
He began the Ramcharitmanas at Ayodhya in 1574 and wrote it in Awadhi rather than Sanskrit, so that the story of Rama should be available to ordinary people. Its seven kandas are recited across north India.
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