APSC / UPSC PRACTICE QUESTIONS

 

 This article provides some important questions related to APSC / UPSC examination.

1. What was the capital of Anga?

a) Varanasi 

b) Champa

c) Vaishali 

d) Kushinara 

Ans: Champa.

2.  What was the capital of Kashi ?

a) Varanasi 

b) Champa

c) Vaishali 

d) Kushinara 

Ans: a) Varanasi .

3. What was the capital of Vajji ?

a) Varanasi 

b) Champa

c) Vaishali 

d) Kushinara 

Ans: c) Vaishali 

4. Where Buddha took his last meal?

a) Kushinara 

b) Pava 

c) Vaishali 

d) Varanasi

Ans: b) Pava .

5. Who was the king of Chedi or Cheti?

a) Udayana 

b) Shishupala 

c) Chetaka 

d) Avantipura.

Ans: Shishupala 

6. What was the capital of Vatsa ?

a) Varanasi 

b) Kaushambi

c) Vaishali 

d) Kushinara 

Ans: b) Kaushambi 

7. What was the capital of Kuru ?

a) Indraprastha

b) Kaushambi

c) Vaishali 

d) Kushinara 

Ans: a) Indraprastha 

8. What was the capital of Matsya ?

a) Indraprastha

b) Kaushambi

c) Viratanagara

d) Kushinara 

Ans: c) Viratanagara 

9. Who was the king of Avanti?

a) Pradyota 

b) Shishupala 

c) Chetaka 

d) Avantipura.

Ans: a) Pradyota 

10. What was the capital of Gandhara ?

a) Indraprastha

b) Kaushambi

c) Takshashila

d) Kushinara 

Ans: Takshashila 

11. Who was the king of Gandhara?

a) Pradyota 

b) Shishupala 

c) Chetaka 

d) Avantipura. 

Ans: Pushkarasarin.

12. What was the capital of Kamboja ?

a) Indraprastha

b) Kaushambi

c) Pooncha

d) Kushinara 

Ans: c) Pooncha 

13. What was the capital of Ashavaka ?

a) Indraprastha

b) Potali

c) Pooncha

d) Kushinara 

Ans: b) Potali 

14. Who wrote ' Abhijnanasakuntalam'?

Ans: Kalidasa.

15. During which age  Abhijnanasakuntalam was written?

Ans: Gupta Period. 

16. Who wrote Amarakosa?

Ans: Amarasimha. 

17. What was the court language of Guptas ?

Ans: Sanskrit. 

18. Who wrote the book Aryabhatiya?

Ans: Aryabhatta. 

19. During which period Aryabhatta wrote Aryabhatiya ?

Ans: Gupta period.

20. Aryabhatta belonged to - 

Ans: Pataliputra. 

21. Consider the following statements:

i) The Lichchhavis were Nepali origin but they settled in India.

ii) They ruled the kingdom of Vaishali which covered portions of North Bengal and Bihar.

Which of the above statements is/are true?

a) Only i

b) Only ii

c) Both i and ii

Ans: Both i and ii.

22. Consider the following statements.

i) Chandragupta I was the son of Ghatotkach.

ii) He became the king of Pataliputra and established a kingdom along the Ganga river.

iii) He extended his kingdom from Bengal to Prayag .

Which of the above statements is/ are true?

a) i and ii

b) i and iii

c) ii and iii

d) i, ii and iii

Ans: d) i, ii and iii.