MCQ on Delhi Sultanate:
What is the difference between Mughal Empire and Delhi Sultanate?
Many people think Mughal Empire and Delhi Sultanate was same, but Mughal Empire was after Delhi Sultanate. Delhi Sultanate was 1206 AD to 1526 AD and Mughal Empire was from 1526 AD to 1857 AD
Ques. First Dynasty of Delhi Sultanate was?
(a) Slave Dynasty
(b) Khilji Dynasty
(c) Tughlaq Dynasty
(d) Lodi Dynasty
Ques. Who among the following is said to have witnessed the reigns of eight Delhi Sultans?
(a) Ziauddin Barani
(b) Shams-I-Siraj Afif
(c) Minhaj-us-Siraj
(d) Amir Khusrau
Ques. Which Sultan of Delhi died while playing the chaugon (Polo)?
(a) Qutub-ud-din Aibak
(b) Ghiyasuddin Balban
(c) Samsuddin Iltutmish
(d) Nasiruddin Mahmood
Ques. The Sultan of Delhi who is reputed to have built the biggest network of canals in India was
(a) Iltutmish
(b) Ghiyasuddin Tughluq
(c) Firuz Shah Tughluq
(d) Sikandar Lodhi
Ques. The Sultanate of Delhi reached the height of its power during the reign of
(a) Balban
(b) Alauddin Khalji
(c) Firuz Tughluq
(d) Raziya
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Ques. The official language of the Delhi Sultanate was ___
(a) Persian
(b) Urdu
(c) Turkish
(d) Peshto
Ques. Who invented Sitar?
(a) Alauddin Khilji
(b) Amir Khusru
(c) Malik Kafur
(d) Jauna Khan
Ques. Who was only Women ruler in Delhi Sultanate?
(a) Sulthana Raziya
(b) Khadija
(c) Khawla b. al-Azwar
(d) Lubna of Cordoba
Ques. Slave Dynasty was also called?
(a) Sayyid Dynasty
(b) Ilbari Dynasty
(c) Arab Dynasty
(d) Tughlaq Dynasty
Ques. When Arabs caputured Sindh?
(a) 712 AD
(b) 710 AD
(c) 713 AD
(d) 711 AD
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Ques. Who lead Arabs’s attack on Sindh?
(a) Dahir
(b) Al-Hajaj
(c) Muhammad Bin Kassim
(d) Mahmud Ghazni
Ques. First Turkish conqueror of North India was ___
(a) Subuktigin
(b) Makran Baluchistan
(c) Khaliphate of Omar
(d) Mahmud Ghazni
Ques. Muhammed Bin Tughlaq was also known as?
(a) Mubarak Shah Khilji
(b) Jauna Khan
(c) Shihabuddin Omar
(d) Muizuddin Kaikubad
Ques. When Raziya Sultana was killed?
(a) 1242
(b) 1230
(c) 1240
(d) 1236
Ques. Who destroyed Somanath Temple?
(a) Al-Firdausi
(b) Alberuni
(c) Mahmud Ghazni
(d) Makran Baluchistan
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Ques. Who wrote ‘Shahnama’?
(a) Alberuni
(b) Muhammad Ghori
(c) Masud
(d) Firdausi
Ques. First territory captured by Muhammad Ghori __
(a) Gwaliar
(b) Gujarat
(c) Kashmir
(d) Multan
Ques. Who was the first ruler of Slave Dynasty?
(a) Ruknuddin Feroz
(b) Shihabuddin Omar
(c) Qutub-Uddin Aibak
(d) Jalaluddn Khalji
Ques. Which ruler described himself as ‘Shadow of God’ (Zil-iillahi)?
(a) Behran Shah
(b) Allaud-dinMasudshah
(c) Naziruddin Muhammad
(d) Ghiyas-ud-din Balban
Ques. Lodhi dynasty was founded by ___
(a) Sikhandar Lodhi
(b) Ibrahim Lodhi
(c) Bahlol Lodhi
(d) Sikandar Syard
Ques. Time period of Slave Dynasty was from ___
(a) 1206 – 1290
(b) 1290 – 1320
(c) 1320 – 1412
(d) 1414 – 1451
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Ques. Real name of Alauddin Khilji was?
(a) Malik Kafur
(b) Sikhandar-i-sani
(c) Malik Firoz
(d) Ali Gurushas
Ques. Who was first Muslim ruler of India?
(a) Qutub-ud-din Aibak
(b) Ibrahim Lodhi
(c) Khizr Khan
(d) Nasiruddin Muhammad
Ques. Who is considered as the real founder of Delhi Sulthanate?
(a) Qutub-ud-din Aibak
(b) Khwarizm Shah
(c) Aram Shah
(d) Iltumish
Ques. What was the real name of Jalaluddin Khilji?
(a) Kayumars
(b) Malik Firoz
(c) Kayqubad
(d) Alauddin Khilji
Ques. Who founded Sayyid Dynasty?
(a) Khizr Khan
(b) Alauddin Alamshah
(c) Bahlol Lodhi
(d) Khizr Khan
Ques. First Muslim ruler to attack South India was __?
(a) Alauddin Khilji
(b) Jalaluddin Khilji
(c) Ghiyas-ud-din Balban
(d) Malik Muhammed
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Ques. Who finished construction of Qutub Minar?
(a) Bhaktiar Kaki
(b) Chengiz Khan
(c) Iltumish
(d) Ruknuddin Firoz Shah
Ques. Who killed Alauddin Khilji?
(a) Malik Kafur
(b) Amir Khusru
(c) Ghiasuddin Tughlak
(d) Jauna Khan
Ques. Traveller Ibn Batuta was from which country?
(a) Morocco
(b) France
(c) China
(d) Turkey
Ques. The largest standing army of the Delhi Sultanate directly paid by the State was created by
(a) Balban
(b) Iltutmish
(c) Muhammad-bin-Tughluq
(d) Alauddin Khalji
Ques. The real founder of the Sultanate of Delhi and its first dynasty was
(a) Muhammad Ghuri
(b) Qutub-ud-din-Aibak
(c) Iltutmish
(d) Balban
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Ques. The Sultan of the Sultanate of Delhi, who transferred his capital from Delhi to Agra, was
(a) Khizr Khan
(b) Bahlul Lodi
(c) Sikandar Lodi
(d) Ibrahim Lodi
Ques. The Sultan who completed the conquest of the South and broke the political barriers between the North and the South was
(a) Alauddin Khalji
(b) Ghiyasuddin Tughluq
(c) Muhammad-bin-Tughluq
(d) Firuz Tughluq
Ques. Who is the founder of the Capital city of Agra?
(a) Akbar
(b) Babar
(c) Sikinder Lodi
(d) Mubarak Shah Sayyad
Ques. Who is called the Akbar of Kashmir?
(a) Zain-ul-Abidin
(b) Sikandar
(c) Queen Didda
(d) Emperor Sangram Singh
Ques. The main external threat to the Sultanate of Delhi was posed by the
(a) Mughals
(b) Afghans
(c) Iranians
(d) None of these
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Ques. Which monarch called himself as the second Alexander?
(a) Akbar
(b) Samudra Gupta
(c) Alauddin Khalji
(d) Chandra Gupta II
