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No.-1. Water-Tax evidence is provided by the inscriptions of which dynasty?
Answer: Gahadavalas.
No.-2. Chola rulers were the worshippers of whom?
Answer: Shiva.
No.-3. Name the Chola rulers who persecuted Ramanuja and ousted him from his kingdom?
Answer: Kulotunga I.
No.-4. Name the Chola ruler received a letter on golden leaves from the Burmese King Kyansittha?
Answer: Rajadhiraja I.
No.-5. Tondi was a flourishing seaport of which dynasty in the early period of Indian history?
Answer: Cheras.
No.-6. At which place the third Tamil Sangam was held?
Answer: Madurai.
No.-7. Marcopolo visited India in the last decade of 13th century. What was the nationality of Marcopolo?
Answer: Italian.
No.-8. Name the primary assembly in the Chola Village Administration?
Answer: Ur.
No.-9. In the reign of which pallava ruler the Rath temples at mahabalipuram were built?
Answer: Narasinghvarman I.
No.-10. 7 Pagodas of Mahabalipuram are a witness to the art patronized by whom?
Answer: Pallawas.
No.-11. Tamil version of the great epic Ramayana is ‘Ramayanam’. It was made by whom?
Answer: Kamban.
No.-12. Writer Rajasekhara has mentioned which river as the dividing line between aryavartta and daksinapatha?
Answer: The Narmada River.
No.-13. Balaiyankutai in the Pallava age was the name of which thing?
Answer: A Pond.
No.-14. Under which dynasty, ladies had comparatively a greater participation in the administration?
Answer: Chalukyas.
No.-15. Name the Chola king under whose region Brihadishwar Temple of Tanjore was constructed?
Answer: Rajendra I.
No.-16. For the restoration of a mosque at Khambhat which rulers had granted one lakh balotras from his own treasury?
Answer: Jayasimha siddharaja.
No.-17. Which Dynasties is not mentioned in the Sangam Literature?
Answer: Pallava.
No.-18. Who was one of the Tamil Poet from the Sangam age from Sri Lanka?
Answer: Eelattu Poothanthevnar.
No.-19. Which Chola Rulers is credited to have built a huge artificial lake known as “Chola Gangam”?
Answer: Rajendra.
No.-20. Rajarajeshwara Temple located at the Tanjore is the example of which architecture?
Answer: Chola.
No.-21. Name the Chola King permitted the sailendras to build monastery in the Nagapattinam?
Answer: Rajaraja.
No.-22. The pinnacle of Teli Temple of Gwalior is built in which style?
Answer: Dravida style.
No.-23. Cave temples built by the Rashtrakutas in the Eellora Mountains are located at where in India?
Answer: Aurangabad (Maharasthra).
No.-24. Who were the large landowners according to the Tamil Sangam texts?
Answer: Vellalars.
No.-25. Name the River is praised in the fifth century Tamil Epic, Silappadikaram?
Answer: Cauvery.
No.-26. Name the rulers of the chola dynasty carried out the first naval expedition against south-East Asia?
Answer: Rajendra I.
No.-27. Which Rashtrakuta rulers is known to have made the ‘Hiranya-garbha-dana’ at ujjaini?
Answer: Dantidurga.
No.-28. At the time of Mahmud Ghazni’s expedition of somnath, name the ruler was ruling the chola kingdom?
Answer: Rajendra I.