1 In ancient peninsular India, who among the following assumed the title ?Vatapikonda??

A) Mayurasharman

B) Narasimhavarman

C) Pulakesi I

D) Vikramaditya

2 The daughter of what general of Alexander’s army married Chandragupta Maurya?

A) Ptolemaius

B) Clitus

C) Seleukos Nikator

D) Diomedes

3 The name by which Ashoka is generally referred to his inscriptions is

A) Chakravarti

B) Dharmadeva

C) Dharmakirti

D) Priyadarsi

4 The Asokan major rock edicts which tell us about the Sang Kingdom include rock edicts

A) I and X

B) I and XI

C) II and III

D) II and XIV

5 From the third century AD when the Hun invasion ended the Roman Empire, the Indian merchants relied more and more on the

A) African trade

B) West-European trade

C) South-East Asian trade

D) Middle-Eastern trade

6 Kanishka’s capital was at

A) Amravati

B) Kanauj

C) Mathura

D) Peshawar

7 Kharavela ruled over

A) Malwa

B) Magadha

C) Gandhara

D) Kalinga

8 Saka era started from

A) 78 B.C.

B) 78 A.D.

C) 300 B.C.

D) 124 A.D.