General Studies MCQ -5

Dear Aspirants,

General Studies MCQs are the basic part of Himachal competitive exams. It is helpful to HPSSSB, and State Banks Exams. It is a series of General knowledge  MCQ (including Indian History MCQs, Static gk) also help in the National level examination, Sainik School, NDA, and army exams, etc.

1. Agra fort was built by 
(A) Shahjahan
(B) Babur
(C) Humayun
(D) Akbar

2. Between the 7th and 10th centuries, architects started adding more….. to the buildings
(A) Rooms
(B) Doors
(C) Windows
(D) All of these

3. A style of architecture in which roofs, doors, and windows made by placing a horizontal beam across two vertical columns was known as
(A) Trabeate
(B) Superstructure
(C) Substructure
(D) None of these

4. …….. Were attached to the temples, mosques, tombs and in buildings between 8th and 13th centuries
(A) Substructures
(B) Baolis
(C) Gardens
(D) Chahar Bagh

5. Who constructed Kandariya Mahadeva Temple
(A) Rajarajadeva king
(B) King Srimara Shrivallabha
(C) King Dhangadeva
(D) King Sena-1

6. Who destroyed the temple of Somnath?
(A) Muhammad Ghori
(B) Mahmud Ghaznavi
(C) Sena-I
(D) Sena-II

7. Which of these Mughal emperors was personally interested in art and architecture?
(A) Akbar
(B) Jahangir
(C) Shahjahan
(D) All of these

8. Who was a great lover of the construction of buildings?
(A) Shahjahan
(B) Mahmud Ghaznavi
(C) Babur
(D) Humayun

9. Who Built the Taj Mahal?
(A) Babur
(B) Akbar
(C) Shahjahan
(D) Jahangir

10. Who described his interest in planning and laying out formal gardens, placed within rectangular walled enclosures, and divided into four quarters by artificial channels?
(A) Shahjahan
(B) Babur
(C) Akbar
(D) Humayun

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