1 What year did Imperial rule in India begin?

Select answer 1658 1758 1858 1958    

2 What was the religion of the Mogul rulers who controlled India over the two centuries prior to the British?

Select answer Muslim Christian Hindu Jewish    

3 What is the official name for the city known historically as Bombay?

Select answer Delhi Bollywood Mumbai Raj    

4 In what year was the British East India Company formed?

Select answer 1550 1600 1650 1700    

5 What were Sepoys?

Select answer The forerunners to the SAS British trained Indian soldiers who served under the East India Co. Telescopic lenses invented during the Raj Indian traders  

6 What was the Indian Mutiny of 1857 commonly known as?

Select answer India’s first war of Independence The Calcutta Cup Battle of Britain Waterloo    

7 Which of the following words does not hail from the Hindi vocabulary?

Select answer Jodhpur Curry Loot Pyjamas    

8 What were accounts clerks in the East India Company more commonly known as?

Select answer Runners Aggregators Fixers Writers    

9 What ingredient of rifle grease was rumoured to be the cause of so much consternation among the ranks of Muslim soldiers in the British army?

Select answer Animal fat Vegetable fat Gun powder Engine oil    

10 In what year did the Moguls seize power in India?

Select answer 1197 1345 1526 1858    

11 Approximately how many Hindi words have made it into the English vocabulary?

Select answer 9 90 900 9000    

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