MONUMENTS OF INDIA - 1

Here is the first part of a new series on the “Monuments of India”

Q1. Maharajah Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur who had a deep interest in science and astronomy constructed five Jantar Mantars (Astronomical Observatories) in between 1724 and 1730 in North India. Which among the following is not one of the cities where he established Jantar Mantar?

A. Mathura

B. Ujjain

C. Ajmer

Q2. In which city of India will you find this mausoleum “Bibi Ka Maqbara” (pic below), commissioned in 1660 by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in the memory of his first and chief wife Dilras Banu Begum with striking resemblance with Taj Mahal?

 

A. Aurangabad

B. Agra

C. Jaunpur

Q3. In which state of India is the Ghoom Monastery located which overlooks the Kangchenjunga Mountain?

A. Sikkim

B. West Bengal

C. Arunachal Pradesh

Q4. Whose 95 feet colossal stone statue is erected on a 38 feet rock platform at a small island in Kanyakumari?

A. Thiruvalluvar

B. Swami Vivekananda

C. Subramania Bharati

Q5. About which temple of India, the history echoes like this "It was first built in gold, then silver, then wood and finally stone"?

A. Martand Sun Temple, Jammu and Kashmir

B. Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Varanasi

C. Somnath Temple, Gujarat