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Quiz on storied Indian Forts
Posted on: July 28, 2012.

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Quiz on storied Indian Forts there is a lot of history behind India’s magnificent forts.

Try our Indian Forts Quiz and find out!

Which is India’s oldest fort in recorded history, believed to have been built by the still-surviving Katoch Dynasty and scribed in the 4th century BC war records of Alexander The Great?

  

  

  

  

Believed to have been the excavation site of some of history’s most legendary diamonds, The Darya-e Nur, The Nur-Ul-Ain, The Koh-i-Noor, Hope Diamond and Regent Diamond, which Indian Fort inspired its name to three American towns in Arizona, Illinois and Nevada?

  

  

  

  

Qila-e-Mubarak is the former name of which Indian Fort ?

  

  

  

  

Respectively, which are the two Indian forts located in Daman-and-Diu and Goa?

  

  

  

  

Which Indian Fort, then the first English fortress on Indian soil, was built on a strip of coastal land called Chennirayarpattinam, leased from a Vijayanagar chieftain, later acquiring a harbor and some fishing villages becoming what is today the modern city of Chennai?

  

  

  

  

Legendary in Delhi’s history, which Indian Fort suffers a Sufi mystic’s curse that renders it uninhabitable even to this day, following a dictate by Ghiyas ud-Din Tughlaq fired by his fanatic dream to build a fort after his brutal ascension to power as founder of the Tughlaq Dynasty?

  

  

  

  

The saga of love that immortally unites the Qutub Shahi Prince Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah and his lady love Bhagmati, a young Hindu courtesan girl, is narrated by the famous light and music show at which of the following Indian fort sites?

  

  

  

  

The 1971 mystery novel Sonar Kella, written by legendary film director Sathyajit Ray and made into a highly successful film of the same name in 1974 also directed by Ray, is based on which Indian fort built on the fabled sands of the Thar Desert also known as the ‘Golden Fort’?

  

  

  

  

An epitome of unsurpassed endurance, which is the only Indian sea fort along the country’s western coast unscathed by Dutch, Maratha and English East India Company assaults?

  

  

  

  

Which Indian fort, formerly a brick-build structure called Badalgarh, was rebuilt with red sandstone from Barauli in Rajasthan by the Mughal emperor Akbar, using a workforce of more than 1.4 million men and taking eight years to complete?

  

  

  

  

The flag of independent India was first unfurled from the ramparts of which Indian Fort which is also an UNESCO World Heritage Site, by Hon. Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, on the morning of 15th August 1947?

  

  

  

  

Tipu Sultan’s legendary, double-edged, gem-inlaid sword, among many of the ruler’s priced possessions shipped to London by the British in 1799, was reclaimed by liquor baron-politician Vijay Mallya, nearly 205 years after the ‘Tiger of Mysore’ was slain in which Indian fort ?

  

  

  

  




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