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The style of roofing with a horizontal beam across two vertical columns is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Building the Agra Fort required 2,000 stone-cutters, 2,000 lime-makers and how many labourers?Read the answer and worked solution →Raniji ki baori, the Queen's Stepwell of 1699, is located in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Kandariya Mahadeva temple at Khajuraho was built in 999 by Dhangadeva of which dynasty?Read the answer and worked solution →In a temple, the main hall where dances were performed is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The Rajarajeshvara temple with the tallest shikhara of its time stands at:Read the answer and worked solution →The stone for the top of the Rajarajeshvara shikhara weighed about:Read the answer and worked solution →The village near Thanjavur remembered for the temple's inclined path is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The architectural form in which arches carry the weight above doors and windows is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Persian court chronicles described the Sultan as the:Read the answer and worked solution →The large reservoir Iltutmish built outside Dehli-i-Kuhna was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Chola king filled his Shiva temple with statues seized from defeated rulers?Read the answer and worked solution →Mughal gardens divided into four quarters by water channels were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Humayun's tomb, built between 1562 and 1571, follows which tradition of a central hall with eight rooms?Read the answer and worked solution →Shah Jahan's audience halls, set in a large courtyard, were called forty-pillared halls or:Read the answer and worked solution →Behind Shah Jahan's throne in the Red Fort, pietra dura inlays depicted which Greek figure?Read the answer and worked solution →The Taj Mahal at Agra was completed in:Read the answer and worked solution →The elephant stables at Vijayanagara show the influence of which neighbouring Sultanates?Read the answer and worked solution →The Mughals adopted from Bengal a roof designed to resemble a thatched hut, called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Mughal building termsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the temple partsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the building datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the architecture wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Trabeate or arcuateRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the monumentsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Rulers and buildings bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The Saliya weavers of Thanjavur and which nearby town produced cloth for temple flags?Read the answer and worked solution →The sthapatis making bronze idols and bell-metal lamps worked at:Read the answer and worked solution →Chola bronze statues were made using which technique?Read the answer and worked solution →

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The style of roofing with a horizontal beam across two vertical columns is called:

  1. Baroque
  2. Trabeate
  3. Arcuate
  4. Gothic
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Correct answer: B. Trabeate

1. It is also called corbelled. 2. The style is trabeate. 3. It was used from the eighth to thirteenth centuries. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 5, Rulers and Buildings._

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Building the Agra Fort required 2,000 stone-cutters, 2,000 lime-makers and how many labourers?

  1. 2,500
  2. 6,000
  3. 8,000
  4. 4,000
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Correct answer: C. 8,000

1. Akbar built the Agra Fort. 2. Eight thousand labourers worked on it. 3. Large structures needed huge labour. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 5, Rulers and Buildings._

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Raniji ki baori, the Queen's Stepwell of 1699, is located in:

  1. Jaipur
  2. Jodhpur
  3. Udaipur
  4. Bundi
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Correct answer: D. Bundi

1. It is the largest of fifty step wells built there. 2. The baori is in Bundi, Rajasthan. 3. Rani Nathavat Ji built it. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 5, Rulers and Buildings._

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