The Charminar at Hyderabad was built in 1591 by which ruler?

The correct answer is C, Hawa Mahal. The Hawa Mahal at Jaipur was built in 1799 by Sawai Pratap Singh of the Kachhwaha house, and was designed by Lal Chand Ustad as a five storey screen of red and pink sandstone with hundreds of small jharokha windows. Option A is wrong because Mehrangarh fort at Jodhpur was founded by Rao Jodha of the Rathore house in 1459, long before Pratap Singh. Option B is wrong because the Purana Qila in Delhi is linked with Sher Shah Suri, who raised it on the site of Humayun's Dinpanah in the sixteenth century. Option D is wrong because India Gate was designed by Edwin Lutyens and completed in 1931 under British rule as a memorial to soldiers of the First World War. Hold Hawa Mahal with Sawai Pratap Singh and the year 1799.

The correct answer is A, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Gujarat. The Statue of Unity stands 182 metres high on Sadhu Bet island in the Narmada near the Sardar Sarovar dam in the Narmada district of Gujarat, was sculpted by Ram V. Sutar, and was unveiled on 31 October 2018, the birth anniversary of Patel. Option B is wrong because there is no statue of Mahatma Gandhi of this scale, and the famous Gandhi memorials are Raj Ghat in Delhi and Sabarmati ashram in Gujarat. Option C is wrong because the tall statue linked with Ambedkar is the Statue of Social Justice at Hyderabad, not a Madhya Pradesh monument. Option D is wrong because Bose is remembered through memorials in Kolkata and the renaming of islands, not by this statue. Fix 182 metres with the Statue of Unity.

The correct answer is B, Iltutmish. Qutb-ud-din Aibak laid the foundation of the Qutub Minar and completed only its first storey, and his successor Iltutmish added the storeys above, bringing the minaret to its height of 72.5 metres, which makes it the tallest brick minaret in the world. Option A is wrong because Balban, though a strong sultan of the same dynasty, is not associated with the building of the minaret. Option C is wrong because Alauddin Khalji built the Alai Darwaza in the same complex and began the unfinished Alai Minar, but did not complete the Qutub Minar. Option D is wrong because Firoz Shah Tughlaq only repaired the upper storeys after lightning damage, as Sikandar Lodi did later. The pair to remember is Aibak begins, Iltutmish completes.

The correct answer is B, Bahubali. The 57 foot statue on Vindhyagiri hill at Shravanabelagola in the Hassan district of Karnataka portrays Bahubali, also called Gomateshwara, the son of the first Jain tirthankara Rishabhanatha, and it was raised about the year 983 by Chavundaraya, a minister of the Western Ganga kingdom. Option A is wrong because Mahavira was the twenty fourth tirthankara, and the statue is not of him. Option C is wrong because Parshvanatha was the twenty third tirthankara, usually shown with a canopy of snake hoods. Option D is wrong because the statue is Jain and not Buddhist; the famous monolithic Buddha of the Deccan stands in the Hussain Sagar lake at Hyderabad. The anointing ceremony here, the Mahamastakabhisheka, is held once in twelve years.

The correct answer is C, Kanyakumari. The statue of Thiruvalluvar stands on a small island off Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, beside the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, and its height of 133 feet was chosen to match the 133 chapters of the Tirukkural, the poet's work on ethics, wealth and love. Option A is wrong because Rameswaram is known for the Ramanathaswamy temple and for the Pamban bridge, the first sea bridge of India. Option B is wrong because Madurai is the city of the Meenakshi temple. Option D is wrong because Thanjavur is known for the Brihadeeswarar temple of the Cholas, a World Heritage Site. The sculptor of the Thiruvalluvar statue was V. Ganapati Sthapati, and it was opened to the public in the year 2000.