The Vijay Stambha, the tower of victory in Chittorgarh fort, was built 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, Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah. He founded the city of Hyderabad and built the Charminar in 1591, a square building about 56 metres high with four arches and four minarets, one at each corner, which is why it carries that name. Option A is wrong because Ibrahim Qutb Shah ruled earlier at Golconda and is remembered for the Ibrahim Bagh and for tanks around the city, not for the Charminar. Option C is wrong because Asaf Jah I founded the Nizam dynasty of Hyderabad in the eighteenth century, more than a hundred years after the Charminar was built. Option D is wrong because Yusuf Adil Shah founded the Adil Shahi dynasty of Bijapur, a different Deccan kingdom. Fix 1591 and the Qutb Shahi dynasty with the Charminar.

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.