Question : Who discovered the Sanchi Stupa?
Option 1: Alexander Cunningham

Option 2: James Prinsep

Option 3: Sir John Marshall

Option 4: General Taylor

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Question : Who played a key role in deciphering the Brahmi script used in Ashokan inscriptions?
Option 1: Alexander Cunningham

Option 2: James Prinsep
Option 3: William Jones
Option 4: John Marshall

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Correct Answer: Alexander Cunningham

Solution : General Alexander Cunningham is credited with the discovery of the Sanchi Stupa in the 19th century.

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Question : Who discovered the Sanchi Stupa?
Option 1: Alexander Cunningham

Option 2: James Prinsep

Option 3: Sir John Marshall

Option 4: General Taylor

Question : Who played a key role in deciphering the Brahmi script used in Ashokan inscriptions?
Option 1: Alexander Cunningham

Option 2: James Prinsep
Option 3: William Jones
Option 4: John Marshall

Question : Who is credited with the discovery of the ruins of Hampi?
Option 1: Colin Mackenzie
Option 2: Alexander Cunningham
Option 3: John Marshall
Option 4: Mortimer Wheeler

Question : Who discovered the North Pole?
Option 1: Amundsen
Option 2: Robert Peary
Option 3: John Cabot
Option 4: Captain James Cook

Question : Which British archaeologist recognised in the 1940s that it was necessary to follow the stratigraphy of the mound rather than mechanically excavate it along a uniform horizontal line?
Option 1: R. E. M. Wheeler
Option 2: Alexander Cunningham
Option 3: John Marshall
Option 4: E. Hultzsch

Question : Who discovered Penicillin?
Option 1: Edward Jenner
Option 2: Niels Bohr
Option 3: Sir Alexander Fleming
Option 4: Heinrich Hertz