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Battles Are a Table, Not a Story
Every paper that asks about a battle wants one of four things, never the narrative:
That fourth column is the one students skip, and it is the one that makes the rest stick. Nobody remembers 1764 as a number; everybody remembers that Buxar is the battle that handed Bengal's revenue to a trading company.
Two warnings before the list.
First, the repeat names. Panipat was fought three times, Tarain twice, and the Carnatic and Anglo-Mysore wars ran in numbered series. A question that says only "the Battle of Panipat" without a number is incomplete; one that gives the number is testing whether you can tell 1526 from 1556 from 1761.
Second, the reversal. At First Tarain the Indian side won; at Second Tarain, one year later, the same two commanders met and the result flipped. Papers print both and expect you to notice which one is being asked.
1. The Third Battle of Panipat (1761) was fought between:
2. The Battle of Buxar (1764) was fought between the English East India Company and a combined army of:
3. Which battle, through the treaty that followed it, gave the East India Company the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa?
4. The Battle of Talikota (1565) led to the downfall of which empire?
5. At the Battle of Haldighati (1576), the Mughal army sent against Maharana Pratap was led by:
6. Which statement about the Second Battle of Tarain (1192) is correct?
7. The Battle of Wandiwash (1760) decisively ended the political ambitions in India of which European power?
8. In the Battle of Khanwa (1527), Babur defeated: