Multiple Choice Questions

General Knowledge

Q: Seeds of Indians participation in the legislative council of the governor-general of India are embodied in the:

A) Indian Councils Act, 1861

B) Indian Councils Act, 1892

C) Indian Councils Act, 1909

D) Indian Councils Act, 1919

Q: Arya Samaj was started by:

A) Swami Dayanand Saraswati

B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

C) Swami Vivekanand

D) Gopal Krishna Gokhley

Q: Who is known as Grand Old Man of India?

A) Dadabhai Naoroji

B) Rajgopalachari

C) Lala Lajpat Raj

D) Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan

Q: Which of the following was a recommendation of Hunter commission?

A) Gradual Withdrawal of state support from higher education

B) New regulation for the organized senates system

C) Introduction of civic education system at college and university level

D) None of these

Q: The affairs of East India Company came into the hands of the British Crown under:

A) Pitt's India Act

B) Cabinet Mission Plan

C) Regulating Act

D) Government of India Act

Q: Quaid-e-Azam presented his famous fourteen points in:

A) 1906

B) 1916

C) 1929

D) 1946

Q: The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was made between:

A) The moderates and extremists

B) The British and Indians

C) Congress and Muslim League

D) None of these

Q: Who was the chairman of Boundary Commission to define the boundaries of the dominions under the Indian Independence Act of 1947?

A) Lord Wavel

B) Stafford Cripps

C) Cyril-Radcliff

D) Lord Mountbatten

Q: When was the Cooperative Societies Act was first passed in subcontinent?

A) 1904

B) 1908

C) 1910

D) 1920

Q: The British governor-general, who formulated the policy of Subsidiary Alliance with regard to Indian powers was:

A) Lord Wellesley

B) Warren Hasting

C) Lord Dalhousie

D) Lord William Bentick

Q: The first session of the Indian National Congress was held under the presidentship of:

A) A. O. Hume

B) W. C. Bannerji

C) B. Malabhai

D) Badruddin Tyabji

Q: The Doctrine of Lapse was introduced by:

A) Lord Wellesley

B) Lord Dalhousie

C) Syed Amir Ali

D) Lord Canning

Q: Partition of Bengal tool place in:

A) 1905

B) 1908

C) 1910

D) 1913

Q: The first railway started in India under the Governor-Generalship of:

A) Lord Dalhousie

B) Lord Caornwallis

C) Lord Hastings

D) None of these

Q: Quit India Movement started after the failure of :

A) Cripps Mission

B) Simon Commission

C) Cabinet Mission

D) None of these

Q: The practice of Sati was declared illegal by:

A) Lord William Bentick

B) Lord Cornwallis

C) Raja Ram Mohan

D) None of these

Q: The Simon Commission was concerned with:

A) Constitutional reforms

B) Higher education

C) Reforms in princely states

D) Famines

Q: The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 was repealed by:

A) Lord Ripon

B) Lord Minto

C) Lord Lytton

D) Lord Curzon

Q: The Gandhi-Irwin Pact proclaimed the suspension of:

A) Non-Cooperation Movement

B) Civil Disobedience Movement

C) Dandi March

D) None of these

Q: The office of the Secretary of State for India was created through the:

A) Minto-Morley Reforms

B) Government of India Act, 1858

C) Indian Council Act, 1861

D) None of these

Q: After 1853 a very large amount of the British capital was invested in:

A) Jute Mils

B) Railways

C) Coal mining

D) Tea plantation

Q: What was the chief characteristic of Government of India Act, 1953?

A) Federal government at centre

B) Unitary government at centre

C) Interim Indian government at centre

D) None of these

Q: The title of governor-general was changed to viceroy in:

A) 1858 AD

B) 1880 AD

C) 1840 AD

D) 1860 AD

Q: The prime minister of Britain at the time of India's independence was:

A) Clement Attlee

B) Winston Churchill

C) Lord Mountbatten

D) Ramsay McDonald

Q: General Dyer who was responsible for Jallianwala Bagh massacre was shot dead by:

A) Udham Singh

B) Hasrat Mohani

C) Sohan Singh

D) Kirpan Singh

Q: The Home Rule Movement started by Annie Besant aimed at:

A) Educating the Indian masses

B) Agitating against the British monopoly

C) Attaining self-rule for India

D) Boycotting foreign goods

Q: Which governor-general abolished the system of dual government established by Robert Clive and established the Company's control over Bengal?

A) Lord Wellesley

B) Warren Hastings

C) Lord Cornwallis

D) Sir Charles McDonald

Q: The capital of India was shifted to Delhi during the reign of:

A) Lord Minto

B) Lord Chelmsford

C) Lord Hardinge

D) Lord Curzon

Q: Which school of religion, started in 1867, was basically anti-British?

A) Wahabi

B) Deobandi

C) Aligarh

D) Faraizi

Q: The first Indian Councils Act was passed in:

A) 1853

B) 1857

C) 1861

D) 1892

Q: Who was responsible for the introduction of English as the official language in India?

A) Sir Charles Wood

B) Lord William Bentick

C) A. O. Hume

D) Lord Dalhousie

Q: Who initiated the introduction of education in English in India?

A) Lord Macaulay

B) Lord Dalhousie

C) Lord Curzon

D) Lord Bentick

Q: Arya Samaj was founded in:

A) 1870

B) 1875

C) 1880

D) 1890

Q: King George V visited India during the viceroyalty of:

A) Lord Curzon

B) Lord Hardinge

C) Lord Reading

D) Lord Rippon

Q: Shuddhi Movement was started by:

A) Arya Samaj

B) Prathna Samaj

C) Brahmo Samaj

D) Theosophical society

Q: The Chauri-Chaura incident relates to:

A) Large scale looting of government property vy Congress worker

B) The burning of a police post by a mob

C) Massive police firing in unarmed satyagrahis

D) None of these

Q: All the Round Table Conferences were held in:

A) Calcutta

B) London

C) Bombay

D) Delhi

Q: The Cripps Mission visited India during the reign of:

A) Lord Wavel

B) Lord Linlithgow

C) Lord Mountbatten

D) Lord Curzon

Q: The system of budget was introduced in India during the viceroyalty of:

A) Lord Dalhousie

B) Lord Canning

C) Elgin

D) Lord Rippon

Q: The Quit India Movement started at:

A) Bombay on August 8, 1942

B) Lahore on August 18, 1940

C) Bangalore on June 15, 1942

D) Lahore on July 8, 1941

Q: Who was the governor-general when the Great Mutiny of 1857 broke out?

A) Lord Ripon

B) Lord Canning

C) Lord Dalhousie

D) Lord Harding

Q: The first fort which the British constructed in India was:

A) Hoogly Fort

B) St. George Fort

C) Agra Fort

D) Delhi Fort

Q: A. O. Hume was associated with:

A) Civil services

B) Military services

C) Education services

D) Health services

Q: Between which periods was the three Round Table conferences held in London?

A) 1906-1909

B) 1915-1917

C) 1930-1932

D) 1935-1937

Q: Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in:

A) Lahore

B) Amritsar

C) Delhi

D) Agra

Q: Who among the following were popularly known as Red Shirts?

A) Congress

B) Khudai Khidmatgar

C) Socialists

D) Democrats

Q: Who among the following analyzed the cause of uprising of 1857 advocating a reconciliation between the British and the Muslims?

A) Syed Amir Ali

B) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

C) Shah Waliullah

D) Syed Ahmad Brailvi

Q: Who was the viceroy of India when Jallianwala Bagh Massacre occurred?

A) Lord Chelmsford

B) Lord Curzon

C) Lord Harding

D) Lord Irvin

Q: The first Indian woman president of the Indian National Congress was:

A) Sarojni Naidu

B) Kasturba Gandhi

C) Annie Besant

D) Vijay Lakshmi Pandit

Q: When the monopoly of East India Company in trade brought under the control of the British crown?

A) 1773 AD

B) 1770 AD

C) 1775 AD

D) 1780 AD

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