Govt Jobs Quiz

1. Which of the following newspapers/journals was from Maharashtra?
   (A) Sarathi
   (B) Sandhya
   (C) Kranti
   (D) Atmashakti
   Correct Answer: [C] Kranti
2. Who among the following was not a member of the Congress Socialist Party, although he encouraged
   and blessed its formation?
   (A) Jayaprakash Narayan
   (B) Acharya Narendra Dev
   (C) Achyuta Patwardhan
   (D) Jawaharlal Nehru
   Correct Answer: [D] Jawaharlal Nehru
3. Who designed the National Flag of India, adopted by the Constituent Assembly on July 21, 1947?
   (A) Abanindranath Tagore
   (B) Abul Kalam Azad
   (C) Badr-ud-din-Tyabji
   (D) Rabindranath Tagore
   Correct Answer: [C] Badr-ud-din-Tyabji
4. All the established political parties and groups, except two, boycotted Simon commission, which was
   those two?
   (i) Hindu Mahasabha
   (ii) Justice Party
   (iii) Muslim League
   (iv) Punjab Unionists
   Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:-
   (A) iv and ii
   (B) iii and iv
   (C) ii and iii
   (D) i and ii
   Correct Answer: [A] iv and ii
5. Which of the following books was not written by Swami Dayanand Saraswati?
   (A) Satyartha Bhumika
   (B) Veda Bhashya Bhumika
   (C) Satyartha Prakash
   (D) Veda Prakash
   Correct Answer: [D] Veda Prakash

6. The British officer who defeated Mir. Qusim in a series of battles of 1763 was?
   (A) Colonel Malleson
   (B) Colonel Holwell
   (C) Major Hector Munro
   (D) Major Adams
   Correct Answer: [D] Major Adams
7. Which of the following is correctly paired?
   (A) Krishna Patrika – M.G Ranade
   (B) Quarterly Journal – Lajpat Rai
   (C) Panjbee – T. Prakasam and M. Krishna Rao
   (D) Bharata Mats – Ajit Singh
   Correct Answer: [D] Bharata Mats – Ajit Singh
8. Who said ‘the congress movement was neither inspired by the people not devised or planned by
   them?’
   (A) Lord Curzon
   (B) Lord Dufferin
   (C) Lala Lajpat Rai
   (D) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
   Correct Answer: [C] Lala Lajpat Rai
9. What is the name of the Bengali monthly founded and edited by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1873?
   (A) Bangadarshana
   (B) Bengalee
   (C) Soma Prakasha
   (D) Bangaduta
   Correct Answer: [A] Bangadarshana
10. During which period Gandhiji remained aloof from direct politics and concentrated his energies on
    constructive programmes?
    (A) 1924-1927
    (B) 1928-1932
    (C) 1919-1922
    (D) 1922-1924
    Correct Answer: [D] 1922-1924
11. Which of the following statements is/are correct about the Civil Disobedience Movement?
    (i) There was a discernible absence of Hindu- Muslim unity.
    (ii) The movement received massive business support.

(iii) There was large scale women’s participation.
(iv) From September 1930 onwards the movement began to decline.
Choose the answer from codes given below
(A) (ii) and (iii)
(B) (ii) and (iv)
(C) (i) and (ii)
(D) All of the above
Correct Answer: [B] All of the above.

12. At the time of which of the following events/ movements Jawaharlal Nehru admitted that: “Never
    before in history had such unified sentiments been manifested by various divergent sections of the
    population”?
    (A) INA Trial
    (B) REN mutiny
    (C) Quit India Movement
    (D) Imphal campaign of the INA
    Correct Answer: [A] INA Trial.
13. Which of the following organizations/persons did not approve of the Quit India Movement?
    (A) B.R. Ambedkar
    (B) Hindu Mahasabha
    (C) Muslim League
    (D) All of the above
    Correct Answer: [B] All of the above.
14. On the basis of which formula/plan Gandhiji, in April 1944 proposed talks with Jinnah which Jinnah
    refused to accept?
    (A) Rajaji formula
    (B) 3rd June Plan
    (C) August offer
    (D) Wavel plan
    Correct Answer: [A] Rajaji formula.
15. Who of the following founded the Independent Labour Party In 1936?
    (A) Jagjiban Ram
    (B) Jayaprakash Narayan
    (C) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
    (D) M. C. Rajah
    Correct Answer: [C] Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
16. Lord Macaulay was associated with

(A) Codification of Laws
(B) Permanent settlement
(C) Reforms in the army
(D) Abolition of Sati
Correct Answer: [A] Codification of Laws.

17. The British Government introduced the portfolio system for the first time in
    (A) 1861
    (B) 1892
    (C) 1853
    (D) 1858
    Correct Answer: [A] 1861.
18. Which region in India provided the best quality saltpeter and opium to the Europeans?
    (A) Bihar
    (B) Malabar
    (C) Coromandel
    (D) Gujrat
    Correct Answer: [C] Coromandel.
19. When and by whom was the Portuguese driven out of Hugli in Bengal?
    (A) 1650-Prince Murad
    (B) 1666-Prince Shuja
    (C) 1625-Shaista Khan
    (D) 1631-Qasim Khan
    Correct Answer: [D] 1631-Qasim Khan.
20. what was the early capital of the Portuguese in India?
    (A) Culient
    (B) Cannanore
    (C) Goa
    (D) Cochin
    Correct Answer: [D] Cochin.
21. Who among the following Britishers were associated with the introduction of the Mahalwari
    System?
    (A) William Karey
    (B) Sir Alexandar Cunningham
    (C) R.M. Bird
    (D) Sir John Lawrence

Correct Answer: [C] R.M. Bird

22. Which of the following is correctly paired
    (A) Establishment of an agricultural Research Institution at Pusa – Lord Minto
    (B) Rowlatt Act – Lord Chelmsford
    (C) Antipartition and Swadeshi Movements -Lord Lansdowne
    (D) Factory Act of 1891-Lord Curzon
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [B] Rowlatt Act – Lord Chelmsford
23. Who made the ‘Dipawali Declaration’ and when
    (A) Gandhi 1930
    (B) Subhas Bose in 1941
    (C) Lord Irwin in 1929
    (D) Lord Linlithgow in 1940
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [C] Lord Irwin in 1929
24. Indian National Congress Which session of the Congress had 1889 Delegates?
    (A) Fifth Session at Bombay
    (B) Sixth Session at Calcutta
    (C) Third Session of Madras
    (D) Fourth Session of Allahabad
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [A] Fifth Session at Bombay
25. Who founded the Indian Reforms Association in 1870?
    (A) Keshab Chandra Sen
    (B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
    (C) Ram Mohan Roy
    (D) Debendranath Tagore
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [A] Keshab Chandra Sen
26. When and by whom was the ‘Nair Service Society’ founded?
    (A) 1914 – M. Padmanabha Pillai
    (B) 1916 – K. Ramakrishna Pillai
    (C) 1905 – Narayana Guru
    (D) 1910 – T.M. Nair
    [WBCS Main – 2014]

27. Keshab Chandra Sen
    (i) Adopted a radical and comprehensive scheme of social reforms.
    (ii) Infused the concept of Bhakti into Brahmoism
    (iii) Influenced the socio-religious reformers in Bombay and Madras
    (iv) Opposed the introduction of western education in India.
    Which one is correct
    (A) i, iii and iv
    (B) ii, iii and iv
    (C) i, ii and iii
    (D) All of them
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [C] i, ii and iii
28. Which of the following sections remained at a distance during Swadeshi Movement of 1905?
    (A) Students
    (B) Intelligentsia
    (C) Women
    (D) Peasantry
    [WBCS Main – 2015]
    Correct Answer: [D] Peasantry
29. Who said on Gandhiji’s death “The light has gone out of our lives”?
    (A) S. Radha Krishnan
    (B) Bidhan Chandra Roy
    (C) J. L. Nehru
    (D) Rajendra Prasad
    [WBCS Main – 2015]
    Correct Answer: [C] J. L. Nehru
30. Who was the last Governor-General in India?
    (A) Lord Mountbatten
    (B) Chakraborty Raja Gopalachari
    (C) Lord William Bentinck
    (D) Lord Canning
    [WBCS Main – 2015]
    Correct Answer: [B] Chakraborty Raja Gopalachari

31. Who led the peasant movement in Oudh during the Non-cooperation movement?
    (A) Madari Pasi
    (B) Sardar Ballav Bhai Patel
    (C) Mahatma Gandhi
    (D) Baba Ramchandra
    [WBCS Main – 2015]
    Correct Answer: [D] Baba Ramchandra.
32. The Editor of the paper, the Hindu was
    (A) S. Satyamurti
    (B) T. K. Madhavan
    (C) S. Subramania
    (D) Kasturi Ranga Iyengar
    [WBCS Main – 2015]
    Correct Answer: [D] Kasturi Ranga Iyengar.
33. Tamil journal, Kudi Arasu was founded by whom?
    (A) T.M. Nair
    (B) E.V. Ramaswamy Periyar
    (C) Anna Durai
    (D) P. Tyagaraja Ehetti
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [B] E.V. Ramaswamy Periyar.
34. Who was the founder of ‘Gajapati Dynasty’ of Orissa?
    (A) Prataparudra
    (B) Vidyadhara
    (C) Purushottam
    (D) Kapilendra
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [D] Kapilendra.
35. What was the primary aim of the Akali movement which rose in Punjab in the 1920s?
    (A) To streamline the management of the gurudwara of Sikh Shrines
    (B) To purge Sikhism of its superstitious accretions and irrational incrustations
    (C) To voice the political grievances of the Sikhs
    (D) To bring about modernization int he Sikh social customs
    [WBCS Main – 2015]

Correct Answer: [A] To streamline the management of the gurudwara of Sikh Shrines.

36. The first tribal leader who was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and his ideology was
    (A) Alluri Sitaram Raju
    (B) Thakkar Bapa
    (C) Jadonang
    (D) Rani Gaidinliu
    [WBCS Main – 2015]
37. Party or Association When was the All-India Kisan Sabha formed?
    (A) 1928
    (B) 1936
    (C) 1991
    (D) 1920
    [WBCS Main – 2015]
    Correct Answer: [B] 1936.
38. The Justice Party movement in Madras merged with the:
    (A) Dravida Kazxhagam
    (B) Self-respect League
    (C) Both (A) and (B) above
    (D) Depresses Classes League
    [WBCS Main – 2015]
    Correct Answer: [C] Both (A) and (B) above.
39. The first free university in India, completely independent of the Government and receiving no grant
    from it was
    (A) Women’s University, Pune
    (B) Benaras Hindu University
    (C) Vishva Bharati, Shantiniketan
    (D) Aligarh Muslim University
    [WBCS Main – 2015]
    Correct Answer: [C] Vishva Bharati, Shantiniketan.
40. The first venture of Gandhi in all-India politics was the
    (A) Rowlat Satyagraha
    (B) Non-Cooperation Movement
    (C) Dandi March

(D) Champaran Movement
[WBCS Main – 2015]
Correct Answer: [A] Rowlat Satyagraha.

41. Who was the Governor-General when Sind was annexed?
    (A) Lord Dalhousie
    (B) Lord Hardinge-I
    (C) Lord Auckland
    (D) Lord Ellenborough
    Correct Answer: [D] Lord Ellenborough.
42. Growth of Nationalism and struggle for Independence The Indian Association played an important
    role in arousing national consciousness through the formation of the
    (A) Indian National Conference
    (B) British India Association
    (C) Indian National Congress
    (D) Bengal British Indian Society
    Correct Answer: [A] Indian National Conference.
43. Who was the founder of secret society Abhinav Bharat?
    (A) Ganesh Savarkar
    (B) Damodar Chapek
    (C) Naren Bhattacharji
    (D) Jatin Mukherji
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [A] Ganesh Savarkar.
44. Which, of the following is correctly matched?
    (A) Foundation of the Forward Block-1936
    (B) Foundation of the Communist Party of India-1939
    (C) Formation of the All India Kisan Sabha-1935
    (D) Foundation of the Congress Socialist party-1934
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [D] Foundation of the Congress Socialist party-1934.
45. Who is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of local self-Government in modern India?
    (A) M.K.Gandlii
    (B) Curzon

(C) Ripon
(D) Hardinge-I
Correct Answer: [C] Ripon.

46. Who was the first to attempt decentralization of financial administration?
    (A) Curzon
    (B) Lytton
    (C) Ripon
    (D) Mayo
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [D] Mayo.
47. Who confessed the following way? ‘We have no right to seize Sind. Yet we shall do so and a very big
    advantageous, useful, human piece of rascality it will be””.
    (A) Sir Charles Napier
    (B) Major James Outr
    (C) Lord Auckland’
    (D) Lord Ellenborough
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [A] Sir Charles Napier.
48. Which of the following were the original founders of the Theosophical society?
    (i) Madam H.P. Blavatsky
    (ii) Mrs. Annie Besant
    (iii) Colonel H.S. Olcott
    (iv) Colonel O.P. Walburn
    Choose the answer from the codes given below
    (A) i and iii
    (B) iii and iv
    (C) i and ii
    (D) ii and iii
    Correct Answer: [A] i and iii.
49. Subhas Chandra Bose fought the presidential elections in 1939 on the ground that
    (A) He was opposed to Gandhiji
    (B) He favored an aggressive policy which was opposed by the Congress Leaders
    (C) He did not like the nomination of Sitaramayya
    (D) He pleaded for elections instead of nominations
    [WBCS Main – 2014]

Correct Answer: [D] He pleaded for elections instead of nominations.

50. Who among the following capitalists served as an AICC treasurer for many years and went to jail in
    1930?
    (A) J.R.D Tata
    (B) Walchand Hirachand
    (C) G. D. Birla
    (D) Jamunalal Bajaj
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [D] Jamunalal Bajaj.
51. Who among the following played an important role in the signing of the Gandhi Irwin pact?
    (i) Motilal Nehru
    (ii) Tej Bahadur Sapru
    (iii) Madanmohan Malaviya.
    (iv) Jayakar
    (v) Chintamani.
    Select the correct answer from the codes given below:-
    (A) ii and iii
    (B) iv and v
    (C) i and ii
    (D) ii and iv.
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [D] ii and iv.
52. Which of the following is not one of the causes responsible for the rise of money lenders in British
    India?
    (A) New educational system.
    (B) Commercialization of agriculture.
    (C) New revenue policy
    (D) New legal system.
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [A] New educational system.
53. Who described Bal Gangadhar Tilak as the ‘father of Indian unrest’
    (A) Minto-II
    (B) Chelmsford
    (C) Valentine Chirol
    (D) Disrachi.

[WBCS Main – 2014]
Correct Answer: [C] Valentine Chirol.

54. Who was mainly responsible for introducing the Ryotwari system in Madras?
    (A) Thomas Munro
    (B) John Lawrence
    (C) Macartney
    (D) Elphinstone.
    [WBCS Main – 2016]
    Correct Answer: [A] Thomas Munro.
55. Which of the following statements is/are true about the Vernacular Press Act, 1878?
    (i) It was passed by Lord Mayo.
    (ii) It comes to be known as the “Gagging Act”.
    (iii) It liberated the Indian Press from restrictions.
    (iv) It was repealed in 1882 by the Ripon Govt.
    Select the answer from codes given below.
    (A) (i) and (iii)
    (B) (iii) and (iv)
    (C) (ii) and (iv)
    (D) (i) and (ii).
    [WBCS Main – 2016]
    Correct Answer: C and (iv).
56. Indenture regulations which bound the artisans of Eastern India to sell their products exclusively to
    the English company from the Late 18th Century were known as
    (A) Khatbandi
    (B) Kamiya
    (C) Dadni
    (D) Damdupat.
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [C] Dadni.
57. Governor General & Viceroy During whose period did the European soldiers stage the so-called
    ‘White-Mutiny’ in India?
    (A) Mayo
    (B) Ripon
    (C) Dalhousie
    (D) Canning.
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [D] Canning.

58. Who said: ‘This orderly disciplined anarchy should go, and if as a result there is complete lawlessness
    I would risk it’?
    (A) Rajagopalachari
    (B) Vallab Bhai Patel
    (C) Jawaharlal Nehru
    (D) Mahatma Gandhi.
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [D] Mahatma Gandhi.
59. Which of the following manuscripts, containing miniature paintings, reveals a sense of realism and
    authenticity witnessed or experienced by the painters themselves
    (A) Jamiut-Tawarikh
    (B) Tariqi-Alfi
    (C) Timur Namah
    (D) Akbar Namah.
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [B] Tariqi-Alfi.
60. Who was the founder of the Sultanate of Madurai?
    (A) Nusrat Shah
    (B) Dilwar Khan
    (C) Jalaluddin Ahsan
    (D) Hussain Shah.
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [C] Jalaluddin Ahsan.
61. What is `Asthavana’
    (A) One-third of the produce of the land
    (B) House-tax
    (C) Land revenue department
    (D) A type of rice
    Correct Answer: [C] Land revenue department.
62. The lower castes tried to assert themselves by borrowing and imitating customs and manners of the
    upper castes. This was termed as Sanskritisation by
    (A) B.R. Ambedkar
    (B) M.N. Srinivas
    (C) M.K. Gandhi

(D) Bernard Cohn
Correct Answer: [B] M.N. Srinivas.

63. The Whitley Commission was concerned with
    (A) Public Health
    (B) Reorganization of Civil Service
    (C) Labour
    (D) Education
    Correct Answer: [C] Labour.
64. Which of the following results of the Zamindari System was not an advantage to the British?
    (A) Permanent fixation of revenue demand
    (B) Provision of financial security
    (C) Creation of political allies
    (D) Minimization of revenue administrative expenditure
    Correct Answer: [A] Permanent fixation of revenue demand.
65. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
    (A) Kanpur – Brigadier General Neil
    (B) Lucknow – Major General Havelock
    (C) Banaras – Sir Colin Campbell
    (D) Jhansi – Sir Hugh Rose
    Correct Answer: [D] Jhansi – Sir Hugh Rose.
66. Which of the following groups did not get separate electorates by the Act of 1935?
    (A) Europeans
    (B) Depressed Classes
    (C) Anglo-Indians
    (D) Indian Christians
    Correct Answer: [B] Depressed Classes.
67. When and where the song Tande Mataram’ was first sung, (by Rabindranath Tagore)?
    (A) At Santiniketan Ashrams in 1901.
    (B) On July 19,1905 at Calcutta when the partition of Bengal was formally announced.
    (C) At Calcutta Session of the I.N. Congress in 1896.
    (D) At Calcutta Town Hall on August 07,1905.
    Correct Answer: [C] At Calcutta Session of the I.N. Congress in 1896.

68. The First National Planning Committee was constituted by the Congress in 1938 under the
    Presidency of
    (A) Subhas Chandra Bose
    (B) Dr. Rajeridra Prasad
    (C) Ambalal Sarabhai
    (D) Jawahar Lal Nehru
    Correct Answer: [A] Subhas Chandra Bose.
69. The historic Lucknow session (1916) of the I.N.C. was presided over by
    (A) Madan Mohan Malaviya
    (B) Rasbehari Bose
    (C) Ambika Charan Mozumdar
    (D) R.N. Madhukar
    Correct Answer: [C] Ambika Charan Mozumdar.
70. Who moved a resolution at the Congress session in 1918 demanding equal eligibility for voting rights
    for both men and women?
    (A) Annie Besant
    (B) Basanti Devi
    (C) Sarala Debi Choudhurani
    (D) Sarojini Naidu
    Correct Answer: [A] Annie Besant.
71. Who observed: “The Congress (INC) is, in reality, a civil war without arms”?
    (A) M. Ali Jinnah
    (B) Lord Curzon
    (C) Lord Dufferin
    (D) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.
    [WBCS Main – 2016]
    Correct Answer: [D] Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.
72. Who acted as President of the Indian National Congress for Six consecutive years?
    (A) Motilal Nehru
    (B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    (C) Jawahar Lal Nehru
    (D) Abul Kalam Azad.
    [WBCS Main – 2016]
    Correct Answer: [D] Abul Kalam Azad.

73. Who among the following did not attend the first session of the Indian National Congress?
    (A) Surendranath Banerjee
    (B) Badaruddin Tyabji
    (C) Womesh Chandra Banerjee
    (D) K.T. Telang.
    [WBCS Main – 2016]
    Correct Answer: [A] Surendranath Banerjee.
74. After the Surat split in 1907 the second split in the Congress took place in 1918 on the issue of
    (A) Both (A) and (B)
    (B) Montague declaration
    (C) Lucknow Pact
    (D) Election of Mrs. Annie Besant as President of the INC (1917).
    [WBCS Main – 2016]
    Correct Answer: [B] Montague declaration.
75. The Public Postal System in India was started in which year?
    (A) 1848
    (B) 1839
    (C) 1837
    (D) 1838.
    [WBCS Main – 2016]
76. Which of the following classes did not participate in the Revolt of 1857 ? (i) Money lenders (ii)
    Merchants (iii) Modem intelligentia (iv) Old Zamindars (v) Urban based absentee landlords Choose the
    answers from codes given below:
    (A) (i), (iii), (iv) and (v)
    (B) (i), (ii), (iii) and (v)
    (C) (i), (ii), (iv) and (v)
    (D) (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v).
    [WBCS Main – 2016]
    Correct Answer: B, (ii), (iii) and (v).
77. Which of the following movements were ‘Temple entry’ movement organized in the early 20th
    century?
    (A) Munshiganj Kali temple Satyagraha in Bengal (1929)
    (B) All of the above
    (C) Vaikkam Satyagraha 1924-25

(D) Guruvayur Satyagraha (1931-33) in Malabar.
[WBCS Main – 2016]
Correct Answer: [B] All of the above.

78. Who gave Bombay to Charles II of England as a dowry gift for his marriage with Catherine of
    Braganza?
    (A) Dutch
    (B) Danes
    (C) Spanish
    (D) Portuguese.
    [WBCS Main – 2016]
    Correct Answer: [D] Portuguese.
79. The Congress president who conducted negotiations with Cripps in 1942 and Wavell at the Simla
    Conference was
    (A) J.B Kripalani
    (B) C. Rajagopalachari
    (C) Abul Kalam Azad
    (D) Jawahar Lal-Nehru.
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [C] Abul Kalam Azad.
80. Which one of the following adumbrated principles and constitutional provisions which were later
    incorporated in the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms?
    (A) Lucknow Pact
    (B) Poona Pack
    (C) Nehru Report
    (D) Wavell Plan.
    [WBCS Main – 2014]
    Correct Answer: [A] Lucknow Pact.
81. What is the Chronological sequence of the following happenings?
    (i) August Declaration
    (ii) Lucknow Pact
    (iii) Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre
    (iv) Khaira Satyagraha.
    Select the answer from the codes given below:-
    (A) ii, iv, i and iii
    (B) ii, i, iv and iii

(C) iv, ii, iii and i
(D) iii, i, ii and iv.
Correct Answer: [B] ii, i, iv and iii.

82. Arrange the following events in chronological order
    (i) Champaran Satyagraha
    (ii) Launching of the Khilafat Movement
    (iii) Reunion of the Congress
    (iv) Nagpur session of the Congress.
    Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:-
    (A) i, iii, iv and ii
    (B) i, iv, iii and ii
    (C) iii, i, ii and iv
    (D) iii, i, iv and ii.
    Correct Answer: [C] iii, i, ii and iv.
83. Arrange the following events in chronological order and make the correct choice from the options
    given below:
84. Death of Bal Gangadhar Tilak
85. Nagpur session of the Congress
86. The Moplah Uprising
87. The inauguration of Visva Bharati at Santiniketan.
    (A) 2, 1, 3, 4
    (B) 3, 2, 4, 1
    (C) 4, 3, 2, 1
    (D) 3, 4, 2, 1.
    Correct Answer: [A] 2, 1, 3, 4.
88. Whom did B. G Tilak call ‘the Diamond of India’?
    (A) Copal Krishna Gokhale
    (B) Lala Lajpat Rai
    (C) Rabindranath Tagore
    (D) Dadabhai Naoraji.
    Correct Answer: [A] Copal Krishna Gokhale.
89. Mahatma Gandhi gave the title of Sardar to Vallabhbhai Patel for his great organizational skill in:
    (A) The Salt Satyagraha
    (B) The Individual Satyagraha
    (C) The Kheda Satyagraha

(D) The Bardoli Satyagraha.
Correct Answer: [D] The Bardoli Satyagraha.

86. When were the Silkworms introduced into the Byzantine empire from China, adversely affecting
    India’s already declining foreign trade?
    (A) 615 AD
    (B) 351 AD
    (C) 451 AD
    (D) 551 AD.
    Correct Answer: [D] 551 AD.
87. Where do we find the three phases, viz Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Cultures in sequence?
    (A) Godavari Valley
    (B) Kashmir Valley
    (C) Belan valley
    (D) Krishna Valle.
    Correct Answer: [C] Belan valley.
88. Which of the following is not a principal tool of the Early Stone Age?
    (A) Cleaver
    (B) Chopper
    (C) Scrapper
    (D) Handaxe.
    Correct Answer: [C] Scrapper.
89. What is the name of the newspaper published by the ‘Indian Muslim League’?
    (A) Star of India
    (B) Dawn
    (C) Quam
    (D) Inquilab.
    Correct Answer: [A] Star of India.
90. In which year the Indian capitalist class organized itself under the banner of FICCI?
    (A) 1930
    (B) 1932
    (C) 1922
    (D) 1927.

Correct Answer: [D] 1927.

91. Which of the following women’s organization came into existence in 1927
    (A) Bharat Stree Mahamandal
    (B) All India Women’s Conference
    (C) Women’s Indian Association
    (D) National Council of women in India
    Correct Answer: [B] All India Women’s Conference.
92. Who described the Quit India movement (1942) as “by far the most serious rebellion since 1857”?
    (A) Chiang Kai Shek
    (B) Winston Churchill
    (C) Viceroy Lord Linlithgow
    (D) Franklin Roosevelt
    Correct Answer: [C] Viceroy Lord Linlithgow.
93. In which of the following movements prominent women leaders like Sucheta Kripalani and Aruna
    Asaf Ali took the responsibility of coordinating the movement in the face of unprecedented police
    repression?
    (A) Quit India Movement
    (B) Civil Disobedience Movement
    (C) Both (A) and (B)
    (D) RIN Mutiny
    Correct Answer: [A] Quit India Movement.
94. Who was the first Indian woman to become the President of Indian National Congress?
    (A) Sarojini Naidu
    (B) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
    (C) Aruna Asaf Ali
    (D) Sucheta Kripalani
    Correct Answer: [A] Sarojini Naidu.
95. Who among the following organized the defense in the trial of I.N.A. Officers
    (A) Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew
    (B) Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar
    (C) Bhulabhai Desai
    (D) Madan Mohan Malaviya
    Correct Answer: [C] Bhulabhai Desai.

96. The Indian National Army (I.N.A.) came into existence in 1943 in
    (A) Then Barma
    (B) Then Malaya
    (C) Singapore
    (D) Japan
    Correct Answer: [C] Singapore.
97. Who announced Queen Victoria as the Crown of India?
    (A) Lord Lytton
    (B) Lord Hastings
    (C) Lord Wellesley
    (D) Lord Cornwallis
    Correct Answer: [A] Lord Lytton.
98. Who gave the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’?
    (A) S. C. Bose
    (B) M. K. Gandhi
    (C) Bhagat Singh
    (D) Harriet Mohani
    Correct Answer: [C] Bhagat Singh.
99. Who founded ‘Swadeshi Bhandar’ in 1897?
    (A) Mahatma Gandhi
    (B) Bipin Chandra Pal
    (C) Sarala Devi
    (D) Rabindranath Tagore
    Correct Answer: [D] Rabindranath Tagore.
100. Gadar’ party was founded in 1913 at
     (A) Calcutta
     (B) San Francisco
     (C) Bombay
     (D) Punjab
     Correct Answer: [B] San Francisco.