*History: GK*
1) How many times the preamble was amended
A) Once ✔
B) Twice
C) Thrice
D) Four times
2) In 305 BC, which Maurya ruler defeated Alexander's general Seleucus Nicator and received the territories of Kabul and Balochistan?
A) Bindusara
B) Chandragupta Maurya ✔
C) Ashoka
D) Pulkeshin II
3) In collaboration with Dravid hare and Alexander Duff, who established the Hindu College at Calcutta?
A) Henry Louis Derozio
B) Keshab Chandra Sen
C) Raja Rammohan Roy ✔
D) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
4) In his autobiography, Babur has given less details about which of the following?
A) Social life and the pattern of the life of people
B) Political condition of India
C) Description of Nature
D) Wars ✔
5) Aryabhatta and Varahamihira belong to which age?
A) Guptas ✔
B) Mauryas
C) Mughals
D) Cholas
6) In which Governor-General's reign railway lines in India were established?
A) Lord Cornwallis
B) Lord Dalhousie ✔
C) Lord Curzon
D) Lord William Bentinck
7) Mahatma Gandhi was born at which place?
A) Sabarmati
B) Ahmedabad
C) Porbander ✔
D) Wardha
8) Panini, the first Grammarian of Sanskrit language in India, lived during the?
A) 2nd Century A. D.
B) 6th -5th Century B. C. ✔
C) 6th -5th Century A.D.
D) 2nd Century B. C.
9) Sikkim became a full fledged state of the Indian Union, in the year?
A) 1975 ✔
B) 1974
C) 1973
D) 1972
10) Temple architecture was most developed under which dynasty?
A) Pallavas ✔
B) Pandyas
C) Rastrakutas
D) Cholas
11) The ancient kingdom of 'Avanti' had its capital at?
A) Magadh
B) Ujjain ✔
C) Kausambi
D) Vaishali
12) The ancient name of the city of Patna is?
A) Kausambi
B) Pataliputra ✔
C) Vaishali
D) Kanauj
13) The battle at Waihind in 1008-09 A.D was fought between?
A) Muhammad Ghori and Prithviraj
B) Muhammad Ghori and Jaichandra
C) Mahmud of Ghazni and Jayapala
D) Mahmud of Ghazni and Anandapala ✔
14) The battle of Dharmat was fought between?
A) Aurangzeb and Dara Shikoh ✔
B) Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Maratha
C) Babar and the Afghans
D) Muhammad Gori and Jai Chand
15) The battle that was fought between Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas in 1761 was?
A) 1st battle of Panipat
B) 3rd battle of Panipat ✔
C) 2nd battle of Panipat
D) 1st battle of Tarain
16) The Britishers come to India as traders and formed company named?
A) Eastern India Company
B) The Great Britain Company
C) East India Company ✔
D) Indo-British Company
17) The earliest known Indian script is?
A) Devanagari
B) Kharosti
C) Mori
D) Brahmi ✔
18) The earliest movement which took up the cause of lower cast against Brahmana domination was?
A) Satya Shodak Society ✔
B) Mahajan Sangam
C) Vokkaliga Sangha
D) Nair Service Society
19) The earliest Veda is the?
A) Yajurveda
B) Samveda
C) Atharvaveda
D) Rigveda ✔
20) The era which is counted from 78 A.D. is the?
A) Kollam era
B) Saka era ✔
C) Salivahana era
D) Vikram era
21) The Gandhara school of Art was influenced most by the?
A) Shakas
B) Kushanas
C) Greeks ✔
D) Persians
22) The General who gave the firing order at Jallianwala Bag was?
A) Curzon
B) Dyer ✔
C) Cornwallis
D) Simpson
23) The Indian ruler known as the Napoleon of Indian was?
A) Chandragupta Maurya
B) Samudragupta ✔
C) Harshavardhana
D) Ashoka
24) The Indus religion did not include the worship of?
A) Mother Goddess
B) Certain animal chimeras and their anthropic figure
C) Forces of Nature ✔
D) Trees and their spirits
25) The Indus Valley Civilization was famous for?
A) Well-planned cities
B) Efficient civil organization
C) evelopment of Art and Architecture
D) All of these ✔
26) The Red Fort at Delhi was built by?
A) Shahjehan ✔
B) Akbar
C) Jahangir
D) iltutmish
27) For the Karachi session of Indian National Congress in 1931, presided over by Sardar Patel, who drafted the Resolution on Fundamental Rights and Economic Programme?
A) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ✔
B) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
D) Mahatma Gandhi
28) Who among the following were official Congress negotiators with Cripps Mission?
A) Pandit Nehru and Maulana
Azad ✔
B) Acharya J. B. Kripalani and C. Rajagopalachari
C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
D) Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel
29) After Quit India Movement, C. Rajagopalachari issued a pamphlet entitled 'The Way Out'. Which one of the following was a proposal in this pamphlet?
A) Reconstitution of the Central Executive Council in such a way that all its members, except the Governor General and the Commander-in-Chief should be Indian leaders.
B) A solution for the constitutional deadlock ✔ .
C) Fresh elections to the Central and Provincial Legislatures to be held at the end of 1945 and the Constitution making body to be convened as soon as possible.
D) The establishment of a 'War Advisory Council' composed of representatives of British India and the Indian States.
30) By a regulation in 1793, the District Collector was deprived of his judicial powers and made the collecting agent only. What was the reason for such regulation?
A) Lord Cornwallis felt that the District Collector's efficiency of revenue collection would enormously increase without the burden of other work.
B) Lord Cornwallis was alarmed at the extent of power concentrated in the District Collector and felt that such absolute power was undesirable in one person. ✔
C) Lord Cornwallis felt that Judicial power should compulsorily be in the hands of Europeans while Indians can be given the job of revenue collection in the districts
D) The judicial work demanded a deep knowledge of India and a good training in law and Lord Cornwallis felt that District Collector should be only a revenue collector?
31) Consider the following statements:
1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad persuaded Mahatma Gandhi to come in Champaran to investigate the problem of peasants.
2. Acharya J. B. Kriplani was one of the Mahatma Gandhi's colleagues in his Champaran investigation.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
A) 1 only
B) 2 only ✔
C) Both 1 and 2
D) Neither 1 nor 2
32) Four resolutions were passed at the famous Calcutta session of Indian National Congress in 1906. The question of either retention OR of rejection of these four resolutions became the cause of a split in Congress at the next Congress session held in Surat in 1907.
Which one of the following was not one of those resolutions?
A) National education
B) Swadeshi
C) Annulment of partition of
Bengal ✔
D) Boycott
33) In the 'individual Satyagraha', Vinoba Bhave was chosen as the first Satyagrahi. Who was the second?
A) C. Rajagopalachari
B) Sardar Vallabhabhai Patel
C) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ✔
D) Dr. Rajendra Pradesh
34) Consider the following statements:
1. The term Swaraj means self-rule, self-government
2. Swaraj Party was established by Motilal Nehru and C. R. Das.
3. Lahore session of the congress demand for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) in its resolution on 26 January, 1930.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
A) 1 only
B) 2 only
C) only 1 and 2
D) 1, 2 and 3 ✔
35) Consider the following statements:
1. Raja Rammohun Roy was an advocate of ethical social reform, and political liberalism in India
2. He was the founder of Banaras Hindu University
3. He attacked the practice of Sati Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
A) 1 only
B) 2 only
C) only 1 and 3 ✔
D) 1, 2 and 3
36) The prime advocates of widow remarriage in modern India was?
A) Raja Rammohun Roy
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Vinoba Bhave
D) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ✔
37) There are only two known examples of cave paintings of the Gupta period in ancient India. One of these is paintings of Ajanta Caves. Where is the other surviving example of Gupta paintings?
A) Ellora Caves
B) Nasik caves
C) Bagh Caves ✔
D) Ajanta Caves
38) What was the immediate cause for the launch of the Swadeshi movement?
A) A sentence of 18 months rigorous imprisonment imposed on Lokmanya Tilak.
B) Death sentence pronounced on the Chapekar brothers.
C) The arrest and deportation of Lala Lajput Rai and Ajit Singh, and passing of the Punjab Colonization Bill.
D) The partition of Bengal done by Lord Curzon. ✔
39) What was the immediate reason for Ahmad Shah Abdali to invade India and fight the Third Battle of Panipat?
A) He wanted to annex all the fertile plains of Punjab up to the borders of Delhi to his kingdom.
B) He wanted to avenge the expulsion by Marathas of his victory Timur Shah from Lahore. ✔
C) He wanted to punish Mughal administration for non-payment of the revenues of the Chahar Mahal (Gujarat, Aurangabad, Sialkot and Pasrur)
D) The frustrated governor of Jullundhar Adina Beg Khan invited him to invade Punjab.
40) Which one of the following observations is not true about the Quit India Movement of 1942?
A) It was led by Mahatma Gandhi
B) It was a spontaneous movement
C) It was a non-violent movement
D) It did not attract the labour class in general ✔
41) Who of the following founded the Ahmedabad Textile labour Association?
A) Mahatma Gandhi ✔
B) J. B. Kripalani
C) N. M. Joshi
D) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
42) Who was the first European to designate 'Aryans' as a race?
A) Sir William Jones
B) Max Muller ✔
C) General Cunningham
D) H. H. Wilson
43) With reference to Indian freedom struggle, Usha Mehta is well-known for?
A) Participating in the Second Round Table Conference
B) Leading a contingent of Indian National Army
C) Running the secret Congress Radio in the wake of Quit India Movement ✔
D) Assisting in the formation of Interim Government under Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
44) By which of the following Acts were the Commercial Rights of East India Company abolished?
A) Charter Act of 1813
B) Charter Act of 1853
C) Regulating Act of 1773
D) Charter Act of 1833 ✔
45) Among the following Presidents of India, who was also the Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement for some period?
A) Giani Zail Singh ✔
B) Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma
C) Varahagiri Venkatagiri
D) Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
46) Who was the Delhi sultan to impose Jizya even on the Brahmins?
A) Balban
B) Alaud-din Khilji
C) Feroz Tughlaq ✔
D) Muhammad Tughlaq
47) Which of the following does not have a Stupa?
A) Dhamek
B) Ranchi ✔
C) Sanchi
D) Barhut
48) The site of birth [nativity] of Gautam Buddha is marked by
A) a Peepal tree
B) a monastery
C) a "Rummindei Pillar" of Ashok Maurya ✔
D) a statue
49) Who is known as the Father of 'Indian Unrest'?
A) Bipin Chandra Pal
B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak ✔
C) Lala Lajpat Rai
D) Aurobindo Ghosh
50) Which of the following pair is wrongly matched?
A) Plato - Republic
B) Aristotle - Politics
C) Jawaharlal Nehru - Hind
Swaraj ✔
D) Karl Marx - Das Kapital
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