Q1.Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India in which one of the following years?
(a) 1453
(b) 1492
(c) 1494
(d) 1498
Q2.Who of the following led the army of the East India Company in the battle of Buxar in 1764?
(a) Hector Munro
(b) Watson
(c) Warren Hastings
(d) Lord Clive
Q3.Who wrote the book entitled ‘Ghulamgiri’?
(a) B.R. Ambedkar
(b) Narayan Guru
(c) Jyotiba Phule
(d) M.P. Pillai
Q4.Who was the last ruler of Delhi saltnat?
(a)Bahadur shah II
(b)Ibrahim Lodi
(c)sikandar Lodi
(d)Mubarak shah
Q5.Which of the following ruler is called as "Rangeela"...
(a)Muhammad shah
(b)Bahadur shah
(c)Akbar II
(d)Ahmad shah
Q6.Who among the following had repealed the Vernacular Press Act ?
(a) Lord Lytton
(b) Lord Ripon
(c) Lord Dufferin
(d) Lord Lansdowne
Q7.The number of delegates who attended the first session of the Indian National Congress, held in Bombay in 1885, was...
(a) 72
(b) 304
(c) 556
(d) 1500
Q8.Who said, “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it”?
(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c) Bipin Chandra Pal
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
Q9.The 1909 Indian Council Act is also known as...
(a) The Chelmsford Reforms
(b) The Pitts India Act
(c) The August offer
(d) The Minto-Marley Reforms
Q10.Who among the following never became President of Indian National Congress?
(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(c) Subhash Chandra Bose
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
Q11.Who established the first Women’s University of India?
(a) D.K. Karve
(b) Annie Besant
(c) Ramabai Ranade
(d) Hirabai Tata
Q12.Who among the following gave call to ‘one religion, one creed and one God’ for mankind?
(a) Jyotiba Phule
(b) Vivekanand
(c) B.R. Ambedkar
(d) Sri Narain Guru
Q13.Who was the founder of Indian Association of Calcutta?
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) Womesh Chandra Banerjee
(c) Surendranath Banerjee
(d) Feroz Shah Mehta
Q14.Who founded Anushilan Samiti at Dhaka?
(a) Pulin Bihari Das
(b) Pramath Nath Mitra
(c) Swami Shraddhanand
(d) Barindra Kumar Ghosh
Q15.Who is known as the father of Muslim Renaissance in Bengal?
(a) Abdul Latif
(b) Mirza Ghulam Ahmed
(c) Muhammad Qasim
(d) Rashid Ahmed Gangohi
Solutions
1.D
2.A
3.C
4.B
5.A
6.B
7.A
8.B
9.D
10.A
11.A
12.D
13.C
14.A
15.A
