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History Questions for SSC CGL

Q1.Mahatma Gandhi was the President of Indian National Congress only once at—
(a) Allahabad
(b) Guwahati
(c) Belgaum
(d) Kakinada

Q2. Permanent settlement was a feature of—
(a) Zamindari System
(b) Ryotwari System
(c) Mahalwari System
(d) None of these

Q3.Which of the following struggles of Mahatma Gandhi was related to industrial workers?
(a)Champaran Satyagraha
(b)Ahmedabad Struggle
(c)Kheda Struggle
(d)None of these 

Q4.What was Kamagata Maru?
(a)A political party based in Taiwan
(b)Peasant Communist leader of China
(c)A naval ship on voyage to Canada
(d)A Chinese village where MaoTse Tung began his long march

Q5.Who was the first women president of Indian National Congress ?
(a) Sarojini Naidu
(b) Sucheta Kripalani 
(c) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
(d) Annie Besant

Q6.Buddha means –
(a) the enlightened one              
(b) the religious preacher
(c) the genius                            
(d) the powerful

Q7.Who was the founder-editor of the famous newspaper Kesari during the National struggle?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru 
(c) Lokmanya Tilak 
(d) Muhammad Iqbal

Q8.Who called Bal Gangadhar Tilak the ‘Father of Indian Unrest’?
(a)Lord Curzon
(b)Vincent Smith
(c)Valentile Chirol
(d)Henry Cotton

Q9.Who defended Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipore Bomb Case?
(a)W.C. Bannerjee
(b)Surendra Nath Banerjee
(c)Bipin Chandra Pal
(d)Chittaranjan Das

Q10.At which congress session did Dadabhai Naoroji announce that Swaraj was the goal of India’s political efforts?
(a)1886 Calcutta session 
(b)1893 Lahore session
(c)1905 Benaras sessions
(d)1906 Calcutta session

Q11.Who said, ‘Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it’?
(a)Mahatma Gandhi  
(b)Bipin Chandra Pal
(c)Gopal Krishna Gokhale 
(d)Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Q12.Who wrote ‘Akbarnama’ ?
(a) Abdur Rahim Khanekhana
(b) Faizi
(c) Abdul Qadir Badauni
(d) Abul Fazl














Solutions

1.C
2.A
3.B
4.C
5.A
6.A
7.C
8.C
9.D
10.D
11.D
12.D