Question: Gandhiji organised ‘Dandi March’ in 1930 to protest against
1. Imposition of tax on Salt
2. Atrocities on Minority
3. Atrocities on the Harijans
4. Communal Award
Answer: 1
Question: Who was the guru of Kabir?
1. Ramanuja
2. Ramananda
3. Namadeva
4. None of these
Answer: 2
Question: Who had proposed partyless democracy in India?
1. S.A.Dange
2. Jayaprakash Narayan
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. Vinoba Bhave
Answer: 2
Question: The Civil Disobedience Movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi in
1. 1930
2. 1928
3. 1922
4. 1931
Answer: 1
Question: Fa-hien visited India during the reign of
1. Kumaragupta
2. Ramagupta
3. Samudragupta
4. Chandragupta II
Answer: 4
Question: At which place in Bengal was the East India Company given permission to trade and build a factory by the Mughals in 1651?
1. Singur
2. Cassim Bazar
3. Burdwan
4. Calcutta
Answer: 2
Question: Which Sikh Guru called himself the ‘Sachcha Badshah’?
1. Guru Hargovind
2. Guru Gobind Singh
3. Guru Teg Bahadur
4. Guru Arjan Dev
Answer: 1
Question: Who gave the slogan “Inquilab Zindabad”?
1. Iqbal
2. Subhash Chandra Bose
3. Bhagat Singh
4. Chandrashekhar Azad
Answer: 3
Question: The synagogue is generally
1. Jewish House of Prayer
2. The Parsi temple
3. A place
4. An epic
Answer: 1
Question: Which newspaper was started by Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak to serve the cause of India’s freedom struggle?
1. Kesari
2. Gadar
3. Free Hindustan
4. Swadesh Mitra
Answer: 1
Question: The writer of the book ‘India’s Second Freedom’ is –
1. Soli Sorabji
2. Loknayak Jaiprakash Narain
3. Lalkrishna Advani
4. Atal Behari Bajpai
Answer: 2
Question: Four Mathas established by Adi Shankaracharya are-
1. Joshimath, Dwarka, Puri, Sringeri
2. Sringeri, Dwarka, Joshimath, Prayag
3. Dwarka, Joshimath, Prayag, Kanchi
4. Puri, Sringeri, Dwarka, Varanasi
Answer: 1
Question: What lis ‘KAABA’?
1. Hindu Shrine
2. Jew’s Shrine
3. Muslim Shrine
4. None of the above
Answer: 3
Question: Who is credited with introducing the beans and potatos in Bhagirathi valley?
1. Wilson
2. Ram Brahmachari
3. Henry
4. Maharaja Sudarshan Shah
Answer: 1
Question: When the Reserve Bank of India was established?
1. 1935
2. 1920
3. 1930
4. 1940
Answer: 1
Question: The red coloured human figures engraved on the Lakhuodyar near Almora belongs to –
1. Vedic period
2. Kushan period
3. Stone age
4. Chand period
Answer: 3
Question: The call for ‘Quit India Movement’ against Britishers was given in-
1. 1942
2. 1940
3. 1946
4. 1936
Answer: 1
Question: Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in the city-
1. Meerut
2. Agra
3. Amritsar
4. Lahore
Answer: 3
Question: Which dynasty did not rule over North India?
1. Mauryas
2. Guptas
3. Rajputs
4. Chalukyas
Answer: 4
Question: The Battle of Haldighati was fought in –
1. 1756 AD
2. 1576 AD
3. 1756 BC
4. 1576 BC
Answer: 2
Question: The revolutionary woman who led the revolution of 1857 in Oudh was –
1. Lakshmibai
2. Ahilyabai
3. Aruna Asaf Ali
4. Begum Hazrat Mahal
Answer: 4
Question: The proof of burying the dog with human body at which of the following places?
1. Burjhom
2. Koldihava
3. Chaupani
4. Mando
Answer: 1
Question: Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were sentenced to death in –
1. Alipur conspiracy case
2. Lahore conspiracy case
3. Kakori conspiracy case
4. Kanpur conspiracy case
Answer: 2
Question: At the time of gaining of Independence, the President of ‘Indian National Congress’ was –
1. J.B. Kriplani
2. Jawaharlal Nehru
3. Rajendra Prasad
4. Sardar Patel
Answer: 1
Question: Which extremist leader of the freedom movement was given 6 years jail punishment in 1908?
1. Bipin Chandra Pal
2. Balgangadhar Tilak
3. Lala Lajpat Rai
4. Arbind Ghosh
Answer: 2
Question: The most famous centre of learning during Maurya period was –
1. Taxila
2. Ujjain
3. Nalanda
4. Vallabhi
Answer: 1
Question: The famous Buddhist scholar Aswaghosh was a contemporary of –
1. Ashoka
2. Nagarjuna
3. Kanishka
4. Harsha
Answer: 3
Question: Which Viceroy was assassinated during his tenure?
1. Lord Mayo
2. Lord Curzon
3. Lord Rippon
4. Lord Wellesley
Answer: 1
Question: Famous Cave temples of Elephanta are ascribed to –
1. Chalukyas
2. Cholas
3. Pallavas
4. Rashtrakoots
Answer: 4
Question: When was Bengal re-united due to the protests by Indians?
1. 1905
2. 1911
3. 1947
4. 1971
Answer: 2
Question: Who is the writer of ‘Humayun-Nama’?
1. Zebunnisa
2. Jahanara
3. Gulbadan Begum
4. Roshanara
Question: Leelawati, a treatise on Mathematics, was written by-
1. Ramanuj
2. Kautilya
3. Amartya Sen
4. Bhaskaracharya
Answer: 4
Question: Who was the founder of ‘Servants of India Society’?
1. Madan Mohan Malviya
2. Sarojini Naidu
3. Justice Ranade
4. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Answer: 4