951. Who introduced the Doctrine of Lapse?
A) Lord Dalhousie
B) Lord Canning
C) Lord Ripon
D) Lord Curzon
Answer: A

952. Who led the revolt of 1857 in Kanpur?
A) Bahadur Shah Zafar
B) Tantia Tope
C) Nana Sahib
D) Rani Laxmi Bai
Answer: C

953. Who was the Governor-General during the revolt of 1857?
A) Lord Dalhousie
B) Lord Canning
C) Lord Curzon
D) Lord Ripon
Answer: B

954. The Permanent Settlement was introduced by:
A) Lord Wellesley
B) Lord Cornwallis
C) Lord Dalhousie
D) Lord Curzon
Answer: B

955. Who was the founder of the Arya Samaj?
A) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
C) Swami Vivekananda
D) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Answer: A

956. The capital of Shivaji’s kingdom was:
A) Raigarh
B) Pune
C) Satara
D) Kolhapur
Answer: A

957. The Revolt of 1857 was described as the first war of Indian independence by:
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) R. C. Majumdar
C) V. D. Savarkar
D) S. N. Sen
Answer: C

958. Who built the Red Fort in Delhi?
A) Babur
B) Akbar
C) Jahangir
D) Shah Jahan
Answer: D

959. The title of ‘Viceroy’ was first used by:
A) Lord Canning
B) Lord Dalhousie
C) Lord Curzon
D) Lord Wellesley
Answer: A

960. The Non-Cooperation Movement was withdrawn due to:
A) Jallianwala Bagh massacre
B) Gandhi-Irwin Pact
C) Chauri Chaura incident
D) Civil Disobedience Movement
Answer: C

961. Who was the first woman president of Indian National Congress?
A) Annie Besant
B) Sarojini Naidu
C) Indira Gandhi
D) Sucheta Kripalani
Answer: A

962. Who coined the term ‘Pakistan’?
A) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
B) Rahmat Ali
C) Liaquat Ali Khan
D) Syed Ahmad Khan
Answer: B

963. Who wrote the book “Discovery of India”?
A) Sardar Patel
B) B. R. Ambedkar
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: C

964. Who was the first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna posthumously?
A) Lal Bahadur Shastri
B) B. R. Ambedkar
C) C. Rajagopalachari
D) Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: D

965. Who was the last Mughal emperor?
A) Shah Alam II
B) Akbar II
C) Bahadur Shah Zafar
D) Aurangzeb
Answer: C

966. Who was the founder of Banaras Hindu University?
A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Madan Mohan Malaviya
D) Annie Besant
Answer: C

967. The famous ‘Ghadar Party’ was founded in:
A) London
B) San Francisco
C) Amritsar
D) Delhi
Answer: B

968. Who launched the Individual Satyagraha?
A) Subhas Chandra Bose
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Vinoba Bhave
Answer: D

969. Who was known as “Punjab Kesari”?
A) Bhagat Singh
B) Lala Lajpat Rai
C) Udham Singh
D) Rajguru
Answer: B

970. In which year was the Partition of Bengal annulled?
A) 1910
B) 1911
C) 1912
D) 1913
Answer: B

971. Who founded the Prarthana Samaj?
A) M. G. Ranade
B) Dayanand Saraswati
C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
D) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Answer: A

972. Who was the editor of the newspaper ‘Kesari’?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Answer: C

973. Who among the following introduced the Vernacular Press Act?
A) Lord Ripon
B) Lord Lytton
C) Lord Curzon
D) Lord Wellesley
Answer: B

974. Who founded the Forward Bloc?
A) Bhagat Singh
B) Subhas Chandra Bose
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Sardar Patel
Answer: B

975. Which Indian freedom fighter is known as ‘Netaji’?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Subhas Chandra Bose
D) Rajguru
Answer: C

976. The Cabinet Mission visited India in:
A) 1944
B) 1945
C) 1946
D) 1947
Answer: C

977. The Bardoli Satyagraha was led by:
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Sardar Patel
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer: B

978. In which session was the Indian National Congress split into Moderates and Extremists?
A) Surat Session, 1907
B) Calcutta Session, 1906
C) Bombay Session, 1908
D) Lucknow Session, 1916
Answer: A

979. The Indian National Congress was formed in the year:
A) 1857
B) 1885
C) 1905
D) 1920
Answer: B

980. Who among the following started the first newspaper in India?
A) James Hickey
B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
C) Dadabhai Naoroji
D) Annie Besant
Answer: A

981. The slogan ‘Jai Hind’ was given by:
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Subhas Chandra Bose
C) Sardar Patel
D) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: B

982. The Quit India Movement was launched in the year:
A) 1939
B) 1940
C) 1942
D) 1945
Answer: C

983. Who presided over the first session of the Indian National Congress?
A) W. C. Bannerjee
B) A. O. Hume
C) Dadabhai Naoroji
D) Surendranath Banerjee
Answer: A

984. The Rowlatt Act was passed during the Viceroyalty of:
A) Lord Chelmsford
B) Lord Curzon
C) Lord Irwin
D) Lord Reading
Answer: A

985. The Champaran Satyagraha was related to:
A) Indigo Planters
B) Salt Tax
C) High Land Revenue
D) Landlords
Answer: A

986. Who was the founder of Indian National Army (INA)?
A) Subhas Chandra Bose
B) Ras Behari Bose
C) Mohan Singh
D) Rajguru
Answer: C

987. The British capital was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi in the year:
A) 1910
B) 1911
C) 1912
D) 1913
Answer: B

988. Who was the first Indian to win Nobel Prize?
A) C. V. Raman
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Amartya Sen
D) Mother Teresa
Answer: B

989. Who was the founder of Sikhism?
A) Guru Nanak Dev
B) Guru Gobind Singh
C) Guru Arjan Dev
D) Guru Tegh Bahadur
Answer: A

990. When was the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
A) 1917
B) 1918
C) 1919
D) 1920
Answer: C

991. The ‘Indigo Revolt’ took place in:
A) Bihar
B) Bengal
C) Assam
D) Odisha
Answer: B

992. The Poona Pact was signed between Gandhi and:
A) B. R. Ambedkar
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Subhas Chandra Bose
D) Sardar Patel
Answer: A

993. The slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ was coined by:
A) Bhagat Singh
B) Sardar Bhagat Singh
C) Hasrat Mohani
D) Ram Prasad Bismil
Answer: C

994. Who was the founder of the Indian National Congress?
A) A. O. Hume
B) Dadabhai Naoroji
C) Surendranath Banerjee
D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer: A

995. The Civil Disobedience Movement started in:
A) 1930
B) 1931
C) 1932
D) 1933
Answer: A

996. The Simon Commission was formed in the year:
A) 1927
B) 1928
C) 1929
D) 1930
Answer: A

997. Who gave the title of Mahatma to Gandhi?
A) Nehru
B) Tagore
C) Tilak
D) Gokhale
Answer: B

998. Which session of the INC adopted the resolution of ‘Purna Swaraj’?
A) Calcutta
B) Lahore
C) Bombay
D) Lucknow
Answer: B

999. Who was the first woman Governor of an Indian state?
A) Sarojini Naidu
B) Indira Gandhi
C) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
D) Sucheta Kripalani
Answer: A

1000. The partition of Bengal was carried out in:
A) 1903
B) 1905
C) 1907
D) 1909
Answer: B