51. The Simon Commission came to India in:
A) 1925
B) 1927
C) 1928
D) 1930
Answer: C
52. The capital of British India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi in:
A) 1910
B) 1911
C) 1912
D) 1913
Answer: B
53. The Rowlatt Act was passed in:
A) 1917
B) 1918
C) 1919
D) 1920
Answer: C
54. Who started the Home Rule Movement in India?
A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Dadabhai Naoroji
D) Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: B
55. The Dandi March started from:
A) Ahmedabad
B) Porbandar
C) Sabarmati
D) Surat
Answer: C
56. The first Indian to qualify for ICS was:
A) Dadabhai Naoroji
B) Satyendranath Tagore
C) Surendranath Banerjee
D) A.O. Hume
Answer: B
57. Subhas Chandra Bose was elected INC President in:
A) 1936
B) 1937
C) 1938
D) 1939
Answer: C
58. The All India Muslim League was formed in:
A) 1905
B) 1906
C) 1909
D) 1910
Answer: B
59. Who was the first Indian woman President of INC?
A) Sarojini Naidu
B) Annie Besant
C) Indira Gandhi
D) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Answer: A
60. Gandhi launched the Civil Disobedience Movement in:
A) 1929
B) 1930
C) 1931
D) 1932
Answer: B
61. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in which city?
A) Amritsar
B) Lahore
C) Delhi
D) Meerut
Answer: A
62. Who founded Arya Samaj?
A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
C) Swami Vivekananda
D) Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Answer: B
63. Who started the Aligarh Movement?
A) Badruddin Tyabji
B) Sayyid Ahmed Khan
C) M.A. Jinnah
D) Shah Waliullah
Answer: B
64. The Ilbert Bill controversy occurred during the tenure of:
A) Lord Ripon
B) Lord Curzon
C) Lord Lytton
D) Lord Canning
Answer: A
65. Who was the Viceroy at the time of Quit India Movement?
A) Lord Linlithgow
B) Lord Wavell
C) Lord Mountbatten
D) Lord Irwin
Answer: A
66. Who founded the Ramakrishna Mission?
A) Swami Vivekananda
B) Ramakrishna Paramhansa
C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
D) Aurobindo Ghosh
Answer: A
67. Who was known as ‘Lokmanya’?
A) B.G. Tilak
B) G.K. Gokhale
C) Dadabhai Naoroji
D) Subhas Bose
Answer: A
68. Who said “Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom”?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Subhas Chandra Bose
D) Lala Lajpat Rai
Answer: C
69. Who was the first Indian Governor-General of independent India?
A) Rajendra Prasad
B) Nehru
C) Mountbatten
D) C. Rajagopalachari
Answer: D
70. The Indian Independence Act was passed in the British Parliament in:
A) June 1947
B) July 1947
C) August 1947
D) September 1947
Answer: B
71. Who started the Bhoodan Movement?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Vinoba Bhave
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Sardar Patel
Answer: B
72. Who was the founder of Banaras Hindu University?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
C) Madan Mohan Malaviya
D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Answer: C
73. Who was the political guru of Gandhi?
A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
B) Dadabhai Naoroji
C) B.G. Tilak
D) Lala Lajpat Rai
Answer: A
74. The Kakori conspiracy was associated with:
A) INA
B) HSRA
C) Ghadar Party
D) Hindustan Republican Association
Answer: D
75. Who was the leader of Indigo revolt in Bengal?
A) Motilal Nehru
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Digambar Biswas
D) Dadabhai Naoroji
Answer: C
76. Who was the first Indian to preside over the UN General Assembly?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) S. Radhakrishnan
C) V.K. Krishna Menon
D) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Answer: D
77. Gandhi’s first Satyagraha in India was at:
A) Champaran
B) Ahmedabad
C) Kheda
D) Dandi
Answer: A
78. Who was known as the Frontier Gandhi?
A) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
B) Sardar Patel
C) Subhas Chandra Bose
D) Maulana Azad
Answer: A
79. The Poona Pact was signed in:
A) 1928
B) 1930
C) 1932
D) 1934
Answer: C
80. Who introduced the Subsidiary Alliance system in India?
A) Lord Wellesley
B) Lord Hastings
C) Lord Dalhousie
D) Lord Canning
Answer: A
81. Who was the Viceroy during the Bengal Partition?
A) Lord Curzon
B) Lord Minto
C) Lord Hardinge
D) Lord Ripon
Answer: A
82. The capital of India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi in the year:
A) 1910
B) 1911
C) 1912
D) 1915
Answer: B
83. Who founded the Indian Home Rule League in London?
A) Annie Besant
B) Tilak
C) Dadabhai Naoroji
D) Shyamji Krishna Varma
Answer: D
84. Who authored the book Discovery of India?
A) B.R. Ambedkar
B) Nehru
C) Rajendra Prasad
D) Maulana Azad
Answer: B
85. Who introduced Doctrine of Lapse?
A) Lord Wellesley
B) Lord Hastings
C) Lord Dalhousie
D) Lord Canning
Answer: C
86. The dual government system in Bengal was introduced by:
A) Warren Hastings
B) Robert Clive
C) William Bentinck
D) Lord Cornwallis
Answer: B
87. Who founded the Theosophical Society in India?
A) Annie Besant
B) Blavatsky and Olcott
C) Dayanand Saraswati
D) Ram Mohan Roy
Answer: A
88. Who was known as the ‘Iron Man of India’?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Subhas Bose
C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
D) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Answer: C
89. The Cabinet Mission was led by:
A) Cripps
B) Pethick-Lawrence
C) Mountbatten
D) Linlithgow
Answer: B
90. The INA trials were held at:
A) Lahore
B) Bombay
C) Calcutta
D) Red Fort
Answer: D
91. Who presided over the Lahore Session of Congress in 1929?
A) Gandhi
B) Nehru
C) Bose
D) Gokhale
Answer: B
92. Which session of Congress declared ‘Purna Swaraj’ as goal?
A) Lahore, 1929
B) Karachi, 1931
C) Haripura, 1938
D) Calcutta, 1928
Answer: A
93. In which year was the Indian Constitution adopted?
A) 1947
B) 1948
C) 1949
D) 1950
Answer: C
94. The Constituent Assembly was formed in:
A) 1945
B) 1946
C) 1947
D) 1949
Answer: B
95. Who was the chairman of the Drafting Committee?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) B.R. Ambedkar
C) Sardar Patel
D) Maulana Azad
Answer: B
96. The slogan “Inquilab Zindabad” was popularized by:
A) Bhagat Singh
B) Sukhdev
C) Rajguru
D) Chandra Shekhar Azad
Answer: A
97. Who was the founder of Indian National Army (INA)?
A) Mohan Singh
B) Subhas Bose
C) Ras Behari Bose
D) Lala Lajpat Rai
Answer: A
98. Who was the first President of Independent India?
A) Nehru
B) Rajendra Prasad
C) Sardar Patel
D) Radhakrishnan
Answer: B
99. Who called Gandhi “Father of the Nation”?
A) Nehru
B) Bose
C) Rajaji
D) Sardar Patel
Answer: B
100. When did the Constituent Assembly adopt the Constitution of India?
A) 15 August 1947
B) 26 January 1950
C) 26 November 1949
D) 30 January 1950
Answer: C