QUIZ-19

Q1. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was equated with

(a) Mazzin

(b) Cavour

(c) Garibaldi

(d) Bismarck

S1. Ans.(d)

Q2. The immortal national song Bande Mataram has been written by

(a) Rabindranath Tagore

(b) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya

(c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya

(d) Surendranath Bandopadhyaya

S2. Ans.(c)

Q3. The Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh was founded by 

(a) Md. Ali Jinnah

(b) Mohammad Ali

(c) Saukat Ali

(d) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

S3. Ans.(d)

Q4. The founder of the ‘Brahmo Samaj’ was

(a) Swami Dayananda Vidyasagar

(b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(d) Swami Vivekananda

S4. Ans.(c)

Q5. Who was in favour of a party-less democracy?

(a) Jai Prakash Narain

(b) Bhupendra Nath Dutta

(c) M. N. Roy

(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
S5. Ans.(a)

Q6. Who was the first Indian Governor-General of India?

(a) B. R. Ambedkar

(b) C. Rajagopalachari

(c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

(d) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

S6. Ans.(b)

Q7. Who is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of local self-government in modern India?

(a) Ripon

(b) Mayo

(c) Lytton

(d) Curzon

S7. Ans.(a)

Q8. ‘Poorna Swaraj’ (Complete Independence) was declared to be the goal of the Indian National Congress in its Session of

(a) Lucknow, 1916

(b) Lahore, 1929

(c) Tripuri, 1939

(d) Lahore, 1940

S8. Ans.(b)

Q9. ‘Sati’ was abolished by

(a) Lord Ripon

(b) Warren Hastings

(c) Lord Cornwallis

(d) William Bentinck

S9. Ans.(d)

Q10. Who was the author of the book My Experiments with Truth?

(a) Aurobindo

(b) Tilak

(c) Gandhi

(d) Vinoba
S10. Ans.(c)

Q11. The famous revolutionary song ‘Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil mein hai…’ was composed by

(a) Bhagat Singh

(b) Khudiram Bose

(c) Chandrasekhar Azad

(d) Ramprasad Bismil

S11. Ans.(d)

Q12. Who among the following visited Gandhiji in South Africa?

(a) B. G. Tilak

(b) Vallabhbhai Patel

(c) G. K. Gokhale

(d) J. L. Nehru

S12. Ans.(c)

Q13. Who scripted Gandhiji’s favorite song ‘Vaishnav Jan To…”?

(a) Narsinh Mehta

(b) Premanand

(c) Chunilal

(d) Dharmiklal

S13. Ans.(a)

Q14. The ‘Doctrine of Lapse’ was first applied to the Princely State of

(a) Satara

(b) Jhansi

(c) Oudh

(d) Jaunpur

S14. Ans.(a)

Q15. Who was the National leader who wrote History of India on the walls of the Andaman Cellular Jail?

(a) Nandanlal Bose

(b) Ambedkar

(c) Vir Savarkar

(d) Jyotiba Phule

S15. Ans.(c)