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- Q. Who was the mastermind of bomb attack on Lord Hardinge at chandani chowk in Delhi in 1912?
A)Avadh Behari
B)Amir Chand
C)Rasbihari Bose
D)Basant Kumar Biswas
Answer: Rasbihari Bose
- Q. Which revolutionary was associated with the foundation of the Punjab Navjivan Bharat Sabha in 1926?
A)Amir Chand
B)Rash Behari Bose
C)Basant Kumar Biswas
D)Bhagat Singh
Answer: Bhagat Singh
- Q. When did Xinhai Revolution occur?
A)1900
B)1872
C)1911
D)1912
Answer: 1911
- Q. The first Indian to enter the Indian Civil Service was
A)Satyendra Nath Tagore
B)Gokhale
C)Ramanuja
D)Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: Satyendra Nath Tagore
- Q. Whom did B.G.Tilak call the “Diamond of India”?
A)Rabindranath Tagore
B)Mahatma Gandhi
C)Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
D)Bhagat Singh
Answer: Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
- Q. Who said that ‘the real seat of taste is not the tongue but the mind.’?
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Aurobindo Ghosh
C)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D)Swami Vivekananda
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. Which of the following is not the provision of the government of India Act, 1858?
A)The Queen's Principal Secretary of State received the powers and duties of the Company's Court of Directors
B)India was to be governed in the Queen's name
C)Provision for the creation of an Indian Civil Service under the control of the Secretary of State
D)The British Parliament was empowered to appoint a Governor-General and the Governors of the Presidencies
Answer: The British Parliament was empowered to appoint a Governor-General and the Governors of the Presidencies
- Q. Which of the following is considered as the main reason for division of Brahmo Samaj?
A)Internal conflicts among Debendranath Tagore and Keshub Chandra Sen for including teachings of all religions
B)Resolutely opposing Christian missionaries and their work against Hinduism
C)Lack of strong propagator of views
D)Opposition by people for disturbing traditional caste practices like abolition of sati, widow remarriage and women education
Answer: Internal conflicts among Debendranath Tagore and Keshub Chandra Sen for including teachings of all religions
- Q. With which of the following was Annie Besant Associated?
A)Arya Samaj
B)Ramakrishna Mission
C)ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
D)Theosophical Society
Answer: Theosophical Society
- Q. Who pioneered Christian cenobitic monasticism?
A)Athanasius of Alexandria
B)Anthony the Great
C)Basil of Caesarea
D)Pachomius the Great
Answer: Pachomius the Great
- Q. Where did Gandhiji form the Satyagraha Sabha?
A)Calcutta
B)Bombay
C)Poona
D)Nagpur
Answer: Bombay
- Q. Who secured papal recognition of his kingship in 1328?
A)Edward I of England
B)Edward Bruce
C)Edward II of England
D)Robert the Bruce
Answer: Robert the Bruce
- Q. Which Buddhist literature consists of dialogues between the Buddha and his followers?
A)Sutta Patika
B)Milnda Panha
C)Vinayapitaka
D)Buddhhacharita
Answer: Sutta Patika
- Q. In 1739, who defeated the Mughal army at the Battle of Karnal?
A)Genghis Khan
B)Nader Shah
C)Hemu Vikramaclitya
D)Bajirao-I
Answer: Nader Shah
- Q. Who was among the following Bhakti saints gave a new orientation of Hinduism through his doctrine of Advaita or Monism?
A)Sankara
B)Ramanuja
C)Guru Nanak
D)Chaitanya
Answer: Sankara
- Q. The first Indian to contest an election to the British House of Commons was
A)Womesh Chandra Banerjee
B)Dadabhai Naoroji
C)Surendranath Banerjee
D)Pheroze Shah Mehta
Answer: Womesh Chandra Banerjee
- Q. Who had founded the Indian Home Rule Society?
A)V D Savarkar
B)Madan Lal Dhingra
C)Lala Hardayal
D)Shyamji Krishna Varma
Answer: Shyamji Krishna Varma
- Q. Lytton held an Imperial Durbar at Delhi in 1877 to announce __________ as the Empress of India at a time when a large part of the country was in the grip of a severe famine
A)Queen Victoria
B)Queen Elizabeth
C)Queen Anne
D)Queen Marie
Answer: Queen Victoria
- Q. Which noted scholar wrote Vikramankadevacharita?
A)Bilhana
B)Kalhan
C)Kalidas
D)Jaydeva
Answer: Bilhana
- Q. The first one, among the following, to deal with music was
A)Yajur Veda
B)Rig Veda
C)Sama Veda
D)Atharva Veda
Answer: Sama Veda
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