General Knowledge on Modern India

General Knowledge on Modern India

1. Who committed the first political murder in modern India?

(a)Chapekar Brothers

(b)Sher ali
(c)Bhagat Singh
(d)Uddham Singh

2. In which year Chapekar Brothers assassinated two unpopular Brotish officials at Pune?
(a)1885

(b)1897

(c)1931

(d)1913

3.Who organized Abhinav Bharat?
(a)Bhagat Singh
(b)Chandrasekhar Azad

(c)V.D Savarkar

(d)Prafulla Chakri

4.Who, along with Khuriram Bose, threw a bomb at a carriage believed to be carrying Kingsford, an unpopular judge at Mussafarpur?
(a)Chandrasekhar Azad
(b)Bhagat Singh
(c)Uddham Singh

(d)Prafulla Chakri

5.Ram Prasad Bismil was hanged in association with ……………. Conspiracy case.
(a)Alipore
(b)Lahore

(c)Kakori

(d)Delhi

6. ‘Mookanayak’ was started by:
(a)MG Ranade

(b)BR Ambedkar

(c)GG Agarkar
(d)Atmaram Pandurang

7. ‘Bombay Chronicle’ was started by:
(a)KT Telang
(b)Mahadev Desai

(c)Pheroz Shah Mehta

(d)MA Jinnah

8. The first news paper in India ‘Bengal Gazette’ was started by:
(a)Annie Besant
(b)AO Hume
(c)Hermen Gundert

(d)James Hickey

9. ‘Karm Yogi’ was started by:
(a)V.D Savarkar

(b)Aurobindo Ghosh

(c)Annie Besant
(d)Sarojini Naidu

10. ‘Janma Bhoomi’ was started by:

(a)Pattabhi Seetharamaiah

(b)Jawaharlal Nehru
(c)BG Tilak
(d)GS Iyer

11. Who was the governor general when the first telegraph line was established between Kolkata and Agra?
(a)Canning
(b)Dufferin

(c)Dalhousie

(d)William Bentick

12. Who was the governor general when the first railway line was established between Bombay and Thane?
(a)William Bentick
(b)Canning
(c)Dufferin

(d)Dalhousie

13. Name the Governor General who is called the ‘Maker of Modern India’:
(a)Canning
(b)William Bentick

(c)Dalhousie

(d)Curzon

14. Who was the governor general during the Sepoy Mutiny?

(a)Canning

(b)Dalhousie
(c)Dufferin
(d)Minto I

15. Who was the governor general when the Universities of Kolkata, Bombay and Madras were established?
(a)Curzon
(b)Hastings

(c)Canning

(d)Mayo

16. Aurobindo Ghosh was a leader from:
(a)Assam
(b)Punjab
(c)Tamil Nadu

(d)Bengal

17. C.R Das was a leader from:
(a)Uttar pradesh
(b)Punjab

(c)Bengal

(d)Maharashtra

18. Dadabhai Navroji was a leader from:

(a)Maharashtra

(b)Punjab
(c)Uttar Pradesh
(d)Bihar

19. K. Kamaraj was a leader from:
(a)Bengal

(b)Tamil Nadu

(c)Punjab
(d)Maharashtra

20. Vinoba Bhave was born in:
(a)Bengal

(b)Maharashtra

(c)Uttar Pradesh
(d)Gujarat

21. The author of ‘Sathyartha Prakash’:
(a)Vivekananda
(b)Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(c)Dayanand Saraswati

(d)Mahatma Gandhi

22. Which of the following is written by Jawaharlal Nehru?
(a)Discovery of India
(b)An autobiography
(c)Glimpses of World History

(d)All of these

23. The author of ‘Gitarahasya’:

24. Who wrote ‘Religion and Culture’?

(a)Vivekananda

(b)Aurobindo Ghosh
(c)Dayanand Saraswati
(d)Dr.S.Radhakrishnan

25. Who wrote ‘India in Transition’?

(a)MN Roy

(b)Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

(c)Bankin Chandra Chatterjee

(d)Prem Chand