General Awareness Quiz – History
General Awareness Quiz Set 20 for SSC CGL, SSC CHSL and Railways exams. History Quiz for SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, Railways etc.
Topic: History
- Which one of the following events did not take place during the Viceroyalty of Lord Curzon?
A) Establishment of the Department of Archaeology.
B) Second Delhi Durbar.
C) Formation of Indian National Congress.
D) Partition of Bengal.
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Option C.
Explanation: The Indian National Congress was formed in 1885 when Lord Dufferin was the Viceroy of India. Allan Octavian Hume brought about its first meeting in Bombay, with the approval of Lord Dufferin.
- When the East India Company was formed, the Mughal emperor in India was:
A) Jahangir
B) Humayun
C) Aurangzeb
D) Akbar
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Option. D
Explanation: The English East India Company was founded in 1600. Akbar was Mughal Emperor from 1556 until his death in 1605.
- Name three important forms of Satyagraha :
A) Non-cooperation, civil disobedience and boycott.
B) Boycott, civil disobedience and rebellion.
C) Non-cooperation, revolution and referendum.
D) Revolution, plebiscite and boycott.
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Option A.
Explanation: Non-cooperation, civil disobedience and boycott.
- During British rule, who was instrumental for the introduction of the Ryotwari system in the Madras Presidency ?
A) McCartney
B) Elphinstone
C) Thomas Munro
D) John Lawrence
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Option C.
Explanation: Thomas Munro is regarded as the father of the Ryotwari system’ in Madras. In 1820, he was appointed governor of Madras, where he founded systems of revenue assessment and general administration.
- Which one of the following novels was a source of inspiration for the freedom fighters in India?
A) Pariksha guru
B) Anandmath
C) Rangbhoomi
D) Padmarg
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Option B.
Explanation: Anandmath is a Bengali novel, written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and published in 1882. Set in the background of the Sanyasi Rebellion in the late 18th century, it became synonymous with the struggle for Indian independence from the British Empire. The national song of India, Vande Mataram was first published in this novel.
- The script of the Indus Valley Civilization is :
A) Kharsoti
B) Undeciphered
C) Brahmi
D) Tamil
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Option B.
Explanation: Undeciphered
- The capital of the ancient Chola kingdom was :
A) Uraiyur
B) Kaveripoompattinam
C) Thanjavur
D) Madurai
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Option A.
Explanation: Uraiyur now Tiruchchirappalli. The Early Cholas of the pre and post Sangam period (were one of the three main Kingdoms of the ancient Tamil country. 300 BCE- 200 CE
- Arrange the dynasties of Delhi Sultanate given below in chronological order:
A) Khilji. B) Sayyad
C) Tughlaq D) Slave
A) D, A, C, B
B) A, D, B, C
C) D, A, B, C
D) D, A, B, C
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Option A.
Explanation: The dynasties of the Delhi Sultanate were: Mamlubk or Slave dynasty (1206-90); the Khilji dynasty (1290-1320); the Tughlaq dynasty (1320-1414): the Sayyid dynasty (1414-51) ; and the Afghan Lodi dynasty (1451-1526).
- For the annexation of which Indian Kingdom, the “Doctrine of Lapse” was not followed ?
A) Satara
B) Nagpur
C) Jhansi
D) Punjab
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Option D.
Explanation: The East India Company took over the princely states of Satara (1848), Jaitpur and Sambalpur (1849) Nagpur and Jhansi (1854), Tanjore and Arcot (1855) Udaipur and Awadh (1856) using the Doctrine of Lapse. The Doctrine of Lapse was an annexation policy urportedly devised by Lord Dalhousie.
- Who said “Rama Rajya through Grama Rajya”?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Vinod Bhave
C) Jayaprakash Narayan
D) Jawaharlal Nehru
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Option A.
Explanation: Mahatma Gandhi advocated that Rama Rajya will not happen until Grama Rajya happens. He gave the ideology of ‘Back to Villages.
