India gk questions

General Knowledge Questions and Answers related to Modern India

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

(a)Chapekar Brothers

(b)Sher ali

(c)Bhagat Singh

(d)Uddham Singh

Answer: (a)Chapekar Brothers

2. In which year Chapekar Brothers assassinated two unpopular Brotish officials at Pune?

(a)1885

(b)1897

(c)1931

(d)1913

Answer: (b)1897

3.Who organized Abhinav Bharat?

(a)Bhagat Singh

(b)Chandrasekhar Azad

(c)V.D Savarkar

(d)Prafulla Chakri

Answer: (c)V.D Savarkar

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

Answer: (d)Prafulla Chakri

5.Ram Prasad Bismil was hanged in association with ……………. Conspiracy case.

(a)Alipore

(b)Lahore

(c)Kakori

(d)Delhi

Answer: (c)Kakori

6. ‘Mookanayak’ was started by:

(a)MG Ranade

(b)BR Ambedkar

(c)GG Agarkar

(d)Atmaram Pandurang

Answer: (b)BR Ambedkar

7. ‘Bombay Chronicle’ was started by:

(a)KT Telang

(b)Mahadev Desai

(c)Pheroz Shah Mehta

(d)MA Jinnah

Answer: (c)Pheroz Shah Mehta

8. The first news paper in India ‘Bengal Gazette’ was started by:

(a)Annie Besant

(b)AO Hume

(c)Hermen Gundert

(d)James Hickey

Answer: (d)James Hickey

9. ‘Karm Yogi’ was started by:

(a)V.D Savarkar

(b)Aurobindo Ghosh

(c)Annie Besant

(d)Sarojini Naidu

Answer: (b)Aurobindo Ghosh

10. ‘Janma Bhoomi’ was started by:

(a)Pattabhi Seetharamaiah

(b)Jawaharlal Nehru

(c)BG Tilak

(d)GS Iyer

Answer: (a)Pattabhi Seetharamaiah

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

Answer: (c)Dalhousie

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

Answer: (d)Dalhousie

13. Name the Governor General who is called the ‘Maker of Modern India’:

(a)Canning

(b)William Bentick

(c)Dalhousie

(d)Curzon

Answer: (c)Dalhousie

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

(a)Canning

(b)Dalhousie

(c)Dufferin

(d)Minto I

Answer: (a)Canning

15. Who was the governor general when the Universities of Kolkata, Bombay and Madras were established?

(a)Curzon

(b)Hastings

(c)Canning

(d)Mayo

Answer: (c)Canning

16. Aurobindo Ghosh was a leader from:

(a)Assam

(b)Punjab

(c)Tamil Nadu

(d)Bengal

Answer: (d)Bengal

17. C.R Das was a leader from:

(a)Uttar pradesh

(b)Punjab

(c)Bengal

(d)Maharashtra

Answer: (c)Bengal

18. Dadabhai Navroji was a leader from:

(a)Maharashtra

(b)Punjab

(c)Uttar Pradesh

(d)Bihar

Answer: (a)Maharashtra

19. K. Kamaraj was a leader from:

(a)Bengal

(b)Tamil Nadu

(c)Punjab

(d)Maharashtra

Answer: (b)Tamil Nadu

20. Vinoba Bhave was born in:

(a)Bengal

(b)Maharashtra

(c)Uttar Pradesh

(d)Gujarat

Answer: (b)Maharashtra

21. The author of ‘Sathyartha Prakash’:

(a)Vivekananda

(b)Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(c)Dayanand Saraswati

(d)Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: (c)Dayanand Saraswati

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

Answer: (d)All of these

23. Who wrote ‘Religion and Culture’?

(a)Vivekananda

(b)Aurobindo Ghosh

(c)Dayanand Saraswati

(d)Dr.S.Radhakrishnan

Answer: (a)Vivekananda

24. Who wrote ‘India in Transition’?

(a)MN Roy

(b)Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

(c)Bankin Chandra Chatterjee

(d)Prem Chand

Answer: (a)MN Roy