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
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