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1. Who was the Prime Minister of Britain when India got Independence? 
a) Harold Wilson
b) Lloyd George 
c) Chamberlain 
d) Clement Atlee
Ans : D

2. The Acharya who established ?matths? in all the four corners of India
a) Ramanuja 
b) Sankara 
c) Madhava 
d) Vallabha

Ans : B

3. Sir C.V.Raman was the first Nobel Laureate in Physics from the Indian Sub-continent.Who was the second?
a)Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
b) Dr.S.S.Bhatnagar 
c) Dr.Hargovind Khorana?
d)Prof.Abdus Salam of Pakistan
Ans : D

4. Free India?s First Education Minister was
a)M.C. Chagla
b) Maulana Kalam Azad 
c) Rafi Ahmed Kidwai???
d) N.G.Ayyangar
Ans : B

5. Who was the first Viceroy of India ?
a)Lord Clive 
b)Lord Warren Hastings 
c)Lord Canning 
d)Lord Cornwallis
Ans : C

6. The servants of India society was founded by
a)Blavatsky & Olcott,1866 
b)Gopalkrishna Gokhale,1905 
c)M.G.Ranade,1867 
d)Sir S.A.Khan,1920
Ans : B

7. Under whose Vice Royalty was Tipu Sultan Defeated
a)Lord Cornwallis 
b)Lord Wellesley 
c)Lord Hastings 
d)Lord Canning
Ans : B

8. The famous?Al-Berauni?is associated in Indian history with
a)Mohd.Tughlaq 
b) Mohd.Ghori 
c)Mahmood of Ghazni 
d)Allau-ud-din Khilji.
Ans : C

9. Battle of Buxar was fought in the year
a)1757 
b)1764 
c)1576 
d)1565
Ans : B

10. Kalidas was the court poet of
a)Chandragupta-II
b)Chandragupta Maurya 
c)Harshavardhan 
d)Kharavela
Ans : A

11. Battle of _______ is associated with Prithviraj & Mohammad Ghori
a)Haldighati 
b)Talikota 
c)Kanwa 
d)Tarain
Ans : D

12.Second Battle of Panipat was fought in the year _________ ,headed by_________
a)1526,Babur 
b)1556,Humayun 
c)1556,Akbar 
d)1605,Jehangir.
Ans : C

13.The first round table conference was held under the vice royalty of Lord
a)Reading 
b)Irwin 
c)Wellingdon 
d)Mountbatten
Ans : B

14. Who was the last famous Hindu King?
a)Harshavardhan 
b)Samudragupta 
c)Chandragupta-II 
d)Ashoka
Ans : A

15. Who is known as the Indian Napolean?
a) Chandragupta I 
b) Samudragupta 
c) Chandragupta II 
d) Skandagupta
Ans : B

16. The author of historical epithet ?Rajtarangini? was
a)Kalhana 
b) Kalidas 
c) Chanakya 
d) Banabhatta
Ans : A

17. The Kailashnath Temple at Ellora was built by the
a) Rashtrakutas 
b) Chalukyas 
c) Cholas 
d) Pallavas
Ans : A

18. Alexander defeated Porus at the bank of river Jhelum. This battle is famous as the battle of
a)Wandiwash 
b)Hydapses 
c) Chausa 
d) Khanwa
Ans : B

19. Which governor General abolished the practice of sati?
a) Lord Dalhousie 
b) William Bentick 
c) Lord Cornwallis 
d) Lord Hastings
Ans : B

20. Lord Curzon is associated with which of the following events?
a) Hunter commission 
b) Doctrine of Lapse 
c) Partition of Bengal 
d) Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy
Ans : C

21. Gandhiji first started his Satyagraha Movement in
a) Peitermaritzberg , South Africa 
b) Sabarmati, India 
c) Johhanesberg, South Africa 
d) Dandi, India
Ans : C

22. The ?veda? which deals with Ayurvedic system of medicine
a)Rigveda 
b) Samveda 
c) Atharavaveda 
d) Yajurveda
Ans : C

23. The famous ?Economic Drain Theory? was given by
a) Lord Lytton, 1876 
b) Swami dayanand,1875 
c) Dadabhai Naoroji,1876 
d) Lord Northbrook, 1876.
Ans : C

24.The capital of India Was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi in the Year
a) 1910 
b) 1911 
c) 1920 
d) 1919
Ans : B

25. Who, among the following , is known for his pioneering work on medicine during the Gupta period
a) Sudraka 
b) Sushruta 
c) Shaunaka 
d) Saumilla
Ans : B

26. Who was the founder of Indian National Congress ?
a) Dadabhai Naoroji 
b) A.O. Hume 
c) W.C. Banerji 
d) Badrudin Tyabji
Ans : B

27. Jalianwala Bagh Tragedy occurred in which of the following year?
a)1927 
b)1942 
c) 1920 
d) 1919
Ans : D

28. Brahmo Samaj was founded by
a)Raja Ram Mohan Roy 
b) Keshab Chandra Sen 
c) Swami Vivekanand 
d) Swami Dayanand
Ans : A

29. The policy was Subsidiary Alliance was started by
a) Lord Cornwallis 
b) Lord Welleseley 
c) Lord Canning 
d) Lord Hastings
Ans : B

30. The last Mughal Emperor was
a)Bahadur Shah II 
b) Shah Alam II 
c) Akbar II 
d) Alamgir II
Ans : A

31. Sir Thomas Roe was the ambassador of James I to the court of
a)Akbar 
b) Jahangir 
c) Shah Jahan 
d) Auranzeb
Ans : B

32.Vasco da Gama was a famous ______ traveler.
?a) Danish 
b) French 
c) Portugese 
d) Dutch
Ans : C

33. When was American Independence declared ?
?a)1776 
b)1756 
c) 1736 
d) 1746
Ans : A

34. When did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?
a) 1939 
b) 1936 
c) 1933 
d) 1930
Ans : C

35. The Industrial Revolution was to begin first in
a) USA 
b) Japan 
c) England 
d) (erstwhile)USSR
Ans : C

36. Who wrote Buddha Charita?
a) Bana Bhatta 
b) Ashva Ghosa 
c) Kalidasa 
d) Tulsidas
Ans : B

37.Where was the first factory by the Britishers set up in India in 1612?
a) Pondicherry 
b) Surat 
c) Cochin 
d) Calcutta
Ans : B

38. The principal language of the Dravidians was

a) Kannada 
b) Telugu 
c) Tamil 
d) Malayalam

Ans : B

39. In which year Ashoka fought the Kalinga War?
a) 58 B.C.
b) 78 B.C. 
c) 599 B.C. 
d) 261 B.C.???????
Ans : D

40. When was the Berlin Wall built??
a) 1917 
b)1961 
c) 1921 
d) 1963????????
Ans : B

41. Which among the following is not the official language of the U.N.O.??
a) Spanish 
b) Arabic 
c) Chinese 
d) Japanese ??
Ans : D

42. Who suggested the name ?United Nations ?????????? 
a) John.F.Kennedy 
b) Franklin D. Roosevelt 
c) Jimmy Carter 
d) Napolean Bonaparte???????
Ans : B

43. Which among the following is the U.N.Foundation Day???????????
a) 30th oct.1945 
b) 24th oct.1945 
c) 6th aug.1942 
d) 9th aug.1942??????
Ans : B

44. The term of office of a judge of the International Court of Justice is ______ years.???????????
a) 3 
b) 5 
c) 7 
d) 9??????
Ans : D

45. The only Indian Woman who became President of the World Health Organisation so far was ???????
a) R.K.Amrit Kaur 
b) Vijaylakshmi Pandit 
c)Sucheta Kriplani 
d) Sarojini Naidu?????? 
Ans : A

46. Who was the first secretary general of the United Nations??????????
?a) Kurt Waldheim of Austria 
b) Dag Hammarskjoeld of Sweden 
c) U. Thant of Burma 
d) Trygve Lie??of Norway.?????? 
Ans : D

47. The hundred sons of Dhritarashtra had one sister.What was her name????????
a) Duhsala 
b) Trishala 
c) Kunti 
d) Madri???
Ans : A

48. In Indian Mythology , who was the wife of Kubera????????? 
a) Rambha 
b)Menaka 
c) Urvasi 
d) Lakshmi?
Ans : A

49. Which country was expelled from U.N. in 1992????????
a) Czechoslovakia 
b) Yugoslovia 
c) Iraq 
d) Switzerland??
Ans : B

50. Who compiled the Adi Granth????????
a) Guru Nanak 
b) Guru Har Rai 
c) Guru Arjun Dev 
d) Guru Teg Bahadur
Ans : C

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