72 General Knowledge VIDYA EXAMS LEADER 30, Who was the first Indian to become member of the British Parliment? (a) Badruddin Tayabji —_(b) W.C. Bannerjee (¢} DN. Wacha (4) Dadabhai Naoroji 131. The partition of Bengal came into effect on (a) 15% August, 1905, {b) 15th September, 1905 (6) 15th October,1905 __{d) 15th November, 1905 32, Which one of the following the period of Lord Curzon is, considered remarkable ¢ (a) Movement againts partition of Bengal (b) Establishments of new Universities (c) The beginning of Indian Nary (4) Appointment of ane Indian commander in the army 33. In which year the Indian National Congress was established? (IC, 2008] (a) 1888 (b) 1887) 1885 (a) 1885 34, Who of the following was the first Muslim President of 35, 37. Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of the formation of the Indian National Congress? (a) Curzon. (0) Canning (6) Eworence (4) Dufferin ‘The method of moderate leaders of the Congress was? (a} Non Co-operation (6) Constitutional Legitations (c) Passive Resistance (4) Civil Disobedience ‘The most important organisation of the pre-congress nationalist organisations was the {0712009} (a} Bengal British India Society (0) East India Association () Young Bengal Association (4) Indian Association of Calcutta Who established the Indian League (a) Shishir Kumar Gosh Isse, 2013] Indian National Congress? {LIC (ADO), 2009] (b) Ananad Mohan Bose (a) Badaruddin Tayabji(b) Abul Kalam Azad (c) M.G. Ranade (c} Rafi Ahmed Kidwai (d) M.A. Ansari (d) Devendra Nath Tagore Answers 10 20 3@ 40 5@ 6% 720 8&8 9 10 @ 11.) 12 @) «613 @ «14 @) «615 @ «616 «(17 @) 18) 19. fa) 20.) 21.) 22, @) 23. (a) 24. (a) 25. 0) 26. (a) 27. @) 2B 29} 30. A) 31. () 32. @) 33. @) 34. (a) 35. (6) 36. (O) 37. 38. a) 27 Extremist Phase (1905—17) 4. Masia Abul Kalam Aza stated on nou wel, be ee ee ea ae ie aoa petted net baat Be i are ieee Ma 16 2. Dainra. Kumar Ghosh was a, member of which rats asta Benge fuse et isaac et 1) Sader Benth Sait (0 ver Sem ee 5. une war th eundereditor ofthe famous newspaper he ry te under aie of ous era Haar curing he ane a a (S)tokmanyaiog | a) Munem abst 4. Which ne att lowing leaders belonged te Enomist wing the Consent (Ssct0u Camas Ghosh Sadana Nebro (GK choca) sat Banonee Ore aon the following seis the che’ architect of er Sones wire aoe (Shan Bsomt gw) MA. sand (Sado Came a) Pheror Shah Mehta 6. Which of the following lenders presided over the Se ure anaes bree ot (2 Bannan opal krished Gene (S Aurhindo Ghost a) Detbhet Net 7 10. un 2 8. All India Muslim League was formed at (RRB, 2010] (a) Lahore (@) Aligash (6) Lucknow (@) Dhaka 2. Which one of the following was not an extremist? (a} Bal Gangadhar Tilak (b) Madan Lal Dhingra (c) Udham Singh (4) Gopal Krishna Goxhle Other than Annie Besant, who among the following also Iaunched Home Rule Movement in India? (a) Aurobindo Ghosh () Bal Gangadhar Tilak (c) Gopal Krishna Goxhle (@) Moti Lal Netra ‘The split between the Extremists and Moderates came up in the open at the Surat Congress session in the year (a) 1905 (b) 1906 {e) 1907 (a) 1910 Who among the following leaders dominated the Lucknow Pact in December, 1916? (@} Jawahar Lal Nehru fb) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (c) Moti Lal Netra (4) Madan Mohan Malviya ‘Who was the first women president of Indian National Congress? [BPSc, 2011] (a) Saroyini Naidu (0) Sucheta Kripalani (c) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (dl) Annie Besant Who said, Swara) is my birthright and I will have it? (a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Bipin Chandra Pal (c) Gopal Krishna Goxhle (4) Bal Gangadhar Tilak14, 45. 16. 17. 8. 22. 2. 25. 26. 27. 28, 28. ‘Who was the founder of Ail India Muslim League? (a} Syed Ahmed Khan (b) Mohammad Iqbal () Agha Kan (4) Nawab Salimallah Khan When did the attempt of murder of Kingsford was made at Muzaffarpur? [PPSc, 2013] (a) 1908 () 1909) 1907 (a) 1911 Who said that ‘Congress Movement was neither inspired by the people nor devised or planned by them’? (@) Lord Dufferin (b) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (6) Lord Curzon (4) Lala Lajpat Rai In which session of the Indian National Congress did the historic union of Congress and Muslim League take place? B.Ed, 2002] (a) Surat (0) Bombay (6) Calcutta (4) Lucknow In which year did Lord Hardinge cancle the partition of Bengal? (2) 1911 (@) 1904 (e) 1906 (a) 1907 Who was the first editor of the Yugantar? (SSC, 2003] (a) Barindra Ghosh (b) Bipin Chandra Pal (c) Jatindra Nath Mukherjee (@) Ullaskar Dutt Who had founded the Anushilan Samiti? (Force, 2006] (a) Pramath Nath Mitra (b) Barindra Ghosh (¢) V.D. Savarkar (@) Narendra Gosain Name one leader of the Home Rule Movement (a) Annie Besant (b) Surendra Nath Banerjee {6} Aurobindo Ghosh (4) Bipin Chandra Pat Of the following who was called the ather of India Unrest’? {IC, 2009] (a) AO, Home (6) Dadabahai Naoroji () Lokmanya Tilak (@) Mahatma Gandhi Who founded Swadesh Bandhaw Samiti? (RRB, 2008] (a) Ashwin Kumar Dutt (b) Pulin Das (c} Surya Sen (4) Barindra Ghosh ‘The Ghadar Movement was founded by __[SSC, 2008] (a) Ajit Singh (b) Lala Hansraj (6) Lala Hardayal (@) Sohan Singh Bhakhna Who led the atlack on European Club at Pahartali in chittagong? {8.£¢, 2001] (a} Pritlata Waddedar —_(b) Surya Sen (6) Anant Singh (4) Loknath Bat When was established the Muslim League? (a) 1904 (@) 1908 (6) 1910 (a) 1915 Who founded Anushilan Samiti at Dhaka (Decca)? (a) Pulin Bihari Das SSC, 2013] (b) Pramath Nath Mitra (c) Swani Shradhanand (4) Barindra Kumar Ghosh "Tam giving you a Muslim province-who said? (a) Fazi—ulHaque ——{b) Lord Curzon (c) Stafford Cripps (q) Lord Mountbatten Who among the following gave a systematic critique of the moderate politics of Indian national Congress in series of articles entitled 'New Lamps for Old? (a) Aurobindo Ghosh b) RC. Dutt (c} Syed Ahmed Khan (4) Vira Raghavachari 1m, 2000) Q © 32, 8. 35. 36. 37. 38, a2 43. Indian Jlistory 73 Who ofthe following had called Mohammad Ali Jinnah as"Ambasador of Hindu-Muslim Unity? (IC, 2002) (a) Annie Besant (b) Sarojin Naidu (6) Bal Gangadhar Tilak — (@) None of these Shyam krishna Verma established Indian Home Rule ‘Society in [Force, 2004) (a) London (0) Paris (6) Bezlin (4) San Francisco Who gave the ‘Inquilab Zindabad' slogan? (a} Iqbal (0) M.K. Gandhi (6) Bhagat Singh (4) S.C. Bose ‘The newspaper brought out by Bal Gangadhar Tilak to promote nationalism was [Constable, 2003] (a) Yugantar () Deshbhakti (6) Kesari (4) Krantt Who called Bal Gangadhar Tilak the 'Father of Indian Unrest? [UPPcs, 2004] (a) Lord Curzon () Vincent Smith (6) Valentile Chirol (@) Henry Cotton ‘The first indication of the revolutionary movement in India was seen in IMPPsc, 2010] (@) Maharashtra (b) Bengal (6) Punjab (4) Rajasthan "The Congress is in reality a civil wars without arms’ who said this ? {a} Sir Sayyad Ahmad Khan (0) MA. Jinnah (6) Lord Dufferin (4) Lord Curzon Who defended Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipore Bomb Caset {a} W.C. Bannerjee (b) Surendra Nath Banerjee (c) Bipin Chandra Pat (4) Chitta Ranjan Das Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? [uPSc, 2007] (a) Partition of Bengal — 1905 (b) Foundation of — 1906 Muslim League fe). Surat Split = 1907 (@) Transer of India's — 1909 Capital trom Caleutta to Delhi Who tried the organise revolt by Indian Sepoys and Revolutionaries around 19137 [Cosntable, 2007] (a) Bagha Jatin {@) Aurobindo Ghosh (6) Ras Behari Bose (q) Sachindra Nath Sanyal 1. Where and When was the Ghadar Party founded? (a) America, 1913 (c) Denmark, 1921 ‘Sxl Aurobind Ashram is situated in (a) Tamit Nadu (0) Kamatak (c) Rameshwaram (4) Pondicherry Who among the following established a Republican Government in abroad? {Ra}. Police, 2003] (a) Raja Mahendra Pratap_(b) Subhash Chandra Bose (c) Ras Behari Bose (4) None of these When did the partition of bengal take palce? {a} 1904) () 1905 fe} 1908 (a) t91t (6) England'1917 (4) Scottland, 1925, [UP Police, 2004]74 General Knowledge VIDYA EXAMS LEADER 44, Which one of the following nationalist leaders has been described as being radical in Polties but conservative in social issuest (a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (6) Lala Lajpat Rat (6) Gopal Krishna Gokhle (@) Madan Mohan Malviya 45, Consider the following nationalists 1m, 2005) 1, Bal Gangadhar Tilak 2 Gopalkrishna Gokhle 3. Bipin Chandra Pal 4, Lala lajpat Rat Who among these were referred to as militant rationalist of the freedom movements? (a) 1,2, and 3 (b) anda (e) 1) 3ana.4 (a) 1.2,3ana 4 onsider the following statements regarding Freedom Movement [Uharkhand Police, 2012] IL The Congress as spit into two factions as its Surat Session in 1907. HH, Bal Gangadhar Tilak revived the festivals of Ganpati and Shivaji in Maharashtra to arouse 3 row spirit among the youth ol the country. L.Aurobindo Ghosh was arrested in connection with ‘Alipore ‘bomb ‘case. Which of these statements isyare comect?™ (2) Healy (b) Tana (6) Wand tr (a) Eat and @2 Who of the following revolutionaries set up the United India House in the USA? {Ra}. Police, 2004] (3) Ramnath Purl and Vir Savarkar (b) Taraknath Das and G.D. Kumar {c) Lala Hardayal and Bhagat Singh (q) Harnam Singh and Bhagwan Singh 48, Who of the following was a founder of the Bharat Naujawan Sabha in 1926? [Constable, 2010] (a) Lala Lajpat Rai (b) Sardar Bhagat Singh (6) Lala Mardayal (¢) Sohan Singh Bhaktna 49. Consider the following paragraph (Force, 2012] He was seriously injured in police lathi charge in Lahore during demonstations against Simon Commission. for which he subsequently died in November 1928, Later on the British Otficer, who was responsible forthe lath charge on him, was shot dead by Bhagat Singh and Rajguru The revolutionary seferred toi the above paragraph is (a) Pandit Gobina Ballabh Pant {b) Mangal Singh (6) Moti Lal Neha (4) Lala Lajpat Rai 50. What was Kamagata Maru? (2) A political party based in Taiwan {b) Peasant Communist leader of China (c) Anaval ship on voyage to Canada (@) ‘Chinese ‘llage where Maotse Tung began his Jong march 51. Two Home Rule League wore started in 1915-16 under the leadership of {USC 2010] (2) Tilak and Annie Besant (b) Tilak and Aurobindo Ghosh (6) Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai (4) Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal 52. With reference to the Indian freedom struggle, which ‘one ofthe following is the corzect chronological order of the given events? TS8C, 2013) IRPSc, 2011] (a) Partition of Bengal—Surat_ Split of Congress—Lucknow Pact (0) Pattition of Bengal—Lucknow Pact—Surat Split of Congress (6) Surat Split of Bengal—Lucknow Pact (4) Surat Split of Congress—Lucknow Pact—Partition of Bengal 53. With reference to the colonial rule in India, consider the following events (PPSc, 2000) I. Morley—Minto Reforms Act IL, Transfer of the capital from Caleutta to Delhi UL First World War IV. Lucknow Pact ‘The correct chronological order of these events is (a) mv (0) mv (9) vant (@) avin 54. Assertion (A) : Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw bombs in the Legislative Assembly in 1929, Reason (R) : They wanted to kill some members of the Legislative Assembly as a revenge of the Death of Lala Lajpat Rat (a) Both A and R are true and R is the Correct explanation of A. (&) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A. (c) Ais true but R is false (4) Ais false but Ris true 55. After relaese {rom Jail who organised the extremust Congress—Partition of group (a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Lala Lajpat Rai (} Goptal Krishna Gokhla (d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak 56. Consider the following statements [UP Police, 2008] 1, Prior to the establishment of Home Rule League by Annie Besant, it was Lokmanya Tilak who had set up a Home Rule League at Poona. 2, The Congress in its Bombay Session in 1915, passed a resolution demanding Home Rule for India, Which of the statements given above is / are correct ? (a) Loaly (0) 2only (6) Both 1 and 2 (4) Neither 4 nor 2 Which two revolutionaries were involved in_ the /Muzatfarpur Murder (1908) ? {¢1c, 2002] (a) Binoy Bose, Badal Gupta (0) Surya Sen, Loknath Bal (c) Damodar and Balkrishna Chapekar (4) Prafull Chaki, Khadinam Bose 58. In which of the following movements Vande Mataram ‘was adopted slogan for agitation ? {071 2004) (a) Revolt of 1857 (0) Partition of Bengal in 1905, (c) Non-Co-operation Movement in 1922 engaged in revolutionary activities, using the code [Force, 2005] 2. Anushilan Samiti given below the list 1, Abhinav Bharat 3, New Nationalsit Party 4. Indian Patriot Association Code: (a) 1, 2and 3 (0) 2,3.and 4 (o) Vand 2 (@) 1, 2and 462 4 21 31 at 51 61 ‘The Siik letter Conspiracy (1916) was organised by (2) Maulana ‘Oveidullah Sindhi and Maulana Barakatullah (0) Maulana Abdul Bari and Maulana Muhammad Ali (©) Maulana’ Abdul Kalam and Maulana Mahmud (4) Raja Mahendra Pratap and Jon Henting What was the immediate cause for the launch of the ‘Swadeshi Movement 7 (B.Ed, 2007] (a) The partition of Bengal done by Lord Curzon (0) A sentence of 18 months rigorous imprisonment imposed on Lokmanya Tilak (c) The arrest and deportation of Lala Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh; and passing of the Punjab Colonization Bill (4) Death brothers Four resolutions were passed at the famous Caleutta Session of Indian National Congress in 1906, The question of either retention OR of rejection of these four resolution become the cause ofa spilt in Congres at the hex! Congress session held in Surat in 1907, which one fof the following was NOT one of those resolutions ? sentence pronouced on the Chapkar Indian Jlistory 75 (a) Annulment of partitions of Bengal (0) Boycott (c) National Education (4) Swadesh 63. The Muslim deputation (Under the leadership of Aga Khan) mects Lord Minto in 1906 at Shimla and pleaded for [S8¢, 2004) (a) separate electorate for Muslims (b) a composite electorate (c) higher representation to the Hindus (4) special representation to Muslim by nomination In the context of the Indian freedom struggle 16th October, 1905 is well-known for which one of the following reasons ? (a) partition of Bengal took place () The formal proclamation of Swadeshi Movement was made in calcutta Town Hall (6) Dadabhai_Naoroji declared that goal of India National Congress was Swaraja (4) Lokmanya Tilak started Swadeshi Movement in Poona IRRB, 2005], Answers @ 2@ 30 40 5 @ O 126 3 14 @ 15 @ (a) 22. (c) 23. (a) 24. (c) 25. fa) @) 32 @ 33.) 34. ©) 38. fa) @ 2 @ 4% 44. @ 45. (© (52. @ 53. (0) 54. (6) 58, (6) (62 63. @) 64. fa) Who of the following said, ‘Mahatma Gandhi, like fleeting phantom raises dust but not the level"? (a) BR. Amkbedkar (&) M.A. Jinnah [S8C, 2013] (6) V.D. Savarkar (a) None of these 2. Who was the Nationalist Leader to be elected as ‘Speaker of Central Legislative Assembly in 1925? (a) Motilal Nehru (@) Vitthalbhai Patel (6) Vallabhbhai Patel (a) CR Das. |. The lady Congress leader who went underground during the Quit India Movement was (a) Sucheta Kripalani—(b) Vijay Laxmi Pandit, (c} Aruna Asaf Ali (4) Sorojini Naidu Cabinet Mission was presided over by [RRB, 2006) (a) Lord Atlee (0) Stafford Cripps (c} Clement Atlee (4) Pathie Lawrence ". Provincial Autonomy was one of the important features of the Act of (a) 1935, (o) 1919 (o} 1909 (a) 1858 6 79 & @ 92 @ 10 0 16 17 @ 18. @) 19 20. fa) 26. (@) 27. @ 28.) 29. @) 30.) 36. (a) 37. (@) 38. fd) 39. (6) 40. a) 46, (@) 47. (b) 48. (o) 49. (4) 50, (o) 56. (@ 57. (58. bh) 59. (a) 60, (0) 28 The Gandhian Era 8. Who is the author of the autobiography "The Indian Struggle’? IS8c, 2004] (a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad () Jawahar Lal Nehru (c) Lala Lajpat Rai (4) Subhash Chandra Bose 7. The Poona Pact aimed (a) at Hindu-Muslim Unity (0) to represent to lower cast (c) at privileges to princes, {q) to review the Dyarchy 8. The name of the periodical among the following published by Mahatma Gandhi during his stay in South [Airforce Y Group, 2013] Africa (Force, 1012] (a) Naviivan (0) India Gazette (6) Africaner (4) Indian Opinion 8, There is going to be a revolution here (in India) and we ‘must get out quick’ who said it? (Constable, 2010] (a) Stafford Cripps (0) Lord Pathoric Lawrence (6) Lord Wavell (a) AV. Alexander