General Knowledge Question Answer: History GK Questions and Answers

General Knowledge History Questions, History Quiz for Competitive Exams, Important History MCQs for GK

Q. Which of the following commissions in the British era had made recommendations for a change in the pattern of diarchy introduced under Government of India Act, 1919?
1) Simon Commission
2) Sapru Commission
3) Butler Commission
4) Muddiman Committee

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Q. Who was the Governor General of British India at the time of Simon Commission and Nehru Report?
1) Lord Rippon
2) Lord Kornowalis
3) Lord Irwin
4) Lord Mountbatten

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Q. Who called Mahatma Gandhi as Mahatma for the first time?
1) Jawaharlal Nehru
2) Rabindranath Tagore
3) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
4) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

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Q. Who founded the Indian Independence League at California?
1) Madan Lal Dhingra
2) Shyamji Krishna Varma
3) Tarak Nath Das
4) Surendra Nath Bandyopadhyay

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Q. Which greatest leader of the Indian national movement wrote History of the Indian National Congress?
1) Motilal Nehru
2) Sarojini Naidu
3) Pattabhi Sitaramayya
4) J B Kripalani

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Q. Who is the writer of a famous travelogue Rihla in Arabic?
1) Ibn Battuta
2) Al Biruni
3) Megasthenis
4) Dara Shikoh

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Q. Which freedom fighter edited The Dawn of India (an english daily) and Dainik Basumati (a Bengali daily)?
1) Barindra Kumar Ghosh
2) Aurobindo Ghosh
3) Bipin Chandra Pal
4) Rammohan Roy

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Q. The Satapatha Brahmana and Taitriya Brahmana are the Brahmana texts of -
1) Rigveda
2) Yajurveda
3) Samaveda
4) Atharavaveda

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Q. Who said that India's Swaraj would have to come either from the British Parliament or through violence.
1) Sir Jayson-Hicks
2) Lord Curzon
3) Lord Napier
4) Lord Chelmsford

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Q. Which rock edict informs us about Asoka's first Dhamma Yatra to Bodhgaya and Bodhi Tree?
1) Bhabra rock edict
2) Minor rock edict of Yerragudi
3) 13th Major Rock Edict
4) 8th Major Rock Edict

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