History GK Questions and Answers Quiz
Q. Who is the Grand Old Man of India ?
1) Rajendra Prasad
2) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
3) Dada Bhai Naoroji
4) Lala Lajpat Rai
Q. Who was stationed by Dupleix at Hyderabad after the First Carnatic War ?
1) Bourdonnais
2) Lally
3) Malcolm
4) Bussy
Q. The famous phrase 'Tattvamasi' is found in which one of the followig Upanishads?
1) Chandogya
2) Mundaka
3) Mandukya
4) Isavasya
Q. With reference to the revolt of the year 1857, who of the following was betrayed by a friend, captured and put to death by the British ?
1) Khan Bahadur Khan
2) Kunwar Singh
3) Nana Sahib
4) Tantia Tope
Q. When and by whom were the Portuguese driven out of Hoogli in Bengal ?
1) 1631 - Qasim Khan
2) 1666 - Prince Shuja
3) 1625 - Shaista Khan
4) 1650 - Prince Murad
Q. By which Governor General and when was the Carnatic state annexed ?
1) Lord Cornwallis – 1792
2) Lord Minto - 1808
3) Lord Wellesly - 1801
4) Sir John Shore - 1797
Q. The Dutch set up its first factory of Masulipatam in ?
1) 1605
2) 1610
3) 1616
4) 1641
Q. The Brahman that belong to the Rig Veda is ?
1) Kausitaki
2) Satapatha
3) Tandyamaha
4) Taittiriya
Q. During the India freedom struggle in the early twentieth century, which one of the following set up a 'Sewak Home' in Vancouver (Canada) ?
1) G. D. Kumar
2) Madanlal Dhingra
3) Tarak Nath Das
4) V. D. Savarkar
Q. Who among the following were considered constituonalists with in the Indian National Congress ?
1) Jawaharlal Nehru and J. B. Kripalani
2) Satyamurthy and K. M. Munshi
3) Sarojini Naidu and Annie Besant
4) Subhash Chandra Bose and Maulana Azad
