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Modern Indian History


1. Who among the following was the first President of Indian National Congress?

Dadabhai Naoroji

A.O. Hume

W.C. Bonnerjee

Allan Octavian Hume


2. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in which year?

1917

1918

1919

1920


3. Who among the following was the founder of the Indian National Army?

Subhash Chandra Bose

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Jawaharlal Nehru

Mahatma Gandhi


4. Who among the following was the last Mughal Emperor of India?

Akbar II

Bahadur Shah Zafar

Muhammad Shah

Alamgir II


5. Who was the leader of the Non-cooperation Movement in India?

Mahatma Gandhi

Jawaharlal Nehru

Subhas Chandra Bose

Bhagat Singh


6. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in which city?

Amritsar

Lahore

Delhi

Mumbai


7. Who was the last Governor-General of India?

Lord Mountbatten

C. Rajagopalachari

Lord Wavell

Lord Irwin


8. Who among the following was the first Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress?

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Sarojini Naidu

Annie Besant

Sucheta Kriplani


9. Who among the following was the first Indian woman to become the President of the United Nations General Assembly?

Vijayalakshmi Pandit

Sarojini Naidu

Indira Gandhi

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur


10. Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Rabindranath Tagore

C.V. Raman

Amartya Sen

Mother Teresa