Facts about India -Questions and Answers -25

601. Whom Sarojini Naidu once called the ‘Ambassador of Hindu Muslim Unity’?

(a)Gandhiji (b) Nehru
(c) Jinnah (d) Ambedkar

Answer: (c)

602. Who was the Viceroy when communal reservation was introduced for Muslims?

(a)Minto II            (b) Hardinge II

(c)Chelmsford    (d) Reading
Answer: (a)

603. Who started the Khilafat movement in India?

(a) Gandhiji                                  (b) Ali brothers
(c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah       (d) Syed Ahmed Khan
Answer: (b)

604. Who founded Forward Bloc?

(a)Motilal Nehru  (b) Bhagat Singh
(c) Gandhiji          (d) Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: (d)

605. The incident which compelled Gandhiji to repeal non-cooperation movement?

(a) Wagon tragedy                        (b) Jallianwallabagh Massacre
(c) Chauri-Chaura incident         (d) Champaran satyagraha
Answer: (c)

606. Who was called the Queen of the Quit India Movement?

(a)Annie Besant      (b) Vijayalekshmi Pandit
(c) Sarojini Naidu  (d) Aruna Asaf Ali
Answer: (d)

607. Who said ‘Give me blood, I shall give you freedom’?

(a)Subhas Chandra Bose (b) Gandhiji
(c) Nehru                              (d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer: (a)

608. Who was the president of INC when India got independence?

(a)Rajendraprasad        (b) Maulana Abul Kalam  Azad

(c) Jawaharlal Nehru    (d) JB Kripalani

Answer: (d)

609. The Viceroy who introduced Budget system in India:

(a)Canning   (b) Dufferin
(c) Mayo       (d) Curzon
Answer: (a)

610. Who put forwarded the ‘Fourteen Point Formula’?

(a)Muhammad Ali Jinnah  (b) Nehru
(c) Gandhiji                            (d) Rajagopalachari

Answer: (a)

611. Gandhijji was undergone for imprisonment for ...... days in his life.

(a) 2338  (b) 1338  (c) 3338  (d) 3120
Answer: (a)

612. Who started the journal ‘New India’?

(a) Sarojini Naidu (b) Annie Besant

(c) Madam Bhikaji Cama  (d) Aruna Asaf Ali
Answer: (b)

613. Who was the Viceroy when Minto-Morley reforms were introduced?

(a)Hardinge II (b) Minto
(c) Morley (d) Chelmsford
Answer: (b)

614. Who coined the term Pakistan for the first time?

(a)Jinnah (b)Liaqat Ali
(c) Rehmat Ali (d) Shoukat Ali
Answer: (c)

615. In which year Indian National Congress approved the Basic Education System propounded by Gandhiji?

(a) 1935  (b) 1936  
 (c) 1937  (d) 1938

Answer: (d)

616. Who authored ‘Arctic Home in the Vedas’?
(a) Lalpath Rai                      (b) Raja Ram Mohun Roy
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak     (d) Dayanand Saraswathy
Answer: (c)

617. During which agitation Gandhiji gave the slogan’ Do or die’?

(a) Salt satyagraha              (b) Champaran Satyagraha
(c) Quit India movement   (d) Kheda satyagraha

Answer: (c)

618. The only Viceroy who was assassinated while he was in power:

(a)Dufferin     (b) Curzon    
(c) Mayo     (d) Ripon
Answer: (c)

619. The first Indian woman to become the president of Indian National Congress:

(a) Indira Gandhi    (b) Vijayalekshmi Pandit
(c) Annie Besant      (d) Sarojini Naidu
Answer: (d)

620. Who mooted the idea of separate province for Muslims for the first time?

(a)Jinnah                (b) Liaqat Ali
(c) Rehmat Ali      (d)  Muhammad Iqbal
Answer: (d)

621. Who headed Cabinet Mission?

(a) Stafford Crips (b) AV Alexander
(c) Cyril Radcliff (d) Pethic Lawrence
Answer: (d)

622. Who is regarded as the father of the ‘Two Nation Theory’?

(a)Muhammad Iqbal       (b) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(c) Nehru                            (d) Rajagopalachari
Answer: (b)

623. Who was the last Governor General of British India?

(a)Rajagopalachari      (b) Lord Wavell
(c) Lord Mountbatten (d) Lord Linlithgo

Answer: (c)

624. The date in which Gandhiji violated salt law in Dandi beach:

(a) 1930 March 12        (b) 1930 April 6
(c) 1930 May 5               (d) 1930 April 16
Answer: (b)

625.  In which state the Sevagram Ashram of Mahathma Gandhi is situated?

(a) Karnataka   (b) Maharashtra
(c) Gujarat        (d) U.P.

Answer: (b)
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