Facts about India -Questions and Answers -21

501. Who was the Viceroy when the Cabinet Mission visited India?

(a) Mountbatten (b) Wavell
(c) Wellington (d) Linlithgo

Answer: (b)

502. In World War One this person was wounded in the Battle of Ypres in 1915 and lost an eye. Later he became Viceroy of India. His name is:

(a) Mountbatten (b) Wellington

503. Mountbatten stepped down from the position of Governor General of Independent India in:
(a) 1948                                                           (b) 1947
(c) 1949                                                           (d) 1950
Answer: (a)

504. Name the Governor General who introduced Doctrine of Lapse:
(a) Dalhousie                                                 (b) Canning
(c) Charles Metcalfe                                     (d) Hardinge I
Answer: (a)

505. Name the Governor General who is called the “Maker of Modern India”:

(a) Canning (b) William Bentick
(c) Dalhousie (d) Curzon
Answer: (c)

506. Name the Governor General who was called ‘Akbar of British India’?

(a) Wellesley (b) Curzon
(c) William Bentick (d) Dufferin
Answer: (a)

507. Name the person who resigned his position as Viceroy of India in August 1905 because of a difference of opinion with Lord Kitchener, the British military Commander-in-Chief in India:

(a) Minto I (b) Chelmsford
(c) Curzon (d) Dufferin
Answer: (c)

508. Name the Viceroy who was called the “Aurangazeb of British India’?

(a) Wellesley (b) Wavell
(c) Curzon (d) Irwin
Answer: (c)

509. The college established by the British at Ajmer was named after the Viceroy:

(a) Mayo (b) Rippon
(c) Dalhousie (d) Curzon
Answer: (a)

510. The first Viceroy of India:

(a) Canning (b) Mayo
(c) Ripon (d) Lytton
Answer: (a)

511. The Governor General during the second Mysore War:
(a) Hastings I (b) Warren Hastings
(c) Cornwallis (d) Wellesley
Answer: (b)

512. The Governor General during the third Mysore War:

(a) Warren Hastings (b) Cornwallis
(c) Wellesley (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (b)

513. The Governor General when Calcutta medical college was founded:

(a) Canning (b) Cornwallis
(c) William Bentick (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (c)

514. The Governor General who annexed Satara to British India, the first princely state to be annexed to British India under Doctrine of Lapse:

(a) Canning (b) Cornwallis

515. The Governor General who died at Ghazipore on the Ganges River where his grave and monument are still maintained by the Indian government:

(a) Wellesley (b) William Bentick
(c) Warren Hastings (d) Cornwallis
Answer: (d)

516. The Viceroy during the partition of Bengal:

(a) Hardinge II (b) Minto I

517. The Viceroy during the Second and Third Round Table Conference:

(a) Reading (b) Irwin
(c) Wellington (d) Linlithgo
Answer: (c)

518. The Viceroy of India during the Delhi Durbar of 1877:

(a) Wellesley (b) Lytton
(c) Dufferin (d) Curzon
Answer: (b)

519. The Viceroy when India got independence:

(a) Wavell (b) Mountbatten
(c) Wellington (d) Linlithgo

Answer: (b)

520. The Viceroy when Muslim League was formed in 1906:

(a) MintoII (b) Hardinge II
(c) Chelmsford (d) Chelmsford
Answer: (a)

521. The Viceroy when Rowlatt Act was passed?
(a) Hardinge II (b) Chelmsford
(c) Reading (d) Wellington
Answer: (b)

522. Who was the Governor General when the administration of British India was transferred from East India Company to the British Crown:

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

523. Who was the Governor General when the first railway line was established between Bombay and Thane?

(a) William Bentick (b) Canning
(c) Dufferin (d) Dalhousie
Answer: (d)

524. Who was the Governor General when the first telegraph line was established between Kolkata and Agra?

(a) Canning (b) Dufferin
(c) Dalhousie (d) William Bentick
Answer: (c)

525. Who was the Governor General when the Universities of Kolkata, Bombay and Madras were established?

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