General Questions on History

Q1. “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it” is the slogan given by which famous leader?

• Ans. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Q2. Who gave Gandhi the title “Mahatma”?

• Ans. Rabindranath Tagore

Q3. Who was the First President of Independent India?

• Ans. Rajendra Prasad

Q4. When Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place?

• Ans.April 13, 1919

Q5. Who was the viceroy of India when Montague- Chelmsford reforms were introduced?

• Ans. Lord Chelmsford

Q6. Whose famous motto was: “Give me blood and I will give you freedom”?

• Ans. Subhas Chandra Bose

Q7. Among the following leaders who was appointed as the viceroy of Independent India?

• Ans. Lord Mountbatten

Q8. Who wrote the National Anthem of India?

• Ans. Rabindranath Tagore

Q9. When was the English East India Company established?

• Ans.1600 A.D

Q10. Who was the Governor General of India when the first war of India’s independence broke out in 1857?

• Ans. Lord Canning

Q11. Who wrote the book “India’s First War of Independence”?

• Ans. Vinayak Samodar Savarkar

Q12. Who was the Lal in Lal, Bal, Pal?

• Ans. Lala Lajapathi Rai  

Q13. Who created Indian National Army for Indian Independence?

• Ans.Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Q14. Who set up the Indian Independence League?

• Ans. Rash Bihari Bose

Q15. Who gave the slogan “Dilli Chalo” or “March to Delhi”?

• Ans. Subhash Chandra Bose