Dear students, SSC CGL Tier-1 Exam is near, now you need to pace up your studies. In GA Section, generally, 5 to 6 questions are asked from HISTORY PORTION. So we are providing 15 previous year questions everyday. these questions will help in improving your GENERAL AWARENESS portion.
Q1. When Mahatma Gandhi was arrested who among the following took over the leadership of Salt Satyagraha?
(a) VinobaBhave
(b) SardarVallabhBhai Patel
(c) Abbas Tyabji
(d) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
Q2. “Go back to Vedas.” This call given by
(a) Ramakrishna Paramah-amsa
(b) Vivekananda
(c) JyotibaPhule
(d) Daynand Saraswati
Q3. The father of extremist movement in India is:
(a) Motilal Nehru
(b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(c) Vallabhbhai Patel
(d) BalGangadharTilak
Q4. The first Indian selected for Indian Civil Service was:
(a) Satyendranath Tagore
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) LalaLajpatRai
(d) C.R. Das
Q5. Where did Aurangzeb die?
(a) Ahmednagar
(b) Aurangabad
(c) Allahabad
(d) Lahore
Q6. The Home Rule Leagu was started by
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) BalGangadharTilak
(c) JawaharLal Nehru
(d) Rajendra Prasad
Q7. Who was the Chairman of the Union Powers Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India?
(a) Sardar Vallabhbahi Patel
(b) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
(c) Sir Alladi Krishna swami Ayer
(d) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
Q8. Which British Governor General introduced Postage Stamp in India?
(a) Lord Dalhousie
(b) Lord Auckland
(c) Lord Canning
(d) Lord William Bentinck
Q9. When was the first passenger train run in India?
(a) January 1848
(b) April 1853
(c) May 1857
(d) April 1852
Q10. Who was the first Indian to be elected to the British Parliament?
(a) DadabhaiNaoroji
(b) Gopala Krishna Gokhale
(c) Bipin Chandra Pal
(d) LalaLajpatRai
Q11. Who was the National leader who wrote History of India on the walls of the Andaman Cellular Jail?
(a) Nandanlal Bose
(b) Ambedkar
(c) VirSavarkar
(d) JyotibaPhule
Q12. ‘Do or Die’ is the famous slogan given by
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Vallabhbhai Patel
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Rajiv Gandhi
Q13. Who scripted Gandhiji’s favorite song ‘Vaishnav Jan To ……….”?
(a) Narsinh Mehta
(b) Premanand
(c) Chunilal
(d) Dharmiklal
Q14. Who spoke : “At the stroke of midnight, when the world sleeps, India awakes to life and freedom”?
(a) NetajiSubhas Chandra Bose
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) C. Rajagopalachari
Q15. The Ahmedabad Satyagraha of Gandhi was directed against
(a) British mill owners and government officials
(b) Indian mill owners and non government officials
(c) British non-government officials
(d) Indian government officials
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