Previous Year History Questions for SSC CGL 2017

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. Who was the Indian women president of the United Nations General Assembly?
(a) Sarojini Naidu
(b) Margret Thatcher
(c) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
(d) Golda Mayer
Q2. Gandhiji’s famous Quit India Movement call to the British was given in-
(a) 1943
(b) 1941
(c) 1942
(d) 1940

Q3. Who was the first president of AIC session”?
(a) W.C.Bonnerjee
(b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(c) Badruddin Tyabji
(d) None of these

Q4. The only AIC session Gandhiji presided was held at :
(a) Calcutta
(b) Madras
(c) Belgaum
(d) Lahore

Q5. When was the office of District Collector created?
(a) 1786
(b) 1772
(c) 1771
(d) 1773

Q6. Who is the founder of the concept “Sarvodaya”?
(a) VinobhaBhave
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Jai Prakash Narayan
(d) K G Mushroowala

Q7. Who was the founder of the Indian national Army?
(a) Nehru
(b) Subhash Chandra Bose
(c) BalGangadharTilak
(d) Gandhiji

Q8. Who was the first Indian to become member of British Parliament?
(a) D.N. Wacha
(b) Surendranath Banerjee
(c) DadabhaiNaoroji
(d) Firozshah Mehta

Q9. Where did the Black-Hole tragedy took place?
(a) Monghyr
(b) Calcutta
(c) Murshidabad
(d) Dacca

Q10. The battle of Plassey was fought between
(a) Sirajuddula and Robert Clive
(b) None of the options
(c) Mir Kasim and Robert Clive
(d) Mir Jafar and Robert Clive

Q11. Who was the governor-general during the Second Anglo-Mysore War?
(a) Lord Wellesley
(b) Lord Cornwallis
(c) Sir John Shore
(d) Warren Hastings

Q12. Jallianwala incident took place at
(a) Allahabad
(b) Lucknow
(c) Surat
(d) Amritsar

Q13. Mahatma Gandhi began his political activities in India first from:
(a) Dandi
(b) Kheda
(c) Sabarmati
(d) Champaran

Q14. The British Government intervened in the affairs of the Company and passed an Act in 1773 A.D., known as the
(a) Regulating Act
(b) Pitt’s India Act
(c) Charter Act
(d) Company Act

Q15. Who was the French Governor of Pondicherry. Who tried to make the French Company as a powerful company?
(a) Thomas Arthur, Comte de Lally
(b) Godeheu
(c) La Bourdonnais
(d) Joseph Francois Dupleix

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