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 every day. these questions will help in improving your GENERAL AWARENESS portion.

Q1. Which one of the following Indus Valley Civilization sites gives evidence of a stadium?

(a) Harappa 

(b) Kalibangan

(c) Mohenjodaro 

(d) Dholavira

Q2. The local name of Mohenjodaro is:

(a) Mound of Living

(b) Mound of Survivor

(c) Mound of Dead 

(d) Mound of Great

Q3. Who is the most important God in Rigaveda?

(a) Agni 

(b) Indra

(c) Varun 

(d) Vishnu

Q4. Which one of the following Indus Valley Civilization sites gives evidence of a dockyard?

(a) Harappa 

(b) Mohenjodaro

 (c) Lothal 

(d) Dholavira

Q5. Harappa is located on the bank of river:

(a) Indus 

(b) Ravi

(c) Beas 

(d) Sutlej

Q6.Where is Babur’s tomb situated?

(a) Kabul 

(b) Lahore

(c) Delhi 

(d) Ayodhya

Q7. Remains of horse bares have been found from:

(a) Mohenjodaro 

(b) Lothal

(c) Surkotada 

(d) Sutkagendor

Q8. Who was the leader of Kanpur spear heading Revolt of 1857?

(a) Birjis Quadir 

(b) Khan Bahadur

(c) Nana Saheb 

(d) Kunwar Singh

Q9. Who influenced Mahadev Govind Ranade to establish Prathana Samaj in Bombay?

(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(b) Devendra Nath Tagore

(c) Keshav Chandra Sen

(d) Tek Chand Mitra

Q10. Ganpati Festival in Maharashtra was started by

(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(c) Aurobindo Ghosh

(d) Bipin Chandra Pal

Q11. Between which stations was the first railway line opened in India?

(a) Calcutta to Raniganj

(b) Bombay to Pune

(c) Calcutta to Jamshedpur

(d) Bombay to Thane

Q12. The ruler of which one of the following states was removed from power by the British on the pretext of misgovernance?

(a) Awadh 

(b) Jhansi

(c) Nagpur 

(d) Satara

Q13. Who was the Governor General of India at the time of Sindh-annexation?

(a) Lord Auckland

(b) Lord Mayo

(c) Lord Dalhousie

(d) Lord Ellenborough

Q14. Who among the following was the first Governor General of India?

(a) Robert Clive

(b) Lord Canning

(c) Lord William Bentinck

(d) Lord Wellesley

Q15. Who among the following started the newspaper Shome Prakash?

(a) Dayanand Saraswati

(b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(d) Akshay Kumar Datta

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