Previous Year History Questions for SSC CGL 2017

SSC CGL 2017 Tier-I exam is going on. These questions are based on the type of General Awareness questions asked in the SSC CGL Exam. Candidates having CGL Exam in the upcoming shifts can go through these questions and can expect these questions to be asked in upcoming shifts as well.

Q1. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was equated with

(a) Mazzin

(b) Cavour

(c) Garibaldi

(d) Bismarck

(a) Rabindranath Tagore

(b) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya

(c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya

(d) Surendranath Bandopadhyaya

Q3. The Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh was founded by 

(a) Md. Ali Jinnah

(b) Mohammad Ali

(c) Saukat Ali

(d) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

Q4. The founder of the ‘Brahmo Samaj’ was

(a) Swami Dayananda Vidyasagar

(b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(d) Swami Vivekananda

Q5. Who was in favour of a party-less democracy?

(a) Jai Prakash Narain

(b) Bhupendra Nath Dutta

(c) M. N. Roy

(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Q6. Who was the first Indian Governor-General of India?

(a) B. R. Ambedkar

(b) C. Rajagopalachari

(c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

(d) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Q7. Who is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of local self-government in modern India?

(a) Ripon

(b) Mayo

(c) Lytton

(d) Curzon

Q8. ‘Poorna Swaraj’ (Complete Independence) was declared to be the goal of the Indian National Congress in its Session of

(a) Lucknow, 1916

(b) Lahore, 1929

(c) Tripuri, 1939

(d) Lahore, 1940

Q9. ‘Sati’ was abolished by

(a) Lord Ripon

(b) Warren Hastings

(c) Lord Cornwallis

(d) William Bentinck

Q10. Who was the author of the book My Experiments with Truth?

(a) Aurobindo

(b) Tilak

(c) Gandhi

(d) Vinoba

Q11. The famous revolutionary song ‘Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil mein hai…’ was composed by

(a) Bhagat Singh

(b) Khudiram Bose

(c) Chandrasekhar Azad

(d) Ramprasad Bismil

Q12. Who among the following visited Gandhiji in South Africa?

(a) B. G. Tilak

(b) Vallabhbhai Patel

(c) G. K. Gokhale

(d) J. L. Nehru

Q13. Who scripted Gandhiji’s favorite song ‘Vaishnav Jan To…”?

(a) Narsinh Mehta

(b) Premanand

(c) Chunilal

(d) Dharmiklal

Q14. The ‘Doctrine of Lapse’ was first applied to the Princely State of

(a) Satara

(b) Jhansi

(c) Oudh

(d) Jaunpur

Q15. Who was the National leader who wrote History of India on the walls of the Andaman Cellular Jail?

(a) Nandanlal Bose

(b) Ambedkar

(c) Vir Savarkar

(d) Jyotiba Phule