Previous Year History Questions for SSC CGL 2017

SSC repeats many previous years questions. Every day, we provide quizzes on all the topics of History. SSC CGL Pre 2017 Exam is scheduled tentatively in the month of AUGUST 2017. At SSC ADDA, we are providing History Quiz of 15 important last year question. Only 2 months are left for exams, boost up your preparation with us.

Q1.Who was the first Viceroy of India?
(a) Lord Canning
(b) Warren Hastings
(c) Lord William Bentinck
(d) Lord Curzon

Q2.Who produced for the first time statistical estimate of average per capita income of India?
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) Ramesh Chandra Dutta
(c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(d) Pherozshah Mehta

Q3.Who was the propounder of the Drain Theory in India?
(a) R.C. Dutta
(b) Henry Cotton
(c) S.N. Banerjee
(d) Dadabhai Naoroji

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Q4.In whose viceroyalty, the white mutiny took place?
(a) Lord Curzon
(b) Lord Minto
(c) Lord Hardinge
(d) Lord Ripon

Q5.Which of the Acts wrote an epitaph on the grave of the East India Company?
(a) Act of 1858
(b) Act of 1861
(c) Act of 1892
(d) None of these

Q6.Vande Mataram the national song was a part of
(a) Durgesh Nandini
(b) Anand Math
(c) Grihadaha
(d) Bhagvad-Gita

Q7.The Revolt of 1857 at Lucknow was led by
(a) Begum Hazarat Mahal
(b) Tantiya Tope
(c) Rani Laxmi Bai
(d) Nana Saheb

Q8.The Revolt of 1857 was witnessed by the poet
(a) Taqi Mir
(b) Zauq
(c) Ghalib
(d) Iqbal

Q9.Who was the Governor General of India during the Sepoy mutiny?
(a) Lord Dalhousei
(b) Lord Canning
(c) Lord Hardinge
(d) Lord Lytton

Q10.The call of “Back to the Vedas” was given by
(a) Swami Vivekanand
(b) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
(c) Aurobindo Ghosh
(d) Vishnu Shastri Pandit

Q11.Young Bengal Movement was started by
(a) Alexander Duft
(b) H.V. Derozio
(c) Jonathan Duncan
(d) Swami Vivekanand

Q12.Who among the following British persons admitted the Revolt of 1857 as a national revolt?
(a) Lord Dalhousie
(b) Lord Canning

Q13.Satyartha Prakash was written by
(a) Swami Shraddhanand
(b) Swami Vivekanand
(c) Swami Dayanand Sarswati
(d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Q14.Lord Curzon is best known for which of the following?
(a) Universities Act 1904
(b) Partition of Bengal in 1905
(c) Indian Council Act 1892
(d) Government of India Act 1909

Q15.King George V visited India during the viceroyship of
(a) Lord Hardinge
(b) Lord Mayo
(c) Lord Ripon
(d) Lord Curzon

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