Q. Name the leader who was known as ‘Mahamana’:

(a) MM Malavya                                                 

(b) Jayaprakash Narayan

(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak                                   

(d) Vinoba Bhave

Answer: (a) MM Malavya                                                 

Q. The first foreigner to become the president of INC?

(a) AO Hume                                                         

(b) William Wedderburn

(c) George Yule                                                      

(d) Alfred Webb

Answer: (c) George Yule                                                     

Q. The first Governor-General of Pakistan:

(a) Liaqat Ali Khan                                                   

(b) Mountbatten

(c) Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali Jinnah       

(d) Iskander Mirza

Answer: (c) (c) Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali Jinnah 

Q. The first Indian woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress:

(a) Indira Gandhi                                               

(b) Vijayalekshmi Pandit

(c) Annie Besant                                                

(d) Sarojini Naidu

Answer: (d) Sarojini NaiduQ. The first Muslim to become the president of the Indian National Congress:

(a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah                                     

(b) Badruddin Tyabji

(c) Syed Ahmed Khan                                             

(d) Maunala Abul Kalam Azad

Answer: (b) Badruddin Tyabji

Q. The first prime minister of Pakistan:

(a) Liaqat Ali Khan                                                                

(b) Muhammad Iqbal

(c) Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali Jinnah                    

(d) Iskander Mirza

Answer: (a) Liaqat Ali Khan                                                                 

Q. The leader of the national movement whose birthday is August 15:

(a) Vinoba Bhave                                                              

(b) Bhagat Singh

(c) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel                                    

(d) Aurobindo Ghosh

Answer: (d) Aurobindo Ghosh

Q. The only Keralite to become the president of INC:

(a) John Mathai                                                  

(b) RK Shanmugham Chetty

(c) C Sankaran Nair                                            

(d) K Kelappan

Answer: (c) C Sankaran Nair                                            

Q. To whom Jawaharlal Nehru dedicated his autobiography?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi                                     

(b) Motilal Nehru

(c) Indira Gandhi                                              

(d) Kamala Nehru

Answer: (d) Kamala Nehru

Q. Which one of the following was a moderate Congress leader?

(a) Lajpat Rai                                              

(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(c) Bipin Chandra Pal                                

(d) GK Gokhale

Answer: (d) GK Gokhale

Q. Who authored ‘Arctic Home in the Vedas’?

(a) Lalpath Rai                                           

(b) Raja Ram Mohun Roy

(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak                           

(d) Dayanand Saraswathy

Answer: (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak                           

Q. Who authored ‘India wins Freedom’?

(a)  Dr.Rajendraprasad                           

(b) Rajagopalachari

(c) Maunala Abul Kalam Azad                

(d) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

Answer: (c) Maunala Abul Kalam Azad               

Q. Who became the first defence minister of independent India?

(a) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel               

(b) Baldev Singh

(c) VK Krishna Menon                            

(d) John Mathai

Answer: (b) Baldev Singh

Q. Who coined the term Pakistan for the first time?

(a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah                       

(b)Liaqat Ali

(c) Rehmat Ali                                             

(d) Shoukat Ali

Answer: (c) Rehmat Ali                                            

Q. Who established the Indian Trade Union Federation in 1929?

(a) NG ranga                                       

(b) Swami Sahajanand Saraswati

(c) EMS Nambuthirippad

(d) NM Joshi

Answer: (d) NM Joshi

Q. Who established Vedanta College in 1825?

(a) David Hare                                         

(b) HV Derozio

(c) Ram Mohun Roy                          

(d) Iswar Chandra Vidhya Sagar

Answer: (c) Ram Mohun Roy                           

Q. Who founded Forward Bloc?

(a) Motilal Nehru                                    

(b) Bhagat Singh

(c)  Mahathma Gandhi                          

(d) Subhas Chandra Bose

Answer: (d) Subhas Chandra Bose

Q. Who founded Swatanthra Party in 1959?

(a) Chittaranjan Das                                

(b) JB Kripalani

(c) BR Ambedkar                                       

(d) C Rajagopalachari

Answer: (d) C Rajagopalachari

Q.  Who was the president of INC when India got independence?

(a) Dr.Rajendraprasad                         

(b) Maunala Abul Kalam Azad

(c) Jawaharlal Nehru                             

(d) JB Kripalani

Answer: (d) JB Kripalani

Q. Who was the president of INC when it split in the Surat session in 1907?

(a) Rash Behari Ghosh                                  

(b) GK Gokhale

(c) AC Majumdar                                             

(d) MM Malavya

Answer: (a) Rash Behari Ghosh

Q. Who was the president of INC when the resolution for complete independence was passed in the Lahore session in 1929?

(a) Jawaharlal Nehru                                             

(b) Lajpat Rai

(c) Motilal Nehru                                                    

(d) Chittaranjan Das

Answer: (a) Jawaharlal Nehru

Q. Who was the president of Indian National Congress when it launched Quit India Movement?

(a) Subash Bose                                                     

(b) JB Kripalani

(c) Jawaharlal Nehru                                             

(d) Abul Kalam Azad

Answer: (d) Abul Kalam Azad

Q. Who was the prime minister of England when India got independence?

(a) Winston Churchill                                          

(b) Ramsay Mc Donald

(c) Clement Atlee                                                   

(d) Neville Chamberlain

Answer: (c) Clement Atlee                                                   

Q. Who wrote ‘Gitarahasya’?

(a) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel                          

(b) Mahatma Gandhi

(c) Aurobindo                                                     

(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Answer: (d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

 

Q. Who wrote ‘Sare Jahan Se Achcha’?

(a) Muhammad Ali                                              

(b) Muhammad Iqbal

(c) BC Chatterjee                                                  

(d) Subramanya Bharti

Answer: (b) Muhammad Iqbal

Q. Who wrote the famous Tamil patriotic song “Odivilayadu pappa…..”

(a) GS Iyer                                                             

(b) VO Chidambaram Pillai

(c) Subramanya Bharti                                     

(d) C.Rajagopalachari

Answer: (c) Subramanya Bharti                                     

Q. Who founded the Benarus Hindu University?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi                                     

(b) Raja Ram Mohun Roy

(c) Madan Mohan Malavya                            

(d) PD Tandon

Answer: (c) Madan Mohan Malavya                            

Q. Who founded the Hindu Maha Sabha?

(a) VD Savarkar                                                          

(b) MM Malavya

(c) SP Mukherjee                                                         

(d) Hedgewar

Answer: (b) MM Malavya

Q. Who founded the ‘Servants of India Society’?

(a) MG Ranade                                               

(b) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

(c) GK Gokhale                                                             

(d)  MK Gandhi

Answer: (c) GK Gokhale                                                             

Q. Who gave the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’?

(a) Bhagat Singh                                                           

(b) Ajith Singh

(c) Muhammad Ali                                                  

(d) Muhammad Iqbal

Answer: (d) Muhammad Iqbal

Q. Who gave the slogan ‘Jai Hind’?

(a) Tagore                                                                   

(b) Mahatma Gandhi

(c) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose                                

(d) Nehru

Answer: (c) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose                                 

Q. Name the leaders who formed the Swaraj Party:

(a) Motilal Nehru and C Rajagopalachari

(b) Jawaharlal Nehru and SC Bose

(c) Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das

(d) None of these

Answer: (c) Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das

Q. Name the nationalist leader who was born in Mecca:

(a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad                  

(b) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

(c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah                                       

(d) Muhammad Iqbal

Answer: (a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad                  

Q. Name the revolutionary leader who turned into an ascetic in the later years of his life:

(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak                                      

(b) Bhagat Singh

(c) Bipin Chandra Pal                                        

(d) Aurobindo Ghosh

Answer: (d) Aurobindo Ghosh

Q. The first and last Indian to become the Governor-General of independent India:

(a) Mountbatten                                                 

(b)Dr.Rajendraprasad

(c) Rajagopalachari                                            

(d) S Radhakrishnan

Answer: (c) Rajagopalachari                                             Q. Who got lathi blows while protesting against Simon Commission, which became fatal to him?

(a) Subhas Chandra Bose                                 

(b) Lajpat Rai

(c) Bhagat Singh                                                  

(d) Jatin Das

Answer: (b) Lajpat Rai

Q. Who headed Cabinet Mission?

(a) Stafford Crips                                               

(b) AV Alexander

(c) Cyril Radcliff                                                 

(d) Pethic Lawrence

Answer: (d) Pethic Lawrence

Q. Who headed the boundary commission appointed to demarcate the boundary between India and Pakistan?

(a) Sir Stafford Crips                                             

(b) Lord Mountbatten

(c) Cyril Radcliff                                                      

(d) Pethic Lawrence

Answer: (c) Cyril Radcliff                                                      

Q. Who is called modern Manu?

(a) BR Ambedkar                                                

(b) Nehru

(c) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel                          

(d) Maunala Abul Kalam Azad

Answer: (a) BR Ambedkar                                                

 

Q. Who is called the ‘mother of Indian nationalism’?

(a) Sarojini Naidu                                               

(b) Annie Besant

(c) Madam Bhikaji Cama                                  

(d) Aruna Asaf Ali

Answer: (c) Madam Bhikaji Cama                                 

Q. Who is regarded as the father of ‘the two-nation theory’?

(a) Muhammad Iqbal                                      

(b) Muhammad Ali Jinnah

(c) Nehru                                                             

(d) Rajagopalachari

Answer: (b) Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Q. Who is the founder of the Indian National Congress?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi                                         

(b) WC Bannerjee

(c) AO Hume                                                          

(d) SN Bannerjee

Answer: (c) AO Hume                                                          

Q. Who led the activities of the Theosophical Society in India?

(a) Aurobindo                                                 

(b) Mahatma Gandhi

(c) Annie Besant                                             

(d) Vinoba Bhave

Answer: (c) Annie Besant                                             

Q. Who led the Quit India Movement?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi                                    

(b) Nehru

(c) Abul Kalam Azad                                       

(d) No one

Answer: (d) No one

Q. Who mooted the idea of a separate province for Muslims for the first time?

(a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah                             

(b) Liaqat Ali

(c) Rehmat Ali                                                   

(d)  Muhammad Iqbal

Answer: (d)  Muhammad Iqbal

Q. Who popularised the worship of Ganapathi in Maharashtra?

(a) BR Ambedkar                                          

(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(c) KT Telang                                                   

(d) VD Savarkar

Answer: (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Q. Who presided over the all-party conference in 1928?

(a) Motilal Nehru                                        

(b) MA Ansari

(c) Dr.Rajendraprasad                               

(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer: (b) MA Ansari

Q. Who put forward the ‘fourteen-point formula’?

(a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah                            

(b) Nehru

(c) Mahathma Gandhi                                    

(d) Rajagopalachari

Answer: (a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah                            

Q. Who raised the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ for the first time?

(a) Lajpat Rai                                               

(b) Subhas Chandra Bose

(c) Bhagat Singh                                            

(d) Motilal Nehru

Answer: (c) Bhagat Singh                                            

Q. Who was called the Bismark of India?

(a) Gandhiji                                                      

(b) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

(c) BR Ambedkar                                           

(d)  VP Menon

Answer: (b) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

Q. Who was called the Grand old man of India’?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi                                  

(b) Nehru

(c) Dadabhai Naoroji                                     

(d) WC Bannerjee

Answer: (c) Dadabhai Naoroji                                     

Q. Who was called the hero of the Bardoli satyagraha?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi                                            

(b) Nehru

(c) Vinoba Bhave                                                

(d) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

Answer: (d) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

Q. Who was called the Queen of the Quit India Movement?

(a) Annie Besant                                                       

(b) Vijayalekshmi Pandit

(c) Sarojini Naidu                                                     

(d) Aruna Asaf Ali

Answer: (d) Aruna Asaf Ali

Q. Who was defeated by Subhas Chandra Bose in 1939 when he was elected to the post of Congress president?

(a) Dr.Rajendraprasad                                         

(b) Jawaharlal Nehru

(c) Pattabhi Seetharamaiah                           

(d) Maunala Abul Kalam Azad

Answer: (c) Pattabhi Seetharamaiah                           

Q. Who was elected the president of INC when Subhas Chandra Bose resigned?

(a) Jawaharlal Nehru                                                   

(b) C.Rajagopalachari

(c) Dr.Rajendraprasad                                               

(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer: (c) Dr.Rajendraprasad                                               

Q. Who was instrumental in the integration of princely states after independence?

(a) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel                            

(b) BR Ambedkar

(c) Baldev Singh                                                   

(d) Lal Bahadur Shastri

Answer: (a) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel                            

Q. Who was known as ‘Kappalotiya Tamilan’?

(a) Veeraraghavachari                                      

(b) Chempaka Raman Pillai

(c) CN Annadurai                                                

(d) VO Chidambaram Pillai

Answer: (d) VO Chidambaram Pillai

Q. Who was known as ‘the lion of Punjab’?

(a) Bhagat Singh                                                

(b) Lajpat Rai

(c) Ajith Singh                                                     

(d) Chandrasekhar Azad

Answer: (b) Lajpat Rai

Q.  Who was known as the ‘saint of Pavnar’?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi                                        

(b) Vinoba Bhave

(c) Jamnalal Bajaj                                                 

(d) VD Paluskar

Answer: (b) Vinoba Bhave

Q. Who was popularly called ‘Bengal Tiger’?

(a) SC Bose                                                             

(b) Aurobindo Ghosh

(c) Bankim Chandra Chatterji                          

(d) Bipin Chandra Pal

Answer: (d) Bipin Chandra Pal

Q. Who was popularly called C.Rajagopalachari?

(a) Dr.Rajendraprasad                                           

(b) Rajagopalachari

(c) Raja Ram Mohun Roy                                       

(d) Raj Guru

Answer: (b) Rajagopalachari

Q. Who was the first deputy prime minister of India?

(a) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel                         

(b) Maunala Abul Kalam Azad

(c) Lal Bahadur Shastri                                     

(d) S Radhakrishnan

Answer: (a) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel                          

Q. Who was the first general secretary of INC?

(a) WC Bannerjee                                                   

(b) Dadabhai Naoroji

(c) AO Hume                                                              

(d) None of these

Answer: (c) AO Hume                                                              

Q. Who was the first home minister of India?

(a) BR Ambedkar                                                      

(b) Nehru

(c) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel                       

(d) Maunala Abul Kalam Azad

Answer: (c) Sardar Vallabh Bhai

Q. Who was the founder of the Muslim League?

(a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah                                                 

(b) Agha Khan

(c) Liaqat Ali Khan                                                         

(d) Muhammad Iqbal

Answer: (b) Agha Khan

Q. Who was the founder of the Pakistan national movement?

(a) Iqbal                                                                 

(b) Muhammad Ali Jinnah

(c) Rehmat Ali                                                      

(d) Aga Khan

Answer: (c) Rehmat Ali                                                      

Q. Who was the last Governor-General of British India?

(a) Rajagopalachari                                 

(b) Lord Wavell

(c) Lord Mountbatten                             

(d) Lord Linlithgo

Answer: (c) Lord Mountbatten                             

Q. Who was the political guru of Gopala Krishna Gokhale?

(a) Dadabhai Naoroji                             

(b) WC Bannerjee

(c) SN Bannerjee                                     

(d) MG Ranade

Answer: (d) MG Ranade

Q. Whom Sarojini Naidu once called the ‘Ambassador of Hindu Muslim Unity’?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi                            

(b) Nehru

(c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah                    

(d) Ambedkar

Answer: (c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah                    

Q. Who said ‘Give me blood, I shall give you freedom’?

(a) Subhas Chandra Bose                   

(b) Mahatma Gandhi

(c) Nehru                                                  

(d) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

Answer: (a) Subhas Chandra

Q. Who said ‘Swarajya is my birthright’?

(a) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel                  

(b) Mahatma Gandhi

(c) Nehru                                                  

(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Answer: (d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Q. Who started the daily ‘The Hindu’ in 1878?

(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak                         

(b) G Subramanya Iyer

(c) VD Savarkar                                         

(d) None of these

Answer: (b) G Subramanya Iyer

Q. Who started the journal ‘New India’?

(a) Sarojini Naidu                                   

(b) Annie Besant

(c) Madam Bhikaji Cama

(d) Aruna Asaf Ali

Answer: (b) Annie Besant

Q. Who started the Khilafat movement in India?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi                               

(b) Ali brothers

(c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah                        

(d) Syed Ahmed Khan

Answer: (b) Ali brothers

Q. Who was called ‘Lok Manya’?

(a) MM Malavya                                            

(b) Jayaprakash Narayan

(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak                             

(d) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

Answer: (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak