1. As a prelude to the first session of the Indian National
Congress, in which years were the two sessions of the Indian National
Conference held?
Answer :- 1883 & 1885
2. Who
organised Ganapati & Shivaji festivals?
Answer :-
Balagangadhar Thilak
3. In which year was the first session of the Indian
National Congress organised?
Answer :- 1885 December (Bombay)
4. Name the retired English civil servant who is known as
the founder of Indian National Congress?
Answer :- AO Hume
5. Who was the first President of the Indian National
Congress?
Answer :- WC Baneiji
6. How many delegates attended the first session of the
Congress?
Answer :- 72
7. Who was the first woman to address a Congress session in
1890?
Answer :- Kadambini Ganguly
8. Who is associated with the 'Safety Valve' theory of the Congress?
Answer :- AO Hume
9. Who was the British Viceroy at the time of the formation
of Indian National Congress?
Answer :- Lord Dufferin
10. Which is known as the period of moderates in the
Congress?
Answer :- 1885-1905
11. In which year was a British Committee of the Indian
National Congress established in London?
Answer :- 1899
12. Who put forward the 'Drain Theory' to explain the
British exploitation of India?
Answer :- Dadabhai Naoroji
13. Which Viceroy condemned the nationalists by calling
'Seditious' Brahmins, Disloyal Babus' & called Congress 'A factory of
Sedition'?
Answer :- Lord Dufferin
14. Which Viceroy said that 'the Congress is tottering to
its fall, and one of my great ambitions, while in India is to assist it to a
peaceful demise'?
Answer :- Lord Curzon
15. In 1865, who founded the East India Association at
London?
Answer :- Dadabhai Naoroji
16. Who was the first to raise the slogan 'India for the
Indians'?
Answer :- Dayananda Saraswathi
17. Which British Viceroy insulted Indian nationalists and
the intelligentsia by describing their activities as 'Letting of Gas'?
Answer :- Lord Curzon
18. Who said that If there is a sin in this world, it is
weakness; avoid all weakness, weakness is sin, weakness is death'?
Answer :- Swami Vivekananda
19. In which year the British Government's decision to partition
Bengal was made public?
Answer :- 1903 December
20. Which British Viceroy was behind the partition of
Bengal?
Answer :- Lord Curzon
21. What was the official explanation regarding the
partition of Bengal? Answer :- Administrative
difficulties
22. In which year, was the partition of Bengal formally came
into effect?
Answer :- 16 October 1905
23. Which session of the Congress declared that the goal of
the Indian National Congress was 'self government or Swaraj like the United
Kingdom or the colonies'?
Answer :- 1906 (Calcutta)
24. Who presided over the 1906 session of Indian National
Congress at Calcutta?
Answer :- Dadabhai Naoroji
25. Which session of the Congress
witnessed the first split in the organization?
Answer :- Surat (1907)
26. Who presided over the 1907 session of the Congress?
Answer :- Rashbehari Ghosh
27. Who declared that Political freedom is the life breath
of a Nation'?
Answer :- Aurobindo Ghosh
28. Who organised the 'Swadesh Bandhab Samiti' as a popular
& powerful method of mass mobilisation?
Answer :- Ashvvini Kumar Dutt
29. Who were the main architects of the Indian National Conference?
Answer :- Surendranath Banerji & Ananda Mohan Bose
30. Which song was written by Tagore on the occasion of
Bengal partition? Answer :- Amar Sonar
Bangla
31. Which artist was the first to receive a scholarship
offered by the Indian Society of Oriental Art, founded in 1907?
Answer :- Nandalal Bose
32. Which British Viceroy annulled the partition of Bengal?
Answer :- Lord Hardinge
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