1. Which song was sung by Gandhiji and his followers during
the Dandi March?
Ans: Raghupati Raghava rajaram
2. Which tool did Gandhiji promote to achieve economic, and
ultimately complete independence from the British Empire?
Ans: Spinning Wheel
3. Who coined the slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad'?
Ans: Muhammad Igbal
4. Who coined the term "quit India"?
Ans: Yusuf Meheraliy
5. Which Viceroy had maximum freedom to work in India?
Ans: Lord Mountbatten
6. Which Act was adapted to provide a legal framework for
the new dominions of India and Pakistan in 1947?
Ans: Govt. of India Act 1935
7. Where 'Rakta Vahini’ was formed during Quit India
Movement?
Ans: Cuttack
8. Who called Gopala Krishna Gokhale 'the Diamond of India,
Jewel of Maharashtra, Prince of Workers'?
Ans: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
9. Who called upon his followers to observe 16th August,
1946 as 'Direct Action Day'?
Ans: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
10. Who changed his name to Ram Mohammad Singh Azad,
symbolizing the unification of the three major religions of India: Hinduism,
Islam and Sikhism?
Ans: Uddham Singh
11. Who codified the R.S.S. doctrine in his booklet ‘We'?
Ans: M.S.Golwalker
12. Where did Gandhiji deliver his first public speech after
returning from South Africa?
Ans: At Benarus Hindu University
13. Which scripture was called his 'mother' by Gandhiji?
Ans: Bhagwat Gita
14. Which session of the Indian National Congress decided to
reorganise Provincial Congress Committees on the basis of linguistic areas:
Ans: 1920 Nagpur
15. Which social reformer of Tamil Nadu sought to undermine
the position of Brahmin priest by arranging wedding without Brahmin priest?
Ans: Ramaswami Naicker
16. Which was considered as the basis of Indian Independence
Act of 1947?
Ans: Mount batten Plan
17. Which was known as 'the political laboratory of Mahathma
Gandhi'?
Ans: South Africa
18. Which was the first committee appointed for examining
the functioning of Dyarchy?
Ans: Muddiman Committee
19. Where the All India Khilafat Conference was held under
the presidentship of Gandhiji?
Ans: Delhi
20. Where was Gandhiji on the day of independence?
Ans: Naokhali
21. Where was Kasturba's parental home?
Ans: Porbander
22. Which Act regularised the working hour for the women in
factories?
Ans: 1891, Second Factory Act
23. Where All India Women's Federation established Lady
Irwin College in 1926?
Ans: Delhi
24. Where B.R. Ambedlcar established the Depressed Classes
Institute?
Ans: Mumbai
25. Where did Gandhiji address his first speech in South
Africa?
Ans: Pretoria
26. Which act separated Burma and Aden from India?
Ans: Government of India Act 1935
27. Where did Gandhiji go to practice law, first on his
return from England?
Ans: Mumbai
28. Where did Gandhiji launch his civil disobedience
movement in South Africa?
Ans: Johennesberg
29. Which was the forerunner of the Central Legislative
Assembly?
Ans: Imperial Legislative Council
30. While in South Africa, who gave the book 'Unto this
last' to Gnadhiji to read?
Ans: Henry Polak
31. While staying at Rome, during a European visit, which
Indian leader declined the invitation of Benitto Mussolini to meet him?
Ans: Jawaharlal Nehru
32. Who formed in 1929 the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha
(BPKS) to mobilise peasant grievances against the zamindari attacks on their
occupancy rights?
Ans: Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
33. Where did Gandhiji go first on his return from South
Africa?
Ans: Santhiniketan
34. Which Act was called 'Gagging Act'?
Ans: Vernacular Press Act
35. Which act was passed in context of 'Komagata Mans
incident?
Ans: The Defence of India Act
36. Which book describes the three phases of capitalism- merchantile phase,
capitalist phase and finance phase?
Ans: Poverty and Un-British rule in India
37. Which book influenced Gandhiji greatly, which he read in
England?
Ans: Plea for Vegetarianism
38. Where was Mahalwari system introduced?
Ans: Bengal and Bihar
39. Where was the headquarters of Anusheelan Samiti?
Ans: Kolkata
40. Which day was called 'Day of Deliverence' by Muhammad
Ali Jinnah?
Ans: 22nd December 1939
41. Which disease affected Parchure Shastri whom Gandhiji
cared at Sevagram ashram?
Ans: Leprosy
42. Which Governor General did not follow the policy of
Masterly Inactivity towards Afghanistan?
Ans: Lord Curzon
43. Which is considered to be the 'Bible of Arya Samaj'?
Ans: Satyartha Prakash
44. Which jail was described by Gandhiji as his Home away
from home"?
Ans: Yervada
45. Which modern historian opined that "the so called
First National War of Independence of 1857 is neither First, nor National, nor
War of Independence'?
Ans: R.C Majumdar
46. Which Princely State resembled 'Ramrajya' according to
Gandhiji?
Ans: Mysore
47. Which publication is related to 'Annie Besant'?
Ans: New India
48. Which rebellion was popularised in 'Anandmath'?
Ans: Sanyasi rebellion
49. Who administered the oath of office of Jawaharlal Nehru
as the first Prime minister of independent India?
Ans: Lord Mountbatten
50. Where was the Indian Independence Committee was set up
by Lala Hardayal and his friends?
Ans: Berlin
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