appsc generastudies - indian history - 4

1. Aurbindo Ghosh was defended in the Alipur conspiracy case by—
(A) Tej Bahadur Sapru
(B) Motilal Nehru
(C) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(D) Chitranjan Das
Ans : (D)

2. Who among the following founded the Hindustan Republican Army (or Association) in 1924 ?
(A) Surya Sen
(B) V. D. Savarkar
(C) Sachindra Nath Sanyal
(D) Batukeshwar Dutta
Ans : (C)

3. Who gave the title of Rani to the Naga woman leader Gaidinliu ?
(A) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(B) Sardar Patel
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) C. R. Das
Ans : (A)


4. Name the great Indian revolutionary who was a professor of Sanskrit and Philosophy and died as a Sanyasi in Philadelphia ?
(A) Lala Hardayal
(B) Bhai Parmanand
(C) Madan Lal Dhingra
(D) Shyamji Krishna Varma
Ans : (A)

5. In which place February 21, 1915 was fixed as the date for an armed revolt by the Ghadarites ?
(A) Bombay
(B) Madras
(C) Punjab
(D) Bengal
Ans : (C)

6. The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association was founded in—
(A) 1922
(B) 1924
(C) 1926
(D) 1928
Ans : (D)

7. Name the woman revolutionary who shot the Governor of Bengal while receiving her degree at the convocation of the university of Calcutta ?
(A) Lila Datta
(B) Preeti Lata Wadekar
(C) Kalpana Ganguly
(D) Bina Das
Ans : (D)

8. The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association Movement ended with the death of—
(A) Ramprasad Bismil
(B) Chandra Shekhar Azad
(C) Surya Sen
(D) Bhagat Singh
Ans : (B)

9. Which revolutionary said the following, ‘‘We shall be born again, shall meet again and shall jointly fight once again for the cause of the motherland as comrades-in-arms’’ ?
(A) Chandra Shekhar Azad
(B) Ramprasad Bismil
(C) Rajendra Lahiri
(D) Ashfaquallah Khan
Ans : (B)

10. Which association sprang us in Bengal during the Swadeshi Movement ?
(A) Anushilan Samiti
(B) Swadeshi Samiti
(C) Krantikari Samiti
(D) Jugantar Samiti
Ans : (D)

11. Which of the following was not hanged in connection with the Kakori Conspiracy Case ?
(A) Bhagat Singh
(B) Ashfaqullah Khan
(C) Rajendra Lahiri
(D) Roshan Singh
Ans : (A)

12. The first tribal leader who was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and his ideology was—
(A) Alluri Sitaram Raju
(B) Jadonang
(C) Jhabkar Bapa
(D) Rani Gaidinliu
Ans : (B)

13. Which among the following was sentenced to death in the Hardinge Bomb Case ?
(A) Sohan Singh Bhakna
(B) Asutosh Choudhary
(C) Bhai Bal Mukund
(D) Ras Behari Bose
Ans : (C)

14. Who among the following was awarded the China Medal for taking part in China war of 1900 ?
(A) Maharaja Ganga Singh
(B) Maharaja Sumer Singh
(C) Maharaja Fateh Singh
(D) Maharaja Jai Singh
Ans : (A)

15. Mr. Philip Sprat, an English man was tried under which conspiracy case ?
(A) Lahore conspiracy case
(B) Kanpur conspiracy case
(C) Meerut conspiracy case
(D) Chittagong conspiracy case
Ans : (C)

16. Gadar-Dal was founded at—
(A) Berlin
(B) Tokyo
(C) Washington
(D) San Francisco
Ans : (D)

17. The differences between the Moderates and the Extremists led to a split in Congress at its session held in 1907 at—
(A) Surat
(B) Calcutta
(C) Nagpur
(D) Madras
Ans : (A)

18. Who among the following was known as the Grand Old Man of Indian politics ?
(A) Bipin Chandra Pal
(B) Dadabhai Nauroji
(C) Surendra Nath Bannerjee
(D) Rasbehari Bose
Ans : (B)

19. The most revolutionary secret organization of Bengal was—
(A) Abhinava Bharat
(B) Mitra Mela
(C) Ghadar Party
(D) Anushilan Samiti
Ans : (A)

20. I.N.A. (Indian National Army) trial took place in the—
(A) Calcutta High Court
(B) Supreme Court
(C) Federal Court
(D) Red Fort
Ans : (D)