India History Quiz (Part 1) - General Knowledge of Indian History
1. Who was the first Mughal Emperor of India?
Answer: Babar
2. Who was the last Mughal Emperor of India?
Answer: Bahadur Shah Zafar
3. Who said, "Give me blood and I will give you freedom"?
Answer: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
4. What is the minimum age required for becoming the Prime Minister of India?
Answer: 25 years
5. To which State of India do the people speaking Khasi and Garo dialects belong?
Answer: Meghalaya
6. Who was the founder-editor of the Marathi daily newspaper, "kesari", during the Indian freedom struggle?
Answer: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
7. Who said, "Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it"?
Answer: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
8. Who discovered the sea route to India and when?
Answer: Vasco-da-Gama; 1498 A.D.
9. What was the capital of Mysore during the rule of Tipu Sultan?
Answer: Srirangapatnam
10. In which years was the battle of Talikota fought?
Answer: 1565 A.D.
11. Who was the first Governor-General of Bengal under the rule of the East India Company?
Answer: Warren Hastings
12. Who was the last Governor-General of India?
Answer: C. Rajagopalachari
13. When was the Panchayati Raj system introduced in India?
Answer: 1950
14. Where was the first session of the Indian National Congress held?
Answer: Mumbai
15. During whose reign did Sir Thomas Roe visit India?
Answer: Jahangir
16. During whose reign did the Moorish traveller "Ibn Batuta" visit india?
Answer: Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq
17. Who presides over the joint session of Parliament in India?
Answer: Speaker of the Lok Sabha
18. Which Governor-General introduced the English system of education in India?
Answer: Lord William Bentick
19. The famous peacock throne originally belonged to which king of India and who later occupied it?
Answer: Shah Jahan; Nadir Shah occupied it
20. When did Sikkim become a full-fledged State of the Indian Union?
Answer: 26 April 1975
21. During 321 B.C to 298 B.C., a competent king ruled India. What was his name?
Answer: Chandragupta Maurya
22. When was the first battle of Panipat fought?
Answer: 1526 A.D.
23. When was the Indian constitution adopted and when did it come into force?
Answer: Adopted: 26 November 1949; in force: 26 January 1950
24. What form of Government does India have?
Answer: Sovereign, Democratic
25. When and where was the Indian national anthem, ’Jana-Gana-Mana’, first sung?
Answer: Kolkata (then Calcutta), December 1911
26. When was the city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) founded?
Answer: 1690 A.D
27. What was the capital of King Vikramaditya’s kingdom?
Answer: Ujjain
28. Pulakeshin II was the famous king of which dynasty?
Answer: The Chalukya Dynasty
29. Who built the city of Fatehpur Sikri?
Answer: Akbar
30. Who built the Red Fort in Delhi?
Answer: Shah Jahan
31. Who was the first viceroy of India?
Answer: Earl Charles Jhon Canning
32. Who is regarded as the architect of the Indian Constitution?
Answer: Babasaheb Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar
33. In the Battle of Panipat in 1761, who defeated whom?
Answer: The Afghans defeated the Marathas
34. Who is regarded as the ’Iron Man of India’?
Answer: Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
35. What words are inscribed in the Devanagari script below the National Emblem of India?
Answer: Satyameva Jayathe
36. Who established the Servants of India Society?
Answer: Gopal Krishna Gokhale
37. Which leader of Tamil Nadu was arrested for burning the pages of the Indian Constitution?
Answer: M. Karunanidhi
38. Who started the Home Rule Movement?
Answer: Dr Annie Besant
39. Who was the first Muslim to be elected President of the Indian National Congress?
Answer: Badruddin Tyabji
40. What was the name of the doctrine adopted by Lord Dalhousie to annexe the Indian States?
Answer: Doctrine of Lapse