Model Question Paper (Along with answers) on General

Awareness (10 Question Set -500 Questions)

Model Question Paper, Question Set - 1 (1 - 50), General Awareness

Q.1. The Vernacular Press Act was passed by:

A. Lord Curzon

B. Lord Wellesley

C. Lord Lytton

D. Lord Hardinge

Answer: C

Q.2. The leader of Young Bengal Movement was:

A. Dwarkanath Tagore

B. Chandrashekhar Deb

C. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

D. Henry Vivian Derozio

Answer: D

Q.3. Swaraj as a national demand was first made by:

A. Chittaranjan Das

B. Jawaharlal Nehru

C. Dadabhai Naoroji

D. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Answer: D

Q.4. Muslim League first demanded partition of India in:

A. 1906

B. 1916

C. 1940

D. 1946

Answer: C

Q.5. The English Weekly edited by Mahatma Gandhi was:

A. Kesari

B. Comrade

C. Bombay Chronicle

D. Young India

Answer: D

Q.6. The Doctrine of Lapse was introduced by:

A. Lord Wellesley

B. Warren Hastings

C. Lord Canning

D. Lord Dalhousie

Answer: D

Q.7. The founder of Boy Scouts and Civil Guides Movement in India was:

A. Charles Andrews

B. Baden Powell

C. Richard Temple

D. Robert Montgomery

Answer: B

Q.8. From where did Mahatma Gandhi start his historic Dandi March?

A. Champaran

B. Sabarmati Ashram

C. Chauri Chaura

D. Dandi

Answer: B

Q.9. Who was the first Indian to pass the Indian Civil Service?

A. Dadabhai Naoroji

B. Surendranath Banerjee

C. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

D. D. N Wacha

Answer: B

Q.10. Who among the following could not be captured by the British in 1857?

A. Bahadur Shah II

B. Mangal Pandey

C. Nana Saheb

D. Tantia Tope

Answer: C

Q.11. Who introduced the system of Civil Services in India ?

A. Warren Hastings

B. Lord Cornwallis

C. Lord Hardinge

D. William Bentinck

Answer: B

Q.12. Who was called by the British rulers as the leader of Indian unrest?

A. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

B. Subhash Chandra Bose

C. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

D. M. K. Gandhi

Answer: C

Q.13. "Be proud that you are an Indian, proudly claim I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother .."

Who had said these words?

A. Jawaharlal Nehru

B. Vivekananda

C. Lala Lajpat Rai

D. Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: B

Q.14. Sharada Act dealt with:

A. widow remarriage

B. child marriage

C. intercaste marriage

D. polygamy

Answer: B

Q.15. The first Indian university opened in 1857 was in:

A. Madras

B. Calcutta

C. Benaras

D. Bombay

Answer: B

Q.16. Rani Lakshmi Bai died fighting the British in the battle of:

A. Kanpur

B. Gwalior

C. Jhansi

D. Kalpi

Answer: B

Q.17. The President of the Indian National Congress at the time of Indian Independence was:

A. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

B. J. B, Kripalani

C. Jawaharlal Nehru

D. Rajendra Prasad

Answer: B

Q.18. The last Governor General of India was

A. Lord Wavell

B. Dr. Rajendra Prasad

C. Lord Mountbatten

D. C. Rajagopalachari

Answer: D

Q.19. The trial of INA heroes was held at:

A. Bombay

B. Delhi

C. Calcutta

D. Simla

Answer: B

Q.20. Who built the Stupa at Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh?

A. Harsha

B. Ashoka

C. Kanishka

D. Chandragupta

Answer: B

Q.21. The famous bronze image of Nataraja is a fine example of:

A. Chola art

B. Gandhara art

C. Gupta art

D. Mauryan art

Answer: A

Q.22. Jama Masjid in Delhi was built by:

A. Jahangir

B. Akbar

C. Humayun

D. Shahjahan

Answer: D

Q.23. Who started the Bhoodan Movement?

A. Mahatma Gandhi

B. Jayaprakash Narayan

C. Swami Vivekananda

D. Acharya Vinoba Bhave

Answer: D

Q.24. Who was the Hindu King shown playing on the Veena on ancient coins?

A. Vikramaditya

B. Samudragupta

C. Shivaji

D. Ashoka

Answer: A

Q.25. Which of the following Mughal emperors tomb is outside India?

A. Jahangir

B. Akbar

C. Shah Jahan

D. Aurangzeb

Answer: A

Q.26. Ajanta paintings depict scenes from the:

A. Ramayana

B. Mahabharata

C. Jatakas

D. Upanishads

Answer: C

Q.27. Biwi ka Maqbara is the tomb of:

A. Nurjahan

B. Aurangzebs wife

C. Humayuns sister

D. Mumtaz Mahal

Answer: B

Q.28. The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was made between:

A. The moderates and extremists

B. The British and the Indians

C. The Hindus and the Muslims

D. The Congress and the Muslim League

Answer: D

Q.29. The City of Agra was founded by:

A. Rana Sanga

B. Ibrahim Lodi

C. Firuz Tughlaq

D. Sikandar Lodi

Answer: D

Q.30. Tulsidas was a contemporary of:

A. Babar

B. Akbar

C. Jahangir

D. Shahjehan

Answer: B

Q.31. The oldest Hindu epic is:

A. Mahabharat

B. Ramayana

C. Mahabhashya

D. Ashtadhyayi

Answer: B

Q.32. Ramcharitmanas was written by:

A. Kalidasa

B. Valmiki

C. Surdas

D. Tulsidas

Answer: D

Q.33. Zero was invented by:

A. Aryabhatta

B. Bhaskara

C. Varahamihira

D. none of these

Answer: D

Q.34. The Hijra era counted from:

A. 622 A.D.

B. 632 A.D

C. 712 A.D.

D. 1526A.D.

Answer: A

Q.35. Gandhiji started Satyagraha movement in 1919 in protest against the:

A. Simon Commission

B. Champaran wrongs

C. Enactment of Rowlatt Act

D. Colonial exploitation of India

Answer: C

Q.36. Which of the following is correctly matched?

A. Kesari-B. G. Tilak

B. New India-M. K. Gandhi

C. Young India-Annie Besant

D. Yugantar-Aurobindo Ghosh

Answer: A

Q.37. The first woman President of the Indian National Congress was:

A. Kasturba Gandhi

B. Annie Besant

C. Sarojini Naidu

D. Vijayalakshmi Pandit

Answer: B

Q.38. Who was the Governor General of India when the Indian National Congress was formed?

A. Lord Dufferin

B. Lord Cornwallis

C. Lord Lytton

D. Lord Mountbatten

Answer: A

Q.39. Who among the following called himself as the Second Alexander?

A. Alauddin Khilji

B. Samudragupta

C. Chandragupta

D. Kanishka

Answer: A

Q.40. Who among the following attended all the three Round Table Conferences?

A. Madan Mohan Malviya

B. Annie Besant

C. Mahatma Gandhi

D. B. R. Ambedkar

Answer: D

Q.41. The Prime Minister of Britain at the time of Indias independence was:

A. Lord Mountbatten

B. Winston Churchill

C. Ramsay Macdonald

D. Clement Attlee

Answer: D

Q.42. Before Delhi, where was the capital of India during the British India?

A. Lucknow

B. Bombay

C. Calcutta

D. Patna

Answer: C

Q.43. The Congress split into moderates and extremists in the session at

A. Ahmedabad

B. Madras

C. Lucknow

D. Surat

Answer: D

Q.44. The Home Rule Movement in India was started by:

A. S. N. Banerjee and W. C. Banerjee

B. Annie Besant and Tilak

C. Mahatma Gandhi and Motilal Nehru

D. Annie Besant and Gokhale

Answer: B

Q.45. The word Hindu as reference to the people of Hind (India) was first used by:

A. The Arabs

B. The Chinese

C. The Romans

D. The Greeks

Answer: A

Q.46. Which :of the following Englishman was honoured by Jahangir with the title of Khan?

A. Sir Thomas Roe

B. Edward Terry

C. William Hawkins

D. None of these

Answer: C

Q.47. The slogan Inquilab Zindabad was first raised by:

A. Lokmanya Tilak

B. Veer Savarkar

C. Chandrashekhar Azad

D. Bhagat Singh

Answer: D

Q.48. The Indians celebrated the Independence Day for the first

time on:

A. January 1,1930

B. January 26,1930

C. August 15,1947

D. January 26,1950

Answer: B

Q.49. Who among the following was the leader of the moderates?

A. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

B. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

C. Annie Besant

D. C. G. Andrews

Answer: A

Q.50. Who was the first Indian to become the member of British

Parliament?

A. Badruddin Tyabji

B. W, C. Bannerjee

C. D. N. Wacha

D. Dadabhai Naoroji

Answer: D

Model Question Paper, Question Set - 2 (50 Questions), General Awareness

Q.1. What is Siam now known as?

A. Laos

B. Thailand

C. Vietnam

D. Combodia

Answer: A

Q.2. The correct group of cities, through which National Highway

No.8 passes is:

A. Bikaner, Ajmer, Kota

B. Jodhpur, Jaipur, Bikaner

C. Jaipur, Udaipur, Ahmedabad

D. Jaipur, Pune, Udaipur

Answer: C

Q.3. Through its power of judicial review, the Supreme Court

ensures

A. Judicial Supremacy

B. A democratic government in the country

C. A constitutional government in the country