MODERN HISTORY QUESTIONS PART 1

1.Indian National Congress formed in 1885 during the Governor –General ship of?

Ans.Lord Dufferin

2. First Woman president of Indian National Congress?

Ans.Annie Besant (1917)

3. Who was the first Muslim president of Indian National Congress?

Ans.Badruddin Tyabjee

4. Indian National Congress held its first session in 1885 at?

Ans.Gokul Das Tejpal Sanskrit College, Bombay

5. The first session of Indian National Congress was held under the presidentship of?

Ans.W.C.Banerjee

6. When did the First war of Independence start?

Ans.1857 May 10

7. When was the Quit India movement started?

Ans.1942 August 8 at Bombay

8. Who was the founder of Indian National Congress?

Ans.A.O.Hume(Allan Octavian Hume)

9. Who said ”Swaraj is my birth right and I must have it”?

Ans.Bal Gangadhar Tilak

10. Jalianwala Bagh Massacre took place in the city of?

Ans.Amritsar, April 13, 1919

11. Who composed the famous patriotic song “Sare Jahan Se Acha”?

Ans.Mohammed Iqbal

12. When was the Dandi March started?

Ans.March 12, 1930

13. Who commented “The Cripps Mission was a post dated cheque drawn on a crashing bank?

Ans.Mahatma Gandhi

14. A resolution asking complete independence (“Poorna Swaraj") for India was moved at which session of Indian National Congress?

Ans.Lahore session (1929) under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru

15. Who was the president of Indian National Congress at the time of Indian Independence?

Ans.Acharya Kripalani

16. Who was the president of Indian National Congress at the time of Gandhi-Irwin pact in Mar 5, 1931?

Ans.Jawaharlal Nehru

17. Which was the summer capital of India during the British rule?

Ans.Simla

18. Simon commission came to India in?

Ans.1928

19. First Round Table Conference held in England in ?

Ans.1930. Second in 1931, third in 1932

20. First Indian Woman president of Indian National Congress?

Ans.Sarojini Naidu(1925)