Social Science | G.K (Govt Exams ,competitive Exams) MCQ's




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 1 :
Who visualised and depicted the image of ‘Bharat Mata’ through a painting?

  1. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
  2. Rabindranath Tagore
  3. Natesa Sastri
  4. Abanindranath Tagore
  

Question 2 :
A form of demonstration used in the Noncooperation Movement in which people block the entrance to a shop, factory or office is

  1. Boycott
  2. Begar
  3. Picketing
  4. Bandh
  

Question 3 :
Which of the following was the reason for calling off the Non-cooperation Movement by Gandhiji?

  1. Pressure from the British Government
  2. Second Round Table Conference
  3. Gandhiji’s arrest
  4. Chauri-Chaura incident
  

Question 4 :
Khilafat Committee was formed in 1919 in the city of

  1. Bombay
  2. Calcutta
  3. Lucknow
  4. Amritsar
  

Question 5 :
Which party did not boycott the Council elections held in the year 1921?

  1. Swaraj Party
  2. Justice Party
  3. Muslim League
  4. Congress Party
  

Question 6 :
Which industrialist attacked colonial control over Indian economy and supported the Civil Disobedience Movement?

  1. Dinshaw Petit
  2. Purshottamdas Thakurdas
  3. Dwarkanath Tagore
  4. Seth Hukumchand
  

Question 7 :
Who set up the ‘Oudh Kisan Sabha’?

  1. Alluri Sitaram Raju
  2. Jawahar Lai Nehru and Baba Ramchandra
  3. Jawaharlal Nehru and Shaukat Ali
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  

Question 8 :
What do you mean by the term ‘Begar’l

  1. An Act to prevent plantation workers to leave the tea gardens without permission.
  2. The forced recruitment of soldiers in rural areas during World War I.
  3. Labour that villagers were forced to contribute without any payment.
  4. Refusal to deal and associate with people, or participate in activities as a form of protest.
  

Question 9 :
Where did Mahatma Gandhi start his famous ‘Salt March’ on 12th March 1930?

  1. Dandi
  2. Chauri-Chaura
  3. Sabarmati
  4. Surat
  

Question 10 :
The Non-cooperation Khilafat Movement began in

  1. January 1921
  2. February 1922
  3. December 1929
  4. April 1919
  

Question 11 :
The ‘Simon Commission’ was boycotted because

  1. there was no British Member in the Commission.
  2. it demanded separate electorates for Hindus and Muslims.
  3. there was no Indian Member in the Commission.
  4. it favoured the Muslims over the Hindus.
  

Question 12 :
Who founded the ‘Depressed Classes Association’ in 1930?

  1. Alluri Sitaram Raju
  2. C.R. Das
  3. M.R. Jayakar
  4. Dr B.R. Ambedkar
  

Question 13 :
Who was the writer of the book ‘Hind Swaraj’?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore
  2. B.R. Ambedkar
  3. Mahatma Gandhi
  4. Jawahar Lai Nehru
  

Question 14 :
Baba Ramchandra, a sanyasi, was the leader of which of the following movements?

  1. Khilafat Movement
  2. Militant Guerrilla Movement of Andhra Pradesh
  3. Peasants’ Movement of Awadh
  4. Plantation Workers’ Movement in Assam
  

Question 15 :
Who formed the ‘Swaraj Party’ within the Congress?

  1. Jawahar Lai Nehru and Motilal Nehru
  2. Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Mahatma Gandhi
  3. Jawahar Lai Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose
  4. C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru
  

Question 16 :
Under the presidency of Jawahahar Lai Nehru, the Lahore Congress Session of 1929 formalised the demand of

  1. abolition of Salt Tax
  2. ‘Puma Swaraj’ or complete independence
  3. boycott of Simon Commission
  4. separate electorate for the ‘dalits’
  
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