India History quiz questions

Questions
Q1: Who was the last British colonial Viceroy of India.

A    Lord Canning

B    Lord Wavell

C    Lord Louis Mountbatten

D    Lord Willingdon

Q2: Which of these Kings does not belong to the Mauryan dynasty

A    King Ashoka

B    King Chandragupta

C    King Bindusar

D    King Dhana Nanda

Q3: The Dandi March, which took place from March to April 1930 in India, was an act of civil disobedience led by

A    Mahatma Gandhi

B    Jawahar Lal Nehru

C    Subhash Chandra Bose

D    Lal Bahadur Shastri

Q4: Where did Vasco da Gama land in India?

A    Mumbai

B    Kochi

C    Calicut

D    Panaji

Q5: The last Mughal King was

A    Aurangzeb

B    Bahadur Shah II

C    Jahangir

D    Babur

Q6: The third battle of panipat was fought between the forces of

A    Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya and Akbar

B    Babur and the Lodi Empire

C    Marathas and Ahmad Shah Durrani

D    Shivaji and Aurangzeb

Q7: Swarajya is my birth right and I shall have it', was said by

A    Bal Gangadhar Tilak

B    Rabindranath Tagore

C    Jawahar Lal Nehru

D    Lal Bahadur Shastri

Q8: The Non-cooperation movement was launched on 4th September, 1920 by

A    Motilal Nehru

B    Jawaharlal Nehru

C    Mahatma Gandhi

D    Subhash Chandra Bose

Q9: The Non-cooperation movement was withdrawn because of the

A    Jallianwala Bagh massacre

B    Chauri Chaura incident

C    World war 1

D    World war 2

Q10: Which of these persons was not one of the founder members of the Indian National congress

A    Dinshaw Edulji Wacha

B    Dadabhai Naoroji

C    Muhammad Ali Jinnah

D    Allan Octavian Hume

Q11: Who was the mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji maharaj?

A    Kashibai

B    Jijabai

C    Ahilyabai

D    Soyarabai

Q12: Azad Hind fauz was established by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in the year

A    1940

B    1941

C    1942

D    1944

Q13: Who was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress?

A    Sarojini Naidu

B    Nellie Sengupta

C    Indira Gandhi

D    Annie Besant

Q14: Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress?

A    Dadabhai Naoroji

B    Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

C    Badruddin Tyabji

D    George Yule

Q15: Who was the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir?

A    Maharaja Gulab Singh

B    Maharaja Karan Singh

C    Maharaja Hari Singh

D    Maharaja Pratap Singh