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JE 2014 131
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JE CBT-2 2018 133
Table of Contents
NTPC CBT 1- 2015 2 RPF SI 2018 134
NTPC CBT-2 2015 9 RPF Constable 2018 134
NTPC CBT 1- 2018 9 WORLD HISTORY 135
GROUP - D 2018 22 NTPC 2019 135
RRB ALP & TECH 2018 28 NTPC 2019 137
RPF SI 2018 29 GROUP - D 2018 137
RPF CONSTABLE 2018 29 ALP & TECH 2018 138
RRB JE 2014 29 JE 2019 138
RRB JE 2014 30 RPF SI 2019 139
RRB JE 2018 30 RPF CONSTABLE 2019 139
RRB JE CBT-II 2018 31

MEDIEVAL HISTORY 31
NTPC CBT 1- 2014 31
RRB NTPC 2018 34
GROUP - D 2018 46
ALP & TECH 2018 51
ALP & TECH STAGE - 2 2018 52
J.E. -2014 52
JE CBT-1 2018 52
JE CBT 2 2018 53
RPF SI 2018 53
RPF CONSTABLE 2018 54
MODERN HISTORY 54
NTPC CBT-1&2 2015 54
NTPC CBT-1 2019 67
NTPC CBT-2 2019 112
GROUP - D 2018 116
GROUP-D 2019 124
GROUP-D 2014 128
ALP & Tec. 2018 130
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NTPC CBT 1- 2015 (d) Administrative System

RRB NTPC 05.04.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1
1.Bhimbetka caves are located in ____. Ans : ©
(a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Himachal 7.Indus Valley civilization?
Pradesh (a) Copper age civilization
(b) Iron age civilization
RRB NTPC CBT-1, 22.04.2016 (Shift-
(c) Axis era civilization
II) Ans : (b) (d) Bronze age civilization
2.Bhimbetka's caves are considered to Ans : (d)
be ____year old.
(a) 1000 years (b) 5000 years 8.The People of Harappa did not worship
(c) 30,000 years (d) 300 years which of the following Gods?
RRB NTPC 29.03.2016 (Shift-II) CBT- (a) Shiv (b) Vishnu (c) Pigeon (d) Swastika
1 Ans : (c) RRB NTPC 11.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage I st
Ans : (b)
3.What were the first wheels made of?
(a) Rubber (b) Glass 9.The national motto of India is Satyamev
(c) Wood (d) Iron Jayate (meaning Truth always
RRB NTPC 29.03.2016 (Shift-II) CBT- Triumphs). Which ancient Indian
Scripture is a mantra emanating from?
1 Ans : (c)
(a) Rigveda (b) Mundakopanishad
(c) Bhagwat Gita (d) Matsya Purana
4.Dholavira, an archaeological place RRB NTPC 02.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I
associated with the period? Ans : (b)
(a) Gupta Period (b) Magadha Period (c)
Indus Valley (d) Chalukya Period 10.What is the meaning of yajur in
RRB NTPC 12.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage yajurveda?
I st Ans : (c) (a) Life (b) Nature
(c) Sacrifice (d) True
5.The Harappan civilization flourished RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-III) Stage
around 2500 BC. What do we call them IInd Ans : (c)
today?
(a) Pakistan and Afghanistan 11.In which of the following vedas,
(b) West India and Pakistan treatment of diseases is given?
(c) Afghanistan and West India (a) Yajur (b) Rig
(d) India and China (c) Sam (d) Atharva
RRB NTPC 17.01.2017 (Shift-III) CBT-1 RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-I) Stage
Ans : (b) IInd Ans : (d)
6.What was the most important feature of 12.By what name was 'Awadh' known in
the Indus Valley Civilization? ancient times?
(a) Exchange system (a) Kosala (b) Kapilavastu
(b) Local Transport system (c) Kaushambi (d) Kashi
(c) Buildings made of bricks

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RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-II) Stage 18.Which one of the following is a

IInd Ans : (a) collection of teachings of Buddha?
(a) Agam (b) Brahmin
13.The concept of Triratna is related to (c) Purana (d) Tripitaka
____. RRB NTPC 03.04.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1
(a) Sikhism Ans : (d)
(b) Jainism
(c) Buddhism 19.A religion of India-Zoroastrian is
(d) Zoroastrianism (Parsiya) mainly found in which state?
RRB NTPC 31.03.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (a) Maharashtra (b) Haryana (c) Bihar (d)
Ans : (b/c) Kerala
RRB NTPC 11.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I
14.Which of the following pair of religions st Ans : (a)
and holy booklets are incompatible?
(a) Islam : Quran 20.Jed is associated with Zend Avesta:
(b) Sikhism : Guru Granth Sahib (a) Zoroastrianism (b) Sikhism (c)
(c) Jainism : Upanishads Buddhism (d) Jainism
(d) Christianity : Bible RRB NTPC 19.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I
RRB NTPC CBT-1 26.04.2016 (Shift-II) st Ans : (a)
Ans : (c)
21.Which of the following is related to
15.Where is the Buddhist structure, Judaism?
Dhamek Stupa?
(a) Dhammapada (b) Tora (c) Guru Granth
(a) Sarnath (b) Sanchi
Sahib (d) Tripitaka
(c) Konark (d) Mahabalipuram
RRB NTPC 17.01.2017 (Shift-I) Stage I st
RRB NTPC 07.04.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans : (b)
Ans : (a)
16.Where did Gautama Buddha attain 22.Buddhist Pilgrimage 'tooth temple' is

enlightenment/education? located here.
(a) Bodhgaya (b) Amarnath (a) Malaysia (b) Sri Lanka
(c) Kushinagar (d) LumbiniRRB NTPC (c) Nepal (d) China
28.03.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I Ans :(a) RRB NTPC CBT-1, 19.01.2017 (Shift-II)
Ans : (b)
17.Where do we believe that Lord
Buddha gave his first sermon, gave the 23.Where is Borobudur Buddhist Temple
name of the memorial and which is also located?
called the seat of holy Buddha? (a) Nepal (b) Sri Lanka
(a) Dhamekh Stupa, Sarnath (c) Indonesia (d) Malaysia
(b) Sanchi Stupa, Sanchi RRB NTPC 12.04.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(c) Shingdar Stupa, Swat valley Ans : ©
(d) Do-Dul Chorten, Gangtok
RRB NTPC CBT-1, 29.04.2016 (Shift-II) 24.Whose successor was Emperor
Ans : (a) Ashoka?
(a) Chandra Gupta Maurya
(b) Bindusara

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(c) Sushim (c) It shing (d) Li xiu

(d) Dasharatha RRB NTPC 16.04.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 28.03.2016 (Shift-I) Stage I st Ans : (b)
Ans : (b)
31.Which Kingdoms were ruled by the
25.The great emperor Ashoka belonged to early Chera Dynasty?
which dynasty? (a) Tamil Nadu and Kerala
(a) Maurya Dynasty (b) Mughal Dynasty (b) Bengal and Odisha
(c) Gupta Dynasty (d) Chola Dynasty (c) Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim
RRB NTPC 02.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage I st (d) Maharashtra and Gujarat
Ans : (a) RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans : (a)
26.The story of which king is the subject
of the drama Mudrarakshasa? 32.Which Indian king used naval power
(a) Jayachand to conquer parts of East Asia?
(b) Chandragupta II (a) Akbar (b) Krishnadeva
(c) Chandrapeed (c) Rajendra Chola (d) Shivaji
(d) Chandragupta Maurya RRB NTPC 29.03.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 12.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I Ans : (c)
st Ans : (d)
33.Who among the following Chola kings
27.Which dynasty ended the Maurya is considered the greatest?
Dynasty? (a) Pulakeshin II (b) Rajasimha
(a) Sunga (b) Gupta (c) Karikala (d) Nandivarman
(c) Shishunaga (d) Chola RRB NTPC 16.04.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 12.04.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1 Ans : (c)
Ans : (a)
34.Which kings of the Pallava dynasty
28.Who was the last emperor of the also wrote Sanskrit plays?
Maurya Dynasty? (a) Raja Raj Chola (b) Mahendra Varman
(a) Chandragupta (b) Ashoka (c) Rajasimha (d) Vikramaditya
(c) Brihadratha (d) Shatadhanvan RRB NTPC 16.04.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 02.04.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1 Ans : (b)
Ans : (c)
35.Which Chalukya king defeated king
29.Who was the actual founder of the Harsha of Kannauj?
Gupta Empire? (a) Siddharaj Solanki (b) Vastupala
(a) Chandragupta II (b) Samudra Gupta (c) Pulakeshin II (d) Mulraj
(c) Sri Gupta (d) Ghatotkacha RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1
RRB NTPC Stage I st 28.04.2016 (Shift- Ans : (c)
II) Ans : (c)
36.Who was the last ruler of the Chola
30.Which Chinese traveler visited India dynasty?
during the Gupta period? (a) Rajaraj Chola II
(a) Hieun Tsang (b) Faxian (b) Rajendra Chola III

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(c) Vijayalaya Chola (a) Allopathy (b) Ayurveda (c) Homeopathy

(d) Kulottunga Chola III (d) Unani
RRB NTPC CBT-1, 28.04.2016 (Shift-III) RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I
Ans : (b) st Ans : (b)
37.Which Chola king won the Persian 43.Which states kings have been
conquest of this islands of Maldives? described by Rajatarangini?
(a) Karikala (b) Rajaraja (a) Rashtrakuta (b) Kashmir (c) Bihar (d)
(c) Mahendra (d) Vikram Odisha
RRB NTPC 07.04.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1 RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1
Ans : (b) Ans : (b)
38.Sushruta is known as _____. 44.Ancient Indian legal document

(a) Father of Indian Medicine 'Manusmriti' was written in ____.
(b) Father of Indian Surgery (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
(c) Father of Indian Ecology RRB NTPC 19.04.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(d) Father of Indian Paleobotany Ans : (c)
Ans : (b) 45.Which of the following literature is not
written in Sanskrit?
39.Panchatantra legends are believed to (a) Thirukkural (b) Ratnavali
be composed by. (c) Rajatarangini (d) Meghdoot
(a) Mulla Nasruddhin (b) Vishnu Sharma RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-I) Stage II
(c) Raja Sudarshan (d) Tenali Raman nd Ans : (a)
RRB NTPC 03.04.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans : (b) 46.Which one of these was an Indian
Mathematician?
40.Who is the author of Pancha- (a) Bharat (b) Bana
Siddhantika, Brihatsamhita and (c) Bhaskara (d) Bhavabhuti
Sankhya- Siddhanta? RRB NTPC 28.03.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1
(a) Aryabhata (b) Brahamagupta Ans : (c)
(c) Bhaskaracharya (d) Varahamihir
RRB NTPC 31.03.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1 47.Which of the following is a medieval
Ans : (d) Indian book written on Mathematics?
(a) Vastu Shastra (b) Lilavati
41.Who is the compiler of the famous (c) Panchadashi (d) Roopmati
book 'Thirukkural'? RRB NTPC 29.03.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) Kalidasa (b) Tiruvalluvar Ans : (b)
(c) Kabir (d) Meerabai
RRB NTPC Stage I st 28.04.2016 (Shift-I) 48.Who translated Manusmriti into
Ans : (b) English?
(a) H. G. Wells (b) George Buller
42.Charaka Samhita is related to which (c) Ralph Griffith (d) H.H. Wilson
branch of medicine? RRB NTPC CBT-1, 29.04.2016 (Shift-I)
Ans : (b)

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49.Which of these dynasties is not Ans : (b)
associated with south India?
(a) Pandya (b) Pal 55.Where are Ajanta caves, which are
(c) Satavahana (d) Pahlavas about 30 rock cut intellectual caves,
RRB NTPC CBT-1 which are 'the finest living examples of
19.01.2017 (Shift-I) Ans : (b) Indian art, especially in painting?
(a) Amravati, Maharashtra
50. ___ was built by the Kakatiya rulers (b) Aurangabad, Maharashtra (c) Pune,
in the 12th century and rebuilt by the Maharashtra
Qutub Sahi (d) Ratnagiri, Maharashtra
dynasty in the 14th century. RRB NTPC Stage I st 29.04.2016 (Shift-
(a) Golconda Fort (b) Agra Fort III) Ans. (b)
(c) Kochi Fort (d) Mandu Fort
Ans : (a) 56.How ancient were the caves of Ajanta
in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra,
51.Brihadeeswara temple is a Hindu in which Buddhist caves were cut by
temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, located about 30 rocks?
in the Tanjore District of the Indian state (a) 8th century BC (b) 2nd century BC (c)
of Tamil Nadu. It was built to grace the 6th century BC (d) 7th century BC
throne of––– RRB NTPC 07.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I
(a) Chola Empire (b) Mauryan Empire st Ans : (b)
(c) Gupta Empire (d) Mughal Empire
RRB NTPC 10.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I 57.Which of the following king built the
Ans : (a) Sun Temple of Konark?
(a) Narasimhadeva I (b) Vakradev
52.Brihadeeswara temple was built by (c) Mahameghavahana (d) Kudepasiri
which type of material? RRB Group-D 17-09-2018 (Shift-III)
(a) Soap (b) Granite RRB NTPC 28.03.2016 (Shift-I) Stage I st
(c) Sandstone (d) Marble Ans. (a)
st Ans : (b) 58.Which of the following Temples was
also called Black Pagoda by European
53.Where is Meenakshi Temple located? sailors?
(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Rajasthan (a) Konark Temple (b) Jagannath Temple (c)
(c) Maharashtra (d) Punjab Brahmeshwar Temple (d) Mukteshwar
RRB NTPC CBT-1, 19.01.2017 (Shift-III) Temple
Ans : (a) RRB NTPC Stage I st 28.04.2016 (Shift-
III) Ans : (a)
54.In which state are the caves of Ajanta 59.The painting of Ajanta cave is a proof
and Ellora located? of _____era in India?
(a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Maharashtra (a) Buddhism (b) Shaivism
(c) Manipur (d) Uttar Pradesh (c) Jainism (d) Vaishnavism

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RRB NTPC 17.01.2017 (Shift-I) CBT-1 66.Mahabodhi Temple or Mahajagriti

Ans : (a) Temple is a Buddhist Temple located in
___.
(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Bihar (c) Maharashtra
60.Famous Somnath Temple is located in (d) Andhra Pradesh
___? RRB NTPC 10.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I
(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Uttar Pradesh st Ans : (b)
(c) Gujarat (d) Rajasthan
RRB NTPC CBT-1, 22.04.2016 (Shift-I) 67.The Mahabodhi Temple complex is
Ans : (c) one of the four sacred sites belonging to
the lord Buddha located in _____.
61.Which of the following is a marble (a) Bihar (b) Tamil Nadu
temple built by Vimal shah? (c) Karnataka (d) Delhi
(a) Dilwara Temple RRB NTPC 17.01.2017 (Shift-I) Stage I st
(b) Brihadeeswara Temple Ans : (a)
(c) Omkareshwar Temple .
(d) Ranakpur Adinath Temple 68.Name the monument which includes
RRB NTPC 16.04.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1 an impressive series of nine Hindu
Ans : (a) temples as well
as a temple of Virupaksha, a Jain holy
62.Karley famous for Buddhist caves is place with a masterpiece and is located in
located? Bagalkot, Karnataka?
(a) Maharashtra (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) (a) Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram
Uttrakhand (d) Madhya Pradesh (b) Group of Monuments at Hampi
RRB NTPC 28.03.2016 (Shift-I) Stage I st (c) Group of Monuments at Pattadakal
RRB NTPC 03.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I (d) Group of Monuments at Khajuraho
st Ans : (a) RRB NTPC 11.04.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1
Ans : (c)
64.Among the Buddhist caves, the best
preserved cave is Karley caves which is 69.Which of the following king built
located in ____ of the following states. Gangaikonda Cholapuram temple?
(a) Bihar (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Maharashtra (a) Rajendra Chola I (b) Kulotung Chola III
(d) Uttrakhand (c) Raja Raj Chola III (d) Vikram Chola
RRB NTPC 11.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage I st RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1
Ans : (c) Ans : (a)
65.Where are the monuments of 70.Which of the following caves was

Khajuraho found? excavated by king Kharavel?
(a) Maharashtra (b) Bihar (a) Caves of Ajanta (b) Caves of Ellora
(c) Kanheri caves (d) Khandagiri caves
(c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Gujarat
st Ans : (d).
st Ans : (c)
71.During which of the following empires
Chennakesava Temple was built?
(a) Hoysal (b) Yadav

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(c) Chola (d) Pal (c) Golkonda Fort

RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (d) Teli Temple
Ans : (a) RRB NTPC CBT-1
30.04.2016 (Shift-II) Ans : (c)
72.Who built the famous stupa of Sanchi?
(a) Bindusara 78. Jantar Mantar in Delhi was built by
(b) Ashoka Maharaja____.
(c) Chandragupta Maurya (a) Jai Singh Ist of Jaipur
(d) Kanishka (b) Jai Singh IInd of Jaipur
RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (c) Ram Singh Ist
Ans : (b) (d) Bishan Singh
73.Shore temple is located at- Ans : (b)
(a) Mahabalipuram (b) Thiruvananthapuram
(c) Dwarka (d) Visakhapatnam 79.What is Jantar Mantar made by
RRB NTPC 04.04.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1 Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh?
Ans : (a) (a) Landscape
(b) Museum
74.The original place of 'Tantric Yogini' (c) Fort
cult is believed to be... (d) Astronomical observatory
(a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Bihar RRB NTPC CBT-1, 30.04.2016 (Shift-III)
(c) Odisha (d) Rajasthan Ans : (d)
Ans : (c) 80.Tower of Victory, Vijay stambha is
located in
75.Gandhara art is a Buddhist visual art (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Rajasthan
style, which was developed in the first (c) Odisha (d) Bihar
century BC RRB NTPC CBT-1, 26.04.2016 (Shift-I)
and the 4th century BC prospered in the Ans : (b)
empire of __.
(a) Kushana (b) Gupta 81.Tower of Victory, Vijay stambha is
(c) Pallava (d) Maurya located in-
RRB NTPC 17.01.2017 (Shift-I) Stage I st (a) Chauhan (b) Sisodiya
Ans : (a) (c) Hada (d) Rathore
76.Where is Shravanabelagola located? Ans : (b)
(a) Odisha (b) Kerala
(c) Tamil Nadu (d) Karnataka 82.Raja Bhoj, a prominent proponent of
RRB NTPC 30.03.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1 literature, was associated with which
Ans : (d) dynasty?
(a) Chalukya (b) Chola
77.Choose a historical place that is not in (c) Parmara (d) Pala
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh? RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) Jai Vilas Mahal Ans : ©
(b) Rani Laxmibai's Samadhi

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83.On which hill is the famous Tirumala 89.Which of the following is a

temple situated? philosophical theory that recognizes only
(a) Sheshadri (b) Neeladri what can be
(c) Narayanadri (d) Venkatadri verified scientifically or whose logical or
RRB NTPC 31.03.2016 (Shift-III) Stage mathematical verification is possible and
Ist Ans : (d) thus it rejects the metaphysics and
theism?
84.Pilgrims took an oath of cleanliness (a) Structural Feasibility
during the Sabarimala religious visit to (b) Symbolic Interaction
the state of... . (c) Dissension
(a) Karnataka (b) Kerala ... (d) Positivism
(c) Telangana (d) Tamil Nadu RRB NTPC CBT-1, 28.04.2016 (Shift-II)
RRB NTPC CBT-1 Ans : (d)
22.04.2016 (Shift-III) Ans : (b)
85.Who among the following defeated

Muhammad Ghori of Ghori dynasty in
NTPC CBT-2 2015
Kayadara village near mount Abu? 1.A group of monuments were built at
(a) Bhimdev Solanki I Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu by -
(b) Kulothunga Chola I (a) By cholas (b) By Pandyas
(c) Bhimdev Solanki II (c) By Chalukyas (d) By Pallavas
(d) Kulotung Chola II RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-III) Stage
RRB NTPC 07.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I IInd Ans : (d)
st Ans : ©
2.In whose reign was the Kailasanatha
86.In which state did the ancient temple at Kanchipuram built?
Kingdom of Kamarupa exist? (a) Pandya (b) Chola
(a) Rajasthan (b) Manipur (c) Pallava (d) Chera
(c) Assam (d) Kerala RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-II) Stage
RRB NTPC 29.03.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1 IInd Ans : (c)
Ans : (c)
3.In how many cities did Maharaja Jai
87.The Mahabharata war lasted for Singh II build the Jantar Mantar?
___days. (a) Five (b) Three
(c) One (d) Two
(a) 17 (b) 18 (c) 19 (d) 21
RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-II) Stage
IInd Ans : (a)
Ans : (b)
88.The concept of ____ is based on

superstitious beliefs.
(a) Checker (b) Solitaries NTPC CBT 1- 2018
(c) Chess (d) Snake and ladder
1.Which of the following construction
Ans : (d)
materials was used in Harappan
civilization?

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(a) Clay (b) Red sandstone (c) Burnt brick 8. Which city from the Harappan
(d) Sun dried Civilization was almost exclusively
RPF SI 18.01.2019(Shift - III) Ans. (c) devoted to craft production including
bead making, shell cutting, metal
2. When did archaeologist B.B. Lal working, seal making and weight
carried out excavations at Hastinapura, making?
situated in Meerut district? (a) Mohenjo Daro (b) Nageshwar
(a) 1962-63 (b) 1951-52 (c) 1957-58 (d) (c) Harappa (d) Chanhudaro
1949-50 RRB NTPC 19.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 17.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 Ans. (d)
Ans. (b)
9. The first site discovered at the Indus
3.The Great Bath found at Mohenjo-daro Valley Civilisation is:
was a huge ________. (a) Mohenjo-Daro (b) Harappa
(a) Circular tank (b) Cylindrical tank (c) (c) Lothal (d) Kalibangan
Triangular tank (d) Rectangular tank RRB NTPC 18.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 19.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 Ans. (b)
Ans. (d)
10.In which of the following locations was
4.The Harappan city was found during 'Nataraja', a stone male dancing figure
the excavations on the banks of which discovered?
river around the year 1920-21? (a) Lothal (b) Rangpur
(a) Jhelum (b) Vyas (c) Chenab (d) Ravi (c) Harappa (d) Mohenjo-daro
Ans. (c)
Ans. (d)
11.Which out of these is the Harappan
5.Which town of the Indus Valley
site discovered in Gujarat?
Civilisation literally means 'mound of the
(a) Balathal (b) Khandia
dead'? (a)Mesopotamia (b) Mohenjo-daro
(c) Dholavira (d) Manda
(c) Balakot (d) Harappa
Ans. (c)
Ans. (b)
12.Which of the following sites is NOT a
6.What is the meaning of 'Mohenjodaro'?
part of the Indus Valley Civilization?
(a) Living place (b) Market place
(a) Mohanjo-Daro (b) Harappa (c) Lothal (d)
(c) Mound of dead (d) like country
Uruk
Ans. (c)
Ans. (d)
7. Mohenjodaro is situated in:
13.Which of the following Indus
(a) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (b) Punjab
Civilisation sites has evidence of water
(c) Balochistan (d) Sindh
reservoirs?
(a) Kalibangan (b) Dholavira (c) Kot diji (d)
Ans. (d)
Lothal

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RRB NTPC 01.04.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (c) Chanhudaro (d) Nageshwar

Ans. (b) RRB NTPC 17.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans. (b)
14.In which state is the archaeological site
of Surkotada situated? 20.Which one of the following limbs of
(a) Rajasthan (b) Punjab (c) Bihar (d) Vedas is known for the explanation and
Gujarat meaning of complex words?
RRB NTPC 03.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (a) Kalpa (b) Chhanda (c) Vyakaran (d)
Ans. (d) Nirukta
15.In which year did a team of German Ans. (d)
and Italian archaeologists begin surface
explorations at Mohenjodaro? 21.From where have the words
(a) 1955 (b) 1970 (c) 1980 (d) 1990 'Satyameva Jayate' which are inscribed
RRB NTPC 15.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 below the National Emblem of India, been
Ans. (c) taken?
(a) Mundaka Upanishads (b) Jataka tales (c)
16.Which one of the following animals Puranas (d) Bhagavad Gita
was frequently seen on the seals of the RRB NTPC 02.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Harappan Civilisation? Ans. (a)
(a) Bull (b) Lion
(c) Fox (d) Deer 22.In ancient times, a person was weighed
RRB NTPC 18.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 against a commodity and the equivalent
Ans. (a) weight of that commodity was offered as
donation. What was this practice called?
17.In 1944, who took over as the Director- (a) Thimithi (b) Pulikali
General of the Archaeological Survey of (c) Tulabhara (d) Jallikattu
India and RRB NTPC 10.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
undertook the excavations of Harappa? Ans. (c)
(a) Daya Ram Sahni (b) John Marshal
(c) Rakhal Das Banerji (d) REM Wheeler 23.The Vedic time period in India lasted
RRB NTPC 17.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 from?
Ans. (d) (a) 1500 to 500 BC (b) 336 to 323 BC
(c) 3000 to 2600 BC (d) 550 to 323 BC
18.The famous Indus Valley site RRB NTPC 22.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Mohenjodaro was first time excavated by Ans. (a)
the eminent Indian
archaeologist: 24.Dhanurveda is the upveda of the
(a) SR Rao (b) BB Lal Yajurveda. It deals with :
(c) RD Banerji (d) Daya Ram Sahni (a) medicine (b) architecture
RRB NTPC 17.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (c) art and music (d) art of warfare
Ans. (c) RRB NTPC 18.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (d)
19.Which of the following Harappan site
is NOT associated with craft production?
(a) Balakot (b) Manda

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25.In which of the following Vedas the RRB NTPC 30.12.2020 (Shift-I) CBT-1
knowledge related to music is stored ? Ans. (d)
(a) Rigveda (b) Atharvaveda
(c) Samaveda (d) Yajurveda 32.Which of the following is the
RRB NTPC 31.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 birthplace of Lord Mahavira in early 6th
Ans. (c) century BC?
(a) Magadha (b) Patliputra
26.Which is the oldest of the four Vedas? (c) Vaishali (d) Sarnath
(a) Samaveda (b) Atharvaveda RRB NTPC 01.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(c) Yajurveda (d) Rigveda Ans. (c)
Ans. (d) 33.The Jain Monastic establishments are
called as:
27.Mundaka Upanishad belongs to the: (a) Aparigraha (b) Svetambara
(a) Sam Veda (b) Atharva Veda (c) Tirth (d) Basadis
(c) Yajur Veda (d) Rig Veda RRB NTPC 23.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 05.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 Ans. (d)
Ans. (b)
34.Who was the twenty-fourth Jain
28.The Vedas are considered the earliest Tirthankara
literary record of Indo-Aryan civilization. (a) Gomateshwara (b) Parasnath
There are (c) Rishabha (d) Mahavira
four Vedas: Rigveda, Samaveda, RRB NTPC 25.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Yajurveda and the fourth one is ______. Ans. (d)
(a) Atharvaveda (b) Dhanurveda
(c) Ayurveda (d) Shilpa Veda 35.Why were stupas built?
RRB NTPC 16.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (a) They contained sacred relics
Ans. (a) (b) To hold religious meetings
(c) To worship the Buddha
29.Which of the following was the capital (d) To keep Buddhist scriptures
of the kingdom of Magadh? (a) Vaishali RRB NTPC 09.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(b) Rajgir (c) Ujjain (d) Kaushambi Ans. (a)
Ans. (b) 36.With reference to the Sutta Pitaka,
which of the following statements are
30.Udayin shifted the capital of Magadha correct?
from _____ to Patliputra. (a) This is the life character of Buddha
(a) Taxila (b) Kaushambi (c) Sarnath (d) (b) It is related with the conversation
Rajgir between the ruler of Magadha and the
RRB NTPC 19.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 Buddha
Ans. (d) (c) This is Buddhist Scripture written in Sri
Lanka.
31.Lord Mahavira's original name is: (d) It is about the rules and regulations made
(a) Ananda (b) Siddhartha for the people who adopted the Buddhist
(c) Sariputta (d) Vardhamana monastic system

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RRB NTPC 19.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (c) Mahavira Jaina (d) Guru Gobind Singh
Ans. (b) RRB NTPC 01.04.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans. (a)
37.At which of the following places did
Gautam Buddha attain self- 43.Which of the following sermons of
enlightenment? Gautama Buddha are known as Fire
(a) Kushinagar (b) Lumbini Sermon?
(c) Bodhgaya (d) Sarnath (a) Dhammachakra Pravartan Sutta
RRB NTPC 19.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (b) Adittapariyaya Sutta
Ans. (c) (c) Anatta-lakkhana Sutta
(d) Brahmajala Sutra
38.The third Buddhist Council was held RRB NTPC 17.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
by: Ans. (b)
(a) Chandragupta (b) Harshvardhana
(c) Ashoka (d) Kanishka 44.Which of the following is an ancient
RRB NTPC 03.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 Buddhist text?
Ans. (c) (a) Vishnu Purana (b) Raghuvansham (c)
Ritusamhara (d) Abhidharma Kosha
39.Hinayana and Mahayana are sects of RRB NTPC 30.12.2020 (Shift-I) CBT-1
which Ans. (d)
religion?
(a) Hinduism (b) Jainism 45.Jataka tales are related with-
(c) Buddhism (d) Sikhism (a) Sikh Religion (b) Buddha Religion (c)
RRB NTPC 28.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 Jain Religion (d) Hindu Religion
Ans. (c)
Ans. (b)
40.The famous Buddhist structure,
Dhamekh Stupa was originally
46.In which state of India can we find the
constructed during –––– dynasty.
preserved Buddhist caves called 'Karle'?
(a) Nanda (b) Shunga
(c) Kanva (d) Mauryan (a) Bihar (b) Karnataka (c) Maharashtra (d)
RRB NTPC 11.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 Uttar Pradesh
Ans. (d) RRB NTPC 05.04.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans. (c)
41.The concept of Bodhisattva is
associated with: 47.Which of the following is not a pilgrim
(a)Jainism place of the Buddhist?
(b) Hinayana Buddhism (a) Bodh Gaya (b) Sarnath (c) Gwalior (d)
(c)Sikhism Kushinagar
(d) Mahayana Buddhism RRB NTPC 05.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 01.04.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 Ans. (c)
Ans. (d)
48.Where was Gautama Buddha born?
42.Vinaya and Sutta Pitaka are the (a) Ayodhya (b) Lumbini (c) Vaishali (d)
compilations of whose teachings? Magadha
(a) Gautam Buddha (b) Rishabhadev

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Ans. (b) 53.The historic Grand Trunk road was
built by several rulers. What was it called
49.Name the Buddhist text that comprises during the reign of the Maurya dynasty?
rules for monks. (a) Uttarapath (b) Purvi Path
(a) Tripitaka (b) Vinaya Pitaka (c) Badshahi Road (d) Rajpath
(c) Abhidhamma Pitaka (d) Sutta Pitaka RRB NTPC 11.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 08.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 Ans. (a)
Ans. (b)
54.Ashoka the Great, belonged to the:
50.Which river did Alexander first cross (a) Gupta Dynasty (b) Chola Dynasty
to invade India in 326 BC? (c) Maurya Dynasty (d) Shunga Dynasty
(a) Indus (b) Jhelum (c) Chenab (d) Sutlej RRB NTPC 17.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 30.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 Ans. (c)
Ans. (a)
55.The lethal war with Kalinga
51.Asoka, arguably the most famous ruler transformed the vengeful Emperor
of early India, conquered Kalinga. He Ashoka to a stable and
was the grandson of ______. peaceful emperor and he became of a
(a) Samudragupta follower of–
(b) Chandragupta Maurya (a) Buddhism (b) Vedanta
(c) Prabhavati Gupta (c) Hinduism (d) Jainism
(d) Chandragupta II RRB NTPC 31.07.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 13.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 Ans. (a)
Ans. (b)
56.Who was the teacher of Chandrgupta
52.Chandragupta Maurya was the Maurya?
founder of the Maurya Dynasty. Which of (a) Skandagupta (b) Vishnu Gupta
the following (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalhan
are statements about his rule in Indian RRB NTPC 02.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
history incorrect? Ans. (b)
(a) He met Alexander and joined his army,
so that he could learn the combat skills of 57.Which of the following books is written
Macedonians. by Megasthenes?
(b) Bairam Khan was his bestally, mentor (a) Harshacharita (b) Malavikagnimitram
and guide. (c) Indica (d) Yajnavalkya Smriti
(c) Chandragupta Maurya is credited with RRB NTPC 18.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
establishing the first all-India (approximate) Ans. (c)
empire
(d) The archaeological evidence of the 58.Who mentioned Adhyakshas as the
empire shows the existence of several towns superintendents of different departments
and in the
cities, with the most prominent capital being Mauryan administration.
Patliputra. (a) Kautilya (b) Pliny
RRB NTPC 24.07.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (c) Megasthenes (d) Strabo
Ans. (b)

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RRB NTPC 01.04.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 RRB NTPC 17.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (a) Ans. (d)
59.Which Ashokan rock Edict mentions 64.Banabhatta was the court poet of
Ashoka's Triumph over Kalinga? which king?
(a) Thirteenth (b) Fourth (a) Chandragupta (b) Harshavardhana (c)
(c) First (d) Tenth Ashoka (d) Samudragupta
RRB NTPC 05.04.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 RRB NTPC 01.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans. (a) Ans. (b)
60.The earliest deciphered epigraphy of 65.Name the person who had a major
Ashoka’s inscription in India was written influence in the field of Algebra in India.
in which script? (a) Charaka (b) Brahmagupta
(a) Kharoshthi (b) Harappan (c) Brahmi (d) (c) Varahamihira (d) Aryabhatta
Devanagari RRB NTPC 07.04.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (c)
66.Who was the court poet of King
61.James Prinsep, an archaeologist, Harshavardhana?
philologist and official of the East India (a) Ananda bhatta (b) Vallal
Company, deciphered Ashokan edicts (c) Jayachandra (d) Banabhatta
(which were in the Brahmi script) in the RRB NTPC 08.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
year: Ans. (d)
(a) 1837 (b) 1857 (c) 1890 (d) 1876
RRB NTPC 01.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 67.Which of the following is one of the
Ans. (a) nine gems of Chandragupta II?
(a) Varahamihira (b) Moggallana
62._______ deciphered Brahmi and (c) Vishakhadatta (d) Brahmagupta
Kharosthi script that were used for RRB NTPC 07.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
earlier inscriptions. Ans. (a)
(a) Marshall (b) Cunningham
(c) James Princep (d) Wheeler 68.During whose reign the Chinese
RRB NTPC 09.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 traveler Hiuen Tsang came to India?
Ans. (c) (a) Kirtivarman (b) PulaKeshin II
(c) Harshavardhana (d) Vikramaditya
63.Which statement from the given RRB NTPC 12.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
options is NOT correct? Ans. (c)
(a) Buddhist scriptures were written in Pali.
(b) The birthplace of Gautam Buddha is in 69.Who is known as the 'Napoleon of
Nepal India'?
(c) Upagupta influenced Ashoka to embrace (a) Skandagupta (b) Samudragupta (c)
Buddhism. Chandragupta (d) Kumaragupta
(d) Charak was the personal physician of RRB NTPC 13.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Gautam Buddha. Ans. (b)

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70.Who among the following during the

reign of Harsvardhan came to India? 76.Which period has been described as
(a) Fa-hien (b) Alberuni the Golden Age of Indian history?
(c) I Tsing (d) Hiuen Tsang (a) Magadha period (b) Mughal period
RRB NTPC 05.04.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (c) Maurya period (d) Gupta period
Ans. (d) RRB NTPC 30.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (d)
71.Name the daughter of one of the most
important rulers in early Indian history, 77.Nalanda University is widely
Chandragupta II. recognised as one of the ancient world's
(a) Lopamudra (b) Rudrama Devi (c) Parvati great universities and an important
Gupta (d) Prabhavati Gupta Buddhist center of academic
RRB NTPC 19.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 Excellence. Which Indian ruler founded
Ans. (d) it?
(a) Harshavardhan
72.Vikramaditya is another name of (b) Chandragupta Maurya
which famous Gupta ruler? (c) Kumaragupta I
(a) Kumaragupta II (b) Chandragupta I (d) Ashok
(c) Chandragupta II (d) Ramagupta RRB NTPC 28.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (c)
78.Bhukti, Bhoga, Visaya, Vithi and
73.Who is the author of the Panchatantra Mandal were:
collection of fables? (a) Administrative divisions in the Gupta
(a) Skandagupta (b) Ved Shastri period
(c) Vishnu Gupta (d) Vishnu Sharma (b) Great saints of the Mauryan period
RRB NTPC 10.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (c) Rituals in Ashwamedha Yagna
Ans. (d) (d) Ministers in Chandragupta's durbar
74.Under which dynasty the rulers wrote Ans. (a)
their achievements in prashasti?
(a) Rajput dynasty (b) Gupta dynasty 79.Which era is called the golden age of
(c) Mughal dynasty (d) Khilji dynasty ancient India?
RRB NTPC 08.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (a) The Mauryan Empire 3rd century
Ans. (b) (b) The Chola Empire 3rd century
(c) The Gupta Empire, 4th century
75.Which of the following kings of the (d) The Kushan Empire, 1st century
Gupta Empire was also a good Veena RRB NTPC 17.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
player ? Ans. (c)
(a) Chandragupta Vikramaditya
(b) Samudragupta 80.Who ascended the Gupta throne after
(c) Kumaragupta Chandragupta I?
(d) Chandragupta I (a) Brahmagupta (b) Samudragupta
RRB NTPC 01.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (c) Shudraka (d) Sri Gupta
Ans. (b)

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RRB NTPC 25.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 86.King Simhavishnu belonged to the …

Ans. (b) dynasty
(a) Chola (b) Pallava
81.What was the capital of Hoyasala's (c) Pala (d) Chalukya
kingdom? RRB NTPC 26.07.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) Devagiri (b) Dwarasamudra Ans. (b)
(c) Mysore (d) Kalyani
RRB NTPC 10.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 87.The rulers Pulakeshin I and
Ans. (b) Pulakeshin II were related to which of the
following dynasties?
82.From the given options, which dynasty (a) Chola dynasty (b) Chalukya dynasty
developed shipping ventures in Southeast (c) Kushan dynasty (d) Magadha dynasty
Asia? RRB NTPC 23.07.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) The Chalukya Dynasty Ans. (b)
(b) The Gupta Dynasty
(c) The Chera Dynasty 88.Pulakeshin II was the most illustrious
(d) The Chola Dynasty ruler of which dynasty?
RRB NTPC 08.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (a) Chalukya (b) Kakatiya
Ans. (d) (c) Pandya (d) Hoysala
83.Which native Indian dynasty issued Ans. (a)
their own coins with portraits of their
rulers on them? 89.Who founded the famous
(a) The Peshwa Dynasty Vikramashila University in the 9th
(b) The Rashtrakuta Dynasty century?
(c) The Satavahana Dynasty (a) Samantha Sena (b) Ballalasena
(d) The Pandya Dynasty (c) Dharmapala (d) Gopala
RRB NTPC 08.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 RRB NTPC 09.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans. (c) Ans. (c)
84.According to Chola Rock edicts, the 90.The famous Konark Sun Temple is
land grants made to Gurukula's was attributed to:
known as ______. (a) King Samrat Ashoka
(a) Brahmadeya (b) Vellanvagai (b) King Rajaraja Chola
(c) Pallichchhandam (d) Shalabhoga (c) King Narasimhadeva I
RRB NTPC 26.07.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (d) King Raghunath Singha
Ans. (c)
85.The Virupaksha temple at Hampi is
dedicated to: 91.Who was the author of the Sanskrit
(a) Lord Shiva (b) Lord Ganesha epic Mahabharata ?
(a) Maharishi Veda Vyasa
(c) Lord Vishnu (d) Lord Brahma
(b) Maharishi Valmiki
(c) Shree Krishna
Ans. (a)
(d) Shri Sukhdevji

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RRB NTPC 14.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 98.Who composed 'The

Ans. (a) Dashakumaracharita' or 'Tales of Ten
92.Who is the author of the literary work Princess'?
'Mricchakatika' ? (a) Rahas Bihari Dwivedi
(a) Sri Harsh (b) Kalidas (b)Dandin
(c) Chanakya (d) Shudrak (c) Bhartrhari
RRB NTPC 12.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (d) Budhasvamin
Ans. (b)
93.Who is the author of Ashtadhyayi, an
ancient Sanskrit book? 99.Who wrote Geet Govinda?
(a) Patanjali (b) Panini (a) Jayadeva (b) Meerabai
(c) Ashtavakra (d) Charaka (c) Raskhan (d) Surdas
Ans. (b) Ans. (a)
94.Panini was a famous Sanskrit______. 100.Who is the author of Harshacharita?

(a) Poet (b) Novelist (a) Kalidas (b) Panini
(c) Grammarian (d) Writer (c) Kalhana (d) Banabhatta
Ans. (c) Ans. (d)
95.Which subject is dealt with in 101.Who wrote the epic called

'Sushruta Samhita'? Buddhacharita?
(a) Astrology (b) Medicine and Surgery (a) Gautam Buddha (b) Nagarjuna (c)
(c) Mathematics (d) Religion and Hemchandra (d) Ashvaghosha
Mythology RRB NTPC 06.04.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (b)
102.Who built the Lingaraj Temple?
96.Who wrote the famous Sanskrit play (a) Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
Svapnavasavadattam? (b) Rulers of the Rajput Chandela Dynasty
(a) Jayadev (b) Kalidas (c) King Yayati Keshri of Somvanshi
(c) Shudraka (d) Bhasa (d) King Anantawarman Chodaganga Deva
Ans. (d) Ans. (c)
97.The original name of Mahabharata is: 103.The grand temple of Khajuraho was
(a) Bhrigu samhita (b) Sushruta Samhita built by the_____ rulers.
(c) Jaya Samhita (d) Shiva Samhita (a) Parmar (b) Chandela (c) Chouhan (d)
RRB NTPC 15.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 Solanki
Ans. (c) RRB NTPC 31.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans. (b)

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104.To which group of temples does (c) Rajasthani (d) Mughal

Kandariya Mahadev Temple belong? RRB NTPC 23.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) Mahabalipuram Temple Ans. (a)
(b) Konark Temple
(c) Ellora Cave Temple 110.Sri Lingaraj Temple is situated in:
(d) Khajuraho Temple (a) Konark (b) Dwaraka
RRB NTPC 12.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (c) Bhubaneswar (d) Tirupati
Ans. (c)
105.Murudeshwar Temple is situated on
Kanduka Giri in the state of _____. 111.Which dynasty built the Sun temple
(a) Karnataka (b) Odisha of Modhera?
(c) Tamil Nadu (d) Kerala (a) Rashtrakuta dynasty (b) Chalukya
RRB NTPC 03.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 dynasty
Ans. (a) (c) Pallava dynasty (d) Solanki dynasty
106.The Lion Capital pillar is located at : Ans. (b)
(a) Sarnath (b) Dhauli
(c) Nagarjuna Hills (d) Barabar Hills 112.The Gommateshwara statue at
RRB NTPC 02.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 Shravanabelagola is made of which
Ans. (a) material?
(a) Granite (b) Marble
107.Which of the following temples was (c) Red stone (d) Iron ore
built by Raja Raja Chola? RRB NTPC 01.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) JagannathTemple Ans. (a)
(b) Brihadisvara Temple
(c) Meenakshi Temple 113.Which of the following is NOT one of
(d) Lingaraj Temple the Great Living Chola Temples?
RRB NTPC 29.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (a) Gangaikondacholapuram
Ans. (b) (b) Kampahareswarar
(c) Brihadeshwara
108.Which temple in Thanjavur has (d) Airavatesvara
Chola architecture and was built by RRB NTPC 19.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Emperor Rajaraja? Ans. (b)
(a) Lord Murugan Temple
(b) Naganathaswamy Temple 114.Who built the Sanchi Stupa?
(a) Ashoka (b) Bindusara
(c) Thirumananjeri Temple
(c) Chanakya (d) Chandragupta
(d) Brihadisvara Temple
Ans. (d)
115.Which temple is known as 'black
109.Which type of paintings are found on pagoda'?
the walls of Thiruvarur and Ajanta (a) Konark Sun Temple
temples ? (b) Shani Shingnapur
(a) Mural (b) Madhubani (c) Suryanar Temple

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(d) Martand Sun Temple (a) Kerala (b) Tamil Nadu

RRB NTPC 13.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (c) Goa (d) Odisha
Ans. (a) RRB NTPC 05.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans. (b)
116.Which of the following pairs is
correct? 122.The temple at Elephanta Caves
(a) Khajuraho Temple – Andhra Pradesh located near Mumbai is dedicated to ...
(b) Tijara Temple– Rajasthan (a) Lord Vishnu (b) Lord Vishnu
(c) Venkateswara Temple– Odisha (c) Lord Krishna (d) Lord Shiva
(d) Lingraj Temple – Madhya Pradesh RRB NTPC 09.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 13.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 Ans. (d).
Ans. (b)
123.What do paintings at Ajanta caves
117.Name the monument which is a illustrate?
testimony to successful restoration and (a) Mahabharata tales (b) Jataka tales
preservation of an archaeological site. (c) Ramayana tales (d) Stories from vedas
(a) Palika bazaar (b) India Gate RRB NTPC 04.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(c) Gateway of India (d) Sanchi Stupa Ans. (b)
Ans. (d) 124.The Ajanta caves are located in:
(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Chhattisgarh
118.What is the balcony-like structure (c) Maharashtra (d) Delhi
built in a stupa called? RRB NTPC 12.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) Umbrella (b) Harmika Ans. (c)
(c) Yashti (d) Universe
RRB NTPC 06.04.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 125.... was the Buddhist monument built
Ans. (b) by Emperor Ashoka in Madhya Pradesh
to honor Lord Buddha.
119.Which of the following temples was (a) Dhamek Stupa (b) Bavikonda Stupa
built by the Pallava rulers? (c) Mahabodhi Stupa (d) Sanchi Stupa
(a) Kanchipuram Kailasanathar Temple RRB NTPC 25.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(b) Konark Sun Temple Ans. (d)
(c) Lingaraja temple
(d) Dilwara temple 126.The Indian painting style which has
RRB NTPC 06.04.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 embellishments of pure gold and precious
Ans. (a) stones and depicts Hindu deities.
Especially Lord Krishna is:
(a) Madhubani (b) Murals
120.Which part of a Hindu temple
(c) Warli (d) Tanjore Paintings
incorporates space for a large number of
worshippers?
Ans. (d)
(a) Garbhagriha (b) Vimana
(c) Shikhar (d) Mandapa
127.In which of the following states is the
famous Sun Temple situated?
Ans. (d)
(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Punjab (c) Andhra
Pradesh (d) Odisha
121.The Meenakshi Temple is located in:

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RRB NTPC 12.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 134.Which Indian state was in ancient
Ans. (d) history known as Kamarupa?
(a) Assam (b) Bihar
128.Sanchi Stupa is situated near the city (c) Odisha (d) West Bengal
of … RRB NTPC 09.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(a) Bhopal (b) Gwalior (c) Agra (d) Jhansi Ans. (a)
Ans. (a) 135.Which one of the following is a part
of six schools of Indian philosophy?
129.The Kamakhya temple is situated in (a) Padam (b) Astika
the state of: (c) Shruti (d) Yoga
(a) Manipur (b) Sikkim (c) Assam (d) RRB NTPC 25.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Meghalaya Ans. (d)
Ans. (c) 136.What is meant by Epigraphy?
(a) Study of skeletons
130.Where is the Sabarimala temple (b) Study of inscriptions
located? (c) Study of maps
(a) Kerala (b) Odisha (c) Maharashtra (d) (d) Study of coins
Andhra Pradesh RRB NTPC 19.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 28.12.2020 (Shift-I) CBT-1 Ans.(b)
Ans. (a)
137.The famous Gol Gumbaz is located
131.In which of the following cities is the in:
Mahakaleshwar temple situated ? (a) Punjab (b) Rajasthan
(a) Ujjain (b) Varanasi (c) Karnataka (d) Gujarat
(c) Bhubaneswar (d) Bhopal RRB NTPC 28.12.2020 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (a)
138.Who was the grandson of Bhim and
132.Who invented paper? Hidimba as per Mahabharata?
(a) Mahaviracharya (b) Baudhayan (a) Barbarika (b) Iravan
(c) Parikshit (d) Babruvahana
(c) Cai Lun (d) Varahamihira
Ans. (a)
Ans. (c)
139.Name the Shiva temple near
133.Which of the following ancient Indian
Taliparamba in Kerala, where women are
philosophers mentioned the smallest
allowed to enter only after 8 pm. A
particle of matter and named it 'Atom' ?
unique feature of this temple is the
(a) Charak (b) Kanad
absence of a flagstaff.
(c) Baudhayana (d) Varahamihira
(a) Rajarajeshwara Temple
(b) Rameswaram Mahadeva temple
Ans. (b)
(c) Mallikarjun Temple
(d) Gokarnanatheshwara Temple

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RRB NTPC 20.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 RRB Group-D 03-12-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
Ans. (a) (a)
140.Who was the son of Shakuntala in 4. The people of the Indus Valley
Kalidasa's drama Abhigyan Civilization mixed copper and tin to make
Shakuntalam? --------.
(a) Bharata (b) Vikrama (a) Mirror (b) Bronze
(c) Pradyumna (d) Aniruddha (c) Iron (d) Gold
RRB NTPC 03.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 RRB Group-D 10-12-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
Ans. (a) (b)
141.The Brihadisvara temple is in which 5.Which of the following is not an

state of India? important place of Indus Valley
(a) Rajasthan (b) Madhya Pradesh Civilization?
(c) Tamil Nadu (d) Uttar Pradesh (a) Kalibanga (b) Harappa
RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 CBT-1(Shift-I) (c) Mohenjodaro (d) Ajamgarh
Stage IInd Ans. (c) RRB Group-D 24-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
(d)
GROUP - D 2018
6.The meaning of the name
1.Indus Valley Civilization 'Mohenjodaro' in ______is mound of
is________years old and extends to the dead -
lower part of the Gangetic (a) Persian (b) Urdu
valley in South and till Malwa in North. (c) Hindi (d) Sindhi
(a) 1000 B.C. (b) 5000 B.C. RRB Group-D 28-11-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
(c) 3000 B.C. (d) 8000 B.C. (d)
RRB Group-D 27-11-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
(c)
7.Which of the following vedas describes
2.BCE towards the south of Malwa and music?
north to the entire foothills of the Ganges (a) Samaveda (b) Yajurveda
Valley? (c) Rigveda (d) Atharvaveda
(a) Indus Valley Civilization RRB Group-D 24-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
(b) Aryan Empire (a)
(c) Mauryan Empire
(d) Magadh Empire 8.The oldest veda is ______.
RRB Group-D 24-09-2018 (Shift-II) Ans : (a) Samveda (b) Yajurveda
(a) (c)8
(c) 760 (d) 1875
3.The history of India begins with the RRB Group-D 29-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans
birth of the Indus Valley Civilization : (b)
which came into
existence almost _____. 10.The Rigveda has _____ mantra-
(a) 2500 BC (b) 4500 BC (a) 1,014 (b) 1,028
(c) 1500 BC (d) 6500 BC (c) 1,035 (d) 1,020
RRB Group-D 12-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans
: (b)

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RRB Group-D 11-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.

11.Which of the following vedas tells (c)
about magical rituals and captivations?
(a) Atharvaveda (b) Somaveda 17.Which religion is the Tripitaka sacred
(c) Rigveda (d) Yajurveda scripture related to?
RRB Group-D 25-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. (a) Hinduism (b) Zoroastrianism
(a) (c) Jainism (d) Buddhism
12.In which of the following upanishads is (d)
the word Vasudhaivakutumbakam
mentioned? 18._______ was born in 560 BC and died
(a) Maha Upanishad in 480 BC at the age of eighty.
(b) Chandogya Upanishad (a) Mahaveer (b) Harsha
(c) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (c) Buddha (d) Ashok
(d) Kenopanishad RRB Group-D 03-12-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
RRB Group-D 24-09-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. (C)
(a)
19.Under which tree did queen Mayadevi
13._____upanishads are considered to be give birth to Gautam Buddha?
the main (a) Sal tree (b) Ashoka tree
(a) 108, 11 (b) 116, 22 (c) Peepal tree (d) Mango tree
(c) 100, 12 (d) 99, 10 RRB Group-D 12-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
RRB Group-D 11-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. (a)
(a)
20.The foundations of Buddhism are
14.The oldest upanishad is ____. based on ___ great truths and organs
(a) Isha Upanishad _____ path.
(b) Mandukya Upanishad (a) Six, Four (b) Two, Eight (c) Eight, Six
(c) Ken Upanishad (d) Four, Eight
(d) Chandogya Upanishad RRB Group-D 08-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
RRB Group-D 12-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. (d)
(d)
21.Which of the following is not among
15.Parshvanatha who was the Son of a the 4 great goodies of Lord Buddha?
Kshatriya and King Ashwasena of (a) World of sorrows
Benaras, became (b) The reason for sorrow is desire
Jain Tirthankara ____. (c) If desires are not believed then suffering
(a) 23 (b) 24 can be relieved.
(c) 1 (d) 2 (d) This can be done by following the
RRB Group-D 24-09-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. Eightfold path.
(a) RRB Group-D 10-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
(c)
16.Mahavira _____ is considered the last
Tirthankara among the Tirthankaras. 22.Tripitaka -------is the earliest collection
(a) 22 (b) 26 of sermons.
(c) 24 (d) 20

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(a) Jain (b) Hindu (c) Buddhism (d) Arya RRB Group-D 09-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
RRB Group-D 09-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. (c)
©
29.What was the name of mother of
23.Gautama Buddha gave his first Gautama Buddha? (a) Maya (b) Trishala
sermon in -----. (c) Kanika (d) Kaushalya
(a) Kapilvastu (b) Bodhgaya (c) Sarnath (d) RRB Group-D 05-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
Patliputra (a)
(c) 30.The rules of ethics given in Buddhism
are known as ____ and Panchsheel
24.Which Chinese scholar lived in Siddhanta.
Vijayawada to study Buddhist texts. (a) Panchangik Marg (b) Sastangik Marg
(a) Dong Zhongshu (b) Juan Zhang (c) Ashtangik Marg (d) Chatuthrk Marg
(c) Kui weeping (d) Dongfang Shuo RRB Group-D 10-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
RRB Group-D 22-09-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. ©
(b)
31.The most important event of Ashoka's
25.In which Indian state is Bodh Gaya reign was the conquest of Kalinga, the
located? modern era ____ which proved to be an
(a) Odisha (b) Bihar important change in his life.
(c) Jharkhand (d) West Bengal (a) Assam (b) Jharkhand
RRB Group-D 30-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. (c) Bihar (d) Odisha
(b) RRB Group-D 04-12-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
(d)
26.Gautama Buddha used the language of
the common people in his teachings- 32.Ashoka adopted Buddhism teachings
(a) Magadhi (b) Sanskrit after the war of ____.
(c) Prakrit (d) Pali (a) Buxar (b) Kalinga
RRB Group-D 11-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. (c) Panipat (d) Magadha
(d) RRB Group-D 01-12-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
(b)
27.In the Jataka tales, a description of the
birth and life of ____ is found. 33.The famous Kalinga war sent Emperor
(a) Buddha (b) Lord Vishnu Ashoka to leave the war and inspired him
(c) Mahaveer (d) Lord Krishna to adopt Buddhism, when this war was
RRB Group-D 10-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. fought in Odisha.
(a) (a) 261 BC (b) 262 BC
(c) 260 BC (d) 264 BC
28.The rise of Jainism and Buddhism saw RRB Group-D 23-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans
religious unrest in India in the ... century : (a)
BC.
(a) Fifth (b) Forth 34.Kautilya's Arthashastra gives us
(c) Sixth (d) Seventh information about ____ administration.
(a) Gupta (b) Maurya

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(c) Pratihara (d) Rashtrakuta RRB Group-D 15-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.

RRB Group-D 28-09-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. (b)
(b)
40.After Harsha's death, around the
35.Emperor Ashoka sent the apostles to seventh century ____ came into dominion
remote places to propagate the ideals of as the bend era of India.
Buddhism so that people could inspire (a) Rajput (b) Angrej
their lives through the teachings of Lord (c) Turk (d) Mughal
Buddha. Their evangelists also included RRB Group-D 30-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
his son ____ and daughter ___? (a)
(a) Manoj and Sanjana
(b) Mahesh and Sangita 41.Chandragupta II extended the Gupta
(c) Mahendra and Sanghamitra Empire to Gujarat in the year____ AD.
(d) Mandeep and Suhasana (a) 930 (b) 903
RRB Group-D 05-11-2018 (Shift-II) Ans : (c) 309 (d) 390
(c) RRB Group-D 03-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
(d)
36.The most famous of the Kushan kings
was ____ who was the third ruler in the 42.The Chinese traveler Itsing had
Kushan dynasty. learned Sanskrit for three years
(a) Kritavarma (b) Krishnadevaraya in_______.
(c) Kautilya (d) Kanishka (a) Tamralipti (b) Nalanda
RRB Group-D 05-12-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. (c) Pataliputra (d) Bodhgaya
(d) RRB Group-D 22-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
(a)
37.In the beginning of the____century BC
the Kushanas established their authority 43.After the death of Harshvardhana, the
over the north-west border of India. kings of Pratihara, Pal and Rashtrakuta
(a) Third (b) Fourth (c) First (d) Second dynasty fought with each other to gain
RRB Group-D 05-12-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : Suzerainty over______ .
(c) (a) Badami (b) Kannauj
(c) Delhi (d) Gujarat
38.The Hathigumpha inscription from RRB Group-D 12-11-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
Udayagiri in Odisha was written by the (b)
King of Kalinga____.
(a) Kharavel (b) Mahendra 44.... became very powerful in the seventh
(c) Bimbisara (d) Ashok and eighth centuries and Kanchipuram
RRB Group-D 12-12-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. was their capital.
(a) (a) Pallavas (b) Pratihar
(c) Pal (d) Chola
39.Who was Harshawardhana's Court RRB Group-D 26-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
poet? (a)
(a) Jaidev (b) Banabhatta
(c) Chand Bardai (d) Bilhana 45. ... was the capital of the Pandya
dynasty.

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(a) Gaya (b) Kanchipuram 51.Who among the following has

(c) Madurai (d) Dwara Samudra compiled the book 'Mrichchakatikam' in
RRB Group-D 01-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. Ancient India?
(c) (a) Kalhan (b) Shudraka
(c) Vikram Veda (d) Banabhatta
46.... ruled the region around Madurai RRB Group-D 23-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
and attained supremacy in the thirteenth (b)
century.
(a) Rajput (b) Chola 52.Who is the author of the ancient
(c) Cher (d) Pandya Sanskrit grammar book Ashtadhyayi?
RRB Group-D 24-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : (a) Sushruta (b) Jayadeva
(d) (c) Panini (d) Surdas
RRB Group-D 02-11-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
47.What is the main occupation of (c)
merchants known as Shroff, Seth,
Sahukar, Mahajan and 53.Who among the following has
Cheti since ancient times? compiled 'Raghuvansham'?
(a) Construction (b) Teaching (a) Surdasa (b) Kabirdass
(c) Banking (d) Medical (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
RRB Group-D 25-09-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. RRB Group-D 08-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
(c) (c)
48.Vindhya Shakti was the founder of 54.The Tamil poet 'Kamban compiled the
the… dynasty? Tamil
(a) Vakataka version of which of the following texts?
(b) Kakatiya (a) Mahabharata (b) Ramayana
(c) Pandava (c) Rigveda (d) Bhagavad-Gita
(d) Chola RRB Group-D 27-11-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
RRB Group-D 17-09-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. (b)
(a)
55.The epics of the Sangam period
49.Who was the first of the Pala dynasty? 'Silappadikaram and Manimekhalai were
(a) Gopal (b) Devpal written in the
(c) Madanpal (d) Nandlal language___
RRB Group-D 22-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans : (a) Pali (b) Paishachi
(a) (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
50.Which of the following ancient texts is (d)
also called Fifth Veda?
(a) Shiv Puran (b) Ramayana 56.By whom the main text of Nyaya
(c) Bhagavad Geeta (d) Mahabharata Philosophy 'Nyaya Sutra' written.
RRB Group-D 27-09-2018 (Shift-III) Ans (a) Akshapada Gautama (b) Chanakya
: (d) (c) Kalidasa (d) Ravikirti Ans. (a)

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57.Who among the following wrote the 63.In ancient times Amar Singh prepared
Sanskrit play Mudrarakshasa? a dictionary of language words called
(a) Nagarjuna (b) Somdev Amarkosh:
(c) Vishakhadatta (d) Kalidas (a) Marathi (b) Sanskrit
RRB Group-D 08-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. (c) Tamil (d) Bengali
(c) RRB Group-D 15-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
(b)
58.Who is the author of Panchatantra?
(a) Shri Harsh (b) Vishnu Sharma 64.Brihadeswara ____ temple is in:
(c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa (a) Banglore (b) Thanjavur
RRB Group-D 08-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans : (c) Chennai (d) Cochin
(b) RRB Group-D 05-12-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
(b)
59.Who among the following has
compiled the ancient treatise 65.Brihadeshwara temple was built by the
Natyashastra of India? king ____.
(a) Vedvyas (b) Manu (a) Rajendra Chola (b) Shri Vijay
(c) Agastya (d) Bharata Muni (c) Prithviraj Chauhan (d) Raja Raj Chola I
RRB Group-D 22-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : RRB Group-D 30-10-2018 (Shift-II)
(d) RRB Group-D 05-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
(d)
60.Which of the following books was
written by Kalhan in ancient India? 66.Brihadeswara temple is the great
(a) Harshacharita (b) Rajatarangini (c) architectural monument of the period
Mudrarakshasa (d) Vikramorvasiyam which is in Thanjavur was built by _____.
RRB Group-D 23-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. (a) Pratihara (b) Chola
(b) (c) Rashtrakuta (d) Pandya
61.Harshacharit, biography of King (b)
Harshavardhana, was written by_______.
(a) Kalidasa (b) Birbal 67.Chola rulers in Thanjavur were the
(c) Banabhatta (d) Tulsidas great builders of magnificent temples that
RRB Group-D 26-11-2018 (Shift-III) Ans built the
: (c) ____ temple at Thanjavur.
(a) Lingaraj (b) Brihameshwar
62.The Harshacharitra composed by ... (c) Dilwara (d) Brihadeeswara
gives correct information about Harsha RRB Group-D 27-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
and his administration. (d)
(a) Banabhatta (b) Fa hien
(c) Tulsidas (d) Kalhan 68.Aihole inscriptions are associated with
RRB Group-D 26-09-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. which of the following rulers?
(a) (a) Vikramaditya (b) Akbar
(c) Ashoka (d) Pulakeshin
RRB Group-D 22-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
(d)

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(b) Jambudweep
69.What are the paintings of Ajanta (c) Aryavrat
Portray? (d) Bharatwarsh
(a) Mahabharata (b) Raslila RRB Group-D 22-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans
(c) Jataka stories (d) Rashtrakuta : (a)
(c) 75.The name India is derived from ____
river.
70.The caves of Ajanta and Ellora are (a) Sindhu (Indus) (b) Irawadi
among the finest examples of ____ (c) Brahmaputra (d) Ganga
religions earliest RRB Group-D 16-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
architecture, cave painting and sculpture. (a)
(a) Buddha (b) Hindu
(c) Jain (d) Rajput 76.In the highest period of Aryan culture,
RRB Group-D 23-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. the districts of the Ganges valley, which
(a) were ______ in number.
(a) 16 (b) 14 (c) 15 (d) 18 RRB Group-D
71.The Temples of Ellora was built by___ 12-12-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. (a)
(a) Chera rulers (b) Pandyas
(c) Chola rulers (d) Rashtrakutas 77.Somnath Temple is located at the
RRB Group-D 27-11-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. western coast of ____ in India.
(d) (a) Goa (b) Gujarat
(c) Kerala (d) Maharashtra
72.Who was the founder of the Pratihara RRB Group-D 02-11-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
dynasty? (b)
(a) Narsimha Dev 1
(b) Ramchandra
(c) Harishchandra (d) Harshavardhana
RRB Group-D 22-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. RRB ALP & TECH 2018
© 1.The people of Indus Valley Civilization
worshiped _____.
73.The name Bharat is used as a title for (a) Hanuman (b) Kali (c) Ayyappa (d)
India in the Indian Constitution, which is Pashupati
mentioned in part of the Indian epic as RRB ALP & Tec. (13-08-18 Shift-I) Ans :
the legend of the ancient mythological (d)
emperor 'Bharata'.
(a) Upanishad (b) Geeta
2.According to the real Indian
(c) Ramayana (d) Mahabharata
philosopher, each object is made up of
RRB Group-D 26-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : basic elements.
(d) (a) 2 (b) 4
(c) 3 (d) 5
74. ____ name is derived from Greek RRB ALP & Tec. (09-08-18 Shift-III) Ans
which means 'the area across the Indus : (d)
River'.
(a) Bharat

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3.Kathopanishad records a conversation (c) Mughals

between a teenager named Nachiketa and (d) Pandavas
the deity. Which of the following gods is RRB ALP & Tec. (14-08-18 Shift-II) Ans :
speaking to Nachiketa? (d)
(a) Lord Ganesha (b) Lord Shiva
(c) Lord Yam (d) Lord Karthikeya
RRB ALP & Tec. (09-08-18 Shift-II) Ans :
RPF SI 2018
(c)
1.Konark Sun Temple is situated in -
4.___ Vastu art mainly consists of (a) Andhra Pradesh
chaitya, Vihara, Stupa and Stambha. (b) Chattisgarh
(a) Maurya (b) Buddha (c) Hindu (d) (c) West Bengal
Mughal (d) Odisha
RRB ALP & Tec. (10-08-18 Shift-II) RPF SI 18.01.2019 (Shift - III) Ans. (a).
Ans : (b).
2.The events of Buddha's life were given
5.Megasthenes was one of the earliest in-------
explorers to come to India. He was related (a) Buddhist (b) Triratna
to which country? (c) Jatak tales (d) Pita
(a) Greece (b) Spain RPF SI 18.01.2019 (Shift - III) Ans. ©
(c) Egypt (d) Italy
RRB ALP & Tec. (21-08-18 Shift-II) Ans : 3.Word Shwetambara is associated with --
(a) -----?
(a) Sikh religion
6. ... was a Chinese Buddhist monk who (b) Jain Religion
studied Buddhist scriptures in Nalanda (c) Buddhism
and is famous for his 17-year long (d) Jews
journey to India from 627 to 643 AD. RPF SI 18.01.2019 (Shift - III) Ans. (b)
(a) Megasthenes (b) Alberuni
(c) Hiuen Tsang (d) Fahiyan RPF CONSTABLE 2018
RRB ALP & Tec. (17-08-18 Shift-III) Ans
: (c) 1.Which of the following dramas has been
written by Kalidasa?
(a) Mricchakatikam
7.At the beginning of the fourth century,
the Guptas established a small empire in (b) Ratnavali
____. (c) Malavikagnimitram
(a) Vatapi (b) Awadh (d) Devichandraguptam
(c) Magadha (d) Malwa RPF Constable 03.02.2019 (Shift - I) Ans.
RRB ALP & Tec. (21-08-18 Shift-I) Ans : ©
(c)
RRB JE 2014
8.____ was the first to establish the city of
Delhi and named it Indraprastha. 1.The author of Indica is:
(a) Chanakya (b) Megasthenes
(a) Portuguese
(c) Seleucus (d) Derias
(b) Kauravas

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RRB J.E. –2014 Ans : (b). 2.Which of the following cities was the
2.Who constructed the Jagannath Temple capital of Gupta Dynasty?
in Puri? (a) Pataliputra (b) Kaushal
(a) Anantavarman Chodaganga (c) Kashi (d) Ujjain
(b) Narasimhavaramana RRB JE - 30/05/2019 (Shift-I) Ans : (a)
(c) Adityavarman
(d) Parmeshwarvarmana 3.Where are the Elephanta caves located?
RRB J.E. (14.12.2014, Green paper) Ans. (a) Bengaluru (b) Konark
(a) (c) Mumbai (d) Jaipur
RRB JE - 25/05/2019 (Shift-II) Ans : ©
3.Where did Gautam Buddha give his
first sermon? 4.Which religion do the Jews follow?
(a) Kushinagar (b) Sarnath (c) Pataliputra (a) Christianity (b) Zoroastrianism (c)
(d) Vaishali Jainism (d) Judaism
RRB J.E. –2014 Ans. (b) RRB JE - 23/05/2019 (Shift-II) Ans : (d)
4.Emperor Ashoka, in the 12th year of his 5.Which of the following King was the
reign, appointed a special officer who father of Sanghamitra and Mahendra
surveyed the land and maintained land Varman?
records. These officers were called____. (a) Bindusara (b) Krishna Dev Rai
(a) Amatya (b) Collector (c) Razuk (d) (c) Ashoka (d) Kanishka
Chalukya RRB JE - 22/05/2019 (Shift-III) Ans : (c)
RRB J.E. -2014 Ans. (c)
6.Kanishka was related to which
5.The Saka era was started. dynasty?
(a) 58 BC (b) 78 BC (c) 58 AD (d) 78 AD (a) Chol (b) Pallava (c) Kushan (d) Maurya
RRB J.E. –2014 Ans. (d) RRB JE - 23/05/2019 (Shift-III) RRB JE -
30/05/2019 (Shift-III) Ans : (c)
6.In whose reign did the famous Chinese
traveler Hiuen-Tsang come to India?
(a) Harshvardhan (b) Chandragupta II 7.Which of these Chinese traveler came
(c) Ashoka (d) Kanishka to Nalanda and lived as both student and
RRB J.E. –2014 Ans. (a) teacher?
(a) Fahian (b) Kublai Khan
(c) Hiuen Tsang (d) I Tsing
RRB JE - 26/05/2019 (Shift-II) Ans : (c)
RRB JE 2018
1.Which dynasty built the famous 8.Which among these is not related with
Khajuraho temples in the 10th and 11th slave Dynasty?
centuries? (a) Iltutmish (b) Kaikubad
(a) Chola (b) Pandya (c) Chalukya (d) (c) Hammir (d) Balban
Chandel RRB JE - 24/05/2019 (Shift-II) Ans : (c)
RRB JE - 28/05/2019 (Shift-II) Ans : (d)

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RRB JE CBT-II 2018 4.Slave Dynasty was founded by-

(a) Qutub-ud-din Aibak (b) Mahmud
Gazanavi (c) Muhammad Ghori (d) Razia
1.Bimbisara was the ruler of– Sultan
(a) Magadha (b) Mathura RRB NTPC 31.03.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I
(c) Gandhara (d) Taxila st Ans : (a)
RRB JE CBT-II 31.08.2019 IInd Shift
Ans : (a) 5.Muhammad bin Tughlaq had shifted
his capital from Delhi to which place?
2.Kanchi was the capitals of _______. (a) Daulatabad (b) Aurangabad
(a) The Rashtrakutas (b) The Cholas (c) Allahabad (d) Saharanpur
(c) The Pallavas (d) The Chalukyas RRB NTPC 16.04.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1
RRB JE CBT-II 28–08–2019 (morning) Ans : (a)
Ans. ©
6.Qutub Minar is the tallest brick tower
in the world. It was built in 1193 AD
under the order of which founder of the
Delhi Sultanate?
MEDIEVAL HISTORY (a) Ferozeshah Tuglaq (b) Qutub-ud-din-
Aibak (c) Iltutmish (d) Quli Qutub Shah
RRB NTPC Stage I st 29.04.2016 (Shift-
NTPC CBT 1- 2014 II) Ans : (b)
1.Which king of Bengal was defeated by 7.Indian-Islamic craft art which is visible
Bakhtiyar Khalji in the 13th century? in monuments like Qutub Minar and Alai
(a) Mahipal (b) Lakshman Sen Darwaza is related to which era of India?
(c) Shashank (d) Grihvarman (a) Vedic Period (b) Delhi Sultanate (c)
RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist Mughal Period (d) Modern Indian Period
Ans : (b)
III) Ans : (b)
2.Which of the following is the correct
sequence of Delhi sultanate?
8.Which of the following minarets is
(a) Slave → Tughlaq → Khalji → Lodi
memorial built by Muhammad Quli
(b) Slave → Khilji → Tughlaq → Lodi
Qutub Shah in
(c) Slave → Lodi → Khalji → Tughlaq memory of plague abolition?
(d) Tughlaq → Khilji → Slave → Lodi (a) Alai Minar (b) Char Minar
RRB NTPC CBT-1, 26.04.2016 (Shift-III) (c) Fateh Burj (d) Qutub Minar
Ans : (b) RRB NTPC 02.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I
st Ans : (b)
3.Who was the only female ruler of Delhi
Sultanate? 9.Where is 'Adhai din ka Jhonpra'
(a) Manikarnika (b) Rani Roopmati located?
(c) Razia Sultan (d) Mumtaz Mahal (a) Agra (b) Ajmer (c) Ahmedabad (d)
RRB NTPC 12.04.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1 Mount Abu
Ans : (c)
RRB NTPC 03.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I
st Ans : (b)

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16.Which of the following is the reverse

10.Which Ahmednagar queen opposed sequence (before the last) of the Mughal
the emperor Akbar? emperors, who ruled the Indian
(a) Rani Durgavati (b) Zeenat Mahal (c) subcontinent?
Chand Bibi (d) Razia Sultan (a) Akbar, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb, Bahadur
RRB NTPC 12.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I Shah II
st Ans : (c) (b) Aurangzeb, Bahadur Shah II, Shahjahan,
Akbar
11.Who was the first king of the (c) Bahadur Shah II, Aurangzeb, Shahjahan,
Vijayanagar Empire? Akbar
(a) Bukka Rai (b) Krishnadevaraya (d) Akbar, Aurangzeb, Shahjahan, Bahadur
(c) Harihar-I (d) Ramdev Rai Shah II
RRB NTPC 16.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I RRB NTPC Stage I st 26.04.2016 (Shift-
st Ans : (c) II) Ans : (c)
12.The present day ___ used to be the 17.Mughal Empire was established by
capital of the Vijayanagar Empire. whom?
(a) Hampi (b) Mysore (a) Babur (b) Humayun
(c) Belur (d) Srirangapatna (c) Akbar (d) Shahjahan
RRB NTPC 19.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I RRB NTPC 02.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I
st Ans : (a) st Ans : (a)
13.____ kingdom was founded in 1347 AD 18.____ was the third Mughal Emperor.
by Hasan Gangu. (a) Humayun (b) Akbar
(a) Sangam (b) Bahamani (c) Aurangzeb (d) Jahangir
(c) Kakatiya (d) Vijaynagar RRB NTPC 19.04.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (b) Ans : (b)
14..The Golconda fort was built during 19.Akbar had an administrative seat at?
the ____. (a) Allahabad (b) Lucknow
(a) Vijayanagar Empire (c) Delhi (d) Agra
(b) Qutub Shahi Dynasty RRB NTPC 17.01.2017 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(c) Satavahana Dynasty Ans : (c)
(d) Hoysala Dynasty
RRB NTPC 19.04.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1 20.Jahangir was the___Mughal Emperor
Ans : (b) of India.
(a) 3rd (b) 4th
15.In which state is the famous Golconda (c) 5th (d) 6th
fort located? RRB NTPC 19.04.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Telangana Ans : (b)
(c) Karnataka (d) Bihar
RRB NTPC 11.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage I st 21.Which Mughal Emperor built the Taj
Ans : (b) Mahal?
(a) Shah Jahan (b) Humayun (c) Jahangir (d)
Akbar

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RRB NTPC 04.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I RRB NTPC Stage I st 30.04.2016 (Shift-I)
st Ans : (a) Ans : (d)
.
21.Who was the last Mughal Emperor? 26.Which of the following is not a
(a) Babur (b) Jahangir historical monument in Fatehpur Sikri?
(c) Akbar (d) Bahadur Shah (a) Buland Darwaza (b) Ibadat Khana (c)
RRB NTPC 29.03.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1 Gol Gumbaz (d) Panch Mahal
Ans : (d) RRB NTPC Stage I st 22.04.2016 (Shift-I)
Ans : (c)
22.Which famous red sandstone fort
surrounds the royal city of Mughal rulers, 27.Murud Janjira Fort in Maharashtra is
which includes Jahangir Mahal, Khas surrounded by-
Mahal, Diwan-i-Khas and two beautiful (a) Paddy field (b) Tree (c) Garden (d)
mosques? Water
(a) Agra Fort RRB NTPC Stage I st 19.01.2017 (Shift-I)
(b) Tomb of Humayun Ans : (d)
(c) Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram
(d) Groups of Monuments at Hampi 28.Tomb of Mughal Emperor Humayun
RRB NTPC CBT-1, 30.04.2016 (Shift-II) is situated in ____.
Ans : (a) (a) Kabul (b) Delhi (c) Shadara Bagh (d)
Khuldabad
23.Which of the following is not a RRB NTPC 11.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I
memorial to a dead person? st Ans : (b)
(a) Bibi ka Maqbara
(b) Taj Mahal 29.Who constructed Hawa Mahal?
(c) Charminar
(a) Maharaja Bhagwat Singh (b) Maharaja
(d) Itmad ud Daulah
Jagjit Singh
(c) Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh (d)
Ans : (c)
Maharaja Jaswant Singh
24.The Charminar was built to eradicate, st Ans : (c)
which of the following widely spread
diseases?
30.Hawa Mahal of Jaipur is constructed
(a) Yellow fever (b) Plague (c) Leprosy (d)
of-
Cancer
(a) White and Green Marble
RRB NTPC Stage I st 28.04.2016 (Shift- (b) Granite
III) Ans : (b) (c) Red and Pink Sandstone
(d) Normal Rock
25.Which of the following famous both RRB NTPC 19.04.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1
religious and secular historical buildings Ans : ©
is not in Fatehpur Sikri city of Uttar
Pradesh? 31.Which of the following mosques was
(a) Buland Darwaza (b) Tomb of Salim built by the Mughal Emperor Shah
Chisti (c) Diwan-i-Khas (d) Qutb Shahi Jahan?
Tomb (a) Jama Masjid, Delhi

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(b) Badshahi Masjid, Lahore

(c) Kabuli Bagh Masjid, Haryana 37.The Jantar Mantar at New Delhi
(d) Qila-e-Quhna Masjid, Delhi consists of architectural astronomy
RRB NTPC 02.04.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1 instruments, it was built by_____.
Ans : (a) (a) Maharaja Jai Singh II
(b) Muhammad Shaf
32.Mecca Masjid, Hyderabad was (c) Maharaj Bishan Singh
completed by ___. (d) Bahadur Shah
(a) Muhammad Qutub Shah RRB NTPC 04.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I
(b) Jahangir st Ans : (a)
(c) Qutub Shahi
(d) Aurangzeb 38.Who among the following musician
RRB NTPC CBT-1, 27.04.2016 (Shift-I) lived till 1253-1325 AD and was known as
Ans : (d) the inventor
of traditional Tabla and Sitar?
33.Match the following monuments/places (a) Tansen (b) Amir Khusrow
with their exact location- (c) Swami Shastri (d) Baiju Bawra
Monument Location RRB NTPC CBT-1
(P) Golconda fort a. Hyderabad 29.04.2016 (Shift-II) Ans : (b)
(Q) Buland Darwaza b. Fatehpur Sikri
(R) Humayun's Tomb c. New Delhi 39.Who had established Fatehpur Sikri?
(S) Rani ki vav d. Patan (a) Humayun (b) Akbar
(a) P-a, Q-b, R-c, S-d (b) P-a, Q-c, R-b, S-d (c) Jahangir (d) Shahjahan
(c) P-d, Q-b, R-c, S-a (d) P-d, Q-c, R-b, S-a RRB NTPC 03.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I
Ans : (a) st Ans : (b)
34.When was the battle Chillianwala

fought? RRB NTPC 2018
(a) 1865 (b) 1892
(c) 1849 (d) 1856 1.What is the correct chronological order
RRB NTPC 16.04.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1 of the rulers given below?
Ans : (c) (1) Taimur (2) Mahmud Ghazni
(3) Genghis Khan (4) Muhammad Ghori
35.On which river bank Golden temple is (a) 2, 4, 1, 3 (b) 2, 3, 3, 1
located? (c) 2, 4, 3, 1 (d) 4, 2, 3, 1
(a) Amrit Sarovar lake (b) Golden Lake RRB NTPC 12.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(c) Harike Lake (d) Sukhna Lake Ans. (c)
Ans : (a) 2.Al-Biruni wrote his book 'Kitab-ul-
Hind' in which language ?
36.What was the name of Maharana (a) Sanskrit (b) Arabic
Pratap horse? (c) Persian (d) Syrian
(a) Bulbul (b) Chetak RRB NTPC 15.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(c) Haygreev (d) Baadal Ans. (b)
Ans : (b)

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3.Which traveler and scholar wrote 8.Which mosque, believed to be the first
'Kitab-ul- Hind'? one to be built in Delhi, is situated neat
(a) Duarte Barbosa (b) Seydi Ali Reis Qutub Minar?
(c) Al Biruni (d) Ibn Battuta (a) Shahi Atala Masjid
RRB NTPC 09.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (b) Nakhoda Masjid
Ans. (c) (c) Adina Mosque
(d) Quwwat-ul-Islam-Mosque
4.Al-Biruni, the Persian scholar, RRB NTPC 21.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
accompanied the invader to Afghanistan Ans. (d)
and India?
(a) Mahmud Ghaznavi 9.Who founded the 'Slave Dynasty'?
(b) Muhammad Ghori (a) Qutb-ud-din Aibak
(c) Allaudin Khalji (b) Razia Sultan
(d) Alexander (c) Ghiyas-ud-din Balban
RRB NTPC 18.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (d) Nasir-ud-din Mahmud
Ans. (a) RRB NTPC 30.12.2020 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans. (a)
5.'Amir-al-Khayal' is an Arabic title that
is usually translated ‘Commander of the 10.Who among the following died while
Faithful' or 'Leader of the Faithful'. Who playing Chaugan?
among the following was given this (a) Qutubuddin Aibak (b) Firoz Shah
designation? (a) Muiz-ud-din Bahram Tughlaq
(b) Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut (c) Alauddin Khalji (d) Iltutmish
(c) Malik Ikhtiar-ud-din Altunia RRB NTPC 06.04.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(d) Naseeruddin Mohd. Ans. (a)
Ans. (b) 11.Who among the following built the
"Adhai din ka Jhonpra" at Ajmer?
6.--------introduced the famous Persian (a) Noor Jahan (b) Qutubuddin Aibak
festival of ‘Nauroz’. (c) Alauddin Khalji (d) Razia Sultan
(a) Nasiruddin Mahmud RRB NTPC 01.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(b) Ghiyasuddin Balban Ans. (b)
(c) Shamsuddin Kayumars
(d) Bughra Khan 12.During which period did the Sultanate
RRB NTPC 31.07.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 ruler, Ghiyas-ud-din Balban, take over
Ans. (b) and rule the throne of Delhi?
(a) 1206 - 1223 (b) 1290 - 1322
7.Who started the practice of 'Sijda' in (c) 1266 - 1287 (d) 1321 - 1334
India? (a) Iltutmish RRB NTPC 23.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(b) Qutubuddin Aibak Ans. (c)
(c) Ghiyas-ud-din Balban
(d) Razia Sultana 13.Which ruler wanted to build the Alai
RRB NTPC 03.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 Minar near the Qutub Minar, but could
Ans. (c) not complete it?
(a) Ala-ud-Din Khalji (b) Nasir-ud-Din
Mahmud (c) Raziya Sultan (d) Iltutmish

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RRB NTPC 21.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 including India in the 14th century,
Ans. (a) : belonged to which of the following
countries?
14.Which among the following rulers (a) Libya (b) Algeria
built the city "Siri" for military (c) Ghana (d) Morocco
deployment? RRB NTPC 12.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) Mohammad Tuglak (b) Giyasuddin Ans. (d)
Tughlaq (c) Alauddin Khalji (d) Qutubuddin
Aibak 19.A famous traveler, Ibn Batuta, was
RRB NTPC 26.07.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 inhabitant of –––––
Ans. (c) (a) Morocco (b) Greece
(c) China (d) Italy
15.Rani Padmavati is associated with the RRB NTPC 29.12.2020 (Shift-II) CBT-1
city of: Ans. (a)
(a) Pushkar (b) Jodhpur
(c) Chittorgarh (d) Udaipur 20.In Battuta, a famous Moroccan
RRB NTPC 31.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 traveler visited India during the time of:
Ans. (c) (a) Delhi Sultanate
(b) Chandragupta Maurya
16.Which of the following was not a type (c) The British
of tax imposed by the state during the (d) Mughals
reign of RRB NTPC 25.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Alauddin Khalji? Ans. (a)
(a) Tax on small scale industries
(b) Tax on cultivation 21.Whose reign saw the largest extension
(c) Tax on housing of Delhi Sultanate?
(d) Tax on cattle (a) Muhammad bin Tughluq
RRB NTPC 05.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (b) Gayasuddin Balban
Ans. (a) (c) Alauddin Khalji
(d) Sikandar Lodi
17.Who established Sera-i-Adl an RRB NTPC 01.04.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
exclusive market in Delhi for Ans. (a)
manufactured and
exported good to be sold or price fixes by 22.Which emperor shifted his capital
administration? from Delhi to Daulatabad?
(a) Muhammad Bin Tughlaq (a) Firoz Shah Tughlaq
(b) Shershah Suri (b)Allauddin
(c) Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah (c) Muhammad bin Tughlaq
(d) Alauddin Khalji (d) Muhammad Ghouri
Ans. (d) Ans. (c)
18.The noted traveler and writer 23.In the fourteenth century India, who
Mohammad Ibn Battuta who traveled to used the token currency of cheap metals
many countries in place of regular currencies of gold and
silver?

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(a) Firoz Shah Tughlaq 28.Who was the ruler of the Vijayanagara
(b) Muhammad bin Tughlaq dynasty who ruled in the 16th century. …
(c) Jalaluddin Khalji (a) Pulakeshin II (b) Raja Raja Chola (c) Adi
(d) Alauddin Khalji Shankara (d) Krishnadeva Raya
Ans. (b) Ans. (d)
23.What is the name of the engineer who 29.Where was Saint Kabir Born ?
brought to light the ruins at Hampi? (a) Allahabad (b) Kushinagar
(a) Colonel Colin Mackenzie (c) Varanasi (d) Maghar
(b) James Atkinson RRB NTPC 11.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(c) Matthew Boulton Ans. (c)
(d) Edward Barlow
RRB NTPC 15.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 30.Who was the founder of the
Ans. (a) Vishishtadvaita philosophy ?
(a) Vishnu Swami (b) Madhvacharya
24.Bukka I was the founder of which of (c) Nimbarka (d) Ramanujacharya
the following dynasties in ancient India? RRB NTPC 30.12.2020 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) Saluva (b) Sangama Ans. (d)
(c) Tuluva (d) Aravidu
RRB NTPC 09.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 31.Ajmer is associated with the Sufi saint:
Ans. (b) (a) Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya
(b) Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti
25.Who founded the Bahmani kingdom? (c) Baba Farid
(a) Alauddin Bahman Shah (Alias Hasan (d) Banda Nawaz Gisudaraz
Gangu) RRB NTPC 03.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(b)Mir Zafar Ans. (b)
(c) Mohammad bin Tughlaq
(d) Firuz Shah Bahmani 32.From where Mira Bai Rajput Princess
RRB NTPC 29.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 belongs to?
Ans. (a) (a) Mewar (b) Medta
(c) Satara (d) Bijapur
26.Vira Narsimha was the ruler of which RRB NTPC 06.04.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
of the following dynasties in ancient Ans. (b)
India?
(a) Tuluva (b) Saluva (c) Sangama (d) 33.Religious teacher Miyan Mir of the
Aravidu period between 1600-1700 belonged to:
RRB NTPC 02.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (a) Haryana (b) Uttar Pradesh
Ans. (a) (c) Punjab (d) Karnataka
27.Humpi was the capital of _____. Ans. (c)
(a) Vijaynagar (b) Parmar (c) Rashtradoot
(d) Chol 34.Which term was used to denote poll
RRB NTPC 31.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 tax on non-Muslim subjects during the
Ans. (a) reign of the

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Mughal Empire? RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-I) Stage

(a) Sharia (b) Shafi'i IInd Ans : (c)
(c) Jahiliyah (d) Jizya
RRB NTPC 22.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 40.Tulugama is a:
Ans. (d) (a) Punishment given to criminals by
Jahangir
35.What is the real name of Babur? (b) Water conservation method used by
(a) Salim (b) Khurrum Akbar
(c) Nashruddin (d) Zahir - ud - din (c) Military strategy used by Babur
RRB NTPC 21.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (d) Tax imposed by Jahangir
Ans. (c)
36.'Humayun Nama' provides a glimpse
into the world of Mughals. Who wrote 41.Who built the Shahi (Royal) road to
this book? strengthen and consolidate his empire
(a) Jahanara Begum (b) Nadira from the Indus Valley to the Sonar Valley
(c) Gulbadan Begum (d) Abul Fazl in Bengal, and it was renamed the GT
RRB NTPC 13.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 road during the British period.
Ans. (c) (a) Aurangzeb (b) Sher Shah Suri (c)
Bahadur Shah Zafar (d) Alam Shah
37.When did Babur defeated Ibrahim RRB NTPC 13.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Lodhi? Ans. (b)
(a) 1761 (b) 1739
(c) 1628 (d) 1526 42.Who built the 'Shahi' road connecting
RRB NTPC 17.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 the Indus Valley with the Sonar Valley?
Ans. (d) (a) Akbar (b) Humayun
(c) Shahjahan (d) Sher Shah Suri
38.Identify the option that arranges the RRB NTPC 14.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
chronology of Mughal emperors in the Ans. (d)
correct order:
(a) Jahangir - Shah Jahan - Akbar - 43.Tomb of Sher Shah Suri is situated in
Aurangzeb ––––––.
(b) Akbar - Aurangzeb - Shah Jahan - (a) Fatehpur Sikri (b) Delhi
Jahangir (c) Sasaram (d) Agra
(c) Akbar - Shah Jahan - Jahangir - RRB NTPC 11.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Aurangzeb Ans. (c)
(d) Akbar - Jahangir - Shah Jahan -
Aurangzeb 44.When did Akbar became emperor?
RRB NTPC 23.07.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (a) 1552 AD (b) 1560 AD (c) 1556 AD (d)
Ans. (d) 1550 AD
39.Which of the following dynasty rulers Ans. (c)
were not called 'Sultan'?
(a) Lodhi (b) Khalji
(c) Mughal (d) Tughlaq

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45.Takht-i-Akbari, the platform where RRB NTPC 15.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1

Akbar was crowned as emperor, is Ans. (d)
located in which state?
(a) Rajasthan (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Haryana 51.The battle of Haldighati was fought in:
(d) Punjab (a) 1568 (b) 1552
RRB NTPC 12.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (c) 1576 (d) 1584
Ans. (c)
46.The Din-i-Ilahi (lit 'Religion of God')
was synergetic religion propounded by: 52.Who was the revenue minister of
(a) Akbar (b) Aurangzeb Emperor Akbar?
(c) Jahangir (d) Babar (a) Wazir khan (b) Noor Jahan
RRB NTPC 09.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (c) Todar Mal (d) Abul Fazl
Ans. (a) RRB NTPC 04.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (c)
47.Which Queen of Ahmednagar fought
against Emperor Akbar? 53.What was Akbar's idea of Sulah-e-
(a) Chand Bibi (b) Razia Sultan kul?
(c) Durgavati (d) Roopmati (a) Intolerance towards invaders
RRB NTPC 23.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (b) Universal peace
Ans. (a)
(c) Gender justice
(d) Religious equality
48.____was Bairam Khan son, who
became an important person in Akbar
Ans. (b)
court.
(a) Abdul Rahim Khan -i- Khanan
(b) Amir Khusrow 54.In which year "Ibadat-Khana (House
(c)Abul Fazl of Worship) was erected by Akbar?
(d)Birbal (a) 1575 (b) 1679 (c) 1675 (d) 1579
RRB NTPC 08.04.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 RRB NTPC 08.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (a) Ans. (a)
49.Who among the following was honored 155.In which year was the Second Battle
with the title 'Khan-i-Khanan'? of Panipat fought between Akbar and
(a) Akbar (b) Sher Shah Suri Hemu?
(c) Bairam Khan (d) Humayun (a) 1526 (b) 1536 (c) 1576 (d) 1556
Ans. (c) Ans. (d).
50.Who among the following was one of 56.By whom was Din-i-Ilahi promoted?
the finest Calligraphers at Akbar's court, (a) Babur (b) Bahadur Shah
who was honored with the title 'Zarrin (c) Akbar (d) Humayun
Qalam' (Golden Pen) RRB NTPC 29.03.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) Basawan (b) Abul Fazal Ans : (c)
(c) Daswant (d) Muhammad Husain

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57.Who among the following Mughal (b) In his struggle for throne, Aurangzeb
rulers of India gave permission to the decisively defeated his brother Dara in battle
British to and put his father under house arrest in his
established their first factory in Surat'? own palace in Agra
(a) Shahjahan (b) Bahadurshah Zafar (c) He was the second son of Shah Jahan
(c) Aurangzeb (d) Jahangir and Mumtaz Mahal.
RRB NTPC 02.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (d) The Mughal Empire continued to
Ans. (d) decline. after the death of Aurangzeb in mid-
18th century
58.Which of the following is (Under RRB NTPC 24.07.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Mughal ruler- Foreign traveler visited Ans. (c)
India)-correctly matched?
(a) Shah Jahan – William Hawkins 62.Which of the following kings was sent
(b) Jahangir – Manucci by Aurangzeb against Chhatrapati
(c) Aurangzeb – Manucci Shivaji Maharaj?
(d) Akbar – Sir Thomas Roe (a) Bahadurshah Zafar (b) Adil Shah
RRB NTPC 05.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (c) Man Singh (d) Jai Singh
Ans. (d)
59.Shah Jahan's daughter –––––
participated in many architectural 63.Who was also known as Rabia-ud-
projects of the new capital of Daurani?
Shahjahanabad (Delhi). (a) Nur Jahan
(a) Begum Ishrat (b) Dilras Banu Begum
(b) Gulbadan Begum (c) Jagat Gosain
(c) Roshanara (d) Asmat Begum
(d) Jahanara
Ans. (b)
Ans. (d)
64.When did Nadir Shah invaded India
and sack Delhi?
60.Which one of the following pairs is not
(a) 1739 (b) 1761 (c) 1754 (d) 1765
correctly matched (with important
foreign travelers and the ruler of the RRB NTPC 12.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
dynasty during which they come to Ans. (a)
India).
(a) Ralph fitch-Akbar (b) Abdur Razzak- 65.From which Asian country did Ahmad
Dev Rai II Shah Abdali come to India?
(c) John Judan-Shah Jahan (d) Marco polo- (a) Persia (b) Turkey (c) Afghanistan (d)
Pandya Empire Mongolia
Ans. (c) Ans. (c)
.
61. Which of the following statements 66.Who was the last Mughal emperor of
about Aurangzeb is incorrect? India?
(a) He was also known as Alamgir (a) Alamgir II (b) Aurangzeb

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(c) Ahmad Shah Bahadur (d) Bahadur Shah (a) Jaipur (b) Delhi
II (c) Allahabad (d) Varanasi
Ans. (d) Ans. (c)
67.Who wrote the medieval-era epic poem 73.Vitthal Temple is included in which of
"Padmavat"? these groups of monuments ?
(a) Mulla Daud (a) Group of Monuments located Hampi
(b) Abdu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (b) Group of Monuments located at
(c) Malik Muhammad "Jayasi" Mahabalipuram
(d) Amir Khusro (c) Group of Monuments located at
RRB NTPC 23.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 Pattadakal
Ans. (c) (d) Group of Monuments located at
Khajuraho
68.Who wrote the book 'Tahqiq-i-Hind'? RRB NTPC 11.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(a) Megasthenes (b) Al-Masudi Ans. (a)
(c) Ibn Batuta (d) Al-Biruni
RRB NTPC 01.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 74.Which of the following architectural
Ans. (d). techniques has been used primarily to
decorate the Taj Mahal?
69.Who wrote 'Ain-i-Akbari'? It is a 16th- (a) Mosaic (b) Relief
century detailed document recording the (c) Pietra Dura (d) Tesserae
administration of the Mughal Empire RRB NTPC 27.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
under Emperor Akbar. Ans. (c)
(a) Mulla Shah (b) Abdur Rahim
(c) Abul Fazal (d) Haji Ibrahim 75.Who took away the Peacock throne
RRB NTPC 22.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 from India?
Ans. (c) (a) Nadir Shah
(b) Ahmed Shah
70.Humayunama has been written by. (c) Mohammad bin Tuglaq
(a) Gulbadan Begum (b) Babur (d) Genghis Khan
(c) Akbar (d) Noorjahan RRB NTPC 12.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans. (a)
76.Which of the following is
71.Tansen, the famous singer of the INCORRECTLY matched?
Mughal era, is associated with which (a) Elephanta Caves- Maharashtra
Indian music form? (b) Khajuraho- Madhya Pradesh
(a) Dhrupad (b) Thumri (c) Kedarnath-Gujarat
(c) Carnatic (d) Khayal (d) Buland Darwaza-Fatehpur Sikri
Ans. (a) Ans. (c)
72.In which of the following cities did 77.Who founded the city of Agra ?
Maharaja Jai Singh II not build the (a) Alam Shah (b) Sikandar Lodhi
Jantar Mantar? (c) Bahlol Lodhi (d) Ibrahim Lodhi

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RRB NTPC 10.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 83.Which Mughal monument was

Ans. (b) designed by Ustad Ahmed Lahauri and
declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site
78.Who completed the construction of the in 1983 ?
Qutub Minar? (a) Agra Fort (b) Taj Mahal (c) Red Fort (d)
(a) Nasir-ud-Din Muhammad Humayun's Tomb
(b) Firoz Shah Tughlaq RRB NTPC 20.01.12021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(c) Qutub-ud-Din Aibak Ans. (b)
(d) Muhi-ud-Din Muhammad
RRB NTPC 30.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 84.Which of the following was NOT built
Ans. (b) by Shah Jahan?
(a) Shalimar Gardens (b) Red Fort (Delhi)
79.In which Indian fort would you find (c) Buland Darwaza (d) Jama Masjid (Delhi)
the Musamman Burj ? RRB NTPC 09.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(a) Red Fort of Agra Ans. (c)
(b) Red Fort of Delhi
(c) Golconda Fort 85.In which city is the tomb of Emperor
(d) Fatehpur Sikri Fort Akbar situated?
RRB NTPC 28.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (a) Varanasi (b) Chennai
Ans. (a). (c) Chandigarh (d) Agra
80.In which city is Buland Darwaza Ans. (d)
located?
(a) Hyderabad (b) Chittorgarh 86.Gol Gumbaz is situated in which state?
(c) Delhi (d) Fatehpur Sikri (a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Tamil Nadu
RRB NTPC 27.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (c) Himachal Pradesh (d) Karnataka
Ans. (d)
81.The Charminar of Hyderabad was
built by : 87.The Dilwara temple is situated at
(a)Asaf Jah _____
(b) Muhammad Kuli Kutub Shah (a) Mount Abu (b) Khajuraho
(c) Alauddin Khalji (c) Bhubaneswar (d) Aurangabad
(d) Muhammad bin Tuglaq RRB NTPC 01.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans. (b)
88.Panch Mahal built by Akbar is located
82.Which is the tallest Victory tower in in ___.
India? (a) Delhi (b) Ajmer
(a) Fateh Burj (b) Vijay Stambh (c) Qutub (c) Agra (d) Fatehpur Sikri
Minar (d) Jhulta Minar RRB NTPC 25.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (a)
89.The Shalimar Gardens located in
Lahore and Kashmir are architectures of
the ___.

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(a) Mughals (b) British

(c) Delhi Sultanate (d) Sikhs 95.Who built the Buland Darwaza, which
RRB NTPC 25.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 is located in Fatehpur Sikri?
Ans. (a) (a) Babur (b) Akbar
(c) Noor Jahan (d) Shah Jahan
90.Around which year did the RRB NTPC 13.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
construction of Taj Mahal Complex Ans. (b)
begin?
(a) 1641 AD (b) 1632 AD 96.The Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur
(c) 1651 AD (d) 1621 AD Sikri was erected by Akbar to celebrate
RRB NTPC 30.12.2020 (Shift-II) CBT-1 his conquest of ____.
Ans. (b) (a) Kashmir (b) Gujarat
(c) Bengal (d) Mewar
91.Which of the following Nawabs of RRB NTPC 04.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Awadh built the Bara Imambara in Ans. (b)
Lucknow?
(a) Asaf-ud-Daula (b) Asif jah Mirza 97.To commemorate his victory over
(c) Shuja -ud-Daula (d) Yamin-ud-Daula Gujarat, Akbar built 'Gate of
RRB NTPC 08.04.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 Magnificence' the highest
Ans. (a) gateway of India at Fatehpur Sikri. What
is another name for this gateway?
92.Which of the following did Emperor (a) India Gate (b) Buland Darwaza
Akbar NOT construct? (c) Kashmiri Gate (d) Gateway of India
(a) Agra fort RRB NTPC 16.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(b) Fatehpur Sikri Ans. (b)
(c) Jama Masjid of Delhi
(d) Buland Darwaza 98.In which year was the construction of
RRB NTPC 03.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 Jama Masjid of Delhi completed?
Ans. (c) (a) 1653 (b) 1655
(c) 1652 (d) 1656
93.Construction of the Hawa Mahal at RRB NTPC 04.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Jaipur was inspired by the_____. Ans. (d)
(a) Jal Mahal at Jaipur
(b) City Palace at Jaipur 99.Which of the following monuments is
(c) Khetri Mahal at Jhunjhunu NOT situated in Delhi?
(d) Lake Palace at Udaipur (a) Qutub Minar (b) Panch Mahal
RRB NTPC 30.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (c) Agrasen Ki Baoli (d) Red Fort
Ans. (b)
94.The Mysore Palace in Karnataka was
an official residence of which of the 100.The Red Fort of Agra was founded by
following dynasties? which Mughal Emperor?
(a) Chalukya (b) Wadiyar (a) Jahangir (b) Bahadurshah Jafar
(c) Chola (d) Pallava (c) Shahjahan (d) Akbar
Ans. (b)

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Ans. (d) 107.Which of the following forts is located
in Tamil Nadu ?
101.Which of the following monuments is (a) Manora Fort (b) Amer Fort (c) Sikandra
not located in Delhi? Fort (d) Jaisalmer Fort
(a) Alai Darwaza (b) Buland Darwaza RRB NTPC 30.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(c) India Gate (d) Humayun's Tomb Ans. (a)
Ans. (b) 108.Banda Bahadur, Military commander
of Khalsa army was executed in:
102.In which of the following cities is the (a) 1715 (b) 1717 (c) 1716 (d) 1718
Tomb of Sheikh Salim Chisti Located ? RRB NTPC 04.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(a) Delhi (b) Golconda Ans. (c)
(c) Fatehpur Sikri (d) Junagarh
RRB NTPC 31.07.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 109.Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji founded
Ans. (c) the 'Khalsa Panth' in the year_______.
(a) 1701 (b) 1697
103.To which of the following deities is (c) 1705 (d) 1699
the Dilwara Temple in Mount Abu RRB NTPC 22.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
dedicated? Ans. (d)
(a) Jagannath (b) Adinath
(c) Badrinath (d) Kedarnath 110.Which of the following is NOT in the
RRB NTPC 21.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 list of five Sikh Takhts?
Ans. (b) (a) Sri Patna Sahib, Patna
(b) Sri Damdama Sahib, Talwandi Sabo,
104.Golconda Fort is situated in which Bathinda
Indian state? (c) Sri Rakab Ganj Sahib, New Delhi
(a) Odisha (b) Telangana (d) Sri Keshgarh Sahib, Anandpur
(c) Karnataka (d) Maharashtra RRB NTPC 09.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 15.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 Ans. (c)
Ans. (b)
111.At which Sikh Guru's invitation did
105.Which of the following cities does not the Sufi saint Hazrat Mian Mir lay the
have Jantar Mantar? foundation stone of Golden Temple
(a) Indore (b) Jaipur (Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar?
(c) Varanasi (d) Ujjain (a) Shri Guru Hargobind ji
RRB NTPC 22.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (b) Shri Guru Arjun Dev ji
Ans. (a) (c) Shri Guru Har Rai ji
(d) Shri Guru Tegh Bahadur ji
106.Qila Mubarak monument is situated RRB NTPC 09.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
in _____. Ans. (b)
(a) Haryana (b) Rajasthan
(c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Punjab 112.Who laid the foundation stone of the
RRB NTPC 08.04.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 world- famous Swarna Mandir (Golden
Ans. (d) Temple)?

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(a) Muhammad Iqbal (b) Hazrat Mian Mir Ji D. Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the
(c) Ashraf Ali Thanvi (d) Mahmud-ul-Hasan Marathas in the Third Battle of Panipat.
RRB NTPC 07.04.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (a) C, A, B, D (b) A, D, B, C
Ans. (b) (c) C, A, D, B (d) C, D, A, B
113.The first Guru of the Sikh religion Ans. (c)
was:
(a) Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji 118.The Sharia is the law governing the
(b) Shri Guru Ram Das Ji _______ community.
(c) Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji (a) Jewish (b) Cristian (c) Jain (d) Muslim
(d) Shri Guru Hargobind Singh Ji RRB NTPC 17.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (c)
119.Which traveler from Uzbekistan
114.Shree Guru Nanak Devji was born in visited India in the 11th century?
Rai Bhoi's Talwandi (present day (a) Mahmud Wali Balkhi (b) Al-Beruni (c)
Nankana Sahib) in: Seydi Ali Reis (d) Ibn Battuta
(a) 1465 (b) 1539 RRB NTPC 04.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(c) 1469 (d) 1456 Ans. (b)
Ans. (c) 120.The best-known pastoral and hunter-
gatherer tribes, the 'Mongols', inhabited
115.Which Sikh guru established the _______.
Khalsa Panth? (a) South Asia (b) Arabian Peninsula (c)
(a) Shri Guru Nanak ji South-East Asia (d) Central Asia
(b) Shri Guru Tegh Bahadur ji RRB NTPC 23.07.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(c) Shri Guru Har Gobind ji Ans. (d)
(d) Shri Guru Gobind Singh ji
RRB NTPC 28.12.2020 (Shift-I) CBT-1 121.Who among the following ended the
Ans. (d). Kakatiya dynasty rule?
(a) Guptas (b) Chalukyas
116.Which community has the Adi (c) Cholas (d) Delhi sultanate
Granth as their religious Book? RRB NTPC 19.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) Buddhists (b) Jains Ans. (d)
(c) Sikhs (d) Jews
RRB NTPC 22.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 122.'Mrignayani Mahal' is situated in:
Ans. (c) (a) Jaipur (b) Jabalpur
(c) Bhopal (d) Gwalior
117.which of the following dynaArrange RRB NTPC 03.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
the following historical events in their Ans. (d)
chronological order.
A. Nadir Shah invaded India and 123.Which of the following is NOT a
attacked Delhi. monument in Tamil Nadu?
B. The Diwani of Bengal was transferred (a) Bekal Fort
to the East India Company. (b) Valluvar Kottam
C. Humayun regains lost territories. (c) Padmanabhapuram Palace Ties.

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(d) Meenakshi Amman Temple (d) 1606 AD and 1826 AD

RRB NTPC 09.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 RRB Group-D 11-12-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
Ans. (a) (c)
124.Warangal's queen Rudrama Devi 4.Rajia Sultan was the daughter of -

(part of morden Andhra Pradesh) is (a) Muhammad Ghori
associated with (b) Muhammad bin Tughlaq
(a) Chalukya dynasty (b) East Gang dynasty (c) Qutbuddin Aibak
(c) Kakatiya dynasty (d) Chola dynasty (d) Iltutmish
RRB NTPC 26.07.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 RRB Group-D 23-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
Ans. (c) (d)
125.Which of the following Heritage Sites 5.A unique type of land distribution and
has the Dravidian style of architecture? administrative system evolved during
(a) Ellora (b) Hampi Sultanate
(c) Konark (d) Khajuraho Period. That was called __
RRB NTPC 08.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (a) Iqtadari (b) Patwari
Ans. (b) (c) Mahalwari (d) Zamindari
RRB Group-D 12-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
(a)
GROUP - D 2018 6.____was the first Muslim dynasty to

rule the sub continent for nearly 84 years.
(a) Mughal dynasty (b) Khilji dynasty
1.There were two battles fought between (c) Tughlaq dynasty (d) Slave dynasty
Muhammad Ghori's forces and Prithviraj RRB Group-D 02-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
Chauhan, in which Prithviraj Chauhan (d)
lost the second battle of ____ and his
Kingdom was captured. 7.Qutub-ud-din Aibak & Rajia Begum
(a) Kannauj (b) Panipat belonged to the _____ dynasty.
(c) Plassey (d) Tarain (a) Mamluk (b) Khalji
RRB Group-D 15-11-2018 (Shift-II) Ans : (c) Mughal (d) Lodhi
(d) RRB Group-D 22-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans
: (a)
2.Kitab-ul-Hind, a book which describes
history of India written by- 8.In ___AD Qutub-Ud-din had declared
(a) John key (b) Ruskin Bond himself as a sultan of Delhi and started
(c) Al-Beruni (d) Khushwant Singh the rule of Slave (Das) Dynasty.
RRB Group-D 05-12-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. (a) 1205 (b) 1206 (c) 1207 (d) 1208
(c) RRB Group-D 20-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
(b)
3.The period between ___ is known as the
period of Delhi sultanate. 9. _____ was the first ruler of Khilji
(a) 1006 AD and 1326 AD Dynasty.
(b) 1106 AD and 1326 AD (a) Balban
(c) 1206 AD and 1526 AD (b) Malik Kafur

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(c) Alauddin Khalji (d) Sultan Ibrahim

(d) Jalal-ud-din Firoz Khalji RRB Group-D 01-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans
RRB Group-D 23-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans : (c)
(d)
15.Ibrahim Lodi was killed by _____ in
10.____ Sultan of Delhi, transferred his 1526 in the first battle of Panipat.
capital from Delhi to Daulatabad. (a) Mohammad Shah
(a) Iltutmish (b) Ferozeshah Tughlaq
(b) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq (c) Timur
(c) Akbar (d) Babur
(d) Gyasuddin balban
RRB Group-D 03-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans
(d)
: (b)
16. __is considered the founder of the city
11._____ had shifted his capital from of Agra.
Delhi to Devagiri, which he named (a) Shahjahan
Daulatabad.
(b) Mumtaz Mahal
(a) Muhammad-bin-Qasim
(c) Sikandar Lodi
(b) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq
(d) Ibrahim Lodi
(c) Alla-ud-din- Khalji
(d) Firozshah Tughlaq RRB Group-D 19-09-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
RRB Group-D 01-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. (c)
(b)
17.Who among the following has
12.A records is given of his administrative compiled the medieval treatise on
achievements in Futuhat-e-Firozshahi of literature 'Amuktamalyada'?
____ (a) Guru Basava (b) Krishna Dev Rai
(a) Gulbadan Begum's (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidas
(b) Abul Fazal's RRB Group-D 05-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
(c) Ziyauddin Barani's (b)
(d) Firozshah Tughalaq's
RRB Group-D 12-12-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. 18.Annamayya was a poet/singer from the
(d) medieval period. Which current Indian
states does he belong to?
13.Ibn Battuta was an Arab traveler and (a) Andhra Pradesh (b) Gujarat
adventurer. Where was he from? (c) Tamil Nadu (d) West Bengal
(a) Yunan (b) Morocco RRB Group-D 08-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans
(c) China (d) Spain : (a).
(b) 19.During the governance of Devaraja I,
Nicolo Conti visited Vijayanagar in
14.. ... was the founder of the Lodi ____AD.
dynasty. (a) 1420 (b) 1424
(a) Ibrahim Lodi (c) 1418 (d) 1419
(b) Alauddin Lodi RRB Group-D 31-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
(c) Bahlol Lodi (a)

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(c) 1525 (d) 1526

20.___ empire was founded by Sangam RRB Group-D 05-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
princes Harihar and Bukka. (b)
(a) Malwa (b) Bahmani
(c) Vijayanagar (d) Bengal 27.Sur dynasty was founded by Sher
RRB Group-D 31-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : Shah, who had ruled till____.
(c) (a) 1540 to 1545 (b) 1535 to 1545
(c) 1538 to 1545 (d) 1530 to 1545
21(a) 1519 (b) 1521 RRB Group-D 12-11-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
(c) 1544 (d) 1535 (a)
(a) 28.Sher Shah invaded Bengal and
defeated Mahmud shah in which year?
22.After being established in November (a) 1358 (b) 1583
1525 in Lahore, Babur met Ibrahim (c) 1540 (d) 1538
Lodhi 80 kms RRB Group-D 27-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
away from Delhi on 21st, April _____? (d)
(a) 1526 (b) 1521
(c) 1527 (d) 1519 29.What was the real name of Sher Shah
RRB Group-D 05-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. Suri or Sher Khan?
(a) (a) Farid (b) Jamal
(c) Jalal-ud-din (d) Abul Fateh
23.Battle of Khanwa was fought in which RRB Group-D 26-09-2018 (Shift-III) Ans
year? : (a)
(a) 1521 (b) 1527
(c) 1529 (d) 1525 30.____had constructed many restrooms,
RRB Group-D 04-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans : mosques and a network of roads, in which
(b) the Grand Trunk Road is the most
famous one.
24.Who had established the Mughal (a) Emperor Sher Shah Suri (b) Emperor
Empire in 1526 AD? Akbar
(a) Babur (b) Genghis Khan (c) Emperor Aurangzeb (d) Emperor
(c) Daulat Khan (d) Ibrahim Lodhi Humayun
RRB Group-D 05-12-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : RRB Group-D 25-09-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
(a) (a)
25.In which year the First Battle of 31.Sher Shah Suri defeated Humayun at
Panipat was fought? the Battle of Kannauj in _____.
(a) 1626 (b) 1706 (a) 1544 (b) 1540 (c) 1542 (d) 1539
(c) 1526 (d) 1500 RRB Group-D 30-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
RRB Group-D 11-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. (b)
(c)
32.Silver coins introduced by Sher Shah
26.The battle of Ghaghra was fought in was also continued by Mughals as-
____. (a) Taka (b) Rupiya (c) Tanka (d) Mohar
(a) 1523 (b) 1529

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RRB Group-D 03-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. 39.During Akbar's reign____was the

(b) Finance Minister of the Mughal Empire.
(a) Todarmal (b) Man Singh I (c) Tansen (d)
33.The Grand Trunk Road was rebuilt by Birbal
___. RRB Group-D 28-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
(a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Lord Henry (c) Lord (a)
Clive (d) Lord Cornwallis
RRB Group-D 26-11-2018 (Shift-III) Ans 40.Who died on 27 October, 1605 at
: (a) Fatehpur Sikri, was buried at Sikandra in
Agra.
34.To strengthen the army, the (a) Empress Mumtaj Mahal (b) Emperor
mansabdari system was started by __. Shah Jahan (c) Emperor Humayun (d)
(a) Babur (b) Aurangzeb Emperor Akbar RRB Group-D 25-09-2018
(c) Akbar (d) Jahangir (Shift-II) Ans. (d)
(c) 41.The states of ____ were known as
authorized states because the Mughal
35.Akbar became the ruler of Punjab at Empire was conquered here.
the age of ____. (a) Maratha, Karnataka, Panipat (b) Awadh,
(a) 31 (b) 23 Bengal, Hyderabad
(c) 13 (d) 33 (c) Bengal, Karnataka, Panipat (d)
RRB Group-D 05-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. Karnataka, Sindh, Delhi
(c) RRB Group-D 27-11-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
(b)
36.Mughal ruler Akbar was born in ___.
(a) Amarkot (b) Fatehpur Sikri 42.Queen Hamida Banu Begum was the
(c) Sialkot (d) Agra wife of Mughal Emperor___.
RRB Group-D 25-09-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. (a) Aurangzeb (b) Akbar (c) Babur (d)
(a) Humayun
37.Which Mughal ruler started Din-i- : (d)
illahi?
(a) Shahjahan (b) Akbar (c) Humayun (d) 43.Hamida Bano Begum was mother of
Aurangzeb ____.
RRB Group-D 24-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. (a) Emperor Jahangir (b) Emperor Akbar (c)
(b) Emperor Humayun (d) Emperor Babur
38.Who among the following founded the (b)
religion of Din-i-Ilahi?
(a) Shah Jahan (b) Akbar (c) Jahangir (d) 44.Mughal Emperor Jahangir was son of
Babur ____.
RRB Group-D 20-09-2018 (Shift-II) Ans : (a) Babur (b) Akbar
(b) (c) Shahjahan (d) Humayun
(b)

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(a) Record (b) Chronicles

45.Mughal Emperor _____ had acquired (c) Theology (d) Chronology
the title of 'Alamgir'. RRB Group-D 15-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
(a) Aurangzeb (b) Akbar (c) Jahangir (d) (b)
Shah Jahan
RRB Group-D 26-09-2018 (Shift-III) Ans 51.‘Baburnama' which is Babur's
: (a) autobiography was written in _____
language.
46.After the death of Aurangzeb in ____, (a) Persian (b) Arabic
several regional kingdoms came to power (c) Urdu (d) Turkish
under Mughal administrators in different RRB Group-D 24-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
parts of India. (d)
(a) 1708 (b) 1705 (c) 1706 (d) 1707
RRB Group-D 05-12-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. 52.The construction of ___ was started in
(d) 1632 AD and it was completed at the end
of 1648 AD.
47. _____became an independent (a) Taj Mahal (b) Qutubminar
kingdom under the rule of Chinkilich (c) Red Fort (d) Moti Mahal
khan, also known as RRB Group-D 06-12-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
Nizam-ul-mulk. (a)
(a) Mysore (b) Hyderabad
(c) Awadh (d) Bengal 53.Jaipur's signature building, the Hawa
RRB Group-D 25-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans : Mahal, a multi layered palace, was built
(b) by Sawai Pratap Singh in _____.
(a) 1699 AD (b) 1599 AD
48.Ali Quli Salim and Abu Talib were (c) 1799 AD (d) 1899 AD
important poets during the reign of ____. RRB Group-D 06-12-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
(a) Aurangzeb (b) Jahangir (c)
(c) Shah Jahan (d) Akbar
RRB Group-D 20-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. 54.Fatehpur Sikri or City of Victory was
(c) the capital of _____ for 12 years.
(a) Babur (b) Bahadur Shah
49.Who is the author of the book Geet (c) Akbar (d) Aurangzeb
Govindam written during medieval RRB Group-D 28-09-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
India? (c)
(a) Meerabai (b) Tulsidas
(c) Kabir (d) Jayadev 55.Moti Masjid or 'Pearl Mosque' is the
RRB Group-D 02-11-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. most beautiful structure of the ____ fort.
(d) (a) Red (b) Golconda
(c) Amer (d) Agra
50.The travelers came to India in the RRB Group-D 10-12-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
medieval period wrote their biographies (a)
and the court
poets wrote their poems to praise their 56.Sikhism was founded by Guru Nanak
kings these literary sources are called Dev in the _____ century.
____. (a) Twelfth (b) Fifteenth

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(c) Thirteenth (d) Eighteenth (a) Ninth, Seventeenth (b) Eighth,

RRB Group-D 24-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. Eighteenth
(b) (c) Sixth, Eighteenth (d) Seventh, Sixteenth
57.The Golden Temple also known as (b)
Harmandir Sahib of Darbar Sahib is
located in ____. 63.Pinjore Garden, Also known as
(a) Patna (b) Chandigarh Yadvindra garden is located at a distance
(c) Anandpur (d) Amritsar of 20 kilometers from ___.
RRB Group-D 26-11-2018 (Shift-III) Ans (a) Chandigarh (b) Delhi
: (d) (c) Panipat (d) Sri nagar
58.Golconda fort was built by the (a)
Kakatiya rulers in the ____ century.
(a) 17th (b) 11th 64.Chashme Shahi is one of the Mughal
(c) 16th (d) 13th Gardens located in ____, India.
RRB Group-D 07-12-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : (a) Kashmir (b) Uttar Pradesh
(d) (c) Rajasthan (d) Delhi
59.In the medieval period, the Atala (a)
Mosque was built by Sharqi rulers in
_____. 65.Daulat Khan sent the messenger for
(a) Malwa (b) Jaunpur his allegiance in return for providing aid
(c) Gujarat (d) Kashmir to Babur
RRB Group-D 26-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : against the Emperor _____ in Kabul.
(b) (a) Ibrahim Lodi (b) Sikandar Lodi
(c) Ghazi Khan Lodi (d) Bahlol Lodi
60.In which language did the famous RRB Group-D 03-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
medieval literary genius Guru Basava (a)
compile his
famous literary works?
(a) Hindi (b) Tamil
(c) Kannada (d) Telugu
ALP & TECH STAGE -1, 2
RRB Group-D 08-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. 2018
(c).
61.Anangapala tomar of Rajput dynasty 1. _____ was a Muslim saint, where

established the kingdom of _____. Fatehpur Sikri was built.
(a) Gujarat (b) Malwa (a) Nizamuddin Auliya
(c) Ajmer (d) Delhi (b) Nasiruddin chiragh Dehlavi
RRB Group-D 30-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. (c) Baba Fakruddin
(d) (d) Sheikh Salim Chisti
RRB ALP & Tec. (10-08-18 Shift-I) Ans :
62.The medieval period in India begins in (d)
the ____ century and ends in the _____
century. 2.Which was the dynasty of first female
ruler Rajia Sultan?

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(a) Khilji Dynasty (b) Lodhi Dynasty (a) Iltutmish (b) Balban
(c) Mughal Dynasty (d) Slave Dynasty (c) Rajiya (d) Qutubuddin Aibak
RRB ALP & Tec. (29-08-18 Shift-III) Ans RRB J.E. -2014 Ans : (d)
: (d)
2.Who built Jama Masjid in Delhi?
3.Which of the following was not Akbar's (a) Akbar (b) Jahangir (c) Shah Jahan (d)
nine gems or navratna? Aurangzeb
(a) Ustad Ali Khan (b) Raja todarmal RRB J.E. -2014 Ans. ©
(c) Abul fazal (d) Fakir Aziao Din
RRB ALP & Tec. (17-08-18 Shift-I) Ans :
(a) JE CBT-1 2018
1.Who is the founder of the Mughal
4.Which Mughal emperor was sent to Empire?
Rangoon by Britishers? (a) Akbar (b) Ibrahim Lodhi
(a) Bahadur Shah Zafar (c) Sher Shah Suri (d) Babur
(b) Bahadur Shah Ahmad Shah RRB JE - 31/05/2019 (Shift-III)
(c) Bahadur Shah I Ans. (d)
(d) Bahadur Shah III
RRB ALP & Tec. (20-08-18 Shift-II) Ans. 2.The Battle of Khanwa was fought
(a) between whom?
(a) Babur and Rana Sanga
5.Babur's autobiography 'Baburnama' (b) Humayun and Shershah Suri
was written in which language? (c) Humayun and Naseeruddin Nusrat Shah
(a) Kurdi (b) Pashto (d) Akbar and Rana Sanga
(c) Urdu (d) Turki RRB JE - 23/05/2019 (Shift-I) Ans : (a).
: (d) 3.Where did the First Battle of Panipat
fight?
6.The Jama Masjid in Delhi was built (a) Haryana (b) Jammu & Kashmir
during the reign of which Indian ruler? (c) Punjab (d) Rajasthan
(a) Humayun (b) Babur (c) Aurangzeb (d) RRB JE - 29/05/2019 (Shift-I) Ans : (a)
Shah Jahan
RRB ALP & Tec. (29-08-18 Shift-I) Ans : 4.Who was the first female ruler of Delhi?
(d) (a) Chand Bibi (b) Noorjahan
(c) Razia Sultan (d) Mumtaz Mahal
7.During whose reign the Charminar RRB JE - 01/06/2019 (Shift-I) Ans : (c)
monument of Hyderabad was built?
(a) Akbar (b) Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah 5.When was the first battle of Panipat
(c) Qutubuddin Aibak (d) Jahangir fought?
ALP Stage -II 22.01.2019 (shift - I) Ans. (a) 1556 (b) 1661
(b) (c) 1526 (d) 1761
RRB JE - 28/05/2019 (Shift-I) Ans : (c)
J.E. -2014 6.Krishnadeva Rai was the ruler of the
1.Who was the founder of the Slave ____ Empire.
dynasty?

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(a) Pandya (b) Vijayanagar (c) Chola (d) (c) Mohammad Ghori
Chera (d) Iltutmish
RRB JE - 30/05/2019 (Shift-II) Ans : (b) R.R.B. JE. Stage - II 01-09-2019 (Shift -
III) Ans. (a)
7.Babur was considered a 'Ghazi' after
winning in which Battle? 2.Which Mughal emperor's original name
(a) Battle of Kabul (b) Battle of Panipat was Zahir-ud-Din Muhammad?
(c) Battle of Khanwa (d) Battle of Ghaghra (a) Humayun (b) Akbar
RRB JE - 29/05/2019 (Shift-II) Ans : © (c) Babur (d) Aurangzeb
R.R.B. JE- Stage - II 31-08-2019 (Shift -I)
8.Which Mughal Emperor made Ans. (c)
Fatehpur Sikri as his capital?
(a) Humayun (b) Babur 3.Who among the following was the tenth
(c) Akbar (d) Aurangzeb Sikh Guru?
RRB JE - 22/05/2019 (Shift-I) Ans : (c) (a) Guru Nanak (b) Guru Arjun Dev
(c) Guru Ram Das (d) Guru Gobind singh
9.Birbal was a member of the court of R.R.B. JE. Stage - II 01-09-2019 (Shift -
which Mughal emperor? III) Ans. (d)
(a) Akbar (b) Babur
(c) Shah Jahan (d) Humayun
RRB JE - 28/06/2019 (Shift-III) Ans. (a)
RPF SI 2018
10.In Indian history, who was known as 1.Which Sultan of Delhi started the
Alam- Gir? construction of Qutub Minar for the first
(a) Babur (b) Jahangir (c) Aurangzeb (d) time?
Akbar (a) Balban (b) Alauddin Khalji (c) Iltutmish
RRB JE - 25/05/2019 (Shift-I) Ans : © (d) Qutubddin Aibak
RPF SI 12.01.2019 (Shift - III) Ans. (d)
11Moti Masjid is located in which of the
following monuments? 2.Who among the following wrote the
(a) Golconda fort (b) Agra Fort story of Rani Padmavati of Chittor?
(c) Qutub Minar (d) Red Fort (a) Amir Khusro
RRB JE - 27/06/2019 (Shift-III) Ans : (b) (b) Ziauddin Barani
(c) Malik Muhammad Jayasi
12..Jaisalmer fort is situated in ____. (d) Siraj Afif
(a) Punjab (b) Uttar Pradesh RPF SI 12.01.2019 (Shift - III) Ans. (c)
(c) Tamil Nadu (d) Rajasthan
RRB JE - 23/05/2019 (Shift-II) Ans : (d) 3.Sultan Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq decide
to shift his capital from Delhi to.
(a) Devagiri (b) Agra
JE CBT 2 2018 (c) Lahore (d) Hyderabad
RPF SI 12.01.2019 (Shift - III) Ans. (a)
1.Who among the following laid the
foundation of Qutub Minar at Delhi?
(a) Qutb-ud-din-Aibak
(b) Mahmud Ghazni

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RPF CONSTABLE 2018 (d) King George VI

1.Who was the last physical (human Ans : (a)
existent) Sikh Guru.
(a) Guru Har Rai 5.Before independence, which one of the
(b) Guru Har Kishan following was not a French colony?
(c) Guru Hargobind
(a) Puducherry (b) Patna
(d) Guru Gobind Singh
(c) Surat (d) Goa
RPF Constable 03.02.2019 (Shift - I) Ans.
(d)
Ans : (b/d)
6.In which century the Portuguese traders

MODERN HISTORY came to Goa?
(a) 14th (b) 15th
NTPC CBT-1&2 2015 (c) 16th (d) 17th
st Ans : (c)
1.Before the rule of East India company,
India used to export soft clothes made of
which fabric? 7.European traders arrived near which
Indian city with the Portuguese explorer
(a) Only cotton (b) Only silk
Vasco -
(c) Only Nylon (d) Silk & cotton
(a) Cochin (b) Kalkata
RRB NTPC CBT-1
(c) Chennai (d) Calicut
22.04.2016 (Shift-II) Ans : (d)
st Ans : (d)
2.British East India Company established
itself during _____ in India.
8.Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama
(a) 1600–1612 (b) 1641–1645
first came to India via which sea route?
(c) 1701–1710 (d) 1721–1728
(a) Kappa Kadavu, Kerala
(b) Alibag, Maharashtra
Ans : (a)
(c) Meeramar, Goa
(d) Mandvi, Gujrat
3.British East India Company was also
known by ____. RRB NTPC 05.04.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans : (a).
(a) William Company (b) John Company
(c) Lord Company (d) Lorence Company
9.Who fought Ahmad Shah Abdali in the
third Battle of Panipat?
Ans : (b)
(a) Mughal (b) Lodhi (c) Maratha (d) Khalji
4.In 1600, ____ empowered the British
Ans : (c)
East India Company to set up a trade
post in India.
(a) Queen Elizabeth I 10.Several wars were fought between
British and India to increase their control
(b) Queen Elizabeth II
in India but which of the following war
(c) King George V
was not included in them.

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(a) Anglo-Maratha (b) Anglo-Sikh (a) Robert Clive (b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) Anglo - Mysore (d) Anglo-Bangla (c) Warren Hastings (d) James Hartley
RRB NTPC Stage I st 26.04.2016 (Shift- RRB NTPC 12.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I
II) Ans : (d) st Ans : (a)
11.The Battle of Plassey took place on 17.In which of the following Indian states
which river bank? the first passenger train was started?
(a) Bhadra (b) Bhagirathi (a) Maharashtra (b) Tamil Nadu (c) Uttar
(c) Beas (d) Brahmaputra Pradesh (d) West Bengal
RRB NTPC 04.04.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1 RRB NTPC Stage I st 28.04.2016 (Shift-
Ans : (b) II) Ans : (a)
12. ___was the largest feudal state before 18.In which year was the William Hunter
India's independence. Commission formed to review the
(a) Travancore (b) Mysore progress of
(c) Hyderabad (d) Gwalior Education in India?
RRB NTPC Stage I st, 30.04.2016 (Shift- (a) 1882 (b) 1910
II) Ans : (c) (c) 1801 (d) 1810
RRB NTPC CBT-1
13.Third Anglo-Mysore war was ended 26.04.2016 (Shift-III) Ans : (a)
by which treaty?
(a) Treaty of Seringapatam 19.Who had advocated for the
(b) Treaty of Purandar introduction of western education and
(c) Treaty of Allahabad English language in India?
(d) Treaty of Salbai (a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
RRB NTPC CBT-1, 29.04.2016 (Shift-I) (b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Ans : (a) (c) Dada Bhai Nairoji
(d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
14._____ is one of the largest palaces in RRB NTPC 30.03.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1
India which is also known as Amba Vilas Ans : (b)
and it was also the official residence of
Wadiyar Dynasty. 20.Who had founded Deccan Education
(a) Mysore Palace (b) Leh Palace Society in Pune in 1884?
(c) Mattancherry Palace (d) Hampi Mahal (a) Vishnushastri Chiplunkar and Bal
RRB NTPC CBT-1, 27.04.2016 (Shift-III) Gangadhar Tilak
Ans : (a) (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Gopal Ganesh
Agarkar
15.In which city Tipu Sultan mosque is (c) Mahadev Ballal Namjoshi and Bal
located? GangaDhar Tilak
(a) Mysore (b) Bengaluru (d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak and B.B. Kelakar
(c) Kolkata (d) Delhi RRB NTPC 19.04.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 05.04.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1 Ans : (a)
Ans : (c)
31.Adult Education Organization, Gyan
16.Under whom leadership the Battle of Prasarak Mandali was formed by ____.
Plassey was fought by the Britishers? (a) Dadabhai Naoroji

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(b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (b) Revolt of 1857

(c) Lokmanya Tilak (c) Civil Disobedience Movement 1930-31.
(d) Sarojini Nayadu (d) Quit India movement 1942
RRB NTPC CBT-1, 26.04.2016 (Shift-I) RRB NTPC 11.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I
Ans : (a). st Ans : (b)
32.Which newspaper was published by 37.Which one of the following freedom

Lokmanya Tilak to help in the freedom fighters' names was 'Manikarnika'?
struggle? (a) Madam Cama (b) Kittur Chennamma
(a) Kesari (b) Arti Bazar Patrika (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Rani Laxmibai
(c) Gadar (d) Harijan RRB NTPC 17.01.2017 (Shift-III) CBT-1
RRB NTPC CBT-1, 28.04.2016 (Shift-II) Ans : (d)
Ans : (a)
38.Rani Laxmibai was martyred at which
33.First Hindi newspaper was published place while fighting with Britishers?
on 30th may 1826. This day is also (a) Varanasi (b) Gwalior
celebrated as 'Hindi' Journalism Day'. (c) Morar (d) Jhansi
What was the name of this newspaper? RRB NTPC 16.04.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) The Bengal Gazette (b) Amar Ujala (c) Ans : (b)
Udant Martand (d) Samachar Sudha
Darshan 39.In ____India came under the direct
RRB NTPC 12.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage I st rule of the British Crown.
Ans : (c) (a) 1857 (b) 1858
(c) 1859 (d) 1956
34.In which year Charles Wilkins' RRB NTPC 05.04.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1
English version of Bhagavad Gita was Ans : (b)
published?
(a) 1685 (b) 1725 (c) 1785 (d) 1885 40.In 1928 Bardoli Satyagraha was finally
RRB NTPC 19.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I led by___.
st Ans : (c) (a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Vallabh Bhai Patel
(c) Lokmanya Tilak (d) Gopal Krishna
35.During the Indian freedom struggle, Gokhale
who had published the newspaper Young RRB NTPC 19.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I
India? st Ans : (b)
(a) B.R. Ambedkar
(b) Subhash Chandra Bose 41.Who had started the campaign of self
(c) Mahatma Gandhi respect, a campaign that aimed to create a
(d) Jawahar Lal Nehru society where backward castes also get
RRB NTPC 30.03.2016 (Shift-I) CBT-1 equal human rights?
Ans : (c) (a) B.R. Ambedkar (b) E.V. Ramasamy
(c) Sarangpani (d) Muthulakshmi
36.Which one of the following was RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-III) CBT-1
described as the first war of independence Ans : (b)
of India.
(a) Partition of Bengal 1905.

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42.Who had founded East India 47.Where is Belur Math located?

Association in (a) West Bengal (b) Maharashtra (c) Uttar
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji Pradesh (d) Tamil Nadu
(b) M.K. Sen RRB NTPC Stage I st 27.04.2016 (Shift-
(c) Madam Bhikaji Cama III) Ans : (a)
RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I 48.Who is considered as the Father of
st Ans : (a) Modern Indian Renaissance?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
43.Which type of architecture does (b) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
Khajuraho temple reflect? (c) Vinoba Bhave
(a) Greek style (b) Bhumija style (c) Baser (d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
style (d) Nagar style RRB NTPC 12.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage
RRB NTPC Stage I st 29.04.2016 (Shift-I) Ist Ans : (d)
Ans : (d)
49.Who was the first President of Indian
44.Who was the founder of Brahmo National Congress?
Samaj? (a) Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(b) Dayanand Saraswati (c) Allan Octavian Hume
(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Dadabhai Naoroji
(d) Lokmanya Tilak RRB NTPC 02.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I
RRB NTPC 28.03.2016 (Shift-III) Stage st Ans : (a)
Ist Ans : (a)
50.In 1885, who had founded the Indian
45. Who of the following campaigned National Congress?
against many rituals of Hinduism such as (a) Allan Octavian Hume
idol worship, caste from birth, animal (b) Womesh Chandra Bannerjee
sacrifice and prohibition of women from (c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
learning Vedas? (d) George Yule
(a) Shahu Chhatrapati RRB NTPC 04.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage
(b) Swami Dayanand Sarswati Ist Ans : (a)
(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(d) Jyotiba phule 51.Who was the Governor-General
RRB NTPC CBT-1 30.04.2016 (Shift-II) during the formation of Indian National
Ans : (b) Congress in the year 1885 AD?
(a) A.O. Hume
46.Who had founded the Ramakrishna (b) Lord Dufferin (c) Lord William Bentinck
Mission? (d) Lord John Jardine
(a) Swami Vivekanand (b) Shri Ramkrishna RRB NTPC Stage I st 26.04.2016 (Shift-
Paramhans (c) Swami Dayanand Saraswati III) Ans : (b)
(d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
RRB NTPC Stage I st 29.04.2016 (Shift- 52.Indian National Congress was formed
III) Ans. (a) in the year ____.
(a) 1885 (b) 1947 (c) 1858 (d) 1853

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RRB Group-D 12-11-2018 (Shift-III) RRB NTPC 29.03.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I

RRB NTPC 03.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I st Ans : (c)
st Ans : (a)
58.Who was the first woman President of
53.Where were the first meetings of the Indian National Congress in Independent
Indian National Congress held? India?
(a) Calcutta (b) Madras (a) Sonia Gandhi (b) Indira Gandhi
(c) Bombay (d) Delhi (c) Ambika Soni (d) Sarojani Nayadu
RRB NTPC Stage I st 30.04.2016 (Shift- RRB NTPC 30.03.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
III) Ans : (c) Ans : (b)
54.Who was the first Muslim president of 59.Lala Lajpat Rai Residence is in ____.
the Indian National Congress? (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Andhra Pradesh
(a) Badruddin Tyabji (c) Punjab (d) West Bengal
(b) Nawab Shaiyad Muhammad Bahadur RRB NTPC 17.01.2017 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(c) Dada Bhai Naoroji Ans : (c)
(d) Abul Kalam Azad
RRB NTPC Stage Ist 30.04.2016 (Shift- 60.Which of the following movements was
III) Ans. (a) started by Lal-Bal-Pal?
(a) Purna Swaraj
55.After leaving Indian National (b) Khilafat Movement
Congress in 1939, what was formed by (c) Non-Cooperation movement
Subhash Chandra Bose? (d) Swadeshi Movement
(a) Forward Block (b) Swaraj Party RRB NTPC Stage Ist 30.04.2016 (Shift-II)
(c) Socialist Party (d) Gadar Party Ans : (d)
RRB NTPC Stage I st
28.04.2016 (Shift-III) Ans : (a) 61.Who had ordered for the partition of
Bengal in July 1905?
56.Who was the president of Congress (a) Warren Hasting (b) Lord Irvin
during the period of Independence? (c) Lord Curzon (d) Lord Mountbatten
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru RRB NTPC 04.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage I st
(b) Abul Kalam Azad Ans : (c)
(c) Pattabhi Sitaramayya
(d) J.B. Kripalani 62.Partition of Bengal was ordered by
RRB NTPC Stage Ist 26.04.2016 (Shift- whom in 1905?
III) Ans : (d) (a) Lord Curzon (b) Lord Mountbatten
(c) Lord Linlithgow (d) Lord Macaulay
57.Who was the first woman President of RRB NTPC 31.03.2016 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
the Indian National Congress before Ans : (a)
Independence in India?
(a) Vijaylakshmi Pandit 63.When was the Swadeshi movement in
(b) Sarojani Naidu India officially proclaimed?
(c) Annie Besant (a) 15 December, 1905
(d) Madam Bhikhaji Cama (b) 7 August, 1905
(c) 26 February, 1906

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(d) 18 July, 1905 (a) Bombay (b) Madras

RRB NTPC 16.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (c) Calcutta (d) Maysore
Ans : (b) RRB NTPC 09.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage
Ist Ans : (c)
64.Bal Gangadhar Tilak along with Sir
Ratan ji Tata opened the outlets of 69.Which popular tourist destination of
Swadeshi Goods in 1905, what was the India was built in 1911 to commemorate
name of those outlets? the visit of king Georg V and Queen
(a) Bharat swadeshi co-operative stores Ltd. Mary?
(b) Jaihind government stores Ltd. (a) India Gate
(c) Hindustani swadeshi cooperative stores (b) Gateway of India
company Ltd. (c) Prince of wales Museum
(d) Bombay swadeshi cooperative stores (d) Victoria Terminus
company Ltd. RRB NTPC 02.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans : (b)
RRB NTPC 12.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans : (d)
70.Who was the founder of Home Rule
League movement?
65.Three popular freedom fighters
including Vipin Chandra pal are known (a) Sarojini Nayadu
as Lal-Bal-Pal, who were the other two of (b) Annie Besant
them. (c) Josef Baptista
(a) Subhash Chandra Bose and Bal (d) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Gangadhar Tilak RRB NTPC Stage I st 29.04.2016 (Shift-
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai III) Ans. (b)
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai and Bhagat Singh
(d) Ram Prasad Bismil and Bhikaji Cama 71.Home Rule league established in 1915-
RRB NTPC 31.03.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist 16 served as a subsidiary unit of ...
Ans : (b) following?
(a) Muslim league
66.When was the All India Muslim (b) Indian National Congress
League founded? (c) Extremists
(a) 1905 (b) 1906 (d) British Government
(c) 1914 (d) 1918 RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-I) Stage II
RRB NTPC 12.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage Ist nd Ans : (b)
Ans : (b)
72.Which one was not a member of
67.When was New Delhi made the capital Hindustan Socialist Republican
of the country? Association?
(a) 1908 (b) 1910 (a) Chandra Shekhar Azad
(c) 1911 (d) 1914 (b) Bhagat Singh
RRB NTPC Stage Ist 28.04.2016 (Shift-I) (c) Sukhdev
Ans : © (d) Nana Sahib
68.From which city India's capital was Ans : (d)
transferred to Delhi?

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73.Hindustan Socialist Republican 78.Who among the following was an

Association was founded by whom? Indian who was hanged at the age of 18
(a) Subhash Chandra Bose by the Britishers
(b) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar for joining the freedom struggle?
(c) Jaiprakash Narayan (a) Khudiram Bose
(d) Bhagat Singh (b) Chandra Shekhar Azad
RRB NTPC 31.03.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I (c) Sukhdev
st Ans : (d) (d) M.N. Roy
RRB NTPC Stage I st, 22.04.2016 (Shift-
74.In which year did the Kakori Train III) Ans : (a)
Robbery happen?
(a) 1923 (b) 1924 79.Which of the following organizations
(c) 1925 (d) 1926 was not formed outside India to help in
RRB NTPC 19.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage I st the Indian
Ans : (c) freedom struggle?
(a) India House
75.Kakori Train Robbery was organized (b) Ghadar Party
by ____in 1925. (c) Hindustan Socialist Republican
(a) Swaraj Party (b) Indian National Association
Congress (c) Anushilan Samiti (d) (d) Berlin Committee
Hindustan Republican Association RRB NTPC Stage Ist, 22.04.2016 (Shift-
RRB NTPC 19.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I II) Ans : (c)
st Ans : (d)
80.Which of the following freedom
76.The women who played an important fighters wrote the epic 'Kamala' on the
role in the awakening of Indian women to prison walls?
fight for (a) Madan Mohan Malviya
freedom & she is also known as India's (b) V.D. Savarkar
Nightingale? (c) Sharatchandra
(a) Vijay Laxmi Pandit (d) Batukeshwar Dutta
(b) Durga Bai Deshmukh RRB NTPC 07.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage
(c) Sarojani Naidu Ist Ans : (b)
(d) Madam Bhikaji Cama
RRB NTPC CBT-127.04.2016 (Shift-III) 81.The Rowlatt Act was passed in _____.
Ans : (c) (a) 1920 (b) 1922
(c) 1919 (d) 1921
77.Who among the following participated RRB NTPC 28.03.2016 (Shift-I) Stage I st
in the Chittagong Armoury Raid as a part Ans. (c)
of the Independence movement?
(a) Ganesh Joshi (b) Kalpana Chawala 82.Who ordered the Jallianwala Bagh
(c) Ananta Vaddedar (d) Pritilata Vaddedar Massacre?
RRB NTPC Stage Ist, 26.04.2016 (Shift- (a) Colonel Reginald Dwyer
II) Ans : (d) (b) Michel O' Dwyer
(c) H.H. Asquith
(d) Winton Churchill

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RRB NTPC 02.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage Ist following not the part of this positive
Ans : (a) programme?
(a) Promotion of Swadeshi
83.On which festival day Jallianwala (b) Abolished the Practice of untouchability
Bagh Massacre took place? (c) Promotion of Hindu-Muslim unity
(a) Baisakhi (d) Purchase of foreign goods
(b) Guru Nanak Jayanti RRB NTPC Stage Ist, 22.04.2016 (Shift-
(c) Diwali III) Ans : (d)
(d) Holi
RRB NTPC 02.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage 88. _____ was the first successful
Ist Ans : (a) Satyagraha of Mahatma Gandhi.
(a) Kheda (b) Bardoli
84.Who killed General O'dwyer in (c) Champaran (d) Dandi March
London to avenge the Jallianwala Bagh RRB NTPC Stage Ist, 22.04.2016 (Shift-I)
Massacre? Ans : C
(a) Sardar Bhagat Singh
(b) Sardar Udham Singh 89.Which person did the Mahatma
(c) Sardar Ajeet Singh Gandhi considered his political mentor or
(d) Raj Guru preacher?
RRB NTPC Stage Ist, 29.04.2016 (Shift- (a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
II) Ans : (b) (b) Dadabhai Nairoji
(c) Ravindra Nath Tagore
85.Who was the founder of the Swaraj (d) Motilal Nehru
Party? RRB NTPC 31.03.2016 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(a) C. Rajgopalachari (b) Motilal Nehru Ans : (a)
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai (d) Mahatma Gandhi
RRB NTPC 05.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage 90.In which year Mahatma Gandhi
Ist returned to India from South Africa?
RRB NTPC Stage Ist, 28.04.2016 (Shift- (a) 1905 (b) 1920
II) Ans : (b) (c) 1915 (d) 1910
86.It was not included in the hypothesis of Ans : (c)
Non Cooperation Movement during the
freedom 91.In 1930 under the first phase of the
struggle- civil disobedience movement, the
(a) Boycott of administrative services marathon March was started under the
(b) Boycott of foreign goods leadership of Mahatma Gandhi for Salt
(c) Use of violence Satyagraha.
(d) Abandonment of British Titles (a) Sabarmati (b) Dandi (c) Bombay (d)
RRB NTPC Stage Ist, 19.01.2017 (Shift- Delhi
II) Ans : (c)
III) Ans : (a)
87.Between 1920 and 1922 Gandhiji
started the Non-Cooperation Movement.
92.What was the aim of the Civil
Which of the
Disobedience Movement of 1930?

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(a) Complete disobedience of British

government orders 98.Who had founded the Indian National
(b) Opposition to Chauri-Chaura Incident Army?
(c) Partial disobedience of British (a) Mohan Singh
government order (b) Subhash Chandra Bose
(d) Ensuring that all citizens were (c) Chandra Shekhar Azad
empowered by their civil rights (d) Ras Bihari
RRB NTPC 06.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I RRB NTPC Stage Ist, 29.04.2016 (Shift-
st Ans : (a) II) Ans : (a)
93.Who led the salt satyagraha in Tamil 99.Azad Hind Fauz (Indian National
Nadu? Army-INA) was founded in _____.
(a) C. Rajagopalachari (b) K. Kamraj (c) (a) 1940 (b) 1941 (c) 1942 (d) 1943
Potti Shree rammula (d) C. Subramanayam RRB NTPC 07.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC Stage I st 27.04.2016 (Shift- Ans : (c)
II) Ans : (a)
100.Indian National Army recaptured
94.Who among the following was NOT a Andaman and Nicobar island from
member of Simon Commission? British Government and named them-
(a) Harry Levy- Lawson (b) Clement Attlee (a) Swaraj Island (b) Shaheed and Swaraj
(c) James A Scott (d) John Simon Island (c) Free Island (d) Independent and
Ans. (c) Swaraj Island
95.When did the Second Indian Round Ans : (b)
Table Conference begin?
(a) November 1930 (b) July 1931 101.Indian National Army was founded
(c) September 1931 (d) November 1932 by ___.
RRB NTPC Stage Ist 30.04.2016 (Shift-I) (a) Bhagat Singh (b) Shubhash Chandra
Ans : (c) Bose (c) Ras Bihari Bose (d) Sharat Chandra
Bose
96.In which year Poona Pact was signed? RRB NTPC 03.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I
(a) 1924 (b) 1926 st Ans : (c)
(c) 1930 (d) 1932t
RRB NTPC Stage I st 29.04.2016 (Shift-I) 102.Who had founded the Desh Bandhu
Ans : (d) Association?
(a) Lakshmi Sehgal (b) N.G. Ranga (c)
97.Which of the following party was Kanneganti Hanumanthus (d) Tiruppur
founded by Netaji Subhash Chandra Kumaran
Bose? RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I
(a) Indian National Congress st Ans : (d)
(b) All India Forward Bloc
(c) Socialist Party of India 103.Who was the father of Subhash
(d) Indian Social Reforms Party Chandra Bose?
RRB NTPC 07.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage
Ist Ans : (b)

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(a) Satyendra Nath Bose (b) Janaki Nath 109.What was the time when India got
Bose (c) Jagadish Chandra Bose (d) S.N. independence on 15 August 1947?
Bose (a) Morning (b) Mid Evening
RRB NTPC 28.03.2016 (Shift-III) Stage (c) Mid Night (d) Noon
Ist Ans : (b) RRB NTPC 03.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans : (c)
104.When did Mahatma Gandhi ji start
the India movement? 110.When was the British government
(a) 15 August, 1945 (b) 8 August, 1942 agreed upon giving India independence?
(c) 8 July, 1942 (d) 15 July, 1945 (a) 1944 (b) 1945
RRB NTPC 10.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage (c) 1946 (d) 1947
Ist Ans : (b) RRB NTPC 06.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans : (d)
105.In which year Mahatma Gandhi ji
started Quit India Movement? 111.
(a) 1941 (b) 1942 Which is not true related to the
(c) 1945 (d) 1946 Government of India Act 1919?
RRB NTPC 30.03.2016 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (a) The Act had a separate preamble
Ans : (b) (b) This Act was made bicameral to central
legislature
(c) Act provided for the establishment of a
106.Provincial Elections were held in the
public service commission in India
year ____ in British India.
(d) The Act covered 20 years from 1919 to
(a) 1925–26 (b) 1930–31
1939
(c) 1936–37 (d) 1939–40 RRB NTPC Stage I st 22.04.2016 (Shift-I)
RRB NTPC 07.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist Ans : (d)
Ans : (c)
112.Provincial Autonomy was granted by
107.Who was the founder of Khudai ___.
Khidmatgar movement and strongly (a) Government of India Act, 1935 (b)
opposed the partition of India and Montagu - Chelmsford Report, 1919
Pakistan in 1947.
(c) Government of India Act, 1919 (d)
(a) Mahatma Gandhi Indian Independence Act, 1947
(b) Muhammad Ali Jinnah RRB NTPC 19.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I
(c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan st Ans : (a)
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
RRB NTPC Stage Ist 30.04.2016 (Shift-I) 113.Who was the last Governor General
Ans : (c) of India?
(a) Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
108.On which date the Partition of India (b) Warren Hastings
was announced? (c) Louis Mountbatten
(a) 15 August, 1947 (b) 3 June, 1947 (d) Edward law
(c) 17 July, 1947 (d) 1 July, 1947 Ans : (a)
RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Ans : (b)

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114.Before the Indian Constitution came RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I
into existence _____ was the Governor- st Ans : (a)
General of India.
(a) C. Rajagopalachari 120Who was the Governor General of
(b) Lord Mountbatten Independent India?
(c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (a) Raja ji (b) Lord Mountbatten
(d) Lord Wavell (c) Rajendra Prasad (d) Lord Wavell
RRB NTPC 11.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I RRB NTPC 28.03.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
st Ans : (a) Ans : (b)
115.Who replaced Lord Mountbatten as 121.During the time of Governor General

Governor General of India? India's Independence Movement, Sepoy
(a) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Sardar Vallabh mutiny was started.
Bhai Patel (a) Lord Ellen borough (b) Lord Harding
(c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (d) C. (c) Lord Bentinck (d) Lord Canning
Rajagopalachari RRB NTPC 17.01.2017 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC 04.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage I st Ans : (d)
Ans : (d)
122.Who is called the Bismarck of India?
116.Who was the Governor General of (a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Vallabhbhai Patel
India after independence? (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Lokmanya Tilak
(a) Louis Mountbatten (b) Archibald Wavell RRB NTPC 29.03.2016 (Shift-III) Stage
Ist Ans : (b)
(c) Victor Hope (d) Freeman Thomas
Ist Ans : (a) 123.Who is called 'Father of Indian Civil
Services'?
(a) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
117.Who had introduced the Doctrine of
(b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Lapse?
(c) Lord Cornwallis
(a) Lord Curzon (b) Lord Mountbatten
(d) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
(c) Lord Dalhousie (d) Robert Clive
RRB NTPC Stage Ist 29.04.2016 (Shift-
III) Ans. (d)
Ist Ans : (c)
124.The man who was popularly known
118.Which of the following is called the
as 'Gurudev'–
'father of Indian Civil Service'?
(a) Rajguru
(a) Lord Cornwallis (b) Warren Hastings (c)
(b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Lord Wellesley (d) Lord William Bentinck
(c) Ravindranath Tagore
RRB NTPC Stage I st 27.04.2016 (Shift- (d) Mahatma Gandhi
III) Ans : (a) RRB NTPC Stage Ist 29.04.2016 (Shift-
III) Ans. (c)
119.Who formed the Archaeological
Survey of India? 125.Who had awarded 'Kaiser-i-Hind'
(a) Alexander Cunningham (b) William Medals to Mahatma Gandhi for his
Jones (c) Jems Banges (d) N.P. Chakravarti contribution to the ambulance services in
South Africa?

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(a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Lord Canning RRB NTPC 04.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(c) Lord Harding (d) Lord Curzon Ans : (c)
Ans : (c) 133.Who was called as Frontier Gandhi?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
126. Which title was given by the British (b) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
to Mahatma Gandhi, which was returned (c) C. Rajagopalachari
by (d) Lala Lajpat Rai
(a) Ray Bahadur (b) Ray Sahib (c) Hind RRB NTPC 16.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Kesari (d) Kaiser-I-Hind Ans : (b)
Ans : (d) 134.Who was known as Badshah khan?
(a) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
127.Who gave the title of 'Gurudev' to (b) Abul Kalam Azad
Rabindra Nath Tagore? (c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Pandit Nehru (c) (d) Khan Abdulwali Khan
Lala Lajpat Rai (d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak RRB NTPC 06.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage Ist Ans : (c)
Ans : (a)
135.'In the practice of tolerance, one's
130.Who gave the slogan of 'Do or Die' enemy is the best teacher' who said these
during the freedom struggle of India? words?
(a) Veer Savarkar (b) Netaji Subhash (a) Gautam Buddha (b) Mahatma Gandhi
Chandra Bose (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) (c) Barack Obama (d) Dalai Lama
Subramania Bharti RRB NTPC 03.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC 28.03.2016 (Shift-I) Stage Ist Ans : (d)
Ans : (c)
136.Which fort was constructed by the
131.Live as if you were to die tomorrow, first Portuguese Viceroy in 1505?
learn as if you were to live forever. Who (a) St. Angelo Fort (b) St. Thomas fort
had said these words? (c) Fort Emmanuel (d) Fort st. David
(a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Pandit Jawaharlal RRB NTPC Stage Ist 29.04.2016 (Shift-I)
Nehru (c) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (d) Chanakya Ans : (a)
Ist Ans : (a). 137.During which period the Parliament
House was constructed in Delhi?
132.We are what our thoughts have made (a) 1895-1900 (b) 1901-1909
us, so take care about what you think. (c) 1921-1927 (d) 1931-1935
Words are RRB NTPC 06.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
secondary. Thoughts live they travel far' Ans : (c)
who said this?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi 138.Name the architect who designed New
(b) Mother Teresa Delhi?
(c) Swami Vivekananda (a) Le Corbusier (b) Sir Edwin Lutyens
(d) Ravindranath Tagore (c) Andu Paul (d) George Baker

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RRB NTPC 12.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage 144.Which of the following years India-
Ist Ans : (b) Pakistan war did not happen?
(a) 1947 (b) 1962
139.Goa was a state soon after the (c) 1965 (d) 1971
Independence of India. RRB NTPC 19.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage
(a) Indian (b) Portuguese Ist Ans : (b)
(c) Dutch (d) British
RRB NTPC 18.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist 145.Before 1971, In which year India-
Ans : (b) Pakistan war happened?
(a) 1962 (b) 1963
140.Which of the following movements (c) 1964 (d) 1965
played an important role in ending RRB NTPC 05.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage I st
Portuguese rule. Ans : (d)
(a) Goa Liberation Movement
(b) Goa Non-cooperation Movement 146.First Anglo-Burma war took place in
(c) Goa Peace March which year?
(d) Goa Non Aligned Movement (a) 1892–1893
RRB NTPC 10.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage (b) 1885–1886
Ist Ans : (a) (c) 1824–1826
(d) 1852–1853
141.After which India-Pakistan war, RRB NTPC Stage I st 28.04.2016 (Shift-
Tashkent Declaration took place? III) Ans : (c)
(a) 1947 (b) 1965
(c) 1971 (d) 1999 147.In which year, did Bangladesh
RRB NTPC 05.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage become independent Parliamentary
Ist Ans : (b) democratic
country.
142.Shimla Agreement 1972 was signed (a) December, 1971
by whom? (b) January, 1972
(a) By India and Pakistan foreign Ministers (c) March, 1972
(b) By Indira Gandhi and ZA Bhutto (d) February, 1972
(c) By Indira Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto RRB NTPC 31.03.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I
(d) By Atal Vihari Vajpayee and Purvej st Ans : (b)
Musharraf
RRB NTPC 30.03.2016 (Shift-I) Stage Ist 148.When was the ceasefire line between
Ans : (b) India and Pakistan converted into Line of
Control (LoC)?
143.India-Pakistan (Kargil) war code (a) In 1971
name was__. (b) In 1972
(a) Operation blue star (b) Operation Vijay (c) In 1973
(c) Operation Virat (d) Operation Kargil (d) In 1974
RRB NTPC 29.03.2016 (Shift-III) Stage RRB NTPC 30.03.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I
Ist Ans : (b) st Ans : (b)

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149.Where was the Indian Independence (d) Subhash Chandra Bose

league founded in 1907? RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-II) Stage II
(a) Surat (b) Kolkata nd Ans : (c)
(c) California (d) Berlin
RRB NTPC Stage Ist, 27.04.2016 (Shift-I) 155.When did India become a sovereign
Ans : (c) Republic?
(a) 25 August 1950 (b) 26 August 1947
150.Abdul Rahman and the (c) 26 January 1950 (d) 26 January 1948
representative of British government, Mr. RRB NTPC 05.04.2016 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Mortimer signed the Ans : (c)
agreement to create____.
(a) Radcliffe line (b) Durand Line 156.Which Governor General had passed
(c) Mortimer Line (d) McMahon line Bengal Sati Regulation 1829?
RRB NTPC Stage Ist 29.04.2016 (Shift-II) (a) Edward law (b) Lord William Bentinck
Ans : (b) (c) Sir Henry Harding (d) William
Butterworth Belle
151.Which of the following cities was RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-II) Stage
called Desinagandu in ancient times? IInd Ans : (b)
(a) Kollam (b) Mysore
(c) Madurai (d) Chittor 157.Who said 'You give me blood, I will
RRB NTPC Stage Ist, 28.04.2016 (Shift-I) give you freedom'?
Ans : (a) (a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Chandra Shekhar Azad (d) Subhash
152.Which of the following revolts was Chandra Bose
not against the restrictions imposed by RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-III) Stage
the British rulers? IInd Ans : (d)
(a) Fakir & Sannyasi Revolt
(b) Indigo Revolt
(c) Santhal Revolt
(d) Naxalbari Revolt NTPC CBT-1,2 2019
RRB NTPC Stage Ist 22.04.2016 (Shift-II)
Ans : (d) 1..Where was the first British Presidency
established in India?
153.On which date Civil Disobedience (a) Mumbai (b) Goa
Movement was started? (c) Surat (d) Kolkata
(a) 21 May, 1931 (b) 10 May, 1930 RRB NTPC 04.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(c) 12 March, 1930 (d) 13 March, 1931 Ans. (c)
RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-II) Stage II
nd Ans : (c) 2.The first English Factory of Bengal was
set up on the banks of the river ... in 1651.
154.Who was the president of the (a) Swarnrekha (b) Son
Independence for India league, formed in (c) Hugli (d) Damodar
1928? RRB NTPC 23.07.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) Ras Bihari Bose Ans. (c)
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Shri Nivasa Iyengar

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3.In which of the following places did the

English open their 'factory' in 1611 on the 9.In which year was the Third Battle of
east coast of India? Panipat fought?
(a) Madras (b) Masulipatnam (a) 1756 (b) 1761
(c) Tuticorin (d) Yanam (c) 1576 (d) 1764
Ans. (b) Ans. (b)
4.Who discovered the sea route to India? 10.During the first decade of the 20th
(a) Vasco da Gama (b) Ibn Battuta (c) century. Which place was considered the
Christopher Columbus (d) Huen Tsang nerve center of Indian nationalism?
RRB NTPC 10.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (a) Bengal (b) Bihar
Ans. (a) (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Madras
5.When was Goa captured by the Ans. (a)
Portuguese?
(a) 1605 AD (b) 1590 AD 11.Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal,
(c) 1510 AD (d) 1485 AD was defeated in the Battle of Plassey in
RRB NTPC 23.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 the year;
Ans. (c) (a) 1757 (b) 1756
(c) 1755 (d) 1752
6.The ______ were the first to discover a RRB NTPC 11.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
sea- route to India. Ans. (a)
(a) Portuguese (b) French
(c) English (d) Dutch 12.Which place was called the "Nursery
RRB NTPC 07.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 of the Bengal army"?
Ans. (a) (a) Bengal (b) Eastern Uttar Pradesh
(c) Punjab (d) Awadh
7.The famous explorer ... wanted to come RRB NTPC 08.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
to India, but instead landed on the shores Ans. (d)
of America.
(a) Genghis Khan 13.Who was the last Nizam (ruler) of
(b) Vasco de Gama Hyderabad?
(c) Christopher Columbus (a) Afzal-ud-daula
(d) Alexander (b) Mir Mahbub Ali Khan
RRB NTPC 09.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (c) Mir Osman Ali Khan
Ans. (c) (d) Nasir-Ud-Daula
8.In which city of India did the East India Ans. (c)
Company set up their first trading
center? 14.In which year was the East India
(a) Ahmedabad (b) Mumbai Company granted 'Diwani rights' (right
(c) Delhi (d) Surat to collect
RRB NTPC 04.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 revenues and decide civil cases of Bengal,
Ans. (d) Bihar and Orissa) by Mughals?

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(a) 1765 (b) 1800 (c) Robert Clive (d) Robert Boyle
(c) 1680 (d) 1715 RRB NTPC 23.07.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (a)
21.Who fought the Battle of Plassey
15.Which place out of the following was against the East India Company?
Tipu Sultan associated with? (a) Tipu Sultan (b) Sirajuddaulah
(a) Aurangabad (b) Hyderabad (c) Mir Jafar (d) Alivardi Khan
(c) Srirangapatna (d) Bijapur RRB NTPC 28.12.2020 (Shift-II) CBT-1
RRB NTPC 09.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 Ans. (b)
Ans. (c)
22.When did the British army under Eyre
16.In which year was the Battle of Buxar Coote defeat Haider Ali at Porto Novo
fought? and save
(a) 1576 AD (b) 1761 AD Madras?
(c) 1756 AD (d) 1764 AD (a) July 1780 (b) July 1781
RRB NTPC 09.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (c) July, 1771 (d) July, 1761
Ans. (b)
17.Who was the Nawab of Bengal during
the Battle of Plassey? 22.In the Battle of Plassey, who led the
(a) Mir Jafar (b) Amichand Rajbansi troops of the British East India
(c) Siraj ud-Daulah (d) Mir Quasim Company?
RRB NTPC 01.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (a) Neville chamberlain (b) Robert Clive
Ans. (c) (c) Allan Cunningham (d) James Alexander
18.The British achieved political power in Ans. (b)
India after the Battle of Plassey. In which
year was this battle fought? 23.Which of the following incidents took
(a) 1757 (b) 1857 place after the victory of the British in the
(c) 1858 (d) 1756 Battle of Plassey, in 1757?
RRB NTPC 24.07.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (a) The port cities of Madras, Calcutta and
Ans. (a) Bombay were destroyed
(b) No new buildings and institutions were
19.The Battle of Plassey was fought developed
between the East India Company and the: (c) Trade of the British East India Company
(a) Nawab of Hyderabad (b) Nawab of expanded
Bengal (d) People stayed away from the colonial
(c) Marathas (d) Mughals cities of Madras, Calcutta and Bombay
Ans. (b) Ans. (c)
20.In the Battle of Plassey in 1757 who led 24.How many wars were fought by the
the army of the East India Company? British with Mysore?
(a) Charles Boys (b) William Babington (a) 4 (b) 5

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RRB NTPC 30.12.2020 (Shift-II) CBT-1 Ans. (b)
Ans. (a)
31.The first textile mill in India was
25.The 'Third Mysore War' was fought established at Fort Gloster near ... in
between the years: 1818.
(a) 1790-92 (b) 1796-98 (a) Madras (b) Ahmedabad
(c) 1794-96 (d) 1792-94 (c) Bombay (d) Calcutta
Ans. (a) Ans. (d)
26.Hyder Ali was the ruler of? 31.The first Revenue Settlement in the
(a) Hyderabad (b) Awadh Bombay Deccan came into operation in
(c) Mysore (d) Kittur the year:
RRB NTPC 01.04.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (a) 1920 (b) 1820
Ans. (c) (c) 1720 (d) 1280
27.When was the first passenger train run Ans. (b)
in India?
(a) 1856 (b) 1853 32.In which year was the Permanent
(c) 1854 (d) 1857 Settlement brought into effect by the East
Indian Company:
(a) 1770 (b) 1793
Ans. (b)
(c) 1794 (d) 1792
28.The revenue system introduced in ____
Ans. (b)
came to be known as the 'Ryotwari
settlement'.
33.Colonial rule was first established in–
(a) Bengal (b) Punjab
(a) Delhi (b) Bombay
(c) Bombay Deccan (d) Kerala
(c) Surat (d) Bengal
Ans. (c)
Ans. (d)
29.Who among the following calculated
34.Who was the Raja of Burdwan when
per capita income of India in 1867 and
Permanent Settlement was imposed ...
published in his book 'Poverty and un-
British rule in India'? (a) Abu Ray (b) Tej Chand
(a) Sir Arthur Cotton (b) Motilal Nehru (c) Sangam Rai (d) Mehtab Chand
(c) Lord Cornwallis (d) Dadabhai Naoroji RRB NTPC 05.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans. (b):
Ans. (d)
35.British had divided the territories in
India into provinces. Bengal, Bombay &
30.In which year did the East India
Madras were called as ____.
Company acquire 'Diwani' rights over
Bengal and Bihar? (a) 1865 (b) 1765 (c) (a) Presidency (b) Constituency
1675 (d) 1965 (c) Pargana (d) Sectors

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RRB Group-D 05-11-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. (a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(a) (b) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
(c) Vishnushastri Chiplunkar
36.Where was India's first jute mill (d) Bhimrao Ambedkar
established before independence? RRB NTPC 04.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(a) Gujarat (b) Bengal Ans. (a)
(c) Odisha (d) Maharashtra
RRB NTPC Stage I st 22.04.2016 (Shift- 42.Who founded the English newspaper
II) Ans : (b) 'Maratha'?
(a) Bipin Chandra Pal
37.Wood's Dispatch was concerned with (b) Lala Lajpat Rai
which of the following reforms? (c) Ashwini Kumar Dutt
(a) Railway (b) Industry (d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c) Education (d) Irrigation RRB NTPC 21.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (c)
43.Which Bengali newspaper was
38.Who founded the Muhammad an founded and edited by Raja Ram Mohan
Anglo- Oriental College in 1875 which Roy?
later became (a) Kesari (b) Sambad Kaumudi
Aligarh Muslim University? (c) Maratha (d) Yugantar
(a) Zakir Hussain RRB NTPC 11.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(b) Mohammad Ali Jinna Ans. (b)
(c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(d) Syed Ahmed Khan 44.Which of the following is considered as
RRB NTPC 04.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 the first Vernacular newspaper of India?
Ans. (d) (a) Samachar Darpan
(b) Madras Courier
39.Bengal Gazette, the first major (c) Amar Ujala
newspaper in India, started in the year (d) Bengal Gazette
______. RRB NTPC 28.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(a) 1780 (b) 1770 (c) 1857 (d) 1775 Ans. (a)
Ans. (a) 45.Which of the following revolutionary
40.Who was the founder of the journals was not published abroad?
Newspaper Bengal Gazette (1780- India's (a) Talvar Berlin
first Newspaper)' (b) Yugantar
(a) G.K. Gokhale (b) J.K. Hickey (c) Free Hindustan (San Francisco)
(c) B.G. Tilak (d) Annie Besant (d) Indian Sociologist (London)
Ans. (b) Ans. (b)
41.Who among the following nationalist 46.Who started publication of Al Hilal, a

leaders founded and edited the Marathi newspaper for propagating nationalism?
newspaper 'Kesari'? (a) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

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(b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad RRB NTPC 08.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(c) M. A. Ansari Ans. (a)
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
RRB NTPC 21.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 52.Who ignited the spark of freedom that
Ans. (b) led to the revolt of 1857?
(a) Subhash Chandra Bose
47.Which newspaper did Mahatma (b) Jawaharlal Nehru
Gandhi start in South Africa? (c) Mangal Pandey
(a) Indian Opinion (b) National Herald (d) Bhagat Singh
(c) Indian Sociologist (d) Common Weal RRB NTPC 29.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
Ans. (a)
53.After the 1857 Revolt, also known as
48.In which year was Rani Lakshmibai of India's First War of Independence,
Jhansi killed in battle? Bahadur Shah Jafar, the last Mughal
(a) 1835 (b) 1885 Emperor of India, was exiled to:
(c) 1858 (d) 1853 (a) Japan (b) England
RRB NTPC 09.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (c) Nepal (d) Burma
Ans. (d)
49.In which year were the powers of the
East India Company passed to the British 54.Tatya Tope was one of the leaders who
Crown by the British Parliament? participated in the Indian rebellion of :
(a) 1858 (b) 1859 (a) 1857 (b) 1902
(c) 1862 (d) 1857 (c) 1890 (d) 1859
Ans. (a) Ans. (a)
50.Who among the following was the 55.Kanpur region rose to oppose the
Mughal emperor when soldiers of the British rule where Nana Saheb's Palace at
Bengal army ... served as its headquarters.
mutinied in Meerut on 10 May, 1857? (a) Bithoor (b) Pukhrayan
(a) Bahadur Shah Zafar (b) Siraj-ud-Daula (c) Bibighar (d) Fatehgarh
(c) Saadat Ali Khan (d) Burhan Mulk RRB NTPC 07.04.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans. (a)
56.Which of the following was celebrated
51.Which of the following began with a as the First War of Indian Independence?
revolt of the military soldiers at Meerut, (a) The Civil War of 1861
soon became widespread and posed a (b) The Uprising of 1857
grave challenge to British rule? (c) The Rowlatt Satyagraha of 1919
(a) The Indian Mutiny, 1857 (d) The Santhal Revolt of 1855-56
(b) Battle of Plassey, 1757 RRB NTPC 10.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(c) Quit India Movement, 1942 Ans. (b)
(d) Battle of Panipat, 1761

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57.In 1857, the last ruler of the Mughal (a) 21th Native Infantry (b) 41st Native
empire ________ was overthrown by the Infantry
British. (c) 20th Native Infantry (d) 1st Native
(a) Bahadur Shah Zafar Infantry
(b) Nasiruddin Humayun RRB NTPC 16.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(c) Zahiruddin Babar Ans. (b)
(d) Jalaluddin Akbar
RRB NTPC 09.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 63.Who was responsible for introducing
Ans. (a) Enfield rifles that used the greased
cartridges which
58.When was Revolt of 1857 finally became the immediate reason for the 1857
suppressed by revolt?
(a) 1859 (b) 1860 (a) Captain Hearsey
(c) 1861 (d) 1857 (b) Henry Hardinge
RRB NTPC 04.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (c) Lord William Bentinck
Ans. (a) (d) Francis Grant
59.What was the sudden cause of the 1857 Ans. (b)
Revolt?
(a) Tipu sultan's defeat 64.The 1857 revolt at Lucknow was led
(b) Boycott of English goods by:
(c) Allotment of land to the rich (a) Vir Savarkar
(d) Cartridges of fats (b) Begum Hazrat Mahal
RRB NTPC 26.07.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (c) Tatya Tope
Ans. (d) (d) Kunwar Singh
60.The 1857 revolt at Lucknow was led Ans. (b)
by: ...
(a) Tatya Tope 65.Who said, "Neither first, nor national,
(b) Begum Hazrat Mahal nor a war of independence" with context
to "The Sepoy Mutiny and Revolt of
(c) Vir Savarkar
1857"?
(d) Kunwar Singh
(a) Veer Savarkar (b) SN Sen
(c) RC Majumdar (d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Ans. (b)
Ans. (c)
61.India's first struggle for independence
started on 10 thMay 1857 at:
66.In which place did Shah Mal lead the
(a) Bareilly (b) Lucknow
revolt in 1857?
(c) Meerut (d) Allahabad
(a) Baraut (b) Rohtak
(c) Hisar (d) Bhiwani
Ans. (c)
Ans. (a)
62.Which infantry battalion was involved
in the killing of all its white officers in the
Revolt of 1857?

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67.Which Indian sepoy in the British government’s decision to raise land

army played a key part in events revenue in...
immediately preceding the outbreak of (a) Pavapuri (b) Lumbini
the Indian rebellion of 1857? (c) Bardoli (d) Srirangapatna
(a) Mangal Singh (b) Lokmanya Tilak RRB NTPC 02.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(c) Bhagat Singh (d) Mangal Pandey Ans. (c)
Ans. (d) 73.Which Indian Nationality leader
spearheaded the peasants' agitations
68.Who among the following helped the known as the Bardoli Satyagraha?
British during the Santhal rebellion and (a) Karsanbhai Patel
the 1857 (b) Govind Ballabh Pant (c) Vallabh Bhai
revolt: Patel (d) Rajni Patel
(a) Tek Chand RRB NTPC 30.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(b) Mool Chand Ans. (c)
(c) Tej Chand
(d) Maharaja Mehtab Chand 74.Which eminent person is associated
RRB NTPC 10.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 with Bardoli?
Ans. (d) (a) Guru Nanak (b) Mahavir (c) Aurobindo
Ghosh (d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
69.Where did the sepoy mutiny start? RRB NTPC 30.12.2020 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) Jhansi (b) Kanpur Ans. (d)
(c) Lucknow (d) Meerut
RRB NTPC 12.04.2016 (Shift-II) CBT-1 75.Who was the first President of the All
Ans : (d) India Kisan Sabha?
(a) PC Joshi (b) Jai Prakash Narayan
70.Sepoy mutiny in 1857 was started from (c) Acharya Narendra Dev (d) Swami
___? Sahajanand Saraswati
(a) Agara (b) Meerut RRB NTPC 02.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
(c) Lucknow (d) Aligarh Ans. (d)
Ans : (b) 76.Who among the following was the
Chairman of the Indigo Commission?
71.In which of the following Satyagraha (a) Thomas Raleigh (b) WS Seton-Kar
did Vallabh Bhai Patel get the title (c) John Sargeant (d) JH Whiteley
"Sardar ''? RRB NTPC 23.07.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(a) Champaran Ans. (b)
(b)Bardoli
(c)Kheda 77.The Moplah Rebellion took place
(d) Ahmedabad mill strike between the years:
RRB NTPC 04.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (a) 1917 – 1919 (b) 1923 – 1924
Ans. (b) (c) 1921 – 1922 (d) 1914 – 1915
72.In 1928, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel led Ans. (c)
a peasants’ movement against the British

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78.When did the Moplah revolt (Malabar

Rebellion) in Kerala take place? 83.Who founded the Servants of India
(a) 1921 (b) 1928 society?
(c) 1945 (d) 1934 (a) Swami Dayanand Sarswati
RRB NTPC 12.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Ans. (a) (c) Jyotiba Phule
79.Who led the Santhal Revolt of 1855-56 RRB NTPC 04.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
held in India ? Ans. (d)
(a) Sidhu and Kanhu
(b) Gora and Badal 84.Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya was the
(c) Nilamber and Pitamber name of
(d) Alha and Udal (a) Sri Aurobindo
RRB NTPC 30.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (b) Swami Prabhupada
Ans. (a) (c) Swami Vivekananda
(d) Ram Krishna Paramhansa
80.Archaeology-related work was started RRB NTPC 29.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
in India in 1784 AD by Europeans, and Ans. (d)
Asiatic Society of Bengal was formed.
Who was its founder?
86.The Indian Social Conference started
(a) Alexander Cunningham
the 'Pledge Movement', what was its
(b) George Turnour purpose ?
(c) James Prinsep (a) Abolish the practice of Sati
(d) William Jones (b) Prohibit Child Marriage
RRB NTPC 04.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (c) Encourage Widow Remarriage
Ans. (d) (d) Provide education to girls
81.Which of the following statements is Ans. (b)
correct?
(a) The 'Gandhi-Irwin Pact' was signed in 88.Asiatic Society of Bengal was
1926. established in the year:
(b) The Simon Commission arrived in India (a) 1884 (b) 1734
in 1932. (c) 1784 (d) 1764
(c) The Child Marriage Restraint Act was RRB NTPC 01.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1
passed in the year 1929. Ans. (c)
(d) The Rowlatt Act was passed in 1909
RRB NTPC 15.03.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 89.During British rule, the Sharda Act
Ans. © was passed in 1929 for preventing_____.
(a) The Practice of Sati
82.When did Sir William Jones found (b) Infanticide
Asiatic Society? (c) Child Marriage
(a) 1854 (b) 1782 (d)Polygamy
Ans. (d)

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90.When was the Dowry Prohibition Act 95.The first Pradhanacharya of the
commenced? Brahma Samaj was:
(a) 1963 (b) 1960 (a) Swami Vivekanand
(c) 1961 (d) 1965 (b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
RRB NTPC 30.12.2020 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (c) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ans. (c) (d) Ramakrishna Paramhans
91.Where did Brahmo Samaj originate? Ans. (b)
(a) Bengal (b) Maharashtra
(c) Gujarat (d) Bihar 96.Eminent social reformer and women's
RRB NTPC 09.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 education activist Pandita Ramabai
Ans. (a) Sarasvati was a great scholar of ______.
(a) English (b) Hindi
(c) Marathi (d) Sanskrit
92.Which of the following statements is
NOT correct about Raja Ram Mohan RRB NTPC 04.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Roy? Ans. (d)
(a) He wrote a book ‘A gift to monotheists’
(b) He founded Arya Samaj. 97.The law that permitted widows to
(c) He believed in the social equality of all remarry (Hindu Widow' Remarriage Act)
human beings. was passed in the year
(d) He is considered as the pioneer of (a) 1856 (b) 1854
modern Indian Renaissance. (c) 1855 (d) 1858
RRB NTPC 28.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 RRB NTPC 04.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans. (b) Ans. (a)
93.Raja Rammohan Roy founded a 98.Who founded the Satyasodhak Samaj?

reform association known as the 'Brahmo (a) Jyotiba Phule
Sabha' (later known as 'Brahmo Samaj') (b) BR Ambedkar
in which city of India? (c) Mahatma Gandhi
(a) Burdwan (b) Barrackpore (d) Shantaram Tambhakhu
(c) Murshidabad (d) Calcutta RRB NTPC 06.04.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans. (d)
99.Who had established the 'Prarthana
94.Who founded the Tattwabodhini Samaj' ?
Sabha to propagate Ram Mohan Roy's (a) Mahatma Gandhi
ideas? (b) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
(a) Debendranath Tagore (c) Swami Vivekananda
(b) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Atmaram Pandurang
(c) Anand Mohan Bose RRB NTPC 23.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
(d)K.C. Sen Ans. (d)
Ans. (a) 100.Who was the founder of the
Prarthana Samaj?
(a) Swami Vivekananda

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(b) Atmaram Pandurang (c) 8th August, 1942 (d) 15th August, 1942
(c) Swami Dayanand Saraswati RRB NTPC 17.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy Ans. C
Ans. (b) 106.Who among the following has initially
drafted the 'Quit India' resolution of the
101.Name the Dutch who helped Raja Indian
Ram Mohan Roy in the promotion of National Congress in 1942?
modern education in India? (a) Mahatma Gandhi
(a) Derozio (b) Grant Duff (b) Subhash Chandra Bose
(c) Alexander Duff (d) David Hare (c) B.R. Ambedkar
RRB NTPC 03.04.2021 (Shift-I) Stage (d) Jaiprakash Narayan
IstAns. (d) RRB NTPC 21.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans. (a)
102.Who represented India in the first
world Parliament of Religion in 1893 AD? 107.In which session of the Congress did
(a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Lekharaj Mahatma Gandhi convince other leaders
Khoobchand Kripani (c) Bhakta Vinod to start a non-cooperation movement in
Thakur (d) Upasani Maharaj support of Khilafat as well as swaraj?
RRB NTPC Stage I st 28.04.2016 (Shift-I) (a) Nagpur Session (b) Bombay Session
Ans : (a) (c) Calcutta Session (d) Lucknow Session
103.Who initiated the Young Bengal Ans. (c) :
Movement?
(a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 108.Subhash Chandra Bose was re-
(b) Denis Clive elected as the President of INC at the
(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy Tripuri Session in 1939 by defeating
(d) Henry Vivian Derozio Gandhiji's candidate:
RRB NTPC 03.04.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (a) Lal Bahadur Shastri
Ans. (d) (b) Pattabhi Sitaramayya
(c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
104.Swaraj was the goal of India's (d) S Radhakrishnan
political efforts. This goal was announced RRB NTPC 07.04.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
by Dadabhai Naoroji at the : Ans. (b) :
(a) Lahore Session 1885
(b) Bombay Session 1889 109.Who among the following used the
(c) Calcutta Session 1906 safety valve theory and opined that the
Indian National Congress was a product
(d) Calcutta Session 1886
of the brain of Lord Dufferin'?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) A O Hume
Ans. (c)
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai (d) Jawahar Lal Nehru
105.AICC (All India Congress
Ans. (c)
Committee) passed the Quit India
Resolution on:
(a) 8thJanuary, 1942 (b) 18th July, 1942 110.When was the first session of Indian
National Congress held?

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(a) December, 1889 (b) June, 1885 RRB NTPC 27.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(c) November, 1889 (d) December, 1885 Ans. (d)
Ans. (d) 116.In the year 1937, the Congress session
was held for the first time in a village at:
111.Who was the Viceroy of India when (a) Faizpur (b) Gorakhpur (c) Gaya (d)
Indian National Congress was founded? Champaran
(a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Lawrence RRB NTPC 23.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(c) Lord Dufferin (d) Lord Canning Ans. (a)
Ans. (c) 117.Karachi session of Indian National
Congress was held in 1931. It was
112.In which annual session did the presided over by:
Indian National Congress declare its (a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Sardar Patel
commitment to Purna Swaraj (Complete (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Dr. BR Ambedkar
Independence)? RRB NTPC 28.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(a) Karachi Session of 1931 Ans. (b)
(b) Calcutta Session of 1929
(c) Lahore Session of 1929 118.Who among the following did NOT
(d) Madras Session of 1927 ever preside over the Indian National
RRB NTPC 11.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist Congress as a President?
Ans. (c) (a) Surendranath Banerjee (b) Dr. B R
Ambedkar (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Dada Bhai
113.Mahatma Gandhi chaired the session Naoroji
of Indian National Congress in––––– RRB NTPC 22.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(a) Belgaum (b) Kanpur Ans. (b)
(c) Madras (d) Karachi
RRB NTPC 29.12.2020 (Shift-II) Stage Ist 119.Which of the following Indian
Ans. (a) National Congress (INC) sessions was the
National Anthem sung for the first time ?
114.Where did Mahatma Gandhi preside (a) 1911, Kolkata (b) 1907, Surat
over the annual session of the Indian (c) 1916, Lucknow (d) 1917, Kolkata
National Congress for the first and the RRB NTPC 11.01. 2021 (Shift-II) Stage
last time? Ist Ans. (a)
(a) Nagpur (b) Tripura
(c) Belgaum (d) Surat 120.The Congress annual session of
RRB NTPC 28.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist December 1929 in Lahore was significant
Ans. (c) because of :
(a) Indians becoming self-reliant
115.Who was the founder President of the (b) Commitment to Purna Swaraj
Indian National Congress? (c) The work done by the people of the
(a) Dada Bhai Naoroji country
(b) George Yule (d) The overwhelming majority
(c) Surendra Nath Bannerjee RRB NTPC 11.01. 2021 (Shift-II) Stage
(d) Womesh Chandra Bannerjee Ist Ans. (b)

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126.In which year did the Indian National

121.Who was the president of Indian Congress observe 26 January as
National Congress in 1907? Independence Day for the first time?
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji (a) 1947 (b) 1929
(b) Womesh Chandra Bannerjee (c) 1915 (d) 1930
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai RRB NTPC 31.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(d) Rashbihari Ghosh Ans. (d)
Ans. (d) 127.Name the leader whose opposition led
to the disappearance of all hopes of
122.Which date was observed as the first compromise
Independence Day during the national between the Congress and the Muslim
movement? League in 1928.
(a) 25th January 1930 (a) M R Jayakar
(b) 15 August 1930 (b) Sir Muhammad Iqbal
(c) 30 January 1930 (c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) 26 January 1930 (d) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
RRB NTPC 02.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist RRB NTPC 19.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans. (d) Ans. (a)
123.Who among the following was elected 128.In which of the following years
as the President of the Indian National 'Purna Swaraj' accepted as an Indian
Congress in the year 1938 and 1939? National Congress goal at INC's Lahore
(a) Sardar Patel session?
(b) Rajendra Prasad (a) 1931 (b) 1928
(c) BR Ambedkar (c) 1929 (d) 1939
(d) Subhas Chandra Bose RRB NTPC 13.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC 01.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist Ans. (c)
Ans. (d)
129.Who among the following is NOT a
124.The first session of Indian National nationalist extremist leader of Indian
Congress was held in 1885. In which city National Congress?
of India was it held? (a) Bipin Chandra Pal
(a) Patna (b) Madras (b) Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
(c) Bombay (d) Calcutta (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
RRB NTPC 02.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (d) Surendra Nath Banerjee
Ans. (c) : RRB NTPC 07.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans. (d)
125.Who was the first Indian woman
president of the Indian National 130.Who among the following was the
Congress? President of Indian National Congress in
(a) Vijay lakshmi Pandit (b) Sarojini Naidu 1931?
(c) Indira Gandhi (d) Annie
(a) Dr Rajendra Prasad
(b) Nellie Sengupta
Ans. (b)
(c) Subhash Chandra Bose

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(d) Vallabhbhai Patel (a) V.D. Savarkar

RRB NTPC 30.12.2020 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (b) Mahatma Gandhi
Ans. (d) (c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(d) Subhash Chandra Bose
131.Who was the first Muslim lady to sing RRB NTPC 13.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Vande Mataram at a Congress session? Ans. (c)
(a) Rehana Tyabji
(b) Begum Harzat Mahal 136.Which session of the congress led to
(c) Asghari Begum the divide between the extremists and the
(d) Razia Khatun moderates in 1907?
RRB NTPC 17.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (a) Madras (b) Bombay
Ans. (a) (c) Surat (d) Kolkata
132.In which years did the Indian Ans. (c)
National Congress split into two groups
on the banks of 137.Who was the only person who
River Tapti at the Surat Session? remained president of the Indian National
(a) 1916 (b) 1909 Congress for 6 years continuously before
(c) 1919 (d) 1907 Independence of India?
RRB NTPC 05.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (b)
Ans. (d) Purushutam Das Tandon (c) Acharya J.B.
Kripalani (d) S.C. Bose
133.Who was the first Muslim President RRB NTPC 08.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
of Indian National Congress? Ans. (a)
(a) Dada Bhai Naoroji
(b) Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur 138.Who was the 1st Indian women to
(c) Abul Kalam Ajad preside over Indian National Congress?
(d) Badruddin Tyabji (a) Annie Besant (b) Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
RRB NTPC 31.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Ans. (d) RRB NTPC 08.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans. (c)
134. ________ was the first President of
Indian National Congress. 139.Who was the President of Indian
(a) J. B. Kripalani National Congress on 15 August 1947? …
(b) Womesh Chandra Bannerjee (a) Sardar Vallabh bhai Patel (b) J.B.
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru Kripalani (c) Pandit J. L. Nehru (d) Dr.
(d) Annie Besant Rajendra Prasad RRB NTPC 04.03.2021
RRB NTPC 16.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (Shift-I) Stage Ist Ans. (b)
Ans. (b)
140.In which year was the Indian national
135.Under whose presidency did the anthem sung for the first time at the
Indian National Congress declared Indian National Congress Session?
Poorna Swaraj as its (a) 1911 (b) 1909 (c) 1910 (d) 1912
ultimate goal on December 19, 1929 at RRB NTPC 03.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Lahore? Ans. (a)

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leaders were united. It was presided over

141.Who was the first European by ...
president of the Indian National (a) Ambika Charan Majumdar
Congress? (b) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(a) AO Hume (b) Alfred Webb (c) George (c) C. R. Das
Yule (d) Annie Besant (d) Motilal Nehru
RRB NTPC 16.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist RRB NTPC 18.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Ans. (c) Ans. (a)
142.When was the Purna Swaraj i.e. 147.The Lucknow Pact of 1916 provided a
complete freedom from the British Raj joint political platform for the moderates,
declared by radicals of the Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress? and the ...
(a) 19th December, 1930 (b) 15th August, (a) British (b) Communist
1930 (c) Muslim League (d) Swaraj Party
(c) 16th August, 1930 (d) 26 January, 1930 RRB NTPC 16.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC 16.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist Ans. (c)
Ans. (d)
148.Which movement in pre-independent
143.Who was the first General Secretary India gave impetus to cotton production?
of the Indian National Congress? (a) Khilafat Movement
(a) WC Banerjee (b) Non Cooperation Movement
(b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(c) Quit India Movement
(c) AO Hume
(d) Swadeshi Movement
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
Ans. (d)
Ans. (c)
144.Congress Party observed 26th 149.Which viceroy ordered the partition

January 1930 as of Bengal in 1905?
(a) Republic Day (b) Independence Day (a) Lord Reading (b) Lord Minto
(c) Bharat Diwas (d) Silent Protest Day (c) Lord Curzon (d) Lord Hardinge
RRB NTPC 04.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist RRB NTPC 28.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Ans. (b) Ans. C
145.Name the first lady President of the 150.During the Swadeshi movement in
Indian Bengal, a tricolor flag was designed
having colors:
National Congress
(a) Green, White and Yellow
(a) Nellie Sengupta (b) Indira Gandhi
(b) Orange, White and Green
(c) Annie Besant (d) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Red, Green and Yellow
Ans. (c) (d) Red, Green and White
Ans. (c)
146.In Lucknow Session of Congress in
1916, both the Moderates and Extremist

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151.Who among the following advocated (a) Bengalis were opposing English dress
a moderate, gradual and persuasive and food
approach to colonial rule through the (b) All freedom fighters were from Bengal
Swadeshi Movement? (a) Gopal Krishna (c) Divide and Rule Policy of the British
Gokhale (d) Bengal has emerged as an education
(b) Bipin Chandra Pal center
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai RRB NTPC 18.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak Ans. (c)
Ans. (a) 156.When did the Swadeshi Movement
begin?
152.Who among the following did not (a) 1921 (b) 1847
advocate militant opposition to colonial (c) 1881 (d) 1905
rule through the Swadeshi Movement? RRB NTPC 23.02.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-
(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale 1Ans. (d)
(b) Lala Lajpat Rai
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak 157.Red as a symbol of human society
(d) Bipin Chandra Pal that would not glorify machines and
RRB NTPC 10.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist technology during the Indian National
Ans. (a) Movement?
(a) Handloom (b) Charkha
153.The Swadeshi Movement started in (c) Potter's wheel (d) Spinning jenny
India during____. RRB NTPC 05.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(a) The protest against Rowlatt Act Ans. (b)
(b) Gandhiji's Champaran Satyagraha
(c) Anti-Bengal Partition agitation 158.Who among the following resisted the
(d) The first non-cooperation movement of demand of the formation of Pakistan?
191922 (a) Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (b)
RRB NTPC 03.04.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist Muhammad Iqbal
Ans. (c) (c) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
(d) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
154.The Swadeshi Movement started in RRB NTPC 12.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
India during the: Ans. (c)
(a) Champaran Satyagraha of Gandhi ji
(b) Anti-Bengal partition agitation 159.Name the Punjabi Muslim, who was a
(c) Protest against Rowlatt Act student at Cambridge and who coined the
(d) First Non-Co-operation Movement of term 'Pakistan' in 1933?
1919-22 (a) Khan Rehmad Khan
RRB NTPC 07.04.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (b) Amanat Ali
Ans. (b) (c) Nusrat Fateh Ali
(d) Choudhary Rehmat Ali
155.The actual reason considered behind RRB NTPC 01.04.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
the Partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon Ans. (d)
was:

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160.The Muslim League was founded in – (a) Jai Jawan Jai Kisan (b) Divide and Rule
–––––. (c) Divide and Quit (d) Karo ya Maro
(a) Hyderabad (b) Dhaka RRB NTPC 27.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(c) Lahore (d) Karachi Ans. (c)
Ans. (b) 167.Who laid down the foundation stone
of Delhi during Delhi Durbar 1911?
161.The All-India Muslim League (a) Herbert Baker (b) Lord Willingdon
adopted the Lahore Resolution in the year (c) George V (d) Lord Irwin
_______. RRB NTPC 27.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(a) 1942 (b) 1941 (c) 1939 (d) 1940 Ans. (c)
Ans. (d) 168.In which year was Delhi officially
announced as the Capital of British India
162.When was the Muslim League by the Emperor George V?
founded? (a) 1910 (b) 1911
(a) 1914 (b) 1917 (c) 1907 (d) 1913
(c) 1906 (d) 1902 RRB NTPC 16.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC 30.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist Ans. (b)
Ans. (c)
169.Who inspired the Young Bengal
163.Who observed the Pratyaksh movement?
Karyawahi Diwas
(a) Madhusudan Dutt
on 16 August 1946?
(b) Ram Gopal Ghosh
(a) Christian League (b) Muslim League
(c) Henry Vivian Derozio
(c) Hindu League (d) Sikh League
RRB NTPC 29.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (d) Krishna Mohan Banerjee
Ans. (b) RRB NTPC 01.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Ans. (c)
164.The demand for Pakistan was made
in ______at the Lahore session of the 170.The first national flag of India is said
Muslim league. to have been hoisted at_______in 1906.
(a) 1932 (b) 1942 (a) Patna (b) New Delhi
(c) 1940 (d) 1936 (c) Kolkata (d) Ahmedabad
Ans. (c) Ans. (c)
165.Where was the Muslim League 171.The member of Khudai Khidmatgar

founded? organization was famous as name of-
(a) Dhaka (b) Lucknow (a) Red kurti (b) Blue kurti
(c) Bihar (d) Kanpur (c) Green kurti (d) Black kurti
RRB NTPC 04.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist RRB NTPC 05.04.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans. (a) Ans. (a)
166.The 1943 Karachi session of Muslim 172.Who among the following organized
League adopted the slogan: the "Red Shirts" movement ?

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(a) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

(b) J. B. Kripalani 177.Who among the following was NOT
(c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad associated with the revolutionary
(d) Shaukat Ali organization 'Anushilan Samiti'?
RRB NTPC 14.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (a) Rajendra Lahiri
Ans. (a) (b) Bhupendra Nath Dutta
(c) Barindra Kumar Ghosh
173.The first nationalistic revolutionary (d) Jatindra Nath Bannerji
movement in British India emerged RRB NTPC 27.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
from____. Ans. (a)
(a) Bengal (b) Maharashtra
(c) Tamil Nadu (d) Punjab 178.Which revolutionary organization in
RRB NTPC 27.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist Bengal was established by Barindra
Ans. (a) Kumar Ghosh?
(a) Swadesh Bandhab Samiti
174.Who among the following was known (b) Sadhana Samaj
as the 'extremist leader' during the (c) Anushilan Samiti
Freedom (d) Brati Samiti
Movement of India? RRB NTPC 15.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(a) Surendra Nath Bannerji Ans. (c)
(c) WC Bannerji 179.The Indian National Flag (tricolor)
(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak was unfurled by Bhikaiji Cama in:
RRB NTPC 03.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (a) London, 1911 (b) Poland, 1908
Ans. (d) (c) Russia, 1910 (d) Germany, 1907
175.The Tri-Color which was hoisted in Ans. (d)
Stuttgart by Madam Cama was smuggled
into British India by: 180.Which of these cities, freedom fighter
(a) Indulal Yagnik (b) Bhikaji Cama Chandrashekhar Azad shot himself after
(c) Kishan Singh (d) Veer Savarkar being surrounded by British policemen?
RRB NTPC 28.12.2020 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (a) Kanpur (b) Bhopal
Ans. (a) (c) Allahabad (d) Jabalpur
176.Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt Ans. (c)
threw smoke bombs at Delhi Legislative
Assembly. What were they protesting 181.The Ghadar Party was founded by
against? Indians in the year 1913. Where was its
(a) Indian Council Act headquarters?
(b) Government of Indian Act (a) Lahore (b) Amritsar
(c) Trade Disputes Bill and Public Safety (c) Bombay (d) San Francisco
Bill RRB NTPC 10.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(d) Simon Commission Act Ans. (d)
Ans. (c)

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182.Who among the following was 187.Who among the following was one of
involved in the Alipore Bomb Case? the conceitors of the Kakori robbery ?
(a) Bhagat Singh (a) Udham Singh (b) Ashfaqullah Khan
(b) Sri Aurobindo (c) Bhagat Singh (d) Sukhdev
(c) Ramprasad Bismil RRB NTPC 10.02.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-
(d) Chandrashekhar Azad 1Ans. (b)
Ans. (b) 188.Who among the following freedom
fighters was not involved in the Kakori
183.Who shot dead Rand, the Train Robbery?
commissioner of Police, Pune due to (a) Chandrashekhar Azad
failure to check the plague in India at the (b) Ram Prasad Bismil
end of the 19 th century in India? (c) Bhagat Singh
(a) Damodar Chapekar (b) Veer Savarkar (d) Ashfaqullah Khan
(c) Bhagat Singh (d) Vasudev B. Phadke RRB NTPC 12.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Ans. (a)
189.Lal, Bal, Pal - to which states of India
184.When was the Hindustan Republican did these freedom fighters belong
Association formed? respectively?
(a) 1920 (b) 1926 (a) Punjab, Maharashtra, Madras
(c) 1922 (d) 1924 (b) Bengal, Rajasthan, Maharashtra
RRB NTPC 04.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (c) Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan
Ans. (d) (d) Punjab, Maharashtra, Bengal
185.Who was the co-founder of Ghadar Ans. (d)
Party?
(a) Gopal Krishan Gokhale 170.In which year did the Chauri Chaura
(b) Lala Lajpat Rai incident take place?
(c) Dada Bhai Naoroji (a) 1922 (b) 1917 (c) 1919 (d) 1913
(d) Har Dayal RRB NTPC 03.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC 30.12.2020 (Shift-II) Stage Ist Ans. (a)
Ans. (d)
171.With which of the following
186.In 1928, the Hindustan Socialist organizations were Ram Prasad Bismil,
Republican Army was established in Chandrashekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh
Delhi ... associated?
(a) Nirankari ground (a) Hind Socialist Republican Association
(b) India Gate (b) Azad Hind Fauj
(c) Firozshah Kotla ground (c) Hindustan Socialist Republican
(d) Red Fort Association
RRB NTPC 23.07.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (d) Naujawan Bharat Sabha
Ans. (c) RRB NTPC 16.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans. (c)

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172.Which two freedom fighters threw RRB NTPC 02.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
smoke bombs at the Delhi Central Ans. (b)
Legislative
Assembly in 1929? 177.In which year was the Satyagraha
(a) Bhagat Singh and Chandrasekhar Azad against the Rowlatt Act called by
(b) Bhagat Singh and Subhas Chandra Bose Mahatma Gandhi?
(c) Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt (a) 1922 (b) 1920
(d) Bhagat Singh and Mangal Pandey (c) 1919 (d) 1921
Ans. (c) Ans. (c)
173.Ram Prasad Bismil was hanged for... 178.Against which act Mahatma Gandhi
(a) Chatgaon Armoury Raid asked people to observe 6 April 1919 as a
(b) Kakori Train Heist day of non violence opposition?
(c) Meerut Conspiracy (a) Arms Act, 1959
(d) Lahore Conspiracy (b) Vernacular Press Act, 1878
(c) Rowlatt Act, 1919
(d) Charter Act, 1813
Ans. (b)
Ans. (c)
174.Which famous revolutionary set up
base near Satar river in Jhansi in the
179.The Satyagraha Sabha was founded
1920's using the alias, Pandit
in February 1919 by:
Harishankar Brahmachari?
(a) Abdul Ghffar Khan
(a) Khudiram Bose
(b) Motilal Nehru
(b) Bhagat Singh (c) Subhash Chandra Bose
(c) Udham Singh (d) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
(d) Chandrashekhar Azad RRB NTPC 22.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC 08.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist Ans. (d)
Ans. (d)
180.Against which Act did Gandhiji
175.Which of the following did Rowlatt decide to fight and start a Satyagraha?
Act 1919 entail? (a) Rowlatt Act, 1919
(a) Ban on Indian goods (b) Vernacular Press Act, 1878
(b) Indefinite detention without trial and (c) Government of India Act, 1858
censorship of the press (d) Regulating Act, 1773
(c) Open fire and lathi-charge on Indians RRB NTPC 08.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(d) Levying of heavy taxes Ans. (a)
Ans. (b) 181.Which one of the following was a
measure taken under the Rowlatt Act?
176.With which of the following is the (a) Restriction on wearing khadi
comment 'no dalil, no vakil, no appeal' (b) Forced to buy foreign goods
associated? (c) Imprisonment without trial
(a) Charter Act (b) Rowlatt Act (d) Restriction on traveling abroad
(c) Regulating Act (d) Pitt's India Act

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RRB NTPC 08.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist 185.Which honor did Gandhiji return in
Ans. (c) protest of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
(a) Kaiser-i-Hind
182.Gandhiji's campaign against the –––– (b) Jewel of the Commonwealth
–– was in response to the British (c) Sher-i-Hind
censorship of the press and detention (d) Noor-i-Hind
without trial.
Ans. (a)
(a) British Rule (b) World War I (c) Rowlatt
Act (d) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 186.Rabindranath Tagore returned his
RRB NTPC 11.01.12021 (Shift-II) Stage Knighthood award because of the –––––.
Ist Ans. (c) (a) Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy
(b) Kakori Episode
183.Which of the following statements (c) Chauri Chaura Episode
regarding the Jallianwala Bagh incident (d) Execution of Bhagat Singh
is incorrect?
(a) The Jallianwala Bagh incident took place Ans. (a)
after the Chauri Chaura incident in which a
large group of protesters clashed with the
187.Who killed General Dyer, who was
police
responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh
(b) This incident happened on 13 April
Massacre?
1919, when the public had gathered in a
meeting at (a) Chandrasekhar Azad
Jallianwala Bagh (b) Sardar Udham Singh
(c) The Jallianwala Bagh incident was the (c) Bhagat Singh
result of the Rowlatt Act of March 1919, (d) Surya Sen
which empowered the government to RRB NTPC 08.04.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
imprison anyone without trial Ans. (b)
(d) Brigadier General Dyer opened fire on
the gathered people without informing 189.The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took
anyone place on...
RRB NTPC 24.07.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (a) 15 August 1919 (b) 20 December 1919
Ans. (a) (c) 13 April 1919 (d) 25 May 1919
184.Which of the following British Ans. (c)
policies triggered people to assemble at
Jallianwala 190.Which committee was set up by Lord
Bagh, Amritsar ? Chelmsford to engine into Jallianwala
(a) Rowlatt Act Bagh
(b) Simon Commission incident in 1919? ...
(c) Government of India Act (a) Harshel Committee
(d) The Pitt's India Act (b) Maclagon Committee
RRB NTPC 14.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (c) Muddiman Committee
Ans. (a) (d) Hunter Committee
Ans. (d)

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(a) 1936 (b) 1919

191.In which of the following cities is the (c) 1921 (d) 1947
famous Jallianwala Bagh located? RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-III) Stage
(a) Panipat (b) Ambala IInd Ans : (b)
(c) Amritsar (d) Patna
RRB NTPC 13.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist 197.Which Indian revolutionary
Ans. (c) assassinated Michael O'Dwyer?
(a) Bhagat Singh (b) Rajguru
192.On which date did the Jallianwala (c) Udham Singh (d) Sukhdev Thapar
Bagh massacre take place? RRB NTPC 03.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(a) 30th April, 1919 (b) 13th April, 1919 Ans. (c)
(c) 30th April, 1920 (d) 13th April, 1920
RRB NTPC 28.12.2020 (Shift-II) Stage Ist 198.Which freedom fighter shot General
Ans. (b) Michael O'Dwyer?
(a) Udham Singh
193.Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place (b) Bhagat Singh
during the term of Viceroy: (c) Sukhdev Singh
(a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Chelmsford (d) Chandra Shekhar Azad
(c) Lord Dalhousie (d) Lord Irwin RRB NTPC 04.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans. (b)
199.What is correct about the Khilafat
194.The Jallianwala Bagh tragedy was a Movement in India?
direct result of the protest against (a) It was a movement in demand of
__________. Pakistan
(a) Defence of India Act (b) It was a movement to restore the Mughal
(b) The Rowlatt Act Royal family in India
(c) The Montague-Chelmsford Reforms (c) It was a movement in support of the
(d) The Morley-Minto Reforms Turkish Sultan
RRB NTPC 05.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (d) It was a movement against the massacre
Ans. (b) of Jallianwala Bagh
195.For his involvement in the Ans. (c)
Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Michael
Francis O'Dwyar was 200.Who out of the following led the
assassinated by: Khilafat movement? ...
(a) Chandrashekhar Azad (a) Zakir Hussain
(b) Mangal Pandey (b) Shaukat Ali
(c) Bhagat Singh (c) Bakht Khan
(d) Udham Singh (d) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Ans. (d) Ans. (b)
196.In which year the Jallianwala Bagh 201.In which year did the Non-
massacre took place? Cooperation Movement begin in India?

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(a) 1910 (b) 1920

(c) 1930 (d) 1940 206.Which other movement was
RRB NTPC 09.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist combined with the Non-Cooperation
Ans. (b) Movement in 1920?
(a) Home Rule Movement
202.When did the All-India Khilafat (b) Swadeshi Movement
Committee pass a resolution declaring (c) Khilafat Movement
that no Muslim (d) August Kranti
Should I serve in the army? RRB NTPC 08.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(a) November 1922 (b) August 1920 Ans. (c)
(c) April 1919 (d) July 1921
RRB NTPC 03.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist 207.Who led the Khilafat Movement?
Ans. (d) (a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah (b) Ali Brothers
(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Abul Kalam Azad
203.Which of the following was a result of RRB NTPC 05.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Ans. (b)
Movement?
(a) Peasants carried loads for colonial 208.Who led the Non-Cooperation
(b) Students went to schools and colleges Movement in 1920-22 ?
run by the government (a) Motilal Nehru
(c) Lawyers attended courts (b) Subhash Chandra Bose
(d) The working class went on strike in (c) Jawaharlal Nehru
many towns and cities (d) Mahatma Gandhi
Ans (d) Ans. (d)
204.What is correct about the Khilafat 209.The Swaraj Party was formed in the
Movement year:
(a) It was a movement to restore the Mughal (a) 1921 (b) 1933
Royal family in India (c) 1930 (d) 1923
(b) It was a movement in demand of RRB NTPC 13.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Pakistan ... Ans. (d)
(c) It was a movement against the massacre
of Jallianwala Bagh 210.Swaraj Party was established to
(d) It was a movement in support of the demand for greater freedom for Indian
Turkish Sultan People. When was the Swaraj Party
RRB NTPC 07.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist formed at Gaya?
Ans. (d) (a) 1927 (b) 1920
(c) 1923 (d) 1928
205.The Khilafat Movement originated in RRB NTPC 02.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
... Ans. (c)
(a) Iran (b) Germany
(c) Israel (d) Turkey 211.Who along with Motilal Nehru
RRB NTPC 25.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist formed the Swaraj Party within the
Ans. (d)

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Congress to argue for a return to council RRB NTPC 13.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
politics ? Ans. (b)
(a) CR Das (b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Subhas Chandra Bose(d) BR Ambedkar 216.The Chauri Chaura incident resulted
RRB NTPC 20.01. 2021 (Shift-II) Stage in the abrupt closure of the:
Ist Ans. (a) (a) Dandi Satyagraha (b) Quit India
Movement (c) Civil Disobedience
212.Which of the following freedom Movement (d)Non-Cooperation Movement
fighters was a co-founder of Swaraj Party RRB NTPC 08.04.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
along with Motilal Nehru? Ans. (d)
(a) Rash Behari Ghosh
(b) Ambica Charan Mazumdar 217.Chronologically, which of the
(c) Chittaranjan Das following events happened first in the
(d) Bhupendra Nath Bose course of the India freedom struggle?
RRB NTPC 22.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (a) Civil Disobedience Movement
Ans. (c) (b) Quit India Movement
(c) Non-Cooperation Movement ...
213.Who among the following was one of (d) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
the founder members of the Swaraj Party RRB NTPC 08.04.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
formed Ans. (d)
in 1923?
(a) CR Das 218.Which of the following chronological
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak order of events of the freedom struggle is
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru correct?
(d) Subhash Chandra Bose (a) Non Cooperation Movement-Sepoy
RRB NTPC 02.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist MutinyChamparan Movement-Partition of
Ans. (a) Bengal
(b) Non Cooperation Movement-Champaran
214.Name the major revolt inspired by Movement-Sepoy mutiny-Partition of
Mahatma Gandhi against the forced Bengal
cultivation of indigo. (c) Non Cooperation Movement-Champaran
(a) Dandi March Movement-Partition of Bengal-Sepoy
(b) Munda uprising Mutiny
(c) Champaran Satyagraha (d) Sepoy Mutiny-Partition of
(d) Non–Cooperation Movement BengalChamparan Movement-Non
RRB NTPC 16.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist Cooperation Movement
Ans. (c) RRB NTPC 10.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Ans. (d)
215.Which of the following events is the
oldest? 219.Arrange the following events during
(a) Poona Pact India's freedom struggle, chronologically:
(b) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre I. The Salt March
(c) Non-Cooperation Movement II. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
(d) Quit India Movement III. Quit India Movement
IV. Non-Cooperation Movement

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(a) II, IV, I, III (b) I, II, III, IV

(c) III, IV, II, I (d) IV, I, II, III 224.When did Non- Cooperation and
RRB NTPC 14.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist Khilafat Movement begin?
Ans. (a) (a) 1928 (b) 1931
(c) 1920 (d) 1946
220.Arrange the following events in their RRB NTPC 17.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
chronological order. Ans. (c)
A. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
225.The Non-Cooperation Movement was
B. Non-Cooperation Movement and
adopted at the Congress session in
Khilafat Movement
December 1920 at:
C. Gandhi-Irwin Pact
(a) Nagpur (b) Surat
D. Quit India Movement (c) Aurangabad (d) Nasik
E. Champaran Movement RRB NTPC 26.07.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(a) E, B, A, C, D (b) E, A, B, C, D Ans. (a)
(c) E, A, C, D, B (d) A, B, C, D, E
RRB NTPC 13.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist 226.The Chauri-Chaura incident during
Ans. (b) Non-Cooperation Movement occurred in
which
221. At which university did Mahatma district of Uttar Pradesh?
Gandhi make his first public appearance (a) Gorakhpur (b) Allahabad
in 1916 after returning from South Africa (c) Varanasi (d) Kanpur
to India ? RRB NTPC 27.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(a) Banaras Hindu University Ans. (a)
(b) Allahabad University
(c) Aligarh Muslim University 227.What was the main reason for calling
(d) University of Mumbai off the Non-Cooperation Movement by
RRB NTPC 20.01. 2021 (Shift-II) Stage Gandhiji in 1922?
Ist Ans. (a) (a) A police station at Chauri-Chaura in
Uttar Pradesh was set on fire by a mob.
222.In 1915, Mahatma Gandhi returned (b) The movement was completed by
to India permanently from ... achieving the target.
(a) Britain (b) South Africa (c) Gandhiji was seriously ill
(c) Kenya (d) USA (d) Gandhiji was arrested and compelled to
RRB NTPC 16.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist stop the movement.
Ans. (a)
223.Who advised Gandhi to travel around
British India, getting to know the land 228.The Champaran Satyagraha is
and its people? related to the:
(a) Bipin Chandra Pal (a) Indigo cultivation (b) Leather production
(b) Womesh Chandra Bannerjee (c) Textile mill strike (d) Making of salt
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak RRB NTPC 15.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale Ans. (a)
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229.In which city was Gandhiji informed

about the problems in Champaran and 234.In which year did Mahatma Gandhi
invited to visit the place ? organize a satyagraha to support the
(a) Delhi (b) Patna peasants of the Kheda district?
(c) Lucknow (d) Ahmedabad (a) 1917 (b) 1919
RRB NTPC 14.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (c) 1918 (d) 1915
Ans. (c)
230.What was the name of the judge who
presided over the trial of Mahatma 235.Which of the following 'ashrams' was
Gandhi after the Non-Cooperation NOT established by Mahatma Gandhi?
Movement? (a) Sewagram (b) Tolstoy Farm
(a) Justice Harold Blacker (c) Paunar (d) Sabarmati
(b) Justice Adam Bittleston RRB NTPC 27.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(c) Justice CN Broomfield Ans. (c)
(d) Justice Abdur Rahim
RRB NTPC 15.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist 236.The person who was instrumental in
Ans. (c) bringing Mahatma Gandhi to Champarn
in 1917 was:
231.When did Mahatma Gandhi return to (a) Aruna Asaf Ali
India from South Africa? (b) Maulana Mazharul Haque
(a) December 1920 (b) March 1919 (c) Raj Kumar Shukla
(c) November 1913 (d) January 1915 (d) Batak Miyan
Ans. (d) Ans. (c)
232.Champaran movement was against 237.Name the book written by Mahatma

which of the following ? Gandhi in 1909 that suggested British
(a) Against the imposition of additional tax rule would come to an end if Indians
by Zamindars didn't cooperate with them.
(b) Against Rowlatt Act, 1919 (a) Village Swaraj
(c) Against the financial atrocities of the (b) Hind Swaraj
British Government (c) Constructive Programme - Its Meaning
(d) Against forced cultivation of Indigo and Place
RRB NTPC 11.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (d) India of My Dreams
Ans. (d) RRB NTPC 20.01. 2021 (Shift-II) Stage
Ist Ans. (b)
233.Who founded the Natal Indian
Congress to fight against racial
238.Which of the following movements
discrimination?
was NOT led by Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(a) Quit India Movement, 1942
(b) Subhash Chandra Bose
(b) Bardoli Satyagraha, 1928
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Kheda Satyagraha, 1918
(d) Vallabhbhai Patel
(d) Passive resistance campaigns, 1906
Ans. (a)

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RRB NTPC 09.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (d) Champaran Satyagraha

Ans. (d)
pitched in under the leadership of 244.Mahatma Gandhi came to
Mahatma Gandhi from: Champaran in:
(a) 1918 to 1920 (b) 1915 to 1919 (a) 1916 (b) 1922
(c) 1930 to 1935 (d) 1920 to 1922 (c) 1917 (d) 1919
Ans. (d) Ans. (c)
240.At which of the following railway 245.Champaran in Bihar was a witness to

stations of South Africa was Gandhiji satyagraha by Mahatma Gandhi in the
thrown out of a train after refusing to year ___.
leave the first-Class compartment? (a) 1918 (b) 1916
(a) Pietermaritzburg (b) Johannesburg (c) 1915 (d) 1917
(c) Durban (d) Cape Town RRB NTPC 18.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Ans. (a)
246.Mahatma Gandhi's first major public
241.Which movement was negative appearance in India after returning from
enough to be peaceful but positive enough South Africa was at the opening of the ...
to be effective? in February 1916.
(a) Khilafat Movement (a) University of Calcutta
(b) Swadeshi Movement (b) University of Madras
(c) Non-Cooperation Movement (c) Banaras Hindu University
(d) Quit India Movement (d) University of Bombay
Ans. (c) Ans. (c)
242.Which of the following is not a 247.Who among the following remarked

feature of the Non-Cooperation that "South Africa made the Mahatma"?/
Movement? (a) Bipin Chandra Pal
(a) Surrender of titles that government (b) Chandran Devanesan
awarded (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(b) Boycott of foreign goods (d) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Salt March RRB NTPC 11.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(d) Boycott of civil services Ans. (b)
Ans. (c)
248.Whom did Mahatma Gandhi
consider his mentor in politics?
243.Which of the following movements is
(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
related to forceful cultivation of Indigo?
(a) Dandi March
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(b) Non-Cooperation Movement
(d) Raychandbhai
(c) Bardoli Satyagraha

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RRB NTPC 08.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist 253.The Salt March was launched by
Ans. (b) Mahatma Gandhi in the year:
(a) 1929 (b) 1930 (c) 1931 (d) 1928
249.What was the main reason for calling RRB NTPC 25.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
off the Non-Cooperation Movement by Ans. (b)
Gandhiji in 1922?
(a) A police station at Chauri Chaura in 254.Which movement is called India's
Uttar Pradesh was set on fire by a mob first Civil Disobedience Movement?
(b) Gandhiji was arrested and compelled to (a) Non-Cooperation Movement
stop the movement (b) Khilafat Movement
(c) Gandhiji was seriously ill (c) Kheda Movement
(d) The movement was completed by (d) Champaran Movement
achieving the target RRB NTPC 14.03.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1
Ans. (a)
255.Which of the following movements
began with the Dandi March?
called off by Gandhiji after the violent act
(a) Non Cooperation Movement
of the _____.
(b) Civil Disobedience Movement
(a) Rowlatt Act
(b) Quit India Movement (c) Champaran Movement
(c) Chauri Chaura (d) Quit India Movement
(d) Khilafat Movement RRB NTPC 28.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC 09.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist Ans. (b)
Ans. (c)
256.Which action did the Civil
251.Mahatma Gandhi started the famous Disobedience Movement start?
(a) Chauri-Chaura incident
'Salt March' from Sabarmati to Dandi. In
(b) Arrest of Jawaharlal Nehru and Abdul
which district of Gujarat is Dandi? Ghaffar Khan
(a) Porbandar (b) Navsari (c) Surat (d) (c) Dandi March
Kutch (d) Execution of Bhagat Singh
Ans. (b) Ans. (c)
252.Who led the march to raid the 257.Dandi March was a journey of ____
Dharasana salt works after Gandhiji was miles (approximately) on foot to the salt
arrested? mines in Gujarat.
(a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (a) 240 (b) 300
(b) Madan Mohan Malviya (c) 250 (d) 280
(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru RRB NTPC 07.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(d) Abbas Tyabji Ans. (a)
Ans. (d) 258.In which year did Gandhiji began a
Dandi march to the sea to protest the
British monopoly on salt?

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(a) 1929 (b) 1927 (c) 1930 (d) 1928

RRB NTPC 01.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist 263.Clement Attlee who later became
Ans. (c) Prime Minister of Britain came to India
as a member of _______.
259.The Salt March was notable for at (a) Wavell Plan (b) Simon Commission
least three reasons. Which of the (c) Cripps Mission (d) Cabinet Mission
following was NOT one of them? RRB NTPC 22.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Ans. (b)
(a) It was the first nationalist activity in
which women participated in large numbers
(b) The younger population of India started 264.What was the main reason for
attending schools boycotting Simon Commission?
(c) The British were forced to realize that (a) Lala Lajpat Rai was critically injured in
their raj would not last forever the lathi charge related to the commission.
(d) It brought Mahatma Gandhi to World (b) The chairman was Sir John Simon.
attention (c) All the members of the commission were
RRB NTPC 09.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist inexperienced
Ans. (b) (d) All members of the commission were
British.
260.Which one of the following facts is not RRB NTPC 31.07.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
true regarding the 'Dandi March'? Ans. (d)
(a) Volunteers used to travel miles per day
(b) It started with 78 Volunteers 265.How many Indian members were
there in the Simon Commission?
(c) It was led by Mahatma Gandhi
(a) Two (b) One
(d) This Journey lasted for 24 days
(c) Three (d) Zero
Ans. (a) RRB NTPC 23.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans. (d)
261.Who among the following persuaded
Gandhiji not to restrict the protest of the 266.In which year was the Simon
Salt March to men alone? Commission, a group of seven British
Members of Parliament, appointed by the
(a) Kasturba Gandhi
British government?
(b) Kamladevi Chattopadhyay
(a) 1925 (b) 1937
(c) Kamla Nehru
(c) 1927 (d) 1919
(d) Sarojni Naidu
Ans. (c)
Ans. (b)
267.Why the Simon commission was
262.Dandi March, the non-violent protest
boycotted in 1927?
organized by Mahatma Gandhi against
(a) To protest Mahatma Gandhi's arrest
the
British salt monopoly, culminated on: (b) Because there was no any Indian in the
(a) 6th April 1930 (b) 4th April 1930 commission
(c) 7th April 1930 (d) 5th April 1930 (c) Opposition to the inclusion of Sir John
Simon in the commission.
Ans. (a) (d) To protest the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

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RRB NTPC Stage I st 19.01.2017 (Shift- RRB NTPC 05.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
III) Ans : (b) Ans. (d)
268.Which of the following was stated in 273.How many demands did Mahatma
the ‘Gandhi-Irwin Pact’ signed in March Gandhi make in his letter to Lord Irwin
1931? some of which were agreed to and came to
(a) The Civil Disobedience Movement be known as the Gandhi-Irwin Pact?
would be called off (a) 10 (b) 13
(b) The manufacture of salt along the coast (c) 12 (d) 11
would be stopped RRB NTPC 07.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(c) Prisoners would not released Ans. (d)
(d) All Indians would get good education
RRB NTPC 10.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist 274.Which of these Indian women
Ans. (a) participated in the Second Round Table
conference with
269.Prior to which of the following events Gandhiji ?
was the Gandhi-Irwin Pact signed? (a) Anie Besant
(a) Third Round Table Conference (b) Sister Nivedita
(b) First Round Table Conference (c) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
(c) Second Round Table Conference (d) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Lucknow Session of Congress RRB NTPC 11.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC 12.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist Ans. (d)
Ans. (c)
275.In 1930, who organized the Dalits into
270.Who was the British Prime Minister the Depressed Classes Association and
during the first round table conference in demanded
London?
separate electorates for them ?
(a) Stanley Baldwin (b) Winston Churchill
(a) Abdul Gaffar Khan (b) BR Ambedkar
(c) N. Chamberlain (d) Ramsay MacDonald
(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Jawahar Lal Nehru
RRB NTPC 20.01.12021 (Shift-II) Stage
Ans. (d)
Ist Ans. (b)
271.When was the First Round Table
276.The Poona Pact was related to:
Conference started?
(a) Reserving electoral seats for Depressed
(a) October, 1929 (b) September, 1931
classes
(c) August, 1932 (d) November, 1930
(b) Reserving electoral seats for Hindus
(c) Reserving electoral seats for Muslims
Ans. (d)
(d) Reserving electoral seats for Sikhs
272.Who represents the Congress in the RRB NTPC 29.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Second Round Table Conference held in Ans. (a)
London?
(a) Lal Bahadur Shastri (b) Vallabhbhai 278.The Poona Pact was signed between :
Patel (a) MK Gandhi and S.C. Bose
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru (d) Mahatma Gandhi (b) M.K. Gandhi and BR Ambedkar

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(c) M.K. Gandhi and Lord Irwin 283.Who was the founder of the Forward
(d) MK Gandhi and MA Jinnah Block party?
RRB NTPC 01.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (a) Subhas Chandra Bose
Ans. (b) (b) Bipin Chandra Pal
(c) Sarat Chandra Bose
279.The Poona Pact agreement of 1932 (d) Mahatma Gandhi
was signed between Mahatma Gandhi RRB NTPC 27.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
and which of the following leaders? Ans. (a)
(a) C. Rajgopalachari (b) Vinoba Bhave
(c) M.A. Jinnah (d) B.R. Ambedkar 284.Who among the following was one of
RRB NTPC 10.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist the defense attorneys of the famous
Ans. (d) 'Sehgal-
Dhillon–Shah Nawaz' trials?
(a) Agha Khan
280.Cuttack is associated with which
(b) Rajendra Prasad
eminent personalities out of the
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
following?
(d) Pattabhi Sitaramayya
(a) Subhash Chandra Bose
(b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Ans. (c)
(c) Jai Prakash Narayan
(d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
285.Who among the following first
conceived the idea of the Indian National
Ans. (a)
Army?
281.In which year was Subhas Chandra (a) Subhash Chandra Bose
Bose first elected the President of the (b) Rash Behari Bose
Indian National Congress for the first (c) Mohan Singh
time ? (d) Lala Hardayal
(a) 1938 (b) 1934 RRB NTPC 05.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(c) 1932 (d) 1942 Ans. (c)
286.Which British Prime Minister sent
Ans. (a).
the Cripps Mission to India?
(a) Margaret Thatcher (b) Winston Churchill
(c) Benjamin Disraeli (d) Robert Walpole
not about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose?
(a) He was deported to Mandalay. RRB NTPC 04.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(b) He founded the Indian National Army Ans. (b).
(INA).
(c) He was a member of the Constitution 287.Which Prime Minister sent the
Drafting Committee. Cripps Mission to India in 1942?
(d) He participated in the Non-Cooperation (a) Ramsay MacDonald
Movement, 1921 (b) Winston Churchill
RRB NTPC 09.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (c) Stanley Baldwin
Ans. (c) (d) Clement Attlee
Ans. (b)

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288.Which political party was in power in 294.The Quit India Movement was
England when the Cabinet Mission came launched at the Bombay session of the
to India? All-India Congress
(a) Conservative Party (b) Democratic Party Committee by Mahatma Gandhi in ___
(c) Liberal Party (d) Labour Party 1942.
RRB NTPC 30.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (a) November (b) September
Ans. (d) (c) August (d) December
289.Who was NOT a member of the Ans. (c)
Cabinet Mission?
(a) Lord Pethick-Lawrence 295.Quit India Movement played an
(b) Sir John Simon important role in the freedom struggle of
(c) Sir Stafford Cripps India. Which of the following incidents
(d) AV Alexander happened after this movement?
RRB NTPC 28.01.2021 (Shift-I) CBT-1 (a) The Labour Government of Britain sent a
Ans. (b) Cabinet Mission to India.
(b) Rowlatt Act
290.Cabinet Mission came to India in the (c) Dandi Yatra
Year _____? (d) All India Muslim League was
(a) 1946 (b) 1941 established in British
(c) 1940 (d) 1943 RRB NTPC 24.07.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Ans. (a)
296.Quit India movement was launched
291.The Cabinet Mission sent to India in at the____session of the All India
1946 by the British Government consisted Congress
of ____ members. Committee.
(a) three (b) five (a) Calcutta (b) Lahore
(c) six (d) four (c) Surat (d) Bombay
Ans. (a) Ans. (d)
292.In which of the following years did 297.During the Quit India Movement,
the Quit India Movement start? Aruna Asaf Ali hoisted the National
(a) 1943 (b) 1941 Congress Flag in :
(c) 1942 (d) 1940 (a) New Delhi
RRB NTPC 31.07.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (b) Goa
Ans. © (c) Calcutta (now Kolkata)
(d) Bombay (now Mumbai)
293.The Quit India movement started in: RRB NTPC 23.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(a) Karachi (b) Lahore Ans. (d)
(c) Delhi (d) Bombay
RRB NTPC 01.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist 298.August Kranti is also known as the
Ans. (d) ______Movement?

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(a) Swadeshi (b) Home Rule (c) Rowlet Act, 1919

(c) Khilafat (d) Quit India (d) Morley Minto Reform, 1909
Ans. (d) Ans. (d)
299.The 78th anniversary of the Quit 304.In which year did the British
India Movement was observed on Government allow a separate electorate
(a) 8th August 2020 (b) 15th August 2018 for Muslims?
(c) 5th August 2020 (d) 7th August 2019 (a) 1919 (b) 1935
Ans. (a) RRB NTPC 19.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Ans. (c)
300.Which one of the following provision
was a part of the Indian Independence 305.Which of the following was proposed
Act of 1947? by the British Government with regards
(a) India will become a part of Britain to structuring the Indian Government in
(b) India will be divided into two parts 1909?
(c) India will become a monarchy (a) Cripps Mission
(d) All princely states will remain dependent (b) Rowlatt Act
on British (c) Morley-Minto Reforms
RRB NTPC 21.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (d) Wavell Plan
Ans. (b) RRB NTPC 09.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans. (c)
301.Who is called the 'Father of
Communal Electorate' in India? 306.What was the Government of India
(a) Lord Curzon (b) Lord Morley Act 1935 based on?
(c) Lord Minto (d) Lord Hardinge (a) The acceptance of the idea of a
RRB NTPC 27.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist Constituent Assembly to draft a constitution
Ans. (c) (b) The principle of session of the British
India provinces
302.Which of the following was (c) The acceptance of the independence of
introduced to separate electorates, to India
widen the gap between Hindus and (d) The principle of a federation and
Muslims? parliamentary system
(a)Diarchy RRB NTPC 08.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(b) The Morley - Minto Reforms Ans. (d)
(c) The Rowlatt Act
(d) The Ilbert Bill 307.Which Cabinet Mission proposed a
RRB NTPC 08.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist Constituent Assembly to frame the
Ans. (b) Constitution of India?
(a) The Cabinet Mission Plan 1949 (b) The
303.In India, the Communal Electorate Cabinet Mission Plan 1936
system was firstly started through. (c) The Cabinet Mission Plan 1946 (d) The
(a) Cripps Mission, 1942 Cabinet Mission Plan 1945
(b) Wavell Plan 1945

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RRB NTPC 29.01.2021 (Shift-II) CBT-1 (c) Inland Emigration Act, 1859
Ans. (c) (d) Indian Slavery Act, 1843
308.Which of the following acts in India Ans. (c)
was based on a report of a committee
headed by the British Prime Minister 313.Which of the following provinces had
Lord North? maximum representation in the
(a) Government of India act 1858 Constituent Assembly of India as on 31st
(b) Charter's Act 1793 December, 1947?
(c) Regulating Act 1773 (a) Madras (b) Bombay
(d) Pitt's India Act 1784 (c) West Bengal (d) United Provinces
Ans. (c) Ans. (d)
309.Which Act of the British Parliament 314.Which of the following Acts ended the
provided for responsible government in trade monopoly of the Company in India
the provinces? and opened it to all British subjects
(a) Act of 1935 (b) Act of 1909 except tea?
(c) Act of 1919 (d) Act of 1892 (a) Indian Council Act, 1861
RRB NTPC 28.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (b) Charter Act, 1813
Ans. (a) (c) Regulating Act, 1773
(d) Government of India Act, 1935
310.Which party formed the government RRB NTPC 31.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
in the state of Punjab in the Provincial Ans. (b)
election of 1937 under British-India rule?
(a) Indian National Congress 315.Provincial autonomy was prescribed
(b) Krishak Praja Party under the Government of India Act of.
(c) Unionist Party (a) 1947 (b) 1935
(d) Muslim League (c) 1937 (d) 1920
Ans. (c) Ans. (b)
311.When did British enact the Inland 316.Which was the first Act passed by the
emigration British government to control and
(a) 1857 (b) 1859 regulate the affairs of the East India
(c) 1856 (d) 1861 Company in India?
RRB NTPC 07.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (a) India Council Act of 1909
Ans. (b) (b) Regulating Act of 1773
(c) Government of India Act of 1858
312.Under which of the following act, the (d) Charter Act of 1853
plantation workers were not allowed to RRB NTPC 17.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
leave Ans. (b)
the tea gardens without permission?
(a) Transfer of Property Act, 1882 317.Where was Mahatma Gandhi on the
(b) Indian Contract Act, 1872 ... day India got Independence?

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(a) Rawalpindi (b) New Delhi RRB NTPC 03.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(c) Calcutta (d) Pune Ans. (d)
Ans. (c) 323.Who became the first Viceroy of
India?
318.Who introduced the Vernacular Press (a) Lord Canning (b) Lord Elgin
Act in India? (c) Lord Cornwallis (d) Lord Ripon
(a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Dalhousie RRB NTPC 19.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(c) Lord Lytton (d) Lord Willingdon Ans. (a)
Ans. (c) 324.Who became the last Governor-
General and first Viceroy of India during
the rule of the British crown?
319.Who were the signatories of the
Tripartite Treaty signed in 1838 against (a) Lord Canning
Dost Muhammad Khan? (b) Sir John Macpherson
(a) Charles Metcalfe, Maharaja Ranjit (c) Lord William Bentinck
Singh, Shah Shuja (d) Lord Dalhousie
(b) Lord Auckland, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, RRB NTPC 18.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Shuja-ud-Daula Ans. (a)
(c) Lord Ellenborough, Maharaja Ranjit
Singh, Shuja-ud-Daula 325.In 1861, Archaeological Survey of
(d) Lord Auckland, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, India was founded by:
Shah Shuja (a) Alexander Cunningham
RRB NTPC 12.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (b) Girish Kumar
Ans. (d) (c) Jayanti Patnaik
(d) Saurabh Kumar
320.Which among the following was the RRB NTPC 29.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
capital city of British India (1773-1911)? Ans. (a)
(a) Delhi (b) Calcutta
(c) Lucknow (d) Bombay 326.Name the first Indian to Join
RRB NTPC 17.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist viceroy's executive council.
Ans. (b) (a) Bhupendra Nath Mitra
(b) Satyendra Prasad Sinha
321.Name the person who was appointed (c) Satish Ranjan Das
as the first Surveyor-General of India in (d) Tej Bahadur Sapru
1815. RRB NTPC 05.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(a) Ottoman (b) Bernier Ans. (b)
(c) Abul Fazal (d) Colin Mackenzie
RRB NTPC 13.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist 327.Who was the first Governor-General
Ans. (d) of Independent India?
(a) C Rajagopalachari
322.In which year was the title 'Viceroy' (b) Warren Hastings
given to 'Governor-General' of India? (c) Lord Mountbatten
(a) 1876 (b) 1857 (d) Lord William Bentinck
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Ans. (c) 333.The first passenger train in India ran
between____ and _____ in the year 1853.
328.Who was the Viceroy of British India (a) Pune, Thane (b) Pune, Goa
at the time India became independent in (c) Bombay, Pune (d) Bombay, Thane
1947 ? RRB NTPC 09.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(a) Lord Willingdon (b) Lord Mountbatten Ans. (d)
(c) Lord Irwin (d) Lord Linlithgow
RRB NTPC 30.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist 334.Who is known as the 'Father of
Ans. (b) Indian Railways'?
(a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Minto
329.Who devised the policy of Doctrine of (c) Lord Dalhousie (d) Lord Irwin
Lapse? RRB NTPC 21.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans. c
(a) Lord Hastings (b) General Dyer (c) Lord
Dalhousie (d) Lord Clive
335.Who was the Viceroy of India when
Gandhi called for Dandi Yatra ?
Ans. (c)
(a) Lord Willingdon (b) Lord Reading (c)
Lord Wavell (d) Lord Irwin
330.Which of the following was adopted
by Lord Dalhousie to annex Indian
Ans. (d)
states?
(a) Policy of Subsidiary Alliance
336.Who among the following was
(b) The Doctrine of Lapse
instrumental in promoting English
(c) Policy of Permanent Settlement education in India?
(d) Rowlatt Act
(a) William Carey (b) Charles Wood (c)
Thomas Babington Macaulay (d) James Mill
Ans. (b)
Ans. (c)
331.Name the reform that was introduced
during the term of Lord Dalhousie in the
337.Who was considered as 'Father of All
year 1848?
India Services'?
(a) Widow Remarriage
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai (b) Sardar Vallabhbhai
(b) Prohibition of Sati
Patel
(c) Doctrine of Lapse
(d) Morley-Minto Reforms (c) Lal Bahadur Shastri (d) Dr. Sarvepalli
RRB NTPC 09.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist Radhakrishnan
Ans. (b)
332.Who among the following is called the
'Father of Local Self Government' in 338.Which of the following Viceroy of
India? India did take initiative to create elected
(a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Minto local government bodies?
(c) Lord Mayo (d) Lord Curzon (a) Lord Irwin (b) Lord Reading (c) Lord
RRB NTPC 01.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist Rippon (d) Lord Wavell
Ans. (a)

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Ans. (c) 344.Who is known as the 'Father of Civil
Services' in India?
339.Who was the Governor General at (a) Charles Cornwallis (b) Mahatma Gandhi
the time of sepoy mutiny? (c) Warren Hastings (d) Robert Clive
(a) Lord Canning (b) Lord Cornwallis RRB NTPC 04.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(c) Lord Dalhousie (d) Lord Hastings Ans. (a)
Ans. (a) 345.Who was known as the father of Civil
services in British India?
340.Who described the kingdom of (a) Charles Cornwallis (b) Wellesley
Awadh as 'A cherry that will drop into (c) Dalhousie (d) Warren Hastings
our mouth one day'? RRB NTPC 11.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(a) Warren Hastings (b) Lord Wellesley Ans. (a)
(c) Lord Dalhousie (d) Lord Curzon
RRB NTPC 13.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist 346.When did Lord Clive finally return to
Ans. (c) England from India?
(a) 1766 (b) 1765
341.Which kingdom was called ''a (c) 1767 (d) 1764
cherry" by Governor General Lord RRB NTPC 31.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist\
Dalhousie? Ans. (c)
(a) Kingdom of Awadh
(b) Kingdom of Gwalior 347.Name the Viceroy of India who was
(c) Kingdom of Vijayanagar associated with the controversial Ilbert
(d) Kingdom of Jhansi Bill during the Indian freedom struggle.
RRB NTPC 07.04.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (a) Lord Mayo (b) Lord Ripon
Ans. (a) (c) Lord Lansdowne (d) Lord Dufferin
342.Which reform movement took place Ans. (b)
during the term of Lord William
Bentinck in the year 1829? 348.Who was the Governor-General of
(a) Prohibition of Sati Bengal when the Permanent Settlement
(b) Doctrine of lapse was
(c) Widow remarriage introduced in 1793?
(d) Morley Minto Reforms (a) Robert Francis (b) Warren Hastings
RRB NTPC 02.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (c) Charles Cornwallis (d) William Hodges
Ans. ©
343.Who was the Governor General of
India between 1848 and 1856? 349.Which of the following Viceroy of
(a) Lord Dalhousie India did take the initiative to create
(b) Lord Warren Hastings elected local
(c) Lord William Bentinck government bodies?
(d) Lord Minto (a) Lord Rippon (b) Lord Irwin
RRB NTPC 23.07.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (c) Lord Reading (d) Lord Wavell
Ans. (a)

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RRB NTPC 09.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist 355.Which Governor General of India
Ans. (a) proposed the Vernacular Press Act in
1878?
350.Who was the Governor General at (a) Lord Minto (b) Lord Hardinge
the time of Sepoy Mutiny? (c) Lord Lytton (d) Lord Chelmsford
(a) Lord Canning (b) Lord Hastings RRB NTPC 11.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(c) Lord Cornwallis (d) Lord Dalhousie Ans. (c)
Ans. (a) 356.Who was the first Governor-General
of Independent India?
351.Who was the Viceroy when the Royal (a) C Rajagopalachari (b) Lord Mountbatten
Commission on Civil Services was formed (c) Sardar Patel (d) BR Ambedkar
in 1912 ? RRB NTPC 03.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(a) Lord Curzon (b) Lord Dufferin Ans. (b)
(c) Lord Hardinge (d) Lord Irwin
RRB NTPC 30.12.2020 (Shift-I) Stage Ist 357.Which Viceroy of British India
Ans. (c) organized the statistical survey of India?
(a) Lord Mayo (b) Lord Canning
352.One of the greatest social reforms of (c) Lord Auckland (d) Lord Dalhousie
abolition of the 'Sati' system in India was RRB NTPC 23.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
done by Ans. (a)
Governor-General ...
(a) Lord Cornwallis 358.Subsidiary Alliance, through which
(b) Sir Charles Metcalfe the British were responsible for
(c) Lord William Bentinck protecting their Indian allies from
(d) Lord Macauley external and internal threats to their
RRB NTPC 26.07.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist power, was devised by:
Ans. (c) (a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Lord Curzon
(c) Lord Wellesley (d) Lord Bentinck
353.Which among the following viceroys RRB NTPC 11.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
announced the vague offer of 'Dominion Ans. (c)
Status'
for India in 1929? 359.In 1798, who became the Governor
(a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Irwin General and built a massive palace,
(c) Lord Cornwallis (d) Lord Canning Government House, for himself in
RRB NTPC 23.07.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist Calcutta?
Ans. (b) (a) Lord Clive (b) Lord Bentinck
(c) Lord Cornwallis (d) Lord Wellesley
354.Which Viceroy of India proposed the RRB NTPC 13.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Vernacular Press Act? Ans. (d)
(a) Lord Reading (b) Lord Lawrence
(c) Lord Lytton (d) Lord Mayo 360.Who said the following when laying
RRB NTPC 01.04.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist the foundation stone ceremony of
Ans. (c) Banaras Hindu University, "There is no
salvation for India unless you strip

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yourself of this jewelry and hold it in trust

for your country men in India."? 365.During which of the following
(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale movements did Mahatma Gandhi give the
(b) Mohammad Ali Jinnah slogan 'Do or Die'?
(c) Annie Basant (a) The Home Rule Movement
(d) Mahatma Gandhi (b) The Non-Cooperation Movement
RRB NTPC 08.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (c) Quit India Movement
Ans. (d) (d) Gadar Movement
361.Who was the Englishman who came Ans. (c).
to India? Taught Philosophy in St.
Stephen's college and later was known as 366.Which one of the following is NOT
'Deenbandhu'? ... correctly matched?
(a) C F Andrews (b) Michael Madhusudan (a) "Do or Die'' - Lala Lajpat Rai
Dutt (c) Lord Russell (d) William Pitt (b) "Inquilab Zindabad" - Bhagat Singht
RRB NTPC 04.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (c) "Swaraj is my birth right" – Bal
Ans. (a) Gangadhar Tilak
(d) "Give me blood and I will give you
362.Who coined the slogan 'Total freedom" – Subhash Chandra Bose
Revolution"? RRB NTPC 15.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(a) Narendra Modi Ans. (a)
(b) Jayaprakash Narayan
(c) Ram Manohar Lohia 367.Who said. ''The only hope of India is
(d) Mahatma Gandhi from the masses. The upper classes are
RRB NTPC 09.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist physically and morally dead.''
Ans. (b) (a) Bipin chandra pal
(b) Aurobindo Ghosh
363.Who described Mahatma Gandhi as (c) Swami Vivekananda
"The great soul in Beggar's grab"? (d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(a) Winston Churchill RRB NTPC 07.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
Ans. (c)
(c) Pherozeshah Mehta
(d) Surendranath Banerjee
368.According to Jawaharlal Nehru,
which of the following are known as
Ans. (b)
'temples of modern India'?
(a) dams (b) forests
364.Who said the following words:
(c) rivers (d) lakes
'Indian nationalism is an elite
phenomenon, a creation
Ans. (a)
of lawyers and doctors and landlords'.
(a) Rajendra Prasad
369.Indian Railway had contributed to
(b) Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
the freedom struggle of India by bringing
(c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
people of diverse cultures together'. Who
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
has the above statement?
Ans. (d) (a) Subhash Chandra Bose

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(b) Jawahar lal Nehru (a) Subhash Chandra Bose (b) Sardar
(c) John Mathai Vallabhbhai Patel
(d) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Rabindra Nath Tagore (d) Mahatma
RRB NTPC 19.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist Gandhi
Ans. (d)
370.Who said the following statement?
'Swaraj is my birthright and I will have 375.Who is known as the 'Martin Luther
it' of India'
(a) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel (a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (b) Dayanand
(b) Mahatma Gandhi Saraswati (c) Pandit Lekhraj (d) Swami
(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru Vivekanand
(d) Lokmanya Tilak RRB NTPC 13.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC 19.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist Ans. (b)
Ans. (d)
379.Who gave M.K. Gandhi a title of
371.Who gave the slogan, "Swaraj is my Mahatma?
birthright and I shall have it!"? (a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai (b) Lokmanya Tilak
(b) Bipin Chandra Pal (c) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Bhagat Singh (d) Dadabhai Naoroji
(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak RRB NTPC 13.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC 05.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist Ans. (c)
Ans. (d)
380.Who coined the famous slogan 'Jai
372.Who was known as the 'Iron Man of Jawan Jai Kisan'? (a) Lal Bahadur Shastri
India'? (b) Indira Gandhi
(a) Subhash Chandra Bose (c) Sardar Patel
(b) Jawahar Lal Nehru (d) Jayaprakash Narayan
(c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel RRB NTPC 12.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(d) Narendra Modi Ans. (a)
Ans. (c) 381.During Indian freedom struggle, who
gave the Slogan 'Dilli Chalo'
373.Which great freedom fighter was (a) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
known as Deshbandhu?
(b) Subhash Chandra Bose
(a) Chitaranjan Das (b) Aurobindo Ghosh
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (d) Bal
(d) Jawahar Lal Nehru
Gangadhar Tilak
Ans. (a) Ans. (b)
374.On whose death, Jawaharlal Nehru 382.Which famous person identified with
said ‘‘The light went away from our the slogan- "Do or Die"?
lives’’? (a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Jawahar Lal Nehru
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Ans. (a) Ans. (c)
383.What was the name of the political 388.Which of the following is not a
party formed by Subhash Chandra Bose monument in Uttar Pradesh?
after he left Congress party? (a) Safdarjung Tomb (b) Taj Mahal
(a) Indian National Army (c) Bara Imambara (d) Sarnath Stupa
(b) All India Socialist Bloc RRB NTPC 10.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans. (a)
(c) All India Forward Bloc
(d) All India Progressive Bloc
Ans. (c) incorrect regarding the charminar of
Hyderabad?
384.Who proclaimed the formation of the (a) This city marks the end of the plague
provisional government of the Azad Hind (b) It was built by Muhmmad Quli Qutb
on October 21, 1943? Shah in 1591.
(c) Four storeys of the arch rooms and the
(a) Vir Savarkar
gallery of the arches give support to.
(b)C.R. Das
(d) It is built on four grand archways facing
(c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel north, south, east and west
(d) Subhash Chandra Bose RRB NTPC 24.07.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC 31.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist Ans. (c)
Ans. (d)
390.In which of the following cities is the
385.The Subsidiary Alliance was a non- Charminar situated?
intervention policy devised by ... in 1798. (a) Kanpur (b) New Delhi
(a) Lord Irwin (b) Lord Bentinck (c) Bangalore (d) Hyderabad
(c) Lord Wellesley (d) Lord Cornwallis RRB NTPC 01.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
RRB NTPC 11.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist Ans. (d)
Ans. (c)
391.The Amar Jawan Jyoti has been
386.Who coined the slogan 'Jai Jawan Jai ignited monolithically at the famous
Kisan'? monument India
Gate in New Delhi Since the year ...
(a) Lal Bahadur Shastri (b) J P Narayan (a) 1947 (b) 1971
(c) J Daulatram (d) Shyama Prasad (c) 1962 (d) 1965
Ans. (a) Ans. (b)
387.Who said, "Freedom is my birth right 392.Which structure was built as a war
and I shall have it"?
memorial to soldiers of the undivided
(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Indian Army who sacrificed in the First
(b) Bhagat Singh
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak World War?
(d) Chandra Shekhar Azad (a) Lahori Gate in the Red Fort
(b) India Gate

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(c) Gateway of India

(d) Buland Darwaza 398.Who among the following designed 7,
RRB NTPC 22.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist Lok Kalyan Marg?
Ans. (b) (a) Francois Martin (b) HK Mewada
(c) Sir Edwin Lutyens (d) Le Corbusier
393.The Gateway of India in Mumbai was RRB NTPC 11.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
built to welcome: Ans. (c)
(a) King George V
(b) Sir William Jones 399.A large marble building in Kolkata,
(c) Lord Dalhousie built by the British whose design echoes
(d) Portuguese traders the Taj Mahal is_____.
RRB NTPC 09.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (a) St. Paul's Cathedral (b) Victoria
Ans. (a) Memorial
(c) Fort William (d) Writers Building
394.Who designed the India Gate of New RRB NTPC 21.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Delhi? Ans. (b)
(a) Elisabeth Lutyens (b) Edwin Lutyens
(c) Frederick Gilbert (d) Herbert Baker 400.Name the place in India where one
RRB NTPC 30.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist can find the Zero Mile Stone consisting of
Ans. (b) four horses and a pillar made up of
sandstone.
395. ________ was built by Edwin (a) Bhopal (b) Surat
Lutyens in 1921.
(c) Itarsi (d) Nagpur
(a) Gateway of India (b) Victoria Memorial
(c) India Gate (d) Golconda Fort Ans. (d)
Ans. (c)
401.Which architect has designed the
India Gate in New Delhi?
396.Banaras Hindu University was (a) Le Corbusier (b) Albert Speer
established in...
(c) Laurie Baker (d) Edwin Lutyens
(a) 1921 (b) 1916
(c) 1918 (d) 1919 Ans. (d)
Ans. (b)
402.Fort William was built by the East
India Company. The village of ... was
397.Who among the following established cleared
Kashi Vidyapeeth along with Mahatma as a site for the fort.
Gandhi and Shiv Prasad Gupta in 1921 in (a) Mayurganj (b) Durganagar
Varanasi ?
(c) Alipore (d) Gobindapur
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) Bhagwan Das Ans. (d)
(d) Raghukul Tilak
403.The Gateway of India was built in the
traditional ... style to welcome King
Ans. (b)

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George V and Queen Mary to India in RRB NTPC 10.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
1911. Ans. (c)
(a) European
(b) Western 409.What is the importance of 22 July
(c) Persian 1947?
(d) Indo-Saracenic (a) National song adopted
RRB NTPC 11.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (b) Session pre independence
Ans. (d) (c) Leaders' discussion for selection of
national anthem
404.Which of the following monuments is (d) Present National flag adopted
built with some influence of Gujarati style RRB NTPC 07.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
to welcome King George V and Queen Ans. (d)
Mary to India?
(a) Jallianwala Bagh (b) Gateway of India 410.At the time of Independence, British
(c) India Gate (d) Sun Temple India consisted of ____ princely states.
RRB NTPC 12.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (a) 592 (b) 565
Ans. (b) (c) 582 (d) 500
405.Which architect designed the Ans. (b)
Gateway of India located at Mumbai?
(a) George Wittet (b) Laurie Baker 411.The Assam Accord of 1985 was a
(c) Edwin Lutyens (d) Albert Speer Memorandum of Settlement signed
RRB NTPC 10.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist between
Ans. (a) _____ and leaders of AASU (All Assam
Students' Union) in New Delhi in 1985.
406.In which of the following years did (a) Charan singh (b) Indira Gandhi
Goa get its independence from Portugal ? (c) Rajiv Gandhi (d) VV Giri
(a) 1960 (b) 1963
Ans. (c)
(c) 1961 (d) 1962
412.The Gandhi Peace Prize awards for
Ans. (c)
social, economic and political
transformation through non-violence
407.When did Bangladesh emerge as an were instituted in the year.
independent country? (a) 1985 (b) 1990 (c) 1995 (d) 2001
(a) 1972 (b) 1971 RRB NTPC 15.02.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(c) 1975 (d) 1970 Ans. (c)
Ans. (b)
413.Which of the following Indian states
was known as North East Frontier
408.In which city was the Indus Waters
Agency till
Treaty (IWT) signed between India and
1972?
Pakistan, in 1960?
(a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Meghalaya
(a) Lahore (b) Calcutta (c) Nagaland (d) Mizoram
(c) Karachi (d) Bombay RRB NTPC 21.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
Ans. (a)

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(a) Nain Singh

414.Which of the following leaders signed (b) Major James Rennell
the Tashkent Agreement? (c) William Lambton
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru and Jinnah (d) Col. Alexander
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru and Ayub Khan RRB NTPC 11.03.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(c) Lal Bahadur Shastri and Ayub Khan Ans. (b)
(d) Vallabhbhai Patel and Jinnah
RRB NTPC 09.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist 420.Bengali writer, Rabindranath Tagore
Ans. (c) became the first Indian to win the Nobel
Prize for
415.The Shimla Agreement of 1972 was Literature in the year _____ for his
signed between Indira Gandhi and... : collection of poems called 'Gitanjali'.
(a) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (b) Benazir Bhutto (a) 1910 (b) 1913
(c) Ayub Khan (d) Pervez Musharraf (c) 1917 (d) 1953
Ans. (a) Ans. (b)
421.Which freedom fighter popularized

416.'Operation Vijay' is associated with
the term "Satyameva Jayate" from the
which of the following wars?
Mundaka
(a) Indo-Pakistan War 1971
Upanishad?
(b) Indo-Pakistan War 1947
(a) Madan Mohan Malviya
(c) Indo-Pakistan War 1965 (b) Swami Vivekananda
(d) Kargil War 1999 (c) Mahatma Gandhi
RRB NTPC 03.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (d) Subhash Chandra Bose
Ans. (a)
417.National Song 'Vande Mataram',
written by Bankim Chandra 422.Who among the following composed
Chattopadhyay, is a part of which of the National Song of India?
these novels? (a) Rabindranath Tagore
(a) Anandmath (b) Durgeshnandini (b) Sri Aurobindo
(c) Devi Chaudhurani (d) Kapalkundala (c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
RRB NTPC 23.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist (d) Sarojini Naidu
Ans. (c)
418.When was a new International
Monetary System introduced under the 423.. Who was the first Indian to join the
Bretton Woods Agreement ? Indian Civil Service?
(a) 1948 (b) 1945 (a) Shyamji Krishna Varma
(c) 1942 (d) 1944 (b) Haribhai Patel
RRB NTPC 03.04.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (c) Satyendranath Tagore
Ans. (d) (d) Lakshmi Kant Jha
419.Who started the first topographical Ans. (c)
survey in India ?

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424.Who among the following was the (c) Terrorist attack in Mali
first Indian member of the British (d) Arab Spring
Parliament? RRB NTPC 25.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist
(a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad Ans. (a)
(b) Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
(c) Dadabhai Naoroji 429.The Indian League was established in
(d) Lokmanya Tilak 1875 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) by
RRB NTPC 08.04.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist _________.
Ans. (c) (a) Anand Mohan Bose
(b) Sisir Kumar Ghosh
425.Vivekananda Rock memorial is (c) Debendranath Tagore
situated at ... (d) Dwarkanath Tagore
(a) Tirupati (b) Kanyakumari RRB NTPC 05.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(c) Rameshwaram (d) Kozhikode Ans. (b)
Ans. (b) 430.When was the Konark temple built
on the shores of the Bay of Bengal?
426.Which of the following statements is a.10th century
correct? b.12th century
(a) Sucheta Kriplani was the first female c.11th century
Vice President of India. d.13th century
(b) Sucheta Kriplani was the first female RRB NTPC CBT -2 09/05/2022 SHIFT 3 L6
PrimeMinister of India. Ans:d
(c) Sucheta Kriplani was the first female
ChiefMinister of an Indian state
431.Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in
(d) Sucheta Kriplani was the first female
______.
President of India
RRB NTPC 02.03.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist a.1949
Ans. (c) b.1926
c.1931
427.In 1866, who organized the East India d.1928
Association in London to discuss the RRB NTPC CBT -2 09/05/2022 SHIFT 3
Indian LEVEL 6 Ans:d
question and to influence British public
officials to promote Indian welfare. 432.The first English factory was set up
(a) Anand Mohan Bose on the banks of the Hooghly river in the
(b) Dadabhai Naoroji year _____.
(c) B.G. Tilak a.1651 CE
(d) W.C. Banerjee b.1661 CE
RRB NTPC 03.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist c.1671 CE
Ans. (b) d.1641 CE
RRB NTPC CBT -2 09/05/2022 SHIFT 3
428.The Komagata Maru incident was LEVEL 6 Ans:a
related to... ?
(a) Indian freedom struggle
(b) Israeli attack on Palestine

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433.Which of the symbols at the Sanchi c. Ghiyasuddin Balban

stupas represents the Buddha's first d. Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
sermon at Sarnath? RRB NTPC 12/06/2022 SHIFT 2 Level 5
a. Bodhi tree Ans :a
b. Chakra
c. Elephant 438.The Palace of Assembly is a
d.An empty chair legislative building designed by a major
RRB NTPC CBT -2 09/05/2022 SHIFT 3 architect, Le Corbusier. And it is
Level 6 Ans:b in______.
a.Puducherry
434.Kalana Rajatarangini in Sanskrit b. Chandigarh
contains the history of the kings ruled by c..Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
________. d. Ladakh
a.Delhi RRB NTPC 12/06/2022 SHIFT 2 Level 5
b.Bihar Ans :b
c.Bengal
d.Kashmir 439.Which was the first Indian state to be
RRB NTPC CBT -2 09/05/2022 SHIFT 3 segregated on linguistic basis in 1956?
Level 6 Ans:d a.Gujarat
b. West Bengal
435.The Rigveda is a collection of 1,028 c. Punjab
hymns divided into _______ mandalas. d. Andhra Pradesh
a.14 RRB NTPC 12/06/2022 SHIFT 2 Level 5
b.10 Ans:d
c.7
d.9 438.Harshavardhana belonged to which
RRB NTPC CBT -2 09/05/2022 SHIFT 3 clan?
Level 6 Ans:b 1. Gupta dynasty
2. Chalukya dynasty
436.Development of Sanskrit Grammar 3. Pushyabhuti dynasty
with Panini, a book written by him. 4. Mauryan dynasty
a. Mahavastu RRB NTPC 12/06/2022 SHIFT 2 Level 5
b. Ashtadhyayi Ans :3
c. Lalitavistara
d.Buddhacharita 438.the then Bombay State was
RRB NTPC CBT -2 09/05/2022 SHIFT 3 Maharashtra and now..
Level 6 Ans:a _______divided into states.
1. Karnataka
437.Begampuri Masjid was built during 2. Gujarat
the reign of ________. It was the main 3. Chattisgarh
mosque of Jahansana, his new capital in 4. Goa
Delhi. RRB NTPC 12/06/2022 SHIFT 2 Level 5
a. Muhammad Tughlaq Ans :2
b. Qutbuddin Aibak

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439.Madhvacharya (12th century) wrote 3. Golden Pagoda

Madhava Vidhana. It contains special 4. Bronze Pagoda
_chapters on diagnosis (nidana) of RRB NTPC CBT-2 13/06/2022 SHIFT 2
diseases. Level 2 Ans:2
1.90
2. 60 444.In which of the following languages
3.69 did Kalidasa write his poem Meghaduta?
4.96 1. Prakrit
RRB NTPC 12/06/2022 SHIFT 2 Level 5 2. Pali
Ans :3 3. Hindi
4.Sanskrit
440.Who among the following Governor RRB NTPC CBT-2 13/06/2022 SHIFT 2
Generals introduced the theory of Level 2 Ans:4
succession?
1. Lord Auckland 445.Which of the following is not a work
2. Lord Hardinge of Kalidasa?
3. Lord Dalhousie 1. Vikramorvasiyam
4. Lord Bentinck 2. Raghuvamsa
RRB NTPC CBT-2 13/06/2022 SHIFT 2 3. Abhijnana Sakuntalam
Level 2 Ans:3 4. regularly
RRB NTPC CBT-2 13/06/2022 SHIFT 2
441.In which of the following regions is Level 2 Ans:4
the Panama Canal located?
1. Arabian Peninsula 446.The style of temple architecture
2. Eastern Europe known as Nagara gained prominence in
3.Central America the _______ region.
4. South Asia 1. South India
RRB NTPC CBT-2 13/06/2022 SHIFT 2 2. East India
Level 2 Ans:3 3. North India
4. Western India
442.Lord Dalhousie served as the RRB NTPC CBT-2 15/06/2022 SHIFT 1
Governor General of India during which LEVEL 5 Ans:3
period?
1.1813 to 1830 447.The Sattriya dance form was
2.1757 to 1810 introduced by Mahapurusha
3.1848 to 1856 Shankaradeva, the great Vaishnava saint
4.From 1723 to 1734 and reformer of Assam.
RRB NTPC CBT-2 13/06/2022 SHIFT 2 1. AD 15th century
Level 2 Ans:3 2. AD 17th century
3. A.D. 11th century
443.The Sun Temple at Konark is 4. A.D. 19th century
popularly known as ____. RRB NTPC CBT-2 15/06/2022 SHIFT 1
1. White Pagoda LEVEL 5 Ans:1
2.The Black Pagoda

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448.Who among the following co- 2. Railways

founded the Calcutta Unitarian Society 3. Telegraph services
and founded the Brahmo Samaj? 4. Call centers
1. Raja Ram Mohan Roy RRB NTPC CBT-2 15/06/2022 SHIFT 1
2. Keshab Chandra Sen LEVEL 5 Ans:4
3. Debendranath Tagore
4. Iswarchandra Vidyasagar 453.Among the following, in 1951, the
RRB NTPC CBT-2 15/06/2022 SHIFT 1 kingdom of Awadh was referred to as 'a
LEVEL 5 Ans:1 cherry that will drop into our mouth one
day'?
449.Who were the descendants of Shah 1. Robert Clive
Jahan Begum, the rulers of Bhopal, who 2. William Bentick
contributed money to preserve the 3. Lord Dalhousie
ancient site of Sanchi? 4. Warren Hastings
1. Mariam-uz-Zamani RRB NTPC CBT-2 15/06/2022 SHIFT 1
2. Chand Bibi LEVEL 5 Ans:3
3. Sultan Jehan Begum
4. Razia Sultana 454.Most of the population in Israel is:
RRB NTPC CBT-2 15/06/2022 SHIFT 1 1. The Jews
LEVEL 5 Ans:3 2 Lurish
3. Beja
450.The Kandaria Mahadeva shrine of 4. In addition
Lord Shiva was built by King Dhanga RRB NTPC CBT-2 15/06/2022 SHIFT 1
Deva of______ around 999 CE. LEVEL 5 Ans:1
1. Rashtrakuta clan
2 Chalukya dynasty 455.Which of the following regions in
3. Chandela dynasty India is famous for oil extraction?
4. Kalachuri clan 1. Bokaro
RRB NTPC CBT-2 15/06/2022 SHIFT 1 2. Kolar
LEVEL 5 Ans:3 3. Mumbai High
4. Jharia
451.Jawaharlal Nehru Port is located in RRB NTPC CBT-2 16/06/2022 SHIFT 1
which of the following cities? LEVEL 2 Ans:3
1. Navi Mumbai
2. Candla 456.The innermost sanctum sanctorum
3. Kochi in Hindu and Jain temples houses the
4. Mormugao idol of the main deity
RRB NTPC CBT-2 15/06/2022 SHIFT 1 1. Peak
LEVEL 5 Ans:1 2. Flight
3. Mandapam
452.Which of the following services did 4. Garbhagriha
not exist for the common man in India at RRB NTPC CBT-2 16/06/2022 SHIFT 1
the time of India's independence? LEVEL 2 Ans:4
1. Postal Services

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457.In which year was the Pradhan RRB NTPC CBT-2 16/06/2022 SHIFT 1
Society established in Bombay? LEVEL 2 Ans:1
1. 1897
2.1557 462.Who was Ashoka's grandfather?
3. 1867 1. Chandragupta Maurya
4. 1667 2. Dasharatha
RRB NTPC CBT-2 16/06/2022 SHIFT 1 3. Bindusara
LEVEL 2 Ans:3 4. Vitashoka.
458.Who among the following LEVEL 2 Ans:3
popularized the guitar as an instrument
in Hindustani classical music? 462.The Therigatha is a Buddhist text,
1. Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia part of the _______, a collection of
2. Pandit Shivakumar Sharma poems composed by bhikkhus.
3. Ustad Ali Akbar Khan 1. Sutta Pitaka
4. Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra 2. Vinaya Pitaka
RRB NTPC CBT-2 16/06/2022 SHIFT 1 3. Mahavamsa
LEVEL 2 Ans:4 4. Dipavamsa
459.Jnana Panchami' is celebrated by LEVEL Ans:1
Jains on the _____ day of the month of
Kartika. 463.The Asafi Imambara, built by Asaf-
1. Third ud-Daula, is located in ______.
2.Fifth 1. Bijapur
3. Ninth 2. Lucknow
4. First 3. Agra
RRB NTPC CBT-2 16/06/2022 SHIFT 1 4. Delhi
LEVEL 2 Ans:2 RRB NTPC CBT-2 14/06/2022 SHIFT 2
LEVEL Ans:2
460.Sri Krishnadeva Rayalu belonged to
the _______ clan 464.Regarding the sixteen
1. Salva Mahajanapadas, which of the following is
2. Gajapati not a capital city?
3. Confluence 1. Kaushambi
4. Tuluva 2. Ujjain
RRB NTPC CBT-2 16/06/2022 SHIFT 1 3. Avanti
LEVEL 2 Ans:4 4. Sharavasti
461.The 'All-Bengal Civil Disobedience LEVEL Ans :3
Council' was formed in Bengal by ____
1.JM Seun Gupta 465.Who among the following was
2. Mahatma Gandhi mainly associated with the
3. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel establishment of Madras Home Rule
4. Jawahar Lal Nehru League?

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1. Madam Bhikaji Cama 5.Arabian merchants had exported

2. Matangini Hazra Indian goods through Red sea and
3. Any Besant Mediterranean port in
4. Sarojini Naidu _____ countries.
RRB NTPC CBT-2 14/06/2022 SHIFT 2 (a) Australian (b) European
LEVEL Ans:3 (c) American (d) African
(b)
GROUP - D 2018 6.Goa was conquered by the ____ in 1510

AD.
1.Queen of England was crowned as (a) Americans (b) Germans
Empress of India in ____. (c) French (d) Portuguese
(a) 1787 (b) 1876 RRB Group-D 13-12-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
(c) 1877 (d) 1867 (d)
© 7.Third battle of Panipat took place in the
year _.
(a) 1761 (b) 1762 (c) 1763 (d) 1760
2.------- was formed to trade with the East RRB Group-D 12-11-2018 (Shift-III)
Indies but at the last its trade was limited Ans (a)
to China and the Indian subcontinent.
(a) English India Company 8.Maratha's lost their power in ____ by
(b) London India Company being defeated by Ahmad Shah Abdali?
(c) East India Company (a) 1762 (b) 1761 (c) 1763 (d) 1764
(d) British India Company RRB Group-D 27-11-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
RRB Group-D 31-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : (b)
(c)
9.In the era 1660's, Shivaji used ____
3. East India Company was granted an tactics and military strategies to lead a
English Royal charter by Queen series of attacks.
Elizabeth I on 31 December ___. (a) Scientific (b) Naval
(a) 1500 (b) 1600 (c) Guerilla (d) Strategic
(c) 1800 (d) 1700 RRB Group-D 26-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
RRB Group-D 01-11-2018 (Shift-II) Ans : (c)
(b)
10.Shivaji was born in which one of the
4.Where is the Cape of Good Hope? following forts?
(a) Russia (b) South Africa (a) Pratapgarh (b) Raigarh
(c) Argentina (d) Germani (c) Panhala (d) Shivneri
RRB Group-D 09-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. RRB Group-D 22-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
(b) (d)

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11.The Treaty of Salbai was signed in ----, 17.Murshid Quli Khan declared himself
which settled the first Anglo-Maratha as Nawab of Bengal and shifted his
war? capital from Dhaka to ____.
(a) June 1782 (b) May 1782 (a) Giriya (b) Moradabad
(c) April 1782 (d) August 1782 (c) Buxar (d) Murshidabad
RRB Group-D 15-11-2018 (Shift-II) Ans : RRB Group-D 05-11-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
(b) (d)
12.The Treaty of Bassein was signed in 18.Hyder Ali signed the Treaty of Madras
which with Britishers in which they both agreed
(a) 1860 (b) 1802 to help each other against their common
(c) 1770 (d) 1875 enemy __.
RRB Group-D 08-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans (a) Dutch (b) Mughal (c) Maratha (d)
: (b) Portugali
13.Britisher's had captured Punjab in : (c)
_____.
(a) 1790 (b) 1849 19.In 1853 AD, the first rail route was
(c) 1860 (d) 1798 opened for the journey from ____.
RRB Group-D 12-11-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. (a) Pune to Thane (b) Nagpur to Thane (c)
(b) Bombay to Thane (d) Bombay to Pune
14.When under the leadership of La (c)
Bourdonnais, the French conquered
_____. Then the first carnatic war was 20. _____ was introduced in Bengal,
fought . Bihar and Odisha by lord Cornwallis .
(a) Madras (b) Pondicheri (a) Permanent Settlement (b) Ryotwari
(c) Bombay (d) Hyderabad System
RRB Group-D 19-09-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. (c) Izaredari system (d) Mahalwari system
(a) RRB Group-D 02-11-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
(a).
15.Battle of Plassey and Buxar
established British rule over the ____. 21.In 1793, ____ was introduced in
(a) Odisha (b) Awadh Bengal, Bihar and Odisha.
(c) Bihar (d) Bengal (a) Ryotwari system
RRB Group-D 30-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. (b) Izaredari system
(d) (c) Mahalwari system
(d) Permanent Settlement
16.Battle of Plassey was fought on ____. RRB Group-D 15-11-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
(a) 23 June, 1857 (b) 23 June, 1657 (d)
(c) 23 June, 1757 (d) 23 June, 1557
RRB Group-D 28-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : 22. ____was introduced in 1830 in Central
(c) Province (Present day west UP), Madhya
Pradesh and some parts of Punjab.
(a) Ryotwari System

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(b) Izaredari System RRB Group-D 19-09-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.

(c) Mahalwari System (d)
(d) Permanent Settlement
RRB Group-D 02-11-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. 29.Who had published the first
(c) newspaper in India?
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
23.Ryotwari system was introduced in (b) Lokmanya Tilak
____. (c) James Silk Buckingham
(a) 1793 (b) 1820 (d) James Hickey
(c) 1830 (d) 1765 RRB Group-D 06-12-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
RRB Group-D 05-11-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. (d)
(b)
30.In 1778, the Britishers established the
24.Ryotwari system was introduced in first printing press in ___.
____ and (a) Madras (b) Calcutta
(a) Bombay (b) Punjab (c) Ahmedabad (d) Bombay
(c) Kolkata (d) Odisha RRB Group-D 10-12-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
RRB Group-D 01-11-2018 (Shift-II) Ans : (b)
(a)
31.Who had founded Marathi Newspaper
25.____has introduced Izaredari system, 'Kesari'?
where right of collecting land revenue was (a) Jawahar Lal Nehru
auctioned (b) Mahatma Gandhi
to the highest bidder for 5 years. (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(a) Lord cornwallis (b) Warren Hastings (d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(c) Lord Dalhousie (d) Robert Clive RRB Group-D 10-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
RRB Group-D 02-11-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. (c)
(b)
32.Which one of the following
26.In ____ Britishers made English as a newspapers was published by Lokmanya
medium of instruction in India. Tilak during the Indian National
(a) 1855 (b) 1835 (c) 1833 (d) 1857 Movement?
(a) Yugantar (b) Bengali (c) Amrit Bazar
: (b)
Patrika (d) Kesari
27.In ___British East India company
: (d)
introduced an education system in India.
Which was known as Wood's Despatch.
33.The Newspaper 'The Bombay Times'
(a) 1858 (b) 1856 (c) 1854 (d) 1852
and 'Journal of Commerce' was started in
1829 AD. In ___it was renamed as "The
(c)
Times of India".
(a) 1861 (b) 1874 (c) 1878 (d) 1860
28.When did the Britishers make English
the medium of instruction in India?
: (a)
(a) 1833 (b) 1836 (c) 1834 (d) 1835

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(c) Chandra Chatterjee

34. ___was prosecuted for leading the (d) Dinbandhu Mitra
rebels to the Revolt of 1857 and was (d)
exiled to Rangoon,
Where he died in 1862.
40.Revolt started in Bengal in 1859-60
(a) Shah Alam (b) Bahadur Shah Zafar
due to the cultivation of ____.
(c) Shah Alam I (d) Akabar shah II (a) Indigo (b) Jute
RRB Group-D 24-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. (c) Sugarcane (d) Rice
(b) RRB Group-D 31-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans
: (a)
35.In _____ there was a great strike which
shook the foundation of the British 41.In year ____ Britishers signed the
Empire and it was called the 'First War of peace agreement with Odisha's Khonds?
Independence'. (a) 1848 (b) 1858 ...
(a) 1856 (b) 1857 (c) 1878 (d) 1868
(c) 1875 (d) 1947 RRB Group-D 16-11-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
RRB Group-D 16-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. (a)
(b).
42.Who wrote the famous novel
36.First war of Indian Independence was 'Anandamath' during the Indian National
fought in the year ___? Movement?
(a) 1787 (b) 1857 (c) 1587 (d) 1875 (a) Shachindra Sanyal
RRB Group-D 22-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : (b) Ravindra nath Tagore
(b)
(c) Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay
(d) Arvind Ghosh
37.In ___ a major metamorphosis
occured, that shook the foundation of
: (c)
British rule and it is often called as the
First war of Independence.
43.____was the Dalawa of Travancore
(a) 1856 (b) 1857 (c) 1875 (d) 1947
who led a revolt in 1808 was hanged in
public.
: (b)
(a) Velu Thampi (b) Sir Thomas Munaro
(c) Veera Pandya (d) Queen Chennamma
38.Rani Laxmibai was martyred in
____AD while fighting with Britishers.
: (a).
(a) 1857 (b) 1858 (c) 1856 (d) 1859
44.Velu Thampi Dalawa was associated
: (b).
with which Indian states? He is known for
rebelling
39.Neel Darpan, written by ____, against the Britishers.
portrayed the situation and exploitation (a) Travancore (b) Mysore Kingdom
of Indigo farmers by the Britishers. (c) Vijay Nagaram (d) Chole Kingdom
(a) Ravindra nath Tagore RRB Group-D 18-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
(b) Munshi Premchandra (a)

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51. Who had founded 'Prarthana Samaj'

45.When was the 'Veda Samaj' in 1867 AD?
established in Madras? (a) Dr. Vilsan
(a) 1852 (b) 1847 (b) Atmaram Panduranga
(c) 1860 (d) 1864 (c) Mahadev Govind Ranade
RRB Group-D 12-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. (d) R.G. Bhandarkar
(d) RRB Group-D 07-12-2018 (Shift-III) Ans
: (b)
46.During British rule, who had improved
the Rights of Womens? 52.Dayanand Saraswati was the founder
(a) Sarojani Naidu (b) Savitribai Phule of which of the following Mission?
(c) Pandita Ramabai (d) Tarabai Shinde (a) Brahmo Samaj (b) Chinmaya Mission
RRB Group-D 12-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans : (c) Arya Samaj (d) Prathana Samaj
C RRB Group-D 17-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
C
47.When the Theosophical Society was
founded? 53.In which year, the Act was passed to
(a) 1885 (b) 1875 abolish Sati Pratha?
(c) 1873 (d) 1876 (a) 1852 (b) 1840
RRB Group-D 25-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : (c) 1829 (d) 1837
(b) RRB Group-D 22-09-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
C
48.In _____ Sir William Jones founded
the Asiatic society of Bengal. 54.In year ____ Swami Vivekananda
(a) 1786 (b) 1785 founded 'Ramakrishna Mission'.
(c) 1784 (d) 1783 (a) 1895 (b) 1899 (c) 1893 (d) 1897
RRB Group-D 28-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : RRB Group-D 12-11-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
C (d)
49. ____ had translated Vedas and 55.When was the partition of Bengal
Upanishads into Bangla Language. happen?
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (a) 1904 (b) 1905
(b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (c) 1906 (d) 1903
(c) Pandita Ramabai
(d) Dayanand Saraswati
(b)
(a)
56.During the Indian National Movement,
who among the following painted the
50.In ––, Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded famous
the Brahmo Samaj in Kolkata. Picture of Bharat Mata?
(a) 1824 (b) 1822 (c) 1828 (d) 1826
(a) Abanindranath Tagore
(b) Mohammad Iqabal
C
(c) Lokmanya Tilak
(d) B.C. Chatterjee

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RRB Group-D 25-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans : (a) Dandi March (b) Chauri-Chaura incident
(a) (c) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (d) Quit India
Movement
57.When did the British government pass RRB Group-D 16-11-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
the notorious Rowlatt Act? The act (a)
allowed political detention without trial?
(a) 1921 (b) 1920 62.Under the leadership of Mahatma
(c) 1919 (d) 1922 Gandhi Congress launched the Civil
RRB Group-D 18-09-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. Disobedience Movement in the year ____.
(c) (a) 1919 (b) 1922
(c) 1930 (d) 1954
58.In which year did the Jallianwala Bagh RRB Group-D 16-11-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
massacre? (c)
(a) 1920 (b) 1919
(c) 1891 (d) 1981 63.In which year Dandi Salt Satyagraha
RRB Group-D 19-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans was started?
(b) (a) 1930 (b) 1928 (c) 1925 (d) 1935
59.Which movement was led in India by (a)
Ali Brothers Shaukat Ali and Mohammad
Ali? 64.In which year the Gandhi-Irwin pact
(a) Quit India Movement was signed?
(b) Delhi Chalo Movement (a) 1940 (b) 1925
(c) Boycott Movement (c) 1931 (d) 1920
(d) Khilafat Movement RRB Group-D 10-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
RRB Group-D 16-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. (c)
(d)
65.What was the name of the party which
60.Gandhi started the Non-Cooperation was founded by Subhash Chandra Bose
Movement in a small village called in 1939?
Champaran. In which Indian state (a) Communist Party of India
Champaran is currently located? (b) Indian Socialist Party
(c) All India Forward Bloc
(a) West Bengal (b) Bihar
(d) Azad Bengal Fauz
(c) Gujarat (d) Maharashtra
(c)
(b)
66.Subhash Chandra Bose founded Azad
61.Under the leadership of Mahatma Hind Fauz in the year____.
Gandhi congress had launched the Civil (a) 1943 (b) 1940
Disobedience movement which began (c) 1941 (d) 1945
with ____. RRB Group-D 15-11-2018 (Shift-III) Ans
: (a)

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67.Quit India movement was started in RRB Group-D 25-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
___. (a)
(a) 1942 (b) 1945
(c) 1943 (d) 1944 73.____was the summer capital of Britain.
RRB Group-D 01-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. (a) Dalhousie (b) Ooty (c) Shimla (d)
(a) Darjeeling
68.Quit India movement began in 1942 (c)
with ____call by Mahatma Gandhi ji.
(a) Delhi Chalo (b) Do or Die 74.Robert Clive introduced a dual
(c) Inquilab Zindabad (d) Jai Hind government in ____ under which Mir
RRB Group-D 16-11-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. Zafar once again became the Nawab of
(b)
Bengal.
(a) Bihar (b) Awadh
69.The Constitution of India was created
(c) Odisha (d) Bengal
under 1946... of the Constituent
Assembly. : (d)
(a) Cabinet Mission Plan
(b) Cabinet Ministry Plan 75.The Subsidiary Alliance was one of the
(c) Cabinet Missionary Plan most important policies practiced to
(d) Cabinet Minister's Plan expand British territory in India, which
RRB Group-D 01-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. was introduced by ______.
(a) (a) Lord William (b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) Lord Wellesley (d) Lord Cornwallis
70.The Britishers had introduced indirect RRB Group-D 12-11-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
elections system in India for the first time (c)
by
Which of the following acts?
76.What was the name of the Viceroy who
(a) 1956 (b) 1856
inaugurated New Delhi as the new capital
(c) 1892 (d) 1982
of
India in 1931?
(c)
(a) Lord Curzon (b) Lord Wellesley
(c) Lord Irwin (d) Lord Cornwallis
71.In which year the Morley-Minto
Reforms were passed in British India? (c)
(a) 1919 (b) 1909 (c) 1929 (d) 1939
RRB Group-D 15-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans. 77.Doctrine of Lapse was introduced by
(b) ___.
(a) Lord Cornwallis (b) Lord Dalhousie
72.The report of amendment of Indian (c) Lord Wellesley (d) Lord Hastings
Constitution is commonly known as the RRB Group-D 06-12-2018 (Shift-II) Ans.
Montague Chelmsford report. When was (b)
this report published?
(a) 1918 (b) 1905 (c) 1920 (d) 1910

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78.____ who took the charge of Governor RRB Group-D 10-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans
General in 1848, introduced the 'Doctrine : (a)
of Lapse'?
(a) Lord Wellesley (b) Lord William 84.Which was the first fort built by the
(c) Lord Cornwallis (d) Lord Dalhousie Britishers?
RRB Group-D 31-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. (a) Fort St. George (b) Fort St. Louis
(d)
(c) Fort St. Angelo (d) Fort St. peter
79.Which of the following is associated (a)
with 'Doctrine of Lapse'?
(a) Lord Irvin (b) Lord Dalhousie
85.Amar Jawan Jyoti burns near India
(c) Lord Salisbury (d) Lord Canning
Gate in Memory of soldiers who were
martyred during 1971 ____ war.
: (b)
(a) India-China (b) Pak - China
(c) India-Pak (d) India-Burma
80.____had started Indian civil services in RRB Group-D 03-12-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
1793. (c)
(a) Robert Clive (b) Lord Cornwallis
(c) Sir John Shore (d) Lord Harding
86.Where is the Gateway of India
(b) situated?
(a) Mumbai (b) Chennai
81.In 1781, the first Governor General of (c) New Delhi (d) Jaipur
India, Warren Hastings had established a RRB Group-D 22-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
Madrasa in ____ for the study and (a)
teaching of Muslim law.
(a) Mumbai (b) Delhi (c) Bihar (d) Calcutta 87.Famous Tourist spot Victoria
RRB Group-D 16-10-2018 (Shift-III), memorial is in__.
RRB Group-D 28-09-2018 (Shift-I), (a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) West Bengal
RRB Group-D 28-09-2018 (Shift-III) Ans (c) Maharashtra (d) Gujarat
: (d) RRB Group-D 26-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
(b)
82.Who was the first Viceroy of India?
(a) William Bentinck (b) Robert Clive 88.Victoria Terminal (now named as
(c) Lord Wellesley (d) Lord Canning Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal) was built
RRB Group-D 19-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : in?
(d) (a) 1884 (b) 1890
(c) 1888 (d) 1878
83.Which Indian leader was popularly RRB Group-D 10-12-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
known as 'Punjab Kesari'? (c)
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai
(b) Maulana Azad 89.It is proposed to build National War
(c) Ravindranath Tagore Memorial in-
(d) Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel (a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Srinagar
(c) New Delhi (d) Mumbai

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RRB Group-D 12-10-2018 (Shift-III) Ans 4.Who prepared India's first national
: (c). income estimates in 1876?
a.. VKRP Rao
90. ______century regarded as the b. PC Mahalanobis
beginning of the modern period in India. c.William Digby.
(a) sixteenth d. Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) Seventeenth GROUP-D 2019 17/08/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans:d
(c) Nineteenth
(d) Eighteenth 5.The festival of Navj is associated with
RRB Group-D 30-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans. which of the following religious groups?
(d) a.. Parsi
b. Jain
c. Buddhism
GROUP-D 2019 d. Sikh
GROUP-D 2019 17/08/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans:a
1.Which of the following was a non- 6.Which social reformer founded the
violent protest against the British 'Brahma Samaj' in 1828 and is known for
monopoly on salt production in 1930? his pioneering role in advocating
a.Dandi Yatra education and opposing practices like
b. Violation of the law sati, child marriage and social
c. Kheda Satyagraha segregation?
d.Khilafat movement. a. Iswarchandra Vidyasagar
GROUP-D 2019 17/08/2022 SHIFT 1 Ans:a b. Vivekananda
c. Swami Dayananda Saraswati
2.In Jainism, the word 'Jain' is derived d.Rajarammohan Roy
from the Sanskrit word 'Jeena'. This GROUP-D 2019 18/082022 SHIFT 1 Ans:4
refers to a person who transcends
passions. - All human 7.Who among the following is
1. He is considered to be the founder of Islam?
2. The winner a.Prophet Abraham
3. Impartiality b.. Prophet Suh
4. Chiranjeeva c.Prophet Yusuf
GROUP-D 2019 17/08/2022 SHIFT 1 Ans:b d. Prophet Muhammad
GROUP-D 2019 18/08/2022 SHIFT 1 Ans:d
3.The famous Haji Ali Dargah is situated
in which of the following cities? 8.Who is the Vedic deity who falls under
a.Delhi the 'Prithvi Sthana' (land related)
b. Mumbai category?
c. Ajmer a.. Jupiter
d. Hyderabad b. Varuna
GROUP-D 2019 17/08/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans c.. Indra
:b d. Vishnu
GROUP-D 2019 18/08/2022 SHIFT 4 Ans:a

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2. Book of Psalms
9.Legalizing the remarriage of widows in 3. Bible (Holy Book)
all jurisdictions in India under the rule of 4.D Doctrina Christiana
the East India Company. The Hindu GROUP-D 2019 22/08/2022 SHIFT 4 Ans:3
Widow Remarriage Act was passed in .
1.1857 14.Who built the Jain Mandir?
2.1858 1.Emperor Ashoka
3.1859 2. Nandivardhana Maharaja
4.1856 3. Rishabhdev
GROUP-D 2019 18/08/2022 SHIFT 4 Ans:4 4. Parswanatha
GROUP-D 2019 23/08/2022 SHIFT 4 Ans
10.Which of the following scriptures is :2
related to Buddhism?
1. Hadith 15.Why is Mitochondria considered a
2. Tripitaka 'wonderful' organelle?
3. Tanak 1. Because they are storage centers of cell
4. Agama fluids
GROUP-D 2019 22/08/2022 SHIFT 1 Ans:2 2. Because they contain ribosomes and
DNA
11.Who took over as the leader of 3. Because they can digest microorganisms
Brahmo Samaj immediately after Raja 4. Because they are storehouses of particle
Ram Mohan Roy? energy
1. Dr. Atma Ram GROUP -D 2019 24/08/2022 SHIFT 1
2. Dwarkanath Tagore Ans:4
3. Rabindranath Tagore
4. Devendranath Tagore 16.Where did Buddha attain
GROUP-D 2019 22/08/2022 SHIFT 1 Ans:4 enlightenment in the following cities?
1. Sanchi
12.In which year did the Chauri Chaura 2. Bodh Gaya
incident take place? 3. Lumbini
1.1920 4. Kosambi
2.1922 GROUP-D 2019 24/08/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans:2
3.1919
4.1921 17.Mahatma Gandhi decided to launch a
GROUP-D 2019 22/08/2022 SHIFT 4 Ans:2 nationwide Satyagraha in 1919 against
which of the following laws?
13.What is the name of the Christian 1. Internal Migration Act.
Holy Scriptures, which consists of two 2. Pitt's India Act
parts, the Old Testament, which contains 3. Regulating Act
the Hebrew texts from the time of Jesus, 4. Rowlatt's law
and the New Testament, which contains GROUP-D 2019 24/08/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans:4
the writings about Jesus and the early
church?
1. Knowing Jesus God.

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18.In which year the Municipal GROUP-D 2019 16/08/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans:2
Corporation of Calcutta was established
by Royal Charter? 23.Which of the following Governor
1.1726 Generals of India formulated the policy
2.1736 of Rajyasnakramana Siddhanta (Doctrine
3.1688 of Lapse)?
4.1687 1. Lord Ripon
GROUP-D 2019 24/08/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans:1 2. Lord Dalhousie
3. Lord Canning
19.What is the name of the Muslim holy 5. Lord William Bentinck
book that describes the relationship GROUP-D 2019 16/09/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans:2
between Almighty and Omniscient God
and His creation? 25.Where was Swami Mahavir born?
1. Eng 1. Pataliputra
2. The Torah 2. Pavapuri
3. Sahih Al-Bukhari 3 Kundagram
4. Quran 4. Lumbini
GROUP-D 2019 24/08/2022 SHIFT 4 Ans:4 GROUP-D 2019 26/09/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans:3
20.Who will be the President of Indian 26.During British rule in India, in which
Olympic Association by March 2022? year did the capital shift from Calcutta to
1. Nita Ambani Delhi take place?
2.N Ramachandran 1.1911
3. Abhay Singh Chautala 2.1905
4. Narendra Dhruv Batra 3.1919
GROUP-D 2019 25/08/2022 SHIFT 4 Ans:4 4.1917
GROUP-D 2019 26/09/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans:1
21.Multiply the number 944134 by adding
1 to each digit and subtracting 25 from 27.Rama Navami is a Hindu spring
each even digit. What is the difference festival that commemorates Lord Rama's
between the largest and smallest digits birthday. It usually comes in a month.
thus formed? 1. April
1.2 2. July
2.6 3. June
3.4 4. August
4.5 GROUP-D 2019 06/10/2022 SHIFT 1 Ans:1
GROUP-D 2019 25/08/2022 SHIFT 4 Ans:2
28.Who is Tirthankara in Jainism?
22.Which of the following four Vedas is 1.One who believes in one God, one soul
the largest and oldest? and reincarnation.
1. Sama Veda 2. A person who never believed in God.
2. Rugveda 3.The preceptor and spiritual teacher who
3. Yajurveda teaches the path to salvation or liberation.
4. Atharva Veda 4. A group of pilgrims

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GROUP-D 2019 06/10/2022 SHIFT 1 Ans:3 4.Subhash Chandra Bose and Bal
Gangadhar Tilak
29.Which of the following incidents are GROUP-D 2019 06/09/2022 SHIFT 4 Ans:1
known as 'Calcutta' murders'?
1.Quit India Movement 34.Who among the following is a well-
2. Bengal Satyagraha known revolutionary activist and leader
3. Direct action day of Hindustan Social Republican
4. Salt Satyagraha Association (HSRA)?
GROUP-D 2019 06/10/2022 SHIFT 1 Ans:3 1. Benz M Malabari
2. Bhulabhai Desai
30.Who sacrificed his life along with 363 3. Emperor Rajagopalachari.
others to protect 'Bhadra' trees in 4.Chandra Shekhar Azad
Khezrali village near Jodhpur, GROUP-D 2019 11/10/2022 SHIFT 1 Ans:4
Rajasthan?
1. Soumya Swaminadhan 35.Norooz is popularly known as New
2. Vandana Shiva Year followed by which religious
3. Medha Patkar group/community?
4. Amrita Devi Bishnoi 1. Parsi
GROUP-D 2019 06/10/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans:4 2. Buddhism
3. Muhammadiyah
31.Who sacrificed his life along with 363 4. Sikh
others for the protection of 'Kantri' trees GROUP-D 2019 11/10/2022 SHIFT 1 Ans:1
in Khejarli village near Jodhpur,
Rajasthan? 36.Aman, Bikram. Chetan, Dhanush,
1. Soumya Swaminadhan Elisa and Frank are six friends of
2. Medha Patkar different lengths. Chetana Kanku is the
3. Amrita Devi Bishnoi only three shorter, Aman is shorter than
4. Vandana Shiva Dhanush, Prank, Frank is older than
GROUP-D 2019 06/10/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans:3 Elisa, not all of them shorter. How many
friends are better than a prank?
32.Brihadaranyaka, Mundaka and 1.4
Taittariya are some examples of which of 2.3
the following sections of religious texts? 3.2
1. Horoscope stories 4.1
2. Upanishads GROUP-D 2019 12/09/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans:4
3. Myths
4. Legends 37.Silkworms and frog larvae undergo
GROUP-D 2019 06/10/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans:2 drastic changes to become adults called:
1. Transformation
33.Who founded the Swaraj Party in 2. Deformation
1923? 3. Metamorphosis
1.Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das 4. Diversification
2.Motilal Nehru and Maulana Azad GROUP-D 2019 12/09/2022 SHIFT 2 Ans:2
3. Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi

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GROUP-D 2014 RRC GROUP D 09/11/2014 SHIFT 1 Ans

:1
1.Ibrahim Rahantalla cup, what is it
about? 6.Who was the most efficient ruler in the
1. Archery Pala dynasty?
2. Boxing 1. Dhulipala
3. Badminton 2. Rajapala
4. Basketball 3. Dharmapala
RRC GROUP D 09/11/2014 SHIFT 1 Ans 4. Devasala
:3 RRC GROUP D 09/11/2014 SHIFT 2 Ans:
4
2.Who gave the slogan "If you give me
blood, I guarantee you freedom"? 500 7.When did Vakku-Da Gama come to
Bhagat Singh India?
1. Bhagat Singh 1.1492
2.Chandra Shekhara Azad 2.1498
3. Subhas Chandra Bose 3.1398
4. Balagangadhara Tilak 4.1542
RRC GROUP D 09/11/2014 SHIFT 1 Ans RRC GROUP D 09/11/2014 SHIFT 2 Ans:2
:3
8.Who is the author of "Shakuntala"?
3.Who founded Brahma Samaj? 1. Maithili Saran Gupta
1.Debendranath Tagore 2. Swami Dayananda
2. Keshav Chandra Sen 3. Kalidasa
3. Raja Ram Mohan Roy 4. Tulsidas
4. Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar RRC GROUP D 09/11/2014 SHIFT 2 Ans:3
RRC GROUP D 09/11/2014 SHIFT 1 Ans
:3 9.Who built the famous Kailash temple?
1. The Guptas
4.Author of Ratnavali' book: 2. Cholas
1. Tulsidas 3. Satavahanas
2. Calcium 4. None of them.
3. Harshavardhana RRC GROUP D 09/11/2014 SHIFT 2 Ans:1
4. Prenchand
RRC GROUP D 09/11/2014 SHIFT 1 Ans 11.Who is the author of Harshacharita?
:3 1. Kalidasa
2. Banabhatta
5.What is the ratio against whom/what 3. Vishnugupta
Gandhiji started Satyagraha in 1919? 4. Parimala Gupta
1. Rowt Act RRC GROUP D 09/11/2014 SHIFT 2 Ans:2
2. Caron Wallis
3.Simpson a 12. Who gave the slogan 'Jai Hind' to the
4.O. Dwyer country?
1.Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

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2.Subhas Chandra Bose 4.1961

3. Dr. Rajendra Prasad RRC GROUP D 16/0/11/2014 SHIFT
4 Motilal Nehru 2Ans:4
RRC GROUP D 16/11/2014 SHIFT 1Ans:2
18.Jallianwala Bagh is located in which
13.What is Ajanta painting related to? city?
1. Jainism 1. Ludhiana
2. Buddhism 2. Bhatinda
3. Vaishnava tradition 3. Jalandhar
4. Saiva tradition 4. Amrit sir
RRC GROUP D 16/11/2014 SHIFT 1Ans:2 RRC GROUP D 16/0/11/2014 SHIFT
2Ans:4
14.Which new bank was formed in 1927
when Bengal, Madras and Bombay 19. In which language did Visakhadatta
Presidency Banks were nationalized? write 'Mudra Rakshasa'?
1.Punjab National Bank 1. Telugu
2. Syndicate Bank 2. Bengali
3. State Bank of India 3. Hindi
4. Punjab and Sind Bank 4. Sanskrit
RRC GROUP D 16/11/2014 SHIFT 1Ans:3 RRC GROUP D 16/0/11/2014 SHIFT
2Ans:4
15.What is the name of the book written
by Megasthenes? 20.Which of the following conquerors
1. Economics was born in Macedonia (Europe) and
2. Panchatantra died in Babylon (Asia) and Buried in
3. Indiana Alexandria (Africa) ?
4. Indica 1. Genghis Khan
RRC GROUP D 16/11/2014 SHIFT 1Ans:4 2. Attila the Hun
3.Napoleon Bonaparte
16.Which is considered the cornerstone 4.Alexander the Great
of Indian medicine? RRC GROUP D 23/11/1/2014 CHENNAI
1. Charaka Samhitam Ans:4
2. Lokayata
3. Brihat Samhita 21.Mumbai, Calcutta and Chennai by
4. Surya Siddhanta following
RRC GROUP D 16/0/11/2014 SHIFT High Courts were established.
2Ans:1 1. High Court of India Act, 1861
2. High Court of India Act, 1865
17.In which year India captured Goa from 3. High Court of India Act, 1911
the Portuguese in the month of 5. Government of India Act, 1919
December? RRC GROUP D 23/11/1/2014 CHENNAI
1.1958 Ans:1
2.1959
3.1960

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22.In which city Sufi monk Moinuddin RRC GROUP D 23/11/1/2014 CHENNAI
Chishti, Dargah Ans:1
(tomb) is there ?
1.Mumbai 27.Khajuraho is located in which state?
2. Chennai Ajmer 1. Andhra Pradesh
3. Kolkata 2. Kerala
4. Ajmer 3. Tamil Nadu
RRC GROUP D 23/11/1/2014 CHENNAI 4. middle ground
Ans:4 RRC GROUP D 23/11/1/2014 CHENNAI
Ans:4
23.Other than whose permission,
Englishmen are needle-stickers
Have you set up a factory?
1.Babur ALP & Tec. 2018
2. Shivaji
3. Jahangir
4. Akbar 1.In the year ____ Vasco-da-Gama
RRC GROUP D 23/11/1/2014 CHENNAI was the first European who came to India
Ans:3 via sea route.
(a) 1488 (b) 1489
24.Pulakesi II is the most famous of any (c) 1498 (d) 1499
dynasty RRB ALP & Tec. (21-08-18 Shift-III) Ans
the ruler? : (c)
1. Chalukyas
2. Cholas 2.In 1662 Portugal had gifted which
3. Pallavas Indian city to the British King Charles II
4. Additions as a part of the dowry of the sister of the
RRC GROUP D 23/11/1/2014 CHENNAI king of Portugal?
Ans:1 (a) Bombay (b) Daman
(c) Goa (d) Cochin
25.Who wrote the novel Ananda Math? RRB ALP & Tec. (20-08-18 Shift-I) Ans :
1. Bankinchandra Chatterjee (a)
2. Ball Stoise
3. Arundhati Roy 3.Sir Charles Wilkins is famous for which
4. Jaswant Singh
of the following translations?
RRC GROUP D 23/11/1/2014 CHENNAI
(a) Old Testament in Hindi (b) Bible in
Hindi
Ans:1
(c) Bhagavad Gita in English (d)
Shakuntalam in English
26.Chakyar Kool, a very attractive dance
RRB ALP & Tec. (31-08-18 Shift-III)
form, belongs to which state?
Ans. c
1. Kerala
2. Tamil Nadu
4.First Partition of Bengal took place in
3. Karnataka
the year ___.
4. Goda
(a) 1906 AD (b) 1903 AD

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(c) 1904 AD (d) 1905 AD (c) Jahangir (d) Shahjahan

RRB ALP & Tec. (09-08-18 Shift-III) Ans RRB J.E. 2014 (14.12.2014 Set-2, Red
: (d) Paper) Ans. (b)
5.When did the capital of India transfer 2.Who did not take part in the Revolt of
from Calcutta to Delhi?
(a) 1911 (b) 1905 1857?
(c) 1910 (d) 1912 (a) Rani Laxmibai (b) Bhagat Singh
RRB ALP & Tec. (14-08-18 Shift-I) Ans : (c) Nana Saheb (d) Tatya Tope
(a) RRB J.E. -2014 Ans. (b)
6.Before the Champaran Satyagraha the 3.Which Movement had to withdraw

farmers of Champaran used to adopt the suddenly due to the Chauri-Chaura
'Panch Kathiya system in which _____ incident?
were sown in 5 Katthas out of Bigha's
(a) Quit India Movement
land.
(b) Home Rule Movement
(a) Indigo (b) Cotton (c) Sugarcane (d) Jute
(c) Non-cooperation movement
RRB ALP & Tec. (17-08-18 Shift-II) Ans : (d) Civil Disobedience movement
(a) RRB J.E. 2014 (14.12.2014 Set-2, Red
Paper) Ans. (c)
7.India and Pakistan were divided into
two Independent nations through which 4.In which of the following movements
Constitutional Law? did Gandhiji make the first use of hunger
(a) India Freedom Act 1947 strike as
(b) Pakistan Freedom Act 1947 a weapon in India?
(c) Indian Partition Act 1947 (a) Ahmedabad Strike, 1918
(d) Pakistan Partition Act 1947 (b) Rowlatt Satyagraha, 1919
RRB ALP & Tec. (09-08-18 Shift-I) Ans : (c) Swadeshi movement, 1905
(a) (d) Champaran Satyagraha, 1917
RRB J.E. 2014 (14.12.2014 Red Paper)
8.One of the most famous churches in Ans. (a)
Christianity, St. Peter's Basilica is located
in which city? 5.Who was the lawyer during the famous
(a) Madrid (b) Lisbon 3 INA Soldiers trials?
(c) Pisa (d) Vatican
(a) Bhulabhai Desai
(b) Asaf Ali
: (d)
(d) C. Rajgopalachari
RRB J.E. -2014 Ans : (a)
JE 2014
6.In which year Quit India Movement
1.Who was the ruler of India at the
was started?
inception of the East India Company?
(a) 1920 AD (b) 1930 AD
(a) Aurangzeb (b) Akbar (c) 1942 AD (d) 1946 AD

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RRB J.E. 2014 (14.12.2014 Red Paper)

Ans. (c) 3.The demand for the Constituent
Assembly was put forward by the Indian
7.Who was the Governor-General of National Congress in 1936 at its session
held at ___.
India during the formation of the Indian (a) Bombay (b) Lucknow (c) Lahore (d)
National Congress? Kanpur
(a) Lord Chelmsford (b) Lord Dalhousie (c) RRB JE - 29/05/2019 (Shift-II) Ans : (b)
Lord Dufferin (d) Lord Canning
RRB J.E.-2014 Ans : (c) 4.Between whom the Lucknow Pact of
1916 was signed?
8.Name the advocate of Sampoorna (a) Indian National Congress &
BritishGovernment
Kranti (total revolution) in India?
(b) Moderates & Extremists
(a) Jayprakash Narayan (b) Jyotiba Phule (c) Indian National Congress and Indian
(c) V.P. Singh (d) Mahatma Gandhi MuslimLeague
RRB J.E. 2014 (14.12.2014 Set-2, Red (d) British Government & Indian Muslim
Paper) Ans. (a) League
RRB JE - 27/05/2019 (Shift-II) Ans : c
9.Who gave the title of 'Sardar' to
5.Mahatma Gandhi organized the Dandi
Vallabh Bhai Patel?
March in 1930 against the _____.
(a) C. Rajagopalachari (a) Suppression of congress (b) Persecution
(b) Mahatma Gandhi ji (c) Jawaharlal Nehru on Harijans (c) Community award (d)
(d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad Imposition of tax on salt
RRB J.E.- 2014 Ans. (b) RRB JE - 27/05/2019 (Shift-III) Ans : (d)
6.The post of Governor-General was

created by?
JE 2018 (a) Government of India Act, 1935 (b)
1.Which one of the following founded a Government of India Act, 1858 (c) Charter
Act, 1813 (d) Charter Act, 1833
weekly newspaper 'Commonweal' in
RRB JE - 23/05/2019 (Shift-I) Ans : (d)
1914?
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai 7.Which of the following was the
(b) Annie Besant Governor-General of India?
(c) Motilal Nehru (a) Maulana Azad
(d) Madan Mohan Malviya (b) C. Rajagopalachari
RRB JE - 01/06/2019 (Shift-II) Ans : (b). (c) B.R. Ambedkar
(d) Sardar Ballabhbhai Patel
2.Who was Governor-General of India RRB JE - 02/06/2019 (Shift-I) Ans : (b)
during Sepoy Mutiny?
8.Which leader has given the slogan
(a) Robert Clive (b) William Bentinck
Swaraj is my Birth Right and I shall have
(c) Warren hasting (d) Lord Canning it?
RRB JE - 26/05/2019 (Shift-III) Ans : (d) (a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Bipin Chandra Pal

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(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (d) Motilal Nehru (d) C. Rajagopalachari

RRB JE - 01/06/2019 (Shift-III) Ans. (c) RRB JE - 01/06/2019 (Shift-III) Ans. (a)
9.Who wrote the song 'Sare Jahan se 15.When was the French East India
Achcha'? Company founded in India?
(a) Muhammad Iqbal (a) 1600 (b) 1602
(b) Munshi Premchand (c) 1705 (d) 1664
(c) Kavi Pradeep R.R.B. JE. Stage - II 30-08-2019 (Shift -
(d) Ravindranath Tagore III) Ans. (d)
RRB JE - 01/06/2019 (Shift-II) Ans : (a)
16.When did the Santhal rebellion break
10.Slogan 'Do or Die' is related to which out?
of the following movements? (a) 1985 (b) 1912
(a) Non-Cooperation Movement (c) 1855 (d) 1821
(b) Swadeshi Movement RRB JE CBT-II 29–08–2019 (evening)
(c) Will Disobedience Movement Ans. ©
(d) Quit India Movement
RRB JE - 24/05/2019 (Shift-I) Ans : (d) 17.In which of the following cities did the
Jallianwala Bagh massacre take place?
11.Which of the following was built in (a) Bhatinda (b) Jalandhar
memory of soldier who died in first world (c) Amritsar (d) Patiala
war? RRB JE CBT-II 31.08.2019 IInd Shift
(a) Buland Darwaja (b) Gateway of India Ans : (c)
(c) India Gate (d) Charminar
RRB JE - 26/06/2019 (Shift-I) Ans : (c)
RPF SI 2018
12.Fort William is situated on the banks
of the____ River. 1. When did the Vasco-da Gama come to
(a) Yamuna (b) Hooghly India? (a) 1492 (b) 1498
(c) Godavari (d) Chinab (c) 1948 (d) 1857
RRB JE - 29/05/2019 (Shift-I) Ans : (b) RPF SI 12.01.2019 (Shift - III) Ans : (b)
13.Which great personality of the world 2.In which state did the Kisan Sabha
was also known as 'Fuhrer'? movement start?
(a) Vladimir Lenin (b) Adolf Hitler (a) Gujarat (b) New Delhi
(c) Napoleon Bonaparte (d) Joseph Stalin (c) Karnataka (d) Bihar
RPF JE (Electrical) 19.09.2019 (Shift - RPF SI 24.12.2018 (Shift - I) Ans. (d)
III) Ans. (b)
3.Who wrote the book Nil Darpan?
14.Who was invited by Lord Wavell to (a) Shivanath Shastri (b) Kamala Basu
form an interim government in India in (c) Deenbandhu Mitra (d) Nakasha Arab
1946? RPF SI 24.12.2018 (Shift - I) Ans. (c)
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Vallabh bhai Patel 4.Who was the President of Lahore
(c) Rajendra Prasad Session of congress.

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(a) Jawahar Lal Nehru (b) Sarojini Naidu 3.Who was the first Indian women
(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Motilal Nehru president of Indian National Congress.
RPF SI 18.01.2019 (Shift - III) Ans. (a) (a) Sarojini Naidu (b) Annie Besant (c) Bina
Das (d) Kalpana Dutta Indian
5.In which year Pitt's India Act was RPF Constable 05.02.2019 Ans. (a)
passed?
(a) 1784 (b) 1773 4.When was the All India Muslim League
(c) 1783 (d) 1793 established in Dhaka.
RPF SI 18.01.2019 (Shift - III) Ans. (c) (a) 1885 (b) 1906
(c) 1857 (d) 1927
6.Who was the first Viceroy of India. RPF Constable 05.02.2019 Ans. (b)
(a) Lord Wellesly
(b) Lord Canning 5.Im whose tenure the Factory Act of
(c) Lord Cornwallis 1881 was passed?
(d) Lord Mayo (a) Dufferin (b) Ripon
RPF SI 18.01.2019 (Shift - III) Ans. (b) (c) Mayo (d) Litton
RPF Constable 03.02.2019 (Shift - I) Ans.
(b)
7.Who was appointed as first Governor
General of Bengal? 6.Who among the following is known as
(a) William Behtick "liberator of Indian press"
(b) Warren Hasting
(a) Lord (b) Lord Litton
(c) Lord Mayo
(c) Charles Metcalfe (d) Charles Wood
(d) Robert clive
RPF SI 18.01.2019 (Shift - III) Ans. (b) RPF Constable 03.02.2019 (Shift - I) Ans.
(c)
7.Who was known as 'Badshah Khan' in

Indian history?
RPF Constable 2018 (a) Khan Abdul Gaffar khan
1.Who died in the Fourth Anglo- (b) Abul Kalam Azad
Mysore war at Srirangapatna? (c) Aurangzeb
(a) Hyder Ali (d) Bahadur Shah
(b) Thimmaraja Wodeyar I RPF Constable 05.02.2019 Ans. (a)
(c) Tirumala Deva Raya
(d) Tipu Sultan
RPF Constable 05.02.2019 Ans. (d)
WORLD HISTORY
NTPC 2016
2.Who presided over the 1907 Indian
National Congress Surat Session. (a) 1.In 1907, _____ was elected as
Surendranath Banerjee (b) Vallabhbhai Patel hereditary ruler of Bhutan on 17
(c) Rajendra Prasad (d) Ras Behari Ghosh December 1907 he was
RPF Constable 16.02.2019 (Shift - III) crowned and established a Druk Gyalpo
Ans. (d) (Dragon King)
(a) Ugyen Wangchaine
(b) Urban Wangchuck

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(c) Ugyen Wangchuck

(d) Urban Wang Chain 7.Who is the current King of Bhutan of
RRB NTPC Stage I st 30.04.2016 (Shift- the Wang Chuck Dynasty?
II) Ans : (c) (a) Jigmen Sindhe
(b) Ugyen
2.When did the Cooch Bihar king, (c) Jigme Khesar Namgyel
Sangladeep ruled or control Bhutan? (d) Gigme
(a) Around 7th century BC RRB NTPC 03.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage
(b) Around 5th century BC Ist Ans : (c)
(c) Around 9th century BC
(d) Around 4th century BC 8.In which year, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon)
RRB NTPC Stage I st 30.04.2016 (Shift-I) was granted Independence as Dominion
Ans : (a) of Ceylon?
(a) 1948 (b) 1972
3.Which country celebrates Independence (c) 1947 (d) 1968
day on 4 January? RRB NTPC 02.04.2016 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
(a) Pakistan (b) Myanmar (c) Malaysia (d) Ans : (a)
Indonesia
RRB NTPC 28.03.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I 9.Terracotta Army - Terracotta is a
st Ans : (b) collection of sculptures. Represents the
armies of the first Emperor of Which
4.In which year Berlin walls fell or Country.
collapsed? (a) China (b) North Korea
(a) 1999 (b) 1989 (c) 1982 (d) 2000 (c) Thailand (d) Japan
RRB NTPC 29.03.2016 (Shift-II) Stage I RRB NTPC 31.03.2016 (Shift-III) Stage
st Ans : (b) Ist
Ans : (a)
5.In 2005, the series of non-violence
revolutions that had rejected the 10.Which of the following countries
government in Georgia, Ukraine, formally ended the rule of the united
Kyrgyzstan and Lebanon? Kingdom in the
(a) White Revolution year 1986?
(b) Green Revolution (a) Australia (b) Sri Lanka
(c) Color Revolution (c) Maldives (d) Canada
(d) Rainbow Revolution RRB NTPC 18.01.2017 (Shift-I) Stage
RRB NTPC 03.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage IInd Ans : (a)
Ist Ans : (c)
11.Who is credited with building the great
6.What was the technology developed to wall of China?
track the enemy submarines in the (a) Qin Shi Huang
Second World War? (b) Fa-Hien
(a) Radar (b) SONAR (c) Xuanzang or Hiuen Tsang
(c) Echolocation (d) LEADER (d) Yijing
RRB NTPC 05.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage RRB NTPC 12.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage I
Ist Ans : (b) st Ans : (a)

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17.Which religion is practiced by most of

12.Sri Lanka got independence in _____. the people in Sri Lanka?
(a) 1947 (b) 1948 (a) Christianity (b) Islam (c) Buddhism (d)
(c) 1949 (d) 1950 Hinduism
RRB NTPC 11.04.2016 (Shift-III) Stage RRB NTPC Stage I st 22.04.2016 (Shift-
Ist Ans : (b) III) Ans : ©
13.To conquer Afghanistan by ____, it 18.The Battle of Gulnabad was fought in

comes under the Achaemenid Empire. the year ___ under the leadership of
(a) Darius I of Persia (b) Alexander Mahmud Hotaki.
(c) Darius III of Persia (d) Diodotus I (a) 1770 (b) 1722
Ans : (a) RRB NTPC Stage Ist 27.04.2016 (Shift-
III) Ans : (b)
14.Name the first Prime Minister of
Bangladesh after the declaration of NTPC 2019
Independence in 1971.
(a) Tajjuddin Ahmad 1.Which one of the following is not
(b) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman associated with the Indian Freedom
(c) Muhammad Mansoor Ali Struggle?
(d) Khalida Jiya (a) Cripps Mission (b) New Deal (c) Simon
Commission (d) Wavell Plan
st Ans : (b) RRB NTPC 20.01.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Ans. (b)
15.Queen Elizabeth II has recently
2.What is the ancient name of Iran?
become the longest reigning Monarch in
Britain, She has surpassed the record set (a) Persia (b) Mesopotamia (c) Gaul (d)
by____. Ceylon
(a) Queen Elizabeth I RRB NTPC 04.02.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist
Ans. (a)
(b) Queen Anne
(c) King George
3.Bangladesh celebrates its Independence
(d) Queen Victoria
day on ... ?
(a) 26 February (b) 26 March (c) 12 March
Ist Ans : (d)
(d) 20 April
16.Which country's constitution is the
Ans. (b)
longest and very detailed among the
democratic countries of the world?
4.Which one of the following statements is
(a) United State of America
incorrect with reference to the Indian
(b) Britain
freedom struggle?
(c) South Africa
(a) The Revolt of 1857 is considered to be
(d) India the First freedom struggle
RRB NTPC Stage Ist, 22.04.2016 (Shift- (b) Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Rajguru
II) Ans : (d) were hanged in March 1931

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(c) The Simon Commission reached (a) UK (b) China

Bomboy in 1928. (c) India (d) America
(d) Sheikh Mujibur Rehman played an RRB Group-D 15-11-2018 (Shift-I) Ans :
important role in the freedom struggle of (b)
India
RRB NTPC 24.07.2021 (Shift-I) Stage Ist 4.The revolutionary leader who improved
Ans. (d) land reforms and literacy rate in Cuba?
(a) Fulgencio Batista
5.In which of the following years was the (b) Colonel gaddafi
Sino-Indian War (Indo–China War) (c) Che Guevara
fought? (d) Fidel Castro
(a) 1962 (b) 1969 RRB Group-D 05-11-2018 (Shift-III) Ans.
(c) 1973 (d) 1964 (d)
Ans. (a) 5.What is the name of that American civil
movement activist who gave the famous
6.The UN was founded as a successor to speech 'I have a dream'?
the League of Nations in 1945 ______. (a) Abraham Lincoln
(a) Right before the Second World War (b) Martin Luther king Junior
(b) Immediately after the First World War (c) Lucy stone
(c) Immediately after the Second World War (d) Victoria Woodhull
(d) Right before the First World War RRB Group-D 04-10-2018 (Shift-II) Ans :
RRB NTPC 09.01.2021 (Shift-II) Stage Ist (b)
Ans. (c)
6.The Opium war was fought between
GROUP - D 2018 two countries, one of those countries was
China,
1.Which are the following countries that Which is the other country?
fought the Hundred years war? (a)Britain
(a) England and Italy (b) United states of America
(b) England and Germany (c)India
(c) Germany and France (d)France
(d) England and France RRB Group-D 09-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
RRB Group-D 17-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans : (a)
(d)
7.Which of the following was called the
2.In which year did the Boston Tea Party 'Iron Chancellor'?
happen? (a) Changez Khan
(a) 1775 (b) 1774 (b) Napoleon Bonaparte
(c) 1776 (d) 1773 (c) Otto von Bismarck
RRB Group-D 20-09-2018 (Shift-III) Ans (d) Adolf Hitler
: (d) RRB Group-D 04-10-2018 (Shift-I) Ans.
(c)
3.Which country is mainly governed by
Communist/ Maoist parties?

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8.When was the Battle of Waterloo JE 2019

fought?
(a) 1815 (b) 1835 1.In which of the following periods was
(c) 1850 (d) 1840 the Second World War fought?
RRB Group-D 18-09-2018 (Shift-I) Ans. (a) 1939–45 (b) 1934–38 (c) 1933–35 (d)
(a) 1946–49
R.R.B. JE. Stage - II 01-09-2019 (Shift -
ALP & TECH 2018 III) Ans. (a)
1.In which country the last queen of
2.Which of the following countries was
France, Marie Antoinette was born?
established in 1971?
(a) England (b) Yunnan
(a) Sri Lanka (b) Bangladesh
(c) Austria (d) Italy (c) Nepal (d) Bhutan
RRB ALP & Tec. (30-08-18 Shift-III) Ans RRB JE - 23/05/2019 (Shift-II) Ans : (b)
: (c)
3.The idea of liberty, Equality and
2.The Freedom Trail is a 2.5 mile long Fraternity had been taken from ___.
pass that better reflects the American (a) Indian revolution (b) Russian Revolution
Revolution. In (c) French Revolution (d) American
which American city you will find this Revolution
famous and historic route. RRB JE - 27/05/2019 (Shift-II) Ans : (c).
(a) Memphis (b) Boston
(c) Denver (d) Connecticut 4.Which of these wars took place after
RRB ALP & Tec. (10-08-18 Shift-I) Ans : India became independent?
(b) (a) Boer War (b) World War-II
(c) Gulf War (d) World War-I
3.Paul Revere was a patriot who fought in RRB-JE 30.08.2019, Ist Shift Ans.(c)
the American Revolution against the
Britishers. What is the name of the city
where he lived and where he died? Paul RPF SI 2019
Revere house is still located in this city. 1.Which is the capital of Vietnam
(a) Chicago (b) Boston (c) Pennsylvania (d) (a) Hanoi (b) Bali
Florida (c) Bangkok (d) Port Vila
RRB ALP & Tec. (20-08-18 Shift-III) Ans RPF SI 18.01.2019 (Shift - III) Ans. (a)
: (b)
2.Magna Carta is the charter of right
4.In which year was the Eiffel Tower issued by-
constructed, to commemorate the 100th (a) King John of England
anniversary of the French Revolution? (b) King Albert Edward
(a) 1889 (b) 1931 (c) King George V
(c) 1886 (d) 1900 (d) King Albert Edward
ALP Stage -II 22.01.2019 (shift - I) Ans. RPF Constable 05.02.2019 Ans. (a)
(a)

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