1 150+ History Questions Asked in SSC CGL Exam 2017 & 2018 1. In 1528, __________ defeated the Rajputs 8. Who led the Bardoli Satyagraha movement? at Chanderi. (A) Mahatma Gandhi (A) Humayun (B) Akbar (B) Rabindra Nath Tagore (C) Jahangir (D) Babur (C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Ans. D (D) Chittaranjan Das Ans. C 2. Which of the following was a leader of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army 9. Who amongst the following was the founded in 1928? successor of Sikh Guru Har Krishan? (A) Guru Angad Dev (A) Khudiram Bose (B) Guru Tegh Bahadur (B) Bhagat Singh (C) Guru Hargobind (C) Chandra Shekhar Azad (D) Guru Amar Das (D) Subhash Chandra Bose Ans. B Ans. C 10. Lord Cornwallis is known for _____. 3. Sanchi Stupa was built by? (A) permanent revenue settlement of (A) Akbar (B) Humayun Bengal (C) Ashoka (D) Narasimha (B) attacking the caste system Ans. C (C) land revenue settlement of United 4. Which queen of the Kakatiya dynasty States ruled over Warangal, part of modern (D) ryotwari settlement of Madras Telangana? Ans. A (A) Rudramadevi (B) Ahilyadevi 11. In which year (in AD) was the East India (C) Bhagwati (D) Bhanumati Company established? Ans. A (A)1664 (B) 1632 (C)1600 (D) 1608 5. Which among the following Mughal Ans. C Emperor was illiterate? 12. Who was the founder of the Ghadar Party? (A) Shah Jahan (B) Aurangzeb (A) Basant Kumar Biswas (C) Akbar (D) Jahangir (B) Sohan Singh Bhakna Ans. C (C) Ram Prasad Bismil 6. Where was the ‘Azad Hind Fauj’ (D) Kartar Singh founded? Ans. B (A) Singapore (B) Thailand 13. Who wrote ‘Akbarnama’? (C) Britain (D) Italy (A) Abul Fazal (B) Faizi Ans. A (C) Abdur Rahim(D) Abdul Qadir 7. Who is known as the ‘Father of Indian Ans. A Unrest’? 14. Which Sikh Guru initiated ‘The Khalsa’? (A) Anant Singh (A) Guru Nanak Dev (B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (B) Guru Gobind Singh (C) Bhagat Singh (C) Guru Angad Dev (D) Dadabhai Naoroji (D) Guru Tegh Bahadur Ans. B Ans. B 2 15. In which battle was Siraj ud–Daulah was (A) Bhoodan Movement defeated by Lord Clive? (B) Rowlatt Satyagraha (A) Battle of Plassey (C) Bardoli Satyagraha (B) Battle of Buxer (D) Swadeshi Movement (C) Battle of Panipat 23. Which act ended the “Trade Monopoly” (D) Battle of Haldighati of the East India Company? Ans. A (A) Regulating Act of 1773 16.Which emperor wrote the play (B) Pitt’s India Act of 1784 ‘Nagananda’ in Sanskrit language? (C) The Charter Act of 1833 (A) Prabhakaravardhana (D) The Charter Act of 1813 (B) Harshavadhana 24. The Poona Pact was signed between (C) Chandragupta II Mahatma Gandhi and __________. (D) Bindusara (A) Muhammad Ali Jinnah Ans. B (B) Lord Irwin 17. Who was the first female emperor of India? (C) Subhash Chandra Bose (A) Noor Jahan (D) B.R. Ambedkar (B) Razia Sultana Ans. D (C) Rani Rudrama Devi 25. Which Governor General abolished the (D) Queen Didda ‘Sati System’ in India? Ans. B (A) Lord Canning 18. Who was the first Governor General of (B) Lord Ripon British India? (C) Lord Wiliam Bentinck (A) Lord William Bentick (D) Lord Dalhousie (B) Lord Dalhousie Ans. C (C) Lord Cornwallis 26. During their rule the British persuaded (D) None of these or forced cultivators in Madras to grow Ans. A __________. 19. Takshashila University was located (A)Jute (B) Tea between which two rivers? (C) Sugarcane (D) Rice (A) Indus and Jhelum Ans. D (B) Jhelum and Ravi 27. The queen with the title Didda ruled over (C) Beas and Indus which part of India between 980-1003? (D) Satluj and Indus (A) Avadh (B) Kashmir Ans. A (C)Sindh (D) Bengal 20. Who is the most prominent god of ‘Rig Ans. B Veda’? 28. Big landlords or warrior chiefs in the (A) Indra (B) Agni seventh century were acknowledged as (C) Pashupati (D) Vishnu _________ by the existing kings? Ans. A (A) Rashtrakutas 21. Who shot dead John Saunders on 17th (B) Chalukya December 1927? (C) Samantas (A) Bhagat Singh (D) Brahmanas (B) Mangal Panday Ans. C (C) Sukhdev 29. The Agra fort was built by - (D) Bipin Chandra Pal Singh (A) ShahJahan (B) Akbar 22. Sardar Vallabhbai Patel was the leader (C) Jahangir (D) Babur of _______. Ans. B 3 30. During their rule the British persuaded (C) Zakir Hussain or forced cultivators in Punjab to grow (D) Muzaffar Ahmed __________. Ans. A (A)Jute (B) Tea 38. The _________ were the successors of (C) Sugarcane (D) Cotton Timur, the ruler of Iran, Iraq and modern- Ans. D day Turkey. 31. The Red fort in Delhi was the residence (A) Rajputs (B) Khaljis of emperors of which dynasty in the 17th (C) Mughals (D) Tughluq century? Ans. C (A) Rajput (B) Khalji 39. Where is Humayun’s Tomb is located? (C) Tughlaq (D) Mughal (A) Hyderabad (B) New Delhi Ans. D (C) Mumbai (D) Kolkata 32. During their rule the British persuaded Ans. B or forced cultivators in Bengal to grow 40. The Tomara Rajputs, were defeated in the __________. middle of the twelfth century by the (A)Jute (B) Tea Chauhans of _________. (C) Sugarcane (D) Wheat (A) Ayodhya (B) Ajmer Ans. A (C) Dwarka (D) Gwalior Ans. B 33. The Mongols under ___________ invaded Transoxiana in north-east Iran in 1219. 41. For how many days did Mahatma Gandhi’s (A) Timur Lang volunteers of the Salt satyagrah walked? (B) Nadir Shah (A)24 (B)36 (C) Ahmed Shah Abdali (C)12 (D)6 (D) Genghis Khan 42. Who started construction of Nalanda (Mahavihara)? Ans. D (A) Dharampala (B) Ashoka 34. Indian Mughal paintings originated during (C) Kumaragupta(D) Harihara the rule of which Mughal Emperor? Ans. C (A) Humayun (B) Akbar 43. Sultan Mahmud was a ruler of_____. (C) Jahangir (D) Shah Jahan (A) Persia (B) Ghazni Ans. A (C) Lahore (D) Arab 35. Dara Shikoh was killed in conflict with Ans. B this brother _________. (A) Jahangir (B) Aurangzeb 44. Gol Gumbaz was designed by? (A) Ustad Ahmad of Lahouri (C) Babur (D) Shah jahan (B) George Wittet Ans. B (C) Henry Irwin 36. The Arabic work of al-Biruni that gave an (D) Yaqut of Dabul account of the subcontinent is called Ans. D ________. 45. Akbar was __________ years old when he (A) Kitab – Al Hind became emperor. (B) Kitab – Al Bharat (A)16 (B)19 (C) Pustak - Al Hind (C)13 (D)10 (D) Pustak-Al Bharat Ans. C Ans. A 46. ________ was imprisoned for the rest of 37. Arrest of _________ in 1930 led to angry his life by Aurangzeb. demonstrations in streets of Peshawar. (A) Akbar (B) Shah Jahan (A) Abdul Ghaffar Khan (C) Jahangir (D) Babur (B) Abul Kalam Azad Ans. B 4 47. Name the Commission that came to India 55. _________first became the capital of a in 1928 to reform India’s constitutional kingdom under the Tomara Rajputs. system. (A) Delhi (B) Pataliputra (A) Rowlatt Act (C) Calcutta (D) Taxila (B) Pitt’s India Act Ans. A (C) Partition of Bengal 56. Rajendra I was the son of? (D) Simon Commission (A) Bindusara I Ans. D (B) Devabhuti I 48. Name the British General who was (C) Skanda Gupta I responsible for the Jalliawalla Bagh (D) Rajaraja I massacre. Ans. D (A) Hastings (B) Cornwallis (C) Dyer (D) Dalhousie 57. According to the categories of land Ans. C mentioned in the Chola inscriptions ___________ was known as the land gifted 49. _________, succeeded to the throne of to temples? Ferghana in 1494 when he was only 12 (A) Vellanvagai years old. (B) Brahmadeya (A) Humayun (B) Akbar (C) Shalabhoga (C) Jahangir (D) Babur (D) Devadana Ans. D Ans. D 50. In 1918, Mahatma Gandhi went to _______ to organise a satyagraha movement 58. According to the categories of land amongst cotton mill workers. mentioned in the Chola inscriptions (A) Madras (B) Bombay ________ was known as the land gifted to (C) Surat (D) Ahmedabad Brahmanas? Ans. D (A) Vellanvagai (B) Brahmadeya (C) Shalabhoga (D) Devadana 51. Murshid Quli Khan, Alivardi Khan and Ans. B Sirajuddaullah were all nawabs of _____? (A) Lucknow (B) Varanasi 59. Prithviraja III (1168-1192) was a best (C) Hyderabad (D) Bengal known ___________ ruler. Ans. D (A) Chahamana (B) Gahadavala 52. Sher Khan defeated _________ at Chausa (C) Chalukya (D) Brahmana (1539) and Kanauj (1540), forcing him to Ans. A flee to Iran. 60. Dhamek Stupa was built by? (A) Aurangzeb (A) Akbar (B) Humayun (B) Humayun (C) Ashoka (D) Narasimha (C) Muhammad Azam Shah Ans. C (D) Bahadur Shah I 61. In which year french revolution broke out? Ans. B (A)1917 (B) 1911 53. Gol Gumbaz is located in? (C)1789 (D) 1790 (A) Kerala (B) Gujarat Ans. C (C) Rajasthan (D) Karnataka 62. Abdul Fazal was the son of a Sufi saint; Ans. D name him. 54. Noor Jahan was the wife of which Mughal (A) Sheikh Mubarak emperor? (B) Hazarat Kwaja (A) Babut (B) Akbar (C) Nasiruddin Chirag (C) Shah Jahan (D) Jahangir (D) Baba Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki Ans. D Ans. A 5 63. Indian National Congress split for the first 71. English education was introduced in time in its session at ? India by (A) Allahabad (B) Calcutta (A) Curzon (B) Macaulay (C)Surat (D) Lahore (C) Dalhousie (D) Bentick Ans. C Ans. B 64. The first Buddhist Council was held at 72. Who were the patrons of Sangam _____________ . Literature? (A) Kashmir (B) Rajagriha (A) Nayakas (B) Chandellas (C) Pataliputra (D) Vaisali (C) Pandyas (D) Solankis Ans.