1. Who gave the slogan -'Dilli Chalo' or 'March to Delhi' ?
a Mahatma Gandhi
b Bal Gangadhar Tilak
c Subhash Chandra Bose
d Lala Lajpat Rai
2. Which one of the following games was not invented in India ?
a Chess
b Gymnastics
c Snakes and Ladders
d Snooker
3. $1 was equivalent to how many Rupees on August 15, 1947 ?
a Re. 1 = $1
b Re. 5 = $1
c Re. 15 = $1
d Re. 30 = $1
4. When and Where was India's National flag hoisted for the first time ?
a August 7, 1906, Parsee Bagan Square, Kolkata
b August 8, 1906, at the Red Fort, Delhi
c August 9, 1906, at the Gateway of India, Mumbai
d August 10, 1906, at Jallianwala Bagh, Punjab
5. What does the blue wheel that appears in the Indian national flag stand for ?
a The wheel of law of justice
b The wheel of religion
c The wheel of Krishna
d The wheel of fortune
6. How many years Britain ruled India ?
7. Who was the first woman minister of Independent India ?
a Sarojini Naidu
b Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
c Vijay Lakshmi Pandit
d Indira Gandhi
8. The first stanza of Tagore's 'Janagana Maana' has been selected as India's national anthem. How many stanzas are there in the original song ?
9. Who was the First "Bharat-Ratna" award winner ?
a Rajagopalachari & Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan & C. V. Raman
b Mahatma Gandhi & Mother Teresa
c Rajendra Prasad & Zakir Hussain & Pandurang Vaman Kane
d Jawaharlal Nehru & Sardar Patel & V.V. Giri
10. Why Viceroy Mountbatten chose the date 15 August as the Indian Independence Day ?
a 5 August also commemorated the 2nd anniversary of surrender of Japan to the Allied Forces
b 15 August also commemorated the birthday of a famous freedom fighter
c 15 August also commemorated as the partition of India
d 15 August also commemorated the formation of Indian Independence Act
11. Who was India's first freedom fighter against British ?
a Mahatma Gandhi
b Rani Laxmibai
c Tatya Tope
d Kittur Rani
12. India National Congress was founded by ?
a Womesh Chandra Banerjee
b Michal Hume
c Allon Octavian Hume
d Mahatma Gandhi
13. Who among the following was the 'Martin Luther ' of India ?
a Swami Dayanand Saraswati
b Raja Rammohan Roy
c Swami Vivekananda
d Rabindranath Tagore
14. Who is the maker of Indian Flag (with Charkha) ?
a Mahatma Gandhi
b Pingali Venkavya
c Suraiya Tayyabji
d Rabindranath Tagore
15. Who drew the border between India and Pakistan ?
a Sir George Barlow
b Lord William Bentinck
c Sir Robert Napier
d Sir Cyril Radcliffe
16. Where did first war of independence in 1857 start ?
a Delhi
b Meerut
c Kolkata
d Allahabad
17. Which among the following is the correct width to length ratio of Indian National flag ?
18. Who wrote the books “Glimpses of World History” and “Discovery of India” ?
a ChandraShekar Azad
b Bal Gangadhar Tilak
c S Satya Murthy
d Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
19. Who among the following said “Mahatma Gandhi, like fleeting Phantom raises dust but not the level ?
a M.A. Jinnah
b Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
c V.D. Savarkar
d Subash Chandra Bose
20. Which of the following Union Territory of India was occupied by Japan during World War II ?
a Lakshadweep
b Daman & Diu
c Pondicherry
d Andaman & Nicobar Islands
21. In which session did the Indian National Congress declare Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) to be its goal ?
a Lahore, 1929
b Lucknow, 1916
c Tripuri, 1939
d Lahore, 1940
22. Who was the Governor General of India during the first war of Independence in 1857 ?
a Lord William Bentick
b Lord Canning
c Lord Dalhousie
d Lord Lawrence
23. Who was called the “Grand old man of India” ?
a Lokmanya Tilak
b Govind Ballabh Pant
c Dadabhai Naoroji
d Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
24. When was the partition of Bengal done ?
25. Who coined the slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad' ?
a Bal Gangadhar Tilak
b Subash Chandra Bose
c Bhagat Singh
d Chandra Sekhar Azad
