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MODERN INDIA : FAMOUS PERSONS | SET-1
[Multiple Choice Practice Questions  for various competitive exams like Kerala PSC, UPSC, SSC, RRB, IBPS, Postal etc. from the topic Modern India-Famous Persons]
1. Who was the last Governor General of British India?
[a] Rajagopalachari
[b] Lord Wavell
[c] Lord Mountbatten
[d] Lord Linlithgo

2. Who was the political guru of Gopala Krishna Gokhale?
[a] Dadabhai Naoroji
[b] WC Bannerjee
[c] SN Bannerjee
[d] MG Ranade

3. Whom Sarojini Naidu once called the ‘Ambassador of Hindu Muslim Unity’?
[a] Mahathma Gandhi
[b] Nehru
[c] Muhammad Ali Jinnah
[d] Ambedkar

4. Who said ‘Give me blood, I shall give you freedom’?
[a] Subhas Chandra Bose
[b] Mahathma Gandhi
[c] Nehru
[d] Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

5. Who said ‘Swarajya is my birth right’?
[a] Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
[b] Mahathma Gandhi
[c] Nehru
[d] Bal Gangadhar Tilak

6. Who started the daily ‘The Hindu’ in 1878?
[a] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[b] G Subramanya Iyer
[c] VD Savarkar
[d] None of these

7. Who started the journal ‘New India’?
[a] Sarojini Naidu
[b] Annie Besant
[c] Madam Bhikaji Cama
[d] Aruna Asaf Ali

8. Who started the Khilafat movement in India?
[a] Mahathma Gandhi
[b] Ali brothers
[c] Muhammad Ali Jinnah
[d] Syed Ahmed Khan

9. Who was called ‘Lok Manya’?
[a] MM Malavya
[b] Jayaprakash Narayan
[c] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[d] Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

10.Name the leader who was known as ‘Mahamana’:
[a] MM Malavya
[b] Jayaprakash Narayan
[c] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[d] Vinoba Bhave

11. The first foreigner to become the president of INC?
[a] AO Hume
[b] William Wedderburn
[c] George Yule
[d] Alfred Webb

12.The first Governor General of Pakistan:
[a] Liaqat Ali Khan
[b] Mountbatten
[c] Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali Jinnah
[d] Iskander Mirza

13.The first Indian woman to become the president of Indian National Congress:
[a] Indira Gandhi
[b] Vijayalekshmi Pandit
[c] Annie Besant
[d] Sarojini Naidu

14.The first muslim to become the president of Indian National Congress:
[a] Muhammad Ali Jinnah
[b] Badruddin Tyabji
[c] Syed Ahmed Khan
[d] Maunala Abul Kalam Azad

15.The first prime minister of Pakistan:
[a] Liaqat Ali Khan
[b] Muhammad Iqbal
[c] Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali Jinnah
[d] Iskander Mirza

16.The leader of national movement whose birth day is August 15:
[a] Vinoba Bhave
[b] Bhagat Singh
[c] Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
[d] Aurobindo Ghosh

17.The only Keralite to become the president of INC:
[a] John Mathai
[b] RK Shanmugham Chetty
[c] C Sankaran Nair
[d] K Kelappan

18.To whom Jawaharlal Nehru dedicated his autobiography?
[a] Mahathma Gandhi
[b] Motilal Nehru
[c] Indira Gandhi
[d] Kamala Nehru

19.Which one of the following was a moderate Congress leader?
[a] Lajpath Rai
[b] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[c] Bipin Chandra Pal
[d] GK Gokhale

20. Who authored ‘Arctic Home in the Vedas’?
[a] Lalpath Rai
[b] Raja Ram Mohun Roy
[c] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[d] Dayanand Saraswathy

21. Who authored ‘India wins Freedom’?
[a] Dr.Rajendraprasad
[b] Rajagopalachari
[c] Maunala Abul Kalam Azad
[d] Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

22. Who became the first defence minister of independent India?
[a] Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
[b] Baldev Singh
[c] VK Krishna Menon
[d] John Mathai

23. Who coined the term Pakistan for the first time?
[a] Muhammad Ali Jinnah
[b] Liaqat Ali
[c] Rehmat Ali
[d] Shoukat Ali

24. Who established Indian Trade Union Federation in 1929?
[a] NG ranga
[b] Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
[c] EMS Nambuthirippad
[d] NM Joshi

25. Who established Vedanta College in 1825?
[a] David Hare
[b] HV Derozio
[c] Ram Mohun Roy
[d] Iswar Chandra Vidhya Sagar