History Quiz-30 for SSC CHSL / CGL 2016-17

Q1. During whose viceroyship did the High Court come into existence at the three presidential cities of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay?

(a) Warren Hastings

(b) Lord Cornwallis

(c) John Lawrence

(d) Lord Dalhousie

Q2. Who was the last Viceroy of India?

(a) Lord Linlithgow

(b) Lord Mountbatten

(c) Lord Wavell

(d) Clement Attlee

Q3. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(a) Lord Dalhousie                :           Doctrine of Lapse

(b) Lord Minto                      :           Indian Council Act, 1909     

(c) Lord Wellesley                :           Subsidiary Alliance

(d) Lord Curzon                    :           Vernacular Press Act, 1878

Q4. The transfer of government form the company, to be ‘crown’ was pronounced by Lord Canning (1^st November, 1858) at

(a) Calcutta

(b) Delhi

(c) Patna

(d) Allahabad

Q5. Which of the following can be considered as the most useful and outstanding reforms made by Lord Curzon, especially in respect of the people living in the undivided Province of Punjab?

(a) Educational reforms

(b) Police reforms

(c) Industrial reforms

(d) Agricultural reforms

Q6. The Province of Bengal was partitioned into two parts in 1905 by

(a) Lord Lytton

(b) Lord Ripon

(c) Lord Dufferin

(d) Lord Curzon

Q7. Permanent Revenue Settlement of Bengal was introduced by

(a) Clive

(b) Hastings

(c) Wellesley

(d) Cornwallis

Q8. The ‘Doctrine of Lapse’ was first applied to the princely state of

(a) Satara

(b) Jhansi

(c) Oudh

(d) Jaunpur

Q9. Through which educational report, Calcutta University came into existence?

(a) Macaulay’s Minute

(b) Hunter Commission

(c) Charter Act

(d) Wood’s Dispatch

Q10. Punjab was annexed to the British empire during the reign of Governor-General

(a) Lord Bentinck

(b) Lord Dalhousie

(c) Lord Cornwallis

(d) Lord Canning

Q11. The Indian National Congress was formed during the Governor-generalship of

(a) Lord Ripon

(b) Lord William Bentinck

(c) Lord Dufferin

(d) Lord Curzon

Q12. When was the first passenger train run in India?

(a)  1848

(b) 1853

(c)  1857

(d) 1852

Q13. The first telegraph line between Calcutta and Agra was opened in

(a) 1852

(b) 1853

(c) 1854

(d) 1855

Q14. Who among the following abolished the Dual system of government in Bengal?

(a) Lord Clive

(b) Lord Cornwallis

(c) Spencer

(d) Lord Warren Hastings

Q15. The British Governor-General who introduced the postal system in India was

(a) Lord Dalhousie

(b) Lord Wellesley

(c) Lord Auckland

(d) Lord Bentinck

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