This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Exam Based > The First One – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The First One Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The first railway engine designed. by George Stephenson was put on rails in England in A) 1813. B) 1814. C) 1816. D) 1815. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1814. 2. The Valangai (right hand) and Idangai (left hand) division of South Indian society is first noticed in the A) Sangam period. B) Pallava period. C) Chola period. D) Nayaka period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pallava period. 3. Which one of the following European trading groups first established its factory at Surat? A) The Portuguese. B) The 'English. C) The Dutch. D) The French. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The 'English. 4. For the first time in Indian History, the description of the State Administration was found for which among the following periods? A) Shunga Period. B) Gupta Period. C) Maurya Period. D) Saatvahana Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maurya Period. 5. .....was the first Mughal Emperor to acquire Koh-i-Noor diamond A) Akbar. B) Shah Jahan. C) Jahangir. D) Humayun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humayun. 6. Which of the following native states was first to conclude Subsidiary Alliance with East India Company? A) Hyderabad. B) Mysore. C) Mewar. D) Avadh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyderabad. 7. The first Rashtrakuta-ruler who successfully invaded North India was A) Krishna II. B) Dhruva. C) Govinda Ill. D) Govinda II. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dhruva. 8. 'Dyarchy' was first introduced in India under A) Montford reforms. B) Simon Commision plan. C) Morley-Minto reforms. D) Government of India Act, 1935. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Morley-Minto reforms. 9. Which among the following marks Ma-hatma Gandhi's first fast unto death? A) Kheda Satyagraha. B) Champaran Satyagraha. C) Ahmedabad Mill Strike. D) Jallianwala Bagh tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ahmedabad Mill Strike. 10. The first Indian leader to undergo impris-onment? A) Bipin Chandra Pal. B) C Vijaraghavachari. C) Dadabhai Noroji. D) B G Tilak. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) C Vijaraghavachari. 11. Who used iron for the first time in India A) Dravidens. B) Aryans. C) Portughese. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aryans. 12. Lord Dalhousie introduced the first telegraph line in 1853, which ran between: A) Agra and Madras. B) Calcutta and Bombay. C) Bombay and Thana. D) Calcutta and Agra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calcutta and Agra. 13. Who was the first Viceroy of India? A) Lord Mountbatten. B) Lord Dalhousie. C) Lord Nelson. D) Lord Canning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lord Canning. 14. Which was the first newspaper to be published in India? A) Bengal Chronicle. B) The Hindu. C) Bengal Gazette. D) Bombay Samachar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bengal Gazette. 15. Who among the following was the first Satavahana King to introduce the ruler's head on the coins? A) Gautamiputra Satakarni. B) Yajna Satakarni. C) Vasishthiputra Pulumavi. D) Satakarni I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Satakarni I. 16. The first effort at drafting a Dominion Status Constitution for India was made in response to the A) First Round Table Conference. B) Montague-Chelmsford reforms. C) Simon Commission. D) Minto-Morley reforms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simon Commission. 17. The basis, on which the chronology or period of the Sangam literature is fixed between the first to third century A.D., is: A) King Gajabahu I of Sri Lanka was contemporary of the Chera monarch Senaguttuvan. B) Striking similarity between the Sangam poems and the Greco-Roman accounts on trade. C) Both A and B. D) Reference to the Chola-Chera-Pandya' kingdoms in Ashokan edicts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both A and B. 18. The first monarch of Magadh kingdom in the sixth century B.C. was A) Prasenajit. B) Bimbisara. C) Jarasandha. D) Ajatashatru. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bimbisara. 19. Europeans were first interested in A) Silk. B) Indigo. C) Spices. D) Leather goods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indigo. 20. The first English base established in India was at: A) Karachi. B) Madras. C) Surat. D) Goa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surat. 21. Who among the following introduced the dahasala system of land revenue collection for the first time? A) Humayun. B) Akbar. C) Babur. D) Shahjahan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shahjahan. 22. The First English Captain to disembark at Surat and who also visited the court of Emperor Jahangir at Agra was A) Thomas Stephens. B) Hawkins. C) Ralph Fitch. D) Jon Mildenhall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hawkins. 23. Islamic culture was first introduced to early India from: A) Arabia. B) Persia. C) Afghanistan. D) Baghdad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Persia. 24. Who was selected as the first satyagrahi by Mahatma Gandhi to begin the individual satyagraha in 1940? A) C. Rajagopalachari. B) Vallabhbhai Patel. C) J.B. Kripalani. D) Dr. Rajendra Prasad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vallabhbhai Patel. 25. The first statue of the Guru was conceived by . A) Tavaroli,. B) Gokahale. C) Bodhananda Swamikal,. D) Moorkoth Kumaran,. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moorkoth Kumaran,. 26. The Indus valley civilization was the first A) Urban civilization '. B) Rural civilization. C) Semi rural as Heading. D) Semi-urban. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Urban civilization '. 27. The first architectural achievement of Jahangir's reign in India was the construction of his father's mausoleum. Where was it built? A) Surat. B) Shikohabad. C) Lahore. D) Sikandara. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sikandara. 28. Who was the first leader of Kalinga in I century A.D A) Chola Raja. B) Kharauel. C) Charaka. D) Karikala. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Karikala. 29. The first translator of Mahabharata into Tamil was A) Bharavi. B) Perundevanar. C) Kamban. D) Sundaramurthi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perundevanar. 30. Who of the following laid the first rail-road in India? A) Lord Dalhousie. B) Lord Wavell. C) Lord Curzon. D) Lord Rippon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord Dalhousie. 31. For the first time Abdul Malik issued purely Muslim Coinage Know as: A) Dirham. B) Deenar. C) Pound. D) Ruppe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pound. 32. Where was the seat of the first Republic of the world in 6th century BC? A) Sparta. B) Athens. C) Patliputra. D) Vaishali. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vaishali. 33. Which among the following was the first investigated pillar of Ashoka? A) Dhauli. B) Sarnath. C) Barabar cave. D) Delhi Meerut Pillar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Delhi Meerut Pillar. 34. Who wrote the first textbook on Jyotish? A) Katyayan. B) Bhrigu. C) Patanjali. D) Panini. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bhrigu. 35. In the 'individual Satyagraha', Vinoba Bhave was chosen as the first Satyagrahi. Who was the second? A) Dr. Rajendra Prasadh. B) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. C) C. Rajagopalachari. D) Sardar Vallabhabhai Patel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. 36. Who was the first Governor General of the new Indian Dominion? A) Rajendra Prasad. B) Vallabhbhai Patel. C) Rajagopalachari. D) Lord Mountbatten. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lord Mountbatten. 37. Which state was the first victim of "The Subsidiary Alliance System" ? A) Satara. B) Awadh. C) Hyderabad. D) Mysore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyderabad. 38. Which among the following Mudra is the gesture of Buddha as depicted in his first sermon? A) Dhyana Mudra. B) Dharmachakra Mudra. C) Abhaya Mudra. D) Bhumisparsa Mudra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dharmachakra Mudra. 39. Which one among the following states was first annexed by Lord Dalhousie under the Doctrine of Lapse? A) Satara. B) Sambalpur. C) Nagpur. D) Jhansi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satara. 40. The first Danish Settlement of trade at Tranquebar was established in the year A) 1616. B) 1660. C) 1620. D) 1630. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1620. 41. Which Gupta emperor's inscription at Eran dated 510 AD gives the first inscriptional evidence of Sati? A) Narasimhagupta. B) Skandagupta. C) Kumaragupta. D) Bhanugupta. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bhanugupta. 42. In 1857 the first shot from a rebels gun was fired in? A) Delhi. B) Ambala. C) Meerut. D) Barrackpore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Barrackpore. 43. The first Indian ruler to organize Haj pilgrimage at the expense of the state was- A) Akbar. B) Feroz Tughlaq. C) Aurangzeb. D) Alauddin Khilji. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Akbar. 44. Shivaji conqurred many forts. Which was first-? A) Berar. B) Purendar. C) Khandesh. D) Raigarh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Raigarh. 45. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa, Gujarat and Maharashtra? A) Samudragupta. B) Skandagupta. C) Chandragupta Maurya. D) Harshavardhana. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chandragupta Maurya. 46. Who among the following Kushan Emperors was the first to introduce the gold coinage in India? A) Kujula Kadphises. B) Vima Taktu. C) Vima Kadphises. D) Vasishka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vima Kadphises. 47. Which of the following was started first by Mahatma Gandhi? A) Non-cooperation. B) Quit India Movement. C) Champaran. D) Civil Disobedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Champaran. 48. The first to establish trade contacts with the Roman empire were: A) Tamils. B) Kushanas. C) Sakas. D) Indo Greeks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tamils. 49. India first encountered Islamic armies in the ..... century. A) Seventh. B) Twelfth. C) Eleventh. D) Eighth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eighth. 50. A Provisional Government of India with Raja Mahendra Pratap as its president was established during the First World War in A) Germany. B) Singapore. C) Turkey. D) Afghanistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Afghanistan. 51. Where did Britishers establish their first trade centre? A) Karnatak. B) Bombay. C) Surat. D) Calcutta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surat. 52. Which among the following was the most immediate factor for the spread of Swadeshi and boycott of foreign goods during the first decade of the last century? A) Curzon's partition of Bengal. B) Curzon's plan to curb the growing popularity of the Indian National Congress. C) Curzon's design to curtail the sphere of local self-government. D) Curzon's attempt to control the universities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Curzon's partition of Bengal. 53. Where did Gautam Buddha give his first sermon? A) Gaya. B) Rajgriha. C) Sanchi. D) Sarnath. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sarnath. 54. The first cereals that early men grown were A) Barley and rice. B) Barley and maize. C) Wheat and barley. D) Wheat and rice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wheat and barley. 55. Which book described the Arab invasion of Sindh for the very first time? A) Chachnama. B) Shahnama. C) Akbarnama. D) Baburnama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chachnama. 56. In which of the following Major Rock Edicts does Ashoka introduce the institution of dhamma-mahamatta for the first time? A) Rock Edict II. B) Rock Edict III. C) Rock Edict V. D) Rock Edict IV. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rock Edict V. 57. Who did not participate in the First Round Table Conference? A) The Hindu Mahasabha. B) The Indian National Congress. C) The Muslim League. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Indian National Congress. 58. The number of delegates who attended the first session of the Indian National Congress, was A) 75. B) 720. C) 750. D) 72. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 72. 59. The Bhakti Movement was first organized by A) Ramananda. B) Nanak. C) Kabir. D) Ramanuja. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ramanuja. 60. The first Tamil Sangam is said to have been instituted by A) Tiruvalluvar. B) Parshurama. C) Mamulanar. D) Agastya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agastya. Next →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesThe First One Quiz 2The First One Quiz 3The First One Quiz 4The First One Quiz 5Correct And Incorrect QuizMiscellenous Questions QuizWritten Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books