This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Exam Based > The First One – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The First One Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Buddha delivered his first sermon, known as 'Turning of the wheel of law' at A) Sanchi. B) Bodh Gaya. C) Sravasti. D) Sarnath. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sarnath. 2. Which Chola king is credited with the first conquest of Maldives? A) Rajendra II. B) Rajadhiraja. C) Rajaraja. D) Rajendra I. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rajaraja. 3. The statement that the revolt of 1857 was "neither the first, nor national, nor war of independence" was made by? A) Benjamin Disraeli. B) S. N. Sen. C) V. D. Savarkar. D) R. C. Majumdar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) R. C. Majumdar. 4. Who was the last Governor General and First Viceroy of India? A) Lord Lytton. B) Lord Canning. C) Lord Mayo. D) Lord Lawrence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lord Canning. 5. Who first expounded the theory of 'economic drain' of India during the British rule? A) Ramesh Chanda Dutt. B) Dadabhai Naoroji. C) Surendra Nath Banerjee. D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dadabhai Naoroji. 6. Which of the following treaty ended the First Carnatic War? A) Salbai. B) Aix-Ia-Chapelle. C) Bassein. D) Paris. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aix-Ia-Chapelle. 7. When was First Anglo Sikh War fought? A) 1826 AD. B) 1846 AD. C) 1725 AD. D) 1816 AD. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1846 AD. 8. Which are the first cereals grown by Indians A) Race. B) Sugarcane. C) Wheat and barly. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wheat and barly. 9. Mahatma Gandhi used for the first time hunger strike as a weapon during A) Kheda Satyagraha. B) Champaran Satyagraha. C) Bardoli Satyagraha. D) Ahmedabad Strike. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ahmedabad Strike. 10. Ashokan inscriptions were first deciphered by A) Codrington. B) James Prinsep. C) Buhler. D) Robert Sewell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James Prinsep. 11. Who among the following could not attend the First meeting of Indian National Congress? A) Badruddin Tyabji. B) R.C.Dutt. C) Surendra Nath Banerjee. D) Dadabhai Nauroji. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surendra Nath Banerjee. 12. Who was the first Indian woman to become president of Indian national congress? A) Aruna asaf ali. B) Sarojani Naidu. C) Sucheta Kriplani. D) Vijayalakshmi Pandit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sarojani Naidu. 13. The first international introduced A) Communalism. B) Socialism. C) Democracy. D) Dictatorship. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Socialism. 14. Which one of following event occur first? A) Lucknow pack. B) Khilafat movement. C) Shifting of capital to Delhi. D) Swadeshi Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Swadeshi Movement. 15. Which metal was first used by the Indus people? A) Carolinian. B) Tin. C) Gold. D) Silver. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Silver. 16. In which of the following places Hindu Mahasabha was for the first time organised in 1915? A) Haridwar. B) Allahabad. C) Varanasi. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haridwar. 17. Where was the first Presidency of English East India Company in India? A) Surat. B) Hugli. C) Chennai (Madras). D) Masulipattam. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Surat. 18. Name the Pala ruler who was the first to plunge into the tripartite struggle. A) Gopala. B) Dharmapala. C) Mahipala. D) Devapala. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gopala. 19. First Governor-General of India? A) Lord William Bentinck. B) Sir Charles Metcalfe. C) Lord Amherst. D) Robert Clive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord William Bentinck. 20. The first detailed reports of Vedic culture came from: A) Egyptian merchants. B) The Greeks of Alexander the Great's army. C) Chinese historians. D) Herodotus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Greeks of Alexander the Great's army. 21. Which of the following is not true about First Anglo-Mysore War? A) First Anglo-Mysore War fought in AD 1767-69. B) Hyder Ali defeated the English in the First Anglo-Mysore War. C) Treaty of Madras was the result of First Anglo-Mysore War. D) All of the above are incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above are incorrect. 22. With whose permission did the English set up their first factory in Surat? A) Akbar. B) Jahangir. C) Aurangzeb. D) Shahjahan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jahangir. 23. The First British officer to be informed of Mangal Pandey firing at the sergeant major was A) Col. Smith. B) Lieutenant Baugh. C) Col. Mitchell. D) General Hearsay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lieutenant Baugh. 24. Which one of the following Bengali writers was the first to suggest the adoption of Hindi as India's National Language? A) Bhudeva Mukherjee. B) Kali Prasanna Sinha. C) Madhusudan Datta. D) Dinbandhu Mitra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bhudeva Mukherjee. 25. The British established their first trading centre at A) Madras. B) Bombay. C) Surat. D) Calcutta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surat. 26. The large-scale expression of the Militant nationalism for the first time, was against A) Official Secrets Act, 1904. B) The Indian Council Act, 1892. C) Seditious Meetings Act, 1907. D) Partition of Bengal, 1905. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Partition of Bengal, 1905. 27. Where French established their first factory? A) Pulicat. B) Masaulipatam. C) Surat. D) Cochin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surat. 28. Who among the following was the first Governor General of India? A) Lord Amherst. B) Lord William Bentinck. C) Sir Charles Metcalfe. D) Robert Clive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lord William Bentinck. 29. The valleys of Indus, Ganga and Jamuna were brought together for the first time under one political authority by A) Prithvi Raj Chan ban. B) Chandragupta Maurya. C) Ashoka. D) Chandragupta I. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chandragupta Maurya. 30. Who was the first Muslim writer to make use of Hindi words and adopt Indian poetic imagery and themes? A) Abul Fazal. B) Abdul Qadir Badauni. C) Hasan Nizami. D) Amir Khusaro. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amir Khusaro. 31. The sea borne trade between India and Rome received great impetus during the first-second century A.D. on account of the discovery of: A) Large gold mines in the Roman Empire. B) Monsoon winds blowing regularly across the Indian Ocean. C) Direct sea-route between India and Italy. D) New navigational techniques. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monsoon winds blowing regularly across the Indian Ocean. 32. During the Mughal period, which one of the following trades were the first to come to India? A) Danish. B) Portuguese. C) Dutch. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Portuguese. 33. The four varnas are mentioned for the first time in the A) Purusha sukta. B) Vajasaneyi Samhita. C) Prithvi sukta. D) Taittiriya Samhita. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Purusha sukta. 34. Which was the first State to be created on linguistic basis? A) Gujarat. B) Andhra Pradesh. C) Madras. D) Bombay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Andhra Pradesh. 35. Lord Buddha made his first sermon at A) Pataliputra. B) Lumbini Gardens. C) Kapilavasthu. D) Sarnath. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sarnath. 36. The first law giver of the world was A) Hamurabi. B) Nannr. C) So1onon. D) Sheba. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) So1onon. 37. Which of the following Indian Kings defeated Mohammad Ghori first? A) Jayachandra. B) Vidyadhara Chandella. C) Prithviraja Chauhan. D) Bhima II. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bhima II. 38. The British Government introduced Portfolio system for the first time in A) 1853. B) 1892. C) 1861. D) 1858. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1861. 39. Who was the first ancestor of Bhosle family in Maharashtra? A) Shahji. B) Tanaji. C) Vithoji. D) Bhosawant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bhosawant. 40. The first Muslims invaded India were A) Arabs. B) Turks. C) Persians. D) Afghans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arabs. 41. First Anglo Sikh War fought between..... A) The English & French. B) The English & Portuguese. C) The English & king Dalip Singh. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The English & king Dalip Singh. 42. The first revelation came to Prophet (p.b.u.h) in: A) Hira. B) Thaur. C) Dar-e-Arqam. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hira. 43. Who among the following has issued the coin rupee for the first time? A) Ala-ud-din Khilji. B) Akbar. C) Muhammad bin Tughluq. D) Sher Shah. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sher Shah. 44. The first tribal leader who was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and his ideology was A) Alluri Sitaram Raju. B) Jadonang. C) Jhabkar Bapa. D) Rani Gaidinliu. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jadonang. 45. Which of the following statements are true about Gupta coinage? (1) The Guptas issued the largest number of gold coins in the Gupta period. (2) Chandragupta I issued Kaumaradevi type of coins (3) Chandragupta II issued silver coins for the first time among the Gupta (4) Samudragupta coins are known for their purity. Select the correct answer from the codes given below: A) 1, 2 and 3. B) 2, 3 and 4. C) 1 and 2. D) 1, 2, 3 and 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1, 2 and 3. 46. The first to establish regular trade with India was? A) Portuguese. B) English. C) French. D) Dutch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Portuguese. 47. Who is believed by the Jainas to be the first Tirthankar? A) Neminath. B) Mahavira. C) Parshvanath. D) Rishabhadeva. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rishabhadeva. 48. In the Gandhara sculptures, the preaching mudra associated with the Buddha's first sermon at Sarnath is A) Dharmachakra. B) Abhaya. C) Dhyana. D) Bhumisparsa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dhyana. 49. Who among the following was first initiated disciple of Akbar's Din-i-Ilahi? A) Mansingh. B) Birbal. C) Todarmal. D) Tansen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birbal. 50. How did Portuguese firstly affect Indian trade and industry? A) By forcing Gujarat and Calicut to abandon construction of ships or even armed rowing boats. B) By monopolising port-toport trade on the Malabar coast and the trade from Indian to Persian coast. C) In both (A) and (B) ways above. D) By dictating the prices of horses imported by native Indian powers after ousting Arabs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By monopolising port-toport trade on the Malabar coast and the trade from Indian to Persian coast. 51. The Aryans at first settled in A) Kashmir. B) Sindh. C) Gujarat. D) Punjab. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Punjab. 52. The stone Age people had the first domestic A) Horses. B) Dogs. C) Asses. D) Sheep. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sheep. 53. The Author who described the Revolt of 1857 as the 'First War of Indepen4ence' was A) S. N. Sen. B) R. C. Majumdar. C) V. D. Savarkar. D) Ashok Mehta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) V. D. Savarkar. 54. Which one of the following powers was the first to establish trade links with India? A) French. B) English. C) Dutch. D) Portuguese. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Portuguese. 55. Egyptians were the first people in the world to build A) Megaliths. B) Pyramids with mummies. C) Temples. D) Palaces. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pyramids with mummies. 56. Where did Mahatma Gandhi first try the weapon of Satyagraha? A) Dandi. B) Bardoli. C) Champaran. D) South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) South Africa. 57. Who was the first European to designate 'Aryans' as a race? A) H. H. Wilson. B) Sir William Jones. C) General Cunningham. D) Max Muller. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Max Muller. 58. Who established first Islamic empire in India? A) Muhammad Ghor. B) Muhammad-Bin-Quasim. C) Hizzaz. D) Muhammad Ghazni. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muhammad Ghor. 59. The first major inscription in classical Sanskrit is that of A) Kanishka I. B) Samudragupta. C) Rudradaman. D) Chandragupta Vikramaditya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rudradaman. 60. The ..... were the first Europeans to start a Joint-stock company trade with India? A) French. B) Danish. C) Portuguese. D) Dutch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Portuguese. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesThe First One Quiz 1The 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