This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Exam Based > The First One – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The First One Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The first dockyard in the world was excavated in A) Mohanjodaro. B) Lothal. C) Harappa. D) Ropar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lothal. 2. The founder of the first Afghan rule in India was A) Sher Shan Suri. B) Ibrahim Lodi. C) Bahlul Lodi. D) Sikandar Lodi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bahlul Lodi. 3. The title of 'Viceroy' was added to the centre office of the Governor-General of India for the first-time in A) 1858 A.D. B) 1856 A.D. C) 1862 A.D. D) 1848 A.D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1858 A.D. 4. Robert Bruce Foote, who discovered first Palaeolithic tool in India, was originally a A) Geologist. B) Historian. C) Archaeologist. D) Palaeobotanist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geologist. 5. The first president of the Republic of In-dia was? A) Dr.Radhakrishnan. B) V.V.Giri. C) Dr.Rajendra Prasad. D) Zakir Hussain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dr.Rajendra Prasad. 6. Who was the first to decipher the inscriptions of Ashoka and the Brahmi script? A) Alexander Cunningham. B) James Princep. C) Mortimer Wheeler. D) Max Muller. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James Princep. 7. Who was the first Indo-Greek king, who became Buddhist? A) Apollodotus I. B) Antiochus II. C) Apollodotus II. D) Menander II. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Menander II. 8. The first Maratha war took place during the Governor Generalship of A) Lord Amherst. B) Wellesley. C) Sir Robert Clive. D) Warren Hastings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Warren Hastings. 9. Which one of the following traders first came to India during the Mughal period? A) British. B) Danish. C) Portuguese. D) Dutch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Portuguese. 10. The first Indian ruler to be shown in images as wearing a dress akin to trousers is A) Samudragupta. B) Kanishka. C) Chandragupta. D) Ashoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kanishka. 11. When Lord Mountbatten became the first Governor- General of India, who among the following became the Governor-General for Pakistan? A) Shaukat Ali. B) Liaquat Ali Khan. C) Lord Mountbatten. D) Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Muhammad Ali Jinnah. 12. Which one among the following was the result of the First Anglo-Maratha War of 1775-1982? A) There was no victory for either side. B) The Marathas won the war. C) The British won the war. D) It helped Haider Ali to gather strength because the British and Marathas were engaged in a mutual war. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There was no victory for either side. 13. Who among the following cultures were the first to paint their pottery? A) Neolithic. B) Chalcolithic. C) Iron age. D) Mesolithic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chalcolithic. 14. Mohammad Ghori was first defeated by which of the following rulers? A) Vidyadhara Chandella. B) Jayachandra. C) Prithviraja Chauhan. D) Bhima II. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bhima II. 15. Who was the first Portuguese Viceroy of India? A) Da Almeida. B) Vasco-da-Gama. C) Duarte Pacheo. D) Albuquerque. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Da Almeida. 16. When was the Cooperative Societies Act first passed in India? A) 1904. B) 1902. C) 1906. D) 1900. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1904. 17. Karl Marx was the first man to introduce A) Scientific socialism. B) Capitalism. C) Democracy. D) Marxian socialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scientific socialism. 18. Who of the following was the first Indian to write English verse? A) Kashi Prasad Ghosh. B) Hariharanand. C) Krishna Mohan Banerjee. D) Ramchandra Vidyavagish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kashi Prasad Ghosh. 19. Between which stations was the first railway line opened in India? A) Calcutta to Jamshedpur. B) Calcutta to Raniganj. C) Bombay to Pune. D) Bombay to Thane. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bombay to Thane. 20. Which is first manmade port in the world. A) Quilon. B) Lothal. C) Muzris. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lothal. 21. In which of the following movements, did Mahatma Gandhi make the first use of hunger strike as a weapon? A) Bardoli Satyagraha. B) Rowlatt Satyagraha. C) Ahmedabad Strike. D) Non-cooperation Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ahmedabad Strike. 22. Balwant Singh was the first Raja of A) Banaras. B) Jaisalmer. C) Mewar. D) Kanpur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Banaras. 23. The first Tarian war took place in A) 1191 A.D. B) 1195 A.D. C) 1193 A.D. D) 1197 A.D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1191 A.D. 24. Who proclaimed the First Crusade? A) Pope Urban II. B) Peter the Hermit. C) Pope Gregory VII. D) Alexios I Komnenos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peter the Hermit. 25. The first Buddhist Council was held in the reign of A) Ashoka. B) Bimbisara. C) Ajatashatru. D) Kanishka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ajatashatru. 26. Which one of the following had for the first time accepted that British victory at Plassey was the victory of breach of faith? A) Lord Clive. B) Vansittort. C) Hector Munro. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 27. Who was the first President of the Indian Home Rule League established in April 1916? A) Annie Besant. B) Joseph Bapista. C) N.C. Kelkar. D) B.G. Tilak. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joseph Bapista. 28. In which of the following periods did ring wells come into prevalence for the first time? A) Kushan. B) Mauryan. C) Sunga. D) Gupta. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gupta. 29. The first to start a joint stock company to trade with India werethe A) French. B) Dutch. C) Danish. D) Portuguese. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dutch. 30. That Bhagavatism first grew up around the Yamuna in Mathura district is evident from the account of A) Arian. B) Strabo. C) Justin. D) Megasthenese. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Megasthenese. 31. Which of the following ages the Homo Sapiens the human being for the first time appeared? A) In the Mesolithic age. B) In the lower Palaeolithic age. C) In the upper Palaeolithic age. D) In the middle Palaeolithic age. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the Mesolithic age. 32. Where did British first open their facto-ries in Eastern part of India? A) Sikim. B) Orissa. C) Bihar. D) Assam. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Orissa. 33. Which is the first Harappan site to be excavated? A) Harappa. B) Chanhudaro. C) Mohenjodaro. D) Sutkagendor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harappa. 34. Mesopotamian were the first to make A) Bronze items. B) Copper. C) Iron. D) Gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bronze items. 35. The Portuguese established their first business centre at A) Surat. B) Calicut. C) Goa. D) Cochin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calicut. 36. By whom, the first republic of the world was established in Vaishali? A) Gupta. B) Licchhavi. C) Maurya. D) Nand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Licchhavi. 37. The first serious blow inflicted by the English on India's handloom industry was A) Duty imposed on the looms. B) Infiltration of cash crops like indigo and opium in the cotton growing area. C) Compulsion of weavers to sell their goods on dictated prices. D) Shortage of cotton due to export of raw-cotton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compulsion of weavers to sell their goods on dictated prices. 38. Gautam Buddha delivered his first sermon at which one of the following places? A) Kushinagar. B) Sarnath. C) Bodh Gaya. D) Lumbini. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sarnath. 39. The first Muslim expedition to India took place in A) 720 A.D. B) 712 A.D. C) 716 A.D. D) 718 A.D. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 712 A.D. 40. Who was the first person to make an economc analysis of british rule in India? A) Ganesh Vasudev Joshi. B) Justice MG Rande. C) Dinabandu Mitra. D) Dadabhai Naoroji. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dadabhai Naoroji. 41. The First census in India was held in A) 1871. B) 1881. C) 1861. D) 1891. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1881. 42. Ring wells are identified for the first time in? A) Post-Mauryan. B) Pre-Mauryan age. C) Mauryan period. D) Later Vedic age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mauryan period. 43. Who among the following is considered as the first national ruler of India? A) Chandragupta I. B) Chandragupta Maurya. C) Ashoka. D) Kanishka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chandragupta Maurya. 44. The first Indian ruler who joined the subsidiary Alliance was- A) The Nizam of Hyderabad. B) Peshwa Baji Rao II. C) The Nawab of Oudh. D) The king of Travancore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Nizam of Hyderabad. 45. The term 'Brahmadeya' occurs for the first time in A) Pre-Gupta inscription. B) Early Vedic texts. C) Early Buddhist texts. D) Post-Gupta inscription. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pre-Gupta inscription. 46. The first Christian missionaries came into India in the? A) 1st century A.D. B) IInd century A.D. C) 1st century B.C. D) III century A.D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st century A.D. 47. The first missionary to successfully be accepted by the Chinese Ming court was the Jesuit: A) Siguenze y Gongora. B) Ignatius Loyola. C) Matteo Ricci. D) Francis Xavier. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Matteo Ricci. 48. Who among the following presided over the first Buddhist council held in Rajgriha? A) Moggaliputta Tissa. B) Buddaghosha. C) Sabbakami. D) Maha kassapa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maha kassapa. 49. The first Westerners to arrive in India were the: A) British. B) Dutch. C) French. D) Portuguese. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Portuguese. 50. Who was the first Englishmen to preside over a Congress session? A) George Yule. B) Dufferin. C) W. Wedderburn. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) George Yule. 51. The first lawful Hindu widow remarriage among upper castes in our country was celebrated under which of the following reformer: A) Keshub Chandra Sen. B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. C) Raja Rammohan Roy. D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. 52. The first tri-colour flag was hoisted on A) 26th January, 1950. B) 15th August, 1947. C) 31st December, 1929. D) 3lstJanauary, 1928. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 31st December, 1929. 53. The first ruler of Pala dynasty was A) Gopala. B) Dharmapala. C) Bhaskaravarman. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gopala. 54. Who among the following was the first leader to organize labour movement in India? A) B. P. Wadia. B) N. G. Ranga. C) N. M. Lokhandy. D) Lala Lajpat Rai. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B. P. Wadia. 55. When did Gandhiji go to fast unto death for the first time? A) At the time of Communal award. B) At the time of riots in Kolkatta (Calcutta). C) At the time of riots in Delhi. D) At the time of Jallianwala Bagh tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) At the time of Jallianwala Bagh tragedy. 56. The first Indonesian state of which we have detailed knowledge is: A) Funan. B) Srivijaya. C) Hoabinhian. D) Java. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Srivijaya. 57. Which of the following acts first introduced an element of election for memberships to Imperial Legislative Councils? A) The Government of India Act 1858. B) Indian Councils Act 1892. C) Indian Councils Act 1909. D) Indian Councils Act 1861. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indian Councils Act 1892. 58. Who is the author of the book "The First Indian War of Independence- 1857-59" ? A) S. N. Sen. B) Syed Ahmad Khan. C) R Mazumdar. D) Karl Marx. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Karl Marx. 59. As per the Cabinet Mission Plan, the power would be first transferred to ..... A) The Viceroy. B) The Interim Government. C) The Princes of the States. D) The Indian National Congress. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Interim Government. 60. Which of the following did not influence the growth of nationalist sentiments against the British rule in the first few years of the twentieth century? A) British reverses in the Boer War. B) Italy's defeat by Ethopia. C) Japanese defeat of Russia. D) The establishment of the Kerensky Government in Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The establishment of the Kerensky Government in Russia. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesThe First One Quiz 1The First One Quiz 2The First One Quiz 3The First One Quiz 5Correct And Incorrect QuizMiscellenous Questions QuizWritten Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books