This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Polity > Indian > Indian Politics – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Indian Politics Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The ideal of 'positive liberty' was first conceived by A) Aristotle. B) Green. C) Laski. D) Hegel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Green. 2. Who is the Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on Goods and Service Tax (GST)? A) Sushil Kumar Modi. B) Vilasrao Deshmukh. C) Raghavji. D) Shivraj Singh Chauhan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sushil Kumar Modi. 3. The president can assign any of the functions of the union government to the state government A) In his discretion. B) In consultation with the state governor. C) In consultation with the government of the state. D) In consultation with the chief justice of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In consultation with the government of the state. 4. The Parliament enjoys legislative power over subjects in A) The union list only. B) The concurrent list only. C) Both union and concurrent list. D) All the three lists, viz. union list, state list and the concurrent list. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both union and concurrent list. 5. The residuary powers, under the Act of 1935, were placed under A) The Central Legislature. B) The Government General of India. C) The Central Government. D) The Provincial Legislatures. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Government General of India. 6. In 1960, the Indian state of Bombay was split into two states, Maharashtra and ..... The city of Mumbai was given to Maharashtra, and assigned as its capital later on. A) Gujurat. B) Karnataka. C) Madhya Pradesh. D) Goa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gujurat. 7. The National Academy of Administration was set up at Mussoorie in A) 1959. B) 1954. C) 1957. D) 1958. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1959. 8. The First Constitutional Amendment was made in the year A) 1951. B) 1952. C) 1950. D) 1955. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1951. 9. The Chief Justice (or a Judge) of the High Court can be removed by the A) Same procedure as for the Judges of the Supreme Court. B) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. C) Union Home Ministry. D) Governor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Same procedure as for the Judges of the Supreme Court. 10. What type of party system is there in India? A) One Party system. B) Two Party system. C) Multi Party system. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multi Party system. 11. Judicial Review signifies that the Supreme Court A) Has final authority in overall cases. B) Can declare a state law as unconstitutional. C) Can review cases whose decisions has been given by the High Court. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Can declare a state law as unconstitutional. 12. Which Act is associated with "Courts can interpret the rules and regulations. "? A) Regulating Act of 1773. B) Charter Act of 1893. C) Pitts India Act of 1784. D) Charter Act of 1793. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charter Act of 1793. 13. Maximum number of seats in the Rajya Sabha is in A) Bihar. B) Uttar Pradesh. C) Andhra Pradesh. D) West Bengal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uttar Pradesh. 14. The president can dismiss a member of the council of ministers A) With the consent of the speaker. B) Only under emergency conditions. C) On his own. D) On the recommendation of the prime ministers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) On the recommendation of the prime ministers. 15. The concept of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) originated in A) Ireland. B) Australia. C) United Kingdom. D) United States of America. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) United States of America. 16. Who is the Ex-officio Chairman of the Planning Commission of India? A) Vice-President of India. B) The Prime-Minister of India. C) The Law Minister of India. D) The Finance Minister of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Prime-Minister of India. 17. One of the following states is not included in the Eastern Zonal Council A) Bihar. B) Paschim Banga. C) Sikkim. D) Odisha. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sikkim. 18. Who among the following formulated the Dickie Bird Plan? A) Lord Mountbatten. B) Stafford Cripps. C) A V Alexander. D) C Rajagopalchari. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord Mountbatten. 19. Which of the following units of urban Local Self-Government does not have constitutional foundation? A) Municipal Councils. B) Municipal Corporation. C) Cantonment Boards. D) Nagar Panchayats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Municipal Corporation. 20. The Constitution of India declares India as A) A voluntary Federation. B) A Federation. C) A Union of States. D) A Confederation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Union of States. 21. Who among the following is the 28th state of India? A) Goa. B) Uttarakhanda. C) Jharkhand. D) Chhattisgarh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jharkhand. 22. Select the match is not correct? A) Minimum Need Scheme -Indira Awas Yojana (IAY). B) Social Assistance Scheme - Anmol Beti. C) Human Development Scheme -Mid day Meals. D) Poverty Reduction Programme -MNREGA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Social Assistance Scheme - Anmol Beti. 23. In which one of these cases, the basic structure doctrine was not affirmed A) Golaknath Case-1967. B) Minerva Mills Case-1984. C) Waman Rao Case-1981. D) MC Mehta vs Union of India-2001. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) MC Mehta vs Union of India-2001. 24. Who among the following choose the Speaker of the House of People? A) The Prime Minister of India. B) The Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs. C) The House of People. D) The Leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The House of People. 25. Which one of the following is not a Constitutional Body? A) Election Commission. B) Union Public Service Commission. C) Finance Commission. D) Planning Commission. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Planning Commission. 26. How many High Courts in India have Jurisdiction over more than one state (Union Territories not included)? A) Two. B) Four. C) Five. D) Three. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Three. 27. The term of the Rajya Sabha was fixed by the A) President. B) Cabinet. C) Constitution. D) Parliament. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Constitution. 28. Which one of the following is the subject of the Narasimhan Committee Reports of years 1991 and 1998? A) Administrative Reforms. B) Electoral Reforms. C) Banking Reforms. D) Constitutional Reforms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Banking Reforms. 29. The highest policy making body in matters relating to national planning is the A) National Development. B) Inter-State Council. C) Finance Commission. D) Planning Commission. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) National Development. 30. The salaries and allowances of the Judges of the High Court are charged to the A) Consolidated Fund of the State. B) Consolidated Fund of India. C) Contingency Fund of the State. D) Contingency Fund of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consolidated Fund of the State. 31. Areawise, which on of the following is the largest Lok Sabha Constituency? A) Kangra. B) Kutch. C) Ladakh. D) Patna Sahib. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ladakh. 32. The Right to Property was removed from the list of Fundamental Rights enlisted in the Constitution through which one of the following Amendments? A) 76th. B) 73rd. C) 44th. D) 23rd. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 44th. 33. The Speaker of the Lok Sabha can resign his office by addressing to A) The President. B) The Prime Minister. C) The Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha. D) The Chief Justice of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha. 34. This Island is a union territory of India located at juncture of Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea and also comprises of two groups of islands A) Andaman and Nicobar Islands. B) Diu Island. C) Divar Island. D) Lakshadweep Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 35. When an advance grant is made by Parliament, Pending the regular passage of the budget, it is called A) Vote on credit. B) Supplementary grant. C) Token grant. D) Vote on account. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vote on account. 36. Who led the coalition in June1996 to form the United Front government A) V. P. Singh. B) Atal Bihari Vajpayee. C) H. D. Deve Gowda. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Atal Bihari Vajpayee. 37. Who among the following proposed the creation of a preamble before the Drafting Committee? A) Jawaharlal Nehru. B) B R Ambedkar. C) Sardar Patel. D) B N Rau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jawaharlal Nehru. 38. Who is the first person of India? A) Governor. B) Prime Minister. C) Cheif Minister. D) President. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) President. 39. Which one of the following writs literally means "what is your authority" ? A) Quo Warranto. B) Certiorari. C) Habeus Corpus. D) Prohibition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Habeus Corpus. 40. Who is the Governor of Reserve Bank of India at present? A) Urjit Patel. B) Bimal Jalan. C) Y. Reddy. D) Rangarajan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Urjit Patel. 41. ..... is the Apex body under Local Self-government in Urban areas. A) Zila Parishad. B) Municipal Council. C) Nagar Panchayat. D) Municipal Corporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Municipal Corporation. 42. The Objectives Resolution was unanimously adopted by the Constituent Assembly on A) 22nd January 1947. B) 26th November 1946. C) 1st October 1948. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 22nd January 1947. 43. The members of Lok Sabha are A) Directly elected by the people. B) Directly elected. C) Nominated. D) Partly elected and partly nominated. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Directly elected by the people. 44. When did the United Nations Organization came into existence A) November 26, 1945. B) October 24, 1943. C) November 26, 1943. D) October 24,1945. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) October 24,1945. 45. Who of the following was a member of Rajya Sabha at the time of appointment as Prime Minister? A) Charan Singh. B) Indira Gandhi. C) Lal Bahadur Shastri. D) Narasimha Rao. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indira Gandhi. 46. Eleventh Schedule of the Constitution relating to the Panchayts contains A) 18 items. B) 19items. C) 29items. D) 28 items. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 29items. 47. Who was the Chairman of the Thirteenth Finance Commission? A) Vijay Kelkar. B) S D Mishra. C) Subir Datta. D) K Sanathanam. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vijay Kelkar. 48. A new All India Service can be created by A) An order of the President. B) An act of Parliament. C) A resolution of the UPSE. D) A resolution of the Rajya Sabha. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An act of Parliament. 49. India has changed over to the decimal system of coinage in A) April, 1957. B) April, 1995. C) April, 1959. D) April, 1958. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) April, 1957. 50. Which one of the following Articles of the Directive Principles of State Policy deals with the promotion of international peace and security? A) Article 51. B) Article 43A. C) Article 48A. D) Article 41. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Article 51. 51. Which Article of the Constitution allows the centre to form new states? A) Article 5. B) Article 4. C) Article 3. D) Article 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Article 3. 52. The North Eastern Council, established in 1972, includes the follwing A) Asom. B) Mizoram. C) Nagaland. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 53. A separate Governor for Bengal to be appointed under the act? A) Charter Act of 1733. B) Pitts India Act of 1784. C) Charter Act of 1753. D) Charter Act of 1793. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charter Act of 1753. 54. Which of the following Constitutional Amendments integrated Sikkim as full-fledged state of the Indian Union? A) 36th. B) 37th. C) 34th. D) 35th. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 37th. 55. Which one of the following is a Member of the SAARC? A) Afghanistan. B) Myanmar. C) Thailand. D) Turkmenistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Afghanistan. 56. Who among the following got the Bharat Ratna Award before becoming the President of India? A) Dr Rjendra Prasad. B) V V Giri. C) Dr Zakir Hussain. D) Dr S Radhakrishnan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dr S Radhakrishnan. 57. The president demand for further reforms, attended with the dislocation caused by the non-cooperation movement, led the British government to appoint a Statutory Commission in 1927. This commission wa A) S. Montague. B) Lord Minto. C) Sri John Simon. D) Lord Chelmsford. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sri John Simon. 58. The Officers of the Parliament include A) Speaker, Lok Sabha. B) Dy. Speaker, Lok Sabha. C) Secretary General of Lok Sabha andChairman of Rajya Sabha. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 59. In which one of the following case, the Supreme Court initially had held that Preamble is not part of the Constitution? A) Berubari Case. B) Sajjan Singh Case. C) Golaknath Case. D) Kesavananda Bharti Case. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Berubari Case. 60. Who said, "Democracy is a Government of the people, by the people and for the people" ? A) Mahatma Ghandhi. B) Thomas Jefferson. C) Martin Luther King. D) Abraham Lincoln. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abraham Lincoln. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPolity QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesIndian Politics Quiz 1Indian Politics Quiz 2Indian Politics Quiz 3Indian Politics Quiz 4Indian Politics Quiz 6Indian Politics Quiz 7Indian Politics Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books