This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian History > Exam Based > The First One – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The First One Quiz 1 (20 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) 1814. B) 1815. C) 1813. D) 1816. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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 French. B) The 'English. C) The Portuguese. D) The Dutch. 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) Gupta Period. B) Saatvahana Period. C) Maurya Period. D) Shunga Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maurya Period. 5. .....was the first Mughal Emperor to acquire Koh-i-Noor diamond A) Jahangir. B) Humayun. C) Shah Jahan. D) Akbar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humayun. 6. Which of the following native states was first to conclude Subsidiary Alliance with East India Company? A) Avadh. B) Mysore. C) Mewar. D) Hyderabad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyderabad. 7. The first Rashtrakuta-ruler who successfully invaded North India was A) Govinda Ill. B) Govinda II. C) Krishna II. D) Dhruva. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dhruva. 8. 'Dyarchy' was first introduced in India under A) Morley-Minto reforms. B) Simon Commision plan. C) Government of India Act, 1935. D) Montford reforms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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 Canning. C) Lord Dalhousie. D) Lord Nelson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lord Canning. 14. Which was the first newspaper to be published in India? A) Bengal Chronicle. B) Bombay Samachar. C) Bengal Gazette. D) The Hindu. 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) Satakarni I. B) Yajna Satakarni. C) Gautamiputra Satakarni. D) Vasishthiputra Pulumavi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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) Leather goods. C) Indigo. D) Spices. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indigo. 20. The first English base established in India was at: A) Goa. B) Surat. C) Madras. D) Karachi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Surat. Next →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesThe First One Quiz 2The First One Quiz 3The First One Quiz 4The First One Quiz 5The First One Quiz 6The First One Quiz 7The First One Quiz 8The First One Quiz 9The First One Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books