Previous year MCQs

Modern Indian History UPPSC 2012 GS-1
Question

Which of the following colleges was the first to be established?

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option B: Delhi College

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “Delhi College”.
College Year of Establishment
Hindu College, Calcutta 1817
Delhi College 1792
Mayo College 1875
Muslim Anglo-Oriental College (later became Aligarh Muslim University) 1875

Similar Questions:

Read the following events connected with Indian National Movement and find the correct chronological order of the events from the codes given below:

1) Cripps Mission
2) Cabinet Mission Plan
3) Quit India Movement
4) Wavell Plan

Code:
  1. A) 1,3,4,2
  2. B) 1,2,3,4
  3. C) 1,3,2,4
  4. D) 4,3,2,1
Who out of the following was given the award of "Rashtra Kavi" due to his influencing contribution to the Independence movement of India through his literary works?
  1. A) Maithili Sharan Gupta
  2. B) Jai Shankar Prasad
  3. C) Sumitra Nandan Pant
  4. D) Ram Dhari Singh
The National Institute for the Visually Handicapped is situated at
  1. A) Kolkata
  2. B) Dehradun
  3. C) Mumbai
  4. D) Hyderabad
Who among the following great men is called the "Father of Indian Renaissance"?
  1. A) Vivekananda
  2. B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
  3. C) Rabindra Nath Tagore
  4. D) Dayanand Saraswati
Who prepared "C.R. Formula" to remove the political deadlock between Muslim League and Indian National Congress?
  1. A) Jawaharlal Nehru
  2. B) Rajgopalachari
  3. C) Chittaranjan Das
  4. D) V.P. Menon
Who among the following Governor Generals ridiculed congress as representing only a 'microscopic minority' of people?
  1. A) Lord Dufferin
  2. B) Lord Curzon
  3. C) Lord Minto
  4. D) Lord Lansdown
Put the following events in chronological order and choose your answer with the help of given code:

1) Formation of an interim Government
2) The arrival of the Cabinet Mission
3) Muslim League launches Direct Action
4) Jinnah's wrecking of the Shimla Conference

Codes:
  1. A) B D C A
  2. B) D B C A
  3. C) A B D C
  4. D) D B A C
Quit India Movement started in?
  1. A) 1936
  2. B) 1940
  3. C) 1942
  4. D) 1947
Who accused Indian National Congress of practising "politics of prayer, petition and protest"?
  1. A) Lala Hardayal
  2. B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  3. C) Subhas Chandra Bose
  4. D) Sardar Bhagat Singh
Which country has announced in December 2011 that it will set up its first military base abroad in the Indian Ocean Island of Seychelles?
  1. A) China
  2. B) Japan
  3. C) Russia
  4. D) South Korea
Which one of the following had supported the non-cooperation movement, but could not see its upshots?
  1. A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  2. B) Lala Lajpat Rai
  3. C) Motilal Nehru
  4. D) Chitranjan Das
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).

Assertion (A): The Asiatic Society of Bengal was established in the period of Warren Hastings and he modestly declined the offer of Presidentship of that learned body in favour of Sir William Jones.

Reason (R): Warren Hastings was himself a great scholar and an ardent orientalist who used to encourage the study of Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:
  1. A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
  2. B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
  3. C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
  4. D) (A) is false, but (R) is true