SSC CGL 2015 – GK Quiz – History – Set 1



Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. As the season of SSC CGL begins, we are rolling out SSC Quizzes for SSC CGL as well as upcoming Postal Assistant Exams.

1. The
Governor-General associated with abolition of slavery was
(a) Lord Cornwallis
(b) Lord Bentinck
(c) Lord Dalhousie
(d) Lord Rippon
2. Who called
Gandhiji half-naked fakir?
(a) Mountbatten
(b) Hastings
(c) Winston Churchill
(d) Jinnah
3. In which year the
Indian national congress was formed
(a) 1885
(b) 1888
(c) 1889
(d) 1896
4. Who wrote ‘Why I
am an Atheist’
(a) Subhash Chandra Bose
(b) KhudiramBose
(c) Bhagat Singh
(d) Madam Lal Dhingra
5. The Simon Commisssion
which came to India in February 1928 was boycotted because
 (a) All its members
were Englishmen
 (b) At that time a
large number of nationalist leader were in prison
 (c) Its Chairman, Sir
John Simon was very unpopular
(d) The Montague-Chemsford Reforms had failed
6. Who called Indian
Federalism as the Cooperative Federalism?
 (a) G. Austin
(b) Subhash Kashyap
(c) Sir Ivor Jennings
(d) D.D. Basu
7. The Constitution
of India is –
(a) Rigid
(b) Flexible
(c) Very rigid
(d) Partly rigid, partly flexible
8. The concept of
Judicial Review in our Constitution has been taken from the Constitution of:
(a) England
(b) USA
(c) Canada
(d) Australia
9. The Constitution
of India borrowed the scheme of Indian federation from the constitution of:
(a) USA
(b) Canada
(c) United Kingdom
(d) Ireland
10. The Federal
System with strong centre’ has been borrowed by the Indian Constitution from:
(a) USA
(b) Canada
(c) UK
(d) France
11. The idea of including
the Emergency provisions in the Constitution of India has been borrowed from

the –
(a) Constitution of Canada
(b) Weimar Constitution of Germany
(c) Constitution of Ireland
(d) Constitution of USA
12. The Vice President
is elected by an Electoral College consisting of members of
(a) Both Houses of Parliament and state legislative
(b) Both Houses of Parliament
(c) Lok Sabha
(d) Rajya Sabha
13. The election Commission
does not conduct the elections to the
(a) Lok Sabha
(b) President’s election
(c) Rajya Sabha
(d) Local Bodies
14. The maximum age
prescribed for election as president is
(a) No such Limit
(b) 62 years
(c) 58 years
(d) 60 years
15. The power to
decide an election petition is vested in the
(a) High Court
(b) Election Commission
(c) Parliament
(d) Supreme Court



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