WBCS History Practice Set - 1

 Q. 1 Goa was captured by Portuguese 
 (a) 1479 AD (b) 1575 AD
 (c) 1510 AD (d) 1600 AD

 Q. 2 First Governor-General of Bengal was 
 (a) Robert Clive
 (b) William Bentinck
 (c) Wellesley   
 (d) Warren Hastings

 Q. 3 The first session of the All India Congress held in Bombay in 1920, was presided over by 
  (a) J L Nehru       
  (b) VV Giri
  (c) Lala Lajpat Rai
  (d) MM Joshi

 Q.4 Who founded Ferguson College at Pune in 1885 
 (a) Decan Educational Society
 (b) Bharatiya Sewak Samaj
 (c) Samaj Sewa Sangh           
 (d) Theosophical Society

 Q.5 First English newspaper in India 
  (a) The Bengal Gazette
  (b) The Calcutta Gazette
  (c) The Bengal Journal
  (d) The Bombay Herald

 Q.6 Flake tools of Levallois technique is the characteristic feature of which area of the following geological ages? 
(a) Lower Pleistocene
(b) Holocene
(c) Upper Pleistocene
(d) Middle Pleistocene

Q.7 Which one of the following Buddhist texts mentions five hundred wives of Bimbisara? 
(a) Mahavamsa
(b) Mahavagga
(c) Dipavamsa
(d) Mahavastu

Q.8 The earliest Lingodbhavamurti of Siva has been found at which one of the below mentioned sites? 
 (a) Kanchi       
 (b) Bhojpur
 (c) Gudimallam
 (d) Khoh

Q.9 According to Al-Beruni, the antyajas were 
 (a) Hadi, Dom and Chandala caste of people
 (b) Prostitutes
 (c) Eight guilds of people below the Sudras
 (d) Foreigners

Q.10 Who first translated Bhagvad Gita to English 
(a) William Jones               
(b) Charles Wilkins
(c) Alexander Cunningham
(d) John Marshall

Answer Key History Practice Set - 1
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1	C
2	D
3	C
4	A
5	A
6	D
7	B
8	C
9	C
10	B