SSC CPO GENERAL AWARENESS QUIZ-1

Question 1:

In which year did the Sepoy Mutiny end?

1874

1862

1888

1858

Question 2:

Who was the Governor General of India during the Revolt of 1857?

Lord Dalhousie

lord minto

lord canning

Lord Bentinck

Question 3:

Who was the British commanding officer at Barrackpore during the Revolt of 1857?

Henry Lawrence

Colonel Finnis

Hearsey

Sir Hugh Wheeler

Question 4:

Who made Allahabad the emergency headquarters in 1857?

Lord Canning

Lord Cornwallis

Lord Wellesley

Lord William Bentinck

Question 5:

What was the main reason for the failure of the Revolt of 1857?

lack of Hindu-Muslim unity

Lack of any common planning and central organization

its limited sphere of influence

Landlords' Participation

Question 6:

consider it -

Assertion (A) : First War of Independence in 1857 failed to get independence from British Government

Reason (Ca) : The leadership of Bahadur Shah Zafar did not get public support and the rulers of most of the important princely states were reluctant to support them.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below -

(a) and (a) both are true and (a) is the correct explanation of (a)

(a) and (ka) both are true, but (ka) is not the correct explanation of (a)

(a) is true and (a) is false

(a) is false, but (a) is true

Question 7:

The official historian of the Indian independence movement was-

R . C . majumdar

Tarachandra

V. D. Savarkar

S.N. Sen

Question 8:

The so-called first national freedom struggle was neither the first, nor the national, nor the freedom struggle "This statement is related to -

From R.C. Mazumdar

From S. N. Sen

From Tarachand

From V.D. Savarkar

Question 9:

Which of the following commission is related to the new organization of the Indian Army after the suppression of 1857?

Public service commission

Peel Commission

Hunter Commission

Simon Commission

Question 10:

Who among the following did not help the British in suppressing the Revolt of 1857?

Scindia of Gwalior

Begum Hazrat Mahal of Awadh

Nizam of Hyderabad

Sikandar Begum of Bhopal