MCQ on Formation of Indian National Congress

Q. The founder of the Indian National Congress was a ______.
(A) Civil Servant
(B) Scientist
(C) Social Worker
(D) Commander

Q. When was Indian National Congress set up?
(A) 1885
(B) 1886
(C) 1887
(D) 1888

Q. Indian National Congress was established by ______.
(A) A.O. Hume
(B) Surendra Nath Banerjee
(C) W.C. Banerjee
(D) Annie Besant

Q. The precursor of Indian National Congress was_______.
(A) British Indian Association
(B) Indian Association
(C) Indian National Union
(D) Indian League

Q. How many representatives took part in the First Session of the Indian National Congress?
(A) 52
(B) 62
(C) 72
(D) 82

Q. The first conference of Indian National Congress held at______.
(A) Kolkata
(B) Lahore
(C) Mumbai
(D) Pune

Q. Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress?
(A) A.O. Hume
(B) W.C. Banerjee
(C) Dadabhai Naoroji
(D) None of the above

Q. Who among the following presided over the first annual meeting of the Indian National Congress?
(A) A.O. Hume
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) S.N. Banerjee
(D) W.C. Banerjee

Q. First Muslim President of Indian National Congress was______.
(A) Abul Kalam Azad
(B) Rafi Ahmad Kidwai
(C) M.A. Ansari
(D) Badruddin Tyyabji

Q. The General Secretary of the Indian National Congress in the year 1885 was_______.
(A) A.O. Hume
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) W.C. Banerjee
(D) Firoz Shah Mehta

Q. The Indian National Congress was established during the viceroyalty of ______.
(A) Lord Ripon
(B) Lord Lytton
(C) Lord Elgin II
(D) Lord Dufferin

Q. Who had ridiculed Congress as representing only a short-sighted minority of the people?
(A) Lord Ripon
(B) Lord Dufferin
(C) Lord Curzon
(D) Lord Wellesley

Q. Who among the following was not present at the founding session of the Indian National Congress?
(A) Dadabhai Naoroji
(B) G. Subramaniya Iyer
(C) Justice Ranade
(D) Surendra Nath Banerjee

Q. The second session of the Indian National Congress was presided over by _______.
(A) Ganesh Agarkar
(B) Surendra Nath Banerjee
(C) Dadabhai Naoroji
(D) Feroz Shah Mehta

Q. In 1889, a committee was set up in Britain to gain support for the Congress, who amongst the following was its President?
(A) Sir W. Wadderburn
(B) Mr. Digby
(C) Dadabhai Naoroji
(D) W.C. Banerjee

Q. The first European to be elected as President of the Indian National Congress was______.
(A) A.O. Hume
(B) George Yule
(C) Alfred Webb
(D) Annie Besant

Q. Who among the following was never concerned with Indian National Congress?
(A) Firoz Shah Mehta
(B) Hakim Ajmal Khan
(C) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(D) Sir Syed Ahmad

Q. Who among the following was never elected as a President of the ‘Indian National Congress’?
(A) Lala Lajpat Rai
(B) Annie Besant
(C) Motilal Nehru
(D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Q. Who among the trio-Lal, Bal and Pal became President of the Indian National Congress?
(A) Lala Lajpat Rai
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Bipin Chandra Pal
(D) None of the above

Q. Who among the following became President of Indian National Congress?
(A) Sucheta Kriplani
(B) Aruna Asaf Ali
(C) Annie Besant
(D) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Q. For which of the following sessions the Congress elected its first women President?
(A) Calcutta Session, 1917
(B) Gaya Session, 1922
(C) Allahabad Session, 1921
(D) Lucknow Session, 1916

Q. Who was the first lady President of the Indian National Congress?
(A) N. Sen Gupta
(B) Sarojini Naidu
(C) Annie Besant
(D) Kadambini Bose

Q. Who was the first Indian Woman President of the Congress?
(A) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
(B) Pandita Rama Bai
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur

Q. Who among the following was the youngest person to become the President of the Indian National Congress?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Abul Kalam Azad
(C) Anand Mohan Bose
(D) Bhupendra Nath Bose

Q. At which place was the 27th Session of the Indian National Congress held?
(A) Bhagalpur
(B) Patna
(C) Ranchi
(D) Bankipur

Q. In which of the following Sessions of the Indian National Congress Bal Gangadhar Tilak had expressed, ‘Swaraj is my birthright, I shall have it’?
(A) Banaras Session, 1905
(B) Calcutta Session, 1906
(C) Surat Session, 1907
(D) Lucknow Session, 1916

Q. ‘Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it’. This statement is concerned with ________.
(A) Lala Lajpat Rai
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(D) Subhash Chandra Bose

Q. Who said that ‘Congress Movement was neither inspired by the people, nor devised or planned by them’?
(A) Lord Dufferin
(B) Sir Syed Ahmad
(C) Lord Curzon
(D) Lala Lajpat Rai

Q. “The Congress is faltering to its fall and one of my great ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise”. This declaration was made by _______.
(A) George Hamilton
(B) Lord Curzon
(C) Lord Dufferin
(D) Lord Minto

Q. While delivering the presidential address, the Congress President who advocated the introduction of Roman script for the Hindi language was ______.
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Abul Kalam Azad
(D) Subhash Chandra Bose

Q. Who among the following suggested the winding up of the Indian National Congress after India attained independence?
(A) C. Rajagopalachari
(B) Acharya Kriplani
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) Jayaprakash Narain

Q. One Governor-General took part in one of the Congress Sessions.
Identify the Governor-General and place where the Session was held_______.
(A) Lord Irwin-Karachi – 1931
(B) Lord Wellington-Bombay – 1915
(C) Lord Dufferin-Bombay – 1885
(D) Lord Hardinge-Lucknow – 1916

Q. Which of the following sessions of the Indian National Congress was presided over by C. Vijay Raghav Chariar?
(A) Lucknow Session (1916)
(B) Nagpur Session (1920)
(C) Gaya Session (1922)
(D) None of the above

Q. Who was the President of Gaya Session of the Indian National Congress held in 1922?
(A) Chittaranjan Das
(B) S.N. Banerjee
(C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(D) Hakim Ajmal Khan

Q. Mahatma Gandhi presided over only in one session of the Indian National Congress in 1924. Where was the session held?
(A) Gaya
(B) Amritsar
(C) Belgoan
(D) Kanpur

Q. The only session of the Indian National Congress presided over by Mahatma Gandhi was_______.
(A) Allahabad Session – 1921
(B) Gaya Session – 1922
(C) Belgaon Session – 1924
(D) Karachi Session – 1930

Q. In which of the following sessions of Indian National Congress, Jawaharlal Nehru spoke of socialism as the key to the solution of India’s problems?
(A) Lahore
(B) Lucknow
(C) Allahabad
(D) Ramgarh

Q. The Haripura Session of Indian National Congress, 1938 was presided over by_______.
(A) Abul Kalam Azad
(B) J.B. Kriplani
(C) Rajendra Prasad
(D) Subhash Chandra Bose

Q. Who among the following was the President of Indian National Congress continuously for six years?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Abul Kalam Azad
(C) G.K. Gokhale
(D) Dadabhai Naoroji

Q. President of Indian National Congress at the time of Independence was________.
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) J.B. Kriplani
(D) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Q. On which occasion was ‘Jana-Gana Mana’ first sung?
(A) 1896 Session of INC
(B) 1905 Session of INC
(C) 1911 Session of INC
(D) 1919 Session of INC

Q. The last session of Indian National Congress attended by Bal Gangadhar Tilak was______.
(A) Calcutta Session, 1906
(B) Surat Session, 1907
(C) Calcutta Session, 1917
(D) Amritsar Session, 1919

Q. Consider the following statements.

1. The first woman President of the Indian National Congress was Sarojini Naidu.
2. The first Muslim President of the Indian National Congress was Badruddin Tyabji.

Q. Which of the statement given above is/are correct?
(A) Only 1
(B) Only 2
(C) Both 1 and 2
(D) Neither 1 nor 2

Q. Consider the following statements.

1. The First Session of the Indian National Congress was held in Calcutta.
2. The Second Session of the Indian National Congress was held under the presidentship of Dadabhai Naoroji.
3. Both Indian National Congress and Muslim League held their sessions at Lucknow in 1916 and concluded the Lucknow Pact.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(A) 1 and 2
(B) Only 2
(C) 2 and 3
(D) Only 3

Q. Consider the following statements about the Indian National Congress.

1. Sarojini Naidu was the first woman to be the President of the Congress.
2. C.R. Das was in prison when he functioned as the President of the Congress.
3. The first Britisher to become the President of the Congress was Alan Octavian Hume.
4. Alfred Webb was the President of the Congress in 1894.

Which of these statements are correct?
(A) 1 and 3
(B) 2 and 4
(C) 2, 3 and 4
(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4

Q. Who of the following were elected to collaborate with Mahatma Gandhi who was to author the new Constitution of the Congress as per resolution of Indian National Congress at Amritsar Session, 1919?

1. B.G. Tilak
2. N.C. Kelkar
3. C.R. Das
4. I.B. Sen

Select the correct answer from the code given below.
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(A) 2 and 4
(B) 1 and 2
(C) 3 and 4
(D) 1 and 3

Q. Given below is a list of persons who became Presidents of Indian National Congress. Arrange them in chronological order.

1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Jawaharlal Nehru
3. Vallabhbhai Patel
4. Smt. Sarojini Naidu

Select your answer using the code given below the list.
Code
(A) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(B) 1, 3, 4 and 2
(C) 1, 4, 2 and 3
(D) 4, 3, 1 and 2

Q. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List-I (President)
(a) Abul Kalam Azad
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Motilal Nehru
(d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
List-II (Places where Meetings of Indian National Congress was held)

1. Amritsar, 1919
2. Bombay, 1934
3. Kanpur, 1925
4. Ramgarh, 1940

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Q. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List-I
(a) Dr. M.A. Ansari
(b) Purushottam Das Tandon
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Subhash Chandra Bose
List-II

1. Haripura
2. Kanpur
3. Madras
4. Nasik

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