Uttar Pradesh

1.
Who became the second Prime Minister of India after the death of Jawaharlal Nehru?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Option “B” is correct.
After the death of Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri served as the second prime minister of India from 9th June 1964 to 11th January 1966.
2. Who presented ‘Nehru Report’ in 1928 which is considered as the ‘Blue Print’ of Modern Constitution?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Option “B” is correct.
The Nehru Report of 15th August 1928 (approved on 28th August) was a memorandum to appeal for a new dominion status and a federal set-up of government for the constitution of India. It also proposed for the Joint Electorates with reservation of seats for minorities in the legislatures. It was prepared by a committee of the ‘All Parties Conference’ chaired by Motilal Nehru with his son Jawaharlal Nehru acting as a secretary. There were nine other members in this committee. The final report was signed by Motilal Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru, Ali Imam, Tej Bahadur Sapru, Madhav Shrihari Aney, Mangal Singh, Shuaib Qureshi, Subhas Chandra Bose and G. R. Pradhan.
3. The famous Sufi Saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya belonged to which of the following places?
a. Jhansi
b.
c. Etah
d. Akbarpur

Option “B” is correct.
Nizamuddin Auliya was born in Badayun, Uttar Pradesh (Also, spelled as Budaun, it is located near the Ganges river in the center of Western Uttar Pradesh). At the age of five, after the death of his father, Syed Abdullah bin Ahmad Al Hussain i Badayuni, he came to Delhi with his mother, Bibi Zulekha.
4. Who among the following was associated with the formation of Uttar Pradesh Kisan Sabha?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Option “B” is correct.
The Uttar Pradesh Kisan Sabha was formed in year 1918 in Lucknow by Gauri Shankar Mishra, Indra Narayan Dwivedi and Madan Mohan Malviya.
5. Where Chandrashekhar Azad died?
a. Kanpur
b. Lucknow
c.
d. Saharanpur

Option “C” is correct.
Indian revolutionary Chandra Shekhar Azad shot himself dead on 27th February 1931, at Alfred Park in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, aged 24. He played a key role in the Kakori conspiracy where he looted the train carrying cash belonging to the British treasury. Azad killed himself because he had made a pledge that the Police will never capture him alive.
6. At which place the Awadh Kisan Sabha was organised?
a. Meerut
b. Kanpur
c. Pratapgarh
d. Hardoi

Option “C” is correct.
Awadh Kisan Sabha was organised in October 1920 in Pratapgarh.
7. Which of the following places was the witness of the First War of Independence of 1857?
a. Meerut
b. Jhansi
c. Kanpur
d. Gorakhpur

Option “A” is correct.
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857 – 58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10th May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the Company’s army in the garrison town of Meerut, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Delhi. It then erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions chiefly in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, though incidents of revolt also occurred farther north and east.
8. During Quit India Movement in Uttar Pradesh, Provisional Government was formed in Ballia under the leadership of?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Option “B” is correct.
Chittu Pandey was one such local leader under whom the first parallel government was set up in Ballia, in east Uttar Pradesh.
9. Who was considered to be the ‘Architect of the Modern Indian Nation-State’?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Option “D” is correct.
Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru was considered to be the ‘Architect of the Modern Indian Nation-State’.
10.
Who is the known as ‘Uttar Pradesh Gandhi’?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Option “C” is correct.
Purushottam Das Tandon was a freedom fighter from Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is widely remembered for his opposition to the partition of India, as well as efforts in achieving the Official Language of India status for Hindi. He was customarily given the title Rajarshi. He was popularly known as UP Gandhi. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, in 1961.
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