1. Where was the first session of the Indian National Congress convened?
Answer: Bombay.
2. When was the first session of the Indian National Congress held?
Answer: 1885 (December).
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3. Who was the President of the first session of the Indian National Congress?
Answer: W C Banerjee.
4. In which session of the Indian National Congress the political leaders of Bengal joined?
Answer:Second session.
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5. By what name were known the leaders of the early phase of the Indian National Congress?
Answer: Moderates.
6. Mention the name of a Moderate leader.
Answer:Dadabhai Naoroji.
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7. When did the Surat Split take place?
Answer:1907.
8. Who was known as the ‘Grand Old Man’ of India?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji.
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9. Write the name of a militant nationalist leader.
Answer:Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
10. Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of the Partition of Bengal?
Answer:Lord Curzon.
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11. What was the name of the new province that was created as a result of the Partition of Bengal?
Answer: Eastern Bengal and Assam.
12. When was Bengal Partitioned?
Answer: 1905.
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13. Name the ceremony that was observed on the day of the Partition of Bengal.
Answer: Rakhi-Bandhan.
14. When was Carlyle Circular issued?
Answer: 10 October, 1905.
15. Who founded the anti- Circular Society?
Answer: sachindraprasad Basu.
16. When was the anti-Circular Society started?
Answer: 4 November, 1905.
17. Which newspaper first mooted the idea of ‘boycott’?
Answer: Sanjibani (weekly paper).
18. Who founded the Dawn Society?
Answer: satishchandra Mukhopadhyay.
19. When vas the Dawn Society founded?
Answer: 1902.
20.Under whose initiative was born the National Education Council ?
Answer: Satischandra Mukhopadhyay
21. Name a newspaper that was instrumental in inculcating the spirit of opposition to the Partition of Bengal.
Answer: Sandhya
22. Name the first revolutionary secret society of Bengal.
Answer: Anushilan Samiti
23. When was the Anushilan Samiti founded ?
Answer: 1902
24. In Maharashtra who first preached the revolutionary path ?
Answer: Basudev Balwant Phadke
25. Who was the first revolutionary martyr of India ?
Answer: Damodar Chapekar
26. Which revolutionary society was established by the Savarkar Brothers ?
Answer: Abhinava Bharat
27. When was the capital of India transferred from Calcutta to Delhi ?
Answer: 1912
28. When was the Partition of Bengal annulled ?
Answer: 1911
29. When was Mitramela established?
Answer: 1899
30. Where was Abhinava Bharat founded?
Answer: In Maharashtra.
31. In which year started the Ganapati Shivaji Utsav?
Answer: 1890.
32. Which was the first act of revolution in India?
Answer: Rand-Ayrst murder.
33. Who was the founder of the Anushilan Samiti?
Answer: Pramathanath Mitra.
34. Which was the first Conspiracy Case instituted against the Indian revolutionaries?
Answer: Alipore Conspiracy Case.
35. Name one revolutionary of Maharashtra.
Answer: Basudev Balwant Phadke.
36. Who were the Chapekar Brothers?
Answer: Damodar Chapekar and Balkrishna Chapekar.
37. Who were the Savarkar Brothers?
Answer: Ganesh Savarkar and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
38. Who founded the Abhinava Bharat?
Answer: Savarkar Brothers Savarkar Brothers.
39. Who founded the Mitra Mela?
Answer: Savarkar Brothers.
40. Against who was the Nasik Conspiracy Case instituted?
Answer:Savarkar Brothers.
41. Name a revolutionary of Punjab.
Answer: Ajit Singh.
42. Name a revolutionary of Madras.
Answer:Chidambaram Pillai.
43. Name a leader of Maharashtra who played an important role in the Swadeshi movement?
Answer:Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
44. What was the real name of Sister Nivedita?
Answer:Margaret E. Nobel.
45. Who founded the Jugantar Dal?
Answer:Barindra Kumar Ghosh.
46. When was the Jugantar Dal founded?
Answer:1906.
47. National Council of Education was the result of which movement?
Answer:National education movement.
48. When was the National Council of Education formally inaugurated?
Answer:In 1906.
49. Name the paper edited by Arobindo Ghosh.
Answer:Batide Mataram.
50. Under whose Governor- Generalship was Partition of Bengal repealed?
Answer:Lord Hardinge.
51. Who first put forward the scheme of the Partition of Bengal?
Answer:William Ward.
52. When was the scheme of the Partition of Bengal first placed?
Answer: In 1896.