Most Important Questions on Governor Generals and Viceroys
1. At the time of which of the following Viceroys, the post of Auditor General was created, which was called Comptroller and Auditor General after independence?
(a) Lord Canning
(b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) Lord Litton
(d) Lord Ripon
Ans. A
2. Who among the following Governors-General of British India is considered as the ‘father of local self-government in India’?
(a) Lord Mayo
(b) Lord Ripon
(c) Lord Lytton
(d) Lord Elgin
Ans. B
3. Which of the following statements about the governors-general of British India is correct?
(a) William Bentick took many unpopular regressive socio-economic policy measures.
(b) Lord Warring Hastings introduced the system of Subsidiary Alliance.
(c) Lord Cornwallis codified the principle of separation of power.
(d) Third Anglo-Mysore war was fought during the reign of Lord Wellesley.
Ans. C
4. Consider the following Viceroys of India during the British rule
1) Lord Curzon
2) Lord Chelmsford
3) Lord Hardinge II
4) Lord Irwin
Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of their service in India as Viceroys?
(a) 1,3,2, 4
(b) 2, 4,1,3
(c) 1,4,2,3
(d) 2, 3,1, 4
Ans. A
5. Who among the following Viceroys of India used to write poems with the name of Owen Meredith?
(a) Lord Curzon
(b) Lord Dufferin
(c) Lord Ripon
(d) Lord Lytton
Ans. D
6. Which of the following Viceroys had appointed the Police Commission?
(a) Lord Ripon
Lord Dufferin
Lord Elgin
Lord Curzon
Ans. D
7. In 1871, India’s first census took place under which Viceroys?
(a) Lord Northbrook
(b) Lord Lytton
(c) Lord Mayo
(d) Lord Elgin
Ans. C
8. Which of the following Viceroys of India addressed the Bengal famine of 1943 by ordering the army to distribute relief supplies to the starving rural Bengalis?
(a) Lord Mountbatten
(b) Lord Linlithgow
(c) Lord Wavell
(d) Lord Willington
Ans. B
9. Which act made the Governor-General of Bengal the Governor-General of India?
(a) Regulating act of 1773
(b) Pitt’s India act of 1784
(c) Charter act of 1833
(d) Charter act of 1853
Ans. C
10. Who was the Viceroy of India when the Government of India Act 1935 was passed?
(a) Lord Linlithgow
(b) Lord Irwin
(c) Lord Mayo
(d) Lord Rippon
Ans. A
11. _____ was the first Indian Governor-General.
(a) C Rajgopalchari
(b) Maulana Azad
(c) Pandit Nehru
(d) S C Bose
Ans. A
12. ______ was Governor-General of India in 1793.
(a) Warren Hastings
(b) Charles Cornwallis
(c) Louis Chole
(d) George Martin
Ans. B
13. The Governor-General who partitioned Bengal was
(a) Curzon
(b) Canning
(c) Minto
(d) Mayo
Ans. A
14. When Lord Mountbatten became the first Governor-General of India, who among the following became the Governor-General for Pakistan?
(a) Lord Mountbatten
(b) M.A. Jinnah
(c) Liaquat Ali Khan
(d) Shaukat Ali
Ans. B
15. ___________was the first governor-General of Bengal’.
(a) lord canning
(b) warren hasting
(c) Cornwallis
(d) None of the above
Ans. B
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