1. Who was first Indian to be elected to the British Parliament?
Question Asked : UPPCS (Pre) 1992
(A) Ras Bihari Bose
(B) Surendranath Banerjee
(C) Dadabhai Naoroji
(D) Vithalbhai Patel
2. Which one of the following statements is not correct about Dadabhai Naoroji?
Question Asked : UP Lower Sub. (Pre) 2008
(A) He wrote a book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India.’
(B) He worked as a Professor of Gujarati in the University College, London
(C) He laid the foundation of woman’s education in Bombay
(D) He was elected as a member of British Parliament on the ticket of the Conservative Party
3. Who among the following is known by the title of “The Grand Old Man’?
Question Asked : UPRO/ARO (Pre) 2014
(A) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(B) W. C. Banerjee
(C) Dadabhai Naoroji
(D) Motilal Nehru
4. Who was called the ‘Grand Old Man of India’?
Question Asked : Uttarakhand UDA/LDA (Pre) 2007
(A) Dadabhai Naoroji
(B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(C) Ramesh Chandra Banerjee
(D) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
5. First Indian elected to the British House of Commons was Dadabhai Naoroji who contested on the ticket of
Question Asked : 60th to 62nd BPSC (Pre) 2016
(A) Liberal Party
(B) Labour Party
(C) Conservative Party
(D) Communist Party
6. Dadabhai Naroji was formally known as
Question Asked : UPPCS (Pre) 1991
(A) Punjab Kesari
(B) Gujarat Ratna
(C) Guru Dev
(D) Grand Old Man of India
7. The first leader to use the word ‘Swaraj’ was
Question Asked : UPRO/ARO (Mains) 2013
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(B) Lala Lajpat Rai
(C) S.C. Bose
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
8. Swaraj as a national demand was first made by
Question Asked : Uttarakhand PCS (Pre) 2002
(A) B.G. Tilak
(B) C.R. Das
(C) Dadabhai Naoroji
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
9. Which of the following leaders presided over the Congress Session at Calcutta in 1906?
Question Asked : 44th BPSC (Pre) 2000
(A) B.G Tilak
(B) GK. Gokhale
(C) Aurobindo Ghosh
(D) Dadabhai Naoroji
10. In which year Gopal Krishna Gokhale founded ‘Servants of India Society?
Question Asked : UPPCS (Pre) 2017
(A) 1902
(B) 1903
(C) 1904
(D) 1905
