20 Most Repeated History MCQs in SSC Exams (Part-01)

📝 Are you preparing for SSC CGL, CHSL, MTS, or GD exams? In this post, we’ve compiled 20 most important History PYQs (Previous Year Questions) asked in various SSC exams from 2017 to 2024 . These questions are topic-wise, exam-tested, and come with correct answers. Practice daily to strengthen your General Awareness section and boost your score!

📚 SSC GK PYQs – History (Topic-wise MCQs)

 Includes questions from SSC CGL, CHSL, GD, MTS (2017 - 2024)

🧠 History PYQs – Set 1 (20 Questions)

1. Who was the founder of the Maurya Empire?

a) Ashoka

b) Bindusara

c) Chandragupta Maurya

d) Chanakya

👉 Correct Answer: c) Chandragupta Maurya

2. Who wrote the book ‘Discovery of India’?

a) Mahatma Gandhi

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) B.R. Ambedkar

d) Sardar Patel

👉 Correct Answer: b) Jawaharlal Nehru

3. When did the Jallianwala Bagh massacre take place?

 a) 1917

b) 1919

c) 1920

d) 1922

👉 Correct Answer: b) 1919

4. Which Mughal emperor built the Taj Mahal?

 a) Akbar

b) Aurangzeb

c) Jahangir

d) Shah Jahan

👉 Correct Answer:d) Shah Jahan

5. Who was the first woman ruler of India?

 a) Razia Sultana

b) Rani Durgavati

c) Rani Laxmibai

d) Indira Gandhi

👉 Correct Answer: a) Razia Sultana

6. Who was known as the “Iron Man of India”? a) Subhash Chandra Bose

b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

d) Bhagat Singh

👉 Correct Answer:c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

7. When was the Battle of Plassey fought?

a) 1757

b) 1764

c) 1857

d) 1775

👉 Correct Answer: a) 1757

8. Which act is also known as the “Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms”?

a) Indian Councils Act, 1909

b) Government of India Act, 1919

c) Rowlatt Act, 1919

d) Regulating Act, 1773

👉 Correct Answer: b) Government of India Act, 1919

9. Who led the Dandi March in 1930?

a) Subhash Chandra Bose

b) Lala Lajpat Rai

c) Mahatma Gandhi

d) B.R. Ambedkar

👉 Correct Answer: c) Mahatma Gandhi

10. Who was the first Governor-General of independent India?

a) Rajendra Prasad

b) C. Rajagopalachari

c) Lord Mountbatten

d) Jawaharlal Nehru

👉 Correct Answer:c) Lord Mountbatten

11. The ‘Quit India Movement’ was launched in:

a) 1939

b) 1940

c) 1942

d) 1945

👉 Correct Answer: c) 1942

12. Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress?

a) W.C. Banerjee

b) A.O. Hume

c) Dadabhai Naoroji

d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

👉 Correct Answer: a) W.C. Banerjee

13. Which Gupta ruler is known as the “Napoleon of India”? 

a) Samudragupta

b) Chandragupta I

c) Skandagupta

d) Chandragupta II

👉 Correct Answer: a) Samudragupta

14. Which movement is also called the “August Kranti”?

a) Civil Disobedience Movement

b) Non-Cooperation Movement

c) Quit India Movement

d) Swadeshi Movement

👉 Correct Answer: c) Quit India Movement

15. Who introduced the Doctrine of Lapse?

a) Lord Dalhousie

b) Lord Curzon

c) Lord Canning

d) Lord Wellesley

👉 Correct Answer: a) Lord Dalhousie

16. Where did the First Round Table Conference take place? 

a) Paris

b) London

c) Delhi

d) Mumbai

👉 Correct Answer: b) London

17. Who was the founder of the Indian National Army (INA) ?

a) Mahatma Gandhi

b) Subhash Chandra Bose

c) Rash Behari Bose

d) Bhagat Singh

👉 Correct Answer: c) Rash Behari Bose

18. Which Indian freedom fighter gave the slogan “Give me blood and I will give you freedom”?

a) Bhagat Singh

b) Chandrashekhar Azad

c) Subhash Chandra Bose

d) Sukhdev

👉 Correct Answer: c) Subhash Chandra Bose

19. Who is considered the architect of the Indian Constitution? 

a) Jawaharlal Nehru

b) Sardar Patel

c) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

👉 Correct Answer: c) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

20. The ‘Simon Commission’ was boycotted because: a) It had no Indian members

b) It was pro-British

c) It supported partition

d) It failed to visit India

👉 Correct Answer: a) It had no Indian members

---

📌 Bookmark this blog and visit daily for more SSC GK PYQs by subject. Stay consistent and crack your exam!