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(1)
India's first pharmaceutical company Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals was established by
[A]
Prafulla Chandra Roy
[B]
Satyendra Nath Bose
[C]
Surendranath Bose
[D]
Meghnad Saha
Answer: Prafulla Chandra Roy
(2)
Who is the first Indian woman to swim the English Channel twice
[A]
Ankita Das
[B]
Arati Saha
[C]
Bula Choudhury
[D]
Poulomi Ghatak
(3)
The University of Calcutta was founded in
[A]
1857
[B]
1901
[C]
1850
[D]
1890
(4)
Who is the The first Chancellor of Calcutta University
[A]
Lord Canning
[B]
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
[C]
Sir James William Colvile
[D]
Joddu Nath Bose
(5)
The Battle of Plassey was fought in the year
[A]
1757
[B]
1832
[C]
1736
[D]
1780
(6)
The Kolkata Metro service was started from the year
[A]
1984
[B]
1985
[C]
1978
[D]
1981
(7)
Who is known as the the last independent Nawab of Bengal
[A]
Siraj ud-Daulah
[B]
Sarfaraz Khan
[C]
Mir Jafar
[D]
None of the above
(8)
Total number of Districts in West Bengal is
[A]
20
[B]
14
[C]
16
[D]
19
(9)
In which year, Jyoti Basu became the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the first time
[A]
1977
[B]
1980
[C]
1971
[D]
1975
(10)
In India, West Bengal is the largest producer of
[A]
Mango
[B]
Wheat
[C]
Rice
[D]
Barley
(11)
The famous novel Devdas was written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay in the year
[A]
1917
[B]
1915
[C]
1905
[D]
1912
(12)
The novel Parineeta was written by
[A]
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
[B]
Syed Mujtaba Ali
[C]
Rabindranath Tagore
[D]
Satyajit Ray
Answer: Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
(13)
The construction of Victoria Memorial was completed in the year
[A]
1921
[B]
1917
[C]
1903
[D]
1906
(14)
In which year, the capital of India is shifted from Kolkata to Delhi
[A]
1917
[B]
1911
[C]
1901
[D]
1907
(15)
Which viceroy of India, decalred the Bengal Partition in 1905
[A]
Lord Canning
[B]
Lord Curzon
[C]
Lord Irwin
[D]
Lord Ripon
(16)
Who is known as the Father of the Bengali renaissance
[A]
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
[B]
Debendranath Tagore
[C]
Dadabhai Naoroji
[D]
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(17)
The Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology was established in the year
[A]
1962
[B]
1947
[C]
1955
[D]
1951
(18)
In India, Doctors' Day is celebrated on the memory of Bidhan Chandra Roy on
[A]
1st July
[B]
28th August
[C]
22nd January
[D]
1st April
(19)
Who was the first Chief Minister of West Bengal
[A]
Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
[B]
Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee
[C]
Jyoti Basu
[D]
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Answer: Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
(20)
From the below, which state did not share its border with West Bengal
[A]
Meghalaya
[B]
Bihar
[C]
Assam
[D]
Odisha
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