Gandhi Quiz 11

India Quiz - Gandhi Quiz 11 (Great Personalities Quiz)

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1. While he was in South Africa, Gandhi was once thrown out of the train by the authorities because a white man complained of an Indian sharing the space with him. Do you know the station where Gandhi was thrown off the train?

Johannesburg Railway Station
Durban Railway Station
Pietermaritzburg railway station
Pretoria Railway Staiton

2. Who wrote "The Life of Mahatma Gandhi" which was inspiration for Attenborough’s award-winning film Gandhi?

Louis Fischer
Judith M Brown
Arthur Herman
Christine Hatt

3. Which one of the following books by Howard Williams is referred by Gandhji as "biographical history of the literature of humane dietetics from the earliest period to the present day."?

The Perfect Way in Diet
The Ethics of Diet
A Plea for Vegetarianism
Let's Cook it Right

4. Where is the Satyagraha House, commonly known as Gandhi House, which was designed by the architect Hermann Kallenbach for Gandhi and himself, located?

Pretoria
Porbandar
Johannesburg
Durban

5. Who is known as the composer of of Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite bhajan "Raghupati Raghava"?

Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Pandit Ravi Shankar
Pandit Shivkumar Sharma

6. In 1999, Mahatma Gandhi was the runner-up as the TIME magazine's "Person of the Century". Who was the winner?

Isaac Newton
Mother Teresa
Nelson Mandela
Albert Einstein

7. The receipient of Nobel Peace Prize 1989, When he was awarded the peace prize, announced that he was accepting the award, in part, as a tribute to Gandhi. Who was the great personality?

Martin Luther King Jr.
Nelson Mandela
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Dalai Lama

8. Mahatma Gandhi Heberpio Mattos Pires is a professional sportsman who was named after Mahatma Gandhi. Name the sports

Volleyball
Cricket
Football
Hockey

9. Name the South African military leader who was the adversary of Mahatma Gandhi opposing the movement for equal rights for South Asian workers, lead by Gandhi. He later became the Prime Minister of Union of South Africa.

Harry Escombe
Jan Smuts
John Ruskin
John Langalibalele Dube

10. "Hari Tuma Haro" was one of Mahatma Gandhi's favorite bhajans. Who wrote the song?

Mirabai
Narsinh Mehta
Kabir
Tulsidas

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