Personalities Quiz: Rabindranath Tagore Quiz 2

Personalities Quiz: Rabindranath Tagore Quiz 2

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1. Which one of the following made Tagore to renounce the knighthood awarded by King George V?

Chauri Chaura Incident
Bengal Partition
Jallianwala Bagah Massacre
Kakori Conspiracy

2. Which famous poet wrote the preface to the English translation of Gitanjali?

John Keats
W B Yeats
John Milton
P B Shelley

3. "The Essential Tagore", the largest anthology of Tagore's works available in English, was published in collaboration with which famous publishing house?

Oxford University Press
Cambridge University Press
Harvard University Press
Stanford University Press

4. Name the university founded by Rabindranath Tagore

Viswa-Bharati University
Banarus Hindu University
Bharati Vidyapeeth University
Rabindra Bharati University

5. In which year was Tagore's Nobel Prize was stolen from the Viswa-Bharati University?

2010
2004
2009
1999

6. Which famous Bollywood actor played the title role in the Bengali movie "Noble Chor", which was inspired by Tagore's Nobel Prize theft?

Amitabh Bachan
Mithun Chakraborty
Anil Kapoor
Irfan Khan

7. Name the university founded by the Government of West Bengal in 1961 to mark the birth centenary of Rabindranath Tagore?

Rabindra Bharati University
Rabindranath Tagore University
Viswa-Bharati University
None of these

8. Which famous Indian director directed the 1961 Indian documentary "Rabindranath Tagore", released during the birth centenary of Tagore?

Rituparno Gosh
Shyam Bengal
Satyajit Ray
Vishal Bhardwaj

9. This renowned Bengali poet, known as "Bidrohi Kobi", composed the poem "Rabi-hara" in memory of Tagore. Who is he?

Kazi Nazrul Islam
Satyendranath Dutta
Dwijendralal Ray
Nabinchandra Sen

10. Who was the first recipient of the Tagore Award for cultural harmony?

Zubin Mehta
Raj Kamal Jha
Pandit Ravi Shankar
Satyajit Ray

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