India Quiz 110

India Quiz 99

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1. In which year the National Literacy Mission was founded?

1988
1978
1987
1997

2. The 1988 Maldives coup d'état was failed due to the intervention of Indian Army. What was the code name of this operation?

Operation Cactus
Operation Parakram
Operation Sarp Vinash
Operation All Out

3. Ghubar-e-Khatir is one of the most important works of a famous freedom fighter. Who is he?

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Dr. Zakir Husain
Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Ashfaqulla Khan

4. Who is the first writer in English to receive Jnanpith Award?

Mulk Raj Anand
R K Narayan
Amitav Ghosh
Arundhati Roy

5. Black Rose and Rasidi Ticket are the autobiographical works of a prominent Indian woman writer. Who is she?

Mahasweta Devi
Ashapoorna Devi
Amrita Pritam
Ismat Chughtai

6. "The Arctic Home in the Vedas" which propounded the idea that the North Pole was the original home of Aryans, was written by an Indian political leader. Who was the author?

C Rajagopalachari
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Lala Lajpat Rai

7. Popularly known as 'Aban Thakur', he was the first major exponent of Swadeshi values in Indian art. Who is he?

Rabindranath Tagore
Abanindranath Tagore
Bharat Thakur
S. G. Thakur Singh

8. Name the first Indian University to start the distance education course

Banarus Hindu University
Aligharh Muslim University
Delhi University
Madras University

9. Who was the only President of India to win as an independent candidate?

V V Giri
Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
Fakruddin Ali Ahmed
Mohammad Hidayatullah

10. Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan is a renowned Urdu poet. But we better know him by another name. Do you know who he is?

Fiaz
Firaq
Ghalib
Iqbal

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