Gandhi Quiz 13

Gandhi Quiz 13 - India Quiz (Great Personalities Quiz)

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1. Name the old friend and adviser of Gandhi's family who advised them to send Gandhi to England?

Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Mr. Lely
Krishnashankar Pandya
Mavji Dave

2. Who influenced Mahatma Gandhi to study and practice vegetarianism?

Henry David Thoreau
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Henry Stephen Salt
John Ruskin

3. Gandhiji learnt of Prophet Mohammed from a book "On Heroes and hero-Worship" which was recommended to him by a friend. Who was the author of this book?

Thomas Carlyle
John Ruskin
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Stephen Salt

4. How many times did Gandhi serve as the President of the Indian National Congress?

2
1
3
5

5. Who suggested that the word Satyagraha should define Gandhi's non-violence methods?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Lala Lajpat Rai
Maganlal Gandhi
Rabindranath Tagore

6. Which book by Katherine Mayo did Mahatma Gandhi criticise as a "report of a drain inspector sent out with the one purpose of opening and examining the drains of the country to be reported upon"?

Mother India
Slaves of the Gods
The Face of Mother India
elections from Mother India

7. Who did Mahatma Gandhi describe as the "patriot of patriots"?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Bhagat Singh
Subash Chandra Bose
Chandrashekar Azad

8. Which year Mahatma Gandhi was elected as the president of the Indian National Congress?

1919
1920
1901
1921

9. Gandhiji met Nehru for the first time at a Congress session in 1916. Where was it held?

Ahmedabad
Lucknow
Surat
Calcutta

10. Who did Mahatma Gandhi say "he would rather hear her speak the words than hear someone else sing it" regarding his favourite bhajan "Hari Tuma Haro"?

Begum Akhtar
Asha Bhosle
M S Subbalakshmi
Lata Mangeshkar

11. "If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be?". Which American President answered Mahatma Gandhi to this question?

Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Donald Trump
George W Bush

12. "Christ gave us the goals and Mahatma Gandhi the tactics". Who said this?

Nelson Mandela
Aung San Suu Kyi
Ho Chi Minh
Martin Luther King Jr.

13. For which one of the following did the British award Gandhi with a title of 'kaiser-i-Hind'?

Support in World War I
Support in World War II
Withdrawing Civil Disobedience
Work in Second Boer War

14. A statue of Mahatma Gandhi was removed from the university campus of an African country in 2018 alleging Gandhi as "racist". Name the country

Ghana
Nigeria
Kenya
Sudan

15. Who portrayed Mahatma Gandhi in the movie "Hey Ram"?

Anupam Kher
Rajit Kapur
Annu Kapoor
Naseerudhin Shah

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