India Quiz 81

India Quiz 81

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1. "A Passion for Dance" is the autobiography of an Indian dancer. Who is she?

Rukmini Devi Arundale
Mallika Sarabhai
Shovana Narayan
Yamini Krishnamurthy

2. Chaitya Bhoomi is the memorial to which great Indian personality?

B R Ambedkar
Lala Lajpat Rai
Sardar Patel
Morarji Desai

3. Grimus is a fantasy and science fiction novel and was the literary debut of a world renowned award winning Indian author. Who is the author?

Salman Rushdie
Kiran Desai
Arvind Adiga
Vikram Seth

4. In ancient times, this traditional Indian game was played on 'raths' or chariots, and was known as Rathera. Can you name it?

Kabaddi
Hockey
Polo
Kho-kho

5. Rang Rasiya is a Hindi film based on the life of a famous Indian painter. Who is he?

Abanindranath Tagore
Raja Ravi Varma
M F Husain
Nandalal Bose

6. The foreign head of state to be the chief guest of the first Republic Day parade in 1950 was President Sukarno. Name the country

Bhutan
Yugoslavia
Indonesia
Malaysia

7. This Indian company started off as a manufacturer of vegetable oil and products in 1947 and later became a leader in IT industry. Name the company

Infosys
Satyam
Wipro
HCL

8. Who designed Indian National Emblem?

Pigali Venkayya
Savitri Khanolkar
Dinanath Bhargava
Nandalal Bose

9. Who designed the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration?

Savitri Khanolkar
Pingali Venkayya
Le Corbusier
Dinanath Bhargava

10. Who is the first and only woman to win the National Award for Best Director?

Deepa mehta
Mira Nair
Kokona Sen Sharma
Aparna Sen

India Quiz 64

India Quiz 64

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1. Prarthana Samaj, or "Prayer Society" in Sanskrit, was a movement for religious and social reform in Bombay founded in 1867. Name the founder

Swami Dayandanda Saraswati
Swami Vivekananda
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Atmaram Pandurang

2. Prithviraj Raso, an epic poem in Brajbhasa about the life of the Chahamana king Prithviraj Chauhan was written by

Bharavi
Magha
Amar Sinha
Chand Bardai

3. Mul Shankar was the original name of which Indian religious leader and scholar?

Swami Dayanand Saraswari
Swami Vivekananda
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahans
Naryana Guru

4. Which Mughal emperor banned music in his empire?

Akbar
Shahjahan
Aurangazeb
Jahangir

5. Which Indian ruler has been called a 'Prince of Moneyers' for carrying out several monetary experiments?

Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
Muhammad bin Tughluq
Alauddin Khalji
Qutub ud-Din Aybak

6. Khudai Khidmatgar, the servants of God, represented a non-violent struggle against the British Empire. Who was the leader of the struggle?

Maualana Abul Kalam Azad
Muhammed Ali Jinnah
Syed Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

7. Which city was founded by Sultan of Delhi Feroz Shah Tughlaq and named in memory of his cousin, Muhammad bin Tughluq?

Tughlakabad
Jaunpur
Ferozabad
Muzaffarnagar

8. The Uttar Pradesh government has renamed Kanpur Airport in 2017 to pay respect to which leader for the contribution for the independence of India?

Govind Ballabh Pant
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi

9. Which famous recipient of "Kaisar-i-Hind Medal" returned the medal in 1920 as part of the national campaign protesting the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and in support of the Khilafat Movement?

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Raja Ravi Verma
Khan Bahadur Sher Jang
Rabindranath Tagore

10. Who among the following was known as Manikarnika in her childhood?

Annie Besant
Rani Lakshmibai
Rani Gaidinliu
Lakshmi Sahgal

India Quiz 63

India Quiz 63

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1. Which is the first capital of Chalukyas that is known as the "one of the cradles of Indian temple architecture"?

Aihole
Kalayani
Badami
Mount Abu

2. The inscription found at Meguti Temple, Aihole is popularly known as Aihole inscriptions was written by which one of the followings poets?

Banabhatta
Amara Sinha
Rajasekhara
Ravikirti

3. The Paris Indian Society was an Indian nationalist organisation founded in 1905 at Paris. Who among the following was the founder?

Lala Hardayal
Madam Bhikaji Cama
Subhash Chandra Bose
Vijayalakshmi Pandit

4. Who among the following gave the call "Go Back to the Vedas"?

Swami Vivekananda
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

5. Gaudiya Vaishnavism is a Vaishnava religious movement founded by

Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Chaithanya Mahabprabhu
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Abhedananda

6. Regarded as the "Father of Qawwali", this poet is referred to as "the parrot of India". Who is he>

Amir Khusrow
Kabir
Faizi
Sarmad Kashani

7. Name the Sikh guru who was publicly beheaded in 1675 on the orders of Mughal emperor Aurangazeb in Delhi for refusing to convert to Islam

Guru Har Gobind
Guru Tegh Bahadur
Guru Arjan Dev
Guru Ram Das

8. "Bachittar Natak" is the memoir and autobiography of which one of the following Sikh gurus?

Guru Tegh Bahadur
Guru Angad Dev
Guru Gobind Singh
Guru Har Krishan

9. Who was nicknamed the "Frontier Gandhi" in British India?

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Lala Lajpat Rai
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Muhammed Ali Jinnah

10. Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood in response to which historical incident?

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Chauri-Chaura Incident
Wagon Tragedy
World War I

India Quiz 57

India Quiz 57

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1. The first Open University in India was established in August 1982. It was later renamed after a famous Indian personality. Who was it?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Indira Gandhi
B R Ambedkar
Madan Mohan Malaviya

2. India's first Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra (PMKK) for Skilling in Smart Cities was recently inaugurated. Name the city

New Delhi
Bangalore
Kochi
Kolkatta

3. Who prepared a “Dickie Bird Plan” for India’s independence?

Mahatma Gandhi
Lord Mountbatten
Jawaharlal Nehru
B R Ambedkar

4. Sagar Mala project is a strategic and customer-oriented initiative of the Government of India to modernize which one of the following?

Indian Navy
Indian Ports
Indian Rivers
Indian Ocean

5. Which one of the following Governors General of India introduced the office of the District Collector in 1772?

Warren Hastings
John Macpherson
Lord Cornwallis
Lord William Bentinck

6. In which year the Dowry Prohibition Act was enacted in India?

1950
1958
1960
1961

7. Who founded the Free India Centre, the European branch of the Provisional Government of Free India, in Germany?

Subhash Chandra Bose
Bhikaji Cam
Annie Besant
Chandrasekhar Azad

8. Who was the head of the States Reorganisation Commission which determined the boundaries of several Indian states in the 1950s?

Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Sardar Vallabai Patel
Fazal Ali
Mukherjee

9. Who was the President of India when Emergency in India was proclaimed in 1975?

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Varahagiri Venkata Giri
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Giani Zail Singh

10. Mount Girnar or Revatak Parvata is an important pilgrimage site for both Jains and Hindus. Where is it located?

Uttar Pradesh
Gujarat
Tamil Nadu
Nepal