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

Gandhi Quiz 12

Gandhi Quiz 12 - India Quiz (Great Personalities Quiz)

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1. According to Mahatma Gandhi, which one of the following takes a foremost place in spiritual literature?

Valmiki Ramayana
Mahabharata
Tulsidas Ramayana
Bhagavat Gita

2. What was the name of Gandhiji's Sanskrit teacher who urged Gandhi not to lose heart and sit in the Sanskrit class?

Krishnashankar Pandya
Mr. Lely
Mr. Gales
Mavji Dave

3. Who wrote Mahatma Gandhi's favourite bhajan "Vaishnava Jan To.."?

Tulsidas
Kabir
Bamkimchandra Chatterjee
Narsinh Mehta

4. The Natal Indian Ambulance Corps was created by Mahatma Gandhi for use by the British as stretcher bearers during a war. During which war it was it created?

World War I
Second Boer War
World War II
Cold War

5. Which famous pen brand brought out the Mahatma Gandhi Limited Edition 241 pens as a homage to the 241 miles travelled by Gandhi on the Salt March from Ahmedabad to the coast?

Parker
Mont Blanc
Faber Castell
Sheaffer

6. "Gandhi, My Father", a film explores the troubled relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his son Harilal Gandhi, was directed by

Harilal Gandhi
Feroz Abbas Khan
Shyam Benegal
Satyajit Ray

7. The first Indian to be featured on the cover of TIME magazine was Mahatma Gandhi. Do you know which edition of TIME featured Gandhi first?

January 1931
January 1947
January 1999
January 1948

8. Gandhi Smriti in New Delhi was earlier known as Birla House. Who built the Birla House?

Rameshwar Das Birla
Ghanshyam Das Birla
Krishna Kumar Birla
Ganga Prasad Birla

9. What was the name of the maid who Gandhiji remembered and respected like his own mother?

Ramba
Janaki
Savitri
Abha

10. Ambedkar, who condemned Manusmrti, burnt it in a bonfire on December 25, 1927. What was Gandhiji's reaction to it?

He supported Ambedkar
He ignored the incident
He opposed it
He went on a hunger strike

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

Gandhi Quiz 10

Gandhi Quiz 10

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1. Where did Gandhi start satyagraha for the first time in India?

Borsad
Kheda
Champaran
Rajkot

2. Known as Bihar Vibhuti, this Indian freedom fighter had played an active role in Champaran Satyagraha in 1917 along with Mahatma Gandhi. He was the first Deputy Chief Minister cum Finance Minister of Bihar. Who is he?

Anugraph Narayan Sinha
Jayaprakash Narayan
Shri Krishna Singh
Raj Kumar Shukla

3. The first time Gandhi visited Kerala was to support the Khilafat agitation. When did he visit Kerala?

1917
1925
1920
1930

4. When was Mahatma Gandhi arrested for the first time in India?

1909
1919
1913
1930

5. Whom did Gandhiji describe as "A Prince amongst Satyagrahis"?

John Ruskin
Buddha
Jesus Christ
Vakkom Moulavi

6. Who among the sons of Gandhi publicly converted to Islam and named himself Abdulla Gandhi?

Harilal Gandhi
Manilal Gandhi
Ramdas Gandhi
Devdas Gandhi

7. Who was the youngest son of Mahatma Gandhi?

Manilal Gandhi
Devdas Gandhi
Ramdas Gandhi
Harilal Gandhi

8. Whom did Mahatma Gandhi call as "King of Borsad"?

Rajendra Prasad
Lala Lajpat Rai
Sardar Patel
Bal Gangadar Tilak

9. When was Mahatma Gandhi arrested for the last time?

1933
1932
1942
1946

10. Who established the Gandhi Research Foundation at Jalgaon, Maharashtra?

Bhavarlal H Jain
Arun Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mahadev Desai

Gandhi Quiz 9

Gandhi Quiz 9

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1. Kirti Mandir is a temple built in the honour of which one of the following personalities?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Mahatma Gandhi
B R Ambedkar
Swami Vivekananda

2. Who wrote the novel "Waiting for the Mahatma"?

R K Narayan
Premchand
Mulk Raj Anand
Jawaharlal Nehru

3. The first commemorative stamp on a person was issued in India in 1948. Who was the personality?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Subash Chandra Bose
Mahatma Gandhi
Mother Teresa

4. He was called as the "fearless man" by Mahatma Gandhi and is considered as the "modern Gandhi". Who is is?

Sunderlal Bahuguna
Anna Hasare
Baba Amte
Varun Gandhi

5. Where was the National Gandhi Museum and Library is located?

Porbandar
Ahmedabad
New Delhi
Mumbai

6. The Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum, a digital multimedia museum, is located at

New Delhi
Mumbai
Ahmedabad
Porbandar

7. What was the former name of Gandhi Smriti situated in New Delhi?

Sevasadan
Navjeevan
Birla House
Gandhigram

8. Which one of the following was designed by the renowned Indian architect Charles Correa?

National Gandhi Museum and Library, New Delhi
Mani Bhavan, Mumbai
Gandhi Sangrahalaya, Patna
Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya, Ahmedabad

9. The Mahatma Gandhi Expressway connects which of the following cities?

New Delhi and Agra
Ahmedabad and Vadodara
Mumbai and New Delhi
Agra and New Delhi

10. Who was the first recipient of the Gandhi–King Award for Nonviolence?

Nelson Mandela
Jane Goodall
Kofi Annan
Mwai Kibaki

Gandhi Quiz 8

Gandhi Quiz 8

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1. The world’s largest Charkha has been set up in which city of India?

New Delhi
Mumbai
Bangalore
Gandhinagar

2. Mahatma Gandhi was reported to have used this as a tranquilliser from which the drug Reserpine is extracted. Which plant we are talking about?

Ashwagandha (Indian ginseng)
Ephedra (Ephedra sinica)
Sarpagandha (Indian snakeroot )
Rhododendron (Rhododendron molle )

3. Name the book by Adolf Just that influenced Mahatma Gandhi to become a firm believer of Naturopathy

Unto his Last
Naturopathy
Return to Nature
Natural Healing

4. J. C. Kumarappa was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi who is credited for developing a school of thought based on Gandhism. Name the field with which the thought is associated?

Economics
Religion
Education
Women

5. 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

6. With which one of the following incidents will you associate Madan Lal Pahwa?

Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Assassination of Indira Gandhi
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
Indo-China War

7. This bank was established in 1919 and was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi. Do you know which bank we are referring to?

Federal Bank
South Indian Bank
Oriental Bank of Commerce
Union Bank of India

8. Who among the following is NOT a recipient of Bharat Ratna?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Mahatma Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi

9. Who proposed the idea of Gram Swaraj?

Narendra Modi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mahatma Gandhi
Vinoba Bhave

10. Which one of the following Indonesian Presidents was known as "Indonesian Gandhi"?

Abdurrahman Wahid
Suharto
B J Habibie
Sukarno

Gandhi Quiz 7

Gandhi Quiz 7

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1. This taluka in Gujarat suffered from floods and famine in 1925. A Satyagraha movement was started under Sardar Vallabhai Patel in January 1926 after the land revenue in the taluka was increased by 30 percent.

Bardoli
Kheda
Vedaranyam
Moirang

2. Located in Germany, this place is well known in India's freedom struggle for unfurling of the National Flag by Madame Bhikaji Cama during the meeting of the International Socialist Congress on August 22, 1907.

Heidelberg
Berlin
Gutenberg
Stuttgart

3. He was the recipient of the 1969 Gandhi Peace Prize and is known as "Gandhi of Sri Lanka"?

Sunila Abeysekera
A T Ariyaratne
William de Silva
P Devakumaran

4. It is from this ground in Mumbai, which was known as the Gowalia Tank Maidan, that Mahatma Gandhi issued the call for the British to Quit India on 8 August 1942. What is it now called?

Gateway of India
August Kranti Maidan
Mani Bhavan
Bombay Harbour

5. In 1930, C Rajagopalachari led a Salt Satyagraha in response to the Dandi March which began at Trichinopoly and ended at this place.

Tuticorin
Puduchery
Kumbakonam
Vedaranyam

6. The town in Kerala is famous for the satyagraha led by T.K. Madhavan in the year 1924 against untouchability among the Hindus.

Trivandrum
Kodungallur
Vaikom
Guruvayoor

7. This jail, built by the British in 1871, housed many freedom fighters especially between 1930–42, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Bal Gangadhar Tilak. In 1924, Veer Savarkar was also kept in jail.

Cellular Jail
Yerwada Jail
Alipore Jail
Lahore Central Jail

8. Who is the author of the book 'The Secret Diary of Kasturba'?

Neelima Dalmia Adhar
Anita Desai
Jhumpa Lahiri
Shashi Deshpande

9. Who is known as Kerala Gandhi?

K Kelappan
I K Kumaran
Pattom Thanupilla
Mohammed Abdur Rahiman

10. Who translated Gandhi's autobiography, "The Story of My Experiments with Truth", to English from its Gujarati original?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Mahadev Desai
Acharya Kripalani
Annie Besant

Gandhi Quiz 6

Gandhi Quiz 6

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1. First Indian Personality who was depicted in foreign stamps

Jawaharlal Nehru
Sir CV Raman
Mahatma Gandhi
Mother Teresa

2. The first country other than India to release a stamp on Mahatma Gandhi

Great Britain
United States of America
Russia
Italy

3. The founding member and president of Nair Service Society. He was chosen as the first Satyagrahi from Kerala in the individual satyagraha movement launched by Gandhiji. Who is he?

K.P. Kesava Menon
K Kelappan
C. Kesavan
K. Madhavan Nair

4. Whom did Mahatma Gandhi call as Christ's Faithful Apostle?

Chittaranjan Das
CF Andrews
Mother Teresa
Ernest Forrester-Paton

5. Whom did Mahatma Gandhi describe as the 'keeper of my conscience'?

Jawaharlal Nehru
C Rajagopalachari
Gopalakrishna Gokhale
Lala Lajpat Rai

6. As pure as crystal as brave as a lion and the most perfect man in the political field' This was Gandhi's words to describe this personality who was the founder of the 'Servants of India Society'. Identify this great personality.

Lala Lajpat Rai
Motilal Nehru
Gopalakrishna Gokhale
Bipin Chandra Pal

7. Who was the author of 'the philosophy of the bomb' published in January 1930 in response to Mahatma Gandhi's article condemning the revolutionary act 1929 bomb blast under the train of Viceroy Lord Irwin on the Delhi-Agra railway line?

Chandrasekhar Azad
Bhagat Singh
Bhagwati Charan Vohra
Batukeshwar Dutt

8. Who called Mahatma Gandhi 'half-naked Fakir'?

Lord Irwin
Winston Churchill
William Benn
Ramsay MacDonald

9. Who is known as Japanese Gandhi?

Minoru Kasai
Toyohiko Kagawa
Hiroshi Hase
Tomiichi Murayama

10. Name the place in Uttar Pradesh, near Gorakhpur where a police station was set on fire by a mob of angry citizens, killing 22 policemen inside that led Gandhiji to call off the non-cooperation movement.

Kakori
Chittagong
Chauri Chaura
Champaran

Gandhi Quiz 5

Gandhi Quiz 5

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1. Name the language in which Gandhiji started “Navjeevan' weekly?

Marathi
Hindi
Gujrati
English

2. Who among the following is known as "Mayyazhi Gandhi"?

K Kelappan
C Radhakrishnan
I K Kumaran
M Mukundan

3. Gandhiji led Dandi March (Salt Satyagrah) which started on March 12, 1930 departing from Sabarmati Ashram, to reach the coast at Dandi, on 6th of April. How many followers accompanied him in that march?

78
100
50
62

4. Gandhi made the slogan “Do or Die' for?

Khilafat Movement
Quit India Movement
Salt Satyagraha
Simon Commission

5. Where did Gandhi undertake his first hunger strike in India?

Ahmedabad
Lucknow
Jalianwalabagh
Delhi

6. Who called Gandhiji “a half naked fakir'?

Ravindranath Tagore
Winston Churchill
Lord Irwin
Clement Atlee

7. Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as [Gandhi] ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.' Who said these words about Gandhiji?

Winston Churchill
John Ruskin
Albert Einstein
S Radhakrishnan

8. Which leader from Bihar is known as Bihar Gandhi?

Dr. S Radhakrishnan
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Lalu Prasad Yadav
Jayaprakash Narayan

9. Pick the odd one out

Mahatma Gandhi
Nelsen Mandela
Barack Obama
Kofi Annan

10. The only person in the world to be honoured with a stamp by over 43 countries of the globe

Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Albert Einstein
Abraham Lincoln

Gandhi Quiz 4

Gandhi Quiz 4

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1. Who composed Raga Mohan Kauns in honour of Mahatma Gandhi?

Ustad Bismillah Khan
A R Rahman
Pandit Ravi Shankar
Bappi Lahiri

Gandhi Quiz 3

Gandhi Quiz 3

Here are a set of 10 questions on Mahatma Gandhi, the third part of Gandhi Quiz

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1. Where was Mahatma Gandhi born?

Ahmedabad
Porbandar
Rajkot
Wardha

Gandhi Quiz 2

Gandhi Quiz 2

A quiz on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Father of the Nation.

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1.This 1915 Nobel Prize winner has written a book on Mahatma Gandhi in 1924.

Primo Levi
Romain Rolland
Mark Shepard
Louis Fischer

Gandhi Quiz 1

Gandhi Quiz 1

A quiz on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Father of the Nation. Let's just learn more about Mahatma Gandhi.

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1.The film 'The Making of the Mahatma' was directed by

Richard Attenborough
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Shyam Benegal
Satyajit Ray