Independence Day Quiz Questions

Who is considered as the main architect of the constitution of India?

Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar

 

Who designed our national flag?

Pingali Venkayya

 

On independence day, who hoist the flag at national level event?

Prime Minister

 

Who was the last Viceroy of India?

Lord Mountbatten

 

During the first census held after independence, how much was the total population of the country?

6 Crore

 

When was Pakistan Resolution adopted by muslim league?

24 March 1940

 

Who was the Governor General of India when the first war of India’s independence broke out in 1857?
Lord Canning

The first session of the Indian National Congress was presided over by:
Womesh Chander Banerjee

Who set up the Indian Independence League?
Rash Bihari Bose

Who once remarked“ Nehru is patriot while Jinnah is a Politician”
Mohammed Iqbal

Where was the Civil disobedience movement launched in1922?
Bardoli

When was the Non-Cooperation movement suspended?
1922

Which movement marked Gandhiji’s entry into national politics?
Champaran Movement

The first weekly paper published by the Indian National Congress in 1889?
Voice of India

Who is the founder of Ghadar party?
Lala Hardayal

Name of the commission which was appointed by the British Government to probe the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre?
The Hunter Commission.

When was Indian Independence Act 1947 given royal assent?

18 July 1947

 

Who was the most prominent leader in the formation of Pakistan?

Mohammad Ali Jinnah

 

‘Vande Mataram’ was first sung during which session of INC?

1896

 

Who was the founder of Banaras Hindu University (BHU)?

Madan Mohan Malaviya

 

Who established Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)?

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

 

Who was Lal in ‘Lal Bal Pal’?

Lala Lajpat Rai

 

In which year the First Round Table Conference was held?

1930

 

When was Quit India Movement started?

1942

 

The international border between India-Pakistan along Punjab is known as which line?

Radcliffe Line

 

Which of the following songs is the national anthem of India?

Jana Gana Mana

 

In which year was New Delhi made capital of India?

13 February 1931

 

Who killed Mahatma Gandhi and when did he killed him?

Nathuram Godse, 30 Jan 1948

 

When was Kartar Singh Sarabha executed?

1915

 

Who was the first Indian Governor-General of India?

C. Rajagopalachari

 

Which date is known as Direct Action Day in british India’s history?

16 August 1946

 

 In which act, the rule of East India Company ended in India?
Govt. of India Act, 1858

The Kakinada session of the Indian National Congress, which inspired the launch of the Vaikom Satyagraha , was held in :
1923

The Cripps Mission visited India during the regime of :
Lord Linlithgow

 Who founded the Indian League?
Shishir Kumar Ghose

The famous INA trials took place at the Red Fort,Delhi in?
1945

Who wrote the book “The origin of the Indian National Congress”?
Pattabhi Sita Ramayya

Who was the leader of the Revolt of 1857 at Jagadishpur?
Kunwar Singh

“The congress is in reality a civil war without arms” Who said this?
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

The second visit of Simon Commission was in?
1929

Name the viceroy of India when the Rowlatt Act was repealed?
Lord Reeding

Who was the president of the Indian National Congress in the Gaya Session of 1922?
C.R.Das

When did Gandhiji start the Sabarmati Ashram?
1916

Which one was the first major battle fought by British East India company?

Answer : Battle of Plassey

During which movement Mahatama Gandhi gave the call for ‘Do or Die’?

Quit India Movementt

What was the name of the magazine published by M.K. Gandhi?

Young India

What was the name of the mission sent by british government to India to seek cooperation during World War II?

Cripps Mission

East India Company started trade with India from which city?

Surat

Who wrote this slogan “Self-Rule is my birthright and I shall have it”?

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Who was the founder president of ‘Ghadar Party’?

Sohan Singh Bhakna

Which of the following Indian freedom fighters killed a british officer in Britain?

Udham Singh

 

The picture shown below is associated with which movement or event of freedom struggle?

Dandi March

 

What does the three colours of national flag represent?

Sacrifice, Peace and Prosperity

 

Who was the first to describe the mutiny of 1857 as the first war of independence?
Vinayak Samodar Savarkar

Who was elected as the President of All India Khilafat Conference held in Delhi in 1919?
Mahatma Gandhi

Which renowned musician sung the famous song “Raghupathi Raghav Rajaram” during the Dandi march?
Vishnu Digambar Paluskar

Who founded the “All India Harijan Samaj” in 1932?
Mahatma Gandhi

Who gave the slogan “Dilli Chalo” or “Marchto Delhi”?
Subhash Chandra Bose

Who presided over the Cabinet Mission?
Sir. P.Lawrence

In which session of Indian National Congress, the moderates and extremists sections of congress reunited?
1916 Lucknow

When was the English East India Company established?
1600 A.D

Which incident provoked Gandhiji to suspend the Civil Disobedience Movement?
Chauri Chaura incident

Who wrote the book “India’s First War of Independence”?
Vinayak Samodar Savarkar

According to States Reorganization Act 1956, how many states and union territories (UTs) were created?

14 States, 5 UTs

 

When and who laid the foundation stone of New Delhi?

King George V, 1911

 

When was ‘first war of independence’ fought?

1857

 

Which Indian city is known as City of Prime Ministers?

Allahabad

 

Who was the main architect to design New Delhi?

Edwin Lutyens

 

Who was the first President of India and when did he bacame the President?

Mahatma Gandhi, 1950

 

What was the agenda of the Round Table Conference (1930-1932)?
Discuss the Simon Commission Report

At which session of the Indian National Congress was “Vande Mataram” sung for the firsttime?
1896 Session

Who gave the slogan” Give me blood and I promise you freedom”?
Subhash Chandra Bose

When did the Government of the English East India Company come to anend?
1858 A.D

Where did the Congress Working committee first accept the idea of the Quit India Movement?
Wardha

When did Indian National Congress adopt the resolution of “self Government” for the first time?
1906

Which leader died on the day the Non cooperation movement was launched in1920?
Bal Gangadhar Tilak

In 1938, Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as the president of Indian National Congress defeating Gandhiji’s candidate. Who was this candidate?
Pattabhi Sita Ramayya

Who is the only Keralite to become the President of Indian National Congress?
Chettur Sankaran Nair

Which year onwards Gandhi Jayanthi is celebrated as international nonviolence day?
2007

The only national leader who was infavour of the  Cripp’s plan and the acceptance of the principle of Pakistan?
C.Rajagopalachari

Which session of Indian National Congress passed resolution on national economic programme and on fundamental rights and duties?
Karachi session of 1931

Who was proclaimed as the emperor of India during the great Indian Mutiny of 1857?
Bahadur Shah II
 
When did Indian National Congress adopt a resolution demanding complete independence for the first time?
1929

Who was the viceroy of India when Montague- Chelmsford reforms were introduced?
Lord Chelmsford

What is the nick name of the English East India Company?
John Company

Who was the Prime Minister of Britain during the Revolt of 1857?
Lord Palmerstone

Where was the Provisional Government of Independent India (Azad Hind)formed?
Singapore

 

When did Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India?

1498

 

Which of the following financial institution/bank was founded was Lala Lajpat Rai?

Punjab National Bank

Which of the following freedom fighters was sentenced to death for his involvement in Kakori Train Robbery?

Ashfaqulla Khan

 

14.The rebellion of 1857 started from which city?

Answer :Meerut

 

Who put forward the theory of ‘Drain of Wealth’?

Dadabhai Naoroji

 

The patriotic poem ‘Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna’ was written by ?

Ram Prasad Bismil

 

Who was the first Indian revolutionary to assassinate a British official in England?

Madan Lal Dhingra

 

Which of the following Pakistani citizen is awarded Bharat Ratna?

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

 

Which of the following revolutionaries threw bombs at Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi?

Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt

 

‘Tum mujhe khoon do, mein tumhe azadi doonga’ was said by which of the following persons?

Subhash Chandra Bose

 

Who will raise the flag during national level Independence day function in 2017 at Red Fort?

 Narendra Modi

 

This year (2018), who will raise the flag during national level Republic Day function in New Delhi?

Ram Nath Kovind

 

On 15 August 1947, who raised the national flag during independence day event at Red Fort?

Jawaharlal Nehru

 

During the British Raj, which law or section was often used against the newspapers?

Section 124 A of IPC

 

The ‘India Gate’ was built in the memory of which person or event?

Soldiers killed during First World War

 

The splitting of Congress into two groups in the year 1907 is generally referred by which of the following names?

Surat Split

 

Who formed Indian National Army (INA)?

Mohan Singh

 

Which Indian citizen was conferred Nishan-e-Pakistan?

Morarji Desai

 

Who wrote the poem Saare Jahan Se Achha?

Muhammad Iqbal

 

Who wrote the famous book ‘India Wins Freedom’?

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

 

What is the motto of Indian Army?

Service Before Self

 

 

National Martyrs Memorial is situated at which place of Punjab?

Hussainiwala

 

Which mughal emperor gave the rights to East India Company to built trading posts and factory at Surat?

Jahangir

 

The ‘Gateway of India’ was built to commemorate which event?

Landing of King George V in India

 

Shaheed Sukhdev, a prominent freedom fighter, was born in which city?

Ludhiana

 

Which was the first European country to start trade with India first?

Portugal

 

The word ‘socialist secular’ were added to the Preamble of the constitution by which amendment?

42nd Amendment

 

When did the Jallianwala Bagh massacre occured?

1919

 

Which social reformer is known of his efforts for abolition of Sati?

Raja Rammohan Roy

 

Who is the author of the famous book ‘The Discovery of India’?

Jawaharlal Nehru

 

The independent legislative assemblies in all provinces of British India were established by which act?

Government of India Act 1935

 

‘Why Am I An Atheist’ was written by which Indian freedom fighter?

Bahadur Shah Zafar

 

There is a blue wheel at the center of the national flag. What does it represent?

Wheel of law

 

When was the declaration of Purna Swaraj released?

26 January 1930

 

When was Shaheed Bhagat Singh born?

September, 1907

 

On the Republic Day, flag ceremony is held at which place?

Rajpath

 

When did The Constituion of India came into effect?

 26 November 1949

 

Who was the Bal in Lal, Bal, Pal?

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

 

Who was the first President of Independent India?

Rajendra Prasad

 

The first Indian National Army was founded by

Capt Mohan Singh

 

Who is the author of the National Anthem of India?

Rabindranath Tagore

 

What does the blue wheel that appears in the Indian national flag stand for?

The wheel of law of justice

 

Who gave the slogan “Give me blood and I shall give you freedom”?

Subhash Chandra Bose

 

Who gave the slogan “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it”?

Bal Gangadhar Tilak



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