Important Wars, Revolutions and Movements: GK Q&A

1. Who did Gandhiji call ‘the Prince of Patriots’?
(a) Tagore
(b) C. Rajagopalachari
(c) Subhas Chandra Bose
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: (c)

2. In which language was Gandhiji’s autobiography published for the first time?
(a) English
(b) Hindi
(c) Gujarati
(d) Marathi
Answer: (c)

3. Who compared Gandhi’s Dandi March to the historic journey of Sri Rama to Lanka?
(a) Motilal Nehru
(b) Tagore
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: (a)

4. Who called Gandhiji a ‘half-naked fakir’?
(a) Lord Mountbatten
(b) Winston Churchill
(c) Clement Attlee
(d) Lord Wavell
Answer: (b)

5. Which food was advised to Gandhiji by his childhood friend Mehtab in order to gain strength?
(a) Egg
(b) Milk
(c) Meat
(d) Fish
Answer: (c)

6. Who coined the term ‘Satyagraha’?
(a) Tagore
(b) Gandhiji
(c) Gokhale
(d) B.G. Tilak
Answer: (b)

7. In which year was Gandhiji elected President of the All India Home Rule League?
(a) 1918
(b) 1919
(c) 1920
(d) 1921
Answer: (c)

8. In which year was the All India Rural Industries Organisation established under the patronage of Gandhiji?
(a) 1934
(b) 1935
(c) 1936
(d) 1937
Answer: (a)

9. In which year did Gandhiji visit Kerala for the first time?
(a) 1919
(b) 1920
(c) 1921
(d) 1922
Answer: (b)

10. In which year did Gandhiji establish the Ahmedabad Textile Union?
(a) 1915
(b) 1916
(c) 1917
(d) 1918
Answer: (c)

11. Gandhiji was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in 1922 for sedition based on articles published in:
(a) Harijan
(b) Navjeevan
(c) Young India
(d) Satyagrahi
Answer: (c)

12. In which year did Gandhiji establish the Satyagraha Ashram at Kochrab near Ahmedabad?
(a) 1914
(b) 1915
(c) 1916
(d) 1917
Answer: (b)

13. After the demise of which leader did Gandhiji emerge as the foremost leader of the Indian National Congress?
(a) G.K. Gokhale
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Feroz Shah Mehta
Answer: (b)

14. The first Satyagraha conducted by Gandhiji in India was at:
(a) Kheda
(b) Ahmedabad
(c) Champaran
(d) Nagpur
Answer: (c)

15. Who led the Salt Satyagraha after Gandhiji’s arrest?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Sardar Patel
(c) Abbas Tyabji
(d) Vinoba Bhave
Answer: (c)

16. Gandhiji addressed Rabindranath Tagore as:
(a) Guruji
(b) Gurudev
(c) Mahamanya
(d) Lokmanya
Answer: (b)

17. In which year did Gandhiji announce his decision to resign from the Congress?
(a) 1933
(b) 1934
(c) 1935
(d) 1936
Answer: (b)

18. Gandhiji led the Khilafat Movement along with the:
(a) Bose brothers
(b) Ali brothers
(c) Patel brothers
(d) Ghosh brothers
Answer: (b)

19. The venue of Gandhiji’s Satyagraha to protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre was:
(a) Pune
(b) Mumbai
(c) Ahmedabad
(d) New Delhi
Answer: (b)

20. In which medical system did Gandhiji firmly believe?
(a) Naturopathy
(b) Unani
(c) Homoeopathy
(d) Allopathy
Answer: (a)

21. Which place was selected by Gandhiji to break the Salt Law?
(a) New Delhi
(b) Dandi
(c) Vedaranyam
(d) Sabarmati
Answer: (b)

22. From whom did Gandhiji derive the idea of Civil Disobedience?
(a) Tolstoy
(b) John Ruskin
(c) Henry David Thoreau
(d) Gokhale
Answer: (c)

23. In which jail did Gandhiji begin writing his autobiography?
(a) Ambala
(b) Thihar
(c) Pune
(d) Yerwada
Answer: (d)

24. In 1922 Gandhiji was sentenced to —— years of imprisonment.
(a) 14
(b) 6
(c) 3
(d) 4
Answer: (b)

25. Belgaum, where the INC session presided over by Gandhiji was held, is in which state?
(a) Gujarat
(b) Rajasthan
(c) Maharashtra
(d) Karnataka
Answer: (d)