GK QUIZ:8 Quit India Movement

General Knowledge Quiz: 7

Topic:Quit India Movement

This post contains multiple choice questions about Quit India Movement  in India

A picketing during Quit India movement

1.In which year was quit India Movement Launched?

a.1946

b.1939

c.1942

d.1940

ANSWER: c.1942

2.Quit India movement is also called as?

a. Khilafat Movement

b.Swadeshi Movement

c.Homerule Movement

d.August Movement

 

ANSWER: d.August Movement

3.Who presided over the AICC session on 9th August?

a.Jawaharlal Nehru

b.Aruna Asif Ali

c.Mahatma Gandhi

d.None of these

ANSWER:b.Aruna Asif Ali

4.Quit India movement was suspended in?

a.1947

b.1942

c.1943

d.1945

ANSWER:b.1942 (Due to the Bengal famine of 1943)

5.The call Do or Die was made in 1942 by 

a.Mahatma Gandhi

b.Jawaharlal Nehru

c.Subhash Chandra Bose

d.Jayaprakash Narayan

ANSWER:b.Jawaharlal Nehru

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GK QUIZ 7: Panchayati Raj in India

General Knowledge Quiz: 7

Topic:Panchayati Raj in India

This post contains multiple choice questions about Panchayati Raj in India

1. Panchayati Raj in India is a

a.3 Tier system

b.4 Tier system

c.2 Tier system

d.None of these

ANSWER:a.3 Tier system

2.Which is the highest body in the panchayati raj system?

a.Gram Panchayat

b.Zilla Panchayat

c.Block Panchayat

d.Gram Sabha

ANSWER:b.Zilla Panchayat

3.Which of the following states does not have  panchayati raj system?

a.Kerala

b.Madhya Pradesh

c.Odisha

d.Meghalaya

ANSWER:d.Meghalaya

4.Block Panchayat is also known as?

a.Gramyojana

b.Zilla Parishad

c.Panchayat Samiti

d.None of these

ANSWER:c.Panchayat Samiti

5.In Panchayati Raj systems which are the basic units of administration?

a.Gram Panchayat

b.Gram Sabha

c.Block Panchayat

d.None of these

ANSWER:a.Gram Panchayat

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GK QUIZ 6: TEST CRICKET CAPTAINS OF INDIA

GK QUIZ:6

TOPIC:TEST CRICKET CAPTAINS OF INDIA

This post contains multiple choice questions about India's test cricket team and its captains. 

Who is the first captain of Indian test cricket team?

a.Vijay Hazare

b.C K Nayudu 

c.Iftikar Ali Khan Pataudi

d.Lala Amarnath

ANS:b.C K Nayudu 

Who was the indian captain when india won its first test match?

a.Vijay Hazare
b.Iftikar Ali Khan Pataudi
c.Vinoo Mankad
d.Lala Amarnath

ANS:a.Vijay Hazare

Who is Independent India's first Test cricket captain?

a.Vinoo Mankad
b.Vijay Hazare
c.Ghulam Ahmed 
d.Lala Amarnath

ANS:d.Lala Amarnath

Which former Indian Captain was the first Indian to score a double century in Test cricket?

a.Nari Contractor

b.Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

c.Paully Umrigar

d.Sunil Gavaskar

ANS:c.Paully Umrigar

Who is the indian test captain with the most no. of Test Victories?

a.Mohammed Azharudeen
b.Saurav Ganguly
b.Ravi Shastri
d.Mahindra Singh Dhoni

ANS:d.Mahindra Singh Dhoni

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Quotes by famous personalities 3: Mahatma Gandhi quotes

Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

• Without action, you aren't going anywhere.
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.
• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
• A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.
• Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.
• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
• Be the change that you want to see in the world.
• Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
• I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
• An ounce of patience is worth more than a tonne of preaching.
• Change yourself – you are in control.
• See the good in people and help them.

• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
• Take care of this moment.
• Continue to grow and evolve
• A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ uttered merely to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
• An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
• Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

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Quotes by famous personalities 2: John Keats quotes

Quotes by John Keats

• A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
• Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
• Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced
• Touch has a memory
• The poetry of the earth is never dead
• I want a brighter word than bright
• Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
• I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
• My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk
• Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
• Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.
• Love is my religion--I could die for it
• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
• Stop and consider! life is but a day;
  A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
  From a tree’s summit.

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Quotes by famous personalities 1: William Shakespeare quotes

Quotes by William Shakespeare

• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

• A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

• Brevity is the soul of wit

• Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

• To be, or not to be: that is the question.

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Chief Ministers of India

• Andhra Pradesh

Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy

• Arunachal Pradesh

Nabam Tuki

• Assam

Tarun Kumar Gogoi

• Bihar

Nitish Kumar

• Chhattisgarh

Raman Singh

• Delhi

Sheila Dikshit

• Goa

Manohar Parrikar

• Gujarat

Narendra Modi

• Haryana

Bhupinder Singh Hooda

• Himachal Pradesh

Virbhadra Singh

• Jammu and Kashmir

Omar Abdullah

• Jharkhand

President's rule

• Karnataka

Siddaramaiah

• Kerala

Oommen Chandy

• Madhya Pradesh

Shivraj Singh Chauhan

• Maharashtra

Prithviraj Chavan

• Manipur

Okram Ibobi Singh

• Meghalaya

Mukul Sangma

• Mizoram

Pu Lalthanhawla

• Nagaland

Neiphiu Rio

• Orissa

Naveen Patnaik

• Pondicherry†

N. Rangaswamy

• Punjab

Parkash Singh Badal

• Rajasthan

Ashok Gehlot

• Sikkim

Pawan Kumar Chamling

• Tamil Nadu

Jayalalithaa

• Tripura

Manik Sarkar

• Uttarakhand

Vijay Bahuguna

• Uttar Pradesh

Mayawati

• West Bengal

Buddhadeb Bhattacharya

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GK QUIZ:5 INDIAN CONSTITUTION

GK QUIZ:5
TOPIC:Indian Constitution

Who is known as father of Indian constitution?

a. Jawaharlal Nehru

b.Dr.Rajendra Prasad

c.Dr.S.Radhakrishnan

d.Dr.B.R.Ambetkar

ANSWER:

When was the constitution approved by the constituent assembly?

a.17th August 1947

b.26th January 1950

c.26th November 1949

d.31th August 1948

ANSWER:

Which article of the constitution gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir?

a.Article 370

b.Article 74

c.Article 52

d.Article 365

ANSWER:

 

When did the Constitution of India came into effect?

a.August 15 1947

b.January 26 1950

c.November 26 1949

d.August 16 1947

ANSWER:

Which article of the constitution provides that there shall be a Prime Minister of India as head of the Government?

a.Article 74

b.Article  108

c.Article 80

d.Article 94

ANSWER: 

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GK QUIZ:4 INDIA AT OLYMPICS

GK QUIZ:4
TOPIC: India at Olympic games

In which year did India first participated in Olympics?

a.1948

b.1900

c.1908

d.1952

ANSWER:

In which year was Indian Olympic Association (IOA) formed?

a.1927

b.1900

c.1949

d.1951

ANSWER:

Who was the first person to win an Olympic medal representing India?

a.K.D.Jadhav

b.Norman Prichard

c.T C Yohannan

d.James Hall

ANSWER:

Who is independent India's first individual Olympic medalist?

a.Milkha Singh

b.Leander Paes

c.K.D. Jadhav

d.Karnam Malleswary 

ANSWER:

Who is the first Indian to win  an individual gold medal at the Olympics?

a. Sushil Kumar

b. Abhinav Bindra

c. Vijender Singh

d. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathode

ANSWER:

Who is the first Indian to win back to back individual Olympic  medals?

a.Sushil Kumar

b. Abhinav Bindra

c.Leander Paes

d. Karnam Malleswari

ANSWER:

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