This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian Culture > Festivals > Independence Day – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Independence Day Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is known as the Father of the Nation? A) Narendra Modi. B) Madan Lal Gandhi. C) Mahatma Gandhi. D) Ram Nath Kovind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mahatma Gandhi. 2. Which scientist built a base for celestial Mechanics? A) Johannes Kepter. B) IssacNewton. C) Tycho Brohe. D) Leibnitz. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Johannes Kepter. 3. Magna Carta of Indian education A) Macaulay minutes. B) Woods despatch. C) Communal award. D) August offer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Woods despatch. 4. Which of the following leaders is known as the "Iron Man of India" ? A) Baldev Singh. B) Baldev Singh. C) Lal Bahadur Shastri. D) Vallabhbhai Patel. E) Robert Downey Jr. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vallabhbhai Patel. 5. The National Academy of science, India is founded in the year A) 1920. B) 1945. C) 1956. D) 1930. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1930. 6. Which one is the India's first satellite exclusively used for educational purpose A) TONSILS-1. B) Laughter. C) EDUSAT. D) SARAL. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) EDUSAT. 7. Which of the following is/are true regarding the ratio of the national flag? A) The ratio of the length to the height of the flag shall be 3:2. B) The ratio of the length to the height of the flag shall be 2:3. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ratio of the length to the height of the flag shall be 3:2. 8. The famous line by Subhash Chandra Bose was: A) Swaraj is my birth-right and i shall have it". B) "Give me blood and i shall give your Freedom". C) "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". D) "Jai Hind". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Give me blood and i shall give your Freedom". 9. Which movie is the song Bharat ka rahe wala hoon? A) East and West. B) Favour. C) Mother India. D) Shaheed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) East and West. 10. The first overseas branch of Our Bank ..... A) London. B) Mombasa. C) Guyana. D) Fiji. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mombasa. 11. Which patriotic movie had a star cast of Manoj Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha all together? A) Mother India. B) Shaheed. C) Revolution. D) Favour. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Revolution. 12. Which is India's national animal? A) Elephant. B) Lion. C) Monkey. D) Tiger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tiger. 13. WHAT IS OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL? A) HYDERABAD. B) Mumbai. C) NEW DELHI. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) NEW DELHI. 14. Which actor was called Bharat due to the huge amount of patriotic movies he enacted in? A) Dev Anand. B) Dalip Kumar. C) Dharmendra. D) Manoj Kumar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Manoj Kumar. 15. Which one of the following is fourth layer of atmosphere? A) Stratosphere. B) Exosphere. C) Mesosphere. D) Ionosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ionosphere. 16. Our Bank was nationalized on ..... A) 19 July 1969. B) 20 July 1969. C) 19 July 1959. D) 20 July 1959. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 19 July 1969. 17. Which of the following are the extremist leaders? A) Lala Lajpat Rai. B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak. C) Bipin Chandra Pal. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 18. Who wrote Vande Matram? A) Rabindranath Tagore. B) Ishwar Chandra Gupta. C) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. D) Jaishankar Prasad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. 19. Who was the first Indian ruler who had territory outside India? A) Ashoka. B) Chandragupta Maurya. C) Kanishka. D) Huvishka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kanishka. 20. East India Company started trade with India from which city? A) Calcutta (Kolkata). B) Surat. C) Madras (Chennai). D) Bombay (Mumbai). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Surat. 21. Between which two countries did the Kargil War happen? A) India and Nepal. B) India and America. C) India and China. D) India and Pakistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) India and Pakistan. 22. 'Give me blood, I will give you freedom' Was sided by which of the following persons? A) Shaheed Bhagat Singh. B) Lala Lajpat Rai. C) Subhash Chandra Bose. D) Vallabhbhai Patel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subhash Chandra Bose. 23. When did the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre take place? A) 13 April 1919. B) 12 April 1921. C) 13 April 1917. D) 12 April 1918. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 13 April 1919. 24. Who gave the slogan Dilli Chalo or March to Delhi? A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Lala Lajpat Rai. C) Subhash Chandra Bose. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subhash Chandra Bose. 25. When India Get Freedom? A) 14 August 1947. B) 26 January 1950. C) 26 January 1930. D) 15 August 1947. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 15 August 1947. 26. After independence, who was the first Governor-General of India? A) S.Rajagopalachari. B) Dalhousie. C) Mountbatten. D) Rajendra Prasad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mountbatten. 27. Where did Nehru raise the national flag of India on 15th August 1947? A) Red Fort. B) Gate way of India. C) Taj Mahal. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red Fort. 28. India Is celebrating its which republic day on 15 August 2020 A) 71. B) 73. C) 72. D) 74. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 74. 29. Which state is called "the Adobe of God" ? A) Haryana. B) Kerala. C) Meghalaya. D) Uttarakhand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haryana. 30. Movie Mission Mangal is inspired from which Space mission of India A) Chandrayaan. B) Mangalyaan. C) Mangalyam. D) Lunar yatra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mangalyaan. 31. How many soldiers died during the Kargil War? A) 999. B) 527. C) 200. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 527. 32. In which year was 'Jana Gana Mana' adopted by the Constituent Assembly as the National Anthem? A) 1931. B) 1947. C) 1950. D) 1952. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1950. 33. What is the national motto of India? A) Service before self. B) Satyameva Jayate. C) Jai Jawan. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Satyameva Jayate. 34. When was the Non-cooperation movement suspended? A) 1922. B) 1923. C) 1921. D) 1920. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1922. 35. When was Lokamanya Tilak Born? A) 2000bc. B) 23 July 1856. C) 24july 2050. D) 26 Aug 1951. E) Non-of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 23 July 1856. 36. Which year was the 'Quit India Movement' Launched by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi? A) 1939. B) 1940. C) 1942. D) 1946. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1942. 37. Which State has obtained GI for Rasagolla A) Assam. B) Bihar. C) West Bengal. D) Odisha. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Odisha. 38. Who is the father of our nation? A) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) Subhash Chandra Bose. D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahatma Gandhi. 39. Who was the first Indian in space? A) Ravish Malhotra. B) Rakesh Sharma. C) Sunita Williams. D) Kalpana Chawla. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rakesh Sharma. 40. Who created Azad Hind Fauj? A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak. C) Lal Bahadur Shastri. D) Subhash chandra bose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subhash chandra bose. 41. Who is known as "Father of Nation" ? A) Jawahar Lal Nehru. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) Govind Ballabh Pant. D) Mahavir Tyagi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahatma Gandhi. 42. On Independence Day, the Prime Minister of India hoists our tricolor flag at: A) Red Fort, Agra. B) Purana Qila, Delhi. C) Red Fort, Old Delhi. D) India Gate, New Delhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red Fort, Old Delhi. 43. Who was the prime minister in 1947? A) Jawaharlal Nehru. B) Manmohan Singh. C) Atal Bihari Vajpayee. D) Narendra Modi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jawaharlal Nehru. 44. Who was first lady President of India? A) Indira Gandhi. B) Rabri Devi. C) Pratibha Patil. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pratibha Patil. 45. Who is the current Prime Minister of India? A) Nirav Modi. B) Narendra Prakash Modi. C) Narendra Damodardas Modi. D) Rahul Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narendra Damodardas Modi. 46. What does the blue wheel in the Indian National Flag stand for? A) Wheel of revolution. B) Wheel of law. C) Wheel of purity and religion. D) Wheel of progress. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wheel of law. 47. Our National Song is ..... A) Jana-Gana-Mana . B) Bande Mataram . C) God has given us so much strength . D) O Lord, we are your servants . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bande Mataram . 48. When did The Constituion of India came into effect? A) 26 January 1947. B) 26 January 1949. C) 26 January 1950. D) 26 November 1949. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 26 January 1950. 49. Who formed the Indian National Congress? A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Motilal Nehru. C) Bhagat Singh. D) A.O. Hume. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A.O. Hume. 50. Who proposed the preamble before the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly? A) B. R. Ambedkar. B) Dr. Rajendra Prasad. C) Jawaharlal Nehru. D) Indira Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jawaharlal Nehru. 51. When did The Uri attack happen? A) 18-Sep-16. B) 12-Nov-16. C) 15-Sep-16. D) 19-Sep-16. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 18-Sep-16. 52. Who is popularly known as 'Frontier Gandhi? A) Zakir Hussain. B) Umar Ahmed. C) Mohammed Tahsin. D) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. 53. Which of the following country doesn't celebrate Independence day with India on 15th Aug A) Bahrain. B) South Sudan. C) North Korea. D) Congo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) South Sudan. 54. India celebrates Independence Day on which date? A) 31st December. B) 26th January. C) 15th August. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 15th August. 55. Name India's national fruit? A) Watermelom. B) Mango. C) Apple. D) Organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mango. 56. Who gives speech at Red Fort? A) President. B) Chief Minister. C) Prime Minister. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prime Minister. 57. Who is empowered to declare National Emergency in India? A) The Prime Minister of India. B) Governors of State. C) Parliament. D) The President of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The President of India. 58. The freedom fighter who died in jail due to the hunger strike was? A) Bhagat Singh. B) Bipin Chandra Pal. C) Jatindra Nath Das. D) Subhas Chandra Bose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jatindra Nath Das. 59. How many spokes are there in the Ashoka Chakra of the national flag? A) 42. B) 24. C) 29. D) 16. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 24. 60. Which movie is about a young girl who gets engaged to an American boy, but falls in love with his adopted brother, played by Shah Rukh Khan? A) Foreigner. B) Memories. C) Shame. D) Ram Lakhan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreigner. Next →Related QuizzesIndian Culture QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesIndependence Day Quiz 2Independence Day Quiz 3Independence Day Quiz 4Independence Day Quiz 5Independence Day Quiz 6Independence Day Quiz 7Air Force Day QuizAmbedkar Jayanti Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books