This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Leaders > Leader – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Leader Quiz 1 (37 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following leader given the term 'insenate waste' on the burning of the foreign clothes during the Non-Cooperation Movement? A) Lord Reading. B) Rabindra Nath Tagore. C) Motilal Nehru. D) Mohammad Ali. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rabindra Nath Tagore. 2. Who among the following leader presided the historic 1916 Lucknow Session of the Congress? A) Madan Mohan Malviya. B) Subhas Chandra Bose. C) Ambika Charan Majumdar. D) Annie Besant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ambika Charan Majumdar. 3. The leader of the revolt of 1857 in Bihar was A) Tantia Tope. B) Kunwar Singh. C) Mangal Pandey. D) Nana Saheb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kunwar Singh. 4. Who among the following leader headed the interim Government of 1946? A) M.K Gandhi. B) C. Rajagopalachari. C) Jawaharlal Nehru. D) Dr Rajendra Prasad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jawaharlal Nehru. 5. The Mughal leader Babur originally invaded northern India A) To defeat his longstanding enemy, the sultan of Delhi. B) Because he was unable to achieve his ambitious goals in central Asia. C) To creates a Shiite Muslim state. D) To control the trade routes into Southeast Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because he was unable to achieve his ambitious goals in central Asia. 6. The Huna leader Mihirgula was defeated by A) Chandragupta. B) Rajyavardhana. C) Yashodharman. D) Buddhagupta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yashodharman. 7. Which of the following leader organised the Swaraj Party? A) Sarojini Naidu and Annie Besant. B) Lala Lajpat Rai and Feroz Shah Mehta. C) C.Rajagopalachari and Y. Chintamani. D) R. Das and Motilal Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) R. Das and Motilal Nehru. 8. The spiritual leader associated with the founding of Vijayanagara kingdom was A) Vidyaranya. B) Purandaradas. C) Ramdas. D) Appayya Dikshitar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vidyaranya. 9. Rani Gaidilineu a rebel leader against the British, was from A) Tripura. B) Manipur. C) Nagaland. D) Assam. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manipur. 10. Which of the following Congress leader rejected the 'August Offer' of 1940? A) Lord Willingdon. B) Sir George Stanley. C) Lord Wavell. D) Lord Linlithgow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lord Linlithgow. 11. Which of the following leader gave the safety valve theory for Indian National Congress and said that it was the brainchild of Lord Dufferin? A) Motilal Nehru. B) Dadabhai Nairoji. C) Lala Lajpat Rai. D) M N Roy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lala Lajpat Rai. 12. Sir Huge Rose described whom as 'the best and bravest military leader of the rebel'? A) Kuar Singh. B) Rani Laxmi Bai. C) Begum Hazrat Mahal. D) Bahadur Shah Zafar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rani Laxmi Bai. 13. Which of the following leader was associated with the Home Rule League? A) M. K. Gandhi. B) B. G. Tilak. C) G. K. Gokhale. D) M. G. Ranade. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. G. Tilak. 14. Which of the following leader said that the Act of 1935 provided 'a machine with strong brakes but no engine'? A) Jawaharlal Nehru. B) Rajendra Prasad. C) Mahatma Gandhi. D) Vallabhbhai Patel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jawaharlal Nehru. 15. Which of the following pair leader associated with the Revolt of 1857 is not correctly matched? A) Hazrat Mahal: Kanpur. B) Bakht Khan: Delhi. C) Kunwar Singh: Bihar. D) Khan Bahadur Khan: Bareilly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hazrat Mahal: Kanpur. 16. Who gave the title of Rani to the Naga woman leader Gaidinliu? A) Jawahar Lal Nehru. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) C.R. Das. D) Sardar Patel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jawahar Lal Nehru. 17. Banda Bahadur, a Sikh leader who led a revolt against the Mughals after the assassination of Guru Gobind Singh, was captured and executed during the reign of A) Bahadur Shah. B) Farrukh Siyar. C) Jahandar Shah. D) Aurangzeb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Farrukh Siyar. 18. Who among the following was selected by Gandhiji to be the Ist leader to offer Individual Civil Disobedience in 1940? A) Sundar Lal Bahuguna. B) Acharya Kriplani. C) Vinoba Bhave. D) Jawahar Lal Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vinoba Bhave. 19. Who was the prominent leader in Lucknow during the Revolt of 1857? A) Rani Laxmi Bai. B) Kuar Singh. C) Bahadur Shah Zafar. D) Begum Hazrat Mahal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Begum Hazrat Mahal. 20. Who was called by the British rulers as 'the leader of Indian unrest'? A) Subhas Chandra Bose. B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale. C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak. D) M. K. Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak. 21. The leader of revolt of 1857 in Lucknow was .? A) Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah. B) Begum Hazrat Mahal. C) Tatya Tope. D) Birjis Qadir. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Begum Hazrat Mahal. 22. Which of the following leader was associated with the formation of the Congress Socialist Party? A) Subhas Chandra Bose. B) Acharya Narendra Dev. C) Ram Manohar Lohia. D) P Joshi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acharya Narendra Dev. 23. Which of the following pairs connected with the Revolution of 1857 is correctly matched? Place of Revolt: Leader of Revolt A) Lucknow: Begum Hazrat Mahal. B) Delhi: Tantiya Tope. C) Jhansi: Nana Saheb. D) Kanpur: Rani Lakshmibai. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lucknow: Begum Hazrat Mahal. 24. Who among the following was a leader of Wahabi Movement? A) Ajmal Khan. B) Mohammed Ali. C) M. A. Ansari. D) Syed Ahmad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syed Ahmad. 25. The leader of the 1857 Revolt in Delhi was A) Bakht Khan. B) Bahadur Shah Zafar. C) Khan Bahadur Khan. D) Begum Zinat Mahal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bahadur Shah Zafar. 26. Who was the founder leader of 'Muslim Faqirs'? A) Majnun Shah. B) Dadu Mian. C) Chirag Ali Shah. D) Tipu. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Majnun Shah. 27. Which of the following leader was one of the founding members of the Muslim League? A) Muhammad Ali Jinnah. B) Aga Khan. C) Shaukat Ali. D) Nawab Salimullah. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nawab Salimullah. 28. Simon Bolivar was a great leader of the A) American War of Independence. B) Central American Revolution. C) Latin American Revolution. D) French Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Latin American Revolution. 29. Who among the following leader draws his inspiration from M.K Gandhi? A) Jayaprakash Narayan. B) Jawaharlal Nehru. C) Abdul Ghaffar Khan. D) Subhas Chandra Bose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abdul Ghaffar Khan. 30. The most fearless and bold woman leader of the peasant movement, who sacrificed her life to protect peasants' rights, was: A) Veera Gunnamma. B) Ambika Chakraborty. C) Preeti Lata Wadekar. D) Snehlata Wadekar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Veera Gunnamma. 31. Which of the following leader was not moderate? A) Madan Mohan Malviya. B) Bipin Chandra Pal. C) Dada Bhai Naoroji. D) Anand Charlu. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bipin Chandra Pal. 32. The tribal leader who was regarded as an incarnation of God and father of the world was A) Nanak Bhil. B) Birsa Munda. C) Siddhu Santha. D) Jagia Bhagat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birsa Munda. 33. Which of the following leader was not associated with the extremist leadership of Indian National Congress? A) Aurobindo Ghosh. B) Lokmanya Tilak. C) A. O. Hume. D) Lala Lajpat Rai. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A. O. Hume. 34. The leader who contacted Mahatma Gandhi in connection with the Peasant Unrest in Bihar at the Lucknow Congress of 1916 was A) Rajendra Prasad. B) Ras Bihari Bose. C) Pt. Nehru. D) Raj Kumar Shukla. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Raj Kumar Shukla. 35. Which of the following leader who presided All India Congress Committee session on 9th August? A) Aruna Asif Ali. B) Annie Besant. C) Mahatma Gandhi. D) Jawaharlal Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aruna Asif Ali. 36. Which of the following leader associated with Barout in Uttar Pradesh during 1857 revolts? A) Shah Mal. B) Tatya Tope. C) Maulavi Ahamadullah Shah. D) Veer Kuwar Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shah Mal. 37. Which of the following leader is not correctly matched with their association/party/ books/ newspaper? A) M. K. Gandhi: Gitanjali. B) Rabindranath Tagore: Patrika. C) Devendranath Tagore: Young India. D) B.G. Tilak: Kesari. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B.G. Tilak: Kesari. Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesGeneral Knowledge Quizzes 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books