India celebrated 77 years of independence on August 15, 2023. As the country reaches this milestone, it becomes important to remember the freedom fighters who bravely fought against colonial rule. India’s struggle for independence saw many Bravehearts who, though with different ideologies, were driven to make India a free and independent nation.
Find GK Freedom Fighters Questions and Answers below and learn more about India’s struggle against the British as the country celebrates 77 years of independence.
Q1: Freedom fighter Shaheed Bhagat Singh was associated with which of the following organizations?
a) Swaraj Party
b) Indian National Congress
c) Socialist Republican Association of Hindustan
d) Both the Indian National Congress and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Alliance (HSRA)
Answer: Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA)
Explanation: Bhagat Singh was a prominent member of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) and is also probably responsible, in large part, for the change of name to the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) in 1928.
Q2: Whose death coincided with the launch of the non-cooperation movement in 1920?
a) GK Gokhale
b) Motilal Nehru
c) Dadabhai Naoroji
d) Lokmanya Tilak
Answer: Lokmanya Tilak
Explanation: Lokmanya Tilak passed away on August 1, 1920, at the age of 64. His death coincided with the launch of the non-cooperation movement in India on September 4, 1920. It was a political campaign by Mahatma Gandhi to get Indians to withdraw their cooperation from the British government.
Q3: Which of the three Indian freedom fighters were hanged to death in the 1925 Kakori train conspiracy?
a) Roshan Singh, Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqulla Khan
b) Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru
c) Sardar Udham Singh, Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan
d) Ram Prasad Bismil, Bhagat Singh, Ashfaqulla Khan
Answer: Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Roshan Singh
Explanation: Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan and Roshan Singh were hanged to death on 19 December 1927 by the British Government for their involvement in the Kakori train robbery conspiracy.
Q4: Who among the Indian activists was popularly known as ‘Lokhitwadi’?
a) Gopal Hari Deshmukh
b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
c) Pherozshah Mehta
d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer: Gopal Hari Deshmukh
Explanation: Gopal Hari Deshmukh was an Indian activist, social reformer, thinker and writer from Maharashtra. He composed articles on social change in Maharashtra in the weekly Prabhakar under the pseudonym ‘Lokhitwadi’.
Q5: Who wrote the lyrics of India’s national anthem?
a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
b) Annie Besant
c) Rabindranath Tagore
d) Ram Prasad Bismil
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
Explanation: ‘Jana Gana Mana’ is the national anthem of India and the song was originally composed in Bengali as ‘Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata’ by India’s first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The Constituent Assembly of India adopted the first stanza of the song as the national anthem on 26 January 1950.
Q6: Kesari, a newspaper started by freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak, was published in which language?
a) Bengali
b) Hindi
c) English
d) Marathi
Answer: Marathi
Explanation: Kesari is a Marathi newspaper founded on January 4, 1981 by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a prominent leader of the Indian Independence Movement. Kesari was used as a major contribution to India’s National Freedom Movement and continued to be published by the Kesari Maratha Trust and Tilak’s descendants.
Q7: What was the name of the British officer who was shot by Udham Singh?
a) Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer
b) John Saunders
c) Sir Michael Frances O’Dwyer
d) None of these
Answer: Sir Michael Frances O’Dwyer
Explanation: Sardar Udham Singh was an Indian revolutionary who assassinated Sir Michael Frances O’Dwyer, former Governor of Punjab, India, on 13 March 1940. The assassination was carried out during the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919 for which O’Dwyer was responsible.
Q8: Which of the following newspapers was started by Motilal Nehru in 1919?
a) Young India
b) Independent
c) Voice of India
d) Leader
Answer: The Independent
Explanation: The Independent was an Allahabad-based newspaper started by Motilal Nehru in 1919. The paper was later closed down under British repression two years later. The paper was launched with the aim of countering the moderate political line adopted by the then leading Allahabad daily ‘The Leader’.
Q9: Annie Besant was associated with?
a) The caliphate movement
b) Movement of non-cooperation
c) Civil disobedience movement
d) Movement for self-government
Answer: Movement for self-government
Explanation: The Indian Self-Government Movement was a movement in British India on the lines of the Irish Self-Government Movement and other self-government movements. It lasted for about two years between 1916 and 1918 and is believed to have set the stage for the Indian Independence Movement led by Annie Besant and Bala Gangadhar Tilak.
Q10: Who among the following was called the ‘father of the Indian riots’ by the British?
a) Lala Lajpat Rai
b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
c) Lokmanya Tilak
d) Madan Mohan Malviya
Answer: Lokmanya Tilak
Explanation: Lokmanya Tilak has been called the father of Indian riots because he proved how words play a role in challenging institutions and inspiring the masses. Tilak contributed the most through his newspaper ‘Kesari’, which motivated people to join the freedom struggle.
Q11. Which of the following statements are true about Jawaharlal Nehru?
A. He insisted on a secular and liberal approach
B. He transmitted modern values and thoughts.
C. He encouraged the industrialization of India.
D. All of the above are correct
Ans. D
Explanation: India’s essential unity was underlined by Jawaharlal Nehru. He conveyed modern ideals and concepts to them. He was determined to embrace a liberal, secular point of view. He supported democratic socialism while also improving Indian industry by implementing the first five-year plans in 1951.
Q12. In which year was Azad Hind radio service started?
A. 1942
B. 1945
C.1939
D. 1940
Ans. AND
Explanation: To convince Indians to support the Axis Powers, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Adolf Hitler founded Azad Hind Radio in Nazi Germany in 1942. Bose escaped the British government and traveled through Italy, Afghanistan and Russia before reaching Germany. After a year, in March 1942, through Radio Berlin, Indians heard Bose.
Q13. Where did the Jallianwala Bagh massacre take place?
A. Amritsar, Punjab
B. Bhatinda, Punjab
C. Jalandhar, Punjab
D. Chandigarh, Punjab
Ans. AND
Explanation: The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, also known as the Amritsar Massacre, took place on 13 April 1919.
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