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Independence Day Quiz Grade 6 and Grade 7

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. Who discovered India?

a)

Mahatma Gandhi

b)

Vasco da Gama

c)

Pingli Venkayya

d)

Columbus

2.

What is the National Motto of India?

a)

Jai Jawan Jai Kisan

b)

Sare Jahan se Achcha

c)

Jan Gan Man

d)

Satyamev Jayate

3.

Who was the first lady President of India?

a)

Pratibha Patil

b)

Indira Gandhi

c)

Sarojini Naidu

d)

Rabri Devi

4.

Which leader is known as the Iron Man of India?

a)

Lal Bahadur Shastri

b)

Sardar Vallabhai Patel

c)

Baldev Singh

d)

Robert Downey Jr

5.

Who designed our National flag?

a)

Mahatma Gandhi

b)

Bhikaji Kama

c)

Pingali Venkayaa

d)

Alluri Sitarama Raju

6.

Which city in India was the capital during British rule until 1911?

a)

Calcutta

b)

Bombay

c)

Delhi

d)

Madras

7.

Who wrote Vande Mataram and when?

a)

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1870

b)

Rabindra Nath Tagore in 1911

c)

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1890

d)

Krishna Rao Gokhale in 1884

8.

Who was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre?

a)

Lord Mountbatten

b)

Lord Dalhousie

c)

Attlee

d)

General Dyer

9.

Which movement marked Gandhiji’s entry into national politics?

a)

Champaran Movement

b)

Quit India Movement

c)

Salt March

10.

Which year onwards Gandhi Jayanthi is celebrated as international nonviolence day?

a)

2002

b)

2005

c)

2007

d)

2008

11.

Who was proclaimed as the emperor of India during the great Indian Mutiny of 1857?

a)

Bahadur Shah II

b)

Bahadur Shah I

c)

Aurangzeb

12.

Which year was the ‘Quit India Movement ‘ launched?

a)

1842

b)

1942

c)

1945

d)

1947

13.

Where was the first session of Indian National Congress held?

a)

Bombay

b)

Delhi

c)

Ahmedabad

d)

Lucknow

14.

The first weekly paper published by the Indian National Congress in 1889?

a)

Voice of India

b)

Choice of India

c)

Times of India

d)

Hindustan Times

15.

Who led the ‘Salt March’ from Ahmedabad to Dandi?

a)

Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

b)

Indira Gandhi

c)

Mahatma Gandhi

d)

Lal Bahadur Shastri

16.

Whose Slogan is this ‘ Freedom is my birth right and I shall have it’

a)

Subhas Chandra Bose

b)

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

c)

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

d)

Chandra Shekhar Azad

17.

Name the first woman Health minister of Independent India.

a)

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

b)

Pratibha Patil

c)

Bachchendri Pal

d)

Saina Nehwal

18.

Who was the last Viceroy of India?

a)

Lord Dalhousie

b)

Lord Mountbatten

c)

Lord Canning

d)

Warren Hastings

19.

When was India's National flag hoisted for the first time and where?

a)

August 7, 1906, at the Parsee Bagan Square, Kolkata

b)

March 7, 1910, at the Lal Quila, Delhi

c)

Augst 7, 1947, at the Gate way of India, Mumbai

20.

Who launched ‘Bande Mataram,’ a publication that was used to inspire and awaken the masses against British rule in India ?

a)

Rabindra Nath Tagore

b)

Sri Aurobindo Ghose

c)

Subhash Chandra Bose