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One-Liner Q&A on Famous Personalities of India (Social, Political, Cultural)

November 30, 2025
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Q: Who is known as the “Iron Man of India”?

A: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Q: Who was the first woman Prime Minister of India?

A: Indira Gandhi

Q: Who is called the “Architect of the Indian Constitution”?

A: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Q: Who was the first Governor-General of independent India?

A: Lord Mountbatten

Q: Who is known as the “Missile Man of India”?

A: Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Q: Who was the first Indian to become the President of the UN General Assembly?

A: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was first woman & first Indian

Q: Who is called the “Grand Old Man of India”?

A: Dadabhai Naoroji

Q: Who founded the Indian National Army (INA)?

A: Subhas Chandra Bose

Q: Who is known as the “Father of Indian Renaissance”?

A: Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q: Who is called the “Frontier Gandhi”?

A: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Q: Who founded the Arya Samaj?

A: Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Q: Who started the Brahmo Samaj?

A: Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q: Who led the Aligarh Movement?

A: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

Q: Who is known as the “Nightingale of India”?

A: Sarojini Naidu

Q: Who founded the Ramakrishna Mission?

A: Swami Vivekananda

Q: Who led the Self-Respect Movement in Tamil Nadu?

A: Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Q: Who started the Home Rule League in India?

A: Annie Besant

Q: Who is known for the Chipko Movement?

A: Sunderlal Bahuguna

Q: Who is known as the “Mother Teresa of Maharashtra”?

A: Sindhutai Sapkal

Q: Who is known as the “Father of White Revolution in India”?

A: Dr. Verghese Kurien

Q: Who is known as the “Bard of Bengal”?

A: Rabindranath Tagore

Q: Who wrote the national anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana’?

A: Rabindranath Tagore

Q: Who authored the book Discovery of India?

A: Jawaharlal Nehru

Q: Who is known as the “Shakespeare of India”?

A: Kalidasa

Q: Who is known as the “Father of Indian Cinema”?

A: Dadasaheb Phalke

Q: Who composed India’s national song ‘Vande Mataram’?

A: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Q: Who is known as the “Meghdoot of Modern India”?

A: Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Q: Who is the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize?

A: Rabindranath Tagore (Literature, 1913)

Q: Who is famous as India’s first woman teacher?

A: Savitribai Phule

Q: Who is known as the “Father of Modern Indian Art”?

A: Raja Ravi Varma

Q: Who is known as the “Lion of Punjab”?

A: Lala Lajpat Rai

Q: Who was India’s first Deputy Prime Minister?

A: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Q: Who is called the “Mother of Indian Revolution”?

A: Madam Bhikaji Cama

Q: Who founded the Forward Bloc?

A: Subhas Chandra Bose

Q: Who is known as the “Sher-e-Kashmir”?

A: Sheikh Abdullah

Q: Who became the first woman President of India?

A: Pratibha Patil

Q: Who is called the “Architect of Modern India”?

A: Jawaharlal Nehru

Q: Who was the first CM of West Bengal?

A: Prafulla Chandra Ghosh

Q: Who is known as the “Young Turk” of Indian politics?

A: Chandra Shekhar

Q: Who led the Bardoli Satyagraha?

A: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Q: Who is known as “Deshbandhu”?

A: Chittaranjan Das

Q: Who founded the Servants of India Society?

A: Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Q: Who led the Vaikom Satyagraha?

A: K. Kelappan

Q: Who is known as the “Prophet of New India”?

A: Swami Vivekananda

Q: Who started the Widow Remarriage Movement in India?

A: Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar

Q: Who is known as the “Liberator of the Indian Press”?

A: Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Q: Who founded the Theosophical Society in India?

A: Annie Besant

Q: Who launched the Bhoodan Movement?

A: Acharya Vinoba Bhave

Q: Who is known as “Mahamana”?

A: Madan Mohan Malaviya

Q: Who is regarded as the “Father of Indian Labour Movement”?

A: Narayan Meghaji Lokhande

Q: Who wrote the epic Anand Math?

A: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Q: Who is the author of Gitanjali?

A: Rabindranath Tagore

Q: Who is known as “India’s Nightingale of Classical Music”?

A: M. S. Subbulakshmi

Q: Who painted the famous work “Bharat Mata”?

A: Abanindranath Tagore

Q: Who is known as the “Sitar Maestro of India”?

A: Ustad Vilayat Khan

Q: Who wrote the book Train to Pakistan?

A: Khushwant Singh

Q: Who is known as the “Father of Indian Animation”?

A: Ram Mohan

Q: Who created the Indian tricolour flag design?

A: Pingali Venkayya

Q: Who is known as the “Indian Napoleon”?

A: Samudragupta

Q: Who composed the patriotic song “Saare Jahan Se Achha”?

A: Muhammad Iqbal

Q: Who gave the slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan”?

A: Lal Bahadur Shastri

Q: Who founded the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA)?

A: Sachindra Nath Sanyal

Q: Who was called the “Prince of Workers”?

A: Lala Lajpat Rai

Q: Who was the first Indian to become a member of the British Parliament?

A: Dadabhai Naoroji

Q: Who was the first Indian to become the President of INC?

A: Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

Q: Who is known as the “Andhra Kesari”?

A: T. Prakasam

Q: Who led the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal?

A: Surendranath Banerjee

Q: Who is known as the “Political Guru” of Mahatma Gandhi?

A: Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Q: Who was the first female Governor of an Indian state?

A: Sarojini Naidu

Q: Who founded the Communist Party of India?

A: M. N. Roy

Q: Who introduced the Widow Remarriage Act, 1856?

A: Lord Dalhousie

Q: Who is known as the “Mother of Social Work in India”?

A: Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh

Q: Who started the Seva Sadan Society for women?

A: Ramabai Ranade

Q: Who campaigned for the abolition of Sati?

A: Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q: Who is known as the “Greatest Indian after Gandhi” (BBC Poll)?

A: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Q: Who founded the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)?

A: Kanshi Ram

Q: Who founded the NGO “Sulabh International”?

A: Bindeshwar Pathak

Q: Who wrote "Why I Am an Atheist"?

A: Bhagat Singh

Q: Who is known as the “Narmada Bachao Andolan” leader?

A: Medha Patkar

Q: Who founded the “Arya Mahila Samaj”?

A: Pandita Ramabai

Q: Who wrote Godan, one of the greatest Hindi novels?

A: Munshi Premchand

Q: Who composed the epic poem Shahnameh?

A: Firdausi

Q: Who is known as the “Kabir of Modern India”?

A: Rabindranath Tagore (for Baul influence)

Q: Who created the Amar Chitra Katha comic series?

A: Anant Pai

Q: Who wrote India’s national pledge?

A: Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao

Q: Who composed the patriotic song “Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon”?

A: Kavi Pradeep

Q: Who is known as the “Father of Modern Tamil Poetry”?

A: Subramania Bharati

Q: Who is known as the “Picasso of India”?

A: M. F. Husain

Q: Who directed the first Indian feature film Raja Harishchandra?

A: Dadasaheb Phalke

Q: Who discovered the Raman Effect?

A: C. V. Raman

Q: Who invented the Cresco graph (plant growth recorder)?

A: J. C. Bose

Q: Who is known as the “Missile Woman of India”?

A: Tessy Thomas

Q: Who constructed India’s first rocket launch station?

A: Vikram Sarabhai

Q: Who is known as the “Human Computer”?

A: Shakuntala Devi

Q: Who was India’s first woman astronaut?

A: Kalpana Chawla

Q: Who is known as the “Father of Green Revolution in India”?

A: M. S. Swaminathan

Q: Who invented the Pentium chip?

A: Vinod Dham

Q: Who developed India’s first indigenous supercomputer PARAM?

A: Vijay Bhatkar

Q: Who is known as the “Space Father of India”?

A: Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Q: Who founded the Sabarmati Ashram?

A: Mahatma Gandhi

Q: Who is known as the “Father of Indian Radio Broadcasting”?

A: A. K. Chatterjee

Q: Who founded the Chipko Movement’s Women’s Wing?

A: Gaura Devi

Q: Who created the famous cartoon character “Common Man”?

A: R. K. Laxman

Q: Who is the first Indian to win an Oscar?

A: Bhanu Athaiya

Q: Who was the founder of the Ghadar Party?

A: Lala Hardayal

Q: Who is known as the “Hero of Kakori Conspiracy”?

A: Ram Prasad Bismil

Q: Who was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

A: G. V. Mavalankar

Q: Who founded the Prarthana Samaj?

A: Atmaram Pandurang

Q: Who is known as the “Lion of Gujarat”?

A: Sardar Patel

Q: Who started the ‘Kesari’ newspaper?

A: Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Q: Who was the first Indian woman to preside over the INC?

A: Annie Besant

Q: Who led the social reform movement “Ekka Movement” in Uttar Pradesh?

A: Baba Ram Chandra

Q: Who founded the “Young Bengal Movement”?

A: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

Q: Who founded the “Indian Red Cross Society”?

A: Sir Claude Hill & Lady Chelmsford

Q: Who is known as the “Father of Indian Statistics”?

A: P. C. Mahalanobis