Important Personalities Quiz
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Notable figures from Indian and global history, science, politics, and public life -- the people behind the events and achievements covered elsewhere on DesiQuiz. Questions might ask who led a particular movement, who made a particular breakthrough, or who's associated with a well-known achievement, spanning freedom fighters and political leaders to scientists, reformers, and cultural figures. A good fit if names and biographies stick with you more easily than dates and treaties.
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Q1.Who wrote the Indian national anthem, Jana Gana Mana?
Q2.Who is known as the 'Iron Man of India'?
Q3.Who chaired the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution?
Q4.Who is known as the 'Missile Man of India'?
Q5.Who led the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) in the 1940s?
Important Personalities answers and explanations
Q1.Who wrote the Indian national anthem, Jana Gana Mana?
Rabindranath Tagore wrote Jana Gana Mana in Bengali, and it was adopted as the national anthem on 24 January 1950. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
Q2.Who is known as the 'Iron Man of India'?
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel earned the title 'Iron Man of India' for integrating more than 500 princely states into the Indian Union after 1947. The Statue of Unity in Gujarat honours him.
Q3.Who chaired the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution?
Dr B. R. Ambedkar chaired the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly, which produced the draft of the Constitution. He later became independent India's first Law Minister.
Q4.Who is known as the 'Missile Man of India'?
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam led India's missile and launch-vehicle programmes at DRDO and ISRO and served as the 11th President of India, from 2002 to 2007.
Q5.Who led the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) in the 1940s?
Subhas Chandra Bose took over the Indian National Army, also called the Azad Hind Fauj, in Southeast Asia in 1943 and raised the slogan 'Dilli Chalo'.
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