This Static GK quiz on Birthplaces of Famous Personalities puts 11 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
11 questions with answers and explanations
Mahatma Gandhi was born at which of the following places?
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 at Porbandar, a coastal town of the Kathiawar region in present-day Gujarat, where his father Karamchand Gandhi served as the diwan of the princely state.
Read the full explanation →The birthplace of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, Mhow, is located in which present-day state?
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on 14 April 1891 at Mhow, a military cantonment town in the Indore region of what is now Madhya Pradesh, where his father was serving in the army.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following leaders was born at Cuttack in present-day Odisha?
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was born on 23 January 1897 at Cuttack in Odisha, where his father Janakinath Bose practised as a lawyer, although the family was Bengali and he was later educated at Calcutta and Cambridge.
Read the full explanation →Bhagat Singh was born in the village of Banga, which was then part of the Lyallpur district. Where does this village lie today?
Bhagat Singh was born in 1907 at Banga in the Lyallpur district of undivided Punjab. Lyallpur was renamed Faisalabad after Partition and lies in the Punjab province of Pakistan, so the village of his birth is now in Pakistan.
Read the full explanation →Dr Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, was born at which place?
Dr Rajendra Prasad was born on 3 December 1884 at Ziradei, a village in the Siwan district of Bihar.
Read the full explanation →Which pair of leaders was born in the same city?
Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 and his daughter Indira Gandhi on 19 November 1917, both at Allahabad, now Prayagraj, in the family home that Motilal Nehru named Anand Bhavan.
Read the full explanation →The physicist C. V. Raman, the first Indian to win a Nobel Prize in science, was born in which present-day state?
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in 1888 at Tiruchirappalli in present-day Tamil Nadu and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light, the discovery announced on 28 February 1928 that is remembered every year as National Science Day.
Read the full explanation →Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, was born at which city?
Guru Gobind Singh was born in 1666 at Patna in Bihar, while his father Guru Tegh Bahadur was travelling in the east, and the gurdwara Takht Sri Patna Sahib marks the site.
Read the full explanation →Birsa Munda, the tribal leader of the Ulgulan, was born at Ulihatu, which is now in which state?
Birsa Munda was born in 1875 at Ulihatu in the Khunti district of present-day Jharkhand, then part of the Chotanagpur region of Bengal and later Bihar.
Read the full explanation →Mother Teresa was born in 1910 at Skopje, which is today the capital of which country?
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later Mother Teresa, was born on 26 August 1910 at Skopje, then in the Ottoman Empire and today the capital of North Macedonia.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements about birthplaces is correct?
Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on 2 October 1904 at Mughalsarai in the Varanasi region of Uttar Pradesh, a town now named Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar; he shares his birthday with Mahatma Gandhi, which is why both are remembered on 2 October.
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