Nehru–Gandhi family - Quiz
Nehru Gandhi family
  • 1. Who was the first prime minister of India?
A) Feroze Gandhi
B) Braj Kumar Nehru
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Motilal Nehru
  • 2. Who was the first woman prime minister of India?
A) Indira Gandhi
B) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
C) Krishna Nehru Hutheesing
D) Rameshwari Nehru
  • 3. Which organization did Rameshwari Nehru co-found?
A) All India Congress Committee
B) United Nations General Assembly
C) Indian Independence Movement
D) All India Women's Conference
  • 4. Who was the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru?
A) Kamala Nehru
B) Uma Nehru
C) Magdolna Nehru
D) Rameshwari Nehru
  • 5. Which position did Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit hold at the United Nations?
A) President of the General Assembly
B) High Commissioner
C) Secretary General
D) Ambassador to the United States
  • 6. Who was the Finance Minister of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir?
A) Motilal Nehru
B) Brijlal Nehru
C) Braj Kumar Nehru
D) Ratan Kumar Nehru
  • 7. Who was the husband of Indira Gandhi?
A) Shamlal Nehru
B) Feroze Gandhi
C) Ranjit Sitaram Pandit
D) Brijlal Nehru
  • 8. What was the nickname of Magdolna Nehru?
A) Fori
B) Krishna
C) Uma
D) Indira
  • 9. Who was the father of Jawaharlal Nehru?
A) Brijlal Nehru
B) Motilal Nehru
C) Nandlal Nehru
D) Shamlal Nehru
  • 10. What was Balwant Kumar Nehru's profession?
A) Lawyer and freedom fighter
B) Journalist and politician
C) Diplomat and ambassador
D) Engineer and corporate manager
  • 11. Who was the mother of Harsha and Ajit Hutheesing?
A) Krishna Nehru Hutheesing
B) Indira Gandhi
C) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
D) Rameshwari Nehru
  • 12. Shyam Kumari Khan served as a member of which house?
A) Lok Sabha
B) Rajya Sabha
C) United Nations General Assembly
D) All India Congress Committee
  • 13. Who served as the Indian ambassador to the United States?
A) Feroze Gandhi
B) Motilal Nehru
C) Braj Kumar Nehru
D) Ratan Kumar Nehru
  • 14. To whom was Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit married?
A) Feroze Gandhi
B) Abdul Jamil Khan
C) Shamlal Nehru
D) Ranjit Sitaram Pandit
  • 15. Who was the cousin of Jawaharlal Nehru and husband of Uma Nehru?
A) Shamlal Nehru
B) Mohanlal Nehru
C) Nandlal Nehru
D) Brijlal Nehru
  • 16. Nayantara Sahgal is the daughter of which person?
A) Uma Nehru
B) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
C) Kamala Nehru
D) Krishna Nehru Hutheesing
  • 17. In what year did Jawaharlal Nehru become president of the Congress?
A) 1964
B) 1936
C) 1929
D) 1921
  • 18. Who was the father of Ratan Kumar Nehru?
A) Mohanlal Nehru
B) Motilal Nehru
C) Nandlal Nehru
D) Brijlal Nehru
  • 19. Which political party has the Nehru–Gandhi family traditionally been involved with?
A) Indian National Congress
B) Aam Aadmi Party
C) Communist Party of India
D) Bharatiya Janata Party
  • 20. How many members of the Nehru-Gandhi family have served as Prime Minister of India according to the text?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Two
D) Five
  • 21. Is the Nehru–Gandhi family related to Mahatma Gandhi?
A) No
B) Yes
C) They are distant cousins
D) Only by marriage
  • 22. Who is the earliest recorded ancestor of the Nehru family mentioned in the text?
A) Mansa Ram Nehru
B) Gangadhar Nehru
C) Motilal Nehru
D) Raj Kaul
  • 23. In what year did Raj Kaul move from Kashmir to Delhi?
A) 1700 AD
B) 1716 AD
C) 1857 AD
D) 1827 AD
  • 24. What is the origin of the name 'Nehru'?
A) A royal title in Kashmir
B) A Sanskrit word for leader
C) The name of a village
D) Nahar, meaning a canal
  • 25. How many times did Motilal Nehru serve as the president of the Congress?
A) Two
B) Once
C) Four
D) Three
  • 26. According to The Guardian in 2007, for how many of the 60 years since independence had a member of the family been in charge of India?
A) 50
B) 40
C) 20
D) 30
  • 27. How many years after marrying Rajiv Gandhi did Sonia Gandhi take Indian citizenship?
A) 11 years
B) 10 years
C) 20 years
D) 15 years
  • 28. Which political party is Maneka Gandhi a prominent member of?
A) Aam Aadmi Party
B) Indian National Congress
C) Bharatiya Janata Party
D) Bahujan Samaj Party
  • 29. What was the cause of Sanjay Gandhi's death?
A) Car accident
B) Plane crash
C) Illness
D) Heart attack
  • 30. Vikram Nehru served as the Chief Economist for which organization?
A) World Bank
B) United Nations
C) International Monetary Fund
D) Asian Development Bank
  • 31. Who is the husband of Priyanka Gandhi?
A) Varun Gandhi
B) Robert Vadra
C) Arun Nehru
D) Rahul Gandhi
  • 32. Which constituency does Priyanka Gandhi represent in the Lok Sabha?
A) Rae Bareli
B) Sultanpur
C) Wayanad
D) Amethi
  • 33. Rahul Gandhi served as a member of Parliament from which constituency between 2004 and 2019?
A) Pilibhit
B) Amethi
C) Wayanad
D) Sultanpur
  • 34. Maneka Gandhi served as the Union Cabinet Minister for which department from 2014–2019?
A) Women & Child Development
B) External Affairs
C) Defense
D) Finance
  • 35. Sonia Gandhi served as the Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance until which year?
A) 2023
B) 2022
C) 2019
D) 2017
  • 36. In which city was Vikram Nehru's chair in Southeast Asian Studies located?
A) Rome
B) Washington, D.C.
C) New Delhi
D) London
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