GK Quiz on Ambedkar

BR Ambedkar was Independent India’s first law minister, the principal architect of the Constitution of India and a founding father of the Republic of India.

Ambedkar was a prolific student, earning doctorates in economics from both Columbia University and the London School of Economics, and gained a reputation as a scholar for his research in law, economics and political science. (Source : Wikipedia)

1. What was B. R. Ambedkar’s full name?
a) Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
b) Bhimji Rao Ambedkar
c) Babasaheb Ramjirao Ambedkar
d) Baba Ram Ambedkar

2. What was ‘Mookanayaka’?
a) The name of Ambedkar’s autobiography
b) Boigraphy of a leader who could not speak
c) Ambedkar’s newspaper
d) Ambedkar’s pen-name

3. Name the portfolio handled by Dr. Ambedkar in an independent, free India?
a) Home Ministry.
b) Finance Ministry
c) Education Ministry
d) Law Ministry

4. Which decision of Gandhiji was opposed by Ambedkar?
a) Partitioning India
b) Calling the lower castes ‘Harijans’
c) Satyagraha movement
d) Quit India movement

5. Which party did Ambedkar found during the pre-Independent Era?
a) Independent Labor Party
b) Scheduled Castes Federation
c) Congress
d) Bahujan Samaj Party

6. Who provided scholarship to Dr. Ambedkar for his post-graduate education in New York at the Columbia University?
a) Maharja of Kolhapur
b) Nizam of Hyderabad
c) Travancore Maharaja
d) Maharaja of Baroda

7. What was Bahishkrit Hitkarni Sabha?
a) A publication by Dr. Ambedkar
b) A book based on one of his thesis
c) A society founded to for the welfare of the outcastes
d) School for the chldren of outcastes started by Ambedkar

8. Ambedkar was appointed to an all-European commission in 1925 which was formed to study the constitutional reforms in Birtish India. Name the Commission.
a) Nehru Report
b) Simon Commission
c) Queen’s Honorary Constitutional Formation
d) British Constitution Formation

9. Which text was ceremonially burnt by Ambedkar and his followers?
a) Rigveda
b) Manusmriti
c) Mahabharata
d) Natyashastra

10. Before converting himself to Buddhism, Ambedkar considered converting to another religion. Which was it?
a) Christianity
b) Judaism
c) Islam
d) Sikhism

11. In which city, PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Dr. B R Ambedkar International Centre?
a) Mumbai
b) Bengaluru
c) New Delhi
d) Kolkata

12. In which college did he take admission?
a) Hindu College
b) Elphinstone College
c) Delhi college
d) Isabella college’

13. Where did the Maharaja of Gaekwad sent him for higher studies ?
a) haward
b) Columbia
c) oxford
d) new York

14. Where did Dr Ambedkar went for doing study of barrister ?
a) London
b) Columbia
c) Chicago
d) new York

15. From where did he begin his practice as a lawyer ?
a) Delhi high court
b) Madras high court
c) Mumbai high court
d) Allhabad high court

16. Name the magazine Baba BR Ambedkar published ?
a) young India
b) New India
c) Saroj
d) Mook Nayak

17. When did he become the Professor in Law College ?
a) 1928
b) 1930
c) 1914
d) 1932

18. Which religion did he adopt ?
a) Jainism
b) Hindu
c) Buddhism
d) Christianity

19. When did he receive Bharat Ratna ?
a) 1958
b) 1968
c) 1980
d) 1990

20. When did Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar die ?
a) 1950
b) 1951
c) 1956
d) 1960