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Mahatma Gandhi quiz
How well do you really know Mahatma Gandhi? These 8 questions start easy and end with a Boss round. There are no multiple choice options: you type what you know, and every answer is checked against the key facts.
60 seconds a question, one 2x boost, and a leaderboard. Playing with friends writes a fresh set of Mahatma Gandhi questions for your group.
The questions
- Easy
The 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre shaped Gandhi’s political work. Which Indian city and state was it in?
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- Amritsar
- Punjab
- Medium
Where did Gandhi train as a lawyer, and what legal profession did he qualify for?
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- London
- studied law at the Inner Temple
- qualified as a barrister
- was called to the bar in 1891
- Medium
In 1931, Gandhi negotiated with a British official before heading to London: who was the official, and what agreement came from their talks?
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- The official was Lord Irwin
- He was the British Viceroy of India
- The talks produced the Gandhi–Irwin Pact
- The pact cleared the way for Gandhi to attend the Round Table Conference
- Medium
For Gandhi’s origin story, which town was he born in, and in what year?
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- Porbandar
- Gujarat
- 1869
- 2 October
- Hard
Where in South Africa did Gandhi first launch satyagraha, and in what year?
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- Johannesburg
- 1906
- South Africa
- Hard
Gandhi went to London to train for a legal career: which institution did he study at, and what legal qualification did he earn?
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- the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
- London
- qualified as a barrister / was called to the bar
- Hard
Gandhi started a weekly newspaper during his South African years: what was it called, and in what year did it launch?
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- Indian Opinion
- It was a weekly newspaper
- It launched in South Africa
- It began in 1903
- Boss
Gandhi’s autobiography appeared in Gujarati before its English edition: what was its original title, and in which journal was it first serialized?
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- Its Gujarati title was Satya na Prayogo athva Atmakatha
- The title is also rendered as The Story of My Experiments with Truth
- It was serialized in Navajivan
- The serialization ran from 1925 to 1929
How scoring works
- Each question has 2 or 3 key facts. Each one earns full, half or no credit, so a wrong answer scores zero.
- Later questions are worth more, fast answers earn a bonus, and great answers in a row build a streak.
- A famous myth or a clear factual error halves the points.
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