Freedom Fighters Trivia
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48 free Freedom Fighters trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
India's freedom struggle is usually taught as a roll call of names: Bhagat Singh, Subhas Chandra Bose, the Rani of Jhansi, Tilak, Gokhale, Sardar Patel, Sarojini Naidu, Lala Lajpat Rai, Bhikaji Cama, Khudiram Bose. The names are the easy part. The stories behind them, a hunger strike that lasted nine weeks, a flag raised at a congress in Europe, a submarine voyage halfway round the world, a presidential run by a veteran of the Indian National Army, are where a quiz gets interesting. The 48 questions run from the 1857 rising, with its queens, generals and the sepoy who fired first, through the Moderates and Extremists, the revolutionaries of Bengal, the Punjab plains and London, the Gandhi-era campaigns led by Patel and Naidu, Bose's wartime odyssey and the trials that followed, to the films, monuments and memorial days that keep these figures in public life. Every answer comes with a one-line explanation and a source. Play it as a revision round before a school or college quiz, print it for a classroom or a 15 August gathering, or just see how many of the faces on the posters you can actually place.
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Q 01In which present-day country is Banga, the Lyallpur village where Bhagat Singh was born in 1907?
Pakistan
Pakistan holds both ends of Bhagat Singh's life: Banga, his birth village in Lyallpur district, and Lahore, where he was hanged in 1931 aged 23.
Q 02On which island, then a Japanese colony, did the bomber carrying Subhas Chandra Bose crash in August 1945?
Taiwan
Taiwan's Taihoku airfield, now Taipei's Songshan Airport, is where the overloaded bomber crashed on 18 August 1945. Bose was reported dead of his burns that night, though many supporters refused for decades to believe it.
Q 03Which bank, registered in 1894, had Lala Lajpat Rai closely involved in running it in its early years?
Punjab National Bank
Punjab National Bank opened for business in Lahore's Anarkali Bazaar in April 1895 and moved its head office to Delhi weeks before Partition in 1947.
Q 04Which 2022 blockbuster imagines rebels Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem as friends in 1920s Delhi?
RRR
RRR, from Baahubali director S. S. Rajamouli, is pure invention: the two men never met, Raju fighting the British in the Andhra hills and Bheem the Nizam of Hyderabad.
Q 05Which star returned from a four-year break to play sepoy Mangal Pandey in the 2005 film 'The Rising'?
Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan had not appeared on screen since Dil Chahta Hai in 2001; around The Rising's release, politicians from rival parties demanded a ban, saying it distorted Pandey's life.
Q 06In which German city did Bhikaji Cama unfurl an early Indian flag at an international workers' congress in 1907?
Stuttgart
Stuttgart made Cama the first person to hoist an Indian flag abroad; the banner was smuggled home by Indulal Yagnik and now sits in a Pune library.
Q 07Which Hindu festival did Tilak make a mass public event in Pune in 1893, dodging British curbs on assembly?
Ganesh Chaturthi
Ganesh Chaturthi had shrunk to a household rite under the Raj; Tilak picked Ganesha as 'the god for everybody' to unite Brahmins and non-Brahmins against colonial rule.
Q 08Which city's Dum Dum airport was renamed after Subhas Chandra Bose in 1995, the year it gained a second terminal?
Kolkata
Kolkata elected Bose its mayor in 1930 while he sat in prison; he was born in Cuttack but built his political career in Bengal's capital.
Q 09Which service did Subhas Chandra Bose walk away from in 1921, a year after placing fourth in its entrance exam?
Indian Civil Service
The Indian Civil Service was the Raj's elite cadre, and Bose's father had urged him to England to try for it; in April 1921 he asked Edwin Montagu to strike his name from its list of probationers.
Q 10In which Prayagraj garden, since renamed for him, did Chandra Shekhar Azad die in a 1931 shootout with police?
Alfred Park
Alfred Park, laid out in 1870 for a royal visit, is where a tip-off brought police to Azad's meeting with a comrade; by most accounts he kept his vow never to be taken alive by turning his last bullet on himself.
Q 11Which 1925 train robbery near Lucknow, targeting government cash, led to the hanging of Bismil and Ashfaqulla Khan?
Kakori
Kakori's raiders took only the government cash bags from the guard's van, yet four men were hanged in December 1927 after appeals that reached the Privy Council.
Q 12India marks Martyrs' Day on 23 March for the 1931 hanging of Bhagat Singh alongside which two comrades?
Sukhdev and Rajguru
Sukhdev and Rajguru went to the gallows with Bhagat Singh at 7:30 pm, eleven hours ahead of schedule; all three had been convicted of killing a Lahore police officer.
Q 13Which party did Subhas Chandra Bose set up in 1939 after being forced out of the Congress presidency?
Forward Bloc
Q 21Which US city held the Yugantar Ashram on Hill Street, the Ghadar Party's headquarters and press from 1913?
San Francisco
San Francisco's Ghadar press preached armed revolt to Punjabi immigrants along the Pacific coast; the party's German-backed plots ended in a sensational 1917 trial in the same city.
Q 22Which tribal rebel, dead in jail at 24 in 1900, is honoured every 15 November as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas?
Birsa Munda
Birsa Munda's 'Ulgulan', or Great Tumult, swept the Chota Nagpur plateau in 1899–1900; eight years after his death the British passed a tenancy law barring the transfer of tribal land to outsiders.
Q 23Which theosophist launched a Home Rule League of her own in 1916 and presided over Congress a year later?
The Forward Bloc was meant to gather the Congress left nationwide, but its real base was Bengal, where it still contests elections more than eight decades on.
Q 14Which prison, 'Kala Pani' to its inmates, held V. D. Savarkar from 1911 on a 50-year sentence?
Cellular Jail
Cellular Jail, in the Andamans, took its name from its rows of solitary cells; Savarkar petitioned for clemency within two months of arriving in July 1911 and was shifted to the mainland in 1921.
Q 15Which 1928 no-tax campaign in Gujarat, led by Vallabhbhai Patel, earned him the title 'Sardar' from its women?
Bardoli Satyagraha
The Bardoli Satyagraha ended in August 1928 with seized land returned and the tax hike shelved for an inquiry, a win that made Patel a nationalist leader known across India.
Q 16Which 2006 film by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, India's Oscar entry that year, casts students as Bhagat Singh and Azad?
Rang De Basanti
Rang De Basanti took Mehra seven years to develop; its students end up shooting a defence minister and are gunned down inside a radio station they have seized.
Q 17What did the Centre name 23 January, Subhas Chandra Bose's birthday, when it first marked the day in 2021?
Parakram Diwas
Parakram Diwas, 'Day of Valour', was announced on 19 January 2021 over objections from Bose's family, who had asked for Deshprem Divas, 'Day of Patriotism', and West Bengal, which wanted Deshnayak Divas.
Q 18Which 'Frontier Gandhi', founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar 'Red Shirts', received the Bharat Ratna in 1987?
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan felt betrayed when Congress accepted Partition without consulting his Pashtun movement, telling its leaders 'you have thrown us to the wolves'.
Q 19In which country did Indian Legion soldiers, recruited from prisoners of war, first hail Bose as 'Netaji' in 1942?
Germany
Germany's Special Bureau for India in Berlin used the title too; Bose had reached Europe via Kabul and Moscow after slipping British surveillance at home in January 1941.
Q 20At which Delhi landmark were three INA officers court-martialled in late 1945, with Nehru joining their defence team?
Red Fort
The Red Fort trials backfired on the British: all three officers, a Hindu, a Muslim and a Sikh, were sentenced to transportation for life, and the outcry forced the army chief to set them free.
Annie Besant
Annie Besant was the first woman to head Congress, taking the chair in December 1917 months after the British interned her at a hill station, where she defiantly flew a red-and-green flag.
Q 24Which Marathi weekly did Tilak found in January 1881, alongside its English-language sister paper Mahratta?
Kesari
Kesari, 'The Lion', twice cost Tilak his freedom: articles in it brought sedition convictions in 1897 and 1908, the second sending him to Mandalay for six years.
Q 25Which observance falls on 13 February in India, the birthday of poet-politician Sarojini Naidu?
National Women's Day
National Women's Day honours Naidu, who in 1917 spoke for the women's deputation that asked Edwin Montagu for the vote and in 1925 became the first Indian woman to preside over Congress.
Q 26Which revolutionary died in Lahore's Borstal Jail in 1929 after a 63-day hunger strike for political-prisoner status?
Jatin Das
Jatin Das's body was carried by train from Lahore to Calcutta, and hundreds of thousands turned out along his last journey.
Q 27Which probationary police officer did Bhagat Singh's group kill in Lahore in 1928, mistaking him for James Scott?
John Saunders
John Saunders was felled by a single shot from across the street; the group had wanted Scott, the superintendent blamed for the lathi charge that preceded Lala Lajpat Rai's death.
Q 28Which adopted son of the last Peshwa, denied his father's pension by the Company, led the rebels at Kanpur in 1857?
Nana Saheb
Nana Saheb was so trusted by Kanpur's British that their general let the Nana's own men guard the treasury; after the rebels' defeat he fled towards Nepal and his fate was never confirmed.
Q 29Which rebel general, beaten at the Betwa while trying to relieve Jhansi in 1858, was executed at Sipri in April 1859?
Tatya Tope
Tatya Tope, born Ramachandra Panduranga, fought on as a guerrilla in the jungle for ten months after Gwalior fell, until he was betrayed to the British in April 1859.
Q 30Which Awadh queen ruled for her young son during the 1857 fight for Lucknow, then died in Kathmandu exile in 1879?
Begum Hazrat Mahal
Begum Hazrat Mahal answered Queen Victoria's 1858 proclamation with a counter-proclamation in her son's name mocking British promises; her tomb stands beside Kathmandu's Jama Masjid.