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50 free Gujarat trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Gujarat sits on India's western edge, a state of salt desert, dry forest and busy harbours. It was home to some of the oldest planned towns on earth, it gave India the leader of its freedom struggle, and today it is one of the country's industrial engines. This quiz covers the ground a general knowledge paper would: rivers, gulfs and wildlife sanctuaries; Harappan ruins, temples and princely states; the people and protests of the independence era; and the festivals, dances, snacks and textiles the state is known for. A few questions follow famous Gujaratis into business, science, sport and music. The questions suit students preparing for G.K. tests and state exams, quiz clubs, and anyone with roots in Gujarat or a trip planned there. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up the story behind the fact.
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Q 01Which big cat has its only remaining natural home in and around Gir National Park in Gujarat?
Asiatic lion
The Asiatic lion was down to about a dozen animals by the end of the 19th century, all of them in the Gir Forest, which was then a nawab's private hunting ground.
Q 02Which product has been banned from sale across Gujarat ever since the state was created in 1960?
Alcohol
Alcohol has been prohibited ever since Gujarat inherited the ban from the old Bombay State, though bootlegging networks smuggle liquor in from neighbouring states.
Q 03The Statue of Unity in Gujarat, the tallest statue in the world, depicts which leader nicknamed the Iron Man of India?
Vallabhbhai Patel
Vallabhbhai Patel earned the nickname for holding the newly independent country together as its first deputy prime minister and home minister. His statue stands 182 metres tall.
Q 04Which coastal Gujarat city is the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and, by tradition, of Krishna's friend Sudama?
Porbandar
Porbandar honours both sons: the Kirti Mandir memorial marks Gandhi's birthplace near the main bazaar, and a temple in the city is one of the few in India dedicated to Sudama.
Q 05Which circle dance from Gujarat is performed around a lit earthen pot during the nine nights of Navratri?
Garba
Garba takes its name from the Sanskrit word for womb, and the flame glowing inside the pierced pot stands for the soul within it.
Q 06The Gujarat city of Surat cuts and polishes about 90 percent of the world's supply of which gemstone?
Diamonds
Diamonds earned Surat the nickname Diamond City of India, and most of the polishing workshops are packed into the city's Varachha area.
Q 07During Uttarayan each January, the skies over Ahmedabad and the rest of Gujarat fill with thousands of what?
Kites
Kites take over because the festival marks the sun's move into Capricorn, and many households start making or buying theirs several months ahead.
Q 08Which dairy cooperative brand, founded at Anand in Gujarat in 1946, drove India's White Revolution in milk production?
Amul
Amul is short for Anand Milk Union Limited, and under Verghese Kurien its cooperative model helped make India the world's largest producer of milk.
Q 09Which rock singer's family, the Bulsaras, took their surname from the Gujarat town of Bulsar, now called Valsad?
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar to Indian parents, went to boarding school in India from the age of eight, and later changed his surname by law.
Q 10The Siddi community living around Gir in Gujarat descends mainly from people brought centuries ago from which region?
Southeast Africa
Southeast Africa's Zanj coast was home to the Bantu ancestors of most Siddis, and Gujarat's Siddis still keep a Bantu-rooted music and dance form called Goma or Dhamaal.
Q 11Which planned city north of Ahmedabad, laid out by Indian town planners, serves as the capital of Gujarat?
Gandhinagar
Gandhinagar means Gandhi's city, and it was kept a purely Indian project under planner H. K. Mewada, who had apprenticed with Le Corbusier at Chandigarh.
Q 12Mahatma Gandhi's 1930 Salt March from Ahmedabad ended at which coastal village in Gujarat after 24 days on foot?
Dandi
Dandi lay at the end of a 387-kilometre walk, and when Gandhi broke the salt laws there on 6 April 1930, millions of Indians followed with civil disobedience of their own.
Q 13Which Indus Valley site in Gujarat has a rectangular basin often described as one of the world's earliest known docks?
Lothal
Q 21Which river, the longest west-flowing river in India, is held back in Gujarat by the Sardar Sarovar Dam?
Narmada
The Narmada is called the lifeline of both Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat; Jawaharlal Nehru laid the dam's foundation in 1961, but it was not inaugurated until 2017.
Q 22Which city on Gujarat's Gulf of Kutch coast is home to the world's largest oil refinery, owned by Reliance Industries?
Jamnagar
Jamnagar was once the capital of the princely state of Nawanagar, and the refinery at nearby Motikhavdi opened in July 1999.
Q 23The mud flats of Alang on Gujarat's Gulf of Khambhat host the world's largest yard for which heavy industry?
Ship breaking
Lothal's basin once held sea water, as marine microfossils and salt crystals found inside it show, though some archaeologists argue it was really an irrigation tank.
Q 14Which Gujarat temple, raided by Mahmud of Ghazni in 1026, ranks first among the twelve jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva?
Somnath
Somnath was destroyed and rebuilt several times over the centuries, and the temple standing today was completed only in May 1951.
Q 15Which coastal Gujarat city, where legend says Krishna settled after leaving Mathura, is one of the four Char Dham sites?
Dwarka
Dwarka's Dwarkadhish Temple is dedicated to Krishna and marks the western corner of the Char Dham circuit that Adi Shankaracharya set at the four corners of the country.
Q 16On 1 May 1960 the old Bombay State was split along language lines into Gujarat and which other state?
Maharashtra
Maharashtra took the Marathi-speaking population, while the Gujarati speakers, including the old princely lands of Baroda, went to the new northern state.
Q 17Which future prime minister, born and raised in Vadnagar, served as chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014?
Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi, by his own account, sometimes worked as a boy at his father's tea stall in Vadnagar railway station; he left the state's top job to lead the national government.
Q 18Ahmedabad's booming cotton textile mills earned Gujarat's largest city a nickname likening it to which English city?
Manchester
Manchester of India became Ahmedabad's label as its textile industry grew, a nickname it shares with Kanpur.
Q 19Which Harappan city on an island in the Great Rann of Kutch became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2021?
Dholavira
Dholavira is one of the five largest Harappan sites, and its people survived the desert with a system of channels and massive reservoirs, three of which are now exposed.
Q 20Which river rises in the Aravalli Range and flows past Ahmedabad, where Mahatma Gandhi set up an ashram on its bank?
Sabarmati
The Sabarmati runs 371 kilometres to the Gulf of Khambhat, and all but 48 of them lie inside Gujarat.
Ship breaking at Alang takes apart more than a third of the world's retired cargo vessels, which are simply run aground on the flats at high tide.
Q 24Which city, the headquarters of Gujarat's Kutch district, lost many lives in the Republic Day earthquake of 2001?
Bhuj
Bhuj, a princely capital since 1549, lost much of its old fort wall in the quake, which killed at least 20,000 people and destroyed about 400,000 buildings.
Q 25Which rare animal, called khur in Gujarati, has its last natural refuge around the Little Rann of Kutch?
Indian wild ass
The Indian wild ass, a subspecies of the onager, has its last refuge in a sanctuary on the salt flats, though it has also been spotted right outside Ahmedabad.
Q 26Which spongy Gujarati snack is made by steaming a fermented batter of rice and chickpeas into a soft cake?
Dhokla
Dhokla batter ferments for at least four hours before about 15 minutes of steaming, and some versions swap the chickpeas for pigeon peas or urad beans.
Q 27Which Ahmedabad-born physicist is often called the father of India's space programme and helped found IIM Ahmedabad?
Vikram Sarabhai
Vikram Sarabhai founded the Physical Research Laboratory in his home city in 1947, the place now known as the cradle of space sciences in India.
Q 28Diu, an island town off the Kathiawar coast of Gujarat, was held by which European power from 1535 until 1961?
Portugal
Portugal won its foothold when the Sultan of Gujarat allowed a fort in return for an alliance against the Mughal emperor Humayun; the garrison finally gave in after 48 hours of Indian strikes.
Q 29Which other name is used for Kathiawar, the Gujarat peninsula between the Gulf of Kutch and the Gulf of Khambhat?
Saurashtra
Saurashtra covers about 61,000 square kilometres and is nearly cut off from the mainland, since salt wastes reach inland from both gulfs and leave only one narrow neck of land.
Q 30Which princely state in Gujarat had a nawab who tried to join Pakistan in 1947 before a plebiscite chose India?
Junagadh
Junagadh had no land border with the country its ruler picked, and after he fled to Karachi about 99.95 percent of voters in the plebiscite chose India.