Children’s Day 2021 Quiz: Test your knowledge of children and childhood in India
R. Radhika | November 14, 2021 | 10:08 AM IST | 1 min read
Children’s Day 2021: In India, Children’s Day is celebrated on the birthday of its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru
NEW DELHI : Adored and revered as Chacha Nehru among children, India celebrates Jawaharlal Nehru’s birth anniversary as Children’s Day every year on November 14. A prominent figure of the Indian freedom struggle, Nehru was also the first and longest-serving prime minister of India.
Nehru had deep faith in the potential of children and had said, “The children of today will make the India of tomorrow”. In order to nurture that potential, he went on to play a significant role in shaping the country's education sector. Major educational institutions including the Indian Institutes of Technology ( IIT ), the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) were set up under his guidance. Nehru also laid the foundation stone of the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Allahabad, in 1961.
Click here to start the quiz
Besides, Nehru helped establish the Lalit Kala Academy and the Sahitya Akademi, and also headed the latter. Nehru’s legacy lives on in the country’s colleges and universities equipping today’s youth with knowledge and skills.
It’s Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday, and this quiz is all about his favourite people — children! This Children’s Day quiz 2021 includes interesting questions related to Nehru and children in India.
Try more of Careers360’s quizzes:
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Quick Watch
]Next Story
]Featured News
]- In a first for NEET UG Counselling, costliest medical colleges slash MBBS fees up to 40% as seats go vacant
- ISRO communication and media scholar India’s sole representative from field in world top 2% scientists list
- Boomerang effect? Jadavpur bookstalls report fourfold rise in sales after Durga Puja attack sparks resistance
- Maharashtra NEET UG Counselling: HC refuses to let medical college hold own MBBS rounds, says plea ‘premature’
- NEET PG Counselling: At private medical colleges, deemed-university tag brings up to 1,471% fee hike
- ‘Didn't call police,’ IIT Bombay deputy director tells faculty members; prof questions response
- AI engineer builds app for blind students in higher education; over 1,000 use it to read in 30 languages
- ‘Teachers know…’: In Chennai govt schools, drugs move through classrooms, playgrounds – unchecked, unreported
- St Stephen’s terminates 2 assistant professors appointed during ex-principal’s tenure over irregularities
- NIT Karnataka’s entrepreneurship model goes beyond incubators and into classrooms; now it’ll guide other NITs