Bharat Ratna recipients: GK quiz
15 questions, each built from one row of the official list below — the correct option is that row exactly as the source prints it, and the wrong options are other rows of the same list. No AI wrote these questions. Free: your first 2 answers need no account, then sign up free to finish; your answers are not saved anywhere.
Source: Awards portal, Government of India (awards.gov.in) - Bharat Ratna awardees ↗ · read on 27 Oct 2026
Question 1 of 15
In which year was Shri Pranab Mukherjee awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Question 2 of 15
In which year was Shri Govind Ballabh Pant awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Question 3 of 15
In which year was Shri Karpoori Thakur (Posthumous) awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Question 4 of 15
In which year was Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (Posthumous) awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Question 5 of 15
In which year was Shri Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Question 6 of 15
In which year was Shri Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Question 7 of 15
In which year was Chaudhary Charan Singh (Posthumous) awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Question 8 of 15
In which year was Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Posthumous) awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Question 9 of 15
In which year was Shri Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Question 10 of 15
In which year was Acharya Vinoba Bhave (Posthumous) awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Question 11 of 15
In which year was Shri Lal Kishinchand Advani awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Question 12 of 15
In which year was Prof. Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Question 13 of 15
In which year was Late Shri Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous) awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Question 14 of 15
In which year was Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Question 15 of 15
In which year was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) awarded the Bharat Ratna?
The official list (40 rows)
| Recipient | Year |
|---|---|
| Shri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari | 1954 |
| Shri Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman | 1954 |
| Shri Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan | 1954 |
| Shri Jawaharlal Nehru | 1955 |
| Shri Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya | 1955 |
| Shri Govind Ballabh Pant | 1957 |
| Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve | 1958 |
| Shri Bidhan Chandra Roy | 1961 |
| Dr. Rajendra Prasad | 1962 |
| Dr. Zakir Husain | 1963 |
| Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumously) | 1966 |
| Smt. Indira Gandhi | 1971 |
| Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu | 1980 |
| Acharya Vinoba Bhave (Posthumous) | 1983 |
| Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | 1987 |
| Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Posthumous) | 1990 |
| Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela | 1990 |
| Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) | 1991 |
| Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous) | 1992 |
| Shri Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata | 1992 |
| Shri Satyajit Ray (Posthumous) | 1992 |
| Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam | 1997 |
| Late Shri Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous) | 1998 |
| Smt. Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbalakshmi | 1998 |
| Pandit Ravi Shankar | 1999 |
| Prof. Amartya Sen | 1999 |
| Ms. Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar | 2001 |
| Ustad Bismillah Khan | 2001 |
| Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi | 2009 |
| Prof. Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao | 2014 |
| Shri Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar | 2014 |
| Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (Posthumous) | 2015 |
| Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 2015 |
| Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika (Posthumous) | 2019 |
| Shri Pranab Mukherjee | 2019 |
| Chaudhary Charan Singh (Posthumous) | 2024 |
| Dr. Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (Posthumous) | 2024 |
| Shri Karpoori Thakur (Posthumous) | 2024 |
| Shri Lal Kishinchand Advani | 2024 |
| Shri P. V. Narasimha Rao (Posthumous) | 2024 |
Left out or changed by Shishya: The portal lists 53 awardees across 27 award years (1954-2024; each year read by choosing Award = Bharat Ratna and the year in the page's own filter). 40 kept; left out only to stay within 40 rows: Dr. Bhagwan Das; Shri Purushottam Das Tandon; Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane; Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda (Posthumous); Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous); Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam; Late Shri Gopinath Bordoloi(Posthumous); Shri Nanaji Deshmukh (Posthumous); Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri; Shri Kumaraswamy Kamraj (Posthumous); Shri Manidur Gopalan Ramachandran (posthumous); Shri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai; Shri Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous). Names are exactly as the portal prints them, including honorifics and '(Posthumous)'. The MHA list PDFs (ListofBRrecepients_09082019.pdf, BharatRatna_15042024.pdf) now return 404 on mha.gov.in, so awards.gov.in was used instead. No award year after 2024 is listed on the portal.
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