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Speakers of the Lok Sabha and the year each first became Speaker: 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: Digital Sansad - Lok Sabha: About the Speaker (list of Speakers) ↗ · read on 27 Oct 2026

  1. Question 1 of 15

    In which year did Shri Rabi Ray first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  2. Question 2 of 15

    In which year did Dr. Gurdial Singh Dhillon first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  3. Question 3 of 15

    In which year did Sumitra Mahajan (Tai) first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  4. Question 4 of 15

    In which year did Smt. Meira Kumar first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  5. Question 5 of 15

    In which year did Shri Bali Ram Bhagat first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  6. Question 6 of 15

    In which year did Shri Madabhusi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  7. Question 7 of 15

    In which year did Shri Ganesh Vasudeo Mavalankar first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  8. Question 8 of 15

    In which year did Sardar Hukum Singh first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  9. Question 9 of 15

    In which year did Shri K.S. Hegde first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  10. Question 10 of 15

    In which year did Shri Shivraj V. Patil first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  11. Question 11 of 15

    In which year did Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  12. Question 12 of 15

    In which year did Dr. Bal Ram Jakhar first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  13. Question 13 of 15

    In which year did Shri Om Birla first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  14. Question 14 of 15

    In which year did Shri Somnath Chatterjee first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

  15. Question 15 of 15

    In which year did Shri Ganti Mohana Chandra Balayogi first become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

The official list (17 rows)

SpeakerYear first became Speaker
Shri Ganesh Vasudeo Mavalankar1952
Shri Madabhusi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar1956
Sardar Hukum Singh1962
Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy1967
Dr. Gurdial Singh Dhillon1969
Shri Bali Ram Bhagat1976
Shri K.S. Hegde1977
Dr. Bal Ram Jakhar1980
Shri Rabi Ray1989
Shri Shivraj V. Patil1991
Shri Purno Agitok Sangma1996
Shri Ganti Mohana Chandra Balayogi1998
Shri Manohar Joshi2002
Shri Somnath Chatterjee2004
Smt. Meira Kumar2009
Sumitra Mahajan (Tai)2014
Shri Om Birla2019

Left out or changed by Shishya: Year = start year of the earliest term period printed for each Speaker (e.g. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy: 17 March 1967; Om Birla: 19 June 2019, re-elected 26 June 2024). Pro-tem Speakers and Deputy Speakers left out. Names kept as printed, including honorifics. Note Ayyangar's first period on the page starts 08 March 1956 (after Mavalankar's death), not 1957.

Names and spellings are kept as the source prints them. Spotted a change on the official page? The list is re-read from the source, never from other sites.

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