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Presidents of India and the year their term began: 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: President's Secretariat - presidentofindia.gov.in (Former Presidents profile pages; Ram Nath Kovind via his linked archive site ramnathkovind.nic.in) ↗ · read on 27 Oct 2026 · the page says: Page Last Updated on: 26/10/2026

  1. Question 1 of 15

    In which year did Dr Shanker Dayal Sharma take office as President of India?

  2. Question 2 of 15

    In which year did Giani Zail Singh take office as President of India?

  3. Question 3 of 15

    Who took office as President of India in 2012?

  4. Question 4 of 15

    In which year did Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri take office as President of India?

  5. Question 5 of 15

    In which year did Shri Neelam Sanjiva Reddy take office as President of India?

  6. Question 6 of 15

    Who took office as President of India in 2007?

  7. Question 7 of 15

    In which year did Shri K. R. Narayanan take office as President of India?

  8. Question 8 of 15

    In which year did Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam take office as President of India?

  9. Question 9 of 15

    Who took office as President of India in 1987?

  10. Question 10 of 15

    In which year did Dr. Zakir Husain take office as President of India?

  11. Question 11 of 15

    In which year did Shri Ram Nath Kovind take office as President of India?

  12. Question 12 of 15

    Who took office as President of India in 2022?

  13. Question 13 of 15

    In which year did Dr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed take office as President of India?

  14. Question 14 of 15

    In which year did Dr. Rajendra Prasad take office as President of India?

  15. Question 15 of 15

    Who took office as President of India in 1962?

The official list (15 rows)

PresidentYear term began
Dr. Rajendra Prasad1950
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan1962
Dr. Zakir Husain1967
Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri1969
Dr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed1974
Shri Neelam Sanjiva Reddy1977
Giani Zail Singh1982
Shri R Venkataraman1987
Dr Shanker Dayal Sharma1992
Shri K. R. Narayanan1997
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam2002
Smt Pratibha Devisingh Patil2007
Shri Pranab Mukherjee2012
Shri Ram Nath Kovind2017
Smt. Droupadi Murmu2022

Left out or changed by Shishya: Acting Presidents are not listed on the site and are not included (so reverse for 1969/1977 refers to the elected President only). Years taken from each profile's 'Term of Office' line, e.g. /dr.-rajendra-prasad '26 January, 1950 to 13 May, 1962', /shri-varahagiri-venkata '24 August, 1969 to 24 August, 1974'. Kovind: ramnathkovind.nic.in 'Term of office 25th July, 2017 to 25th July, 2022'. Murmu: presidentofindia.gov.in home 'sworn in as the 15th President of India on 25 July, 2022'.

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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