Nelson Mandela MCQ Quiz

Nelson Mandela MCQ quiz with answers. It has twenty-five important questions and answers. Nelson Mandela was a political leader and first president of South Africa.

Question 1. Nelson Mandela was the president of which country? 

(A) Congo

(B) Niger

(C) South Africa

(D) Uganda

Question 2. Nelson Mandela was born in what year? 

(A) 1918

(B) 1912

(C) 1915

(D) 1916

Question 3. Nelson Mandela was involved in the apartheid movement? 

(A) True

(B) False

Question 4. Nelson Mandela was born Rolihlahla Mandela but what is Rolihlahla commonly translated as?

(A) Wise one

(B) D Lazy one

(C) Leader of people

(D) Trouble maker

Question 5. July 18th is known as Mandela Day?

(A) True

(B) False

Question 6. Nelson Mandela served time in which prison?

(A) Sparrow island

(B) Thrush Island

(C) Robben island

(D) Bluebird Island

Question 7. When did Nelson Mandela die?

(A) May 14 2013

(B) December 5, 2013

(C) June 6th 2013

(D) July 18 2003

Question 8. Nelson Mandela has become South Africa’s first Black President after more than three centuries of white rule. He belonged to a political party which won 252 of the 400 seats in the first democratic elections of South Africa’s history. Name the party:

(A) African Nominal Congress

(B) African National Conference

(C) American National Congress

(D) African National Congress

Question 9. What was Mandela tried for? 

(A) Parking fines

(B) Treason

(C) Stealing

(D) None of above

Question 10. In what year was Mandela inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president? 

(A) 1984

(B) 2004

(C) 1974

(D) 1994

Question 11. Nelson Mandela has become South Africa’s first Black President after more than three centuries of white rule. Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress spent a lifetime fighting against apartheid. He had to spend thirty years in prison. The inauguration ceremony took place in Union Buildings Amphitheatre in Pretoria. Who accompanied him to the ceremony: 

(A) Makgatho

(B) Makazawie

(C) Madiba Thembikile

(D) Zenani

Question 12. When did Nelson Mandela take oath as first South African President:

(A) 10 April

(B) 12 August

(C) 10 May

(D) 12 July

Question 13. It is a political system that separates people according to their race. Can you identify which system the above line is talking about:

(A) Religious differentiation

(B) Racial system

(C) Castism

(D) Apartheid

Question 14. Name the country where prevails the apartheid system in the world until recently: 

(A) Australia

(B) North America

(C) South Africa

(D) Sri Lanka

Question 15. How many seats were won by the African National Congress?

(A) 289

(B) 250

(C) 300

(D) 252

Question 16. Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress spent a lifetime fighting against apartheid. He had to spend thirty years in prison. Finally democratic elections were held in _____, and Mandela became the first black President of a new nation. 

(A) 1994

(B) 1993

(C) 1995

(D) 1994

Question 17. How many countries participated in the ceremony? 

(A) 200

(B) 140

(C) Only the white people

(D) 214

Question 18. Where was the inauguration ceremony celebrated?

(A) Johannesberg

(B) Pretoria

(C) Jordan

(D) Colombo

Question 19. It was the first_____ government in South Africa. (Nelson Mandela: A long walk to freedom)

(A) Democratic

(B) Bureaucratic

(C) Dictatorial

(D) Conservative

Question 20. A smoke trail of various colours was left, out by : 

(A) Impala jets

(B) Troop carriers

(C) Helicopters

(D) Aeroplanes

Question 21. The decades of oppression taught Nelson extraordinar_____.

(A) Patience

(B) Courage

(C) Fear

(D) Bravery

Question 22. The policy of apartheid created a ______ in south Africa.

(A) Loss

(B) Wound

(C) Cut

(D) Injury

Question 23. In what year did Nelson Mandela join the African National Congress? 

(A) 1944

(B) 1940

(C) 1943

(D) 1942

Question 24. Of the following who did not fight against ‘Apartheid’? 

(A) Robert sobukwe

(B) Walter sisula

(C) Albert Einstein

(D) Oliver Tombo

Question 25. When did Nelson Mandela win Nobel Prize for Peace?

(A) 1984

(B) 1986

(C) 1990

(D) 1993