Andhra Predesh GK MCQ Quiz - Objective Question with Answer for Andhra Predesh GK - Download Free PDF

The correct answer is Kirti Chakra

Key Points

• Major Malla Rama Gopal Naidu Receives Kirti Chakra
• Background: Major Malla Rama Gopal Naidu, from Nagiripenta village in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, became the first individual from the Telugu-speaking states to receive the Kirti Chakra.
• He was honored for his exceptional bravery during a counter-infiltration operation along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district on October 26, 2023.
• Gallantry Award Details:
• The Kirti Chakra is India's second-highest peacetime gallantry award, after the Ashoka Chakra.
• On May 22, 2025, President Droupadi Murmu presented the award to Major Naidu at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.
• He was one of four recipients that year, and the only living awardee.
• Major Naidu currently serves with the 56 Rashtriya Rifles, a unit of the Maratha Light Infantry.
• Recognition: His actions have been lauded by political leaders, including Union Minister K. Rammohan Naidu, who described him as a "symbol of Telugu pride."

The correct answer is  East Godavari

Key Points

• Forest Loss in Andhra Pradesh – GFW Report (2024)
• Primary Forest Loss: Andhra Pradesh lost 468 hectares of primary forest in 2024, up from 424 hectares in 2023.
• Regional Impact:
• East Godavari: Highest loss (16.4 thousand hectares), significantly above the state average of 3.26 thousand hectares. Together with another region, it accounted for 76% of total loss between 2001–2024.
• Tree Cover Gains (2000–2020):
• Total Gain in AP: 194 thousand hectares.
• National Contribution: 11% of India’s total tree cover gain.
• Rank: 2nd among Indian states (after Karnataka).

The correct answer is Badvel-Nellore Corridor

Key Points

• Key Highlights of the Badvel-Nellore Corridor:
• Length & Cost: The corridor will cover 108.134 kilometers and cost ₹3,653.10 crore.
• Route: It will start from Gopavaram Village on NH 67 in YSR Kadapa District and end at Krishnapatnam Port Junction on NH-16 in SPSR Nellore District.
• Strategic Connectivity: Key industrial nodes connected include Kopparthy on the Visakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial Corridor (VCIC), Orvakal on the Hyderabad-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor (HBIC), and Krishnapatnam on the Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor (CBIC).

The correct answer is Rs 2,70,295

Key Points

• In 2023-24, Andhra Pradesh’s per capita GSDP (at current prices) is estimated to be Rs 2,70,295, marking a 10% increase over 2022-23.
• In comparison, India’s estimated per capita GDP for 2023-24 is Rs 2,15,935, reflecting an 11% increase over the previous year.

The correct answer is 20,000

Key Points

• Agriculture:
• The financial relief during the fishing ban period will be increased from Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000.
• Education:
• The Talliki Vandanam scheme will be implemented to provide annual financial assistance of Rs 15,000 to every school-going child from class 1 to class 12, starting from 2025-26. This scheme will cover children in both private and government schools. Additionally, free electricity will be provided to all government schools.
• Entrepreneurship:
• An innovation hub will be established in Amaravati to mentor start-ups in the region. This hub will be connected to five other zonal centres, each supporting local entrepreneurship initiatives.

The correct answer is Durgabhai Deshmukh. 

Key Points

• Durgabhai Deshmukh was the founder of the Andhra Mahila Sabha.
• She was popularly known as “Iron Lady”.
• She organized Salt Satyagrah during the Civil disobedience movement in Madras and was imprisoned.
• She was the founder of AMS (Andhra Mahila Sabha) institutions and other important social welfare organizations. he, with the help of two other prominent nationalists (A. K. Prakasam and Desodharaka Nageswararao), started the movement in Madras.
• She was arrested and imprisoned for her involvement in a movement that had been banned.
• She also edited a journal known as Andhra Mahila and inspired women to rebel against meaning­less social constraints imposed on them.
• She was a member of the Constituent Assembly.
• She was awarded the Tamrapatra and Paul Hoffman Award after independence in recognition of her service to society.

Additional Information

• Sarojini Naidu:
  • Popularly known as the “Nightingale of India”, was a nationalist and poetess.
  • She was married to Dr. Govindarajulu Naidu in 1898​.
  • Under the guidance of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, she became the first woman to participate in India's struggle for independence.
  • She participated in the Dandi March with Gandhiji and presided over the Kanpur Session of Congress in 1925.
  • She was the first woman to become the Governor of Uttar Pradesh State.

The correct answer is 1953.

Important Points

• Potti Sreeramulu undertook a fast unto death from 19 October 1952 demanding a separate state of Andhra Pradesh.
• Potti Sreeramulu died on 15 December 1952.
• The death of Potti Sreeramulu leads to the formation of the Andra state.
• The Prime Minister announced the formation of a separate Andhra state in December 1952.

Key Points 

• The Telugu-speaking area of Andhra state was formed on 1^st October 1953.
  • Kurnool was the capital city of the Andra state.
  • T Prakasam was the first chief minister of Andra state.
• The combined Andhra Pradesh state was formed based on the gentlemen's agreement.
• Andhra State combined with the Telugu-speaking areas of the already existing Hyderabad State on 1^st November 1956.

The correct answer is Alluri Sitarama Raju.

The Rampa movement was led by an outsider Alluri Sitarama Raju and is now a folk hero in Andhra Pradesh.

• Rampa is the region in the north of Godavari, witnessed various uprising during the nineteenth century.
• In 1916, it saw a revolt which introduced several guerrilla warfares in the region between August 1922 to May 1924.
• They were against the money lenders and forest laws.
• The immediate spark came when a tahsildar was trying to construct a forest road with unpaid labour.
• Alluri Sitarama Raju was inspired by the Non-cooperation movement and admire Gandhi but he considered violence necessary to win the tribal goals.
• He was captured and killed in May 1924.

The correct answer is Visalandhra movement.

Key Points

• Vishalandhra Movement
  • The Vishalandhra, Vishal Andhra, or Visalandhra Movement was a movement in post-independence India for a united state for all Telugu speakers, a Greater Andhra.
  • This movement was led by the Communist Party of India under the banner of Andhra Mahasabha with a demand to merge all the Telugu-speaking areas into one state.
  • The movement succeeded and a separate state of Andhra Pradesh was formed by merging Telugu-speaking areas of Hyderabad State (Telangana) with Andhra State on 1 November 1956 as part of the States Reorganisation Act.
  • However, on 2 June 2014, Telangana State was separated back out of Andhra Pradesh and the Vishalandhra experiment came to an end.
  • The residual Andhra Pradesh now has approximately the same borders as the old Andhra State of 1956.

Additional Information

• Andhra movement
  • The Andhra movement or Andhrodyamam was a campaign for recognition of the Telugu-speaking part of the Madras Presidency as a separate political unit in British India.
  • The Andhra movement leaders alleged that the Telugu people were being suppressed by the Tamils, who dominated politics and government jobs.
  • A similar movement was started by the Telugu people living in the Hyderabad State under Nizam's rule.
  • It achieved success by the formation of the Andhra state in 1953.
• 1972 Jai Andhra movement
  • Jai Andhra movement is a 1972 political movement in support of the creation of the Andhra state in the light of injustices felt by the people of the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema Regions.
  • This was after the HC and SC upheld the Mulki rules in existence at the time.
    • This disenfranchised a vast majority of the population of the state from obtaining jobs in their own state capital.

The correct answer is Kakatiya Dynasty.Key Points

​Rani Rudrama Devi:

• Rani Rudrama Devi was a 13th-century Kakatiya dynasty warrior in the Deccan plateau. She was the first woman ruler to have ascended the throne in South India.
• The Kakatiya dynasty was an Indian dynasty that ruled most of the eastern Deccan region comprising present-day Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and parts of eastern Karnataka and southern Odisha between the 12th and 14th centuries. 
• Rudradeva I was the first independent ruler of the Kakatiya kingdom of Warangal. The most powerful ruler of this kingdom was Ganapatideva, and he ruled for almost 63 years.
• The last ruler of this kingdom was Prataparudra. The new Sultan Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq ordered a 1323 invasion that ended the Kakatiya dynasty and resulted in the annexation of their kingdom to the Delhi Sultanate.​

Additional Information

• The founder of the Chola Empire was Vijayalaya, who was the first feudatory of the Pallavas of Kanchi.
  • He captured Tanjore in 850 A.D.Under Rajaraja Chola I (Rajaraja the Great) and his son Rajendra Chola, the dynasty became a military, economic and cultural power in Asia.
• Ganga dynasty, either of two distinct but remotely related Indian dynasties. 
  • The Western Gangas ruled in Mysore state (Gangavadi) and the Eastern Gangas ruled Kalinga.
• Hoysalas ruled the regions of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu for more than three centuries.
  • Sala was the founder of the Hoysala dynasty.

The correct answer is Option 3.

Key Points

• Madanapalle, a town in Andhra Pradesh, holds a special place in Indian history, particularly in the context of Rabindranath Tagore and the National Anthem.
• Rabindranath Tagore in Madanapalle:
  • In 1919, Tagore visited Madanapalle, where he stayed at the Besant Theosophical College.
  • It was during this stay that he translated "Jana Gana Mana" (the National Anthem of India) from Bengali to English. This translation is titled "The Morning Song of India."
  •  Hence, Option 3 is correct. 

The correct answer is Maha Shivaratri.

Key Points

• Sri Trikoteswara Swamy temple at Kotappakonda hill is one of the ancient and most famous temples in the district.
• Lakhs of devotees visit the temple and participate in the two-day fair during the Maha Shivaratri festival.
• The highlight of the festival is the presence of lofty illuminated ‘prabhalu,’ made of bamboo and decorated with coloured cloth and paper.
• Some of them are as tall as 60-70 feet and are carried on bullock carts. 
• The deity on the top of the hill shrine is in the shape of Sivalinga and is known as Trikoteswara Swamy. A steep flight of steps lead to the hill and the deity is located at a height of 1,587 feet.

Additional Information

• Ugadi
  • Ugadi is New Year's Day for the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka in India.
  • It is celebrated in these regions as a festival on the first day of the Hindu lunar calendar month of Chaitra.

The correct answer is Pingali Venkaiah.

Key Points

• Pingali Venkayya was a freedom fighter and the designer of the Indian National Tricolour who went on to become synonymous with the spirit of free and independent India.
• Venkayya served as a soldier in the British Army in South Africa during the Anglo Boer war in Africa.
• He met the Mahatma in Vijayawada and showed him his publication with the various designs of the flag.
• Acknowledging the need for a national flag, Gandhi then asked Venkayya to design a fresh one at the national congress meeting in 1921.
• The flag was officially adopted by the Indian National Congress in 1931.
• In 2009, a stamp was also issued to commemorate him, and the Andhra Pradesh government recommended his name for the Bharat Ratna in 2014.
• In 2015, the then Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu renamed the AIR Vijaywada after Venkayya and unveiled his statue on its premises.

Additional Information

• Badal Gupta:
  • The Secretariat Building, also known as the Writers' Building, was attacked by Benoy Basu, Dinesh Gupta, and Badal Gupta at Dalhousie Square in Calcutta during the Indian Revolutionary War against British control in India.
• Tanguturi Prakasam:
  • He was the Madras Presidency's chief minister and an anti-colonialist, social reformer, and political figure from India.
  • After the division of Madras State along linguistic lines, Tanguturi was elected as the first chief minister of the former Andhra state.
  • Tanguturi was referred to as the "Lion of Andhra" or "Andhra Kesari."
• Tirot Sing:
  • He was one of the Khasi people's chiefs in the early 19th century and was also known as U Tirot Sing Syiem.
  • He was descended from the Syiemlieh family.
  • He was the Syiem (chief) of the Khasi Hills' Nongkhlaw.
  • In an effort to seize control of the Khasi Hills, Tirot Sing declared war against the British and engaged in combat.
  • He passed away on July 17, 1835. Meghalaya observes U Tirot Sing Day in honour of his passing.

The correct answer is  A. D. 1509-1529.

Key Points Krishnadevaraya was an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire, who reigned between 1509 to 1529.

• He was the ruler of the Tuluva dynasty. He reigned the largest empire in India after the decline of the Delhi Sultanate. Presiding over the empire at its zenith, he is regarded as an icon by many Indians
• Krishnadevaraya was a talented general and diplomat as well as architect and city planner. He embraced Hinduism and constructed the magnificent city of Vijayanagaram as a holy site for the worship of the Hindu gods as well as the administrative center of his vast empire.
• His kingdom had fabulous wealth, much of that going into an ambitious building program. Most part of the  of the empire's wealth came from tributes paid by kingdoms he conquered, including Andhra Pradesh, the Gijapati kings of Orissa, Raichur Doab, and the Deccan sultanates.
• He used much wealth for the promotion of scholarship.Due to which Krishnadevaraya  have left his greatest mark and attained his greatest fame. He ushered in the Golden Era of Telugu Literature, writing Amuktamalyada, a narrative poem describing the pangs of sorrow suffered by Godadevi when absent from her husband Vishnu

Additional Information 

• The king, of medium height, had a cheerful disposition, respectful to foreign visitors, ruthless in maintaining the law and prone to fits of anger. He maintained himself at a high level of physical fitness by daily physical exercise.  The king was an able administrator and an excellent army general. He led from the front and even attended to the wounded.
• Krishnadevaraya had been born to parents Nagala Devi and Tuluva Narasa Nayaka, an army commander under Saluva Narasimha Deva Raya, who later took control of the empire to prevent it from disintegration

The correct answer is 1 January 2019.

Important Points

• On  1st January 2019, a separate Andhra Pradesh High Court was established after the bifurcation of the earlier state into Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
• The High court of Andhra Pradesh is situated at Amravati, the capital of Andhra Pradesh.
• The High court Telangana is at Hyderabad, Telangana.

Additional Information 

• K. Chandrasekhar Rao was the first Chief Minister of Telangana who was elected in 2014.
• Telangana is the 11th largest state in India. Telangana has connected borders with the following states:  Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh.
• The first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh was Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, who was later the sixth president of India.
• At present Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh is  Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy.