On this day in 1991, Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Prize while she was still under arrest by the Burmese junta. This quiz is about achievements while being incarcerated.
Questions
Which political leader from Karnataka, later to become a union defence minister, won a Lok Sabha election from Muzaffarpur in Bihar in the 1977 general elections?
Which Iranian activist won the Nobel Prize for Peace 2023 for her fight against the oppression of women and promotion of human rights and freedom for all?
Who dictated his travel tales to his cellmate Rustichello da Pisa while taken prisoner by the Genoese in the 14th century?
While this singer was arrested over half a dozen times, he was never imprisoned. But who usually started a live concert with his rendition of ‘Folsom Prison Blues?’
Which gangster won the UP Legislative Assembly elections from Chillupar in Gorakhpur district in 1985 while in jail, and won several more elections from the same seat?
Which Indian independence activist wrote the Marathi work Gita Rahasya, an analysis of Karma Yoga while imprisoned by the British at Mandalay, Burma?
Whose Nobel Peace Prize award in 1935 so infuriated Adolf Hitler that he prohibited all Germans from receiving Nobel Prizes?
Which book by Jawaharlal Nehru is a collection of 196 stories mostly written in Naini and Bareilly prisons to introduce his daughter Indira to one of her school subjects?
Whose “Letter from Birmingham Jail," also known as “The Negro Is Your Brother," written in 1963 was widely published, and became an important text for the civil rights movement in the United States?
In which year was Liu Xiaobo awarded a Nobel Peace Prize while serving an 11-year sentence for advocating political reforms and greater human rights in China?
Answers
George Fernandes
Narges Mohammedi
Marco Polo
Johnny Cash
Hari Shankar Tiwari
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Carl Von Ossietzky, who revealed the secret plans for Germany’s re-armament
Glimpses of World History
Martin Luther King Jr
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