2022 Constitution Quiz IIT Jodhpur

A quiz on India organized by the Quiz Society of IIT Jodhpur on the occasion of Constitution Day

1. Constitution Quiz
-QM: Aman Thakur, Jahnab Dutta, Anish Anand

2. Rules ●Quiz will have 25 questions, please fill out the GForm floated
●We would glance over all the questions once again after the
final question.
●There will be no negative marking
●Questions 3,7,13,17 are star marked.
●Decision of the Quizmasters will be final, any dispute raised
will be dealt with after the quiz has been completed

3. Liftoff!
We are starting

7. Question 1 In 1984, Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian citizen to enter
space when he flew aboard the Soviet rocket Soyuz T-11 launched
from Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic on 3 April 1984.
The astronaut spoke to Indira Gandhi from space during a joint
television news conference, which also included officials in Moscow.
During the conversation, Indira Gandhi had asked Mr Sharma "Upar
se Bharat kaisa dikhta hai aapko?”. What was his iconic reply?

9. Question 2 While the Indian Constitution is the world’s largest for a sovereign
nation, it is not the world longest active constitution which is 250%
longer in length than that of India. What does the latter belong to?

11. Question 3* Y is a neighbouring country of ours that had immense respect for
ancient India and its huge sea of knowledge. It took all active steps
possible to learn as much as they could from our ancestors by
sending numerous scholars and travellers to our motherland and
developed a friendly relationship with us. X was the name given by
them to our motherland which basically meant “Heaven on Earth”.
But recently things have took a wild turn and our relationship with
them (Y) seems to erode away with no avail.
ID X & Y (It is necessary that you give the answer to both)

13. Question 4
According to this infamous legend, in 1224 the Mongol army had
just subdued the Khwarezm Empire and was preparing to pursue its
ruler, Sultan Jalal ad- Din into India. All they had to do was cross the
Indus river, march into Delhi and smash the Sultanate. This would
also made Genghis Khan the richest man on earth. Instead he
turned his fleet around and returned because a mythical heavenly
creature appeared in front of him and convinced him to abandon his
efforts to conquer India as gods would be very unhappy if
bloodshed happened in a sacred place like India. Which mythical
creature is being talked about here?

15. Question 5 The Preamble of the Indian Constitution declares that ‘THE
PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India
into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC’. However the terms ‘Scocialist’ and ‘Secular’ were only
added after the 42nd Amendment following which Incident?

17. Question 6 For what occasion was the film, shown
on the right made for?

19. Question 7* The Mohenjo Daro Period Vedic Period,
Epic Period Mahajanapada Period
Nanda Period Mauryan period,
Gupta Period, Medieval Period
Muslim Period British Period
In what form do we find the depictions of these stages of the Indian
subcontinent?

21. Question 8 This worldwide famous comedian traces his lineage back to
northern India (Rajasthan and Punjab) .He was a Romani who were
a group of people who left india most likely between 8th to 10th
century to escape the invasion of Afghan general Mahmud of
Ghazni.Identify him.

23. Question 9

These were the
only women
members in
which body?

25. Question 10 X joined as a Lawyer with Dabla Abdullah and sons because they
wanted someone fluent in Gujarati to settle a financial dispute. On
his first visit he was asked to remove the turban which he refused
and walked out of the court.
Id X.

27. Question 11 Connect
●Muttiah Muralitharan
●Monty Panesar
●Akshay Kumar
●Shaun Tait
●Soni Razdan
●Salman Rushdie
●Alia Bhatt
(List is not exhaustive)

29. Question 12

31. Question 13* What is the connection between Amul ads and Shashi Tharoor

33. Question 14 A proposed flag for India from 1904, as
seen in an Anglo-Indian weekly. The
dark blue band represented Hindus
and Buddhists, the green band
represented Muslims, and the light blue
band represented Christians. The
vertical purple band on the left side
contained the stars from X, which
represented the provinces and states
Identify X

35. Question 15 India and Israel have released a set of postal stamps depicting their
respective festival of lights X and Y to commemorate 20 years of
diplomatic relations between the two countries. To celebrate the
improving bilateral, trade relation between the two countries, these
stamps were issued in 2012.
We all know that X is Diwali, What does Y stands for?
(Picture of the stamp on the next slide)

38. Question 16 This remarkable son of India rescued a former prime minister of
Indonesia during the Indonesian freedom struggle. He also helped
evacuate soldiers from Kashmir in 1947. He served as the CM of
one of the coastal states of India twice and has an airport named
after him. The glimpse of His stature can be understood by the fact
that when he died, his coffin was wrapped in the national flags three
countries namely India, Russia, and Indonesia.
Identify Him

40. Question 17*

Google search
trend of a
certain search
item over a
certain period of
time
What is the
search item?

42. Question 18
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Doling Smiles managed a tea garden
in Assam during the British Colonial Rule. The Lieutenant was born
on November 8, 1883 and was a North eastern Irish Politician.
Back in the 1920s, he not only managed a Tea garden in Assam but
was also a member of the Assam Legislative Council. We do not
know about this man but we have all heard about his famous great
grandson.
Who is the famous great grandson?

44. Question 19
Boulevard Rd, Karapura, Rainawari, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
190001
This is the address of a post office .
What’s so special about it?

46. Question 20


What has been marked out and also put funda.

48. Question 21
These are pesticides with prices I picked up from the internet. As you can
see, the prices of these pesticides are quite high for the Indian farmer.
What Innovative way have some farmers from Chattisgarh found to
replace some of these pesticides?
Hint : look the price/quantity of first item.

50. Question 22 In the first cabinet formed by Nehru in after independence, there
were a few non-Hindu members present. Given below the list of the
same which contains X, the only female member of the cabinet.
●Baldev Singh – Sikh
●Maulana Abul Kalam Azad – Muslim
●BR Ambedkar - Buddhist
●Rafi Ahmed Kidwai – Muslim
●John Mathai - Christian
●Cooverji Hormusji Bhabha - Parsi
●X – Christian
ID X

52. Question 23 Each one of us has heard about the much celebrated book of Sun
Tzu “Art of War” which a chinese military treatise. A similar book
exists in India which was considered lost for thousands of years
until it was found in 1905 by a sanskrit scholar and librarian while
looking at some palm leaves which was donated to the library by an
unknown brahmin. Its author played the most prominent role in the
foundation of the Mauryan Empire.Name this book.

54. Question 24 X was considered the large river which had yamuna and sutlej as its
tributaries. It was quite prominently mentioned throughout the
Rigveda.Around 3700 BC the yamuna was diverted to its present
course whale sutlej was deflected to the west owing to some
tectonic disturbances.The name of this river is still associated with
Ganga and Yamuna.Give us the name of this former river.

56. Question 25 Indians shipped X to the roman empire circa caesar period along
with other spices.If you took one ship load of X to rome you would
be like a billionaire in today’s terms. X was also the most sought
after item by the Dutch East India Company.What is X?

57. Answers!

58. Question 1 In 1984, Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian citizen to enter
space when he flew aboard the Soviet rocket Soyuz T-11 launched
from Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
on 3 April 1984.
The astronaut spoke to Indira Gandhi from space during a joint
television news conference, which also included officials in Moscow.
During the conversation, Indira Gandhi had asked Mr Sharma "Upar
se Bharat kaisa dikhta hai aapko?” What was his iconic reply?

59. Answer 1 Saare Jahaan se Accha

60. Question 2 While the Indian Constitution is the world’s largest for a sovereign
nation, it is not the world longest active constitution which is 250%
longer than that of India.What does the latter belong to?

61. Answer 2

The Constitution of the State of Alabama is nearly 3,80,882 words
long, compared to 1,45,000 words of the Indian Constitution

62. Question 3* X is a neighbouring country of ours that had immense respect for
ancient India and its huge sea of knowledge. It took all active steps
possible to learn as much as they could from our ancestors by
sending numerous scholars and travellers to our motherland and
developed a friendly relationship with us. X was the name given by
them to our motherland which basically meant “Heaven on Earth”.
But recently things have took a wild turn and our relationship with
them (Y) seems to erode away with no avail.
ID X & Y (It is necessary that you give the answer to both)

63. Answer 3

X-Tianzhu
Y- China

64. Question 4
According to this infamous legend, in 1224 the Mongol army had
just subdued the Khwarezm Empire and was preparing to pursue its
ruler, Sultan Jalal ad- Din into India. All they had to do was cross the
Indus river, march into Delhi and smash the Sultanate. This would
also made Genghis Khan the richest man on earth. Instead he
turned his fleet around and returned because a mythical heavenly
creature appeared in front of him and convinced him to abandon his
efforts to conquer India as gods would be very unhappy if
bloodshed happened in a sacred place like India. Which mythical
creature is being talked about here?

65. Answer 4

Unicorn(Luduan)

66. Question 5 The Preamble of the Indian Constitution declares that ‘THE
PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India
into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC’. However the terms ‘Scocialist’ and ‘Secular’ were only
added after the 42nd Amendment following which Incident?

67. Answer 5 Emergency

68. Question 6 For what occasion was the film, shown
on the right made for?

69. Answer 6 The anime film ‘Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama’ was made
as a part of the 40th anniversary of India-Japan diplomatic relations

70. Question 7* The Mohenjo Daro Period Vedic Period,
Epic Period Mahajanapada
Period
Nanda Period Mauryan period,
Gupta Period, Medieval Period
Muslim Period British Period
In what form do we find the depictions of these stages of the Indian
subcontinent?

71. Answer 7

The paintings on the pages of the constitution describe these
periods in order.

72. Question 8 This worldwide famous comedian traces its lineage back to northern
India (Rajasthan and Punjab) .He was a Romani who were a group
of people who left india most likely between 8th to 10th century to
escape the invasion of Afghan general Mahmud of Ghazni.Identify
him.

73. Answer 8

Charlie Chaplin

74. Question 9

These were the
only women
members in
which body?

75. Answer 9

Constituent Assembly
Out of 389 members of Constituent Assembly, only 15 were women.
Their names are-
Ammu Swaminathan, Dakshayani Velayudhan, Begum Aizaz Rasul,
Durgabai Deshmukh, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Kamla Chaudhary, Leela
Roy, Malati Choudhury, Purnima Banerjee, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur,
Renuka Ray, Sarojini Naidu, Sucheta Kripalani, Vijayalakshmi
Pandit and Annie Mascarene.

76. Question 10 X joined as a Lawyer with Dabla Abdullah and sons because they
wanted someone fluent in Gujarati to settle a financial dispute. On
his first visit he was asked to remove the turban which he refused
and walked out of the court.
Id X.

77. Answer 10

Mahatma Gandhi

78. Question 11 Connect
●Muttiah Muralitharan
●Monty Panesar
●Akshay Kumar
●Shaun Tait
●Soni Razdan
●Salman Rushdie
●Alia Bhatt
(List is not exhaustive)

79. Question 12

80. Answer 12

Constituent Assembly of India

81. Question 13* What is the connection between Amul ads and Shashi Tharoor

82. Answer 13

The First Amul baby was Shashi Tharoor’s sister

83. Question 14 A proposed flag for India from 1904, as
seen in an Anglo-Indian weekly. The
dark blue band represented Hindus
and Buddhists, the green band
represented Muslims, and the light blue
band represented Christians. The
vertical purple band on the left side
contained the stars from X, which
represented the provinces and states
Identify X

84. Answer 14

X- Orion Constellation

85. Question 15 India and Israel have released a set of postal stamps depicting their
respective festival of lights X and Y to commemorate 20 years of
diplomatic relations between the two countries. To celebrate the
improving bilateral, trade relation between the two countries, these
stamps were issued in 2012.
We all know that X is Diwali, What does Y stands for?
(Picture of the stamp on the next slide)

87. Answer 15

Hanukkah

88. Question 16 This remarkable son of India rescued a former prime minister of
Indonesia during the Indonesian freedom struggle.He also helped
evacuate soldiers from Kashmir in 1947. He served as the CM of
one of the coastal states of India twice and has an airport named
after him. The glimpse of His stature can be understood by the fact
that when he died, his coffin was wrapped in the national flags three
countries namely India, Russia, and Indonesia.
Identify Him

89. Answer 16

Biju Patnaik

90. Question 17*

Google search
trend of a
certain search
item over a
certain period of
time
What is the
search item?

91. Answer 17

Parag Agrawal

92. Question 18
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Doling Smiles managed a tea garden
in Assam during the British Colonial Rule. The Lieutenant was born
on November 8, 1883 and was a North eastern Irish Politician.
Back in the 1920s, he not only managed a Tea garden in Assam but
was also a member of the Assam Legislative Council. We do not
know about this man but we have all heard about his famous great
grandson.
Who is the famous great grandson?

93. Answer 18

Bear Grylls

94. Question 19
Boulevard Rd, Karapura, Rainawari, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
190001
This is the address of a post office .
What’s so special about it?

95. Answer 19

Floating Post Office

96. Question 20


What has been marked out and also put funda.

97. Answer 20

Snapdeal installed handpumps in the village of Shivnagar and this
village was renamed to Snapdeal.com nagar.

98. Question 21
These are pesticides with prices I picked up from the internet. As you can
see, the prices of these pesticides are quite high for the Indian farmer.
What Innovative way have some farmers from Chattisgarh found to
replace some of these pesticides?
Hint : look the price/quantity of first item.

99. Answer 21

They used coke/pepsi as pesticide.

100. Question 22 In the first cabinet formed by Nehru after independence, there were
a few non-Hindu members present. Given below the list of the same
which contains X, the only female member of the cabinet.
●Baldev Singh – Sikh
●Maulana Abul Kalam Azad – Muslim
●BR Ambedkar - Buddhist
●Rafi Ahmed Kidwai – Muslim
●John Mathai - Christian
●Cooverji Hormusji Bhabha - Parsi
●X – Christian
ID X

101. Answer 22 Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

102. Question 23 Each one of us has heard about the much celebrated book of Sun
Tzu “Art of War” which a chinese military treatise. A similar book
exists in India which was considered lost for thousands of years
until it was found in 1905 by a sanskrit scholar and librarian while
looking at some palm leaves which was donated to the library by an
unknown brahmin. Its author played the most prominent role in the
foundation of the Mauryan Empire.Name this book.

103. Answer 23 Arthashastra

104. Question 24 X was considered the large river which had yamuna and sutlej as its
tributaries. It was quite prominently mentioned throughout the
Rigveda.Around 3700 BC the yamuna was diverted to its present
course while sutlej was deflected to the west owing to some tectonic
disturbances.The name of this river is still associated with Ganga
and Yamuna.Give us the name of this former river.

105. Answer 24 Saraswati

106. Question 25 Indians shipped X to the roman empire circa caesar period along
with other spices.If you took one ship load of X to rome you would
be like a billionaire in today’s terms. X was also the most sought
after item by the Dutch East India Company.What is X?

107. Answer 25 Pepper