Independence quiz

Quiz on Independence and struggle of freedom fighters

1. in association with PRESENTS Freedom Struggle in Gandhian Era Quiz By- Shivam Sinha & Harsh Mehta

2. How’s the Josh? Before We Begin

3. Prelims 15 questions +1 for each right answer No negatives 3 Star(*) mark questions to break ties(if any) Any use of unfair means will lead to disqualification Quiz masters decisions are final.

4. Q.1) She played a leading role during the “Civil Disobedience Movement” and was jailed along with Mahatma Gandhi. Who is she ?

5. Q.2)* “Shantivan” is associated with whose memorial site located north to “Rajghat” ?

6. Q.3) It is a memorial of national importance, established in 1951 by the GOI, to commemorate the massacre by British. Identify ?

7. Q.4) Identify this legendary freedom fighter without whom independence was not possible?

8. Q.5) He is largely remembered for being the patriarch of India's most powerful political dynasty which has since produced “Three Prime Ministers”. Who is he ?

9. Q.6)* This palace is served as a prison for Gandhiji, his wife, his secretary Mahadev Desai & Sarojini Naidu. It is also the place where Kasturba & Mahadev Desai died. Which palace we are talking about ?

10. Q.7) Identify the person saluting Indian flag?

11. Q.8) The greeting “jai Hind” was started by this famous person ?

12. Q.9) Banaras Hindu University located in Varanasi. Established in 1916 by Indian educationist & politician notable for his role in the Indian Independence movement. Name the person ?

13. Q.10) Id the person circled on?

14. Q.11) Who is the freedom fighter often called “The Frontier Gandhi”?

15. Q.12)* Which freedom fighter penned the essay “Why I am an Atheist“ while imprisoned?

16. Q.13) Which movement earned Gandhiji the status of “Mahatma ” ?

17. Q.14) X was an Indian RSS thinker and former leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh , the forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party . He became president of the Jana Sangh in December 1967. He contested the Lok Sabha election and lost. He was killed in a train theft incident and was found dead on 11 February 1968 on a railway track near Mughalsarai Junction railway station . Give X.

18. Q.15) Name the three members of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate.

19. Q.1) She played a leading role during the “Civil Disobedience Movement” and was jailed along with Mahatma Gandhi. Who is she ?

20. Sarojini Naidu

21. Q.2) “Shantivan” is associated with whose memorial site located north to “Rajghat” ?

22. Q.3) It is a memorial of national importance, established in 1951 by the GOI, to commemorate the massacre by British. Identify ?

23. Q.4) Identify this legendary freedom fighter without whom independence was not possible?

24. Q.5) He is largely remembered for being the patriarch of India's most powerful political dynasty which has since produced “Three Prime Ministers”. Who is he ?

25. Q.6) This palace was served as a prison for Gandhiji, his wife, his secretary Mahadev Desai & Sarojini Naidu. It is also the place where Kasturba & Mahadev Desai died. Which palace we are talking about ?

26. Q.7) Identify the person saluting Indian flag?

27. Lord Louis Mountbatten

28. Q.8) The greeting “jai Hind” was started by this famous person ?

29. Q.9) Banaras Hindu University located in Varanasi. Established in 1916 by Indian educationist & politician notable for his role in the Indian Independence movement. Name the person ?

30. Q.10) Id the person circled on?

31. Q.11) Who is the freedom fighter often called “The Frontier Gandhi”?

32. Q.12) Which freedom fighter penned the essay “Why I am an Atheist“ while imprisoned?

33. Q.13) Which movement earned Gandhiji the status of “Mahatma ” ?

34. Q.14) X was an Indian RSS thinker and former leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh , the forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party . He became president of the Jana Sangh in December 1967. He contested the Lok Sabha election and lost. He was killed in a train theft incident and was found dead on 11 February 1968 on a railway track near Mughalsarai Junction railway station . Give X.

35. Q.15) Name the three members of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate.

36. TOP 12 TEAMS TO FINAL FIGHT

37. Finals

38. Round 1

39. Q.1) Id person left to Jawaharlal Nehru

40. Safety slide

41. Q.2) He is best known for assassinating “Michael O’Dwyer” on 13 March 1940 ?

42. Q.3) He was an Indian freedom fighter and the designer of the flag on which the “Indian national flag” was based. Name the personality ?

43. Q.4) He has been called "Father of Indian Ornithology" and also one of the founder, a political party that was later to lead in the Indian Independence movement ?

44. Q.5) Identify the person who declared boundary line between India and Pakistan on 17th Aug 1947.

45. Sir Cyril Radcliffe

46. Q.6) She was an Indian freedom fighter, worked with Gandhiji, elected to the Constituent Assembly and was part of the subcommittee that declared the Indian Constitution. She became the first woman to be elected Chief Minister of an Indian state. Who is she ?

47. Round 2

48. Q.7) A temple in “Kanyakumari”. It was erected to honour whom ?

49. Gandhi Mandapam

50. Q.8) There were two person shortlisted for photos on currency note. First one was definitely Mahatma Gandhi. Who was the other person and why was he rejected?

51. Rabindranath Tagore

52. Q.9) Which freedom fighter authored ‘Gita Rahasya’, a commentary on Bhagavad Gita, during his imprisonment at Mandalay in Myanmar ?

53. Q.10) X's reputation remains controversial, especially amongst modern nationalists and some post-colonial critics as X was a prominent supporter of Colonel Reginald Dyer , who was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar . X called Dyer "the man who saved India" and also initiated collections for the latter's homecoming prize. Id X.

54. Q.11) X died at Alfred Park in Allahabad on 27 February 1931. The police surrounded him in the park after an unknown informant told them he was there. He was wounded in the process of defending himself and Sukhdev Raj (not to be confused with Sukhdev Thapar ) and killed three policemen and wounded some others. His actions made it possible for Sukhdev Raj to escape. After a long shootout, holding true to his pledge to never be captured alive, he shot himself dead with his last bullet. Name X

55. Q.12) The building had seven wings, at the centre of which a tower served as the intersection and was used by guards to keep watch on the inmates; this format was based on Jeremy Bentham's idea of the Panopticon . The wings radiated from the tower in straight lines, much like the spokes of a bicycle wheel. A large bell was kept in the tower to raise an alarm. What is being described here?

56. Cellular Jail(Kaala Pani)

57. Round 3

58. Q.13) X’s revolutionary activities began while studying in India and England, where he was associated with the India House and founded student societies including Abhinav Bharat Society and the Free India Society , as well as publications espousing the cause of complete Indian independence by revolutionary means.Savarkar published The Indian War of Independence about the Indian rebellion of 1857 that was banned by British authorities. He was arrested in 1910 for his connections with the revolutionary group India House . Following a failed attempt to escape while being transported from Marseilles , X was sentenced to two life terms of imprisonment totaling fifty years and was moved to the Cellul ar Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but released in 1921 after several mercy petitions to the British government.

59. Q.14) Mahatma Gandhi along with 37 other Indians had received the ‘Queen’s South Africa Medal’, why was he awarded this?

60. Service in ambulance corps in the Boer War

61. Q.15) X in September 2009 said that his biggest inspiration came from Gandhi. His reply was in response to the question 'Who was the one person, dead or live, that you would choose to dine with?'. He continued that "He's somebody I find a lot of inspiration in. He inspired Dr. King with his message of nonviolence. He ended up doing so much and changed the world just by the power of his ethics."

62. Q.16) In her writings, X advocated that both men and women should be treated equally as rational beings, and the lack of education is the main reason of women's lagging behind.Her major works include Matichur (A String of Sweet Pearls, 1904 & 1922), collection of essays in two volumes expressing her feminist thoughts; Sultana's Dream (1905), a feminist science fiction novella set in Ladyland ruled by women; Padmarag ("Essence of the Lotus", 1924) depicting the dreadful picture of married lives of Bengali girls in general; and Abarodhbasini (The Confined Women, 1931), a spirited attack on the extreme forms of purdah that endangered women's lives and thoughts.

63. Begum Rokeya

64. Q.17) Mahatma Gandhi wrote to X in a letter of 1894 that "The Indians look up to you as children to the father. Such is really the feeling here." Bal Gangadhar Tilak admired him; he said: “ If we twenty eight crore of Indians were entitled to send only one member to the British parliament, there is no doubt that we would have elected X unanimously to grace that post.”

65. Q.18) The Servants of India Society was formed in Pune , Maharashtra , on June 12, 1905 by X, who left the Deccan Education Society to form this association. Along with him were a small group of educated Indians, as Natesh Appaji Dravid, Gopal Krishna Deodhar and Anant Patwardhan who wanted to promote social and human development and overthrow the British rule in India . The Society organized many campaigns to promote education, sanitation, health care and fight the social evils of untouchability and discrimination, alcoholism, poverty, oppression of women and domestic abuse

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