Constitution Day Quiz

Rules!
• 24 Questions
• Pounce (+10/-5)
• Infinite Bounce (+10 on direct; +5 on pass)
• No negative marking on Direct/Pass
• No partial marking on Pounce. If Pouncing,
participants must give all parts of the answer
correctly to avoid negative marking.

Q1.
• Although it was present in the Constitution of India
since its conception in 1950, this Fundamental Right
was amended several times over the years by way of
the 1st, 4th, 17th, 24th, 25th, 42nd amendment until
the 44th Amendment (1977) finally deleted it from
the Constitution as a Fundamental Right. Various
governments had sought to dilute its power as they
claimed it obstructed them from providing socio-
economic welfare, while the Supreme Court had
overturned these amendments due to the fact that it
was, after all, a Fundamental Right. What am I
talking about?

Q2.
• From 1888 to 1891, Mahatma Gandhi studied law in
London. Before leaving India, his mother had made him
vow to avoid/not do X activity. While throughout his stay in
London, many of his friends, acquaintances, mentors
pleaded him to break his vow, for his own good. At the
same time, he was also treated with contempt for his vow
as it was a very uncommon practice in the Western World.
However Gandhi did find a group of similar people in an
organization known as The ________ Society. He became a
part of its Executive Committee and as a member, he
founded a short-lived _________ Club in his locality of
which he became the secretary of. What did the people in
these organizations do that Gandhi had taken a vow to
follow as well?

A2.
Gandhi took an oath of Vegetarianism, these
were Vegetarian Societies/Clubs

Q3.
• The city of X was one of the major centres of
the Revolt of 1857. This city had also seen a
Sepoy Revolt earlier in 1824. The name of this
city has an English word in it, and this word is a
synonym for 'cantonment'; probably because
the city was one of the major cantonment cities
under the British East India Company. Name
this city X

Q4.
• On almost all levels of Indian administration and
legislature, there exists reservations for a certain
community. Since 1952, the first Lok Sabha elections,
a certain reservation was made owing to the population
share of this group due to prior colonization. Recently,
in January 2020, these reserved seats were removed
by a constitutional amendment in both the Lok Sabha
and the State legislative Assemblies, by the 126th
Amendment Act. For whom were these reservations
originally made?

Q5.
• On 11 January 2020, former politician TM
Kaliannan celebrated his 100th birthday at his
home visited by some political leaders and
MLAs including Tamil Nadu Minister for
Electricity P Thangamani. At the age of 28 he
became a part of an important group of people
who were instrumental in shaping the future of
our country, and by virtue of his age he
presently holds a very interesting distinction.
Why is TM Kaliannan so special? (Image on
next slide)

A5.
TM Kaliannan is the last living member of the
Constituent Assembly.

Q6.
• Mahatma Gandhi spent the last 5 months of his
life at the Birla Bhavan as a guest of the Birla
family. The Birla House, situated at
Albuquerque Road was later purchased by the
Government of India and converted into
Gandhi Smriti, a museum commemorating
Mahatma Gandhi's life and teachings.
Albuquerque Road was also renamed to
memorialize the assassination of Gandhi. What
name do we know Albuquerque Road by
today?

A6.
Tees January Marg (30th January, 1948 was the
date Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated)

Q7.
• Mirza Abu ____ Siraj-ud-din Muhammad
was among his other positions, a noted
Urdu poet who learnt to write Ghazals
under the guidance of famed poet Mirza
Ghalib. While not entirely supportive of
the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, he was
compelled to give his support to the. By
what name do we better know this poet
by?

A7.
Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last king of the Mughal
Dynasty

Q8.
• On 30th December 1943, Netaji
Subhash Chandra Bose had asked for
Andaman and Nicobar islands to be
named X and Y islands respectively.
Exactly 75 years later, PM Modi, during
a speech in Port Blair announced that
Havelock Island and Neil Island had
been renamed X and Y respectively.
Identify X and Y.

A8.
X – Swaraj Dweep, Y – Shaheed Dweep

Q9.
• In December 2019, an advocate from
Karnataka had filed a PIL in the high court that
grant of license to a liquor shop should be
taken away as it was just 30m from a particular
statue, and according to him it thus violated the
Karnataka’s Excise Licenses Rules made in
1967, which prohibited liquor stores near
places of worship. The PIL was however,
rejected stating that it in no way violated the
rule technically. Whose statue is in question
here? (Image on next slide)

Q10.
• Prem Behari Narain Raizada's name is on every single
page of the Indian Constitution. This was the self
decreed payment he demanded for the important role
he played in its creation, despite not being a politician
or leader. Alongside this, he also asked for permission
to keep his and his grandfather's name on the last
page of the Constitution. What hand did he have in the
creation of Constitution, for which he did not ask for
money, but had the aforementioned demands? (Image
on next slide)

A10.
Prem Behari Narain Raizada was a calligrapher
who handwrote the entirety of the
Constitution.

Q11.
• Nathuram Godse's trial saw him and his collaborator
Nayaran Apte being handed the death penalty while his
accomplices were sentenced to life imprisonment. Just
like how he had not attempted to escape after
assassinating Gandhi, Godse had accepted all the
charges and shown no remorse for his actions
throughout his trial.
• However, many Gandhians had written to Jawaharlal
Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and C.
Rajagopalachari, asking them to reduce the
punishment as Gandhi would not have supported
capital punishment. Surprisingly, among these people
asking for clemency where the following individuals
(images on the next slide). Who are these individuals?

A11.
Mahatma Gandhi’s sons, Ramdas and Manilal
Gandhi

Q12.
• Manmohan Singh travelled to Myanmar on a diplomatic
visit in 2012. Identify the place he visited, shown in the
following image.

A12.
The Shrine of Bahadur Shah Zafar

Q13.
• PM Modi had often referred to himself as an X
of the country, someone who would keep
watch to prevent corruption. Leading up to the
2019 elections, the Indian National Congress
targeted the ruling government with the slogan
"X is Y", with Y being an individual who does
the complete opposite of what X is supposed to
do, in their accusations of corruption within the
government. Identify the slogan and the term,
which many BJP leaders and supporters put in
their Twitter Bio as the elections arrived.

A13.
• X – Chowkidar
• Y- Chor

Q14.
• Mahatma Gandhi coined the term X, literally
meaning the people of God to refer to the
"Dalit" people, and to change the attitudes of
people with respect to the community.
However, many Dalit leaders included Dr.
Ambedkar resented the word for its patronizing
connotations. Gandhi even started a weekly
Gujarati newspaper titled X in 1933 but it only
stayed in publication till 1948. Identify the term
X

Q15.
• A museum is being made in Agra, just beside
the Taj Mahal. It was originally named "X
Museum" but UP Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath recently renamed it after Chatrapati
Shivaji, stating that “how can X be our
heroes?" and "our hero is Shivaji Maharaj”.
Historians criticized the move with historian
Syed Ali Nazeem Rezavi saying "Tourists come
to Agra to see X _______, a city's history
cannot be swept aside." Name the museum.

Q16.
• Freedom fighter and author X wrote a book on
the Revolt of 1857 in 1909 and titled it “The
History of War of the Indian Independence”.
The term “First War of Indian Independence”,
referring to the Revolt of 1857, was coined in
this book. Historians have criticized this term,
as the revolt was too fragmented, and had too
many different motives to be truly called a War
of Indian Independence. Identify author X,
known for formulating and popularizing a
political ideology based on cultural
homogeneity.

Q17.
• The Indian Constitution, at the time of its
conception did have Fundamental Rights, but
no Fundamental Duties. These were not added
due to the Constituent Assembly's reluctance
to be thought of as an authoritarian state.
However, these were added to the Constitution
in 1976 by way of the 42nd Amendment under
Indira Gandhi. From which friendly but
authoritarian country's Constitution was this
idea derived from?

Q18.
• Last Thursday, a well-known MP and Cabinet Minister
of the ruling party handed in her resignation to the
Union Cabinet to protest against two bills passed by
them, which affected her department, agriculture. She
was the sole representative of her party, a very old ally
of BJP, in the Modi government. She tweeted that she
wanted to stand “as a daughter and sister” for those
she represented. She said the barrier free trade wasn’t
favouring farmers in any way. Moreover, the States
also spoke against passing of the bill as the subject
clearly fell under the States List. Who am I talking
about?

A18.
Harsimrat Kaur Badal (Shiromani Akali Dal)

Q19.
• Lord Halifax served as the 20th Viceroy and
Governor General of India, although during his
tenure he was known as Lord X. He was in
office for 5 years from April 1926 to April
1931. During his tenure, he tried to negotiate
certain terms of political and administrative
agreement with Mahatma Gandhi. What was
the agreement, which had names of both the
negotiators, officially called?

Q20.
• The East India Company, in its attempt to
annex the kingdom of ______ under the
Doctrine of Lapse, charged its ruler with
trumped-up claims of maladministration, and
had him exiled to Calcutta. In his absence, his
wife X led an army against the Company and
captured the capital city of the kingdom.
While she was able to give a stiff resistance
during the events of 1857, the city finally fell
to the Company, and X allegedly fled to Nepal
where she died in 1879. Identify the
kingdom/state which was annexed.

A20.
Awadh (known in British texts as Oudh). X –
Begum Hazrat Mahal

Q21.
• Gandhi was invited to come to Champaran in 1917
and witness the plight of the Indigo farmers by a
peasant named Raj Kumar Shukla. On their way to
Champaran, Gandhi and Shukla had stopped by
and spent the night at the grounds of house of a
prominent lawyer from Bihar. Later this lawyer
came to assist Gandhi in documenting the
oppression of peasants by the British landlords in
Champaran, and helped towards the success of
the Champaran Satyagraha. This was the first
time Gandhi had interacted with this individual.
Identify this famous lawyer from Bihar who went
on to become a very important leader of
Independent India.

Q22.
• While much of Northern India was in revolt against the East India
Company, much of the successful quelling of the revolt is
credited to the states that were loyal to the Company and
helped fight against the sepoys. Areas that remained relatively
calm during the revolt included Travancore, Hyderabad, and
some smaller Rajputana states. Most notably, the X community
from the state _______, were credited most for the suppression
of the revolt, as the X feared the return of Mughal rule in Delhi,
as they had a history of persecution under Mughal rule.
Recognising this pivotal role of ________ during the war of 1857,
Governor-General Lord Canning remarked that _______, from
being the British Empire’s “greatest weakness” had its “source of
strength”. Give the community and the state.

Q23.
• On 13th December 1946, Jawaharlal Nehru
introduced an “Objectives Resolution” in the
Constituent Assembly. This document, outlined
several important tenets that Nehru wanted the
governance of the country to be based upon. This
was unanimously adopted by the assembly on 22nd
December 1946. While much of the Constitution is
based on the policies and objectives mentioned
here, one part of the Constitution is directly
derived from the Objectives Resolution, and is
considered to play a similar role. Name this
section/part of the Constitution

• India is an independent, sovereign republic
• Territories forming the Union shall be autonomous units and exercise
all powers and functions of the Government and administration, except
those assigned to or vested in the Union
• All people of India shall be guaranteed and secured social, economic
and political justice; equality of status and opportunities and equality
before law; and fundamental freedoms – of speech, expression, belief,
faith, worship, vocation, association and action – subject to law and
public morality
• The minorities, backward and tribal areas, depressed and other
backward classes shall be provided adequate safeguards

Q24.
• The _______ _____ is the first item of business on
any day the Parliament is in session. It is
described in the Lok Sabha website to be a means
to sense the “pulse of the nation”. Following the
resumption of Parliament after the delays caused
by the COVID-19 pandemic, the government made
the controversial decision of not holding this as
part of changes caused by the pandemic. This led
to widespread outrage amongst the opposition as
the session is considered key to keeping the
government accountable. This was the first time
the session was announced to be postponed.
Finally, the government took back its decision
partially due to the outrage. What are we talking
about here?

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