Quiz on Independence and struggle of freedom fighters

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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.

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

21. Sarojini Naidu

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

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

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

28. 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 ?

30. 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 ?

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

33. Lord Louis
Mountbatten

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

36. 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 ?

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

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

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

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

46. 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.

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

50. TOP 12 TEAMS TO FINAL FIGHT

51. Finals

52. Round 1

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

54. Safety slide

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

59. 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 ?

62. 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 ?

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

67. Sir Cyril Radcliffe

68. 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 ?

71. Round 2

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

74. Gandhi Mandapam

75. 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?

77. Rabindranath Tagore

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

81. 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.

84. 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

87. 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?

89. Cellular Jail(Kaala Pani)

90. Round 3

91. 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 Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar
Islands, but released in 1921 after several mercy petitions to the British
government.

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

96. Service in ambulance corps in
the Boer War

97. 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."

100. 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.

102. Begum Rokeya

103. 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.”

106. 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

109. THANK YOU