This document provides instructions for a multiple choice quiz competition with 50 questions for students of class 8. It details the rules such as only pencil can be used to select answers, there is no negative marking, and the duration is 1 hour. It provides examples of sample questions related to history, geography and the constitution of India. The summary is: This document outlines the rules and format for a 50 question multiple choice quiz competition for class 8 students. It provides details on the duration, marking scheme, and prohibited activities. Sample questions cover topics in Indian history, geography and the constitution.

1. MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION ROUND MAX MARKS= 80
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6th KALPAVRIKSHA INTERSCHOOL QUIZ COMPETITION 2017
(BATTLE OF THE BRAINS)
1) After the first bell, the room coordinator will be given 10 mins. The first 5 mins for distributing the
papers and the next 5 minutes will be given to students to fill their form and read the instructions
carefully.
2) After 10 min second bell will ring as a marker to start answering the questionnaire.
3) The total duration of the quiz will be 1hour as counted after the second bell .The medium of
communication for this quiz will be only English.
4) This round is based on the MCQ type format.
5) For this class, individual question paper will consist of 50 questions
6) Each question will have four - five choices and only one correct answer . For every correct attempt you
will earn one points /marks and for wrong answer or inappropriate attempt one points /marks will be
deducted.There will be no negative marking.
7) Use only pencil for circling the right choice . Putting tick mark, multiple markings or PEN marking
is not allowed.
EXAMPLE :
1) Name the first prime minister of India ?
? a) Lal Bahadur Shastri
? b) Indira Gandhi
c) Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru
? d) Rajendra Prasad
8) If any query regarding the rules or framing of questions don't hesitate to ask the room coordinator else
the quiz organizer.
Quiz compiled by Mrs. Abha Garg & Dr. Rajat Gupta
(Class 8th)

2. 1) Consider the following statement
regarding battle of Plassey
1) It was fought in 1757 between
Company's army and Sirajudaulah's
Forces
2) Mir Jafar, one of the
Sirajuddaulah's commanders
conspired with the company leading to
defeat of the Nawab
? a) 1 only is correct
? b) 2 only is correct
? c) Both are correct
? d) None are correct
2) All is statements are true regarding
the Anglo –Mysore war except
? a) In 1785 Tipu Sultan stopped the
export and trading with the company
of sandalwood, pepper and cardamom
through the ports of his kingdom,
? b) There were four wars fought from
1767 to 1799
? c) In the last war Tipu sultan defeated
Company's forces
? d) After the company's win Mysore was
placed under the former ruling dynasty
of the Wodeyars
3) The third battle of Panipat was fought
in 1761 between Marathas and
? a) Ahmed shah Abdali
? b) Sher Shah Suri
? c) Aurangzeb
? d) Bahadur Shah Zafar
4) To aggressively follow the policy of
territorial expansion, Name the
Governor general under whom policy of
“paramountcy” was introduced ?
? a) Lord Canning
? b) Lord Hastings
? c) Lord Dalhousie
? d) Lord Irwin
5) Charles Cornwillis a famous Governer
general of East India Company, to
improve the revenue input, introduced
the
? a) Mahalwari settlement
? b) Policy of Paramountcy
? c) Permanent settlement
? d) Doctrine of lapse
6) Name the place in Bihar were in 1917,
Mahatma Gandhi initiated a movement
against the Indigo planters
? a) Taran Taran
? b) Champaran
? c) Jallianwala Bagh
d) Dandi
7) Name the famous tribal leader during
British raj who used traditional
symbols and language to rouse people,
urging them to destroy “Ravana” (dikus
and the Europeans) and establish a
kingdom under his leadership
? a) Arjun Munda
? b) Mahendra Karma
? c) Birsa Munda
? d) Sibu Soren
8) Tick the odd one out regarding tribal
group and their area of location
? a) Bhil - Rajasthan
? b) Santhal – Maharashtra
? c) Ranthwa- Gujarat
? d) Gaddis – Himanchal
? e) Bhotia – Uttarakhand
9) After a hundred years of conquest and
administration, the English East India
Company faced a massive rebellion that
started in May 1857. Name the city
from where it was initiated
? a) Barrackpore
? b) Meerut
? c) Pune
? d) Lucknow
(Group : Class 8th)

3. 10) To curb down the 1857 rebel ,the
British company tried Bahadur shah
Zafar in court and gave him life
imprisonment where he finally died.
Name the jail.
? a) Kala paani
? b) Tihar Jail
? c) Kolkata jail
? d) Rangoon jail
11) Main center of revolt of 1857 were all
except
? a) Jhansi
? b) Kanpur
? c) Faizabad
? d) Jaunpur
? e) Lucknow
12 ) The streets of Delhi aren't mere
streets; they are like the album of a
painter. Which poet said it ?
? a) Mirza Galib
? b) Mir Taqi mir
? c) Amir Khusro
? d) Rahat Indori
13) In the year 1911, when king George V
was crowned as king in England, in a
Delhi Darbar the same year it was
decided
? a) To unite India into one state
? b) To develop Mumbai and Kolkata as
port town
? c) To shift the capital from Kolkata to
Delhi
? d) To reinstate a person from Mughal
dynasty as king of Delhi
14) The architects responsible for building
a New Delhi at Raisina hill south of old
delhi were
1) Sir Herbert Baker
2) Sir Edwin Lutyen
3) Le Corbusier
4) Robert tor Russell
? a) Only 1and 2
? b) 1,2 and 3
? c) 1,2,3,4
? d) None of the above
15) Jamdani , a fine muslin cloth with
decorative motifs woven on the loom as
th
early as 12 century has its artisans
mainly at
? a) Murshidabad and Kashmir
? b) Moradabad and Banaras
? c) Dacca and Lucknow
? d) Sambhalpur and Kanchipuram
16) Who raised the slogan –“ Freedom is my
birthright and I shall have it “
? a) Lala Lajpat Rai
? b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
? c) Bepin Chandra Pal
? d) Shaheed Bhagat Singh
17) Gandhiji and his followers marched for
over 240 miles from Sabarmati to
Dandi , and broke the law by picking up
a salt lump from the seashore . When
did it happen ?
? a) 6 April, 1930
? b) 6 March, 1930
? c) 6 May, 1930
? d) 6 June, 1930
18) Who was the first Indian woman to
become the president of Indian
National congress in 1925 ?
? a) Sucheta Kriplani
? b) Annie Besant
? c) Sarojini Naidu
? d) Vijay laxmi Pandit
19) Constitution of the country reflects all
excepts
? a) It serves as a set of rule an
principles that all citizen of country
agree upon
? b) Defines the fundamental nature of
its society
? c) Country's political system
? d) It helps the protect the rights of
the majority so that they can force
their decisions on the country
? e) It lays down the rules that guards
against the misuse of authority by
our political leader
(Group : Class 8th)

4. 20) The key features in the constitution
that led to India as a strong
democratic country are all except
? a) Federalism
? b) Parliamentary form of government
? c) Separation of Power
? d) Communalism
? e) Fundamental rights
21) EVM stands for
? a) Electrical voting machine
? b) Electronic voting machine
? c) Electrified voting machine
? d) Exclusive voting method
22) Parliament of India ( sansad) , The
supreme law making institution has two
houses
? a) Lok Sabha and Vidhan sabha
? b) Lok sabha and Jan sabha
? c) Lok sabha and Rajya Sabha
? d) Loksabha and gram sabha
23) Rajya sabha ( council of states )with
total strength of 245 members is
chaired by the
? a)Speaker
? b) President
? c) Vice President
? d) Leader of opposition
24) DMK ( Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam)
and All India DMK are regional parties
belonging to the state of
? a) Andhra Pradesh
? b) Tamil Nadu
? c) Telengana
? d) Kerala
25) The members of Rajya Sabha are
elected by the elective members of
? a) Parliament
? b) Legislative assembly
? c) State chief minister
? d) Vice president
26) The Constitution of India was
promulgated on January 26, 1950
because :
? a) It was an auspicious day.
? b) This day was being celebrated as
the Independence Day since 1929.
? c) It was the wish of the farmers of
the Constitution.
? d) The British did not want to leave
India earlier than this date.
27) Who among the following was the
Chairman of the Drafting Committee
of the Indian Constitution :
? a) Rajendra Prasad
? b) C. Rajagopalachari
? c) Tej Bahadur Sapru
? d) B.R. Ambedkar
28) According to the Constitution, only a
secular State can realize its objectives
to ensure the following except
? a) that one religious community does
not dominate another
? b) that some members do not dominate
other members of the same religious
community
? c) that religious communities are not
granted any rights to set up their
own schools and colleges
? d) that the State does not enforce any
particular religion nor take away the
religious freedom of individuals.
29) Which article of the Constitution
places a duty upon the State to
provide a lawyer to any citizen who is
unable to engage one due to poverty or
other disability.
? a) Article 22
? b) Article 32
? c) Article 39A
? d) Article 35
(Group : Class 8th)

5. 30) The main key players in the criminal
justice system are
1) The police and the Public Prosecutor
2) The defence lawyer and the judge
? a) Only 1
? b) Only 2
? c) Both 1and 2
? d) None of the above
31) FIR means :-
? a) Formal Identification Report
? b) First Information Report
? c) First Indian region
? d) For Interest of Records
32) In social environment, Marginalisation is
due to :-
? a) Different Language
? b) Different Religion
? c) Minority
? d) a & c
? e) All of these
33) Right to life which includes the safety,
drinking water, right to the enjoyment
of pollution-free water and air for full
enjoyment of life is guaranteed under
which article of the constitution ?
? a)Article 15
? b) Article 10
? c) Article 21
? d) Article 22
34) Under which article of the constitution
it is clearly noted that no citizen of
India shall be discriminated against on
the basis of religion, race, caste, sex or
place of birth
? a) Article 15
? b) Article 10
? c) Article 21
? d) Article 22
(Group : Class 8th)
35) Natural resources classified on the
basis of their stock and exhaustibility
are
? a) Actual and potential resource
? b) Abiotic and biotic
? c) Renewable and non renewable
? d) Ubiquitous or localized
36) Distribution of natural resources
depends upon all except
? a) Terrain
? b) Climate
? c) Human activity
? d) Altitude
37) In the soil formation parent rock
determines all except
? a) Color and texture
? b) Chemical properties
? c) Permeability
? d) Thickness and maturity of the soil
38) Flora –fauna and microorganisms
affect the
? a) Accumulation of the soil
? b) Rate of weathering
? c) Rate of humus formation
? d) Thickness of the soil
39) Brahmkamal, a medicinal plant is also
the state flower of
? a) Karnataka
? b) Mizoram
? c) Sikkim
? d) Uttarakhand
40) Name the national park in Uttarakhand
which is also a biosphere reserve.
? a) Jimcorbett national park
? b) Nanda devi national park
? c) Rajaji national park
? d) Valley of flowers national park

6. (Group : Class 8th)
41) Which one of the following method is
most appropriate to check soil erosion on
steep slopes ?
? a) Shelter belts
? b) Mulching
? c) Terrace farming
? d) Rockdams
42) Non- metallic minerals are all except
? a) Limestone
? b) Bauxite
? c) Mica
? d) Gypsum
43) Mineral fuels like coal and petroleum are
found in which strata of the rock ?
? a) Igneous
? b) Sedimentary
? c) Metamorphic
? d) All
44) Which European country has no known
mineral deposit?
? a) France
? b) Austria
? c) Hungary
? d) Switzerland
45) Which continent is the largest producer
of Bauxite in the world ?
? a) North America
? b) South America
? c) Australia
? d) Asia
46) Gold, Diamond and Platinum, the precious
metals are found in the largest quantity
in
? a) South America
? b) North America
? c) Africa
? d) Europe
47) Which Asian country is the largest
producer of Mica in the world ?
? a) China
? b) Iran
? c) India
? d) Mongolia
48) Silicon, widely used in IT industry and
solar cells is obtained from
? a) Graphite
? b) Limestone
? c) Lead
? d) Quartz
49) The average density of population in
India is between
? a) 250-300 person/ sqkm
? b) 300-350 person/sqkm
? c) 350-400 person/sqkm
? d) 400-450 person/ sqkm
50) Population pyramid means
? a) graphical representation of the age ,
sex composition of the population
? b) when the population density of an
area is so high that people live in tall
buildings
? c) pattern of population in large urban
areas
? d) graphical presentation of population
density