1) Aghorenath Chattopadhay was the first Indian to obtain a D.Sc. degree from a foreign university and knew many languages. 2) Virendranath Chattopadhyay was portrayed in works by Somerset Maugham and Agnes Smedley. 3) Harindranath Chattopadhyay was the first to represent the Vijayawada constituency in the Lok Sabha in 1951 with CPI support.

1. Theme Round 1
Questions
1st and 2nd 5 Questions-> 20 Points
3rd and 4th Questions->15 Points
5th Question -> 10 Points
Negatives -> -5 Throughout

2. 1.
• X was born in 1851 in Brahmamnagar village of
Dhaka. X was a brilliant student and was awarded
the Gilchrist scholarship to go to England. He won
the Baxter Prize in Physics and the Hope Prize in
Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh. He was
the first Indian to obtain a degree of D.Sc. from a
foreign university. He knew a number of
languages like Sanskrit, Greek, Hebrew, French,
German and Russian. Jagatguru Sankaracharya
bestowed on him the award of ‘Vidyaratna’ for
his learning in Sanskrit.

3. 2.

4. Contd…

5. 3.
• X was the first to represent the Vijayawada
parliamentary constituency in the Lok Sabha(Ist
Lok Sabha). He trounced his nearest rival and
Indian National Congress candidate Rajyam Sinha,
wife of Benoy Kumar Sinha, a colleague of Bhagat
Singh, by 74,924 votes in the 1951 Lok Sabha
polls.
• X contested the election as an Independent with
the support of the undivided Communist Party of
India (CPI). Krishna, East Godavari and West
Godavari districts were then citadels of the CPI.

6. 4. Id the Lady

7. • Born on 3 April 1903, X was the fourth and youngest
daughter of a Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin couple in
Mangalore.
• She acted in two silent films, including the first silent
film of Kannada film industry,
'Mricchakatika'(Vasantsena) (1931). She acted in a 1943
Hindi film, Tansen, also starring K. L. Saigal and
Khursheed,followed by Shankar Parvati (1943), and
Dhanna Bhagat (1945).
• The Government of India conferred on her the Padma
Bhushan (1955) and later the Padma Vibhushan in
1987, She also received the Ramon Magsaysay Award
(1966) for Community Leadership. She was awarded the
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship.

8. 5. Id the lady

9. Answers

10. 1.
• X was born in 1851 in Brahmamnagar village of
Dhaka. X was a brilliant student and was awarded
the Gilchrist scholarship to go to England. He won
the Baxter Prize in Physics and the Hope Prize in
Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh. He was
the first Indian to obtain a degree of D.Sc. from a
foreign university. He knew a number of
languages like Sanskrit, Greek, Hebrew, French,
German and Russian. Jagatguru Sankaracharya
bestowed on him the award of ‘Vidyaratna’ for
his learning in Sanskrit.

11. Aghorenath Chattopadhay

12. 2.

13. Contd…

14. • Virendranath Chattopadhyay. He was
portrayed as "Chandralal" by Somerset
Maugham in his short story "Giulia Lazzari"
(the character Ashenden and as Ananda in
Daughter of Earth, a novel by Agnes Smedley

15. 3.
• X was the first to represent the Vijayawada
parliamentary constituency in the Lok Sabha(Ist
Lok Sabha). He trounced his nearest rival and
Indian National Congress candidate Rajyam Sinha,
wife of Benoy Kumar Sinha, a colleague of Bhagat
Singh, by 74,924 votes in the 1951 Lok Sabha
polls.
• X contested the election as an Independent with
the support of the undivided Communist Party of
India (CPI). Krishna, East Godavari and West
Godavari districts were then citadels of the CPI.

16. Harindranath Chattopadhyay

17. 4. Id the Lady

18. • Born on 3 April 1903, X was the fourth and youngest
daughter of a Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin couple in
Mangalore.
• She acted in two silent films, including the first silent
film of Kannada film industry,
'Mricchakatika'(Vasantsena) (1931). She acted in a 1943
Hindi film, Tansen, also starring K. L. Saigal and
Khursheed,followed by Shankar Parvati (1943), and
Dhanna Bhagat (1945).
• The Government of India conferred on her the Padma
Bhushan (1955) and later the Padma Vibhushan in
1987, She also received the Ramon Magsaysay Award
(1966) for Community Leadership. She was awarded the
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship.

19. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (Harin’s
Wife)

20. 5. Id the lady

21. Sarojini Naidu