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Independence Day Special Quiz

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RULES:

1. Team Size : 2 students

2. Time duration for each question is 30 sec.

3. Each Correct Answer carries 10 marks.

4. Passing of question to the next team is

allowed. In this case, five marks will be

given to that team if the answer is correct.

5. There are total 3 rounds.

5. The decision of quiz master will be final

ROUND 1

Vande Mataram

1. He was a Hindu activist and enterpreneur who was executed for his role in the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

Narayan Dattatraya Apte 

2.Jawaharlal Nehru took office as the Prime Minister of India on 15 August, and delivered his inaugural address titled ?

“...........and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity."

A Tryst With destiny

3. In 1929 he promised to provide Dominion status for the nation; on one occasion he stormed into Churchill's office and told him that he "expected to be treated like a gentleman“.

Who is he?

Lord Irwin

4. The day also marked the start of what is known as "The Week of the Long Knives”. Communal Riots were witnessed on the day. Identify ?

Direct Action Day aka Great Calcutta Killing 16 Aug 1946, INC Vs Muslim League

5. Connect / Relate ?

Simon Commission Members:

Harry Levy Lawson, John Simon, Clement Atlee

6. Identify ?

Ghadar Party

ROUND 2

We, INDIANS !!

Connect

He was the principal leader of the Yugantar party that was the central association of revolutionaries in Bengal.

Bagha Jatin

Identify ?

He initiated the ban on British clothes, setting an example by

burning his own European clothes and wearing Khadi clothes.

He resigned his presidency of the Indian National Congress at

the Gaya session after losing a motion on "No Council Entry“

To Gandhi's faction.

Chittaranjan Das

Identify ?

He is known as the 'Father Of Revolutionary Thoughts' in

India.

Bipin Chandra Pal

Identify ?

I was prime accused in the killing of a British police officer

in 1928 in order to take revenge for the death of a veteran

Leader.

Sukh Dev

Idnetify ?

He opposed the separate electorates for Muslims under

the Lucknow Pact of 1916 and also opposed the participation of

Congress in theKhilafat movement in early 20's. 

Madan Mohan Malivya

Identify ?

He was the last Mughal Emperor who ruled

India !!

Identify ?

He is a school Drop out and became an activist with the Hindu Mahasabha. People claimed that he is an RSS activist. But, there is no evidence available for the popularized claim that he was a (RSS) activist.

Nathuram Vinayak Godsey

Standing: Shankar Kistaiya, Gopal Godse,Madanlal Pahwa, Digambar Badge (Approver). Sitting: Narayan Apte,

Vinayak D. Savarkar, Nathuram Godse,Vishnu Karkare

Identify ?

He was instrumental in initiating negotiations between Gandhi

and Jinnah. In 1944, he proposed an "absolute majority“

threshold of 55 per cent when deciding whether a district

should become part of India or Pakistan,  triggering a huge

controversy among nationalists.

C. Raja Gopala Chari

Identify ?

He wrote several books on the non violent struggles

led by Gandhi in India, and a diary called Day to Day

with Gandhi in nine volumes.

Mahadev Desai

Round 3 : Strategic Steps !!

Quit India Movement

Partition of Bengal

Round Table Conferences

In March 1942, faced with an increasingly dissatisfied sub-continent only reluctantly participating in the war and deterioration in the war situation in Europeand South East Asia and with growing dissatisfaction among Indian troops especially in Europe- and among the civilian population in the sub-continent. What happened next??

Crips Mission

“I am in receipt of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s letter of July 8th. My honest opinion is that Civil Disobedience Movement is a little pre-mature. The Congress should first concede openheartedly and with handshake to Muslim League the theoretical Pakistan, and thereafter all parties unitedly make demand of Quit India. If the British refuse, start total disobedience...”

Whose message is this ?

Allama Mashriqi

(head of the Khaksar Tehrik)

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 In 1906, Rabindranath Tagore wrote ????

as a rallying cry for proponents of annulment of Partition. What is the Significance ?

Amar Shonar Bangla

which is considered by some to be controversial as the song was written against the Partition of Bengal which means, against the creation of East Bengal (and hence Bangladesh).

Who took the decision on Bengal Partition annulled in 1911 ? What was the consequence ?

Viceroy Lord Harding

Consequence : The capital of India was shifted to Delhi from Calcutta.

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At the end of this conference Ramsay MacDonald undertook to produce a Communal Award for minority representation, with the provision that any free agreement between the parties could be substituted for his award. What was the significance of this conference ?

Gandhi-Irwin Pact

The third and last session assembled on November 17, 1932. In this conference, a college student, coined the name "Pakistan" (which means "land of pureness") as the name for the Muslim part of partitioned India. Jinnah did not attend it. What is the significance of this conference?

Chaudhary Rahmat Ali,

INC & Labor Party refused to attend

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