Quiz on Indian National Moment:

 

1. ‘First War of Indian Independence’, who said this of the first time, regarding the revolt of 1857?

 

2. Who played a leading role in the founding of the Indian National Congress?

 

3. Who came to be know as the grand old may of India?

 

4. Who was the chairman of the British committee of the Indian national congress started in 1889?

 

5. “The congress is in reality a civil war without arms” who said this?

 

6. Why were Tilak and others imprisoned in 1897?

 

7. From where was the word “Congress” borrowed?

 

8. Who was the first Englishmen to preside over the Congress session at Allahabad in 1908?

 

9. What was the object of the Rowlatt Acts passed by the government in 1919?

 

10. When was the non-cooperation movement suspended?

 

11. Which movement was launched along with the Khilafat movement?

 

12. What was the aim of the Swarajists’ new policy of ‘Council entry’?

 

13. Why did B.K.Dutt and Bhagat singh throw a bomb on the Central Legislative assembly on April 8, 1929?

 

14. Who led the Chittagong armoury raid?

 

15. What was the significance of the ‘Quit India’ movement of 1942?

 

16. Which I.N.A. Officer was not tried by a British Court Martial in 1945-46?

 

17. Who presided over the Cabinet Mission?

 

18. Why was the Repubilc Day of India fixed on 26th January, 1950?

 

19. Who was the Prime Minister of England when India got Independence?

 

20. Who were called the “Liberators of the Indian Press”?

 

21. By whom was Aurobindo Ghosh defended in the Alipur bomb case?

 

22. Who were involved in throwing bomb at Lord Hardinge in 1912?

 

23. Who was the first Muslim president of the INC?

 

24. What was the notable feature of the Civil Disobedience movement of Mahatma Gandhi?

 

25. In which year the Muslim League demanded separate Pakistan for the first time?

 

 

Answers to Quiz questions:

 

1. V.D.Savarkar

 

2. A.O. Hume

 

3. Dadabhai Naoroji

 

4. W.Wedderburn

 

5. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

 

6. Their speeches and writings were directed towards creating hostile feelings towards the British Government.

 

7. North American History, to connote an assembly of people.

 

8. George Yule.

 

9. Dispense with the ordinary procedure for the prial of accused persons and to secure arbitrary confinement.

 

10. 1922

 

11. non-cooperation Movement

 

12. to break the reforms from within by ‘uniform, consistent and continuous obstruction.

 

13. to protest against the passage of the public Safety Bill which would have reduced civil liberties.

 

14. Surya Sen

 

15. It demonstrated the intensity of Nationalist sentiment and the grate capacity of the Indians to struggle and sacrifice.

 

16. Mohan Singh.

 

17. Sir P.Lawrence

 

18. The National Flag was displayed prominently, for the first time, on 26th January 1930.

 

19. Lord Attlee

 

20. Lord Macaulay and Sir Charles Metcalfe.

 

21. C.R.Das

 

22. Ball Mukand, Amir Chand and Avadh Behari.

 

23. Badruddin Tayabjee

 

24. Wide Participation of Women

 

25. 1940.

 

Compiler: G. Pavan Kumar, Teacher, Andhra Pradesh

 

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