YPC QUIZ 2016 (FINALS) - MUNICIPAL LEVEL YOUTH PARLIAMENT COMPETITION

YOUTH PARLIAMENT

QUIZ - 2016

YOUTH PARLIAMENT

QUIZ - 2016QM: SASWATA CHAKRABORTY

FORMATFOUR ROUNDSROUND – 1

• HISTORY OF FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN INDIAROUND – 2

• INDIAN CONSTITUTIONROUND – 3

• INDIAN PARLIAMENT & WEST BENGAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLYROUND – 4

• MIXED BAG

ROUND – 1 HISTORY OF FREEDOM STRUGGLE

IN INDIA

RULESCLOCK-WISE ROUND ON BOUNCE12 QUESTIONS+10 / NO NEGATIVES20 SEC. FOR DIRECT / NO EXTRA-TIME FOR BOUNCES

(1)

And here comes the answer …

The lady in concern is known as the ‘Heroine’ of Quit India Movement.

Identify her.

(2)


Who is the author of the book?

(3)


Pramathanath Mitra was the Director of this revolutionary outfit founded by

Satish Chandra Basu.Identify the Organisation.

(4)


Subhash Chandra Bose formed the Forward Block in which year?

(5)


1939

What was the first civil disobedience movement (Satyagraha)

of Mahatma Gandhi in India?

(6)


Maulana Hasrat Mohani (1 January 1875 – 13 May 1951) was an Indian activist in the Indian Independence

Movement, and a noted poet of the Urdu language.He coined something in 1921 which has a great part in the

independence movement.What?

(7)


On 9 August 1925 , something happened with the “Number 8 Down”

during the Indian Independence Movement against the British Indian Government. It was conceived by Ram Prasad Bismil

and Ashfaqullah Khan who belonged to the HRA. HRA was established to carry out revolutionary activities against

the British Empire in India with the objective of achieving independence.

Since the organisation needed money for purchase of weaponry,

Bismil and his party decided to do something. What happened?

(8)


Wife of Nawab Wazid Ali Shah of Awadh, she ruled on behalf of her 11-year-old son Birjis Qadar

and led the revolt of 1857 in Lucknow .She refused to accept the pension offered to her

by the British and chose to die unmourned in Nepal.Identify her.

(9)


Who was the chief architect of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association?

(10)


Where was the Provisional Government of Independent India (Azad Hind) formed?

(11)


Singapore

Which national leader, in her early childhood,

founded the Bal Charkha Sangh and in 1930, the 'Vanar Sena' of children

to help the Congress party during the Non-Cooperation Movement?

(12)


ROUND – 2 INDIAN

CONSTITUTION

RULESANTICLOCK-WISE ROUND ON BOUNCE12 QUESTIONS+10 / NO NEGATIVES20 SEC. FOR DIRECT / NO EXTRA-TIME FOR BOUNCES

‘Right to Education’ is a Fundamental Right

under which Article of the Indian Constitution?

(1)


The National Emergency in India declared by the President of India due to the external aggression or armed revolt

through which special Article of the Constitution?

(2)


Which Article prohibits the practice

of Child Labour?

(3)


The Constitution of India borrowed the scheme of Indian Federation from

the Constitution of which country?

(4)


The idea of Concurrent List is taken from which country?

(5)


What is the specific Right included among the

Fundamental Rights by 93rd Constitutional amendment?

(6)


Right to Free Primary Education

Which Schedules to the Constitution of India relates to languages?

(7)


Eighth Schedule

What does the Article 80

of the Indian Constitution deals with?

(8)


The formation of the Rajya Sabha

Which article proclaims, India, that is Bharat,

shall be a Union of States?

(9)


Article 1

President’s Rule can be imposed in a State of India under which Article of Constitution of India?

(10)


How many Fundamental Duties are mentioned in

Indian Constitution?

(11)


11

The Panchayati Raj institutions in India are established as per constitutional

directions of which portion of the Indian Constitution?

(12)


ROUND – 3 INDIAN PARLIAMENT

& WEST BENGAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

RULESCLOCK-WISE ROUND ON BOUNCE12 QUESTIONS+10 / NO NEGATIVES20 SEC. FOR DIRECT / NO EXTRA-TIME FOR BOUNCES

What is the highest number of possible members in the

Rajya Sabha?

(1)


Who is the present Leader of Opposition of

Rajya Sabha?

(2)


Ghulam Nabi Azad

Who acts as the President of India when neither the President nor the

Vice President is available?

(3)


Chief Justice of India

Who is the Chairman of the Rules Committee?

(4)


The Speaker of the Parliament

The Speaker of the Lok Sabha has to address his/her l

etter of resignation to whom?

(5)


The Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha

Who is the Present Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha?

(6)


Munisamy Thambidurai

Who is the present Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of

West Bengal?

(7)


Haider Aziz Safwi

Who is the present Leader of Opposition

of the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal?

(8)


Abdul Mannan

Who holds the Record of being the Speaker of the

Legislative Assembly of West Bengal for the longest period of time,

which is a world record in itself?

(9)


Hasim Abdul Halim

How many members are there in total in the Legislative Assembly

of West Bengal?

(10)


295 (294 members directly

elected from single-seat constituencies + 1

nominated from the Anglo-Indian community)

When did The Legislative Assembly of West Bengal met for the

first time after Independence?

(11)


21 November 1947

After the first General Elections, when did the new Assembly

met for the first time?

(12)


18 June, 1952

ROUND – 4 MIXED BAG

RULESANTICLOCK-WISE ROUND ON BOUNCE12 QUESTIONS+10 / NO NEGATIVES20 SEC. FOR DIRECT / NO EXTRA-TIME FOR BOUNCES

On the 31st July, 1959, something happened for the first time in India and world as

EM Sankaran Namboodiripad took oath as the CM of Kerala.

What was the occasion?

(1)


World’s first democratically elected Communist

Government

The hand-drawn Preamble of world’s largest Constitution,

i.e. the Constitution of India was the creation of which

great Indian artist?

(2)


Nandlal Bose

Who was the first Speaker of the Indian Parliament?

(3)


Meira Kumar, India’s first Dalit woman Speaker was the daughter of which

illustrious Indian freedom struggler?

(4)


In parliamentary parlance, what is referred as the time gap between the

end of Question Hour and the beginning of the regular business?

(5)


What is the significance of the seat no. 419A in

Indian Parliament?

(6)


There is no seat with number 420 in Lok Sabha as section 420 deals with cheating.

So in order to make up for that a special seat numbered with 419A is used!

Srimati Dev Barma is an Indian MP.By what name is Srimati Deb Barma

Most famous?

(7)


Munmun Sen

Who was the first Indian woman to Preside a session of

Indian National Congress?

(8)


First Indian woman to become the Congress President in 1925 at

Calcutta Session.)

The withdrawal of Partition of Bengal

was done at the time of which Viceroy of India?

(9)


Lord Hardinge

Hindu Mela was started in 1867

by whom?

(10)


Nabagopal Mitra

Who founded student societies including ‘Abhinav Bharat Society’

and the ‘Free India Society’?

(11)


When the national anthem of India ‘Jana Gana Mana’ was first sung?

(12)


27 December 1911.(It was first sung in Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress on 27 December

1911. “Jana Gana Mana” was officially adopted by the Constituent Assembly as the Indian national anthem on 24 January 1950.

27 December 2011 marked the completion of 100 years of Jana Gana Mana since it was

sung for the first time.)

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QUIZ - 2016