Let us appreciate the day that defined our sovereignty and the men and women who were behind it. 

A quiz on August 15.

Happy independence day and happy quizzing!!! 

(Answers can be posted as comments)

 Q. During  his inaugural address on January 8, 2013 at Pravasi Bhartiya Divas in Kochi, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said:

“This year, we are celebrating the centenary of the X, which was a luminous spark of support in distant California for the struggle for ___________________________. Apart from commemorating it by the issue of a special postage stamp, we will also upgrade the _________Memorial in San Francisco into a functional museum and library with a sculpture to honor the__________, the heroes of the great movement.”

What is (X)?

 Q. Chittagong’ is a 2012 Indian film directed by Bedabrata pain. It stars Manoj bajpeyii in the lead role. The film features music by trio Shankar ehsaan loyi and sound by Resul pookkutty. Chittagong released on 12 October 2012 and grossed Rs 3.1 million at the Indian box office. This movie also won the 60th National Film Award for the Best Debut Film of a Director.

What is the name of the school teacher whose role is portrayed by Manoj bajpeyi?

   Q. The August Offer of 1940 put the entire congress party in dilemma. The radicals and leftists objected to launch a mass Civil Disobedience Movement, whereas Mahatma Gandhi insisted on the concept of ‘Individual’ Satyagraha. The Individual Satyagraha was not to attain independence but to retrieve the right of speech. The non-violence was set as the keystone of Individual Satyagraha. This was done by carefully selecting the Satyagrahis.

If the first one selected was Acharya Vinoba Bhave and the third one was Brahma datt, one among Gandhi’s inmates, who was the 2^nd, who along with the other two was sent to jail for violating the Defense of India Act?

 Q. While Indians celebrate the Independence Day on August 15, Roman Catholics all over the country celebrate it as the day of the “Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary” or Virgin Mary being taken up into heaven, both body and soul.

      Which capital city was founded on this date, centuries back in 1537?

Q. On this date 40 years back, X who was a part of project Y became the centerpiece of science world due to something, which recently was found to be caused by a pair of comets 266P/Christensen and 335P/Gibbs, by Professor Antonio Paris, of St Petersburg College. 

What are we talking about? Also give both X and Y.

Q. Identify the authors from the bibliography. Also Give X.

 Is Paris burning(1965), Or I’ll dress u in the morning(1968), O Jerusalem(1972),Is new York burning(2005), The fifth horseman(1980), X(1975)

 Q. Excerpt from a 1931 malayalam work:

“ആ വികാരത്തിന്നെന്തു ഹേതുവെന്നോർക്കെക്കാണായ്
ദേവിയാമാര്യക്ഷോണി - തന്നമ്മയ്ക്കെഴും താപം.
നില്പതും പാർത്താൻ ദൂരെയമ്മെരിക്കയെപ്പേർത്തും
ദർപ്പത്താലാധ്മാതയാം ___________- മാതാവിനെ.”

Identify the person referred in the blank and her most famous work.

 'Q. This is the X calling on 42.34 metres from somewhere in India’.

Identify the speaker and the entity referred to as X, whose founding members also include Vithalbhai javeri, Chandrakant jhaveri, Babubhai thakkar and Nanka motwani. 

Q. The Strix Butleri owl was described by famous ornithologist X in 1878. Over the following century, similar owls seen, heard and collected in the Middle East were presumed to belong to the same species, but this was shown in 2015 to be incorrect.  In 2015, analysis of the holotype of Strix butleri revealed that it was quite different from other specimens from throughout the Middle East presumed to be of the same species,  and hence renamed it as Strix hadorami, giving it the new common name desert tawny owl (which before 2015 taxonomic revision was called as X’s owl).

Give X. Also, which nation is this avian endemic to?



Q. The large numbers of those who participated in the armed struggle or the non-cooperation movement could not be accommodated in ordinary jails. The British decided to establish a few detention camps; the first one was located in Buxa Fort followed by the creation of X Detention Camp in 1930. A significant moment in the struggle against British rule occurred at here in 1931 when two unarmed detainees, Santosh Kumar Mitra and Tarakeswar Sengupta, were shot dead by the British police. Subhash Chandra bose came to X to collect their bodies. Many national leaders, including Nobel laureate Tagore, voiced strong protests against the British Raj over this incident. The firing which later known as "X firing" is the only incident of police firing inside a jail/detention camp.

Give X. Also. Where is it’s current location?

Q. Identify the painting and the painter.

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