FUNDAMENTALS

On the glorious day of celebration of India's independence day, take this quiz on some little known facts relating to the Freedom movement.

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FREEDOM MOVEMENT

1. What is the connection of Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha located in the Bengeri area of the city of Hubli in Karnataka to the independence day celebrations in India?

2. Why is Pakistan's Independence Day celebrated one day earlier on

14th August?

3. What was the sole reason why Sir Cyril Radcliffe was given the chairmanship of the boundary committee that partitioned India?

4. K Nageswara Rao Pantulu led the freedom movement in Andhra region and also took part in the Salt Satyagraha with Mahatma Gandhi. He founded the Andhra Patrika newspaper and also the Andhra Grantha Mala title to promote and publish Telugu literature.

Which household brand did he also create?

5. Which famous poet in

1966 wrote a poem called Partition about the five weeks that Sir Cyril Radcliffe spent in India drawing up the borders?

6. What significant event in the history of Indian freedom movement happened 9/11 in 1906?{

7. What item presented by Gangaben Majumdar, from her house at Vyapur, Baroda to Mahatma Gandhi in 1917 became a symbol of the freedom movement?

8. Name the President of

Tata Steel Workers Union in the late 1920s who in 1928 orchestrated the first and the last workers strike at Tata Steel?

ANYTHING GOES

1. Who is the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympic Games? (Miracle S, Secunderabad)

2. The most famous Dadasaheb is the film maker Dadasaheb Phalke. Who is the most famous Dadasaheb in sports? (Nivriti Sreelekha P. S., Secunderabad)

3. Who is the only person to light the Olympic flame and win a gold medal in the same Olympics in the entire history of the Olympic games? (BK Harinath, Mysuru)

4. Twisties is a medical condition which is a result of a lack of communication between the brain and body.Which athlete withdrew from the Olympic games due to this condition? (Philip Joshua, Secunderabad)

5. In what endeavour in

2020 were these women Sarah Gilbert, K.Sumathi, Hanneke Schulfamaker ,Elena Smrlyarchuk and Katalin Kariko, involved in?(Dr. Pravalika, Tirupati)

6. How is Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen better known as? (Bikram Keshari Jena, Nayagarh)

7. Which Australian cricketer's elder brother was arrested and jailed in Sydney for falsely framing his close friend and colleague as a terrorist out of jealousy due to contact with a female friend? Name the Australian cricketer as well? (U Narasimha Murthy, Secunderabad)