Questions of Independence Day Special -2008

1. This personality’s original name was Manikarnikka at birth; she was born to a Maharashtrian Karate Brahmin family sometime around 1828 in Varanasi. Her father was Moropant Tambey and her mother was Bhagirathibai. Who am I talking about?

2. This was the only photograph of lesser known Indian king, who is this king?


3. Whose flag was this ?


4. The Indian Statutory Commission had seven British Members of Parliament who were sent to India in 1927 to study constitutional reforms. How do we better know this commission as?

5. Identify this famous freedom fighter.



6. “Better than the entire world, is our Hindustan,
We are its nightingales, and it (is) our garden abode


If we are in an alien place, the heart remains in the homeland,
Know us to be only there where our heart is.



That tallest mountain, that shade-sharer of the sky,
(It) is our sentry; (it) is our watchman

In its lap frolic those thousands of rivers,
Whose vitality makes our garden the envy of Paradise.

O the flowing waters of the Ganges, do you remember that day
When our caravan first disembarked on your waterfront?

Religion does not teach us to bear ill-will among ourselves
We are of Hind, our homeland is Hindustan.

In a world in which ancient Greece, Egypt, and Rome have all vanished without trace
Our own attributes (name and sign) live on today.

Such is our existence that it cannot be erased
Even though, for centuries, the cycle of time has been our enemy.

Iqbal! We have no confidant in this world
What does any one know of our hidden pain? “

What is this??????

7. Connect the following 4 images



8. Identify this famous place which has a huge significance.




9. Who is the person whose face is circled?


10 What is this front page cover of time magazine depicting?