Theme Round 1

Questions1st and 2nd 5 Questions-> 20 Points3rd and 4th Questions->15 Points

5th Question -> 10 PointsNegatives -> -5 Throughout

1.

• X was born in 1851 in Brahmamnagar village of Dhaka. X was a brilliant student and was awarded the Gilchrist scholarship to go to England. He won the Baxter Prize in Physics and the Hope Prize in Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh. He was the first Indian to obtain a degree of D.Sc. from a foreign university. He knew a number of languages like Sanskrit, Greek, Hebrew, French, German and Russian. Jagatguru Sankaracharyabestowed on him the award of ‘Vidyaratna’ for his learning in Sanskrit.

2.

Contd…

3.

• X was the first to represent the Vijayawada parliamentary constituency in the Lok Sabha(IstLok Sabha). He trounced his nearest rival and Indian National Congress candidate Rajyam Sinha, wife of Benoy Kumar Sinha, a colleague of BhagatSingh, by 74,924 votes in the 1951 Lok Sabhapolls.

• X contested the election as an Independent with the support of the undivided Communist Party of India (CPI). Krishna, East Godavari and West Godavari districts were then citadels of the CPI.

4. Id the Lady

• Born on 3 April 1903, X was the fourth and youngest daughter of a Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin couple in Mangalore.

• She acted in two silent films, including the first silent film of Kannada film industry, 'Mricchakatika'(Vasantsena) (1931). She acted in a 1943 Hindi film, Tansen, also starring K. L. Saigaland Khursheed,followed by Shankar Parvati (1943), and Dhanna Bhagat (1945).

• The Government of India conferred on her the Padma Bhushan (1955) and later the Padma Vibhushan in 1987, She also received the Ramon Magsaysay Award (1966) for Community Leadership. She was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship.

5. Id the lady

Answers

1.

• X was born in 1851 in Brahmamnagar village of Dhaka. X was a brilliant student and was awarded the Gilchrist scholarship to go to England. He won the Baxter Prize in Physics and the Hope Prize in Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh. He was the first Indian to obtain a degree of D.Sc. from a foreign university. He knew a number of languages like Sanskrit, Greek, Hebrew, French, German and Russian. Jagatguru Sankaracharyabestowed on him the award of ‘Vidyaratna’ for his learning in Sanskrit.

Aghorenath Chattopadhay

2.

Contd…

• Virendranath Chattopadhyay. He was portrayed as "Chandralal" by Somerset Maugham in his short story "Giulia Lazzari" (the character Ashenden and as Ananda in Daughter of Earth, a novel by Agnes Smedley

3.

• X was the first to represent the Vijayawada parliamentary constituency in the Lok Sabha(IstLok Sabha). He trounced his nearest rival and Indian National Congress candidate Rajyam Sinha, wife of Benoy Kumar Sinha, a colleague of BhagatSingh, by 74,924 votes in the 1951 Lok Sabhapolls.

• X contested the election as an Independent with the support of the undivided Communist Party of India (CPI). Krishna, East Godavari and West Godavari districts were then citadels of the CPI.

Harindranath Chattopadhyay

4. Id the Lady

• Born on 3 April 1903, X was the fourth and youngest daughter of a Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin couple in Mangalore.

• She acted in two silent films, including the first silent film of Kannada film industry, 'Mricchakatika'(Vasantsena) (1931). She acted in a 1943 Hindi film, Tansen, also starring K. L. Saigaland Khursheed,followed by Shankar Parvati (1943), and Dhanna Bhagat (1945).

• The Government of India conferred on her the Padma Bhushan (1955) and later the Padma Vibhushan in 1987, She also received the Ramon Magsaysay Award (1966) for Community Leadership. She was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship.

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (Harin’sWife)

5. Id the lady

Sarojini Naidu