India after Independence Trivia Quiz

Answer: GV Mavlankar

Ganesh Vasudeo Mavlankar was the first speaker of the Indian Parliament. He officiated as speaker from 1952-1956. Sukumar Sen was the first Chief Election Commisioner, HJ Kania the first Chief Justice and RD Katari the first Chief of the Naval staff.

Answer: Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu, known as the 'Nightingale of India' was the first woman to be appointed as the Governor of a state. She was the Governor of the United Provinces / Uttar Pradesh from 1947 to 1949.

Answer: Operation Vijay

In 1961, the Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru ordered a military operation in Goa to liberate it from the Portuguese. This operation was known as 'Operation Vijay'. 'Operation Cactus' was the liberation of Maldives from the mercenaries, 'Operation Meghdoot' was the operations in Siachen after 1984 and 'Operation Rescue' was the Jammu and Kashmir operations in 1947.

Answer: Agni

The Agni-II (Fire) series of missiles is an ICBM with a strike range of 2000+ km. Trishul (Trident) is a surface to air missile, Prithvi (Earth) is a short-range surface to surface missile while Nag (Snake) is an anti-tank missile.

Answer: Fifty Second amendment

The Fifty Second amendment to the Constitution was passed in 1985 to curb defections from political parties. This is popularly referred to as the Anti-Defection Bill. The Thirty Ninth amendment and Forty Second amendment was passed during the Emergency period and contained many draconian provisions. The Sixty First amendment lowered the voting age to 18.

Answer: 1959

Television started in India with an experimental service in September 1959. The regular service started in 1965 in Delhi. The year 1972 saw TV move beyond Delhi to cover Bombay. Then in 1976, TV was unlinked from radio to form a separate organisation called Doordarshan (DD).

Answer: Atal Behari Vajpayee

The leader of the Jan Sangh Atal Behari Vajpayee compared Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to Goddess Durga. This was after the victory in the 1971 war with Pakistan.

Answer: SEBI

SEBI is the Securities and Exchange Board of India whose job is to regulate working of the stock market and protect rights of the investor. BSE and NSE are the two principal stock exchanges and RBI the governing bank.

Answer: Sucheta Kriplani

Sucheta Kriplani was the first woman to become the Chief Minister of an Indian state. She was the CM of Uttar Pradesh from 1963 to 1967. Subsequently Nandini Satpathy became CM of Orissa (1972) Sashikala Kakodkar became the CM of Goa (1973). Indira Gandhi was never the CM of any state.

Answer: Narasimha Rao

The path-breaking economic reforms program was launched during the tenure of Narasimha Rao who became Prime Minister of India following the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. The reforms program was developed by Manmohan Singh who was the Finance Minister under Rao.