BATTLE

OF THE
BRAINS
 KALPAVRIKSHA 6TH
INTERSCHOOL QUIZ
COMPETITION 2017
 SENIOR GROUP
CLASS IX-X

NCERT CURRICULUM
BASED TOPICS

HISTORY AND CIVICS

ROUND 1

HISTORY
CLASS IX
 TEAM A
Q1)Name the leader of Jacobin
club in France who over threw
monarchy and known to lead a
reign of terror once attained
power .
ANS)MAXIMILIAN ROBESPIERRE
 TEAM B

Q) Axis powers during

the World war included
Germany, Italy and

ANS ) JAPAN
 TEAM C

Q ) The world’s first

cricket club was formed
in the 1760s in the city
of

ANS )
ROUND 2

HISTORY
CLASS X
 TEAM A

Q) Name the country that

took the initiative of
unifying Italy in the 19th

century.

ANS)SARDINIA-PIEDOMONT
 TEAM B

Q )Who founded the

revolutionary militia ‘Red
Shirt’?

ANS )
 TEAM C
Q ) What is the name of
the world’s biggest stock
exchange located in the
USA which crashed in
1929.

ANS) WALL STREET

EXCHANGE
ROUND 3

CIVICS
CLASS IX
 TEAM A
Q) By 1900, there was only
one country which
provided all its adults the
right to vote. Name that
country.
ANS : NEW
 TEAM B
Q)Name the political
party which is lead by the
Nobel prize winner from
Mynamar , Aung San Suu
Kyi.
ANS ) NATIONAL LEAGUE
OF DEMOCRACY
 TEAM
C
Q)Name the political
party that Bhim Rao
Ambedkarji founded .

ANS) REPUBLICAN
PARTY OF INDIA
ROUND 4

CIVICS
CLASS X
 TEAM A
Q) Civil Rights Movement in
the USA (1954-1968) refers to a
set of events and reform
movements aimed at abolishing
legal racial discrimination
against African-Americans was
led by

ANS)MARTIN LUTHER
 TEAM B
Q ) Telangana became a new
State of India on the 2nd June,
2014, after the reorganisation
of the State of Andhra
Pradesh. It is now the

ANS )29 th state

 TEAM C
Q)In the coming together
federation,independent States
coming together on their own to
form a bigger unit. Ex. of such
federation are USA,
Switzerland &

ANS) Australia
 ROUND 5

INDIA SINCE MODI

 TEAM A
Q )Name the petitioner from
Uttarakhand who won her
battle against INSTANT
TRIPLE TALAQ in Supreme
court .

ANS ) SHAYARA
 TEAM B

Q) Name the organisation

which Gurmeet Ram Rahim
Singh heads , who has
recently been found guilty
of rape accusation?

ANS) DERA SACCHA

 TEAM
C
Q )Name the disputed
territory in Bhutan sector ,
which China claims its own,
where a military standoff
has ensued between India
and China ?

ANS ) DOKLAM SECTOR

 ROUND 6
IDENTIFY AND
ANSWER ONE
QUESTION RELATED
TO THESE PICTURES
OR MAPS
 TEAM A
Q1)IDENTIFY THIS
PERSONALITY
ANS ) NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE

Q2)Name the famous

battle where Napoleon
was defeated by the
coalition army.
ANS) BATTLE OF
WATERLOO 1815
 TEAM B
Q 1) IDENTIFY THIS
LEADER
 ANS 1) VLADIMIR LENIN
QUES 2: Which ideological
school of thought did
Lenin followed to run the
Russian government after
the Czars ?

ANS 2) MARXISM
 TEAM C
Q1)IDENTIFY THIS
PERSONALITY
ANS 1) OTTO VON BISMARCK

QUES 2:Name the country

which took initiative of
unifying Germany under
the direction of Bismarck

ANS 2) PRUSSIA
 TEAM A
Q1) IDENTIFY THIS
LEADER ?
 ANS 1)SHYAMA PRASAD
MUKHERJEE

Q 2)Name the political

party founded by this
leader.

ANS 2) BHARTIYA
JANSANGH
 TEAM
B
Q1) IDENTIFY THIS
LEADER ?
ANS 1) B .R AMBEDKAR
Q2 )Name the foreign
college he went to
finish his studies

ANS 2)LONDON SCHOOL

OF ECONOMICS
 TEAM
C
Q ) IDENTIFY THIS
LEADER ?
ANS 1) ABUL KALAM AZAD
Q 2) In the first cabinet
under Nehru , which
portfolio he held as union
minister ?

ANS 2) EDUCATION
 TEAM
A
Q)IDENTIFY THIS
FAMOUSWRITER
ANS 1) LEO TOLSTOY
Q 2)Name the epic novel
written by him with 580
characters both real and
fictional

ANS 2) WAR AND

 TEAM B
Q1)IDENTIFY THIS WRITER
 ANS 1) BANKIM CHANDRA
CHATTOPADHYAY

Q 2)Name the first novel

written by him?

ANS 2: DURGESH
 TEAM C
Q ) IDENTIFY THIS
WRITER
 ANS 1: JANE AUSTEN
Q 2) ‘It is a truth universally
acknowledged, that a single
man in possession of a good
fortune, must be in want of a
wife.’ This is first sentence of
which of her famous novel?

ANS 2) PRIDE AND