Q 01/05

Article 1 gives India a second, coequal name in the phrase that declares it 'shall be a Union of States'. Which name?

A) Hindustan

B) Aryavarta

C) Bharat

D) Jambudvipa

Answer · why

C) Bharat

Bharat stands beside India in the very first article, a Sanskrit name the framers chose over Hindustan after a heated Constituent Assembly debate.

Q 02/05

How long did the Constituent Assembly take to finish the Constitution, at a total cost of about 6.4 million rupees?

A) 2 years 11 months

B) 1 year 3 months

C) 4 years 6 months

D) 6 years 2 months

Answer · why

A) 2 years 11 months

2 years 11 months and 18 days covered the whole job, from the first sitting on 9 December 1946 to the day the Assembly adopted the Constitution, 26 No...

Q 03/05

Which British statute, drafted mainly by Samuel Hoare, provided the basis for the Constitution adopted in 1949?

A) Indian Councils Act

B) Government of India Act

C) Indian Independence Act

D) Regulating Act

Answer · why

B) Government of India Act

The Government of India Act of 1935 was so long that Parliament only outdid it with the Greater London Authority Act in 1999, and chunks of it still s...

Q 04/05

Which of the emergencies the President may proclaim, the one provided for by Article 360, has never once been declared?

A) National emergency

B) State emergency

C) External emergency

D) Financial emergency

Answer · why

D) Financial emergency

Financial emergency would let the President cut the salaries of every government official, judges included, yet no guidelines for invoking it have eve...

Q 05/05

Article 343 names Hindi in which script as the Union's official language, a choice that split the Constituent Assembly?

A) Gurmukhi

B) Devanagari

C) Kaithi

D) Brahmi

Answer · why

B) Devanagari

Devanagari Hindi won by a whisker, and the deal that carried it kept English on for official work for fifteen years, a clock that ran out in 1965.